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->''"That song had no content! It wasn't even about the movie, it was about itself! That's like [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaking the]] ninth wall!"''

-->-- '''Jed''', ''CommentaryTheMusical''

* "Ten Dollar Solo" from ''CommentaryTheMusical'' is entirely about itself.

* [[{{Charlieissocoollike}} Charlie McDonnell]] has a song on his album called "A Song About a Song".

* ''{{Spamalot}}'''s "The Song that Goes Like This".

* "Dance To The Music" by Sly & The Family Stone may well be a TropeCodifier, as it deconstructs their song style in the riffs and lyrics.

* LouReed's "Walk on the Wild Side"

* The lyrics to the theme song for ''It's Garry Shandling's Show'' are about how the songwriter is writing the theme to ''It's Garry Shandling's Show''.

* Played with in "Only A Northern Song" by TheBeatles; it was written by GeorgeHarrison as a bitter take that to the Northern Songs publishing company owned by JohnLennon and PaulMcCartney and the way he was treated by it.

* Played with in "Only A Northern Song" by TheBeatles; it was written by GeorgeHarrison as a playful TakeThat to the Lennon-[=McCartney=] songwriting style. ("Northern Songs" was the name of John Lennon & Paul [=McCartney=]'s music publishing entity.)

* "25 of 6 to 4" - Chicago's breakout song, one of the founders of 70's rock and considered to this day to be one of the greatest songs ever written is about... Not having anything to write about. No, seriously, that's it. People have been trying to find a deeper meaning in it for decades (ranging from drugs to sex to The Vietnam War), but just give up people, it's really about nothing.

* 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''.

Read more: SLY & THE FAMILY STONE - DANCE TO THE MUSIC LYRICS

* Played with in "Only A Northern Song" by TheBeatles; it was written by GeorgeHarrison as a playful TakeThat to the Lennon-[=McCartney=] songwriting style. ("Northern Songs" was the name of John Lennon & Paul McCartney's music publishing entity.)

* Played with in "Only A Northern Song" by TheBeatles; it was written by GeorgeHarrison as a playful TakeThat to the Lennon-[=McCartney=] songwriting style.

** NewerThanTheyThink: "The Song That Never Ends" was composed by Norman Martin in 1988, so while it may make a good UrExample, that won't be possible.

** NewerThanTheyThink: "The Song That Never Ends" was composed by Norman Martin in 1988.

* "This is the song that doesn't end, it just goes on and on my friends. . ."

* Played with in "Only A Northern Song" by TheBeatles; it was written by GeorgeHarrison as a playful TakeThat to the Lennon-McCartney songwriting style.

* The Venezuelan genre of Gaita Zuliana is full of songs that straddle between this trope and ThisIsASong, in a SeriousBusiness way. Often the lyrics describe how the song is going trugh the [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth traditional Gaita guidelines]]. And there is the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRHmDX6Po8U Gaita Onomatopeyica]] (Onomatopoeic Gaita), which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

* The song "Montage" from ''SouthPark'' (and later, ''TeamAmericaWorldPolice'') facilitates this trope by describing the exact narrative devices and reasoning behind {{Montages}} while the viewer actually watches a montage on-screen.