History LampshadeHanging / Music

* Robby Roadsteamer's "They Laid Your Father Off From The Dick Factory" has an intro with an obviously synthesized flute lead - during said intro, Robby starts griping in-character about how they couldn't afford to hire a real flute player so the flute "sounds like a fuckin' keyboard effect!"

* Robby Roadsteamer's "They Laid Your Father Off From The Dick Factory" has an intro with an obviously synthesized flute lead - during said intro, Robby starts griping in-character about how the flute "sounds like a fuckin' keyboard effect!"

* Music/Fish (former singer of Music/Marillion) has a song called "Cliché" on his first solo album. It's a collection of every sappy love song cliché in existence: the self-deprecation actually works beautifully, and the man manages to gets away with his love song and slap it on an album marketed to ''progheads''. This is also where you start to get a glimpse of the Leonard Cohen vibes that will crop up often in his writing.

* Music/EltonJohn with "Your Song" details the process of writing a song ("a few of the verses, well, they've got me quite cross") and the excuses why it is the only gift he can give. He even explains why a rambling part of the song is because he is covering his bases about the color of her eyes.
** Trivia point: As Elton John is gay, it's quite likely that the inspiration for the song is male.
** Then again, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Song the lyricist was Bernie Taupin]], who [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Taupin#Personal_life was married four times]] (always to women), so he probably had someone female in mind. Elton John only wrote the music.

We can't even think of a word that rhymes"

* Creator/RobinThicke hung a lampshade in his song "Blurred Lines":

* Music/RobinThicke hung a lampshade in his song "Blurred Lines":

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* The Casseurs Flowters, a duo of French rappers, have a song called "Inachevés", which translates to "Unfinished". At the end of his first verse, Orelsan rushes it by saying "Et à l'image de tout ce que j'ai accompli jusqu'à maintenant je vais même pas finir mon couplet", or "Just as all that I've accomplished until now, I won't even finish my verse".

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* The Swedish song "Värsta schlagern" ("Such a Schlager"), sung by Markoolio and Linda Bengtzing, lampshades a lot of the tropes and clichés appearing in the EurovisionSongContest. The song itself is written and orchestrated like a typical "schlager", only the lyrics lampshade. Examples include a bridge going (my translation from the Swedish): "''What they reward with twelve points, is a sumptuous chorus''", part of the chorus going: "''There are stars and they're burning, there's the world and it's disappearing, and the title should hit you like a punch in the stomach, it's such a schlager''" and one memorable part going: "''If you don't want to ruin your chances of winning, you can steal something from Music/{{ABBA}} and see the risk disappear.''"

* BritneySpears

* BowlingForSoup does this all the time. For instance, towards the end of ''No Hablos Inglas'', Jaret asks "Do you like my band? (beat) Wait don't answer that."

* The ArcadeFire song "We Used To Wait" ends with a repetition of the chorus and

* "Hallelujah" by LeonardCohen contains the line, "It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift", referring to the sequence of chords played during that line.

** The start of the video for If U Seek Amy spells out the 'hidden' message in the lyrics very blatantly before the song begins.

* LadyGaga's statement to her fans during her show "SURPRISE!! A pop show, and the bitch can SIIIING!!" Shouted during one of her shows. Also, due to context, heavily implied to be a no-so-subtle Take That at her contemporaries.

* The entire text of "The Song That Goes Like This" from ''Spamalot'' is a blatant lampshading.