Justin Hawkins takes aim at Harry Styles, Coldplay in brutal review

Justin Hawkins, frontman of The Darkness, has once again stirred the pot with his unfiltered musical opinions, this time taking aim at Harry Styles and Coldplay.

The 50-year-old musician, known for his outspoken YouTube series Justin Hawkins Rides Again didn’t hold back while dissecting tunes from the pop and rock worlds.

While speaking about Harry Styles’ 2022 solo hit As It Was, the I Believe In A Thing Called Love star dismissed it as a “cookie-cutter” rip of A-ha’s iconic ’80s anthem Take On Me.

“That Harry Styles song, that’s Take On Me by A-ha but they started the chord sequence in a different place,” he said.

“It goes around the same four chords and it has a similar sort of motif on the synthesizer. 

But that song in 40 years will be completely forgotten and everyone will still be singing the A-ha one. And I think that’s fair.”

Notably, Hawkins didn’t spare Coldplay either.

Of Chris Martin and co., he bluntly remarked: “Nobody’s going to be singing Coldplay. I don’t care.”

This latest critique comes after Justin and his brother Dan caused controversy by taking aim at Yungblud over his MTV VMAs tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne.

Yungblud had defended himself against “bitter and jealous” critics after performing alongside Aerosmith legends Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, and Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt, in honour of the rock icon, who passed away in July aged 76.

Whether you love him or hate him, Justin Hawkins isn’t shy of speaking his mind.

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