History SelfDeprecation / Music

* Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}'s song "Élan" has the line [[IndecipherableLyrics "Write a lyric to the song only you can understand."]]

* The music video for {{Music/Justice}}'s "Stress" follows a teenage gang wreaking havoc on the streets of Paris, but has a brief moment of comic relief at the expense of a previous single: As the gang steals a car and piles in, the radio turns on and the soundtrack suddenly changes from "Stress" itself to "D.A.N.C.E." (also by Justice) - as soon as the latter song starts, one of the gang members starts violently kicking at the car radio receiver until it comes loose, at which point he chucks it out of the window.

* Music/{{Oasis}} began selling 'Quoasis' t-shirts when [[InsultBackfire their rivals Blur compared them to Status Quo]].

* The music video for {{Music/Justice}}'s "Stress" follows a teenage gang wreaking havoc on the streets of Paris, but has a brief moment of comic relief at the expense of a previous single: As the gang hot-wires a car and piles in, the radio turns on and the soundtrack suddenly changes from "Stress" itself to "D.A.N.C.E." (also by Justice) - as soon as the latter song starts, one of the gang members starts violently kicking at the car radio receiver until it comes loose, at which point he chucks it out of the window.

* It doesn't take long to find a Website/{{Twitter}} post by pop star / ex-''Series/HannahMontana'' actress Creator/EmilyOsment that doesn't poke fun at her 5'2'' frame (her profile, at one point during December 2012, contained the description "2 foot 38 inches. Dorm life."), indie-rock-leaning tastes in music (she's fond of ironically referencing to "hipsters") or her love of [[PandaingToTheAudience panda bears]] (her fans label her as a "Panda Queen").

-->Their Greatest Hits ([[OneHotWonder There's only one!]])

* In the song "Torturing James Hetfield" by Music/{{Chumbawamba}} [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin tortures James Hetfield]] by playing him their own music[[note]] playing on the use of Music/{{Metallica}} songs to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Hetfield's approval after learning this[[/note]].

-->Their Greatest Hits (There's only one!)

* Likewise, Music/{{Oasis}} began selling 'Quoasis' t-shirts when [[InsultBackfire their rivals Blur compared them to Status Quo]].
* Music/{{Primus}} Sucks. [[DontExplaintheJoke By which I mean they're awesome.]]

* Music/ToadTheWetSprocket [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKAVrcJ2IbA&feature=related is the ultimate cure for insomnia!]]

* Local H's "All The Kids Are Right" is mostly about how fickle music fans can be, but the main example of this involves the band themselves playing an incredibly lousy live set one night:
-->You heard that we were great
-->But now you know we're lame
-->Since you saw the show last night
-->You hoped that we would rock
-->You wished that we'd just stop
-->And finally we said "good night"
-->When we had returned for the encore
-->You and half the room had headed for the door
-->No one wanted more

* Music/{{Magazine}}'s Howard Devoto is humorously aware of his own less-than-imposing Music/NewWave {{Nerd}} image. "A Song From Under the Floorboards" makes this clear in a way that may be considered SelfParody:

* A listener wrote in to Warner Brothers Records to complain about Music/MrBungle, concluding that they wanted their money back after purchasing their debut album - Mr. Bungle had the full letter printed on the back of a t-shirt they were selling on tour.

* Music/BlocParty's vocalist has said that he wrote "Helicopter" as a jab at himself. He's not nearly as much of a SmallNameBigEgo as the song makes him sound.

* Music/{{Nightwish}}'s song "Élan" has the line [[IndecipherableLyrics "Write a lyric to the song only you can understand."]]

* Punk band NOFX titled their 1995 live album ''I Heard They Suck Live!!''. Their second live album. from 2007, was titled ''They've Actually Gotten Worse Live!''. They also have a rarities album titled ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records]]''.

* Other rock stars brag about the size of their respective members, but not Mark [=McGrath=] of Music/SugarRay. He brags about his smallness and is reportedly the least endowed man in the business.

* Ex-Music/{{Supertramp}} singer Roger Hodgson reportedly asked his son Andrew (who was in his backing band in the mid-[[TheNineties 1990s]] what a stereotypical Hodgson lyric would be, and then wrote a song with that phrase as the title. The song, "Don't You Want To Get High?", was released on Hodgson's live 1997 ''Rites Of Passage'' album.

* It doesn't take long to find a Website/{{Twitter}} post by pop star / ex-''Series/HannahMontana'' actress Creator/EmilyOsment that doesn't poke fun at her 5'2'' frame (her profile contains the description "2 foot 38 inches. Dorm life." as of December 2012), indie-rock-leaning tastes in music (she's fond of ironically referencing to "hipsters") or her love of [[PandaingToTheAudience panda bears]] (her fans label her as a "Panda Queen").