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** Another example involving that particular lineup was when Keisha was interviewed for a TV show. The continuity announcer said that Keisha left in 2005, when it was actually ''Mutya'' who left in 2005. Keisha left in 2009.

** [[invoked]] A broadcast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade identified ''Snoopy'' as "Snoop Doggy Dogg". [[IncrediblyLamePun Figure that one out]].

** The current edition of ''Top Pop Singles'' has a few major errors.

* In 2016, news outlets pointed out [[https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2016/10/8/13201472/kelly-rowland-2002-excel-text a glaring flaw]] in the music video for the Music/{{Nelly}} song "Dilemma" where Kelly Rowland is shown "texting" Nelly on her Creator/{{Nokia}} 9210 using what said outlets mistook for Microsoft Excel; an ex-UsefulNotes/{{Symbian}} developer who once worked on the operating system [[https://www.androidauthority.com/newsletters/da-november-4-2021/ pointed out]] that Rowland actually used the built-in Sheet app to "text" Nelly, and it wouldn't be until 2012 when Microsoft Office finally received a port to Symbian.

* On their début tour, British pop group Music/TakeThatBand performed a Creator/{{Motown}} medley: [[Music/TheTemptations "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)"]], [[Music/TheTemptations "My Girl"]], [[Music/FourTops "Reach Out (I'll Be There)"]], [[Music/TheTemptations "Get Ready"]], [[Music/TheTemptations "Treat Her Like a Lady"]], and [[Music/JamesBrown "I Got You (I Feel Good)"]]. All of these tracks are by Motown artists, except the last one, which was not released on Motown, but King.

* On their début tour, British pop group Music/TakeThatBand performed a Creator/{{Motown}} medley: [[Music/TheTemptations "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)"]], [[Music/TheTemptations "My Girl"]], [[Music/FourTops "Reach Out (I'll Be There)"]], [[Music/TheTemptations "Get Ready"]], [[Music/TheTemptations Treat Her Like a Lady"]], and [[Music/JamesBrown "I Got You (I Feel Good)"]]. All of these tracks are by Motown artists, except the last one, which was not released on Motown, but King.

* On their début tour, British pop group Music/TakeThatBand performed a Creator/{{Motown}} medley: [[Music/TheTemptations "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)"]], [[Music/TheTemptations "My Girl"]], [[Music/FourTops "Reach Out (I'll Be There)"]], [[Music/TheTemptations "Get Ready"]], [[Music/TheTemptations" Treat Her Like a Lady"]], and [[Music/JamesBrown "I Got You (I Feel Good)"]]. All of these tracks are by Motown artists, except the last one, which was not released on Motown, but King.

* During the controversy over Hasbro's plans to sell a series of Music/PussycatDolls dolls, the [[MoralGuardians watchdog group]] who started the campaign against them [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120312054104/http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/pressreleases/pussycatdolls.htm claimed in a press release]] that "Don't Cha" "alludes to group sex". Several media outlets picked up on this and made it sound like the song ''itself'' was about group sex. This all came as a surprise to people who'd actually heard the song, which is about a woman trying to make a man jealous. As near as anyone can figure, the supposed allusion is an extremely tortured interpretation of the line "I know she ain't gon' wanna share."

** And while Manilow did indeed work as a jingle writer for commercials back in the early [[TheSeventies seventies]] (he wrote the "Like A Good Neighbor" jingle for State Farm Insurance, among others, and is the TropeMaker for StuckOnBandAidBrand), he is adamant about the fact that he ''absolutely did not'' write the famous "You Deserve A Break Today" [=McDonald's=] commercial; he only sang the vocal on it. Journalists who failed to research are constantly claiming otherwise.

* One [[TheSixties sixties]] compilation [=CD=] had a track which was claimed to be "Morning Starshine" by "Oliver Good". It was actually "[[{{Theatre/Hair}} Good Morning Starshine]]" by Oliver.

** Also, among the musicians the song name-checks are Music/BruceSpringsteen (''Music/BornInTheUSA'' was released the year before, though it was still pretty huge in '85), Music/{{Blondie}} (who had broken up in 1982 and wouldn't reunite until 1997) and that it was "way before Music/{{Nirvana}}" (if by "way before" you mean "4 years before [[Music/BleachAlbum their first album]], 2 before they actually got started").

* Music/JeanMichelJarre's big classic albums ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' (1976) and ''Équinoxe'' (1978) keep being associated with the most famous synthesizer brand ever, Moog. In fact, however, Jarre neither owned nor used a Moog until [[TheEighties the mid-1980s]] when they weren't even made anymore. Otherwise, he preferred Moog's biggest competitor, ARP, and the English brand EMS. This isn't even insider information: Most Jarre albums, including these two, have a list of the instruments used in their production in the booklet or even on the back of the cover.

* When the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bro-country bro-country]]" trend of TheNewTens, codified by Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine's "Cruise", began to infiltrate CountryMusic, this trope came up a few times. Even though "bro-country" is an informal and loosely defined derogatory name for a specific type of country music, it is characterized by shallow sexualized lyrics about women and partying, and heavy influences of rock and hip-hop. For some reason, many critics called "Redneck Crazy" by Tyler Farr a "bro-country" song -- even though that one is a downbeat, moody ballad about stalking an ex-lover, with absolutely no themes of partying or sexuality, and no rock or hip-hop influences whatsoever. Most likely, people just saw the words "truck", "beer", and "redneck" in the lyrics, and just assumed that the song ''had'' to be a jacked-up party anthem. Even "Girl in a Country Song" by Music/MaddieAndTae, a song which lampooned the bro-country influx, referenced "Redneck Crazy" in its lyrics.

** Not to mention [[SpellMyNameWithAnS misspellings of his second name]] like "Michael" or "[[GenderBlenderName Michelle]]". Can't people read what's written on record covers anymore?

* At the 93rd Academy Awards, a recurring theme was 80's songs that got nominated for Best Original Song playing during both the preshow and the actual ceremony itself. These included [[Film/NineToFive "9 To 5"]], [[Film/{{Rocky}} "Eye Of The Tiger"]], [[Film/{{Mannequin}} "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"]] and [[Film/TheBreakfastClub "Don't You (Forget About Me)"]]...[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers except that the last song was never nominated for an Academy Award]], making it an odd pick.

* A 2011 Yahoo News article that was meant to be about Creator/ZooeyDeschanel divorcing Music/DeathCabForCutie vocalist Ben Gibbard got bizarrely mangled somewhere down the line, reading as though Deschanel left someone with the improbably cool name of Death Cab and started dating Gibbard, who sings for a band called Cutie. This was most likely an editor misinterpreting the AmbiguousSyntax of the headline, "Zooey Deschanel divorces Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard". The article was corrected, but not before numerous other publications mocked the slip-up and quoted it as originally published.

** Even Music/Prince has been labeled "hip-hop" or "rap" by some labels. Prince was definitely in the pop-rock genre, though in all fairness he did incorporate other urban styles.

* The Scholastic book ''Rock Star Drummer'' claims that Music/PinkFloyd's "Money" has a 5/4 time signature, when it is actually has a 7/4 time signature.

* In 2006, a number of Music/NinaSimone songs were remixed. One of these was "[[{{Theatre/Hair}} Ain’t Got No, I Got Life]]". For reasons unknown, this track is referred to as "Ain’t Got No - I Got No Life" on [=iTunes=] This is despite the single it came from, as well as the album, using the correct name.