# Are there any songs with cell phones in them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-with-cell-phones-in-them/550805 "2010-08-20T00:05:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-with-cell-phones-in-them/550805/21 "2010-08-20T22:54:54Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > _Smell Yo Dick_ by **Riskay** references texting and camera phones. That you posted that with a straight face is just…awesome. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-with-cell-phones-in-them/550805/22 "2010-08-20T23:12:18Z")
[“7 Things,”](http://www.metrolyrics.com/7-things-lyrics-miley-cyrus.html) by Miley Cyrus: “When you mean it, I’ll believe it / If you text it, I’ll delete it.” ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-with-cell-phones-in-them/550805/23 "2010-08-20T23:30:23Z")
['cept You and Me, Babe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJFqzWfGWEg), by Greg Brown _“half the people you see these days are talking on cell phones driving off the road & bumping into doors”_ Great song. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-with-cell-phones-in-them/550805/24 "2010-08-21T00:06:20Z")
Some of these sound interesting. I’m going to have to check them out. Thanks for the information. \*\*multimediac17’s \*\*comment makes the list sound like living history. That’s cool. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-with-cell-phones-in-them/550805/25 "2010-08-21T00:26:04Z")
24 posts and no mention of Weird Al Yankovic? [Ringtone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvVDNvpIBWo) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-with-cell-phones-in-them/550805/26 "2010-08-21T05:00:05Z")
I thought this was going to be about songs that used a cellphone to make music. ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-with-cell-phones-in-them/550805/27 "2010-08-21T08:25:08Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > Willie Nile has a song called [“Cell Phones Ringing in the Pockets of the Dead”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB38yqy1osc) and it features ringing cell phones. This is the song I came in to mention. He wrote it about the Atocha Station bombing in Spain, and how survivors talked about seeing victims lying there as their phones kept going off. After I heard him explain it, I found it moving, but would never have gotten that meaning from the song itself. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-with-cell-phones-in-them/550805/28 "2010-08-21T20:42:30Z")
In 1902, R. C. McPherson published [By Wireless Telephone](http://earlyradiohistory.us/1902by.htm). He was a little ahead of his time… ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-with-cell-phones-in-them/550805/29 "2010-08-21T20:49:17Z")
Rock The Casbah by The Clash has a cell phone ring tone sounding thing in it. It’s fucking annoying! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-with-cell-phones-in-them/550805/30 "2010-08-22T03:23:10Z")
[I Love You, You Imbecile](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcRl1CwomiY) - Pelle Carlberg _I love the way you talk I love the way you stalk me with your **mobile phone** I love the way you smile The way you’re juvenile I love the way you moan_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-songs-with-cell-phones-in-them/550805.md?page=1)