Here's What Harry Styles' Golden Really Means

During a secret iHeartRadio performance of his album Fine Line, Styles told Tanya Rad from On Air With Ryan Seacrest that he purposely chose "Golden" as the opening track because it brought the rest of the album together (via PopSugar). "We wrote it on day two of when we'd started, so I felt really excited about it. We would listen to it, and we'd dance around the studio and be like, 'I love this! I don't know if it's good, I don't know if it's bad, but we love it,'" he explained. Styles also shared that he loves the sunny, positive vibes he gets from listening to it. "We were driving down by the ocean, and when I listen to it now, it feels like I'm driving by the ocean," he added.

Now let's break down the lyrics. In the first verse of "Golden," Styles croons the lines "I know you were way too bright for me / I'm hopeless, broken, so you wait for me in the sky." By mentioning that his partner is "too bright" and he feels "hopeless and broken" while they are stuck waiting for him, Styles may be hinting that he thinks his lover is out of his league. Many of us have been in relationships before where we felt like we didn't deserve our partner, even if that wasn't true. There are even times where the amount of effort both parties put into the relationship may not always feel equal.