History Main / SequelSong

* Music/HankWilliamsJr gave us "All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down", which was far more melancholy-sounding than "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight".

** Many songs on ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' are sequels to songs on the original ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'' and ''Music/TheEminemShow''. "Bad Guy" is a sequel to "Stan" but also an answer to Em's [[HeteronormativeCrusader hyperoffensive]] "Criminal" (quoting "I'm the ''bad guy'' who makes fun of people that die..."), and "Parking Lot (skit)" is a direct continuation of the same song. His father-hatred song "Rhyme or Reason" and attempt to bury the hatchet with his mother, "Headlights", are both answers to "Cleanin' Out My Closet", an IHateSong about his mother. In "Stronger Than I Was", he sings as both himself and as Kim, a SoloDuet referencing his TalkingToHimself on the original "Kim". "So Far" amusingly switches the beat back to "I'm Back" and "The Real Slim Shady" in scenes showing [[AntiRoleModel kids influenced by his music]] tormenting him now.

** "[[MurderBallad Kim]]" was a prequel to "97 Bonnie and Clyde".
** Many songs on ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' are sequels to songs on the original ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'' and ''Music/TheEminemShow''. "Bad Guy" is a sequel to "Stan" but also an answer to Em's [[HeteronormativeCrusader hyperoffensive]] "Criminal", and "Parking Lot (skit)" is a direct continuation of the same song. His father-hatred song "Rhyme or Reason" and attempt to bury the hatchet with his mother, "Headlights", are both answers to "Cleanin' Out My Closet", an IHateSong about his mother. In "Stronger Than I Was", he sings as both himself and as Kim, a SoloDuet referencing his TalkingToHimself on the original "Kim". "So Far" amusingly switches the beat back to "I'm Back" and "The Real Slim Shady" in scenes showing [[AntiRoleModel kids influenced by his music]] tormenting him now.

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s "[[MurderBallad Kim]]" was a prequel to "97 Bonnie and Clyde".
** Bad Guy is a sequel to Stan.

The Pointer Sisters 1984 song, Jump, seems to be a follow up to their 1982 I'm So Excited,which seems to be a follow up to their 1981 Slow Hand. Slow Hand is a slow, romantic hit and a country/soul/R&B crossover. I'm So Excited is much more of a dance and post disco hit with a fast pace, in contrast to the former. The lyrics seem to reference the slow hand the singer wanted from a lover, with the line "And if you move real slow, I'll let it go". "Jump" had yet a faster pace and doesn't seem to reference "Slow Hand". It reference "I'm So Excited" with the line "You're so excited I can feel you getting higher". So there is what seems a continuum and a transition from slow to fast, seems to suggest a transition in the relationship from one level to the next.

-->''Lindale Avenue on the way to her place''

-->''[[BrickJoke Pulled out on Lindale, killed by a couple of drunks, broadside of my pick up truck]]''"

** The song "Click" from ''Charli'' is a BoastfulRap of Charli and her [[{{Pun}} clique]] of friends who she raps along with, including featured artists Kim Petras and Tommy Cash. The following album, ''how i'm feeling now'' (produced during and is about quarantine life during the UsefulNotes/CovidPandemic), features the song "c2.0", is a solo track where Charli reminisces over her clique and missing them.

* WoodenToaster's infamous ''[[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic MLP]]'' [[FilkSong fan song]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAON4WjBEzE "Rainbow Factory"]], which inspired a DarkFic [[FanFic/RainbowFactory of the same name]], has two sequels; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytKvgLuy7ng "Awoken"]] by WoodenToaster himself with H8_Seed, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzb76EFqZkg "Pegasus Device"]] by [=SlyphStorm=], which references both of its predecessors at the end.

* Bjorn "Dr. Awesome" Lynne's "Bridge to the Universe, Part 2".

** The song "Click" from ''Charli'' is a BoastfulRap of Charli and her [[{{Pun}} clique]] of friends who she raps along with, including featured artists Kim Petras and Tommy Cash. The following album, ''how i'm feeling now'' (produced during and is about quarantine life during the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic), features the song "c2.0", is a solo track where Charli reminisces over her clique and missing them.

* James Blunt's song You're Beautiful and Cold are both in the same key of Eb major. Cold shows James Blunt retrieving many of the items he lost in You're Beautiful, and is set at sea like how You're Beautiful ended.

* According to WordOfGod (songwriter Dennis Linde), the eponymous "Earl" in Music/DixieChicks' "Goodbye Earl" is the same Earl featured in Sammy Kershaw's 1993 hit "Queen of My Double Wide Trailer".

* The Music/IronMaiden song "Charlotte The Harlot" on their first album was followed by "22 Acacia Avenue", a DarkerAndEdgier take on the same character.
** Charlotte shows up again in "From Here to Eternity", this time as a motorcycle enthusiast. Or just interested in a guy on a bike.
*** Don't Look To The Eyes Of A Stranger is seen as the sequel to Prowler. Whilst Prowler is from a pervert's point of view, Don't Look... is from his victim's.

* Music/{{Rush}} ended their album ''Music/AFarewellToKings'' with the song "Cygnus X-I Part I" and began their next album, ''Music/{{Hemispheres}}'', with the followup "Cygnus X-I Part II".

* Music/{{Rush}} ended their album "A Farewell To Kings" with the song "Cygnus X-I Part I" and began their next album, "Hemispheres" with the followup "Cygnus X-I Part II".

* Roxi Drive's [[https://youtu.be/xNqH9V12xOA "Lost In the Game"]], on ''Electric Heart'', appears to be a narrative sequel to [[https://youtu.be/KuO-tBs2-v0 "Behind the Mask"]] from her first album, ''Strangers of the Night''.

** A more orthodox example is "The Great Beyond" to "Man on the Moon". Both songs are [[ShoutOut shout outs]] to Creator/AndyKaufman but the former had to be written for [[Film/ManOnTheMoon his 1998 biopic]] after the latter was [[TitledAfterTheSong the name of the film]], also featuring it.

* Juno Reactor followed up "Pistolero", the opener to their 2001 album ''Shango'', with "Return of Pistolero" on ''The Mutant Theatre'' in 2018.

* According to WordOfGod (songwriter Dennis Linde), the eponymous "Earl" in Music/DixieChicks' "Goodbye Earl" is the same Earl featured in Sammy Kershaw's 1993 hit "Queen of My Double Wide Trailer".

* "Valkyrie" by The Cruxshadows appears to be a spiritual sequel to their signature song "Winterborn"; both have similar song structures and lyrics pertaining to HeroicSacrifice.

* Music/{{REM}}: "Bad Day" is a sequel to their previous song, "It's the End of the World as We Know It".

* Music/RebeccaBlack followed up her infamous "Music/{{Friday}}" with "Saturday".