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Harry Styles: 'It Was Time For Me To Be Scared'

After One Direction hit the pause button, Styles got to work developing his own voice for his recent solo debut. "I've never felt this vulnerable putting out music," he says.
"I've never felt this vulnerable putting out music, because I don't think this is a piece of myself I've put out there before," Harry Styles says of his solo debut.

Harry Styles cut his hair last year.

For die-hard fans of the wildly popular boy band One Direction, this is old news. But for those who follow along less closely: The one with the hair has significantly less of it now.

That change is just one of many for Styles, who released his eponymous debut solo album in May. (Harry Styles debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.) Styles cut his famous locks for his role in the upcoming Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, a project he took on after One Direction announced in 2015 that it would be taking a break.

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