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40 Random Bits of Pop Music Trivia That’ll Blow Your Mind, Your Speakers and the Roof Off This Joint

November 21, 2024

Pop music really is the gift that keeps on giving. Not only does it let us boogie down with our bad selves, but it’s so wildly interesting that it provides all these amazing facts. For instance, did you know that Elvis was a twin and that Trent Reznor scored a Pixar movie! Isn’t that wild?!?!

We’d give you more music facts here, but we don’t want to ruin all the sweet surprises. So get to scrollin’, you funky cool cats!

Man, we really need to update our music terminology.

40

Rihanna

Rihanna's Diamonds took 14 minutes to write. (The producer said, That's insane.) It sold 3.5 million copies. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bonnie Tyler

Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler Songwriter Jim Steinman originally titled the song Vampires in Love while he was working on the vampire romance musical Nosferatu. CRACKED.COM — Source

38

The Beatles

CRACKED.COM Paul McCartney was afraid he was plagiarizing Yesterday. After dreaming up the melody, McCartney wasn't sure it was actually his creation. For a time he went around asking people in the business if they had heard it before. I thought if no one claimed it after a few weeks then I could have it, he said. — Source

37

Music Videos

Music videos are 20 years older than MTV. S CINEMATIC 50 They were made for the 1960s fad Scopitone, a jukebox that could play video. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 'Modern' Things That Are JUST. SO. OLD.

36

Outkast

Andre 3000 OUT KAST wrote OutKast's Ms. Jackson as an apology of sorts to the mother of his former partner MS. JACKSON Erykah Badu. Badu wasn't entirely thrilled with the track at first, but when asked how her mother felt about it she said She bought her a 'Ms. Jackson' license plate, she had the mug, she had the ink pen, she had the headband, she had everything... loved it. CRACKED.COM — Source

35

Shaggy

CRACKED.COM Shaggy's hit song It Wasn't Me was inspired by a skit Eddie Murphy did in Raw about men being unfaithful and denying it. — Source

34

3 Doors Down

Brad Arnold from 3 Doors Down wrote Kryptonite when he was 15 during his math class. CRACKED.COM — Source

33

MIA

Paper Planes by MIA The song satirizes negative stereotypes about immigrants. MIA herself was denied entry to the US, even when she was signed to Interscope Records. CRACKED.COM — Source

32

The Who

PINBALL WIZARD THE WHO Dolvdor Pete Townsend said in 1996, This is awful, the most clumsy piece of writing I've ever done. CRACKED — Source

31

Britney Spears

Britney Spears was almost in a girl band. The band Innosense was managed by Lou Pearlman (of Backstreet and N'SYNC fame) and Justin Timberlake's mom. Britney left to pursue her solo career. CRACKED.COM — Source

30

Frank Sinatra

CRACKED FRANK SINATRA HATED ELVIS PRESLEY AND ROCK 'N' ROLL. About Elvis' music, Sinatra said, It's the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression that has been my misfortune to hear. Presley called a press conference to defend himself and his music. — Telegraph / Billboard

29

U2

Wrong Lyrics U2 Pride (In the Name of Love) Bono got it wrong when he said Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in the morning - it actually happened in the evening at 6:01 p.m. CRACKED — U2/YouTube
Rolling Stone

28

The Backstreet Boys

Backstreet Boys are the most successful boy band. In the rivalry between *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, BSB sweeps on the basis of commercial success. They are one of the bestselling artists of all-time. CRACKED.COM — Source

27

Anthrax

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

26

Pink Floyd

GRAOY Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is a middle finger to music execs. WISH YOU WERE HERE Their label pressured them to make a new album, and a good

25

Eminem

CLEANIN' OUT MY CLOSET EMINEM In his song Headlights, Eminem expressed his regret to the song about his estranged mother, with lyrics includingBut I'm sorry, momma, for 'Cleanin' Out My Closet and That song I no longer play at shows/And I cringe every time it's on the radio CRACKED — Source

24

The Velvet Underground

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND TOOK ITS NAME FROM THE TITLE OF AN S&M BOOK FOUND ON THE SIDEWALK. AB THE VELVET - UNDERGROUND Han . - incredible book Kwil short and anice - But + decumentary on the Medial compation - ... - to May thinking and BY MICHAEL LEIGH - LOUIS BERG MO The Velvet Underground, by OF Michael Leigh, was found by one of the band members. It was all about the secret bondage-y sexual scene in the early 1960s. CRACKED.COM http://www.classicbands.com/names.html — Source

23

Shake It Off

During the shooting of the music video of Taylor Swift's Shake It Off, heavy-metal music was played around the perimeter of the studio SO no-one cou

22

Frank Zappa

CRACKEDCO Frank Zappa talked about digital music downloads in 1989. In his autobiography, Zappa proposed a novel music distribution system: We propos

21

The Dead Milkmen

THE DEAD MILKMEN wrote a song called Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance to Anything), which denounced dance music from Europe. The song slammed acts wit

20

Kanye West

GOLD DIGGER KANYE WEST Ironically, Kanye West wrote the song just for the money, admitting he never cared for it. Не said in an interview, I knew I would get paid for doing 'Gold Digger. CRACKED — Source

19

Elvis

CRACKED G240 ELVIS WAS A TWIN. Unfortunately his twin brother, Jesse, died at birth. — MGM/Wiki Commons
Ben Vaughn

18

Huey Lewis

Huey Lewis wishes he'd sold out CRACKED.COM After Michael Jackson's landmark Pepsi deal, Coke wanted to throw a few million dollars at Huey to use The Heart of Rock & Roll. He turned them down, a move he now calls stupid. — Source: Billboard

17

Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks is the only woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. Once for being a member of Fleetwood Mac, once for her solo career. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

16

RUN-DMC

RUN-DMC RUN MC NG OF ROCK CRACKED COM In 1986, Run-DMC's 3rd album, Raising Hell, gave hip hop so many firsts. It was the first hip hop album to go platinum (and multi platinum), the first to be nominated for a Grammy, and although their 1984 song Rock Box is credited as the first rap rock song, Walk This Way with Aerosmith brought rap rock to the masses. — Source: recordingarts
beats-rhymes

15

Jazz Music

Jazz was banned in New Orleans schools in 1922... and only unbanned recently. Board minutes from March 24, 1922, said it was decided that jazz music and jazz dancing would be abolished in the public schools. With its president saying it had racist origins, the New Orleans school board has unanimously reversed the century-old ban on jazz in schools.OM — Apparently Jazz Was Illegal In New Orleans Schools Until Today

14

Motorhead

MOTORHEAD oO MEANS SPEED FREAKA o Motorhead's founder, Lemmy, said that his aim was for the group to be the dirtiest rock 'n' roll band in the world.

13

The Ramones

Johnny Ramone might have invented punk rock as we know it, but he wasn't into the rock 'n' roll lifestyle in the least. After concerts, when the rest

12

Dee Dee Ramone

UN-PUNK PUNK MOMENTS DEE DEE KING Standing Spotlight DEE DEE RAMONE QUIT THE RAMONES FOR A RAP CAREER On Rolling Stone's list of Worst Decisions in Music History, he released the rap album Standing in the Spotlight as Dee Dee King. A commercial and critical bomb, he returned to punk music, but never re-joined the Ramones. CRACKED — Bruce Alan Bennett/Shutterstock,
Sire, Warner Bros.
Rolling Stone Australia

11

Metallica

Metallica gladly welcomed a new member of a different species, the Macrostylis metallicola, into their rock 'n' roll family. ETALICOLK MAICROSTYLIS ET

10

Rock ‘n’ Roll

Trixie Smith released a song in 1914 called My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll, using rock 'n' roll as a euphemism for sex. It had probably been used earlier, but that's the first time it showed up in a popular song. CRACKED — UNIKYLUCKK/Shutterstock
Wiktionary

9

The Doors

The Doors CRACKED.COM FIRST SHOW: Guitarist Robby Krieger says their first gig was as a jazz cover band at their keyboardist's mom's office holiday party: We had to play jazz standards and stuff like that. It was fun!

8

Nine Inch Nails

CRACKED.COM PIXAR MOVIES SOUL WAS SCORED BY NINE INCH NAILS. Trent Reznor, best known for lyrics we're not sure we're legally allowed to repeat, scored the cute jazz film about a jazz man' soul. — Source: 16 Facts About Pixar Movies We've Got a Friend In

7

Nazi Jazz

Nazis had their own jazz. Nazis were all about Wagner (and lame ideas). Except even they noticed jazz was badass, but since it was also degenerate they had to whitewash it. Joseph Goebbels pushed for their own propaganda- spewing big band (which sucked, of course). CRACKED.COM — pxl.store/Shutterstock
8 Creepy Aspects Of Nazi Culture (You've Never Heard Of)
Smithsonian Magazine

6

Rap Music

Rap can be traced back to the 1920s and 1930s. For over 100 years or more, the technique of rapping has been around in many American musical genres. Surprisingly, those include ragtime, vaudeville, and religious songs. CRACKED.COM — Source: 23 'Modern' Things That Are JUST. SO. OLD.

5

Hip-Hop Pioneers

SALT-N-PEPA & QUEEN LATIFAH CRACKED.COM Salt-N-Pepa's 1987 debut album Hot, Cool & Vicious became the first rap album by female act to go gold and platinum. In 1995, Salt-N-Pepa won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Group, and Queen Latifah won a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, both becoming the first female hip hop acts to win Grammy Awards. — Source: dailyrapfacts/salt-n-pepa
dailyrapfacts/queen-latifah

4

Tyga

Rapper Tyga claimed he grew up in Compton. Then made a video about growing up in the Valley. Tyga later said that this video was scripted. To this day — Source: MTV

3

MTV

MTV had a very fitting first music video. At 12:01a.m. on August 1st, 1981, Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles became the very first music video on MTV. The video was released in 1979, so the band definitely saw the changing of the guard and capitalized. CRACKED — Source

2

Schooly D

SCHOOLLY D Marshall CRACKED.COM In 1985, Philly rapper Scoolly D's, P.S.K. What Does It Mean? is credited as the first gangsta rap song. The drums and hardcore lyrics inspired Ice T's, 6 In The Mornin, which became the defining gangsta rap record and paved the way for N.W.A and 90s gangsta rap that incorporated gang culture. — Source: billboard.com

1

Cardi B

In 2016, Cardi B recorded an Instagram video in which she admitted to drugging and robbing men to survive. When the video resurfaced in 2019, comparis

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