If you’re listening for evidence of the many psychedelic mushrooms Harry Styles says he ate during the recording of his outstanding second album, you will have to wait until Fine Line‘s second to last song for a dose. But when “Treat People With Kindness” arrives, it trips balls. Musing about “floating up and dreaming / Dropping into the deep end” over a feverish groove of congas, handclaps and Mellotron, Styles calls upon a gospel chorus to take him even higher: “Maaaaybe, we can find a place to feeeel good,” they thunder in full Seventies musical-theatre mode. “To feel good!” Though Harry Styles Superstar would have been a gloriously mad album, Fine Line is not the magical mystery tour one might have assumed the breakout One Direction heartthrob set his sights on following his classic-rock-inspired debut, Harry Styles. But it’s not him suddenly declaring, “OK, boomer,” either. Like his brilliant uniform of flowing, high-waisted trousers and shagadelic chest-baring shirts — loud retro looks hot off the Gucci runway — it’s a streamlined, party-ready, primary-colors take on the enduring concept of the rock & roll starman. It’s also as much as fun as anyone short of Bruno Mars is having with a band these days. (Especially when Styles, an irresistible flirt of a singer, gets playful like he does on heartbreaker ballad “Cherry,” dragging out the word “haaaating” from “I’m hating it” like he’s repeating a favorite line from Clueless.) With short-story lyrics about a family man’s life of quiet desperation and a six-minute build to wailing guitar drama, “She” might be the closest thing here to a “Sign of the Times“-style homage to Bowie and the Beatles. But the Sixties and Seventies signifiers sprinkled throughout the album — a little organ, some clavinet and even George Harrison specials like electric sitar and sarangi — are expertly Vitamixed into pop-rock smoothies you can dance to, like the strutting “Adore You” and soulful “Lights
I – Comprehension
01) What´s the text about ?
a) It’s about the Rolling Stones magazine
b) It’s about One Direction
c) It’s about Harry Styles
d) It’s about the “Fine Line” album by Harry Styles
02) Which song from “Fine Line” is described as “the closest thing to ‘Sign of the times’ “?
a) “She”
b) “Lights up”
c) “Adore You”
d) “Fine Line”
03) True or false? Choose the alternative with the correct sequence.
I – “Fine line” is Harry’s third album, on his solo career.
II - Harry Styles Is a Rock God and a Gentleman on ‘Fine Line’ according to the text.
III – According to Rolling Stones, Styles makes retro-rock with a shallow touch in this album.
a) T / T / F
b) F / T / F
c) T / T / T
d) F / F / T
04) According to the text, what did Harry Styles eat during the recording of his second album ?
a) Many psychedelic mushrooms
b) Many kinds of exotic peanuts
c) Many toxic nuts.
d )A Many exotic oranges.
05) “selfie / actual / photo” respectivamente:
a) cognato / estrangeirismo/ cognato
b) vocabulário prévio / cognato / falso cognato
c) estrangeirismo/ falso cognato / cognato
d) cognato / cognato / estrangeirismo
06) “ Scanning / Skimming / Predicting” respectivamente:
a) busca por informação específica/ leitura dinâmica/ previsão
b) previsão / leitura dinâmica/ busca por informação específica
c) leitura dinâmica/ busca por informação específica/ previsão
d) Nenhuma das respostas anteriores
