Harry Styles recreated his 2010 X Factor audition at Harryween, bakery line and all

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Harry Styles performing on stage during his Together, Together residency
Harry Styles performing at his Together, Together residency Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

Harry Styles went back to where it all started on Friday night for Harryween. On the 29th night of his 30-show Together, Together residency at Madison Square Garden, he changed into the outfit he wore for his 2010 X Factor audition and performed Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely," the song that got him through to the next round at age 16.

Styles even repeated a line from that day, telling the crowd, "I work in a bakery," a nod to the part-time job he held in his Cheshire hometown of Holmes Chapel.

The audition outfit was a midshow swap. Styles opened the night dressed as Elvis Presley, while his band and dancers came as different versions of Styles from across his own career. The Elvis nod tracks neatly: the first song Styles ever recorded was a cover of Presley's "The Girl of My Best Friend."

He wasn't the only one in costume. Zoe Kravitz, to whom Styles is reportedly engaged, was dressed as a devil, wearing a red jacket and horns while dancing in the front row. She caught the show with Riley Keough, who sang along to "Watermelon Sugar" while Styles performed the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 dressed as her famous grandfather. Through the set, Styles threw cheeky glances toward Kravitz, winking at her during "American Girls."

A tradition born in 2021

Costumed covers have become a Harryween staple. At the first edition at MSG in 2021, Styles dressed as Dorothy to sing "Over the Rainbow," then came out as a clown the next night to cover Britney Spears' "Toxic." In 2022 at Los Angeles' Kia Forum, he dressed as Grease's Danny Zuko for "Hopelessly Devoted to You."

As for the original audition, "Isn't She Lovely" wasn't Styles' first pick. Footage released by the show in 2022 revealed he opened with Train's "Hey, Soul Sister" and only sang the Wonder song a cappella after Simon Cowell asked to hear him without a backing track. He was later placed in One Direction, and earlier this month debuted "What Is Enough," a song written for his late bandmate Liam Payne, at the same venue on the second anniversary of Payne's death.

The residency wraps Saturday with a final Harryween show. The MSG run drew a record 11.5 million presale registrations on Ticketmaster.

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