Harry Styles is getting ready to move. On May 7, the musician will release the music video for “Dance No More,” an especially grooving record from his latest album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. In the teaser for the video, Styles struts across scuffed-up floors in white sneakers and shorts. Raising the microphone to his mouth, he drags it down his tongue.
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“Dance No More” marks the third song from the album, which fans have abbreviated to KISSCO, to receive the music video treatment. The first was lead single “Aperture,” for which Styles referenced David Bowie’s “I’m Afraid of Americans,” battled a mysterious figure at a hotel, and broke out some backflips. He followed the video with another visual, this time for “American Girls.” Releasing the same day as the album, the video followed Styles as he completes ambitious stunts on an action film set.
It remains to be see what he has in store for “Dance No More,” but there’s sure to be dancing — it’s the whole point of the song. “‘DJs don’t dance no more,’ they said/DJs don’t dance no more/We wanna dance with all our friends,” he sings on the chorus. “DJs don’t dance no more/It’s feeling like the music has been Heaven sent/And that there’s no difference in between the tears and the sweat.”
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In a review of the album, Rolling Stone described “Dance No More” as “a no-parking-on-the-dance-floor Eighties synth fest with chorus shouts of ‘Respect your mother!’ invoking drag-ball culture.” It pairs well with deep cuts “Pop,” “Ready, Steady, Go,” and “Are You Listening Yet?”
KISSCO pulled inspiration from the many nights Styles spent at clubs across Europe in the time following the end of Love on Tour in 2023. “When you’re out at night, it’s such a community, but you’re also watching people have such individual experiences,” Styles told legendary Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami in a recent interview for Runner’s World. “I wanted to recreate [what] I had on the dance floor, being lost in the instrumentation and the musicality.”
From Rolling Stone US
