There’s a country songabout a hard-working blue-collar worker that proudly says:
“There ain’t nothing that he can’t fix
With some WD-40 and a Craftsman wrench.”
Now, I doubt if anybody else in human history has ever written a song about WD-40.
(if you don’t know: it’s a silicon “oil” spray that lubricates anything rusty.)
So I got thinking: how many songs discuss specific products that would not normally be a subject for song and poetry?*
Sure, lots of songs have been written about inanimate objects (such as cars, or musical instruments).
But that’s because those are romantic subjects, and natural subjects for a song. People put a lot of emotion into their cars; musicians get emotional about their favorite guitar, etc. The same is true about clothes–whether a soft romantic dress or tough leather cowboy boots, it is normal to project emotions onto certain types of our possessions.
But what about more mundane things, like WD-40? Things that don’t you don’t normally have any reason to sing about.
If somebody told you to write a song, or a silly poem about, say,your grandmother’s kitchen sink, you could probably come up with something that might entertain your best friend for 10 seconds, even though you wouldn’t dare to publish it.
But if somebody told you write a song about WD-40, you would just say, “huh?–why would anybody want to do that!”
What other examples are there of lyrics about unusual products (which nobody else has ever found a reason to sing about)?
I thought of Paul Simon and his Kodachrome film.
Any others?
*(The bolded words were my original title for this thread. But I thought the shorter version is more catchy 
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