The most interesting pieces of pop music trivia that you know (that are 100% false)

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“Jack Antonoff” is a currently popular pseudonym used when a producer doesn’t want his/her name to be credited on a record.

Sorry to clutter yr watchlist with my junk (morrisp), Sunday, 1 September 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link

lol

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1704. “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” is about a man afraid of getting a BJ from the sun.


An earlier version had "your son", which changes the context slightly. The record company preferred the cosmic theme.

lefal junglist platton (wtev), Sunday, 1 September 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link

Either way, the song was the original inspiration for "The Strange Thing About the Johnsons"

flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 2 September 2019 01:00 (four years ago) link

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quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 2 September 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link

Chas Hodges kept up his session work throughout the 80s, as he believed Chas and Dave would never be a lasting concern. He can be heard (uncredited) on "Running Up That Hill" (bass), "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" (mandolin), and "Voodoo Ray" (keyboards). Also the theme music to TV's "Juliet Bravo" (lead guitar).

fetter, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link

The idea for the chorus of the Jets' "You Got It All" occurred when Eugene and Eddie Wolfgramm got into a fight in the living room. Eddie, having lost the upper hand, found an open bucket of paint and chucked it at Eugene, costing him.

Mama Wolfgramm came running in, yelling "Goddammit, Eddie! You git it all over him!"

FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 September 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link

*got

FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 September 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link

Elton John's somg "Nikita" was written for Nikita Khrushchev.

And the wind... cries... Larry (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link

five months pass...

Roedelius fragged the Oberscharführer of his Hitler Youth squad at the end of WWII when he and his fellow youths were about to be forced into action against the incoming Soviet army. They surrendered peacefully to the American forces a few days after.

omar little, Thursday, 20 February 2020 02:53 (four years ago) link

seven months pass...

The Vengaboys' 1999 hit "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!" was originally subtitled "I'm Married to Geoff Hoon!", an unsubtle reference to singer Denise Post-Van Rijswijk's short-lived marriage to the British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Ashfield. The song's passionate exhortation for an unnamed non-Hoon third party to spend the night together with Post-Van Rijswijk was cited as a contributing factor in the couple's 2002 split, along with Hoon voting no on the second reading of that year's Tobacco Promotion and Advertising Bill.

Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

Jim Morrison's talent for prognostication has not gone unremarked upon. However, what is lesser known is that in 1967, an early draft of one of his most popular songs would predict a genre-defining new wave hit 13 years in the future! Early drafts of the Doors' enduring single People Are Strange reveal that the lyrics' third line was originally "women sing Whip It when you're unwanted."

peace, man, Monday, 2 November 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link

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Mark G, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 07:55 (three years ago) link

serial killer Richard Ramirez had a budding singer-songwriter career, though people probably should have seen the signs with songs like "Baby, I Think It's Gonna Hail (Satan)" and "See You in Disneyland"

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link

Winner

Simon stated in interviews that the song was written in his bathroom, where he turned off the lights to better concentrate. "The main thing about playing the guitar, though, was that I was able to sit by myself and play and dream. And I was always happy doing that. I used to go off in the bathroom, because the bathroom had tiles, so it was a slight echo chamber. I'd turn on the faucet so that water would run (I like that sound, it's very soothing to me) and I'd play. In the dark. 'Hello darkness, my old friend / I've come to talk with you again'."According to Garfunkekl, Simon originally wrote the lyric as "Aloha darkness, my old friend."Garfunkel once summed up the song's meaning as "the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly internationally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other."

Cabo Weibo (卡波微博) (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link

Aert Garfunkekl

Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link

ORNALDO BLOOMPS FOR PRESIDETN

Kabob Dylan (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link

three months pass...

Some years ago, I thought it would be funny to bullshit my friends by fabricating a story that the Goo Goo Dolls song "Name" was written about Drew Barrymore, during the troubled 90s phase of her career when she Grew up way too fast...

I have since repeated this story so many times, with so many embellishments, that I no longer recall what the truth of the matter is.

I guess you could say, Now there's nothing to believe.

Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Saturday, 6 February 2021 11:29 (three years ago) link

Lol it's about former MTV VJ Kennedy.
They dated for a bit

he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 February 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link

Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth was originally intended to be part of a marketing blitz for a new brand of juvenile speed with the same name. Gibson's management got cold feet and, because copies of the album had already been pressed, insisted that the makers of the drug change their product's name. After a protracted legal battle which ended in Gibson's favor, the drug's manufacturers found another willing artist with whom to partner, and thirty years later Extreme Strength Pornograffiti remains a popular OTC stimulant among America's teenagers.

Vladislav Bibidonurtmi (Old Lunch), Saturday, 6 February 2021 15:39 (three years ago) link

1730. Beck's chosen title for the 1996 album that would become his all-time bestseller was <b>Zero Delay</b>, but the record company misread his scribblings.

anatol_merklich, Thursday, 18 February 2021 09:43 (three years ago) link

1731. Bad Brains's name was derived from a spoonerism of "broad beans".

Tim, Thursday, 18 February 2021 10:31 (three years ago) link

five months pass...

Van Dyke Parks, who began his career as a child actor, played the part of Opie in the pilot episode of The Andy Griffith Show.

Dexter Holland's Opus (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 12 August 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link

Scooby Doo sang for The Archies

there's too much fucking shit on me (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 August 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett are engaged to be married.

Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Thursday, 12 August 2021 02:34 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

1732. Roger Waters owns a house in Aguascalientes, Mexico that he bought because almost no-one recognizes him in there and he lived there for most of the pandemic.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 October 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link

1733. He has a pool that he never uses.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 8 October 2021 04:23 (two years ago) link

1734. On Chic's 1977 single "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" , the group were actually singing "dents, dents dents". Nile Rodgers penned the song in a furious mood after discovering several of the titular hollow dips in the bumper of a Porsche 914 he had hastily purchased. Before the single's release, Rodgers changed the title after deciding to take the group in a more dancefloor-friendly direction.

hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 11 October 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link

1735. Michael Sembello's "Maniac" was originally titled "Animaniac" and was actually the source of inspiration for the animated cartoon, "Animaniacs". When the idea was stolen, Michael sued Warner Brothers, who had him murdered. Weirdly, he continued to record new music after his death.

Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 October 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link

1736. They knew that co-branding was over as a fashion trend when Virgil Abloh’s love of hip hop had him collaborate with the singer on the 1995 Coolio hit Gangsta’s Paradise. L.V was an important part of the song but Louis Vuitton’s share price went into downfall and they quickly tried to disassociate with him, no longer advertising on Coolio’s youtube cooking channel, and even got Abloh’s friend Kanye West to shout “Fuck L.V.” to fans at his stadium release parties.

As fans didn’t realise this was a reference to the obscure rap singer and thought it was a rift between the rapper and the Louis Vuitton and Off White designer, this only made the share price of the two fashion houses drop further.

a hoy hoy, Monday, 11 October 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Adele's "Rumor Has It" is actually misspelled. Adele is responding to an unknown friend in the song, who prior to the song has asked where her vacuum cleaner is. She had previously loaned it to Bruce Willis's daughter, so she is responding "Rumer has it".

Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link

ten months pass...

The “Z” in Jay-Z’s name stands for “Zorro.” He earned the nickname as a teenager when he was frequently spotted carrying a fencing sword around Bed-Stuy. #falsemusictrivia

— False Music Trivia (@FalseMusicFacts) October 13, 2021

Paul Ponzi, Friday, 23 September 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link

I am henceforth only going to refer to him as "J-Zorro"

Paul Ponzi, Friday, 23 September 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link

Oh yeah, before he was a rapper he used to write quotations from De La Vega in chalk on the pavement next to popular NYC subway stations

"H to the Izzo" means "I love you" (Deflatormouse), Saturday, 24 September 2022 05:47 (one year ago) link

Mariah Carey has confessed her song “Obsessed” is about a sex dream she had involving the rapper Riff Raff.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 24 September 2022 16:32 (one year ago) link

1739. Harry Styles moonlights as the mysterious masked wrestler Penta El Zero M.

NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 24 September 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link

Contrary to rumor, the Counting Crows song “Mr. Jones” is not about the singer’s penis. He did, however, write a song about his penis—titled “The Longest Member”—which he changed at the label’s request (to “A Long December,” retaining the rhyme scheme).

"Cool ranch dressing!" (morrisp), Saturday, 24 September 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link

ten months pass...

The word "podcast" has its origins in a public health measure that was widely adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020. Individuals and their households were advised to form a "pod," a bounded social group within which close prolonged contact was permissible, so long as all members of the pod abided by restrictions on interacting with people outside of the pod.

As the pandemic stretched on and people began to long for wider social intercourse, it became fashionable for members of a pod to sit down together in one room with a microphone to record an unstructured, open-ended conversation. They would then reach out to other pods on social media and swap their recording for one with a different "cast."

The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 31 July 2023 14:34 (eight months ago) link

Did anyone else ever hear that Geddy Lee had throat cancer? For some reason, that was a rumor circulating among my friends in high school circa 1981.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 31 July 2023 14:42 (eight months ago) link

Does he talk like an ordinary guy?

Steely Duran (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 31 July 2023 17:06 (eight months ago) link

Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. is the father of Lucy Lawless, the actress/singer

linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 July 2023 17:43 (eight months ago) link

Laura Les of the popular band 100 Gecs took her name from two of her favorite musicians: Laura Nyro and Les Paul.

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 4 August 2023 13:39 (eight months ago) link

one of the members of Jesus Jones was actually Jesus Christ and he was crucified again after "Right Here, Right Now"

linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 August 2023 13:45 (eight months ago) link

Rick Astley's childhood nickname was "Chicky Ricky" because his dad would often lock him up in the back yard chicken coop as a punishment

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 4 August 2023 13:57 (eight months ago) link

oh yeah I heard about that, it's what Rockadoodle was about

linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 August 2023 13:58 (eight months ago) link

The most popular attraction at the rock & roll hall of fame for the year leading up to and the year following the release of Bohemian Rhapsody: The Movie! was Freddy Mercury’s moustache.

The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 4 August 2023 15:38 (eight months ago) link

Rejected names for the band Yes included Yarp, Yessir and Fuckin' A

nashwan, Friday, 4 August 2023 16:02 (eight months ago) link

three weeks pass...

influential beat boxer thom yorke . . .

the adventures of Yari and ixa. (Austin), Sunday, 27 August 2023 21:07 (seven months ago) link

lol nashwan

Stoned Wheat Thing (morrisp), Sunday, 27 August 2023 21:08 (seven months ago) link

Chris DeBurgh's "Lady in Red" was actually the other half of a conversation he had with his then girlfriend, while he was being a shit to her.

Chris: Never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight. Never seen you shine so bright.

Girlfriend: Are saying I usually look bad?

Chris: No it's just....I've never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance. They're looking for a little romance, give'em half a chance

Girlfriend: God, don't pull this again tonight. I wanted to look nice tonight. I can't help if I attracted some male attention. I dress up all the time.

Chris: I've never seen that dress you're wearing! Or the highlights in your hair that catch your eyes.

Her: I wore this dress at your cousin Louie's wedding last year. You spilled tuna salad on it.

Chris: I have been blind.

Her: this is pretty rich, given how you've been staring at that woman in the corner all night

Chris: (chuckles) The lady in red?

Her: Don't think I haven't seen you shooting glances at her when I go to refill my wine glass. I wouldn't be surprised if the two of you were slow dancing when I was in the bathroom.

Chris: (sarcastically) She's dancing. With me. Cheek to cheek.

Her: Would you keep it down so more people don't start staring at us?

Chris: There's NOBODY HERE! It's just you and me.

Her: And the lady in red in the corner!

Chris: But...

Her: Don't "but" me. Earlier I saw you two bantering like an old high school couple.

Chris: I HARDLY KNOW THIS 'BEAUTY' BY MY SIDE!

Her: And now you're yelling. Typical. But hey, keep downing those glasses of Jamesson, I'm sure you won't remember how to get back to our hotel after this lovely evening.

Chris: I'll never forget the way

Her: Ahh shit....one of my earrings is missing. Goddamnit, Chris, help me look for it. It was an heirloom from my great grandmother.

Chris: (mad) YOU look!

Her: You really are a jerk. I'll take a cab back.

Chris: (toasting to himself, dryly) Tonight....

Neanderthal, Friday, 1 September 2023 16:48 (seven months ago) link


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