{"id":59954,"date":"2026-03-12T17:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/harry-styles-everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world-tears-for-fears-cover\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:41:32","slug":"harry-styles-everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world-tears-for-fears-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/harry-styles-everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world-tears-for-fears-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles&#8217; Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears for Fears Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Singer delivers rendition of &#8220;Everybody Wants to Rule the World&#8221; for BBC Radio1 Live Lounge<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEverybody wants to rule the world, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whosampled.com\/Tears-for-Fears\/Everybody-Wants-to-Rule-the-World\/covered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">everybody wants to cover Tears for Fears<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/harry-styles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-styles\" data-tag=\"harry-styles\">Harry Styles<\/a>. The singer took breaks from both kissing and disco recently when he made an appearance at BBC Radio1 Live Lounge to perform one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tears-for-fears\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tears-for-fears\" data-tag=\"tears-for-fears\">Tears for Fears<\/a>\u2018 <em>Songs From the Big Chair<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tStyles rendition is reverent to the original, first released in 1985. It opens with the opening guitar ostinato before the groove kicks in and Styles, dressed in a variety of neutrals, starts dancing in a circle of synthesizers. Styles struggles to stay on pitch a little in the middle, but hey, it\u2019s a hard song to sing and the nifty trumpet embellishments, skittery jazz-fusion guitar solo, and Styles\u2019 own charisma bring it all home.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harry Styles - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Tears For Fears cover) in the Live Lounge\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZZ7tgBj3r3M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tStyles\u2019 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s8fAU3O4S3I&amp;list=PLkW5vi-D6ZTm1iLtiH_mLsd9b8b8nVWCt\">Live Lounge appearance<\/a> also found him performing four songs from his fourth solo album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/harry-styles-kiss-all-the-time-disco-occasionally-review-1235524301\/\">Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally<\/a><\/em>: \u201cAperture,\u201d \u201cAmerican Girls,\u201d \u201cDance No More,\u201d and \u201cCarla\u2019s Song.\u201d Styles fans should expect to hear all of those on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/harry-styles-2026-together-together-global-residency-tour-1235503295\/\">upcoming residency tour<\/a>. At a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/harry-styles-manchester-concert-review-1235526808\/\">performance in Manchester<\/a>, filmed for Netflix, Styles performed the full album but no cover songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cEverybody Wants to Rule the World\u201d arrived late during the making of Tears for Fears\u2019 <em>Songs From the Big Chair<\/em>. \u201cWe were really discussing the Cold War,\u201d the band\u2019s Curt Smith has said of the song. They had to argue with their record label to get the company to make it a single. The song placed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767\/tears-for-fears-everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world-1225019\/\">Number 319 on <em>Rolling Stone\u2019s <\/em>list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time<\/a>, but it\u2019s been a favorite for many artists. Lorde, Gloria Gaynor, Weezer, Patti Smith, and even the cast of <em>Glee <\/em>have covered it since its release.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/harry-styles-tears-fears-everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world-1235529269\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer delivers rendition of &#8220;Everybody Wants to Rule the World&#8221; for BBC Radio1 Live Lounge Everybody wants to rule the world, and everybody wants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":59955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}