History Main / SequelSong

* Kansas's "Icarus: Borne On Wings Of Steel" was followed up years later by "Icarus II". Also, 'Carry On, Wayward Son' is a sequel to 'The Pinnacle', which was a sequel to 'Mysteries And Mayhem', though the latter two were meant to be one song, originally.

** Two of their instrumentals ; "Where's My Thing?" and "Leave That Thing Alone"
* Tommy and Gina from Music/BonJovi's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk "Living On A Prayer"]] made a return appearance in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2u5uUu3DE&ob=av2e "It's My Life"]]. As well as the introduction.
* Music/EltonJohn recorded "Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters" in 1972, and "Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters, Part 2" in 1988.

* French Singer Renaud has a song called "Les aventures de Gérard Lambert" (Gerard Lambert's adventures). It also has a later song, called "Le retour de Gérard Lambert" (Gérard Lambert returns). Of course, both songs share the main character (in the first, he is trying to fix his bike, and in the second he is driving to meet a girl, only to find a travestite. He ends both songs by hitting people)
** Same singer also has two songs, "Où c'est qu'j'ai mis mon flingue" (Where did I put my gun) and "J'ai retrouvé mon flingue" (I found my gun again) where he rants about various things and more various things in the sequel.

* Music/TheyMightBeGiants did a series of songs based around a titular "Hotel Detective". The first, "(She Was a) Hotel Detective" being on their debut album. The second off an EP released shortly before their fifth album, called "She Was A Hotel Detective" (no parentheses). The lastest from their podcast album was called "(She Was a) Hotel Detective in the Future"! They also released a sequel to the song "Why Does the Sun Shine?" called "Why Does the Sun Really Shine?" The former is a cover of a song from 1959; the latter corrects the scientific errors in the former.
* Music/HankWilliamsJr's "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" follows from his earlier "All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down."

** 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/TheMoodyBlues' 1988 song, "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" (from ''Sur La Mer''), was a sequel to their 1986 hit song, "Your Wildest Dreams"; the music video for the aforementioned song continued where "Your Wildest Dreams" left off.

* Music/JeanMichelJarre's 1997 album ''Oxygene 7-13'' is a sequel album to ''Oxygene'' from 20 years prior. In turn, those were followed by ''Oxygene 3'' in 2016. Likewise ''Equinoxe''(1978) has the sequel ''Equinoxe Infinity''(2018).

* [[WordOfGod According to Jimmy Buffett]], Frankie and Lola Dupree — the main characters in his song "Frankie and Lola" — a married couple who are trying to rebuild their marriage -- are the same mutually cheating couple from his earlier song "Who's the Blonde Stranger." While he never wrote a third song revealing whether their attempt to fix their marriage worked, Buffett likes to say that he's "hopeful that love conquers all."

* Music/The1975's album ''I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it'' opens with a song, also called "The 1975," that serves as a direct sequel to the song of the same name on their self-titled debut; both songs open with a chord that gradually gets louder, but the song on ''I like it when you sleep'' is more anthemic, reflecting the sound of the album overall compared to the first.

* Music/JimmieRodgers: ''Blue Yodel No. 1 (T is for Texas)'' was followed up by 12 other Blue Yodel records.

* Music/MeatLoaf's album ''BatOutOfHell'' had two sequels, though only ''Bat Out of Hell II'' was written entirely by original ''Bat'' songwriter Music/JimSteinman.

** "Glass Onion" could be seen as a sequel to "Strawberry Fields" and "I Am the Walrus"... or just a MindScrew. It also references "Fool on the Hill," "Lady Madonna," "Fixing a Hole," "There's a Place," "I'm Looking Through You," and "Within You and Without You."

* Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" is an unofficial sequel to Music/DavidBowie's "Space Oddity", to which the official sequel would be "Ashes to Ashes."

* "Judy's Turn to Cry" by Lesley Gore is a sequel to the same singer's "It's My Party".

* 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.
* James Blunt's song You're Beautiful and Cold are both in the same key of E-flat 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.

* Music/Deco27's "Android Girl" is a sequel to his previous song, "Two Breaths Walking." Both songs feature the {{Music/Vocaloid}} {{Music/Hatsune Miku}} as the singer and focus on the unstable relationship between a young man and a young woman (who is an actual android depending on your interpretation). While "Two Breaths Walking" focuses on the first steps of their relationship and the start of the problems that form between them, "Android Girl" focuses on the climax of their problems and the strong emotions they both feel as a result. "Android Girl" ends with the boy looking back on the start of their romance and reminiscing about better times.

* "Lovers in the Night" by Maddy Layne is thematically a sequel to "[[https://youtu.be/Cu34jBzI01I Shadows in the Night]]" by fellow Hi-NRG Attack-produced {{Eurobeat}} project Princess F.

* "Lovers in the Night" by Maddy Layne is thematically a sequel to "Shadows in the Night" by fellow Hi-NRG Attack-produced {{Eurobeat}} project Princess F.

* Gerard Joling's "[[https://youtu.be/pm9XkP3lzgA Spanish Heart]]" continues the musical motif and BreakupSong narrative of "[[https://youtu.be/0sAAA2IYv9E Ticket to the Tropics]]" from the preceding album. Notably, the EpicInstrumentalOpener of the former mirrors the instrumental coda of the latter.

* Gerard Joling's "[[https://youtu.be/pm9XkP3lzgA Spanish Heart]]" continues the musical motif and BreakupSong narrative of "[[https://youtu.be/0sAAA2IYv9E Ticket to the Tropics]]" from the preceding album.

* C. W. [=McCall=] followed up his 1975 novelty trucker anthem "Convoy" with the comparatively obscure "Round the World with the Rubber Duck" the next year. The song picks up directly after its predecessor as Rubber Duck's convoy finds itself surrounded by "bears" (police) on the Atlantic coast, but takes a sharp turn into DenserAndWackier territory when, with the help of the "friends of Jesus" and their micro-bus, the convoy literally drives across the ocean and tours Eurasia, starting with England and continuing on through Germany, the Soviet Union, and Japan. Each country gets its own (self-consciously corny) BriefAccentImitation.

*** In "Stronger Than I Was", he sings as both himself and as Kim, a SoloDuet referencing his TalkingToHimself on the original "Kim".

* {{Music/Deco27}}'s "Android Girl" is a sequel to his previous song, "Two Breaths Walking." Both songs feature the {{Music/Vocaloid}} {{Music/Hatsune Miku}} as the singer and focus on the unstable relationship between a young man and a young woman (who is an actual android depending on your interpretation). While "Two Breaths Walking" focuses on the first steps of their relationship and the start of the problems that form between them, "Android Girl" focuses on the climax of their problems and the strong emotions they both feel as a result. "Android Girl" ends with the boy looking back on the start of their romance and reminiscing about better times.

* DECO*27's "Android Girl" is a sequel to his previous song, "Two Breaths Walking." Both songs focus on the unstable relationship between a young man and a young woman (who is an actual android depending on your interpretation). While "Two Breaths Walking" focuses on the first steps of their relationship and the start of the problems that form between them, "Android Girl" focuses on the climax of their problems and the strong emotions they both feel as a result. "Android Girl" ends with the boy looking back on the start of their romance and reminiscing about better times.
* Dixie Flatline's "Answer" serves as a sequel to his previous song "Just Be Friends." Both feature the [[Music/Vocaloid VOCALOID]] Megurine Luka both as the singer and main character. "Just Be Friends" sees Luka break up with her lover after realizing their relationship isn't going where they want it to go, and it would be better if they [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin were just friends]]. "Answer" takes place years after the events of "Just Be Friends" and shows how Luka has moved on but still holds her former boyfriend in a special place in her heart. Luka is seen donning the white dress she wore in the music video for "Just Be Friends" multiple times during the music video for "Answer." She even starts whistling the main melody of "Just Be Friends" during the end of "Answer."

* Creator/RodStewart's "You Wear It Well" is a SpiritualSequel rather than direct sequel to his earlier hit "Maggie May". In addition to sharing a similar musical structure and tone, both can be listened as BookEnds to one another; the earlier song is about a man denouncing his lover and all the ways she's toxic for him and deciding to leave her once and for all, whereas the other is about a man writing a letter to an old ex-partner reminiscing on their relationship and coming to realise that he's still in love with her.

** ''Revival'' ends with "Castle" and "Arose" -- the former details Em's [[CelebrityIsOverrated deteriorating mental health in light of his increasing fame while it's happening]], ending on a recreation of his near-fatal overdose in 2007. The latter song details his near-death experience and catalogues what he believed would be his final thoughts, before [[{{Determinator}} deciding he's not going to make the same mistakes he made in the past]]. From there, the song abruptly "reverses" and restores the beat of "Castle", [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong where he finishes the song on a different path]], instead flusheing his pills down the toilet.

** ''Revival'' ends with "Castle" and "Arose" -- the former details Em's [[CelebrityIsOverrated deteriorating mental health in light of his increasing fame while it's happening]], ending on a recreation of his near-fatal overdose in 2007. The latter song details his near-death experience and catalogues what he believed would be his final thoughts, before [[{{Determinator}} deciding he's not going to make the same mistakes he made in the past]]. From there, the song abruptly "reverses" and restores the beat of "Castle", [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong where he finishes the song on a different path]] where he instead flushes his pills down the toilet.

* Harry Dacre followed up his timeless classic "Daisy Bell ([[RefrainFromAssuming A Bicycle Built For Two]])" with the less popular "Fare Thee Well, Daisy Bell", in which Daisy and the narrator have split up, leaving the narrator a broken man. It turns out she wasn't as keen on the tandem bike as he was.

** "Stepdad", in which a child Shady decides to get revenge on his abusive stepdad by killing him, ''might'' be a sequel to "Insane", in which a child Shady is repeatedly raped by his stepdad and [[RapedIntoInsanity has his mind broken by the trauma of it]]. It's debatable as Stepdad has a different characterisation in both songs -- a rapist in "Insane", a BrutalBully in "Stepdad".

** Eminem's guest verse on "Psycho" with Music/FiftyCent is the aftermath of the events of "Music Box" from ''Relapse''.

* C. W. [=McCall=] followed up his 1975 novelty trucker anthem "Convoy" with the comparatively obscure "Round the World with the Rubber Duck" the following year. The song picks up directly after its predecessor as Rubber Duck's convoy finds itself surrounded by "bears" (police) on the Atlantic coast, but takes a sharp turn into DenserAndWackier territory when, with the help of the "friends of Jesus" and their micro-bus, the convoy literally drives across the ocean and tours Eurasia, starting with England and continuing on through Germany, the Soviet Union, and Japan. Each country gets its own (self-consciously corny) BriefAccentImitation.