Eh, I think there’s always been pushback when Harry does something to his current look and moves forward — pushback with growing his hair long, pushback with his nail polish, pushback on the funky heeled boots, the floral suits, the funky pants, cutting his hair, the pearl necklace, the disappearance of the pearls, the mustache, going back to off-duty active wear… — but, personally, I’ve always found I’ve come around to whatever era of himself he wants to settle into and have fun with. Sure, there are going to be looks I miss, but the vision Harry has for himself always seems naturally subversive to our current idea of what’s attractive (and imo, he’s often right, and more importantly, always interesting).
This also isn’t the first time fans are howling about how they can no longer love him if he’s not the exact canvas they need him to be — people have been saying that about him since the dawn of time, with every iteration of himself that wasn’t strictly molded by Modest. So okay, if that’s what’s important to them, they can find someone else. They probably would have eventually, anyway, if that was their first priority.
Whatever Harry’s reasoning for it — an acting role, a drastic tangible change, a vacation look, a hair transplant (which to my knowledge really doesn’t need a shaved head, but if true, he seems totally okay with and confident in, seeing as he let TMZ film him at a U2 concert) — it’ll always be the least interesting and least attractive thing about him as an artist anyway.
