Young even acknowledged that his own song deserved the ridicule.
Every Taylor Swift and Katy Perry song ever?
“Back in the USSR” was a parody of “California Girls”.
Will not leave it out no matter what you say.
Sporty Theivz’s No Pigeons was their second and last release. It’s the answer to TLC’s No Scrubs. I do remember guys around me singing No Pigeons but it is such an inferior song that I’m not sure it had a lot of traction outside New York.
“Pigeons” being like “chickenheads” for the same reason??
Then there’s
Kool Moe Dee “How Ya Like Me Now?”
LL Cool J “Jack the Ripper”
Kool Moe Dee “Let’s Go”
etc.
Yeup.
Woodie Guthrie wrote “This Land is Your Land” in response to Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”.
I don’t see that song ‘dissing’ Sweet Home Alabama. The lyric is,
“Sweet Home Alabama - play that dead band’s song.
Turn those speakers up full blast, play it all night long.”
The context is that it’s a song about how miserable country living can be, and playing that song all night long is a way to escape the misery - but even that band is dead. Misery all around.
The other way to interpret the song is as a contrast between the reality of southern poor country living and the uplifting version of it exemplified in Sweet Home Alabama. But I don’t believe Zevon had any quarrel with the band or the song.
Not just one song, but a whole genre:
“One more song about movin’ along the highway
Can’t say much of anything that’s new.” — Carole King, “So Far Away”
There’s also Peter Paul and Mary’s “I Dig Rock and Roll Music” that takes shots at the songs sung by the Beatles and the Mommas and Poppas.
Jay-Z’s “Takeover” was a shot at Nas and Mobb Deep.
Nas responded with “Ether,” still considered by many to be the zenith of the hip-hop diss track to this day.
Jay-Z would respond, but Nas had pretty much cleaned his clock already.
Dylan’s “Clothes Line Saga” from the Basement Tapes, is a parody of “Ode to Billie Joe.”
Weird Al Yankovic’s song parodies are usually directed at some other target. But “Achy Breaky Song” is a parody of “Achy Breaky Heart” that targets the original song.
After Ed Sheeran wrote “Don’t” about his fling and breakup with Ellie Goulding, Goulding wrote “On My Mind” as a counterattack.
And then there’s Mojo Nixon’s “Don Henley Must Die”, which specifically singles out “Hotel California” and Henley winning the Grammy for Best Rock Vocalist on “Boys of Summer”.
The same with “(This Song’s Just) Six Words Long”, which is a parody of “Got My Mind Set On You” by George Harrison, although I’d call it more of an affectionate satire than a diss.
Well, Lynryrd Skynyrd had no quarrel with Neil Young, either (he was planning to perform it with them before the crash), but “play that dead band’s song” sounds like a dis to me.
Not necessarily a diss, but Danny Aiello played Madonna’s father in the music video of Papa Don’t Preach. Aiello didn’t like the way the song indicated the father would reject his daughter, so he recorded a follow-up with Papa Wants the Best for You.
In 1991, 3rd Bass came out with a song “Pop Goes the Weasel” dissing Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” and the (then) current state of rap music in general.
The irony being that the song itself was as horrible as the music they were disparaging.
Jim Reeves had a country classic with “He’ll Have to Go,” which inspired an equally popular " answer" song called “He’ll Have to Stay” by Jeanne Black.
Steve’s song was a plea to an ex-love to send her new man packing and give him another chance. Black’s song replied, “Forget it, you broke my heart, and my new man is much better than you.”
In “Spamalot,” Eric Idle wrote " The Song That Goes Like This, " a parody of the overwrought “I Dreamed A Dream” from “Les Miz.”
Check out Drive By Truckers’ Ronnie and Neil, which expands on the rivalry while quelling it