The fairly innocuous comment scratches at the surface of a deeper-rooted issue.
has struggled—it’s that they can’t quite believe anybody who looks like Styles, any homogenous white guy, especially such a conventionally beautiful one, has the audacity to publicly signal a lack of privilege outside the value of his face. When Styles says “people like me,” he doesn’t necessarily mean his story is rags-to-riches, please fetch the violins. He probably means a lower-middle-class, rurally English son of divorced parents.
All this nepo-baby discourse, all this talk of leg-ups and familial privilege, and in 2010, a 16-year-old, completely unknown Harry Styles skived off school and walked into anaudition. Of course there’s built-in white, male privilege at play, but there’s being a popstar’s son or daughter, or the nephew of a music exec, or rich enough to intern at a label, too. Thirteen years ago, Styles was a nobody. On Sunday, Styles won album of the year at the Grammys.
I don’t know how to conclude this. You’ll be unsurprised to hear that sometimes, the internet isn’t the best place for a nuanced conversation about how one clear and present privilege doesn’t cancel everything else out. It’s actually impossible to separate the strands of the plait, to de-spaghetti it all. Privilege isn’t a fixed point—it ebbs and flows from person to person, family to family.
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