Music for a Sushi Restaurant
"Music for a Sushi Restaurant" is a song by English singer-songwriter Harry Styles, from his third studio album Harry's House (2022). It was released to hot adult contemporary radio on 3 October 2022, as the album's third single.[2] The song was written by Styles, Thomas Hull, Tyler Johnson and Mitch Rowland, while production was handled by Kid Harpoon and Johnson. A music video for the song was later released on 27 October 2022.[3]
"Music for a Sushi Restaurant"
3 October 2022
23 March 2020
- Real World (Box, Wiltshire)
- Angelic (London)
- Henson (Hollywood, Los Angeles)
3:14
- Columbia
- Erskine
- Harry Styles
- Thomas Hull
- Tyler Johnson
- Mitch Rowland
- Kid Harpoon
- Tyler Johnson
Promotion[edit]
The song was used as the soundtrack for an advertisement for Apple AirPods, which featured Styles scat singing along with pink, red and blue dancers in front of cycles of color — a nod to Apple's iconic "Silhouette" advertisements of the 2000s.[6] Styles requested that Apple donate the artist fee for his appearance in the commercial to the International Rescue Committee (IRC).[6]
Music video[edit]
The music video for "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" was directed by Aube Perrie and released on 27 October 2022. The video was initially teased on 20 October 2022 through a commercial and website promoting the fictional "Gill's Lounge", the restaurant depicted in the music video.[7][8]
The video features Styles as a human-squid hybrid that is washed ashore and found by several owners of a restaurant, who plan to cook him into sushi. Styles reveals his singing ability and takes control of the restaurant, making the owners his servants. The restaurant is turned into a lounge where Styles performs. While performing, Styles loses his voice, and the owners drag him away and turn him into sushi. The video ends with the lounge turning into a sushi restaurant.[9]
Commercial performance[edit]
Following the release of its parent album Harry's House, "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" entered at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated June 4, 2022, becoming one of the four top-ten entries; the others being "As It Was", "Late Night Talking" and "Matilda" which peaked at numbers one, three and nine, respectively.[12]
Prior to being released as a single, "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" began to chart on the Mainstream Top 40 at number 40 on the issue dated July 23, 2022,[13] and later peaked at number 9.