The former One Direction frontman was a huge hit when he made his hosting debut on Saturday Night Live. There’s no denying true star power
The serious musician Harry Styles is the toast of the
United States right now, having played both host and musical guest of
Saturday Night Live (SNL) over the weekend. “With such a confident leap, it is easy to imagine him as part of a future musical bro-fecta with Justin Timberlake and
Jimmy Fallon,” wrote Vulture. He can sing. He can act. He can make fun of himself. He has, as he says, “fantastic hair” and, at 25, is now old enough to comfortably appreciate as eye candy. Appearing only weeks after Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who would have put money on Harry Styles to be the Brit to save SNL?
Well, I would have. As a former Directioner, now on “indefinite hiatus” with the band, Styles’s star power has been evident. I saw them perform live in early 2015, mere weeks before Zayn left. The tension on stage seemed clear to me in the audience, but Styles was so effortlessly charismatic as to emerge a frontman in a group seemingly determined to deny the existence of one.