Jalen Brunson presents Harry Styles with MSG banner as 30-night residency closes on Halloween
The Knicks captain joined Styles onstage at Madison Square Garden on Halloween to mark the end of a record-setting 30-show run — with rat costumes, a 'Psycho Killer' cover, and fan chants.
Harry Styles closed out his record-setting 30-night 'Together, Together' residency at Madison Square Garden on Halloween with a guest appearance from Knicks captain Jalen Brunson, who walked onstage to present Styles with a commemorative banner honoring the sold-out run.
Brunson arrived dressed — according to Stereogum — in what appeared to be a costume of Styles himself: running gear, a baseball cap, and headphones, mimicking the look Styles has been spotted wearing while crossing the Williamsburg Bridge. Styles, for his part, spent the night as New York City's Pizza Rat, then changed into an 'I Am a Rat' T-shirt.
The banner presentation carried a reciprocal quality: Styles had previously attended Knicks games at MSG, and Brunson has been referred to as the 'King of New York.'
The Halloween finale also featured a debut cover of Talking Heads' 'Psycho Killer,' according to Rolling Stone and Stereogum. Earlier in the tour, Styles had woven part of another Talking Heads song — 'This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)' — into his own track 'Treat People With Kindness,' per Stereogum.
Styles' fiancée Zoë Kravitz attended the closing night dressed as a bodega plastic bag — a costume Stereogum noted felt 'very spiritually aligned' with the rat theme as twin pieces of New York City iconography.
The residency, named 'Together, Together,' ran for 30 nights and surpassed the 15-night MSG residency Styles held in 2021, when he also launched his 'Harryween' Halloween concert tradition.
That first Harryween, in 2021, established the format: Styles, his band, and much of the audience in costume. This year's two-night Halloween run leaned hard into New York specificity. On the first Harryween night — Friday — Styles dressed as 1970s-era Elvis Presley and then as a younger version of himself auditioning for the UK talent show The X Factor, covering Stevie Wonder's 'Isn't She Lovely,' the song he sang at that audition, according to Stereogum.
Why it matters — The closing night crystallized a months-long cultural moment in which one of pop music's biggest stars made New York City — its sports team, its street iconography, its fans — the explicit subject of a record-breaking arena run.
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- Brunson joked with Styles about their heights and a hat exchange, and noted Styles had attended the Knicks' own banner-raising.
- MVP chants from the crowd
- Styles had previously attended the Knicks' own banner-raising at MSG, and had called Brunson the 'King of New York' at an earlier show
- ran from August 26 through October 31, with shows on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, drawing more than 500,000 fans from all 50 states and 79 countries
Reported by variety.com, stereogum.com, espn.co.uk, rollingstone.com
- Elvis PresleyAmerican singer and actor (1935–1977)
- Stevie WonderAmerican and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)
- Zoë KravitzAmerican actress, director, singer and model (born 1988)
