History ShoutOut / Music

** An admittedly incomplete list of the cultural references in "One Week", in lyrical order: ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, the Canadian restaurant chain Swiss Chalet, Music/BustaRhymes, Music/LeAnnRimes, Bert Kaempfert, ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'', the song "Scenario" by Music/ATribeCalledQuest (and also the late-1990s [=H5N1-=] avian flu epidemic in China that spread to humans), ''Series/TheXFiles'', Creator/HarrisonFord, ''Film/{{Frantic}}'', Music/{{Sting}}, Snickers candy bars, Creator/AkiraKurosawa, ''Anime/SailorMoon'', Birchmount Stadium (an obscure Toronto sports venue), and "The Robbie" (a major youth soccer tournament hosted by said stadium).

** An admittedly incomplete list of the cultural references in "One Week", in lyrical order: ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, the Canadian restaurant chain Swiss Chalet, Music/BustaRhymes, Music/LeAnnRimes, Bert Kaempfert, ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'', the song "Scenario" by Music/ATribeCalled Quest (and also the late-1990s [=H5N1-=] avian flu epidemic in China that spread to humans), ''Series/TheXFiles'', Creator/HarrisonFord, ''Film/{{Frantic}}'', Music/{{Sting}}, Snickers candy bars, Creator/AkiraKurosawa, ''Anime/SailorMoon'', Birchmount Stadium (an obscure Toronto sports venue), and "The Robbie" (a major youth soccer tournament hosted by said stadium).

* Music/AliciaKeys' "Girl on Fire" has "She's a lonely girl, and it's a lonely world" (Eddie Holman) and "She gonna let it burn, baby, burn" (The Trammps). Earl Shuman, the writer of the former song, sued Keys for plagiarism.

** Among other things, ''Series/TheXFiles'', ''Anime/SailorMoon'', Creator/AkiraKurosawa, Snickers candy bars, [[Music/ThePolice Sting]], and Music/LeAnnRimes are all referenced in "One Week".

** “Sheena Is A Parasite”, which is a ShoutOut to the Music/{{Ramones}} and their song “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker”. This makes more sense when you realize that the song is actually a short, brutally told history of punk rock.

* Music/JasonAldean's 2013 single "1994" repeatedly name-drops 1990s country hitmaker Music/JoeDiffie and several of his song titles.

* Music/JohnWilliams' theme to ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' plays "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' quite clearly at one point. The tune is played as a message to the aliens at the end of the film.

* Music/KenAshcorp's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6xRSafBV8o 20% Cooler]]" is basically one big reference to ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', as obvious by the title coming from a memetic line stated by Rainbow Dash. It shout-outs to the cartoon many times.

* Music/LilWayne's "10,000 Bars" references ''Film/AustinPowers'', Big Daddy Kane, Music/BigPun, Bill Gates, Corona beer, Creator/DiscoveryChannel, Ferrari, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers, Mase, Maybach, UsefulNotes/McDonalds, Mercedes-Benz, Nelly, Music/TheNotoriousBIG, ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor|1996}}'', Music/TheProdigy, "Smack My Bitch Up", Range Rover, Music/TupacShakur, ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'', and ''Franchise/XMen''.

* The Finnish metal band Music/{{Lordi}} has the song "Bringing Back The Balls To Rock", which contains numerous references to Eighties rock, and one single's cover art is Music/{{KISS}}'s ''Creatures of the Night'' cover, but with them instead.

* Music/LynyrdSkynrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" has a chorus devoted to singer Neil Young, and how they felt he had insulted the state of Alabama:

* Darryl [=McDaniels=], one third of Music/RunDmc, started his own line of comic books, [[https://www.somosarte.com/darryl-makes-comics Darryl Makes Comics]].

* Music/MichaelKamen's score for ''Film/DieHard2'' quotes Mrs. Gulch's theme from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' for the moment when [=McClane=] uses a bicycle to take out a bad guy!

* Pharrell Williams' rock band side project is called N.E.R.D., and their symbol is the [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan salute]].
* Randy Newman's "Kathleen" quotes the 1958 Italian pop hit "Nel blu dipinto di blu," better known in the English-speaking world by the title used for Music/DeanMartin's TranslatedCoverVersion: "Volare"

* The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Juicy" references the battle between the UsefulNotes/{{Super Nintendo|EntertainmentSystem}} and UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis in the UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars, often given a Shout Out:

And [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Cobain]] can you hear [[Music/FooFighters the Spheres]] \\

** Incidentally, [=McDonald's=] used the music from "Life Is a Rock" for their "Menu Song" in the late 80s. (Mmm, [=McDLT=].)

* The end of Music/{{Rush}}'s "The Spirit Of Radio" has a spoof of the last line of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "The Sound Of Silence".
* RZA's "And Justice For All" references Ghostface Killah, "Can It Be All So Simple", ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', ''Comicbook/GhostRider'', ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight'', Julius Erving, ''Series/{{Mash}}'', ''Series/{{Roots|1977}}'', and ''Series/TrapperJohnMD.''

->Which is a shout out, of course, to the movie, ''Film/AStreetcarNamedDesire''.

** "Heart Songs" is essentially a ListSong of Rivers' musical influences over the years, organized chronologically from the 1970s (starting with Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald) to 1991 (a full verse about how hearing ''{{Music/Nevermind|Album}}'' inspired him to start Weezer itself).

** And, of course, "Pork and Beans" -- while the song itself is mostly {{Take That}}s to the mainstream (Timbaland is even mentioned by name), the video is ''filled'' with {{Shout Out}}s to [[MemeticMutation YouTube memes]], with a lot of Internet celebrities personally appearing in original footage.

** "Heart Songs" is essentially a ListSong of Rivers' musical influences over the years, organized chronologically from the 1970s (starting with Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald) to 1991 (a full verse about how hearing ''{{Music/Nevermind}}'' inspired him to start Weezer itself).

* HeavyMetal band Zimmers Hole album title ''When You Were Shouting At The Devil... We Were In League With Satan'' combines two somewhat contrasting 1980s heavy metal references - Music/MotleyCrue's song and album ''Shout At The Devil'' and {{Music/Venom}}'s song "In League With Satan". It supposedly came out of a band member overhearing an argument about who was "more metal" and turned into a band in-joke; Since Venom are considered more "underground" than Motley Crue, the title translates to "when you were a poseur, I was the real deal".

** “Sheena Is A Parasite”, which is a ShoutOut to the Music/{{Ramones}} and their song “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker”. This makes more sense when you realize that the song is actually a short, brutally told history of punk rock.

* Music/{{U2}}'s "Staring At The Sun" included the line "Stuck together with God's glue", which is a reference to an album of the same name by Something Happens.

** "Heart Songs" is essentially an earnest {{Narm}} filled ListSong of Rivers Cuomo's musical influences (the fact that one of these is [[MemeticMutation 'Never Gonna Give You Up']] doesn't help).

** "Chun-Li" has her rapping about how she, like the titular ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' character, is the most [[BadassBoast powerful female character]] in her "game." The song also contains references to [[ComicBook/XMen Storm]], [[VideoGame/TombRaider Lara Croft]], Franchise/KingKong, and UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan.

* The 69 Eyes' "Wasting the Dawn" is a tribute to [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]] and naturally includes some lyrical references to Music/TheDoors lyrics and details about his life: The title is a reference to The Doors' "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", which includes the lyric "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn". The song also addresses Morrison as a "little bird of prey" and "the lizard", references to "Bird of Prey" and "Not to Touch The Earth" [[note]]"I am the lizard king, I can do anything"[[/note]]. The lines "Forgetting the night, darkest July, Paris '71" refer to the time and place Jim Morrison died. Finally, the music video includes scenes of [[{{Music/HIM}} Vile Valo]] dressed as Jim and possibly portraying his ghost.

* The Far East Movement song "Rocketeer" features references to ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' ("Where we go, we don't need roads") and ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' ("we're on to next level, Super Mario").

* The Music/{{Air|Band}} instrumental "Mike Mills" is named after the director responsible for many of their music videos (not to be confused with the Music/{{REM}} bassist [[NamesTheSame of the same name]]).

** "Idiot Box!" includes references to Casper the Friendly Ghost, WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo, Mr. Magoo, MickeyMouse, and and an off-hand allusion to Marc Antony's monologue in ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar''.

* Numerous shout outs in Music/DoctorSteel's body of work. His song "The Dr. Steel Show" mentions and contains the tune of "[[Theatre/SouthPacific Bali Ha'i]]", referencing his secret island base. It also contains part of the tune of ''Series/HRPufnstuf'' (which also takes place on a mystical island). ''Spaceboy'' samples ''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra''. The end of his song, ''Lullabye-bye'', contains the beginning of the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This". The opening lines of his song, ''Ode to Revenge'', are a very twisted version of Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy". The song "Series/LandOfTheLost", itself an {{Homage}} to the Sid and Marty Krofft show, has a literal shout out, with a sample of Creator/RitaMoreno's "HEY YOU GUYS!" from ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971''.

* "Thin Line" by Dag Nasty ends with 30 straight seconds of the repeated lyric "I trusted you!". While still making sense in the context of the rest of lyrics, it also seems to be a nod to an Creator/AndyKaufman bit: Andy once appeared on variety show ''The Midnight Special'' and performed [[OverlyLongGag a deliberately repetitive three-minute song]] where the only lyric was "I trusted you!"

* {{Music/Ashnikko}}'s "Slumber Party" has the lyric "my girl look like [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Wednesday Addams]]". Meanwhile Princess Nokia's verse on the same song is themed around early 2000s pop culture references - in order: [[{{Music/Nelly}} "Hot In Herre"]], [[Music/BritneySpears "I'm A Slave 4 U"]], ''Film/BringItOn'' [[note]]even calling herself a "Clover" and Ashnikko a "Toros", as in the competing cheerleader squads in the movie[[/note]], and "Dip It Low" by Christina Milian [[note]]who was in a ''Bring It On'' movie, albeit one of the later direct to video sequels[[/note]].

* Music/PhoebeBridgers' album ''Stranger In The Alps'' is named after an infamous {{Bowdlerise}}d version of ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' - in the TV edit of the film, the line "do you see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?" is dubbed over as "Do you what happens when you find a stranger in the alps?!". Phoebe decided the censored line would make a good album title because she found it "kind of poetic on accident".

* Music/PhoebeBridger's album ''Stranger In The Alps'' is named after an infamous {{Bowdlerise}}d version of ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' - in the TV edit of the film, the line "do you see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?" is dubbed over as "Do you what happens when you find a stranger in the alps?!". Phoebe decided the censored line would make a good album title because she found it "kind of poetic on accident".

** In "We Opened For {{Music/Weezer}}", they fondly reminisce about their first time touring, which was as a support act for Weezer in 1997. The members of Weezer themselves get mentioned, as do "fifth member" and band archivist Karl Koch, and originally fan club founders Mykel and Carli Allan. Specific Weezer songs are mentioned ("Say It Ain't So" and "Butterfly"), and a verse deals with the fact that ''{{Music/Pinkerton}}'', the album Weezer were supporting at the time, was being trashed by critics but would later be VindicatedByHistory.
Even the music is arranged InTheStyleOf early Weezer. ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' also gets a mention in the song, since Nerf Herder performed the series opening theme, and the tour in question occurred right around the same time the first season of the show was airing. Finally, there's kind of a combination shout out and self-reference when the backing vocals start quoting "Jump" by Music/VanHalen - Nerf Herder's first hit single was titled "Van Halen" with lyrics about the band that also quoted "Jump".

** In "We Opened For {{Music/Weezer}}", they fondly reminisce about their first time touring, which was as a support act for Weezer in 1997. The members of Weezer themselves get mentioned, as do "fifth member" and band archivist Karl Koch, and originally fan club founders Mykel and Carli Allan. Even the music is arranged InTheStyleOf early Weezer. ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' also gets a mention in the song, since Nerf Herder performed the series opening theme, and the tour in question occurred right around the same time the first season of the show was airing.

** The Music/{{Air|Band}} instrumental "Mike Mills" is named after the director responsible for many of their music videos (not to be confused with the Music/{{REM}} bassist of the same name).

* Music/DoesItOffendYouYeah are named after a line spoken by David Brent in ''Series/TheOfficeUK'' - the full context of the line is "My drinking, does it offend you, yeah?". Also something of a LineOfSightName - they decided they'd name their band after the first thing they heard when they turned on the television, and that scene from the show happened to be what was playing.

** "Hurley" is named as a shout out to former Music/{{Minutemen}} drummer George Hurley: [[NonAppearingTitle He's not actually mentioned anywhere in the lyrics]], but the song samples the drum beat from "It's Expected I'm Gone".

* Music/DoesItOffendYouYeah are named after a line spoken by David Brent in ''Series/TheOfficeUK''. Also something of a LineOfSightName - they decided they'd name their band after the first thing they heard when they turned on the television, and that scene from the show happened to be what was playing.

* The 69 Eyes' "Wasting the Dawn" is a tribute to [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]] and naturally includes some lyrical references to Music/TheDoors lyrics and details about his life: The title is a reference to The Doors' "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", which includes the lyric "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn". The song also addresses Morrison as a "little bird of prey" and "the lizard", references to "Bird of Prey" and "Not to Touch The Earth". The line "Forgetting the night, darkest July, Paris '71" refer to the time and place Jim Morrison died. Finally, the music video includes scenes of [[{{Music/HIM}} Vile Valo]] dressed as Jim.