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33 Pop-Music Facts Now Spinning in Our Brains

By:: Brian C. Miller; Cracked Writers

September 08, 2023

33 Pop-Music Facts Now Spinning in Our Brains

Is there anything more annoying than getting a little bit of a song stuck in your head? It’s usually not the whole thing in its entirety, just a couple of bars or lyrics, the chorus or the bridge. Sometimes it’s not even a song that you like, just an irresistible earworm that you find yourself humming in the shower or in your car — and you’re just stuck with it living inside of your brain until it decides to pass.

Still, as annoying as it can be, isn’t there something magical about pop music’s ability to do this? Is there another art form or piece of pop culture that has the ability to just claim squatter’s rights in your gray matter?

Below are a bunch of facts about some of our favorite pop songs. Sorry in advance if find them stuck in your head afterwards…

33 Jethro Tull and Fish Farming

lan Anderson was a fish farmer JETHRO TULL CRACKED.COM At one point in the 90's, he employed 400 people at the salmon farm he ran out of his home. Salmon breeding and rock flute have more in common than you might think: It's not a million miles away from rock and roll. There's a little bit of theatricality about it, too. — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

32 Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon

Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon by Neil Diamond In this 1967 song, Neil Diamond is counting down the days until this girl becomes legal. Keep in mind, he was 26 at the time. I've been misunderstood For all of my life But what they're sayin' Girl, just cuts like a knife The boy's no good. Girl, you'll be a woman soon Please, come take my hand Girl, you'll be a woman soon Soon you'll need a man. 11 8 7 6 16 17 18 19 15 14 24 25 26 GRAGKED.COM 13 23 — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

31 Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj worked at multiple Red Lobsters before she was famous She was fired from multiple locations. She once followed a customer who hadn't tipped and taken her pen out to their car. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

30 Taylor Swift's Christmas Tree Farm

Taylor Swift grew up on Christmas tree farm She spent some of childhood on Pine Ridge Farm in Pennsylvania, which she honors in her Christmas single aptly called Christmas Tree Farm. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

29 It's Raining Men

The Weather Girls It's Raining Men The Weather Girls' It's Raining Men was co-written by actor, producer and long-time musical director for David Letterman, Paul Shaffer. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

28 Poker Face

Poker Face by Lady Gaga The singer revealed the song is surprisingly about her bisexuality. The lyrics are about her hooking up with a man but fantasizing about being with a woman. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

27 Fountains of Wayne: Origins

Fountains of Wayne was named after a lawn ornament store. In Wayne, NJ, there was a store with the name, and the band thought it was amusing. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

26 Dead Flowers

DEAD FLOWERS by the ROLLING STONES, contains the following lyric: Well, you're sitting back, In your rose pink Cadillac, Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day. I'll be in my basement room, With a needle and a spoon, And another girl can take my pain away... That's right. The DEAD FLOWERS referenced in the song are, in fact, Papaver somniferum-- the POPPIES that contains OPIUM, the drug that is processed into HEROIN. (I know what you're thinking: Keith Richards used Heroin!? SAY IT AIN'T SO!) CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

25 You're Beautiful

Think twice before dedicating James Blunt's You're Beautiful to the object of your affection. She smiled at me on the subway, she was with another man. But I won't lose no sleep on that, 'cause I've got a plan. Unless she already knows you're a f@#%& sociopath. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

24 Who Are You?

WHO ARE You IS ABOUT CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS. Who2 013 WHO? K 18912 who? Specifically, it's about Pete Townshend hashing out royalties for The Who's American sales. After 14 hours of negotiations, the execs handed Townshend a check, and he went on the bender described in the song. CRACKED.COM Geoffrey Giuliano, 1996. Behind Blue Eyes: The Life of Pete Townshend. — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

23 Twisted Transistor

Korn's album See You On The Other Side opens with the single Twisted Transistor, which clocks in at about 3 minutes and 9 seconds. However, if you pop the disc into a CD player and hit rewind as soon as the music starts playing, you'll find that there's a secret intro to the song, which adds a whole minute and 3 seconds to Кояп See Your the overall track length. a: The Ollow Side Source: ADVISORY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RLFWhYydqE EXPLICIO CONTENT CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

22 Firework

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21 Thinking Out Loud

Ed Sheeran's childhood friend was financially struggling so he wrote Thinking Out Loud with her The song has since been streamed almost 2 billion times on Spotify and has gone triple platinum in the UK. She never has to worry about money again. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

20 Britney Spears vs Somali Pirates

The British navy used Britney Spears' songs to scare off Somali pirates The navy chose Spears' hit songs Oops! ...I Did It Again and ...Baby One More Time to ward off the pirates because of the pirates' dislike of western culture. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

19 Busta Rhymes & Eminem

Busta Rhymes shattered a windshield when he first heard Eminem PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT Busta Rhymes was on a tour bus when he first listened the Slim Shady LP and was so moved that he smashed his head against the bus' windshield. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

18 Wannabe

Spice Girls' Wannabe is the catchiest pop song A year-long study done in 2014 showed that people recognized the song in an average of 2.3 seconds, compared to 5 seconds for other hit songs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

17 First Aid Kit

First Aid Kit was inspired by the dictionary. Klara Söderberg said, I was 13...and looking through a dictionary, looking for a name...I think music should be like a consolation to help you get through everyday life... CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

16 Happiness is a Warm Gun

In the first verse of the Beatles song Happiness is a Warm Gun, John Lennon sings about the man in the crowd with the multi-coloured mirrors on his hobnail boots. This is a reference to a newspaper story about a man who was arrested for wearing mirrors on the toe caps of his shoes in order to look up girls' skirts. Which only shows the astonishing lengths people were willing to go to in order to get their cheap thrills before the internet came along. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

15 Heavy Metal to Watchmaking

Dan Spitz is a watchmaker ANTHRAX CRACKED.COM The heavy metal guitarist said touring with Anthrax became mundane, and more like a job. So he quit the band to pursue his lifelong love of tinkering with timepieces. — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

14 The Real Summer of 69

Bryan Adams Summer of '69 In the summer of 1969, Bryan Adams was 10 years old. The upbeat nostalgia of this song wasn't inspired by an actual year, but rather Mr. Adams' fondness for a certain sexual position. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

13 Paul McCartney & Jesus

Paul McCartney once let a stranger who claimed to be Jesus Christ into his house McCartney thought, Well, it probably isn't. But if he is, I'm not going to be the one to turn him away. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

12 J. Cole: Violinist

J. Cole was a first-chair violinist in high school. From 5th to 12th grade, the emcee played violin, earning the top spot at Terry Sanford High School. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

11 Drake's High School Diploma

Drake got his high school diploma at 25-years-old. Не had dropped out of high school to play a high schooler in Degrassi. Не returned to school in 2012, after he was already Grammy-nominated. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

10 Mozart Outsold... Everyone

In 2016, Mozart outsold Beyonce, Adele, and Drake in CDs Universal released a 200-disc box set for the 225th anniversary of Mozart's death, meaning that each purchase counted for 200 disc sales. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

9 The Goo Goo Dolls

THE Goo Goo DOLLS WERE ORIGINALLY CALLED SEX MAGGOT. Their manager balked at the name, so they picked the name Goo Goo Dolls when they spotted an ad for a doll with a moveable, rubber head in True Detective magazine. CRACKED.COM http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/The_Goo_Goo_Dolls.aspx — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

8 Isn't This Where We Came In?

In the opening track of Pink Floyd's The Wall there's a voice saying we came in. At the end of the last track there's the same voice saying, Isn't this where. If you put the album in a continuous loop the voice asks, Isn't this where we came in? (on the DVD of the feature film version of The Wall Roger Waters ends the commentary with the same phrase) GRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

7 Blinded by the Light

CRACKED COM MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND Manfred Mann's 1977 #I heavy synth-rock montage Blinded by the Light (you know, that song that sounds like it's about wrapping up douches...) Columbia 4-45805 Bruce Springsteen BLINDED BY THE LIGHT ...was written and originally performed as a sprawling Dylanesque-style song by iconic troubadour Bruce Springsteen. — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

6 The One I Love

The One I Love by REM Often seen as a love song, the lyric A simple prop to occupy my time should give away that it's about using people. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

5 Never Learn Not to Love

The Beach Boys' Never Learn Not to Love was written by Charles Manson. Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson was close with Manson, until the band reworked and recorded one of his songs without crediting him. Manson was furious. Considering the Family's victims were murdered over much less that that, the Boys got off easy. CRACKED.COM — Source: 37 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Music

4 Umbrella

Terrible weather hit the UK, New Zealand, and Romania when Umbrella topped their charts This became known as the Rihanna curse. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

3 Single Ladies

The Church of England co-owns Beyoncé's Single Ladies The church has invested in Hipgnosis, a company that owns the rights to thousands of songs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

2 Landslide

Stevie Nicks wrote Landslide when she was 27. The song is about growing older, even though the songwriter wasn't even 30. Nicks explains, You can feel really old at 27. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

1 New Order / Joy Divison

New Order is the remaining band members of Joy Division, created after the lead singer died by suicide. Joy Division (best known for Love Will Tear Us Apart) members regrouped under a new name, retiring Joy Division songs, after their loss. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts To Thwart Our Enemies

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