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* In the musical ''[[The Music Man]]'', the song "Gary, Indiana" was originally a demonstration of how much of a liar Harold Hill was, as he was singing about living in Gary several years before it was actually founded in real life. It's much more ironic now when you juxtapose Harold's joyful "memories" of Gary with how much of a craphole the city is today.

* During a mid-nineties fad of [[Patriotic Fervor|Uber-nationalism]] in Venezuela, singer Carlos Baute rise to fame by singing several pseudo-folkloric songs, one of them is dedicated to claim how much he loved the country no matter how bleak the future looked and included the lyric "I stay in Venezuela, because I'm optimistic". Suddenly, in 2000, he moved his career to Spain, and has trying to distance from his past and the political situation of his mother country since then.

* In the "time makes it funnier" vein, Tom Smith has a folk song called "Tech Support For Dad," wherein he laments doing over-the-phone tech help for his father, a fairly clueless computer user. It includes the line "Turns out he'd bought his Compaq before Clinton was impeached," which Smith says "gets funnier every year."

* One of the last songs recorded by [[The Smiths]], "Paint A Vulgar Picture," bemoaned the music industry's habit of continually rehashing of old material ("Best Of/Most Of/Satiate the Need!/Slip Them into Different Sleeves!/Buy Both, and Feel Deceived!"). After [[The Smiths]] broke up, the band's record label faced criticism for continually releasing compilations of Smiths recordings, each sharing most of the same songs repeatedly, ''including'' one poorly received [[Greatest Hits]] collection that was [[One Game for the Price of Two|split onto two separately sold albums]] -- Fans bought both and felt deceived.