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When Haddaway performed "What Is Love?" during his appearance on the short-lived show Hit Me Baby One More Time, the backup choreography included the Roxbury headbop.
In Brazil, a video involving fans of Restart complaining after a cancelled autograph session became popular - especially one of said angry fans, a girl named Georgia Massa, saying it was a "puta falta de sacanagem", a contradictory phrase that could be translated as "fucking lack of unfairness" or This Is Unforgivable!note although "sacanagem" is best translated as "screwing". Then the band and a comedian created a song based on that phrase, and Massa got to meet the band (much to the jealousy of other rabid fangirls). The boys, in turn, wrote the song "Pra Você Lembrar" in order to apologize for the cancelled autograph session.
After Camron's infamous U MAD appearance on The O' Reilly Factor, www.u-mad.net started up as an official Camron merch store.
Gary Brolsma's Numa Numa dance video to "Dragostea Din Tei" inspired former O-Zone singer Dan Balan to recreate the song as "Sugartunes (Numa Numa)".
Also, once Paul returned to Brazil in The New '10s, four girls from Belo Horizonte (seventh biggest city, and capital of the second most populous state) begun a campaign for a concert of his there, "Paul, Vem Falar Uai" - "Paul, Come Say Uai". Eventually he begun his 2013 Out There Tour in BH. And the gig had him saying local slang, including "uai", and bringing the girls on stage.
There was a campaign on Facebook, "Paul Vem Falar Uai". Well, here I am saying "Uai"!
Jimi Hendrix's famous song "Purple Haze" contains the line " 'scuse me while I kiss the sky", but is frequently misheard as " 'scuse me while I kiss this guy". At a handful of later live performances, Jimi would actually use the misheard line for this song - and afterwards (probably) pretend to kiss one of his band members while playing the riff. note This lyric is used in the version in Guitar Hero 4. Leading the correct lyrics to be in DLC only.
Similarly, Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" misheard "There's a bad moon on the rise" as "there's a bathroom on the right" led to the band singing the mondegreen live several times.
And again on the ascended mondegreen meme (although unintentional), Clutch's The Regulator has a its opening line "I see a lantern burning" oft-misheard by fans as "I see Atlanta burning." To the point that one of the reasons The Walking Dead producers (the show it based in Atlanta) used it as a credits closing song in an episode was THEY heard it wrong, too.
The Spinto Band stumbled upon a mash-up that combined their "Oh Mandy" with Rich Boy's "Throw Some D's". They liked it enough that in live performances of the song, they'd sometimes replace the lyrics to the bridge with a few lines from "Throw Some D's".
Don McLean also uses lines from Yankovic's "The Saga Begins" when performing "American Pie".
In the 70s, when The Angels sang "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?", crowds answered, "No way, get fucked, fuck off" - which The Angels incorporated into their performances.
Mexican party anthem "El Final" (the end) has the line "te veo besándote con otro" ("I see you kissing/making out with someone else") which is always answered with a "Que poca madre!" when played in a bar ("What little mother" literally, but it it's an expression used when someone wronged someone else, like saying "you bastard!"). Nowadays, most DJs will turn down the volume when playing it at a bar, party, whatever. Albums compilations add the a silent second for people to scream it, karaoke machines show the line on the screen, and both original band Rostros Ocultos or anyone covering it will either stop playing for a second and raise the mike for people to say it, or just have the band scream it while the singer stops. Shortly, the line became part of the song.
There was a bootleg remix of Madonna's "Holiday" that mashed it up with Stardust's "Music Sounds Better with You". When Mad'House (a Madonna tribute band) covered the former, they interpolated the bassline and instrumentation of the latter.
Besides being essentially nothing but this trope, Vocaloid has a recursive-meme example. Someone made a popular Miku cover of "Ievan Polkka," better known as "that leekspin song," complete with her own spinning (waving?) leek. It wasn't long before leeks started showing up in Miku's official artworks and figurines, and they soon became her Trademark Favorite Food. The restyled "Hachune Miku" in the video has also generated a lot of merchandise.
During live performances of "Living Next Door to Alice" by New World, after the titular line the audience would often reply "Alice? Who the fuck is Alice!?" When British band Smokie covered the song, they also made a parody version featuring comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown shouting the aforementioned line at the appropriate times in the song.
The title lyric of *NSYNC's song "It's Gonna Be Me" sounds like "It's gonna be May", and so memes surrounding the song became popular at the end of every April. On May 1st 2017, Justin Timberlake himself posted on social media: "Hey guys... it's May."
*NSYNC got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and it was presented on... April 30th.
Shortly after the episode of South Park where Randy is revealed to be the real Lorde premiered, a video was posted to Twitter of Lorde herself singing the "I am Lorde, ya ya ya" song that Randy sang in the episode.
When Trans-Siberian Orchestra released their song "Wizards in Winter" (off The Lost Christmas Eve) as a single, the artwork consisted solely of a shot of the house of Carson Williams, the electrical engineer who used the song in a Christmas light display that became a YouTube sensation in Christmas 2005.
Sunstroke Project had one epic sax riff in the song Run Away, written for the 2010 Eurovision contest, that brought them fame from Memetic Mutation (specifically, the Epic Sax Guy meme). The band embraced the fame the meme brought them, and released a song centered around the riff and called it (what else) Epic Sax as an acknowledgement in 2011.
One of Prince's later singles, "Breakfast Can Wait", featured not Prince on the cover, but rather Dave Chappelle impersonating him from the famous "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" sketch.
After the Mannequin Challenge, where people stay still in one position as Rae Sremmurd's "Black Beatles" plays in the background, took off, Rae Sremmurd themselves filmed one during their concert, and later an actual Beatle (Paul McCartney) took part.
"Charlie on the MTA" was a mayoral campaign song written for Boston's Progressive Party candidate Walter A. O'Brien in the 1949 race. It tells an absurd tale of a man named Charlie trapped on Boston's subway system because he doesn't have the required nickel to pay the exit fare. The song has become so entrenched in Boston lore that the MBTA calls its electronic card-based fare collection system the CharlieCard.
Sabaton's "The Last Stand" is about the Swiss Guard's Last Stand during the 1527 sack of Rome, but a meme developed that it was really about the Crusades. In a nod to this, the Sabaton History video for the song opens with an extended gag about the Crusades from bassist and co-founder Pär Sundström.
The lyrics of KMFDM's "Kunst" include the fan backronym "Kill Motherfucking Depeche Mode".
Alanis Morissette's dubious definition of irony in her song "Ironic" was discussed in the Jukebox Musical based on her songs, Jagged Little Pill, where one of the characters presents a short story with similar themes to her class, only to be told that the things discussed in the story aren't really ironic, just bad things that happen to people.
Cypis acknowledged the "Polish Cow" meme of his song "Gdzie jest biały węgorz?" by using the gif as the video for the remix.
In 2021, Eminem opened up a spaghetti restaurant in Detroit called "Mom's Spaghetti" after the infamous lyrics of his song "Lose Yourself" and was even personally present during the grand opening where he handed out food through the serving window as well as Flipping the Bird to anyone else nearby.
K-pop group Mamamoo’s fans jokingly used to bring actual radishes and radish-themed masks to the group’s performances, because their name (무무, Moo Moo) means Radish Radish in Korean. Try to guess what their official lightstick ended up looking like.
Walker Hayes' "Fancy Like", which is about Applebee's, plays as part of the music loop at Applebee's restaurants.
Mariah Carey is very aware of her (and specifically her song "All I Want for Christmas is You") status as the harbinger of the Christmas season as soon as Halloween ends. When November 1 comes around, she posts a skit to social media where she announces "It's time". In 2023 specifically, the skit referenced the popular myth that she is supposedly "defrosted" from a cryogenic chamber every holiday season by having her be defrosted from a large ice block by people in Halloween costumes.
(but use the remix of course, not the slower original song). They also made the Japanese mondegreens into the official Japanese version