Harry Styles Is Bringing Back the Flash Mob
Harry Styles Is Bringing Back the Flash Mob
Maxwell RabbThu, May 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM UTC
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Harry Styles Is Bringing Back the Flash MobPhoto: Harry Styles / YouTube (Photo: Harry Styles / YouTube)
True to the name of his latest record, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, Harry Styles struts out to dance in white high-top tennis shoes (from Michael Rider’s new Celine), shiny red short-shorts, and a bright yellow-blue striped tie in the new music video for “Dance No More.” Styles peacocks around a gymnasium floor as a crowd of aroused audience members pine after the seductively dancing pop star (to give you an idea of the mood, he both licks his microphone and swings it suggestively from his hips). Then, something strangely nostalgic happens.
Midway through the performance, the crowd—intoxicated by Styles—start to move their bodies in unison, swaying their heads in their chairs. Suddenly you are taken back to the early days of YouTube, when videos of large groups of people suddenly breaking out in uncanny (admittedly, spectacular) choreography in places that, well, they shouldn’t be dancing was an everyday occurrence. At this point, Styles’ seduction works a little too well, and the entire crowd is magnetized to the singer—literally ripped from their seats and pulled into a dance circle.
That’s when the Styles’ flash mob reaches its final form. At first, the video cuts to Styles on the balcony of the gymnasium, as if orchestrating a practice session for these dancers. The rest of the video features some three dozen dancers hitting the dance floor, performing a synchronized routine, with occasional cuts to close-ups of people furiously making out (heavily featured during the promotion for his Together, Togethertour, which shouldn’t be surprising since the wish that people kiss all the time is right there in the album title). The final dance sequence, is a silly and playful display (like any good flash mob), which culminates with Styles in the middle, celebrating with his fellow dancers. If Styles and director Colin Solal Cardo (known for Robyn’s “Ever Again” and Charli XCX’s “White Mercedes” videos) have anything to say, the flash mob is back. (And, honestly, that’s fine!)
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“Dance No More” is the third single from Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, and so far it seems that the extra-short gym shorts are his signature uniform item—let’s not forget the man is a runner! In “American Girls” he wears a black pair with not one but two button-down shirts layered on top of each other and a tie, and later switches to a daffodil yellow pair. And while there are no shorts to be found in “Aperture,” the first single, he and the stalker he is running away from both break out into choreography, so it’s kind of like a two-person flash mob inside a hotel.
This video arrives a week ahead of the launch of his tour, which begins in launching in Amsterdam on May 16 before making his way to Madison Square Garden for 30-show residency in the fall. That’s a lot of running shorts to pack.
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