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{{quote|''Flash of iron, leather, spikes, and swords''

''Mighty warriors with Metal of their side''

''Enemies of Metal, your death is our reward''

 

A song that is about whatever genre of music it's in. Note that this doesn't include songs that just include the genre in the title, like "Jingle Bell Rock". It also doesn't include, say, metal songs that are about elements on the left side of the periodic table, blues songs that are about depression, or rock songs that are about stones.

** Yes, and "Rattlehead" is an excellent example of this trope, in the vein of "Whiplash" by [[Metallica]] (the titles of both songs refer to headbanging)

* "Out of Control" by [[White Wizzard]].

* Massacration, another parody of metal bands (and Heavy Meta bands in particular), ''lives'' off this trope, even when they're not talking about metal. Song examples include "Metal Is The Law", "Metal Massacre Attack", "[[Word Salad Lyrics|Metal Milkshake]]" and "[[Depraved Dentist|Metal Dental Destruction]]". Their [[Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:Massacration|entry]] explains it best.

* "Leather & Metal" by Cast Iron.

** The chorus is supposed to be ''part of the song they're singing in the bar,'' which implies that [[Recursive Canon|they're singing the song they're in.]] It just disappears into itself. [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|It also implies what is clearly a statutory rape in progress,]] but nobody notices that part.

* Within-fiction example: a tract by [[Jack Chick]] features a "[[The Moral Substitute|Christian rock group]]" (who later fall under Satan's power, apparently because [[The New Rock and Roll|all rock music is inherently evil]]) who sing a song with the lyrics "[[Narm|We're gonna rock, rock, rock with the rock!]]".

* [[Harry Potter|Wizard Rock]] band Harry and the Potters had an album called "Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock!" (and a song with the same name). Many other Wizard Rock bands have referenced rock (or wrock) in song titles.

** 'Wizard Rock Heart Throb' by the Whomping Willows, 'Wizard Rock Twist' by the Remus Lupins, 'Transparent' by the Moaning Myrtles, and 'New Wizard Anthem' by Harry and the Potters are all examples of this trope, called meta-wrock within the community.

* "Halloween in Heaven" by [[Type O Negative]].

* "Back Street Kids" by [[Black Sabbath]].

** and "R.U. Ready to Rock.

* "Burning" and "That's Rock 'n' Roll" by [[Accept]].

* "Speed King" by [[Deep Purple]]

** This is a rather strange example, since the song itself is composed of other people's (mostly Little Richard's) lyrics put together in semi-random fashion, and the whole thing together ends up being this trope.

* [[Led Zeppelin]] - "Rock and Roll".

* The Spanish band Loquillo y los Trogloditas have a few examples, but "Rock'n'Roll Star" and "El Ritmo del Garaje" are pretty representative of this.

 

== Other ==

* "So you Want to Write a Fugue?" by Glenn Gould is a fugue about writing a fugue.

* The concept of P-Funk.

* A lot of blues songs are about "the blues," and not in the sense of depression. "The Birth of the Blues" is one famous example.

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF1uQGV-QgA The Break-Up Song]" by the Greg Kihn Band is a break-up song that's about break-up songs.

* Bad Religion has "Punk Rock Song", and NSync have "Pop" but I'm not sure what either is about, lyrically, just the titles.

** Bad Religion also have "The Forbidden Beat", which is about Hardcore Punk...Or heroin addiction.

* "This Is The Song That Never Ends" and "I Know A Song That Gets On Everybody's Nerves" by countless schoolchildren everywhere.

* Is "Christmas [[Glurge]]" a genre? If so, [[The Colbert Report|Another Christmas Song]], which is so self-referential it's a Klein bottle.

* "Caress me Down" by Sublime mentions Reggae.

** It does it twice, actually: "''Me gusta me'' regga, ''me gusta'' punk rock..."

* The Limelighter's "Generic Uptempo Folksong" is, in fact, about how to construct one of the titular songs.

* "Silly Love Songs" by [[Paul McCartney]] is a [[Silly Love Song]] that justifies the existence of silly love songs.

* "Song 2" by [[Blur (band)|Blur]] is a pisstake of grunge, which [[Misaimed Fandom|ironically]] became the band's greatest hit in America.

** It also happens to be the second track on their [[Self-Titled Album]], and happens to be two minutes and two seconds in length.

* "All Over The World" by [[Pet Shop Boys]] is a pop song about pop songs.

* Cornershop's "Brimful Of Asha", all about the history of Indian music and it's usage in films.

* The anthem of Carolina Beach Music, is the Embers' "I Love Beach Music". The Lyrics consist heavily of popular beach music titles.