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[[File:ThisIsASong 1325.png|link=El Goonish Shive|frame|Sarah's ringtone is very descriptive.]]
{{quote|''Joss, 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]] [[Up to Eleven|ninth wall]]!''
|'''Jed''', ''Ten Dollar Solo'', ''[[Commentary! The Musical]]''}}
A song that is, at least partially, about itself.
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When [[Medium Awareness]] meets music. There are quite a few songs in which the lyrics explicitly reference the fact that... well, it's a song. However, since listing every example that does this would be practically impossible, this trope limits the range to songs that don't just [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|break the fourth wall]], but, in fact, are pretty much all about the fact that they're songs.
Generally [[Played for Laughs]]. Closely related to [[The Something Song]]. Compare [[Self-Demonstrating Song]] and [[Exhort the Disc Jockey Song]]. Sometimes [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]. See also [[Trope Name]], [[Post Modernism]] and [[Heavy Meta]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] made one for ''[[Fugitive Alien]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juvKrcMWXKc This is the song written for the train chase...]
* The [[Title Theme Tune]] of ''[[It's Garry Shandling's Show]]''.
{{quote|''This is the theme to Garry's show
''The opening theme to Garry's show
''Garry called me up and asked me to write his theme song...}}
* [[Fresh Prince of Bel Air|Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down...]]
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* [[Leonard Cohen]]' "Hallelujah" spells its own chord progression.
* "Don't Download This Song" by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]].
** Lampshaded to hell and back in his self-explanatory ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sppRrbtxVD0 (This Song's Just) Six Words Long]''
* Molly and the Tinker's "The Anti-Singalong Song" is a song about [[Mind Screw|the act of]] ''[[Self-Demonstrating Article|singing]]'' [[Post Modernism|"The Anti-Singalong Song"]]. [[Logic Bomb|Or rather, about refusing to sing it.]]
* "So Far, So Bad" by Five Iron Frenzy. "They won't play this song on the radio. (So far, so bad. That's how it goes.) They'll pull our record from the shelves."
* [[Britney Spears]] - "Everytime"
{{quote|''I may have made it rain
''Please forgive me
''My weakness caused you pain
''And this song is my sorry }}
* ''I Write the Songs'' by Barry Manilow is the [[Trope Codifier]].
* From ''I'm Lucky'' by Jim's Big Ego:
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''The best darned food in the world,''
''It's called [[Rule of Three|Chick-Chick-Chicken]] and Corn.'' }}
* Naturally,
{{quote|''And you can tell everybody''
''This is your song.'' }}
*
* [[DaVinci's Notebook]]'s song
▲** In fact, Weird Al does this all the time, throughout his repetoire.
▲* DaVinci's Notebook's song ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=734wnHnnNR4 Title of the Song]'' is made of this trope.
▲* Dave Soroka pushes this to another level in ''Thief Of Hearts''
{{quote|''I've taken enough of your time with this stuff,''
''And all without a change of key.''
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''You'll come looking for the light''
''And it won't be there'' }}
* [[Barenaked Ladies]], ''What A Good Boy'':
{{quote|''I couldn't tell you that I was wrong,''
''Chickened out, grabbed a pen and a paper, sat down and I wrote this song.'' }}
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''The same as the first.''
''I forgot the words again.'' }}
* [[Lemon Demon]]'s [[Word Salad Title|"Holy Bison Breaks"]] is about
{{quote|''Well, I thought I'd write a little song,''
''So I wrote a little song.''
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''Trying to write a song an' stuff,''
''And I decided to keep on singing 'till I had had enough.'' }}
* Tony Mason, author of
* Carly Simon presents a [[Logic Bomb]] in ''You're So Vain''.
{{quote|''You prob'ly think this song is about you.''}}
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* [[Five Iron Frenzy]], "So Far, So Bad":
{{quote|''Don't worry what this song would say,
''They won't play this song on the radio.
''So far, so bad, that's how it goes.'' }}
* [[The Beatles|Ringo Starr]], "This Be Called a Song".
* [[Pet Shop Boys]]' "All Over The World":
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''When you're sad, when you're lonely & it all turns out wrong.'' }}
* "Kill The Director" by The Wombats
{{quote|
''Here's another song about a gender I'll never understand
''Here's another song about a gender I'll never understand" }}
* "Track #10" by the Procussions. The lyrics consist solely of variations on ''"This is track number ten!"''
* "The Song Of No-involvement" by [[Skyclad]].
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''Take it, don't turn away'' }}
** Also "Leaves That Are Green"
{{quote|''I was
''I'm
* "This is the Hook" by Deadmau5, which sounds something like an electronica-backed DJing lesson.
{{quote|''Now it is time for the breakdown.''
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''So baby, if you want, you can sing along''
''But this ain’t no love song'' }}
* "Pop Song" by [[Jon Lajoie]]
{{quote|''{{'}}Cause they market this song to young, impressionable, and insecure teenage girls
''{{'}}Cause all you gotta say is "ooh baby, I love you" and "girl, I need you in my world"
''Yes, they market this song to young, impressionable, and insecure teenage girls
''{{'}}Cause all they gotta do is find a sexually attractive man that can sing all the words
* Darryl Rhoades and the Hahavishnu Orchestra's "This Song is Boring" lampshades itself with not only the words repeated ad infinitum but the same guitar riff over and over. }}
* "This Is My Song," written by Sir Charles Chaplin for his 1966 movie ''A Countess From Hong Kong'' and performed by Petula Clark.
* This portion of the last verse from [[The Beatles]]' "I Will":
{{quote|''And when at last I find you,
''This song will fill the air
''Sing it loud so I can hear you, make it east to be near you }}
* Chicago's "25
*
{{quote|''This is a great big opening song...
''This is a very simple tune...
''This is the song you've already heard...
** And in ''[[The Now Show]] Pantomime'' (2010), he completed things with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwut3CgU_2Y "The Very Happy Ending Song"]
{{quote|''This iiisss - the Very Happy Ending Song !''
''It's a happy, clappy ending song, it's a bit too long,''
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* ''Wild Swimming'' by Martha Tilston contains a verse in which she tells the person to whom the song is directed, that she plans to write a song about him, in which she will compare him to wild swimming. That song is, presumably, the one being sung.
* [[Vanessa Amorosi]]: "Heres your fucking song" on "I Thought We'd Stay Together".
* [[Taylor Swift]] has done this at least a couple of times.
* Endemic in the [[Gaita Zuliana]] genre, where a good percentage of songs are about gaita itself and [[Three Chords and the Truth|how the genre must remain pure]]. An example lyric from the song "Las Cabras" by Gran Coquivacoa <ref>the title and the song aren't about Gaita-playing goats, in ''gaitero'' slang "Cabra" stands for "song that tries to be a gaita but fails because it deviates from traditional style and instrumentation"</ref>:
{{Quote|''Esta es la gaita zuliana (This is the Zulian gaita)
''La auténtica y verdadera (The true and authentic one)
''Nuestra alegría pascuera (our christmastime joy)
''Folklórica y soberana (folkloric and sovereign)
''Esta es la gaita zuliana (This is the Zulian gaita)
''Y no una cabra gaitera (and not a poser gaita)}}
== Theatre ==
* Several songs in ''[[Spamalot]]'' fall under this, most notably ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tldP-seoQX8 The Song That Goes Like This]''.
* "Poppa's Blues" from ''[[Starlight Express]]''.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Sarah's cellphone has [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-12-03 this] little gem:
{{quote|* this is a ringtone song... ringing all the--*}}
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' has "Secret Song", the secret song on the ''Strong Bad Sings'' CD, which is a love song sung by Homestar directed toward... the secret song.
* Half the songs on ''[[Commentary! The Musical]]'', but particularly ''Ten Dollar Solo'', as seen in the page quote.
* A snippet of
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' has ''This is the Song That Goes On Forever'', in a parody of the aforementioned ''Song That Doesn't End''.
* The final line of the [[Title Theme Tune]] of ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' is:
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