Why Is Harry Styles Not In Bleachers' New Love, Simon Music Video?

Harry Styles, known raconteur, co-wrote Bleachers' "Alfie's Song (Not So Common Love Song)" — as well as Jack Antonoff and Ilsey Juber — which leads off the soundtrack to the new teen film Love, Simon. It's a good soundtrack that also features the Khalid/Normani team-up "Love Lies" and Troye Sivan's "Strawberries & Cigarettes," although my main question right now is about the just-released "Alfie's Song" video — mainly, why is Harry Styles not in it?


Sure, it's not technically Harry's song, and as such, Antonoff is the star here, spending the duration of the Isaac Rentz-directed clip attempting to nail his starring role in a music video and not quite getting it right (which is extraordinarily par for the course with him). Although yet still. Not even a cameo, my guy?


There are two leads in this video: Antonoff and his romantic interest. Yet Harry Styles could've with little effort portrayed the shoot's cursed boom mic operator, a gentleman comically subjected to Antonoff's wrath at least twice throughout the video. He could've filmed it in, like, four hours, tops.


Yet all things imagined, it's a pretty video that doesn't take itself seriously, and also you could watch it above — even if Harry Styles isn't in it.