{"id":85075,"date":"2026-05-18T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/85075\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:59:07","slug":"harry-styles-live-in-amsterdam-a-hopeful-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/85075\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles live in Amsterdam: a hopeful celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Harry Styles<\/a> released \u2018Kiss All The Time. Disco Occasionally\u2019<\/a> in March, something seemed to get lost in translation. In the few interviews he did in the lead-up to the record, he referenced a newfound love of going out clubbing and transcendental moments watching acts like LCD Soundsystem<\/a> live. That his fourth album didn\u2019t sound like it would be heard booming around the dark corners of those clubs, though, prompted some criticism \u2013 that it was dance<\/a> music diluted, or not a faithful recreation of the sounds that had inspired him.<\/p>\n

The Together Together tour, which hosts its second night tonight (May 17) in Amsterdam, clears things up a bit. The name of the run, which will visit different cities around the world for often record-breaking residencies, suggests unity, and during the show, most of the times that Styles speaks to the audience nod to that idea. There\u2019s a focus on community \u2013 whether in his words or the crew he\u2019s assembled on stage in band members and dancers \u2013 and the positivity and euphoria that comes from being with others, dancing the night away in a sticky, sweaty club.<\/p>\n

To get close to his fans as possible on this tour, Styles is performing in the round: on a stage that allows him to move around the floor section and interact with the audience dancing in its various pockets. During the electrifying opener \u2018Are You Listening Yet?\u2019, he quickly makes the journey down from the back of the stage, racing over the arches in the runway and grinning into the faces of his fans below. It\u2019s how he spends most of the night \u2013 forming connections that feel warm and full of genuine curiosity, rather than a bit in a big pop<\/a> gig. It feels notable, too, that there are no moments here designed to go viral or celebrity guests introduced via a gimmick \u2013 a rarity for a show of this stature right now.<\/p>\n

Giddy joy colours the performance from the off, as Styles has front-loaded the set with some of his biggest songs. \u201cConsider this section of the show the pre-game,\u201d he tells the crowd before a stacked run of \u2018Golden\u2019, \u2018Adore You\u2019 and \u2018Watermelon Sugar\u2019. But it never feels like the setlist dips, the pop star maintaining the glee his biggest hits naturally build. \u2018Taste Back\u2019 is augmented with a snippet of Underworld\u2019s<\/a> \u2018Born Slippy\u2019 and goes in a more hedonistic direction \u201cfor all the ravers in the house\u201d. His backing band migrate to the middle of the runway for \u2018Ready Steady Go\u2019, Styles bouncing off their energy as he dances in the centre of the pack, twisting the song into something communal and alive. New song \u2018Italian Girls\u2019 is a juddering instrumental that opens with the star instructing, \u201cPut a bell on your bicycle\u201d before getting stuck into its loops and electronic layers.<\/p>\n

It all comes to a head with \u2018Carla\u2019s (Satellite) Song\u2019 \u2013 a mashup of the final song on \u2018Kiss All The Time\u2026\u2019 and one of the highlights of 2022\u2019s \u2018Harry\u2019s House\u2019<\/a>. As a preamble, Styles gives more background on the track, its conception in the clubs his friends took him out to, and the need to be open to experiences. \u201cYour life is waiting for you to grab it and waiting for you to let it in,\u201d he explains. The arena doesn\u2019t need telling twice, and they take the song to new heights with chants, clapping and dancing that continues well into the next track, \u2018Aperture\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world is in a very strange place, but these rooms make me hopeful,\u201d Styles tells us as the night begins to wind down. \u2018As It Was\u2019 closes things out for good and the pop star takes one last chance to indulge in the high, putting his marathon training to good use as he dashes around the perimeter of the stage over and over again. Hope is a weighty word, but for the two hours he\u2019s on stage tonight, it does feel easier to embrace optimism.<\/p>\n

Harry Styles played:<\/p>\n

\u2018Are You Listening Yet?\u2019
\u2018Golden\u2019
\u2018Adore You\u2019
\u2018Watermelon Sugar\u2019
\u2018Music For A Sushi Restaurant\u2019
\u2018Taste Back\u2019
\u2018Coming Up Roses\u2019
\u2018Fine Line\u2019
\u2018Italian Girls\u2019
\u2018American Girls\u2019
\u2018Keep Driving\u2019
\u2018Ready Steady Go\u2019
\u2018Dance No More\u2019
\u2018Treat People With Kindness\u2019
\u2018Pop\u2019
\u2018Season 2 Weight Loss\u2019
\u2018Carla\u2019s (Satellite) Song\u2019
\u2018Aperture\u2019
\u2018Matilda\u2019
\u2018Sign Of The Times\u2019
\u2018As It Was\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Harry Styles released \u2018Kiss All The Time. Disco Occasionally\u2019 in March, something seemed to get lost in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,200,5397],"class_list":["post-85075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam","tag-netherlands","tag-pop"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116595704837374790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}