Harry Styles has openly linked the recording of his 2019 album Fine Line to mushrooms, sunshine and Rick Rubin’s Malibu lawn. A leading psychedelic neuroscientist explains what the science actually says about play, creativity and the artist brain on classic psychedelics.
Harry Styles isn’t exactly shy about provocative jokes, pop-star mischief or, lately, his appreciation for ecstasy. During his recent appearance on Saturday Night Live, he said as much while promoting his very energetic new pop album, Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. It’s solid pop, but Styles’ most interesting drug-adjacent mythology still belongs to Fine Line, the album he has openly linked to mushrooms, sunshine, Rick Rubin’s lawn and a little blood.
Mushrooms, to be exact, which he enjoyed in fine quantities at producer Rick Rubin‘s Malibu Shangri-La studios. “Did a lot of mushrooms in here,” Styles told Rolling Stone. “We’d do mushrooms, lie down on the grass, and listen to Paul McCartney’s Ram in the sunshine. We’d just turn the speakers into the yard.”
“We were doing mushrooms and I bit off the tip of my tongue. So I was trying to sing with all this blood gushing out of my mouth. So many fond memories, this place.”
Harry Styles, on recording Fine Line at Shangri-La Studios
Plenty of sweat and tears go into Styles’ work (so much heartbreak for one beloved young fella) but blood too went into the mix of his hits.
Sunshine, McCartney records and a little blood
Whether shrooms shaped the fun warmth of Fine Line is impossible to prove. What Styles has said is that they were part of the atmosphere at Shangri-La, along with sunlight, McCartney records and, apparently, a little blood. In Rubin’s notoriously tranquil recording space, Styles produced “Golden,” “Adore You,” “She” …
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Author: Jack Giroux / High Times
