For Name-Check Week, I'll be covering artists who mentioned other bands/singers in their lyrics, also known in some social circles as "name-checking"...
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This song is the penultimate name-check song, so much so that Wikipedia even has a detailed references list that I will post below:
"Detailed references:
- Whitesnake and the music video for the 1987 version of 'Here I Go Again' that featured Tawny Kitaen dancing on cars
- Wondering who is the lead singer of Van Halen (Bowling for Soup version only), referencing Sammy Hagar's replacement of David Lee Roth
- Questioning when Mötley Crüe has become classic rock, referencing the recent addition of glam metal bands to classic rock stations to be played alongside staples like the Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
- A time when sitcoms and game shows were popular and reality shows were nonexistent (Bowling for Soup version only).
- A reference to '...on the radio,' which resembles the timbre of the voice singing the verses in The Buggles' 'Video Killed the Radio Star,' the first video ever played on MTV when it debuted in 1981 (Bowling for Soup version only).
- A time when music videos were still shown on MTV (MTV has been criticized for a lack of music videos since the sudden popularity of their reality show The Real World in 1992).
- Ozzy Osbourne, before he was an actor (Bowling for Soup version only)
- When Madonna and Bruce Springsteen were popular, long before Nirvana popularized grunge in the early 1990s.
- They mentioned Duran Duran (Bowling for Soup version only), U2, and Blondie.
- References made to The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire (Bowling for Soup version only) and Fast Times At Ridgemont High (SR-71 version only). However, Pretty in Pink is an anachronism, as it was not released until 1986. With the exception of Fast Times At Ridgemont High, all the movies were part of the 'Brat Pack.'
- The line 'She rocked out to Wham!, not a big Limp Bizkit fan' is a reference to Wham! being popular long before Limp Bizkit started playing Nu Metal in 1995. (Limp Bizkit remade Wham! singer's George Michael's 'Faith')
- The mention of a miniskirt made out of snakeskin (Bowling for Soup version only)"
If you are wondering what they mean by "Bowling For Soup version only", apparently this is a cover/re-make of an original song by a band called SR-71. Since I know that I'll eventually dedicate a week to Madonna, Nirvana, U2, Blondie, and Duran Duran, and since I already covered some Wham!, I suppose that only leaves me with Whitesnake and Bruce Springsteen to post for you today; so I will include "Here I Go Again" as well as "Dancing in the Dark" and "Born to Run"...
Woohoohoo
Woohoohoo
Debbie just hit the wall
She never had it all
One Prozac a day
Husband's a CPA
Her dreams went out the door
When she turned twenty-four
Only been with one man
What happened to her plan?
She was gonna be an actress
She was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass
On the hood of Whitesnake’s car
Her yellow SUV is now the enemy
Looks at her average life
And nothing has been alright since
Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
Woohoohoo
(1985)
Woohoohoo
She’s seen all the classics
She knows every line
Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink
Even Saint Elmo’s Fire
She rocked out to Wham
Not a big Limp Bizkit fan
Thought she’d get a hand
On a member of Duran Duran
Where’s the mini-skirt made of snake skin
And who’s the other guy that's singing in Van Halen
When did reality become T.V.
Whatever happened to sitcoms, game shows
(on the radio was)
Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
Woohoohoo
She hates time make it stop
When did Motley Crue become classic rock?
And when did Ozzy become an actor?
Please make this stop
Stop!
And bring back
Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 1985
Woohoohoo
Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV (woohoohoo)
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
Woohoohoo
Debbie just hit the wall
She never had it all
One Prozac a day
Husband's a CPA
Her dreams went out the door
When she turned twenty-four
Only been with one man
What happened to her plan?
She was gonna be an actress
She was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass
On the hood of Whitesnake’s car
Her yellow SUV is now the enemy
Looks at her average life
And nothing has been alright since
Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
Woohoohoo
(1985)
Woohoohoo
She’s seen all the classics
She knows every line
Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink
Even Saint Elmo’s Fire
She rocked out to Wham
Not a big Limp Bizkit fan
Thought she’d get a hand
On a member of Duran Duran
Where’s the mini-skirt made of snake skin
And who’s the other guy that's singing in Van Halen
When did reality become T.V.
Whatever happened to sitcoms, game shows
(on the radio was)
Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
Woohoohoo
She hates time make it stop
When did Motley Crue become classic rock?
And when did Ozzy become an actor?
Please make this stop
Stop!
And bring back
Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 1985
Woohoohoo
Bruce Springsteen, Madonna
Way before Nirvana
There was U2 and Blondie
And music still on MTV (woohoohoo)
Her two kids in high school
They tell her that she’s uncool
Cause she's still preoccupied
With 19, 19, 1985
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