"Pop" has the most revealing lyric on Harry Styles' entire album — according to Dazed magazine. The line "it's meant to be pop" is delivered with a sigh of relief, not regret. And once you understand what that means — what Harry has been fighting against for fifteen years and why he finally stopped — the song hits completely differently. In this episode: the Berlin club scene that produced it, what "squeaky clean fantasy" really means, the shift from "meant to be" to "making me", and why this might be the bravest song on the record.

Behind The Lines — we go deeper than the chorus.

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