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

(Note: depending on who you believe this story may not be 100% false.)

52, sorry.

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"

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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."

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Scooby Doo sang for The Archies

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett are engaged to be married.

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.

1733. He has a pool that he never uses.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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."

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.

Does he talk like an ordinary guy?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

influential beat boxer thom yorke . . .

lol nashwan

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....

Neil Young was considering joining KISS.

His persona would have been "Scarecrow."

Weyes Blood stans call themselves “Weyes Geyes.”

Weyes Blood Stains

"Eye of the Tiger" is about Frosted Flakes

Koyaanisqatsi was originally scored by Keith Emerson, but copyright issues got in the way and Philip Glass was drafted in at the last moment to salvage the project.