Songs that are aware of themselves

The Drugs - Pop Song ("This is our number one pop song choor-us/we're hoping that it makes a million dollars for us")

I believe Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" is actually about trying to write a song, no?

Maybe I'm waaay offbase...

And, of course, Weird Al to thread, cf. "This song is just six words long."

Also Squirrel song ("This is a sad fucking song! We'll be lucky if I don't bust out crying") and Song Against Itself, both by Shellac.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B21qhoKbmNE

well, i wrote this song
with a vamp in the middle
and i knew when i wrote it
that i'd written it for the fiddle

Songs that get all meta and mention 'this song' in the lyrics

This is the first verse
This is the first verse
This is the first verse, the first, the first
And this is the first verse, verse, first verse
And this is the first verse, verse
This is the first verse

And this is the chorus
Or perhaps it's a bridge
Or just another part of the song that I'm singing

And this is the second verse
It could be the last verse
This is the second verse, second verse, second verse
It could be the last verse, last verse
And this is the second verse
But it's probably the last one

And this is the chorus
Or perhaps it's a bridge
Or just another key change
Never mind, it doesn't hurt
It only means that I lost faith in this song
'Cause it won't help me reach you

Yes sir, already told you in the first verse and in the chorus,
But I will give you one more chance...

songs that are about themselves

There's something about THIS song ... Songs that reference themselves.

Now hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you...

another from john hartford:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBZFebgYU_I

Love a tune that boasts about repeating the first verse, eg:

Violent Femmes - Prove My Love / The Ramones - Judy is a Punk / Herman’s Hermits - I’m Henry the VII I am

^otm

You criticize our method of how we make records
You said it wasn't art, so now we're gonna rip you apart
Stop, check it out my man
This is the music of a hip-hop band
Jazz, well you can call it that
But this jazz retains a new format
Point, where you misjudged us
Speculated, created a fuss
You've made the same mistake politicians have
Talkin' all that jazz

#onethread

Radio stations I question their blackness, they call themselves black, but we'll see if they'll play this

Smudge - I Don’t Want To Be Grant McLennan