Harry Styles 'Carla's Song': Lyrics, Meaning, Who Is Carla & What Is the Song About?
Harry Styles is closing out his new album with a meaningful track, called “Carla’s Song.”
The 32-year-old “Aperture” singer’s latest studio album, Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally., drops Friday (March 6), and one song in particular is getting a lot of attention for its lyrics, which he explained in a recent interview.
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During a conversation with Zane Lowe, he explained the story behind the song.
“Carla is a friend of mine in this group of friends who, we were at a friend’s house waiting to go to this after-party. She kind of mentioned that she’d just discovered Paul Simon…it was on, like a playlist. And she was listening to ’50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,’” Harry said.
“Carla kind of just became in so many ways like the most important part of the record to me. It’s a song that answered so many questions. All of that questioning of ‘Why?’ and ‘Who do I want to be?’ and ‘What am I giving?’ Making sure that I love this enough. All of those things. Having a moment of reminding you there was a time when you heard a song for the first time that made you want to touch music in some way.”
Harry went on to say that he helped Carla discover a classic.
“I was like ‘Oh, you’ve never heard Simon & Garfunkel? I grew up listening to Simon & Garfunkel all the time. When I lived in a pub a little bit when I was younger, there was like a 4CD changer that I think Bridge Over Troubled Water record was in the whole time I lived there. So I think it’s like why I like harmonies is listening to them so much. And I was like, ‘Oh, I really want to play you something…’ So I played her ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ and watching her like listen to it having never heard that song felt like I was just watching someone see or something in like technicolor discover magic. There was something in that moment that reminded me of like what by making music what you’re investing in,” Harry said.
“I then played her ‘Kathy’s Song,’ which is just another one of my favorite Simon & Garfunkel songs, why it’s called ‘Carla’s Song.’ But the ability to add something…that is kind of it. That is enough. I don’t ask for anymore than that.”
He also explained one lyric in particular, “You’ve been a baby sleeping on a candy bar.”
“You see a baby try ice cream for the first time, and the sweetness or something, but it’s always been there. It’s always been around. It’s always existed and it always will exist. Hasn’t been in your life, and the baby eats the ice cream for the first time, their eyes just light up,” Harry noted.
Read the lyrics to “Carla’s Song”…
Listen to “Kathy’s Song”…
Watch the interview…
Find out what else he said to Zane Lowe during the interview.