Beyoncé, Harry Styles and the High Risk of Going Solo
Leaving a successful group can make you iconic — unless it doesn’t.
9 min readOct 10, 2020
Solitude, like silence, is golden, but in music it doesn’t always yield gold and platinum rewards. If you’re used to being part of a well-known group, and fans are accustomed to seeing you that way, too, going solo can be risky. Even if you manage to scrounge up…
