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Fine Line is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Harry Styles, released on 13 December 2019 by Erskine and Columbia Records. The album's themes revolve around breakups, happiness, sex and sadness. The record has been described as pop rock, with elements of progressive-pop, psychedelic pop, folk, soul, funk and indie pop. It was primarily written with and produced by frequent collaborator Tyler Johnson and Kid Harpoon. Supported by seven singles—"Lights Up", "Adore You", "Falling", "Watermelon Sugar", "Golden", "Treat People with Kindness", and the title track—the album debuted at number three on the UK Albums Chart, peaked at number two, and has since been certified triple platinum. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, making it Styles' second consecutive number-one album in the US. The album had the third-largest sales week of 2019 in the US and broke the record as the biggest debut from a British male artist since Nielsen SoundScan began, earning 478,000 album-equivalent units. It has been certified triple platinum in the US for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over three million units in the country. Fine Line received generally positive reviews from music critics, particularly towards its production and stylistic influences. It was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards, and for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards. The album received a Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance and a Brit Award for British Single of the Year for "Watermelon Sugar". In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked it at the time, number 491, on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
It is a fine pop album. The singles are the better songs, the sound of the album is fresh and entertaining. Many of the songs are a bit forgetable, but pleasant during listening.
Solid well crafted pop, and despite the ridiculous double entendre-y lyrics, Watermelon High really does sound like you want summer to feel. Very listenable. I liked it better than I thought I would and am glad to have had it shared with me.
Fine
Harry Styles is a pop star who you can tell actually tries to make good music beyond just having a hit, which I respect him for. There are good songs on this record, but I also feel like the whole thing drags even though it’s only 46 minutes long. If this was tighter and filled with the good songs it could be a great album!
My first album on the user submitted list is a admittedly a dud. Sure this is super polished modern pop music, and I can say that it is that. But beyond that I can't say much, there is nothing here that catches me the way pop music should. I think Harry is obviously very talented but I have always felt like he plays it safe and holds back when it comes to his songs. This is all pretty forgettable.
Listened to this twice and really enjoyed it. Nice positive vibes!
I always enjoyed the singles from this album, but this album is one I would listen to over and over again. I love these songs.
In my submitted album, I said that these are the kind of albums that should have been on the original list. It's a great album, but I prefer Harry's House over this. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 5/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Slight no.
Though it's played everywhere, all the time, this is still a pretty good album 4
Well made pop album.
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Golden, Watermelon sugar, Adore you, To be so lonely
Pop rock. Agradable. Un 4, venga.
not first listen, actually I had both this and Harry's House on my own list until I put on Fine Line literally this summer. I couldn't believe the acclaim it received on critic's decade-end reviews, as based on radio hits like "Adore You" I just kinda dismissed it as fluff. It's actually pretty enjoyable :0 Who would have thought It's kind of like a modern day Wings- not life-changing or anything, but really consistent even among the lesser played(-to-death) tracks. I basically copied my highlights from my first listen below, but "Canyon Moon" and the title track are no slouches either. HL: "Golden", "Watermelon Sugar", "Cherry", "Sunflower", "Treat People With Kindness" September 15, 2025 Today I also put on that other album, Harry's House, and while it's pretty good it kinda veers into easy-listening territory in the 2nd half, so I still prefer Fine Line
A good pop album. Fair play Harry.
Some of the best work of the modern era but not as good as his debut album. I would probably put this at a 3.5 but I will round up to 4 because its not Taylor Swift 😉
Nice, varried pop-album
Almost skipped this one, but decided to give it a try. And I didn't hate it. 3 stars.
This was pretty fun. Bubbly, well-balanced, well-produced pop. Harry Styles isn't a particularly strong vocalist IMO, but he's likeable and this was overall a pleasant listen. Glad I got a chance to check this out, thanks for sharing it. Fave Songs: Golden; Watermelon Sugar; Sunflower, Vol. 6; Cherry; Lights Up
Much more a trend than a classic, it's not a bad album. I liked the upbeat on the initial songs and enjoyed the last songs less. PS: "Watermelon sugar" should be part of another list like "1001 songs that you may try to do not to listen to before you die (and fail)"
Very good for what it is - very much a product of the Machine, its manufactured pop star hoisted on the shoulders of an army of aggressively talented usual suspects, produced within an inch of its life, and mixed too loud (but what isn't in modern pop?). It manages to retain a surprising amount of soul despite all this, and I enjoyed listening to it, though I don't expect it to leave a very deep impression.
This is a perfectly fine modern pop album that I wasn't upset by at all. My girlfriend is a big fan of this album so I've heard a number of the singles before. It's fine! It's not as catchy as it could be but maybe that's the point. Idk. I'm not British.
This is a fine modern pop album
Boy band member converts to pop solo career.
Listened to 'Harry's House' earlier this year, and in comparison this LP just does not hold up to the artistic standard Styles has set for himself in his later work. This album felt much more commercial, slicked down and any rough edges sanded off to slip smoothly into radio play. There are definitely highlights where Styles shines vocally and the melodies approach memorability, but for the most part this album disappears into the pop landscape of its time with no defining features to make it stand out. Feel that in 10 years time this LP will be mostly forgotten while 'Harry's House' has a solid shot at being remembered as a stellar, boundary-pushing pop album.
Harry Styles is probably one of the more famous modern pop stars to not seem to be going insane. His music has a lot of good from what you would want out of a male pop stars. To me that means it’s kind of a meddling album that I wouldn’t care to listen to much. Overall it’s pretty good for music it’s just not my taste. The difference between pop now and the pop from 90s 80s and 70d I feel is that now it’s much more introspective and there’s a lot less catchy tunes outside of the res big pop songs that seem to come and go with the artists. Harry at least is strong enough to stick around for a while. 5.0/10
Eh if I'm honest, I'm just really not interested in Harry Styles' theatre kid personality. Plus, the one direction songs I've heard are bland as shit pop for tweens. So I'm not expecting much here. Fingers crossed this album makes me feel silly for doubting him. Ok, it's modern pop music like any other. Ed Sheeran type thing, mixed with newer Coldplay. Just bland, inoffensive, sickly sweet pop music. Not worth the hype around him as a personality, but I guess I'm not a tween girl (or one of their mums, quietly approving because he seems harmless) so I probably have no frame of reference. So here's my 2/5 and thanks for reinforcing my pre-listen assumptions.
This album isn’t as bad as you think it’s going to be. But that’s still a low bar.
Not really for me
LOL