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* Music/MariahCarey is ''very'' aware of her (and specifically her song "All I Want for Christmas is You") status as the harbinger of the Christmas season as soon as Halloween ends. She started posting a video as soon as November 1 rolls around, she posts a skit to social media where she announces "It's time". In 2023 specifically, the skit referenced the popular myth that she is supposedly "defrosted" from a cryogenic chamber every holiday season by having her be defrosted from a large ice block by people in Halloween costumes.
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* Music/MariahCarey is ''very'' aware of her (and specifically her song "All I Want for Christmas is You") status as the harbinger of the Christmas season as soon as Halloween ends. She started posting a video as soon as When November 1 rolls comes around, she posts a skit to social media where she announces "It's time". In 2023 specifically, the skit referenced the popular myth that she is supposedly "defrosted" from a cryogenic chamber every holiday season by having her be defrosted from a large ice block by people in Halloween costumes.
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** And the saga continues with their new video, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7cbDbq48J0 "Boogie Bam Dance"]].
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* Music/MariahCarey is ''very'' aware of her (and specifically her song "All I Want for Christmas is You") status as the harbinger of the Christmas season as soon as Halloween ends. She started posting a video as soon as November 1 rolls around, she posts a skit to social media where she announces "It's time". In 2023 specifically, the skit referenced the popular myth that she is supposedly "defrosted" from a cryogenic chamber every holiday season by having her be defrosted from a large ice block by people in Halloween costumes.
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* Walker Hayes' "Fancy Like", which is about Applebee's, plays as part of the music loop at Applebee's restaurants.
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* K-pop group Music/{{Mamamoo}}’s fans jokingly used to bring [[https://onehallyu.com/topic/527950-i-love-moomoos/ actual radishes]] and radish-themed masks to the group’s performances, because their name (무무, MooMoo) means RadishRadish in Korean. Try to guess what their [[https://www.amazon.es/RBW-Entertainment-MAMAMOO-Oficial-Photocards/dp/B089SK89M1 official lightstick]] ended up looking like.
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* K-pop group Music/{{Mamamoo}}’s fans jokingly used to bring [[https://onehallyu.com/topic/527950-i-love-moomoos/ actual radishes]] and radish-themed masks to the group’s performances, because their name (무무, MooMoo) Moo Moo) means RadishRadish Radish Radish in Korean. Try to guess what their [[https://www.amazon.es/RBW-Entertainment-MAMAMOO-Oficial-Photocards/dp/B089SK89M1 official lightstick]] ended up looking like.
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* K-pop group Music/{{Mamamoo}}’s fans jokingly used to bring [[https://onehallyu.com/topic/527950-i-love-moomoos/ actual radishes]] and radish-themed masks to the group’s performances, because their name (무무, MooMoo) means RadishRadish in Korean. Try to guess what their [[https://www.amazon.es/RBW-Entertainment-MAMAMOO-Oficial-Photocards/dp/B089SK89M1 official lightstick]] ended up looking like.
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* In 2021, ''Music/{{Eminem}}'' [[https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/30/entertainment/eminem-restaurant/index.html opened up a spaghetti restaurant in Detroit]] called "Mom's Spaghetti" after the infamous lyrics of his song "Lose Yourself" and was even personally present during the grand opening where he handed out food through the serving window as well as FlippingTheBird to anyone else nearby.
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* In 2021, ''Music/{{Eminem}}'' Music/{{Eminem}} opened up [[https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/30/entertainment/eminem-restaurant/index.html opened up a spaghetti restaurant in Detroit]] called "Mom's Spaghetti" after the infamous lyrics of his song "Lose Yourself" and was even personally present during the grand opening where he handed out food through the serving window as well as FlippingTheBird to anyone else nearby.
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* When Haddaway performed "What Is Love?" during his appearance on the short-lived show ''Hit Me Baby One More Time'', the backup choreography included the [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Roxbury]] headbop.
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* Besides being essentially nothing ''but'' this trope, Music/{{Vocaloid}} has a recursive-meme example. Someone made [[https://youtu.be/kbbA9BhCTko a popular Miku cover]] of "Ievan Polkka," better known as "that [[Memes/{{Bleach}} leekspin]] song," complete with her own spinning (waving?) leek. It wasn't long before leeks started showing up in Miku's official artworks and figurines, and they soon became her TrademarkFavoriteFood. The UncannyValley restyled "Hachune Miku" in the video has also generated a lot of merchandise.
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* Besides being essentially nothing ''but'' this trope, Music/{{Vocaloid}} has a recursive-meme example. Someone made [[https://youtu.be/kbbA9BhCTko a popular Miku cover]] of "Ievan Polkka," better known as "that [[Memes/{{Bleach}} leekspin]] song," complete with her own spinning (waving?) leek. It wasn't long before leeks started showing up in Miku's official artworks and figurines, and they soon became her TrademarkFavoriteFood. The UncannyValley restyled "Hachune Miku" in the video has also generated a lot of merchandise.
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* In response to the [[EpilepticTrees "Paul Is Dead" conspiracy theory]], Music/PaulMcCartney released a live album in 1993 called ''Paul Is Live''. The cover depicts the AbbeyRoadCrossing, but the only figures are Paul and a dog. There are a few differences and subtle references to the conspiracy theory, which can be read about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Is_Live here]] at Wiki/TheOtherWiki.
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* In response to the [[EpilepticTrees "Paul Is Dead" conspiracy theory]], Music/PaulMcCartney released a live album in 1993 called ''Paul Is Live''. The cover depicts the AbbeyRoadCrossing, but the only figures are Paul and a dog. There are a few differences and subtle references to the conspiracy theory, which can be read about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Is_Live here]] at Wiki/TheOtherWiki.Website/TheOtherWiki.
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* Music/JimiHendrix's famous song "Purple Haze" contains the line "'' 'scuse me while I kiss the sky''", but [[{{Mondegreen}} is frequently misheard]] as "'' 'scuse me while I kiss this guy''". At a handful of later live performances, Jimi would actually use the misheard line for this song - and afterwards [[HoYay (probably) pretend to kiss one of his band members while playing the riff]]. [[note]] This lyric is used in the version in ''VideoGame/GuitarHero 4''. Leading the correct lyrics to be in DLC only. [[/note]]
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* Music/JimiHendrix's famous song "Purple Haze" contains the line "'' 'scuse me while I kiss the sky''", but [[{{Mondegreen}} is frequently misheard]] misheard as "'' 'scuse me while I kiss this guy''". At a handful of later live performances, Jimi would actually use the misheard line for this song - and afterwards [[HoYay (probably) pretend to kiss one of his band members while playing the riff]]. [[note]] This lyric is used in the version in ''VideoGame/GuitarHero 4''. Leading the correct lyrics to be in DLC only. [[/note]]
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* The title lyric of Music/{{NSYNC}}'s song "It's Gonna Be Me" [[{{Mondegreen}} sounds like "It's gonna be May"]], and so memes surrounding the song became popular at the end of every April. On May 1st 2017, Justin Timberlake himself posted on social media: "Hey guys... it's May."
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* The title lyric of Music/{{NSYNC}}'s song "It's Gonna Be Me" [[{{Mondegreen}} sounds like "It's gonna be May"]], May", and so memes surrounding the song became popular at the end of every April. On May 1st 2017, Justin Timberlake himself posted on social media: "Hey guys... it's May."
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* In 2021, ''Music/{{Eminem}}'' [[https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/30/entertainment/eminem-restaurant/index.html opened up a spaghetti restaurant in Detroit]] called "Mom's Spaghetti" after the infamous lyrics of his song "Lose Yourself" and was even personally present during the grand opening where he handed out food through the serving window as well as FlippingTheBird to anyone else nearby.
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* Cypis acknowledged the "Polish Cow" meme of his song "Gdzie jest biały węgorz?" by using the gif as the video for the remix.
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* "Charlie on the MTA" was a mayoral campaign song written for UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}'s Progressive Party candidate Walter A. O'Brien in the 1949 race. It tells an absurd tale of a man named Charlie trapped on Boston's subway system because he doesn't have the required nickel to pay the exit fare. The song has become so entrenched in Boston lore that [[UsefulNotes/TheT the MBTA]] calls its electronic card-based fare collection system the [=CharlieCard=].
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* "Charlie "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tc1GUXxr2o&ab_channel=TheKingstonTrio-Topic Charlie on the MTA" MTA]]" was a mayoral campaign song written for UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}'s Progressive Party candidate Walter A. O'Brien in the 1949 race. It tells an absurd tale of a man named Charlie trapped on Boston's subway system because he doesn't have the required nickel to pay the exit fare. The song has become so entrenched in Boston lore that [[UsefulNotes/TheT the MBTA]] calls its electronic card-based fare collection system the [=CharlieCard=].
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* After the success of Music/WeirdAlYankovic's parody "Gump", Music/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStatesOfAmerica started ending their live performances of "Lump" with the same line: "And that's all I have to say about that".
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* After the success of Music/WeirdAlYankovic's parody "Gump", Music/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStatesOfAmerica started ending their live performances of "Lump" with the same line: [[Film/ForrestGump "And that's all I have to say about that".]]
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* Gary Brolsma's Numa Numa dance video to "Dragostea Din Tei" inspired former O-Zone singer Dan Balan to recreate the song as "Sugartunes (Numa Numa)".
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* Music/AlanisMorissette's dubious definition of {{irony}} in her song "Ironic" was {{discussed|Trope}} in the JukeboxMusical based on her songs, ''Theatre/JaggedLittlePill'', where one of the characters presents a short story with similar themes to her class, only to be told that the things discussed in the story aren't really ironic, just bad things that happen to people.
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* When the SpeedyTechnoRemake of ''Caramelldansen'' was turned into the JustForFun/CaramelldansenVid, the band Music/{{Caramell}} saw it and decided to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-8E4Nirh9s base the official music video on it]] (but use the remix of course, not the slower original song). They also [[https://youtu.be/PPQbdeUfalI made the Japanese mondegreens into the official Japanese version]].
** Also, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22mnWM8EQVQ the English lyrics:]]
--->From Sweden to UK we will bring our song\\
Australia, USA, and people of Hong Kong\\
They have heard this meme all around the world\\
So come and move your hips, sing ua a a\\
Look at Website/YouTube clips, do it la la la\\
You and me can sing this melody
** And the saga continues with their new video, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7cbDbq48J0 "Boogie Bam Dance"]].
* When Haddaway performed "What Is Love?" during his appearance on the short-lived show ''Hit Me Baby One More Time'', the backup choreography included the [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Roxbury]] headbop.
* In Brazil, [[https://youtu.be/2s1w2NZrioE&feature=related a video]] involving fans of Music/{{Restart}} complaining after a cancelled autograph session became popular - especially one of said angry fans, a girl named Georgia Massa, saying it was a "[[PrecisionFStrike puta]] falta de sacanagem", a contradictory phrase that could be translated as "fucking lack of unfairness" or ThisIsUnforgivable[[note]]although "sacanagem" is best translated as "screwing"[[/note]]. Then the band and a comedian created [[https://youtu.be/uH9OFxr-O88 a song based on that phrase]], and [[AscendedFanboy Massa got to meet the band]] (much to the jealousy of other rabid fangirls). The boys, in turn, wrote the song "Pra Você Lembrar" in order to apologize for the cancelled autograph session.
* After Camron's infamous [[https://youtu.be/vFgXF0a_Yw4 U MAD]] appearance on ''The O' Reilly Factor'', www.u-mad.net started up as an official Camron merch store.
* Gary Brolsma's Numa Numa dance video to "Dragostea Din Tei" inspired former O-Zone singer Dan Balan to recreate the song as "Sugartunes (Numa Numa)".
* In response to the [[EpilepticTrees "Paul Is Dead" conspiracy theory]], Music/PaulMcCartney released a live album in 1993 called ''Paul Is Live''. The cover depicts the AbbeyRoadCrossing, but the only figures are Paul and a dog. There are a few differences and subtle references to the conspiracy theory, which can be read about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Is_Live here]] at Wiki/TheOtherWiki.
** Also, once Paul returned to Brazil in TheNewTens, four girls from Belo Horizonte (seventh biggest city, and capital of the second most populous state) begun a campaign for a concert of his there, "Paul, Vem Falar Uai" - "Paul, Come Say [[VerbalTic Uai]]". Eventually he begun his 2013 Out There Tour in BH. And the gig had him [[https://youtu.be/n73tNmfwdRE saying local slang, including "uai"]], and [[https://youtu.be/B_gbOq0SALc bringing the girls on stage]].
-->There was a campaign on Facebook, "Paul Vem Falar Uai". Well, here I am saying "Uai"!
* Music/JimiHendrix's famous song "Purple Haze" contains the line "'' 'scuse me while I kiss the sky''", but [[{{Mondegreen}} is frequently misheard]] as "'' 'scuse me while I kiss this guy''". At a handful of later live performances, Jimi would actually use the misheard line for this song - and afterwards [[HoYay (probably) pretend to kiss one of his band members while playing the riff]]. [[note]] This lyric is used in the version in ''VideoGame/GuitarHero 4''. Leading the correct lyrics to be in DLC only. [[/note]]
* Similarly, Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival's "Bad Moon Rising" misheard "There's a bad moon on the rise" as "there's a bathroom on the right" led to the band singing the mondegreen live several times.
** And again on the ascended mondegreen meme (although unintentional), Music/{{Clutch}}'s The Regulator has a its opening line "I see a lantern burning" oft-misheard by fans as "I see Atlanta burning." To the point that one of the reasons ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' producers (the show it based in Atlanta) used it as a credits closing song in an episode was THEY heard it wrong, too.
* The Spinto Band stumbled upon a mash-up that combined their "Oh Mandy" with Rich Boy's "Throw Some D's". They liked it enough that in live performances of the song, they'd sometimes replace the lyrics to the bridge with a few lines from "Throw Some D's".
* After the success of Music/WeirdAlYankovic's parody "Gump", Music/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStatesOfAmerica started ending their live performances of "Lump" with the same line: "And that's all I have to say about that".
** Music/DonMcLean also uses lines from Yankovic's "The Saga Begins" when performing "American Pie".
* In the 70s, when The Angels sang "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?", crowds answered, "No way, get fucked, fuck off" - which The Angels incorporated into their performances.
* Mexican party anthem "El Final" (the end) has the line "te veo besándote con otro" ("I see you kissing/making out with someone else") which is always answered with a "Que poca madre!" when played in a bar ("What little mother" literally, but it it's an expression used when someone wronged someone else, like saying "you bastard!"). Nowadays, most [=DJs=] will turn down the volume when playing it at a bar, party, whatever. Albums compilations add the a silent second for people to scream it, karaoke machines show the line on the screen, and both original band Rostros Ocultos or anyone covering it will either stop playing for a second and raise the mike for people to say it, or just have the band scream it while the singer stops. Shortly, the line became part of the song.
* There was a bootleg remix of Madonna's "Holiday" that mashed it up with Stardust's "Music Sounds Better with You". When Mad'House (a Madonna tribute band) covered the former, they interpolated the bassline and instrumentation of the latter.
* Besides being essentially nothing ''but'' this trope, Music/{{Vocaloid}} has a recursive-meme example. Someone made [[https://youtu.be/kbbA9BhCTko a popular Miku cover]] of "Ievan Polkka," better known as "that [[Memes/{{Bleach}} leekspin]] song," complete with her own spinning (waving?) leek. It wasn't long before leeks started showing up in Miku's official artworks and figurines, and they soon became her TrademarkFavoriteFood. The UncannyValley restyled "Hachune Miku" in the video has also generated a lot of merchandise.
** Crypton has also [[AscendedFanon acknowledged several fan-made characters]] as semi-official Vocaloids as well.
* During live performances of "Living Next Door to Alice" by New World, after the titular line the audience would often reply "Alice? Who the fuck is Alice!?" When British band Smokie covered the song, they also made a parody version featuring comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown shouting the aforementioned line at the appropriate times in the song.
* The title lyric of Music/{{NSYNC}}'s song "It's Gonna Be Me" [[{{Mondegreen}} sounds like "It's gonna be May"]], and so memes surrounding the song became popular at the end of every April. On May 1st 2017, Justin Timberlake himself posted on social media: "Hey guys... it's May."
** Music/{{NSYNC}} got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and it was presented on... April 30th.
* Shortly after the episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' where Randy is revealed to be the real Music/{{Lorde}} premiered, a video was posted to Twitter of Lorde herself singing the "I am Lorde, ya ya ya" song that Randy sang in the episode.
* When Music/TransSiberianOrchestra released their song "Wizards in Winter" (off ''The Lost Christmas Eve'') as a single, the artwork consisted solely of a shot of the house of Carson Williams, the electrical engineer who used the song in a Christmas light display that became a [=YouTube=] sensation in Christmas 2005.
* ''Music/SunstrokeProject'' had one [[{{Pun}} epic sax]] riff in the song ''Run Away'', written for the 2010 Eurovision contest, that brought them fame from MemeticMutation (specifically, the Epic Sax Guy meme). The band embraced the fame the meme brought them, and released a song centered around the riff and called it (what else) [[https://youtu.be/wsC8bUl1164 Epic Sax]] as an acknowledgement in 2011.
* One of Music/{{Prince}}'s later singles, "Breakfast Can Wait", featured not Prince on the cover, but rather [[Series/ChappellesShow Dave Chappelle]] impersonating him from the famous "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" sketch.
* After the Mannequin Challenge, where people stay still in one position as Rae Sremmurd's "Black Beatles" plays in the background, took off, Rae Sremmurd themselves filmed one during their concert, and later an actual [[Music/TheBeatles Beatle]] (Music/PaulMcCartney) took part.
%%* [[[[https://twitter.com/Eminem/status/941455029520748545 In order to promote his album Revival]], Eminem decided to give some of his fans "[[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moms-spaghetti Mom's Spaghetti.]]"
* "Charlie on the MTA" was a mayoral campaign song written for UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}'s Progressive Party candidate Walter A. O'Brien in the 1949 race. It tells an absurd tale of a man named Charlie trapped on Boston's subway system because he doesn't have the required nickel to pay the exit fare. The song has become so entrenched in Boston lore that [[UsefulNotes/TheT the MBTA]] calls its electronic card-based fare collection system the [=CharlieCard=].
* After a series of memes smeared Music/TaylorSwift by calling her a snake, her [[https://youtu.be/3tmd-ClpJxA video]] for "[[TakeThatCritics Look What You Made Me Do]]" featured a scene of her surrounded by the critters.
* [[Music/TheJam Paul Weller]] and [[Music/{{Oasis}} Noel Gallagher]] have done live covers of [[Music/TheBeatles "All You Need is Love"]] that replaced the "love is all you need" chant at the end with "Love is the meaning of life, life is the meaning of love", the equivalent chant from "Love Life", the [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong Suspiciously Similar]] parody by Music/TheRutles.
* Creator/BryceDallasHoward [[https://www.instagram.com/p/3suh74PKmO/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_mid=W0uAEQABAAEeraLYAy6s0BZSpD3m once lip-synched]] to a song written about her, [[https://youtu.be/ipObSiFHpyY I Am Not]] Creator/JessicaChastain" (both actresses [[https://twitter.com/jes_chastain/status/605131093684199424?s=19 oft joke]] about how [[IdenticalStranger they're confused for each other]])
* Music/{{Sabaton}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9BupglHdtM "The Last Stand"]] is about the Swiss Guard's LastStand during the 1527 sack of Rome, but a meme developed that it was really about the Crusades. In a nod to this, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ6wr90FNvI the Sabaton History video for the song]] opens with an extended gag about the Crusades from bassist and co-founder Pär Sundström.
* The lyrics of Music/{{KMFDM}}'s "Kunst" include the fan backronym "Kill Motherfucking Music/DepecheMode".
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** Also, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22mnWM8EQVQ the English lyrics:]]
--->From Sweden to UK we will bring our song\\
Australia, USA, and people of Hong Kong\\
They have heard this meme all around the world\\
So come and move your hips, sing ua a a\\
Look at Website/YouTube clips, do it la la la\\
You and me can sing this melody
** And the saga continues with their new video, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7cbDbq48J0 "Boogie Bam Dance"]].
* When Haddaway performed "What Is Love?" during his appearance on the short-lived show ''Hit Me Baby One More Time'', the backup choreography included the [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Roxbury]] headbop.
* In Brazil, [[https://youtu.be/2s1w2NZrioE&feature=related a video]] involving fans of Music/{{Restart}} complaining after a cancelled autograph session became popular - especially one of said angry fans, a girl named Georgia Massa, saying it was a "[[PrecisionFStrike puta]] falta de sacanagem", a contradictory phrase that could be translated as "fucking lack of unfairness" or ThisIsUnforgivable[[note]]although "sacanagem" is best translated as "screwing"[[/note]]. Then the band and a comedian created [[https://youtu.be/uH9OFxr-O88 a song based on that phrase]], and [[AscendedFanboy Massa got to meet the band]] (much to the jealousy of other rabid fangirls). The boys, in turn, wrote the song "Pra Você Lembrar" in order to apologize for the cancelled autograph session.
* After Camron's infamous [[https://youtu.be/vFgXF0a_Yw4 U MAD]] appearance on ''The O' Reilly Factor'', www.u-mad.net started up as an official Camron merch store.
* Gary Brolsma's Numa Numa dance video to "Dragostea Din Tei" inspired former O-Zone singer Dan Balan to recreate the song as "Sugartunes (Numa Numa)".
* In response to the [[EpilepticTrees "Paul Is Dead" conspiracy theory]], Music/PaulMcCartney released a live album in 1993 called ''Paul Is Live''. The cover depicts the AbbeyRoadCrossing, but the only figures are Paul and a dog. There are a few differences and subtle references to the conspiracy theory, which can be read about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Is_Live here]] at Wiki/TheOtherWiki.
** Also, once Paul returned to Brazil in TheNewTens, four girls from Belo Horizonte (seventh biggest city, and capital of the second most populous state) begun a campaign for a concert of his there, "Paul, Vem Falar Uai" - "Paul, Come Say [[VerbalTic Uai]]". Eventually he begun his 2013 Out There Tour in BH. And the gig had him [[https://youtu.be/n73tNmfwdRE saying local slang, including "uai"]], and [[https://youtu.be/B_gbOq0SALc bringing the girls on stage]].
-->There was a campaign on Facebook, "Paul Vem Falar Uai". Well, here I am saying "Uai"!
* Music/JimiHendrix's famous song "Purple Haze" contains the line "'' 'scuse me while I kiss the sky''", but [[{{Mondegreen}} is frequently misheard]] as "'' 'scuse me while I kiss this guy''". At a handful of later live performances, Jimi would actually use the misheard line for this song - and afterwards [[HoYay (probably) pretend to kiss one of his band members while playing the riff]]. [[note]] This lyric is used in the version in ''VideoGame/GuitarHero 4''. Leading the correct lyrics to be in DLC only. [[/note]]
* Similarly, Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival's "Bad Moon Rising" misheard "There's a bad moon on the rise" as "there's a bathroom on the right" led to the band singing the mondegreen live several times.
** And again on the ascended mondegreen meme (although unintentional), Music/{{Clutch}}'s The Regulator has a its opening line "I see a lantern burning" oft-misheard by fans as "I see Atlanta burning." To the point that one of the reasons ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' producers (the show it based in Atlanta) used it as a credits closing song in an episode was THEY heard it wrong, too.
* The Spinto Band stumbled upon a mash-up that combined their "Oh Mandy" with Rich Boy's "Throw Some D's". They liked it enough that in live performances of the song, they'd sometimes replace the lyrics to the bridge with a few lines from "Throw Some D's".
* After the success of Music/WeirdAlYankovic's parody "Gump", Music/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStatesOfAmerica started ending their live performances of "Lump" with the same line: "And that's all I have to say about that".
** Music/DonMcLean also uses lines from Yankovic's "The Saga Begins" when performing "American Pie".
* In the 70s, when The Angels sang "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?", crowds answered, "No way, get fucked, fuck off" - which The Angels incorporated into their performances.
* Mexican party anthem "El Final" (the end) has the line "te veo besándote con otro" ("I see you kissing/making out with someone else") which is always answered with a "Que poca madre!" when played in a bar ("What little mother" literally, but it it's an expression used when someone wronged someone else, like saying "you bastard!"). Nowadays, most [=DJs=] will turn down the volume when playing it at a bar, party, whatever. Albums compilations add the a silent second for people to scream it, karaoke machines show the line on the screen, and both original band Rostros Ocultos or anyone covering it will either stop playing for a second and raise the mike for people to say it, or just have the band scream it while the singer stops. Shortly, the line became part of the song.
* There was a bootleg remix of Madonna's "Holiday" that mashed it up with Stardust's "Music Sounds Better with You". When Mad'House (a Madonna tribute band) covered the former, they interpolated the bassline and instrumentation of the latter.
* Besides being essentially nothing ''but'' this trope, Music/{{Vocaloid}} has a recursive-meme example. Someone made [[https://youtu.be/kbbA9BhCTko a popular Miku cover]] of "Ievan Polkka," better known as "that [[Memes/{{Bleach}} leekspin]] song," complete with her own spinning (waving?) leek. It wasn't long before leeks started showing up in Miku's official artworks and figurines, and they soon became her TrademarkFavoriteFood. The UncannyValley restyled "Hachune Miku" in the video has also generated a lot of merchandise.
** Crypton has also [[AscendedFanon acknowledged several fan-made characters]] as semi-official Vocaloids as well.
* During live performances of "Living Next Door to Alice" by New World, after the titular line the audience would often reply "Alice? Who the fuck is Alice!?" When British band Smokie covered the song, they also made a parody version featuring comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown shouting the aforementioned line at the appropriate times in the song.
* The title lyric of Music/{{NSYNC}}'s song "It's Gonna Be Me" [[{{Mondegreen}} sounds like "It's gonna be May"]], and so memes surrounding the song became popular at the end of every April. On May 1st 2017, Justin Timberlake himself posted on social media: "Hey guys... it's May."
** Music/{{NSYNC}} got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and it was presented on... April 30th.
* Shortly after the episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' where Randy is revealed to be the real Music/{{Lorde}} premiered, a video was posted to Twitter of Lorde herself singing the "I am Lorde, ya ya ya" song that Randy sang in the episode.
* When Music/TransSiberianOrchestra released their song "Wizards in Winter" (off ''The Lost Christmas Eve'') as a single, the artwork consisted solely of a shot of the house of Carson Williams, the electrical engineer who used the song in a Christmas light display that became a [=YouTube=] sensation in Christmas 2005.
* ''Music/SunstrokeProject'' had one [[{{Pun}} epic sax]] riff in the song ''Run Away'', written for the 2010 Eurovision contest, that brought them fame from MemeticMutation (specifically, the Epic Sax Guy meme). The band embraced the fame the meme brought them, and released a song centered around the riff and called it (what else) [[https://youtu.be/wsC8bUl1164 Epic Sax]] as an acknowledgement in 2011.
* One of Music/{{Prince}}'s later singles, "Breakfast Can Wait", featured not Prince on the cover, but rather [[Series/ChappellesShow Dave Chappelle]] impersonating him from the famous "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" sketch.
* After the Mannequin Challenge, where people stay still in one position as Rae Sremmurd's "Black Beatles" plays in the background, took off, Rae Sremmurd themselves filmed one during their concert, and later an actual [[Music/TheBeatles Beatle]] (Music/PaulMcCartney) took part.
%%* [[[[https://twitter.com/Eminem/status/941455029520748545 In order to promote his album Revival]], Eminem decided to give some of his fans "[[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moms-spaghetti Mom's Spaghetti.]]"
* "Charlie on the MTA" was a mayoral campaign song written for UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}'s Progressive Party candidate Walter A. O'Brien in the 1949 race. It tells an absurd tale of a man named Charlie trapped on Boston's subway system because he doesn't have the required nickel to pay the exit fare. The song has become so entrenched in Boston lore that [[UsefulNotes/TheT the MBTA]] calls its electronic card-based fare collection system the [=CharlieCard=].
* After a series of memes smeared Music/TaylorSwift by calling her a snake, her [[https://youtu.be/3tmd-ClpJxA video]] for "[[TakeThatCritics Look What You Made Me Do]]" featured a scene of her surrounded by the critters.
* [[Music/TheJam Paul Weller]] and [[Music/{{Oasis}} Noel Gallagher]] have done live covers of [[Music/TheBeatles "All You Need is Love"]] that replaced the "love is all you need" chant at the end with "Love is the meaning of life, life is the meaning of love", the equivalent chant from "Love Life", the [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong Suspiciously Similar]] parody by Music/TheRutles.
* Creator/BryceDallasHoward [[https://www.instagram.com/p/3suh74PKmO/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_mid=W0uAEQABAAEeraLYAy6s0BZSpD3m once lip-synched]] to a song written about her, [[https://youtu.be/ipObSiFHpyY I Am Not]] Creator/JessicaChastain" (both actresses [[https://twitter.com/jes_chastain/status/605131093684199424?s=19 oft joke]] about how [[IdenticalStranger they're confused for each other]])
* Music/{{Sabaton}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9BupglHdtM "The Last Stand"]] is about the Swiss Guard's LastStand during the 1527 sack of Rome, but a meme developed that it was really about the Crusades. In a nod to this, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ6wr90FNvI the Sabaton History video for the song]] opens with an extended gag about the Crusades from bassist and co-founder Pär Sundström.
* The lyrics of Music/{{KMFDM}}'s "Kunst" include the fan backronym "Kill Motherfucking Music/DepecheMode".
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