History Trivia / MusicAndLyrics

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Being a film made between 2006 and 2007, it's no surprised that both cell phones and the internet play only passing roles in the plot.

* TheCastShowoff: Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, and Haley Bennett all do their own singing for the film. Grant did ''some'' of his own piano playing, but only in full-body shots where his hands are visible; while he'd studied piano as a child, he hadn't played in so long that he needed to re-learn in preparation for the role.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The film captures the '80s nostalgia of the late 2000s/early 2010s at it's earliest stage, thanks to the children of the 1980s beginning to reach adulthood themselves and their love of 80s kitsch influencing contemporary media. It also passively mentions several bands who'd been big in the 80s going on reunion tours, most of whom have either been back together for a while or didn't have very long reunions.
** The alien dolls that Alex buys for Rhonda's children are from the then-popular Mars 2112, a sci-fi themed Creator/ChuckECheese-esque restaurant in Times Square, which closed in 2012.
** The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue is done in the style of Creator/VH1's "Pop Up Video," which have since gone out of style.
** Alex also regularly visits a record store (remember those?) to check on a long-unsold CD ([[WhatAreRecords remember]] ''[[WhatAreRecords those?]]'') of his unsuccessful solo album. Today, most of the few copies it sold would be found collecting dust in various thrift shops. The store featured is visibly a Tower Records, which had closed all it's locations by the time the movie was released.
* WorkingTitle: The [[SarcasmMode drastically different]] ''Music and Lyrics by...''.

* BreakawayPopHit: The song "Way Back Into Love" greatly surpassed the film's success (although it's not entirely unheard of), to GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff levels in the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}. In fact, it was even repackaged as the theme song to the ''Precious Hearts Romances Presents...'' TV series, a fairly successful TV adaptation of various Philippine pocketbooks. Many Filipinos are unaware it originated from ''Music and Lyrics,'' or perhaps know of the film yet associate it more strongly with stuff like ''Precious Hearts Romances Presents...''.

* BreakawayPopHit: The song "Way Back Into Love" greatly surpassed the film's success (although it's not entirely unheard of), to GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff levels in the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}. In fact, it was even repackaged as the theme song to the ''Precious Heart Romances'' TV series, a fairly successful TV adaptation of various Philippine pocketbooks. Many Filipinos are unaware it originated from ''Music and Lyrics,'' or perhaps know of the film yet associate it more strongly with stuff like ''Precious Hearts Romances.''

* BreakawayPopHit: "Way Back Into Love" greatly surpassed the film's success (although it's not entirely unheard of), to GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff levels in the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}. In fact, it was even repackaged as the theme song to the ''Precious Heart Romances'' TV series, a TV adaptation of various Philippine pocketbooks. Many Filipinos are unaware it originated from ''Music and Lyrics,'' or perhaps know of the film yet associate it more with stuff like ''Precious Hearts Romances.''

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece

* BreakawayPopHit: "Way Back Into Love" greatly surpassed the film's success (although it's certainly ''not'' unheard of), to GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff levels in the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}.

* DawsonCasting: The implied-JailBait Cora is played by then-19 Haley Bennett.

** Sophie could have looked up Alex's solo album on Spotify or [=YouTube=] rather than buying the last copy in the record store (though considering what a flop the album is InUniverse, it's possible nobody would even bother to upload to either service). Similarly, Alex personally delivers a physical CD of the demo to Cora, who listens to it on a diskman, rather than emailing her an [=MP3=] or streaming link; even if she still wanted to hear it in person, he'd have just played it on his phone.

** Sophie sends Cora the new lyrics to "Way Back Into Love" via fax. Nowadays, she'd just text or email it (opening emails on a 2000s-era cell phone wasn't unheard of, but the smaller screens and clunky buttons were so cumbersome that nobody bothered, to the point that email briefly fell out of practice in the late 2000s until smartphones made reading them on the go much easier). Similarly, Alex personally delivers a physical CD of the demo to Cora, who listens to it on a diskman, rather than emailing it to her or, assuming she still wanted to meet him in person to hear it, played it for everyone to hear from his phone as either an [=MP3=] or a sound file streamed from a cloud.
** In the streaming age, Sophie could have looked up Alex's solo album on Spotify or [=YouTube=] rather than buying the last copy in the record store (though considering what a flop the album is InUniverse, it's possible nobody would even bother to upload to either service).

** The film captures the '80s nostalgia of the late 2000s/early 2010s at it's earliest stage, thanks to the children of the 1980s beginning to reach adulthood themselves and their love of 80s kitsch influencing contemporary media. It also passively mentions several band who'd been big in the 80s going on reunion tours, most of whom have either been back together for a while or didn't have very long reunions.

** Alex also regularly visits a record store (remember those?) to check on a long-unsold CD (remember ''those?'') of his unsuccessful solo album. Today, most of the few copies it sold would be found collecting dust in various thrift shops. The store featured is visibly a Tower Records, which had closed all it's locations by the time the movie was released.

** More egregiously, Alex takes Sophie to Tower Records, which closed all of it's locations a year before the movie was released, to show her a long-unsold CD of his lone solo album ([[WhatAreRecords CDs? Record stores? What are those?]]) which she ends up buying to listen to rather than streaming (though considering what a flop the album is, it probably ''wouldn't'' be on Spotify or even uploaded to [=YouTube=] in bootleg form).

** Sophie sends Cora the new lyrics to "Way Back Into Love" via fax. Nowadays, she'd just text or email it (opening emails on a 2000s-era cell phone wasn't unheard of, but the smaller screens and clunky buttons were so cumbersome that nobody bothered, to the point that email actually fell out of practice in the late 2000s until smartphones became more common). Similarly, Alex personally delivers a physical CD of the demo to Cora, who listens to it on a diskman, rather than emailing it to her or, assuming she still wanted to meet him in person to hear it, played it for everyone to hear from his phone as either an [=MP3=] or a sound file streamed from a cloud.

** The alien dolls that Alex buys for Rhonda's children are from Mars 2112, a popular Creator/ChuckECheese-esque themed restaurant in Times Square which closed five years after the film was released.

** Native New Yorkers will recognize the alien dolls that Alex buys for Rhonda's children as being merch from local tourist hotspot Mars 2112, which closed in 2014.

** Sophie sends Cora the new lyrics to "Way Back Into Love" via fax. Nowadays, she'd just text or email it (opening emails on a 2000s-era cell phone wasn't unheard of, but the smaller screens and clunky buttons were so cumbersome that nobody bothered, to the point that email actually fell out of practice in the late 2000s until smartphones became more common). Similarly, Alex personally delivers a physical CD of the demo to Cora, who listens to it on a diskman, rather than emailing it to her or, assuming she still wanted to meet him in person to hear it, played it for everyone to hear from his phone as either an MP3 or a sound file from a cloud.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Apparently, for some reason, a lot of people think "I've been sleeping with a ''cloud'' above my bed" is "I've been sleeping with a ''clown'' above my bed" in "Way Back Into Love."
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Inevitably, as 1980s nostalgia has come and gone, most of the bands who are said to have recently reunited have either been back together for a while or didn't have very long reunions and [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue the epilogue]] done in the style of Creator/VH1's "Pop Up Video."

* TheCastShowoff: Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, and Haley Bennett all do their own singing for the film.
** Subverted with Hugh Grant's piano playing. While he ''had'' studied as a child, he hadn't played in so long that he needed to re-learn in preparation for the role, but only in full-body shots where his hands are visible.
* FakeBrit: Colin is played by American Scott Porter, although he never actually speaks.

* BreakawayPopHit: "Way Back Into Love" greatly surpassed the film's success (although it's certainly ''not'' unheard of), to GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff in the Philippines.

* DawsonCasting: The implied-JailBait Cora is played by then-19 Haley Bennette.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Inevitably, as 1980s nostalgia has come and gone, most of the bands who are said to have recently reunited have either been back together for a while or didn't have very long reunions and [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue the epilogue]] done in the style of Creator/VH1's "Pop Up Video."

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Inevitably, as 1980s nostalgia has come and gone, most of the bands who are said to have recently reunited have either been back together for a while or didn't have very long reunions and [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue the epilogue]] done in the style of VH1's "Pop Up Video."

* HeyItsThatGuy!: [[Series/{{Glee}} Mr Shue]] is Cora's manager. In a film where Drew Barrymore sings, Mr Shue neither sings nor dances.
** [[FridayNightLights Jason Street]] is Colin.

* DawsonCasting: Then-19 Haley Bennette as Cora. Although we never know exactly how old the character is, this was a necessary evil for her, ahem... [[MissFanservice defining characteristic]].

** [[FridayNightLights Jason Street]] is Colin.