Sign of the TimesHarry Styles is addressing those long-standing queerbaiting rumors.
The Watermelon Sugar singer is the latest Saturday Night Live host, taking the Studio 8H stage in a gray pinstripe suit on Saturday, one week after crashing Ryan Gosling’s monologue. During his nearly five-minute intro, the 32-year-old talked about living the easy life while on a music hiatus for the past few years:
“I finished my last tour in 2023 and after that I took a bunch of time off. I realized I’d spent half my life in music touring, creating albums, and making songs about fruit people think are about sex. I just really like fruit, guys. I like sex, too. You know when you’re on holiday, it’s like five in the afternoon, you’re all covered in sand, you and your partner are all sweaty and hot and you stumble back to the room and you just want to — mmm, papaya.”
LOLz!
He continued:
“Back then, people seemed to pay a lot of attention to the clothes I was wearing. And some people accused me of something called queerbaiting.”
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For those unfamiliar with the term, it refers to the act of an otherwise straight individual intentionally depicting queer themes as a means of appealing to the LGBTQIA+ community. Harry joked:
“But did it ever occur to you that MAYBE YOU DON’T KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ME, DAD?!”
HA!
He went on:
“I ran [the joke] past [my dad], he was fine with it.”
Later in his monologue, Harry spoke about his new album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally:
“What’s better than kissing all the time?”
At that moment, cast member Chloe Fineman eagerly popped up behind the One Direction alum on stage before he added:
“Which I don’t actually do. I don’t want to kiss all the time. I mean, sometimes kissing can be great.”
Chloe disappointedly left the stage as Sarah Sherman appeared in hopes of getting her chance at a kiss. But Harry added:
“If you’re really good at it and you’re a good person.”
That criteria seemingly disqualified Sarah as she regretfully removed herself from the equation. Harry added:
“Or if you have a tight little bum.”
This time, male cast member Ben Marshall appeared on stage:
“Well, you said, ‘tight little bum.’ So where’s my kiss?”
Harry joked:
“Come on, Ben, everyone knows there’s nothing little about that thing. You’re hauling a damn wagon back there.”
He then grabbed Ben and pulled him in for a passionate smooch! OMG!
The Sign of the Times singer then looked at the camera and joked:
“Now that’s queerbaiting!”
Watch the full thing (below):
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