"Dance No More" was inspired by Berghain — the most famous techno club in the world — and by a 1974 Joni Mitchell lyric about laughing and crying being the same release. But the detail nobody expected: there's a seven-year-old boy's name in the bridge. His name is Fox. He's Kid Harpoon's son. And he earned his place in this song by hitting a football crossbar on FaceTime. In this episode: what Berlin actually gave Harry Styles that four years of therapy couldn't, why the tears and the sweat are the same, and why Dance No More is the most joyful argument on the album.

Behind The Lines — we go deeper than the chorus.

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