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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"That song had no content! It wasn't even about the movie, it was about itself! That's like [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|breaking the]] ninth wall!"''|'''Jed''', ''[[Commentary!
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]]
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* The lyrics to the theme song for ''[[It's
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* The lyrics to the theme song for ''It's Gary Shandling's Show'' are about how the songwriter is writing the theme to ''It's Gary Shandling's Show''.
== Music ==
* "25
* "Dance Stop" by [[Daniel Amos]] is about society doing its best to ignore a nuclear apocalypse, dancing right until the bombs detonate. The music is fast and upbeat, and DA would encourage fans at concerts to dance along.
* "Superpowers" by [[Five Iron Frenzy]]:
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''Five minutes left to write this one... la, la la, la la, la la la. }}
* "Headphones" by [[Jars of Clay]]. The lyrics are about [[Headphones Equal Isolation|isolating yourself from other people's problems]] by listening to pop music. The music is exactly the sort of pleasant pop sound that the narrator would listen to.
* [[Lou Reed]]'s "Walk on the Wild Side"
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* [[Bowling for Soup]]'s "A Really Cool Dance Song," which is a
* "Song Inside My Head" by [[The Arrogant Worms]]. The song is about an [[Ear Worm]] and it IS an [[Ear Worm]]. Chances are, like the song's protagonist, you'll have it stuck in your head whether you like it or not.
* "This is the song that doesn't end, it just goes on and on my friends. . ."
* [[Weird Al|Weird Al's]] "(This song's just) six words long."
* "School's Out" by [[
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''And we've got no innocence
''And we've got no principles
''We can't even think of a word that rhymes! }}
* [[Bad Religion]]: "Cease". Final lines:
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''Everything must <Abrupt cutoff. CD ends.> }}
* "Move" by John Reuben:
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''And maybe just a bit too predictable
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''repetition <click
''Man, I'm just kidding, or am I? }}
* [[Blues Traveler]], "Hook":
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''As long as I sing with infle-ection,
''That makes you feel that I con-vey-ay
But I've said nothing so far-ar-ar, \ And I can keep it up as long as it takes!<br />▼
''Some inner truth or vast reflec-tion.
And it don't matter who you ar-ar-are,<br />▼
''But I've said nothing so far-ar-ar,
If I'm doing my job, it's your resolve that breaks! Because<br />▼
[[Title Drop|the hook]] brings you back, I ain't tellin' you no li-ie!<br />▼
The hook brings you back, on that you can rely-ay-ay-ayayay! }}▼
▲''The hook brings you back, on that you can rely-ay-ay-ayayay! }}
* DaVinci's Notebook, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=734wnHnnNR4 Title Of The Song]".
* The first verse of [[Leonard Cohen]]'s "Hallelujah" is about its own chord sequence.
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''The minor fall, the major lift }}
* [[Mitch Benn]] is fond of this; for example, "Boy Band", "West End Musical" and "The Apathy Song".
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eet42N9O9c Body Be]" by [[Christian Rock|Johnny Q. Public]] explores the idea that
* Subverted or Averted (Depending on your opinion) in the song ''The Sultans of Swing'' by [[Dire Straits]]. Many genres of music are listed in the Sultans' repertoire, and the song itself does not belong to any of them.
* "[http://www.metrolyrics.com/three-minute-positive-not-too-country-up-tempo-love-song-lyrics-alan-jackson.html Three Minute Positive Not Too Country Up-Tempo Love Song]" by [[
* 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.
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* ''[[Spamalot]]'''s "The Song that Goes Like This".
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* "Ten Dollar Solo" from ''[[Commentary!
* [[Tobuscus
* 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]]}}.
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* 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.
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