As one of the most popular songs from Harry’s House, it makes sense why fans want to know what Harry Styles’ “Late Night Talking” lyrics mean and who the song is about.

“Late Night Talking” is the second track from Styles third studio album, Harry’s House, which was released in May 2022 and reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart. The song, which is two minutes and 58 songs long, was written by Styles and Thomas Hull, who also co-wrote Harry’s House songs like “As It Was,” “Music For a Sushi Restaurant” and “Daylight.” In an interview with Apple Music One’s Zane Lowe in May 2022, Styles explained how Billie Eilish inspired him to make Harry’s House.  “I think being in the band, I’d always felt like we were really young… And I had a moment seeing [Billie] do this at such a young age where I felt like, ‘I’m not that young anymore.’ And for a while it was, how do you play that game of remaining exciting?” he said.

Styles told Lowe that he was “thankful” for Eilish, who represented an artistic liberation for him and “broke the spell” of him overthinking his music.. “This is so unbelievably liberating to go, ‘I just want to make good music.’ That’s it. That’s what I want to do. And everything else is what it will be. And that’s kind of it,” he said. He continued, “I was kind of like, ‘I’d be really fun to make an album called Harry’s House,’ and thought about it being this smaller thing. And then it was back to that thing of, ‘Maybe that’s an album I’ll make in four years or five years or whatever.’ And as I started making the album, I realized it wasn’t about the geographical location. It’s much more of an internal thing.” As for how Harry’s House is different from his past two albums—2019’s Fine Line and 2017’s Harry Styles—Styles told Lowe that his third album is“more electronic in a lot of places than anything I’ve made, it’s also so much more intimate to me. And so much more intimately made.”