A soft drink is a beverage, often carbonated, that does not contain alcohol. (Carbonated soft drinks are more commonly known as soda, pop, tonic, or soda pop in parts of the United States and Canada, or fizzy drinks in the U.K.; sometimes called minerals in Ireland) The name "soft drink" specifies a lack of alcohol by way of contrast to the term "hard drink". The term "drink", while nominally neutral, often carries connotations of alcoholic content. Beverages like colas, sparkling water, iced tea, lemonade, squash, and fruit punch are among the most common types of soft drinks, while hot chocolate, hot tea, coffee, milk, tap water, alcohol, and milkshakes do not fall into this classification. Many carbonated soft drinks are optionally available in versions sweetened with sugars or with non-caloric sweeteners.

"Pop" is the first single by boyband *NSync from their album Celebrity. It was written by Wade Robson and Justin Timberlake and produced by BT and uses his famous "stutter edit" sound. The song's subject focuses on contemporary criticism of boy bands and pop music, and ensures the public of their music being addictive and not being a trend. It reached #19 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and #9 on the UK Singles Chart. It even has elements of Bt's own song, "Smartbomb."

Ironically by this time next year, mid-2002, N' Sync would already be on hiatus and teen pop was no longer popular or successful as the song proudly expressed. (See teen pop for more information about the demise of late 1990s teen pop.)