We don’t know much about Harry Styles’s first album in four years beyond its title – and it’s already causing some grammatical consternation.
The follow-up to 2022’s Grammy-winning Harry’s House is a bit more esoterically named: Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. In an era when fans clinically investigate every aspect of pop stars’ lives, it was perhaps inevitable that Styles’s choice of punctuation would draw scrutiny.
The key dilemma: is the comma in the right place? “We’re going through a really experimental period with comma usage,” wrote @poeticdweller in an X post with nearly 1m views. One concern appeared to be that the two sentences don’t follow the same rules: “The comma turns the second sentence from a parallel imperative sentence to a fragment that vaguely gestures toward the occasional presence of disco,” noted another post, in a sentiment echoed elsewhere.
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