Katherine Heigl learns Harry Styles' seemingly 'random' hit single 'Watermelon Sugar' may actually be about oral sex
- Katherine Heigl was surprised to learn on Instagram that some fans speculate Harry Styles' "Watermelon Sugar" is about oral sex.
- The hit pop song uses metaphors about tasting fruit to describe a romantic or sexual encounter.
- Styles has neither confirmed nor denied rumors about the song's true meaning.
- In an Instagram comment on Sunday, Heigl responded to a fan sharing the theory: "I guess Harry and I have different adjectives to describe the experience."
Katherine Heigl posted a video of her husband and two of their children dancing to Harry Styles' "Watermelon Sugar," but the fun was upended when a commenter pointed out many fans believe the song is actually about oral sex.
In "Watermelon Sugar," Styles uses metaphors about the taste of fruits to describe a romantic encounter. As music critic Anna Richmond wrote for Slant Magazine, the song "describes a sexual encounter in terms of sweet fruits and summer nights, building to an ecstatic, horn-filled climax."
Styles has not confirmed the meaning behind the pop song, which was his first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, but fans and critics have both speculated that it's about oral sex.
A top comment on Heigl's Instagram video on Sunday, which showed the family dancing as the 2019 song's music video played on a big screen in their home, shared the theory with the actress, writing that "the kids don't need to know" what the song is really about.
Heigl responded to the comment, writing, "the kids??!! What about me??!!"
"I thought it was a random slightly chaotic song about watermelons and sugar and...well hell I have no idea what I thought the song was about," the "Grey's Anatomy" star commented, "but oral sex never once crossed my mind...I guess Harry and I have different adjectives to describe the experience."
Other Instagram users commented that they, too, had never heard the theory, which was first popularized by several viral tweets after the song was released as a promotional single last fall.
In an interview with Styles in November 2019, Apple Music's Zane Lowe brought up the theory, saying that some people think the song is about "the joys of mutually appreciated oral pleasure."
Styles replied mysteriously, saying, "Is that what it's about?"
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