Mick Jagger Weighs In on ‘Superficial’ Harry Styles Comparisons: ‘He Doesn’t Have a Voice Like Mine’

Mick Jagger’s son has definitely inherited his father’s dance moves. The rocker’s five-year-old son Devereux showed off his moves backstage at a recent Rolling Stones concert in Liverpool, England.

As Harry Styles earns a landmark tenth week at Number 1 with As It Was, Kate Bush sprints into the Top 3 with Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God).

Harry Styles and Elvis Presley are both pop-culture sensations who crossed over to movies after wildly successful music careers. But for “Elvis” director Baz Luhrmann, their status as generational icons made Styles a poor choice to play The King in his new biopic.

Harry Styles is known for his record-breaking success, and his impact has even reached ‘Elvis’ director Baz Luhrmann, who recently explained why he prefered not to cast the singer in the highly anticipated biopic starring Austin Butler as the legendary musician.The successful artist was excited to have the opportunity to get into the role of Elvis Presley, however the coveted role was desired by many other Hollywood stars, and ultimately went to Butler, partly because Denzel Washington mentored the actor onstage and convinced Luhrmann to give him the role.And when asked about his decision to cast Butler instead of Styles, the director revealed he would be thrilled to “work on something with him” but his worldwide success as a singer was the reason for him not to be included in the cast of the long awaited film, adding that Butler was “born to play” Elvis.“Harry is a really talented actor,” Luhrmann said during a recent interview in the ‘Fitzy & Wippa’ podcast on Monday, declaring that “the real issue with Harry is, he’s Harry Styles. He’s already an icon.”“Harry and I came to a place, genuinely I mean, he was just desperate to put the suit on and explore.

Did you know Harry Styles’s first-ever recorded song was apparently a cover of Elvis Presley’s version of “The Girl of My Best Friend?” The “Watermelon Sugar” singer grew up listening to The King as a kid, so naturally, he eventually became a frontrunner to play the legend for director Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Elvis biopic. But alas, it was not meant to be. “Harry is a really talented actor.

Harry Styles wasn’t cast in his Elvis Presley biopic and, honestly, it makes total sense. The filmmaker reckons the Grammy Award winning musician is just too much of an ‘icon’ to play Presley, which is surely the nicest job rejection you could possibly get. As It Was hitmaker Styles went for the lead role in Luhrmann’s biopic of The King, but ultimately lost out to Austin Butler.

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Darryl Jones: In the Blood, Eric Hamburg’s feature documentary about the bass player who has rocked with the Rolling Stones since replacing the retired Bill Wyman as well as playing with the likes of Miles Davis, Sting, Madonna and more. The distributor will release the pic in theaters October 7.

Zack Sharf Harry Styles’s film career is set to explode later this year thanks to roles in films such as “Don’t Worry Darling” and “My Policeman,” but the pop star would’ve had an even bigger movie debut in 2022 had he nabbed the starring role in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis.” Styles was a serious contender to play Elvis Presley, but Luhrmann opted to cast Austin Bustler instead. The filmmaker recently opened up to to the Australian radio podcast “Fitzy & Wippa” (via Uproxx) about why he rejected Styles.“Harry is a really talented actor. I would work on something with him [but] the real issue with Harry is, he’s Harry Styles,” Luhrmann said.

Baz Luhrmann revealed why Harry Styles wasn’t cast as Elvis Presley in the upcoming “Elvis” movie in a new interview.

Harry Styles in his Elvis biopic.The director said in a new interview that the pop star “is a really talented actor” but wasn’t quite right for the role that eventually went to Austin Butler.“Harry is a really talented actor,” Luhrmann told Sydney’s Nova FM. “I would work on something with him… but the real issue with Harry is, he’s Harry Styles.

Baz Luhrmann is opening up about the main reason why Harry Styles wasn’t chosen to portray Elvis Presley in the upcoming Elvis movie.

Måneskin have responded to Mick Jagger’s comments about the state of rock’n’roll, disputing the idea that young artists are keeping the genre alive.The Italian band were speaking to NME for the latest Big Read cover story ahead of a huge homecoming gig in Verona when they shared their thoughts on The Rolling Stones frontman’s views.Last month, Jagger praised the likes of Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly in an interview with a Swedish radio station, saying the artists made him “think there is still a bit of life in rock’n’roll”.Asked about their perspective on those remarks, Måneskin singer Damiano David assessed the rock icon’s views as “a very old-fashioned way to see it”. “Nobody is ‘keeping rock’n’roll alive’,” he continued. “It’s just impossible to kill.“In my head what we’re doing is very different to what MGK is doing, which is very far from what Yungblud is doing, which is very far from what Willow Smith is doing, but a lot of artists are bringing back that kind of sound and energy: distorted guitars and real drums, to fucking play with a band with real analogue sounds, stage-diving – all the rock’n’roll shit.

segment for Thursday’s episode of “The Late Late Show With James Corden” and asked random people to help them with their three-hour DIY project.Styles, 28, and Corden, 43, only spent $300 on the video and started the show by knocking on random doors to find someone who would let them use their apartment.“I thought this would be easier Harry, I’ve got to be honest — I thought your face would open a lot of doors,” Corden said as they peruse the city’s searching for a location.The talk show host and the “Harry’s House” singer found help in Brooklynites Isabel, Caroline, Hadley and Sydney.The foursome shares a sun-streamed pad that seemed like the perfect setting to shoot. The “Carpool Karaoke” host then took a tour of the apartment to help form his vision for the music video and saw that one of the girls was a big fan of the “Dunkirk” star.Her room was complete with her own Styles snapshot collage, a One Direction book and a photo of the “Watermelon Sugar” crooner dressed as Harry Potter.“We need to hide all of this because I’m worried you’re a psychopath,” he announced to her.

It's Harry's House and he lives here! 

Mick Jagger has finally addressed the online comparisons that comment on the similarities between the legendary musician and Harry Styles, in reference to his presence on stage and some of his outfits.During a recent interview the 78-year-old musician admitted that there are a few similarities but he thinks it’s all very “superficial.”“He doesn’t have a voice like mine or move on stage like me; he just has a superficial resemblance to my younger self, which is fine — he can’t help that,” Jagger said about the 28-year-old singer.The rock star also revealed during his interview that they currently have “an easy relationship” and talked about their sense of style, ”I mean, I used to wear a lot more eye makeup than him,“ Mick said. ”Come on, I was much more androgynous.”Harry recently opened up about his decision to go solo after being a member of the successful band One Direction, revealing that it was Billie Eilish who helped him take the next step in his music career.“I definitely had a really big moment, I think, when Billie Eilish kind of first blew up.

Harry Styles is on track for this week’s Number One album after becoming the fastest-selling album of 2022 so far.‘Harry’s House’ is the fastest selling album of 2022 after just one weekend of sales and streams since its release last Friday (May 20).The album has racked up 61,000 chart sales up to now – a number that surpasses his previous studio albums. ‘Harry Styles’ had 57,000 chart sales during its first week of release in 2017, while ‘Fine Line’ managed 49,000.His self-titled debut has also risen to Number 28 in the midweek charts, suggesting it’s on course for a return to the Top 40.Other albums in the top five include the debut album of German synth pop group xPropaganda, ‘The Heart Is Strange’, at number two, while The Clash‘s ‘Combat Rock’ is on course to enter at number three following a special edition re-release of the album.Elsewhere, Everything Everything are currently at number five in the charts with their latest album, ‘Raw Data Feel.’Over the weekend, The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger opened up about comparisons of himself to Styles.Speaking to The Sunday Times, Jagger says he considers resemblance comparisons between him and Styles to have been “superficial”.