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poptimistsIn the canteen just now the Miley song was on (and the Miley song was on, and the Miley song was oooooon etc), and it got me thinking...
...Do pop songs intentionally name drop other artists anymore? Did this use to be more of a common occurrence? Obviously this is a big thing in hiphop where shout-outs to your mates (especially dead ones) or ruthless disses are very common. Also, tediously-long lists of dudes who have influenced the artist seem to be mostly confined to dance music (Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Soulwax, er Scooter), though feel free to correct me on that. Does the same thing happen in country or rock at all?
Off the top of my head I can think of the following pop tracks that reference other artists not directly involved in the making of the track:
Miley Cyrus - Party In The USA (Jay-Z and Britney)
Robbie Williams - She's Madonna
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag (Iron Maiden)
CSS - Meeting Paris Hilton (who is technically a pop star I guess)
There must be more! Who would you say is name-dropped the most? Does it tend to be in the context of Artist 1 actually in the act of listening to Artist 2, like Miley is doing? Or swooning over them, like Robbie?
...Do pop songs intentionally name drop other artists anymore? Did this use to be more of a common occurrence? Obviously this is a big thing in hiphop where shout-outs to your mates (especially dead ones) or ruthless disses are very common. Also, tediously-long lists of dudes who have influenced the artist seem to be mostly confined to dance music (Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Soulwax, er Scooter), though feel free to correct me on that. Does the same thing happen in country or rock at all?
Off the top of my head I can think of the following pop tracks that reference other artists not directly involved in the making of the track:
Miley Cyrus - Party In The USA (Jay-Z and Britney)
Robbie Williams - She's Madonna
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag (Iron Maiden)
CSS - Meeting Paris Hilton (who is technically a pop star I guess)
There must be more! Who would you say is name-dropped the most? Does it tend to be in the context of Artist 1 actually in the act of listening to Artist 2, like Miley is doing? Or swooning over them, like Robbie?
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Date: 2009-11-18 03:23 pm (UTC)Steely Dan's Everything You Did
"She sang about angels, Kurt Cobain
I thought 'what a shame
It wasn't about Tom Verlaine"
The Go Betweens' She Sang About Angels
David Bowie's Song for Bob Dylan is an obvious one, spinning off Dylan's Song for Woody (Guthrie)
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Date: 2009-11-18 03:29 pm (UTC)Current front runners then are Beatles & Rolling Stones, followed by Blur/Oasis/Madonna I think (just remembered Androids' 'Do It With Madonna').
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Date: 2009-11-18 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-18 03:59 pm (UTC)Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire mentions Beatlemania, Doris Day, Liberace, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Dylan and the general notion of "punk rock".