We're invited to Harry Styles' House Party

He can get it and our money.

He can get it and our money.

We're all feeling a little giddy. Dare we say, a smidge "watermelon sugar high" as Harry Styles is finally coming to Australia.

I'm just thinking out loud, but the news that Styles' Love on Tour show is finally making its way down under after years of being postponed really is like strawberries on summer's evening.

I said what I said.

This is a moment to celebrate, to savour. It's a time to revel in the joy of some great news and dust off our going out tops for a party.

The man who has made a career - and wonderful music - out of just being so damn lovely and warm will kick off the Australian leg of his worldwide stadium tour in Perth next February, three years late thanks to the pandemic.

Lately, Styles has had a blinder.

Our Alain de Botton-loving, Gucci-muse showman shook up Coachella when he headlined weekend one by performing with the wondrous 90s singer Shania Twain. 

Styles, wearing a sequin jumpsuit (custom Gucci, no less) and fluffy overcoat, played his biggest hits for 80 minutes with a full band complete with brass section and, what a reviewer for The Guardian UK called, "more wailing guitars than a Led Zeppelin B-side". 

The man who rose to fame via a reality TV singing show was ripped out of magazines and pinned to the walls by tweens around the world in One Direction more than a decade ago. He has had many achievements as a successful pop star in his own right, but getting Twain to sing live again is up there too.

"In the car with my mother as a child, this lady taught me how to sing," Styles said of the Canadian country-pop star who is now 56.

"She also taught me that men are trash."

The pair performed a duet on two of Twain’s bangers, Man! I Feel Like a Woman! and You’re Still The One.

"It's kinda of a dream and very surreal to be sitting here right now, singing this song with you. I think I'm just in love and I think this song is all about love, so let's sing about love," Twain said as she strummed her guitar before launching into the latter, a ballad that spawned a million first kisses at school formals, around this country especially, when it dropped in 1997. 

It was a beautiful synergy for these two stars as they bopped out on stage.

Both are successful "cross over stars".

Styles, at 28, has smashed the walls of restrictive musical genres and other labels by appearing on the cover of Vogue in women's clothes. But Twain was one of the original singers to mash and mix up the music industry. 

Twain mixed and mashed herself, recording the bestselling album ever made by a woman, Come On Over, by mixing pop, country and rock. It was also the best-selling country music album ever released and the best-selling studio album ever released by a female artist in any genre.

Twain walked so Taylor Swift could run.

Here's the bit you may not know.

Twain made three of her best selling albums with the help of her then husband and music partner, producer and writer - a bloke called Robert 'Mutt' Lange.

Then in 2002, when she was just 30, she disappeared. She didn't make another album for 15 years. Musically, she was mute.

She developed what she called "the madness" in her memoir published a few years ago. She contracted Lyme disease, which required her to have her voice box reconstructed by surgery and she had a baby in 2001. She expected to take some time out to recover and raise her son but she didn't reappear in public for close to 20 years. 

Before her re-emergence, it was announced Lange was having an affair with their personal assistant. Adding insult to an already injured Twain, the personal assistant was her bestie.

Lange and Twain divorced before she got together with her former best friend's husband and was so haunted by the tabloid headlines she retreated into silence. She still couldn't sing.

"I was too embarrassed to tell anybody that I couldn’t sing. For a long time, I didn’t even know why I couldn’t sing," Twain said.

So now we see why Styles' inviting Twain back to the main stage at Coachella - one of the biggest stages in the world - is a big deal.

It is also a lovely gesture to an artist he admires and was inspired by.

Their duets have since gone viral during at time when it feels like nearly every second reel on Instagram is carrying the As It Was soundtrack, his latest single.

Just like Twain did back in the day, Styles is now breaking records of his own. Earlier this week he broke the record for the Most Streamed Song within 24-hours (male) for As It Was.

What a great sight to see records fall for a human who builds others up.

Harry Styles Love on Tour 2023 dates:

Perth: HBF Park, February 20

Melbourne: Marvel Stadium, February 24

Gold Coast: Metricon Stadium, February 28

Sydney: Accor Stadium, March 3

Tickets will be available from livenation.com.au from April 27.