History TakeThat / Music

-->''Taylor Swift: I always try to tell the audience that I really do try to be a nice person... but if you break my heart, hurt my feelings, or are really mean to me, I'm going to write a song about you. Haha. This song is the perfect example.''

* The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus's new EP "The Hell or High Water" is pretty much a giant attack on their former record label.

* The ReligionRantSong, in its various forms, is this to... you guessed it, religion.

**** ''Ram'' is widely regarded in Beatles fan circles as McCartney's "break-up" album, where he takes shots at <i>everyone</i>.

* The 1966 Dutch protest song ''Welterusten Mijnheer de President'' (Sleep tight, Mister President) by Boudewijn de Groot balances between this and an outright TheVillainSucksSong. The song is listing several of the horrors of the VietnamWar, but tells President Johnson [[SarcasmMode not to worry about it all]] and have a good night's sleep.

* LinkinPark has a song titled "When They Come For Me", a ferocious TakeThat at their fans who want them to make more albums like ''Hybrid Theory'' and ''Meteora''.

* LinkinPark has a song titled "When They Come For Me", a ferocious TakeThat at their fans who want them to make more albums like ''Hybrid Theory'' and ''Meteora''.

* LinkinPark has a song on their new album called "When They Come For Me", a ferocious TakeThat at their fans who want them to make more albums like ''Hybrid Theory'' and ''Meteora''.

* LinkinPark has a song on their new album called "When They Come For Me", a ferocious TakeThat at fans who want them to make more albums like ''Hybrid Theory'' and ''Meteora''.

* LinkinPark has a song on their new album called "When They Come For Me", a ferocious TakeThat at fans who want them to make more albums like ''Hybrid Theory'' and ''Meteora'.

Swear you know best

Swear you know best\\

* DreamTheater, surprisingly, also has these: first it's "Never Enough", a song wrote by Mike Portnoy, as one towards the FanDumb and the UnpleasableFanbase. And then there's "As I Am", a song wrote by John Petrucci, and is a TakeThat towards {{Queensryche}}'s Mike Stone, who tried to give him some advices.

* InsaneClownPosse and {{Eminem}} have done this to each other in turn. Eminem put a skit on ''The Slim Shady LP'' depicting the Insane Clown Posse giving oral sex to a man; in return, the Insane Clown Posse recorded "Ain't Nothin' But a Bitch Thang", which opened with a skit in which Dr. Dre is performing anal sex with Eminem. The two parties no longer actively feud, and members of ICP's label, Psychopathic Records, frequently associate and collaborate with Eminem's associates D12 and King Gordy, who have said that they are ICP fans. Eminem and ICP are not particularly likely to have a similarly friendly relationship, though. Interestingly enough, Eminem was once an ICP fan, and had a tattoo of the album cover for their "Riddle Box" album.
** Insane Clown Posse parodied the concept of TakeThat with "Fuck The World", a ClusterFBomb that eventually delves into insulting ridiculously specific targets.

* {{Eminem}} has...issues...with wife/ex-wife/wife/ex-wife Kim, resulting in songs that are sympathetic and loving to songs that are full on, vicious, Take Thats.

*** This is arguable as well. Ringo has explicitly denied that it's about McCartney, and sites which purport that "Boogaloo" was Ringo's nickname for Paul are simply mistaken. "Boogaloo" was a favorite expression of Starr's friend Marc Bolan (of T-Rex fame - see the film Born to Boogie).

* Cracker's "It Ain't Gonna Suck Itself" is the only original song on the CoverAlbum ''Countrysides'', their first album after leaving Virgin records. It's part ShaggyDogStory, part take that at Virgin, specifically calling out executive Roy Lott. They felt their last album for the label, ''Forever'', got ScrewedByTheNetwork, since all marketing funds for it were cut off immediately after it's release.
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* Cracker's "It Ain't Gonna Suck Itself" is part ShaggyDogStory, part take that at their former record label Virgin, specifically calling out executive Roy Lott. Their last album for the label, ''Forever'', got ScrewedByTheNetwork, since all marketing funds for it were cut off immediately after it's release.

* Weezer's 2008 hit single "Pork and Beans" is a surprisingly bitter TakeThat against the recording industry, railing against the apparent perception that the band can no longer produce hit singles.

* In another business-related TakeThat, TheRollingStones once met a contractual obligation to a former record company by delivering an unreleasable song "Cocksucker Blues."

* The musical comedy duo Kit and the Widow have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBXsYNf1l5Y a song]] which directly accuses AndrewLloydWebber of plagiarism ([[GettingCrapPastTheRadar without actually mentioning him by name]]), and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbBh69Pa4PY another one]] with some less than flattering comments on StephenSondheim and his fans.

* The musical comedy duo Kit and the Widow have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBXsYNf1l5Y a song]] which directly accuses AndrewLloydWebber of plagiarism ([[GettingCrapPastTheRadar without actually mentioning him by name]]).

* "Hot Dog" is a bizarre LimpBizkit song whose chorus is a long, out-of-nowhere attack on... Trent Reznor? Yes, apparently Fred Durst had some beef with NineInchNails. Exactly why is not known. SoYeah. Ironically, they had to give Reznor writing credit, and a resulting part of the royalties.