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Line 4: An entire song (or sometimes just a single line of the lyrics) which deliberately provides an example of whatever the subject is, usually [[Rule of Funny\|for comedic effect]]. Compare [[I Resemble That Remark]], [[This Is a Song]], [[Heavy Meta]] , [[Trope Name]], and [[Boastful Rap]] (as most of that features this trope). {{examples}} == [[Live -Action TV]] == * The lyrics to the theme song for ''[[It's ~~Gary~~Garry Shandling's Show]]'' are about how the songwriter is writing the theme to ''It's ~~Gary~~Garry Shandling's Show''. == Music == Line 59: * The famous [[Gaita Zuliana\|Gaita]] song "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRHmDX6Po8U La gaita onomatopéyica]", lit.: "The onomatopeic Gaita". No points for guessing what the lyrics are. == Theater == * ''[[Spamalot]]'''s "The Song that Goes Like This". == [[Web Original]] == * "Ten Dollar Solo" from ''[[Commentary! The Musical]]'' is entirely about itself. * [[Tobuscus]]' ''"Dramatic Song''" is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin\|an emotional-sounding song]]... as long as you don't speak English. The lyrics simply explain the fact that he's not singing about anything serious or dramatic but it just sounds like that, all whilst lampshading the music, vocals and how foreign people who don't speak English might find this song intense. See it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WteF0j5gYGk#! here]. * Similarly, [[Sandra Boynton]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeAfI7GxUQQ "Chanson Profonde"] is a song in French about how the ''sound'' of the song might deceive non-French speakers into thinking it's terribly serious, but it is in fact nothing of the sort, being mostly observations on how the song is basically random phrases in French, plus random phrases in French, along with sincere hopes that the listener can't understand French. This is helped by a performance by cellist [[Yo-Yo Ma]]... {{spoiler\|and undermined by a short accordion solo by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]}}. == [[Western Animation]] == * The song "Montage" from ''[[South Park]]'' (and later, ''[[Team America: World Police]]'') facilitates this trope by describing the exact narrative devices and reasoning behind [[Montages]] while the viewer actually watches a montage on-screen. * In the Barbie ''Princess and the Pauper'' movie, the pauper-turned-princess and her etiquette master have a song detailing what a princess must do. One of the pieces of advice is "always harmonize in thirds". Guess what they do on that line.