Songs that include other artists' names

[NORTHCOAST]

Thought it would be fun to list songs (and the exact lyric) where an artist mentions another artist in their song. It could be a diss or a shout out.

Snow Patrol's "Hands Open" there's the lyric:

"Put Sufjan Stevens on and we'll play your favorite song. " Definitely not a diss. :)

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Kathleen Edwards - Pink Emerson Radio
"we played Tommy by The Who"

Dixie Chicks - Long Time Gone
"Now, me and deliah singing every sunday
Watching the children and the garden grow
We listen to the radio to hear whats cookin
But the music aint got no soul
Now they sound tired but they dont sound haggard
Theyve got money but they dont have cash
They got junior but they dont have hank
I think, I think, I think
the rest is long time gone"

I always liked that one.

[mmarcelo0912]

Taylor Swift - 'Tim McGraw' (...When you think Tim McGraw, I hope you think of me...)
Carrie Underwood - 'Before He Cheats' (...she's probably up singing some white trash version of Shania karaoke...)

[johnm1120]

Gretchen Wilson - Redneck Woman shouts out:
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kid Rock, George Strait, Charlie Daniels and Tanya Tucker (most of which also appeared in the video)

Politically Uncorrect shouts Merle Haggard who also is featured on the song

Californis Girls shouts out George Jones, Merle Haggard Dolly Parton, and disses Paris Hilton.

[derek]

Stefy's "Orange County" mentions Gwen and Jay Z

Bowling For Soups "1985" mentions a bunch of people from the 80s

Elton John's "Candel In The Wind" part I and II talks about two specific people.\

Pink's "Don't let Me Get Me" mentions Britney

all I can think of right now.

[Pulse]

Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" mentions Bobby Womack.

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We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel

[Minimalism]

O'Town's "Liquid Dreams" mentions several ladies' names.

[tortuga]

northcoast said:

"Put Sufjan Stevens on and we'll play your favorite song. "  Definitely not a diss.  :)

I never caught that one. Probably because the lyrics are so univolving.

[JOJO SIWA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME]

Lil' Kim's "Not Tonight" remix mentions Patti LaBelle.

"What I look like? Patti LaBelle or somebody n****? Heheh"

Pink mentioned Britney Spears in "Don't Let Me Get Me."

"Tired of being compared to damn Britney Spears, She's so pretty, that just ain't me"

Eminem mentioned a bunch of artists in his songs.

In "The Real Slim Shady", he mentions Dr. Dre, Will Smith, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears,

In "Marshall Mathers", he mentions 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., Backstreet Boys, N' Sync, Britney Spears, New Kids on the Block, Ricky Martin, Vanilla Ice, Puff Daddy, and D-12.

Cyndi Lauper mentions Madonna's name, not necessarily in context in "Madonna Whore"

[NORTHCOAST]

Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina":

Cold coolin at a bar, and I'm lookin for some action
But like Mike Jagger said, I can't get no satisfaction

[babyboylrtm]

Kanye West's Gold Digger mentions Jennifer Lopaz.

[jaxxalude]

Johhny Depp and Gibby Haines of Butthole Surfers formed a short-lived side-band a decade ago called P (just like this, a single letter), and one of the songs was called "Michael Stipe", which revolved around, whaddaya know!, Michael Stipe. To this day I'm still trying to understand what was that about...

[MyLastView]

JoJo - "Get It Poppin'" (and the beat goes..ta-tat ta-tat tat..uh...haha...JoJo..Insomniax."
(he's a producer, but close enough)

That's the only one I can think of now, but I'm sure I will think of more later.

[babyboylrtm]

Missy Elliot mentions Britney Spears on that Touch It Remix.

"IM TOXIC BABY LIKE IM BRITNEY SPEARS"

[NORTHCOAST]

derek said:

Stefy's "Orange County" mentions Gwen and Jay Z

Bowling For Soups "1985" mentions a bunch of people from the 80s

Elton John's "Candel In The Wind" part I and II talks about two specific people.\

Pink's "Don't let Me Get Me" mentions Britney

all I can think of right now.

The Bowling for Soup song "1985" is what made me think of this thread. The "who's the other guy singing in Van Halen" line comes off as a diss to me toward Sammy Hagar. What do you think?

Here's another one:

Kid Rock's "Devil Without a Cause":

"Now my fuckin' bunnies gettin' fuckin' Matchbox 20 money"

[jay]

Oh man the only one I can think of from the top of my head is in that Eminem song "Without Me" when he makes reference to Moby.

"And Moby, you can get stomped by Obie, You 36 year old bald headed f-- blow me"

There is also a reference to Elvis earlier on as well.

[Pink Champagne Ricochet]

this is really horrible, but Jonas Brothers "Year 3000" shouts out Kelly Clarkson: "everyone bought our 7th album/it had outsold Kelly Clarkson". the original version of the same song by Busted had Michael Jackson in that same line.

another dumb one: Diana DeGarmo "Then I woke Up" shouts out 50 Cent and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

there's a song by The Roots that mentions Ruben Studdard. i don't remember the name of it, but it's like 10 minutes long.

Lady Sovereign's "Gatheration" is a cute one, though I think it's kind of a diss: "you'll get left out like the ginge from Girls Aloud", referring to redhead member Nicola.

[MyLastView]

How could I forget the Diana one??!?!
Ugh.

I love Then I Woke Up and I think those lyrics are cute.

Regular lyrics to the chorus:
I'm a hip-hop queen
A rock-n-roll dream

Changed lyrics towards the end:
I'm a little Lynryd Skynyrd
A little 50 Cent

[vinyl]

Kylie Minogue | Step Back In Time

Remember the old days
Remember the O'Jays

[Focus]

John Hiatt's song Slow Turning:
"I'm yelling at the kids in the back,
'cause they're banging like Charlie Watts".

He's not an artist, but he's big in the music business.
Aerosmith's No Surprise:

nineteen seventy one
we all heard the starters gun
New York is such a pity but at Max's Kansas City we won
we all shot the s**t at the bar
with Johnny O'Toole and his scar
and then old Clive Davis said he's surely gonna make us a star
I'm gonna make you a star
just the way you are
but with all his style
I could see in his eyes
that we is goin' on trial
and it was no surprize

[EmersonDrive13Rocks]

Daniel Bedingfield - "James Dean (I Wanna Know)" mentions James Dean and Brad Pitt.

[sbp17]

Jessica Andrews' There's More To Me Than You calls out Toby Keith.

But in the country genre, no song drops more names than Clint Black's Tuckered Out. Here are the lyrics...

I've seen more than a Little Texas,
And a Playboy always knows
A man does what he Wills as long
As he stays on his toes
He can Russell up a fortune,
Any man could strike it Rich
But I'm doing good to keep it Strait
And keep my wheels out of the ditch
Ain't no Foster for the Desert Rose,
The babblin' Brooks are Dunn
That Crystal ball won't even book me
One day in the Sun

I'm Haggard, worn and Waylon
From the bottom of my Restless Heart
Don't know Wy the Black cloud's tailin' me,
There seems to be no Parton from the dark
And I've had it to the Gills of knowin'
What the Nitty Gritty's all about
Bein' McEntired and Loveless
I can't Lovett if I'm all Tuckered out

--- Instrumental ---

Well, I never meant to set out
Like a half-cocked Gatlin gun
No highway Head Hunter's
Gonna let this Rabbitt run
I ain't Raven 'bout The Ride,
I probably got no fate to Seal
If I can't roll through Alabama
Half Asleepin' At The Wheel
All my Paycheckes are like dried up Wells
And way too small to Cash
Or I'd find a roadside motel,
Lay some money down to Crash

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Brandy's "I Tried" mentions Coldplay.

[Minimalism]

Several years ago there was a song with the chorus goes like this:

"I am afraid of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera,
Backstreet Boys and N'Sync, I don't know what to do"

It was an all-girl band, but I forget the name.

[oscillations.]

Lily Allen - Cheryl Tweedy
the obvious

M.I.A. - Fire, Fire
mentions Pixies, Beastie Boys, Lou Reed, Missy, Timbaland

Garbage - Enough Is Never Enough
I always thought this was cute (reference to self):
"Searching for fun, where do you go
Got your leather boots on
What do you know
And they're playing Garbage on the radio"

Television's "Venus (De Milo)" mentions Richard Hell:
Suddenly my eyes went so soft and shaky.
I knew there was pain but pain is not aching.
Then Richie, Richie said:
"Hey man let's dress up like cops
Think of what we could do!"
But something, something said "you better not."
And I fell.



Patti Smith "Rock 'N Roll ***I'M RACIST***"
mentions Hendrix:
Jimi Hendrix was a ***I'M RACIST***.
Jesus Christ and Grandma, too.
Jackson Pollock was a ***I'M RACIST***.
***I'M RACIST***, ***I'M RACIST***, ***I'M RACIST***, ***I'M RACIST***,
***I'M RACIST***, ***I'M RACIST***, ***I'M RACIST***.

[oscillations.]

THE MOST CLASSIC NAMEDROPPING SONG OF ALL TIME:

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - "LOSING MY EDGE":


Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from France and from London.
But I was there.

I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.

But I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge, but I was there.
I was there.
But I was there.

I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.

I used to work in the record store.
I had everything before anyone.
I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan.
I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes.
I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988.

But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.

I'm losing my edge.

I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody. Every great song by the Beach Boys. All the underground hits. All the Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import. I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit - 1985, '86, '87. I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.

I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.

I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.

But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra,

Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra,
Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc,

Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, the Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.

You don't know what you really want. (x15)

[jaxxalude]

^ One of the greatest songs ever made in the History of the Universe!

[vinyl]

4rd1 said:

Several years ago there was a song with the chorus goes like this:

"I am afraid of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera,
Backstreet Boys and N'Sync, I don't know what to do"

It was an all-girl band, but I forget the name.

Live On Release.


Kelis' "Keep It Down" mentions the Beastie Boys and Amy Winehouse's "Me & Mr Jones" mentions Slick Rick.

[Focus]

"You Know I'm No Good (Remix)" - Ghostface Killah & Amy Winehouse.

"You need to just walk away like Kelly Clarkson."