History FunWithAcronyms / Music

** And then there's the [[{{UsefulNotes/Hinduism}} Hindu]]-[[{{Reincarnation}} inspired]] send-up of it by {{Music/MIA}}, '''YALA''' ('''Y'''ou '''A'''lways '''L'''ive '''A'''gain). MIA's own StageName fits - it's a pun on her nickname, "Maya" (short for Mathangi), while also meaning "Missing In Acton" (no, not "action", the London neigbourhood).

* Music/{{ABBA}}'s name is an acronym of the band members' initials '''A'''nnifrid, '''B'''enny, '''B'''jorn, and '''A'''gnietha.

* Music/TheDeadMilkmen's "V.F.W.", where the chorus is "We're all '''v'''eterans of a '''f'''ucked up '''w'''orld". The wordplay involved is that VFW is also the name of an organization of American war veterans, standing for "'''V'''eterans of '''F'''oreign '''W'''ars".

* As a prank, anarchist punk group Crass wrote and recorded a deliberately TastesLikeDiabetes parody of easy-listening love songs called "Our Wedding", then convinced the publishers of a magazine aimed at teenage girls called ''Loving'' to give away flexi-discs of the song with issues. To hide their identity, they claimed to be an organization called '''C'''reative '''R'''ecording '''A'''nd '''S'''ound '''S'''ervices.

** The second verse of Music/AesopRock's "[[https://genius.com/Aesop-rock-the-greatest-pac-man-victory-in-history-lyrics The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History]]" ''[[ExaggeratedTrope takes this to a whole new level]''], being an unbroken sequence of words that start with L, S, and D. An excerpt:

** The second verse of Music/AesopRock's "The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History" [[ExaggeratedTrope takes this to a whole new level]], being an unbroken sequence of words that start with L, S, and D. An excerpt:

-->Late Show, Dave Letterman, shitty diner lip-slide dutch!\\

** The {{punk}}/metal band '''L'''ife, '''S'''ex and '''D'''eath used the same acronym.

* Music/{{GWAR}} has been [[WildMassGuessing theorized]] as standing for '''G'''od, '''W'''hat an '''A'''wful '''R'''acket, however the band has [[{{Jossed}} denounced]] the name of having any meaning.

** LSD is also a {{supergroup}} consisting of Labrinth, {{Music/Sia}} and Diplo. They ran with the other meaning of the acronym by making the cover of their debut album a trippy DesignStudentsOrgasm illusration of the group's members.

** LSD is also a {{supergroup}} consisting of Labrinth, {{Music/Sia}} and Diplo.

* The Spinto Band were being pressured into adding lyrics to a brief wordless bridge in the song "Late", an idea they weren't too fond of. While the proper album version has the song as the band originally wrote it, some leaked promo copies do have these added lyrics. See if you notice anything unusual about them:

* '''A'''gainst '''A'''ll '''A'''uthority named themselves as a play on an organization's initialism, the '''A'''merican '''A'''utomobile '''A'''ssociation. Lest you think it's a coincidence, they sometimes used a logo parodying the AAA as mashed up with the anarchy "A", and called an album ''24 Hour Roadside Resistance'' (the other AAA offers "24 hour roadside ''assistance''")

* '''A'''gainst '''A''ll '''A'''uthority named themselves as a play on an organization's initialism, the '''A'''merican '''A'''utomobile '''A'''ssociation. Lest you think it's a coincidence, they sometimes used a logo parodying the AAA as mashed up with the anarchy "A", and called an album ''24 Hour Roadside Resistance'' (the other AAA offers "24 hour roadside ''assistance''")

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* Music/PeterGabriel's ''Rated PG'', playing off the artist's initials and the MPAA rating system. Fittingly, it's a compilation of songs that were written for or featured in movies.

* Music/PeterGabriel's''Rated PG'', playing off the artist's initials and the MPAA rating system. Fittingly, it's a compilation of songs that were written for or featured in movies.

* {{Music/Incubus}}' album ''S.C.I.E.N.C.E.'' just uses the periods for aesthetic reasons, but they came up with some jokey answers to give in interviews when inevitably asked what it stands for... Such as " Sailing Catamarans Is Every Nautical Captain's Ecstasy", "Social Chronology Includes Everyone: Neanderthals, Cannibals, Humans" and " Southern California's Incubus Enters Nevada Carrying Equipment".

* An unintentional example. The rock band Music/JimmyEatWorld. Pay close attention to each letter in front of each of the words: '''J'''immy '''E'''at '''W'''orld. Just tell us what word those three letters spell.

* [[{{Hatedom}} Detractors of hip hop music]] insist that "rap" stands for '''R'''etards '''A'''ttempting '''P'''oetry. Fans may counter with '''R'''hythmic '''A'''merican '''P'''oetry.