You're likely to find a lot of tropes on this website that get their names from popular songs, even if the songs themselves don't use them.
- ABBA
- Dancing Royaltynote
- Aerosmith
- Dude Looks Like a Lady
- Elevator Going Down (from "Love In An Elevator")
- Amboy Dukes
- Ankie Bagger
- Baltimora
- Bobby Bare
- Beastie Boys
- Fight Fur Your Right to Party (from "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)")
- The Beatles
- Abbey Road Crossing
- Bigger Than Jesus
- Borrowing the Beatles
- Day in the Life
- Kaleidoscope Eyes (from "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds")
- Magical Mystery Doors
- The Pete Best
- Sgt. Pepper's Shout-Out
- The Walrus Was Paul (from "Glass Onion")
- Yoko Oh No
- The Bee Gees
- Knight Fever (from "Night Fever")
- Staying Alive
- "Staying Alive" Dance Pose (cross-reference with the film Saturday Night Fever)
- Irving Berlin
- Dreaming of a White Christmas (from "White Christmas")
- Garth Brooks
- Calling the Old Man Out (from "The Night I Called The Old Man Out")
- James Brown
- Take It to the Bridge (from "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine")
- Buckner & Garcia
- Pac Man Fever (cross-referencing Pac-Man)
- Jimmy Buffett
- A Pirate 400 Years Too Late (paraphrased from "A Pirate Looks at Forty")
- The B-52s
- Glove Slap ("Love Shack" parody performed on The Simpsons)
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- Harry Chapin
- When You Coming Home, Dad? (from "Cat's in the Cradle")
- Cherrelle
- The Clash
- A Nuclear Error (from "London Calling")
- Wayne Cochran
- Sam Cooke
- Working on the Chain Gang (from "Chain Gang")
- The Crickets
- I Fought the Law and the Law Won (from "I Fought the Law")
- Cutting Crew
- Taylor Dayne
- Divinyls
- This Index Touches Itself (from "I Touch Myself")
- Carl Douglas
- Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting (from "Kung Fu Fighting")
- Ian Dury
- Bob Dylan
- Everybody Must Get Stoned (from "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35")
- Knocking on Heathens' Door (from "Knockin' On Heaven's Door")
- The Firm
- We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill (from "Star Trekkin'")
- Five Man Electrical Band
- Can't You Read the Sign? (from "Signs")
- John Fogerty
- Put Me In, Coach! (from "Centerfield")
- Stephen Foster
- The Four Lads
- The Gershwins
- Yoshiki Hayashi
- Visual Kei (from the X Japan band concept of "Crime of Visual Shock," he was also the first to define the style he had a large position in originating as "Visual Kei.")
- Michael Jackson
- Earth Song
- The Man in the Mirror Talks Back (The name is derived from his "The Man In The Mirror".)
- Michael Jackson's Thriller Parody
- Moonwalk Dance
- Antônio Carlos Jobim
- The Elevator from Ipanema (from "The Girl From Ipanema")
- Billy Joel
- Just the Way You Are
- Uptown Girl
- We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies (from "We Didn't Start the Fire")
- We Didn't Start the Führer (also from "We Didn't Start the Fire")
- Elton John
- This Is Your Song (from "Your Song")
- John Lennon
- Imagine All the Tropes (from "Imagine")
- Working-Class Hero
- MC Hammer
- E = MC Hammer (combined with Albert Einstein's equation for mass-energy equivalence).
- Harry S. Miller
- Alanis Morissette
- Isn't It Ironic? (from "Ironic")
- Napalm Death
- Grindcore note
- Nelly
- Getting Hot in Here (from "Hot in Herre")
- Nine Days
- Queen
- Bohemian Parody
- Thunderbolts and Lightning (from "Bohemian Rhapsody")
- Rammstein
- Americans Love Rammstein (German equivalent of Germans Love David Hasselhoff)
- Music to Invade Poland to
- Kenny Rogers
- Know When to Fold 'Em (from "The Gambler")
- The Romantics
- Shakira
- Oral Fixationnote
- Nancy Sinatra
- These Tropes Are Made for Walking (from "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'")
- Slayer
- Hates Everyone Equally (which is part of the lyrics to "Disciple")
- Johnny Smith
- Walk, Don't Swim (Named for his oft-covered hit "Walk, Don't Run".)
- Space
- The Walls Are Closing In (from "There's No You")
- Survivor (Band)
- Trade Your Passion for Glory (from "Eye of the Tiger")
- George Thorogood
- Justin Timberlake
- Wardrobe Malfunction (used this term in his written apology after the infamous 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime performance in which he exposed Janet Jackson's bare breast)
- Tommy Tutone
- Jenny's Number (from "867-5309/Jenny")
- The Turtles
- So Happy Together (from "Happy Together")
- U2
- Three Chords and the Truth (via their cover of the Bob Dylan song "All Along the Watchtower")
- Van Halen
- Hot for Preacher (given Hot for Teacher is now a redirect)
- Right Now Montage
- The Weather Girls
- The Who
- Going Mobile (from Who's Next)
- Magic Bus
- Meet the New Boss (from "Won't Get Fooled Again")
- Power Pop (coined by Pete Townshend in an interview)
- Teenage Wasteland (from "Baba O'Riley")
- The Winstons
- "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Drives Like Crazy (from "She Drives Like Crazy"; changed to be gender neutral)
- Frank's 2000 Inch TV
- Indexed and Nerdy (from "White and Nerdy")
- Like a Surgeon
- I Call Him "Mister Happy" (Shared with Firefly)
Other:
- Anonymous
- National Anthems
- God Save Us from the Queen! (the trope's context may cross this over with the song by Sex Pistols)
- Those Who've Come Across The Seas (from the little-known, even in Australia, second verse of Australia's national anthem)
- Other Patriotic Songs
- My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting (from an American patriotic song sung to the tune of "God Save the Queen".
