Song · Harry Styles
“Matilda” by Harry Styles
From the album Harry’s House (2022)
“Matilda” by Harry Styles appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2022. It was first released in 2022 on the album Harry’s House. Its best result is #15 on the WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2022. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #196 indie & aaa song of 2022.
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"Matilda" is the hushed confession at the heart of Harry's House, Harry Styles' third album, from 2022. Styles wrote it with Amy Allen, Tyler Johnson and Kid Harpoon, the last two also producing, and it grew out of getting to know someone who, the closer they got, let slip things that struck him as far from normal, the kind of thing you gently tell a person to get help for. He disguised that someone as Matilda from the Roald Dahl book, and he's said every friend he first played it to ended up in tears.
It sits in folk territory: Kid Harpoon plays acoustic guitar, grand piano and bass, with Devonté Hynes on cello, Josh Johnson on saxophone and Tyler Johnson on synthesizer. Jeremy Hatcher engineered it and Mark "Spike" Stent mixed.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 15 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2022 | 90 |
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