The opening of Harry Styles’s “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” music video finds a trio of fishermen loading up a merman Harry into a truck and delivering the haul to a commercial kitchen. But along with the whole squid thing, there was another aesthetic irregularity worthy of note: Styles’s full beard, which recalls that of Tom Hanks in the 2000 survival drama Cast Away.
Take a look:
Photo: Courtesy of Columbia Records
Photo: Courtesy of Columbia Records
As things get dicey, Harry Styles sings a siren song to escape his fate and is soon granted a cleaning that includes a (not incredibly close) shave and dousings of glitter. The spa treatments continue—eye masks and moisturizers, shimmer and gelled coiffure—as the singer transforms from potential entree to performer, albeit briefly.
Amid the short film’s gruesome-slash-glittery frames, Styles’s beard is a star, teaming with his tattoos to shift him into brawnier waters than his usual above-neck notes allow.
Behold, the power of the vibe switch: when a beard moment is almost buzzier than a scaled tail reveal.
