Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)
Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
Live, “Lightning Crashes” (placenta)
Blink 182, “What’s My Age Again?” (sodomy)
Motorhead, “Motorhead” (parallelogram)
Don Henley, “Drivin’ With Your Eyes Closed” (Rimbaud)
Gordon Lightfoot, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” (muskeg)
Alan Parsons Project, “Stereotomy” (monochrome)
Weird Al Yankovic, “Pancreas” (in addition to the title, the song includes the words amylase, bladder, carbohydrates, deuodenum, enzymes, glucagon, hormones, insulin, inversely proportional, islets of Langerhans, lipase, metabolizing, secreting, spleen, and tripsin)
Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)
Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
Live, “Lightning Crashes” (placenta)
Blink 182, “What’s My Age Again?” (sodomy)
Motorhead, “Motorhead” (parallelogram)
Don Henley, “Drivin’ With Your Eyes Closed” (Rimbaud)
Gordon Lightfoot, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” (muskeg)
Alan Parsons Project, “Stereotomy” (monochrome)
Weird Al Yankovic, “Pancreas” (in addition to the title, the song includes the words amylase, bladder, carbohydrates, deuodenum, enzymes, glucagon, hormones, insulin, inversely proportional, islets of Langerhans, lipase, metabolizing, secreting, spleen, and tripsin)
Murray Head, “One Night in Bangkok” (Somerset Maugham)
“Tea girls warm and sweet/some-are-set-up in the Somerset Maugham suite”
Admittedly it’s a showtune, but it was tremendously popular and reached the Top 3 on the pop charts.
Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)
Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
Live, “Lightning Crashes” (placenta)
Blink 182, “What’s My Age Again?” (sodomy)
Motorhead, “Motorhead” (parallelogram)
Don Henley, “Drivin’ With Your Eyes Closed” (Rimbaud)
Gordon Lightfoot, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” (muskeg)
Alan Parsons Project, “Stereotomy” (monochrome)
Weird Al Yankovic, “Pancreas” (in addition to the title, the song includes the words amylase, bladder, carbohydrates, deuodenum, enzymes, glucagon, hormones, insulin, inversely proportional, islets of Langerhans, lipase, metabolizing, secreting, spleen, and tripsin)
Murray Head, “One Night in Bangkok” (Somerset Maugham)
A Nation Is Born is about the relationship between an older, powerful, established nation and a young, new, up and coming nation. The older nation grows resentful when the younger one becomes more powerful. Also filmed as The Patriot by Mel Gibson.