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* Because {{Eurobeat}} is so prominently featured in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/InitialD'', which is a Japanese work, a lot of fans assume that Eurobeat musicians, or at least the ones featured in ''Initial D'', are Japanese, not helped by the English pronunciation and grammar being spotty in some songs. Nope, they are indeed European, more specifically Italian (with a few exceptions, such as Annalise, who is British), with the obvious exception of the songs that are sung in Japanese instead of English (most prominently "Wings of Fire", which is sung by the ''seiyuu'' of Mako and Sayuki, and the [[Music/{{Move}} m.o.v.e.]] songs).

* Because {{Eurobeat}} is so prominently featured in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/InitialD'', which is a Japanese work, a lot of fans assume that Eurobeat musicians, or at least the ones featured in ''Initial D',' are Japanese, not helped by the English pronunciation and grammar being spotty in some songs. Nope, they are indeed European, more specifically Italian (with a few exceptions, such as Annalise, who is British), with the obvious exception of the songs that are sung in Japanese instead of English (most prominently "Wings of Fire", which is sung by the ''seiyuu'' of Mako and Sayuki, and the [[Music/{{Move}} m.o.v.e.]] songs).

* Because {{Eurobeat}} is so prominently featured in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/InitialD'', which is a Japanese work, a lot of fans assume that Eurobeat musicians, or at least the ones featured in ''Initial D'' are Japanese, not helped by the English pronunciation and grammar being spotty in some songs. Nope, they are indeed European, more specifically Italian (with a few exceptions, such as Annalise, who is British), with the obvious exception of the songs that are sung in Japanese instead of English (most prominently "Wings of Fire", which is sung by the ''seiyuu'' of Mako and Sayuki, and the [[Music/{{Move}} m.o.v.e.]] songs).

* Because {{Eurobeat}} is so prominently featured in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/InitialD'', which is a Japanese work, a lot of fans assume that the musicians behind the songs featured in the anime are Japanese, not helped by the English pronunciation and grammar being spotty in some songs. Nope, they are indeed European (more specifically Italian), with the obvious exception of the songs that are sung in Japanese instead of English (most prominently "Wings of Fire", which is sung by the ''seiyuu'' of Mako and Sayuki, and the [[Music/{{Move}} m.o.v.e.]] songs).

*** "With a Little Help From My Friends" apparently isn't intended to be about drugs either, despite the lyric "I get high with a little help from my friends". When the song was one of many chosen for the pre-school animated series ''WesternAnimation/BeatBugs'', with the full lyric intact.

** Bowie's infamous interviews during the Station to Station era had him supporting the rise of a new Hitler, right? Well, that's how the press spun it at the time. However, many current interpretations of those interviews suggest that he was actually expressing an 'accelerationist' viewpoint; society was getting more and more right wing whilst the liberals were being useless and that it may be best if the right-wing people temporarily got what they wanted so that they'd realise that it was a terrible idea and so that actual leftism might spring up to oppose it. And the nazi-salute-esque hand-gesture was likely to have been a photograph taken mid-wave by unscrupulous newspaper photographers.

** And "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is what Music/JohnLennon's young son Julian titled his drawing, not a thinly veiled LSD reference (the original drawing can be found on Google Images). Bandmate Music/PaulMcCartney later suggested that it was also about the drug (in a 'two things can be true at the same time' way) but Lennon -- who had no problem admitting to writing song lyrics of his that had drug connections, like "Cold Turkey" or "Dr. Robert" -- consistently denied it.

* A common misconception is that "Ring Around the Rosie" is about the Black Death-- that "ring around the rosie" refers to the round rash on people's hands, "a pocketful of posies" is either the flowers at people's funerals, a weird euphemism for lesions, or the flowers that plague doctors gave, "atishoo!" is because sneezing was one symptom of the plague (and sometimes, this is replaced with "ashes", which they think refers to people's ashy skin or the burning of bedclothes or bodies) and "we all fall down" refers to death. This is highly unlikely-- the rhyme was first recorded five centuries after the plague, and there are many variations on the rhyme quite different from the one we have now.

* Everyone knows Music/LimpBizkit incited a riot at the [[Horrible/MusicFestivals trainwreck music festival]] Woodstock '99. In fact, the Limp Bizkit performance happened ''the day before'' the riot; this misconception was caused by news broadcasts playing the Limp Bizkit song "Break Stuff" over footage of the rioters. Fred Durst ''had'' asked the crowd to let their anger out prior to playing, leading to fans ripping plywood off the stage to crowd surf on as a result, but he soon tried to calm the crowd down, asking them to concentrate on 'positive energy'. In reality, the riot at Woodstock '99 was caused by horrible event management. The event was held on an all-concrete Air Force base in sweltering heat with no shade with the stages over two miles apart, meaning attendees had to walk between them over searing concrete. The extortionate price for bottled water ($4 - the equivalent of $6 today) and mile-long queues for the free water fountains led to desperate festivalgoers breaking the water pipes, and the inadequate toilet facilities forced people to do their business in less suitable locations. In short, while the crowds were getting violent to Music/{{Korn}} and Music/KidRock rather than to Music/AlanisMorissette, most of the violence was caused by the crowd being deranged from dehydration, heatstroke and the stink of shit.

** The band is often cited as ''the'' {{Emo}} band, even though the members have pretty consistently said that they consider their music PopPunk and AlternativeRock, and they generally spurned the "emo" label. Only their first album ''You Brought Me Your Bullets, I Brought You My Love'' could really be classified as a straight example of the genre, and that one was made when the band was (by their own admission) [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness still trying to figure out their sound]]; by the time they had become widely-known with ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'', they had almost entirely abandoned it in favor of a more fast-paced, upbeat pop rock sound with occasional GothicHorror-inspired lyrics. Even if you still consider them part of the emo genre, they were far from the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]] and most certainly not the [[TropeMaker Trope Makers]], and weren't even the ones responsible for bringing it into the mainstream (that honor would go to Music/JimmyEatWorld with their 2001 platinum selling album ''Bleed American''). Folks have noticed that in addition to their punk sound, they often lean close to true metal with how [[CarefulWithThatAxe Gerard loves screaming his head off,]] especially during their many, many guitar solos. Most of their emo reputation comes from their breakout hit "Helena", often called an emo song because of its depressing lyrics, and because its music video featured a funeral procession; but that was because it was originally written as a tribute to Gerard and Mikey's deceased grandmother, whose name was "Elena".

** ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'' isn't [[OneBookAuthor their only full-length album]], or their last one, despite what many younger casual fans seem to think. While Nirvana's discography ''is'' a lot smaller than many other bands of comparable influence (due to the band abruptly splitting up after Kurt's death), they did release a full-length album (''[[Music/BleachAlbum Bleach]]'') on the then-independent label Creator/SubPop before signing to major label [[Creator/GeffenRecords DGC Records]], hitting it big with ''Nevermind'', and they stuck together long enough to release a follow-up to ''Nevermind'' (''Music/InUtero'') that became a major hit in its own right--though [[ToughActToFollow not quite on the level of its predecessor]].

* The Norwegian band Nightcore is the {{Trope Namer|s}} for {{Nightcore}}, a type of SpeedyTechnoRemake involving speeding up slow dance/techno/trance songs to turn them into much faster and upbeat "nightcore versions". The group Nightcore [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny never actually did this]]; the name is simply a reference to their prominence as one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s of the Happy Hardcore variety of EDM- which is what the typical "Nightcore version" of a song ends up sounding like.

* Everyone knows that one of [[RiddleForTheAges the great mysteries]] of rock is what exactly Music/MeatLoaf "won't do" in "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)". Except it's not; he says it right in the lyrics (just not in the chorus). He makes a different promise to his lover in each verse: first ''"I'll never forget the way you feel right now"'', then ''"I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight"'', then ''"I'll never do it better than I do it with you"'', and finally ''"I'll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life"''. Then at the conclusion, his lover predicts ''"You'll see that it's time to move on"'' and ''"You'll be screwing around"'', and he emphatically responds ''"I won't do that!"'' to both.

* "{{Juggalo}}" is not just a FanCommunityNickname for fans of Music/InsaneClownPosse. The term more accurately applies to fans of the record label Creator/PsychopathicRecords, which was ''founded'' by Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope. ICP is the most well-known group on the label's roster by a pretty wide margin, but it also includes quite a few lesser-known rap acts who share ICP's love of face paint, [[{{Kayfabe}} theatrical alter egos]], horror-themed subject matter, and grotesque humor (not to mention a few of ICP's frequent collaborators like Wolfpac, Music/TechN9ne, and the Music/KottonmouthKings, who are considered "honorary" family members). Having "The Great Milenko" and "The Amazing Jeckel Brothers" in one's record collection doesn't necessarily make someone a Juggalo by default, but owning albums by Music/{{Twiztid}}, Music/AnybodyKilla, Music/{{Boondox}} and Music/BlazeYaDeadHomie ''definitely'' does. [[note]] Case in point: if you've actually heard of any of those artists, you're probably a Juggalo.[[/note]]

** And "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is what Music/JohnLennon's young son Julian titled his drawing, not a thinly veiled LSD reference (the original drawing can be found on Google Images). Bandmate Music/PaulMcCartney later suggested that it was also about the drug (in a 'two things can be true at the same time' way) but Lennon constantly denied it.

** Bowie's infamous interviews during the Station to Station era had him supporting the rise of a new Hitler, right? Well, that's how the press spun it at the time. However, many current interpretations of those interviews suggest that he was actually expressing an 'accelerationist' viewpoint; society was getting more and more right wing whilst the liberals were being useless and that it may be best if the right-wing people temporarily got what they wanted so that they'd realise that it was a terrble idea and so that actual leftism might spring up to oppose it. And the nazi-salute-esque hand-gesture was likely to have been a photograph taken mid-wave by unscrupulous newspaper photographers.

* Music/PhilCollins' "In The Air Tonight" is about Phil seeing a man drowning due to a bystander not intervening, who Phil once saw at a concert and called him out on it. Except it isn't: to quote Phil, "I don't know what this song is about. When I was writing this I was going through a divorce. And the only thing I can say about it is that it's obviously in anger. It's the angry side, or the bitter side of a separation".

* Canadian band Music/BarenakedLadies have been dogged for years by rumors that they fired their former frontman and FaceOfTheBand Steven Page because he had become addicted to cocaine. Practically none of that is true. Page was not fired; he left of his own free will despite the remaining band members wanting him to stay. The factors that led to his departure were many, including his own mental health, tensions between himself and the band's other founder and co-frontman Ed Robinson, and as he put it, "it just wasn't fun anymore." His leaving also had nothing to do with drugs; he had been considering leaving for several years before he actually did, and while he did ''try'' cocaine, and was caught with it, he did not become an addict, and in fact stated that his getting busted for possession after only recently trying it ''kept'' him from getting addicted, as it gave him time to realize that it was a terrible way to try and self-medicate his chronic depression. He had already made the decision to leave the group before the bust. It was just a case of terrible timing that news of his cocaine bust became public just before his announcement that he was leaving the band.

** Bowie's infamous interviews during the Station to Station era had him supporting the rise of a new Hitler, right? Well, that's how the press spun it at the time. However, many current interpretations of those interviews suggest that he was actually expressing an 'accelerationist' viewpoint; society was getting more and more right wing and that it may be best if those people temporarily got what they wanted so that they'd realise that it was a terrble idea. And the nazi-salute-esque hand-gesture was likely to have been a photograph taken mid-wave by unscrupulous newspaper photographers.

** And "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is what Music/JohnLennon's young son Julian titled his drawing, not a thinly veiled LSD reference (the original drawing can be found on Google Images). Bandmate Music/PaulMcCartney later suggested that it actually was about the drug, but Lennon constantly denied it.

*** Additionally, the quote itself is frequently misprinted as "Bigger than Jesus". The exact phrase that Lennon said in the interview was "More popular than Jesus".

* Music/AFlockOfSeagulls is known for two things: [[OneHitWonder "I Ran (So Far Away)"]] and Mike Scores' [[EightiesHair hairstyle]]. However the "I Ran" video never featured the haircut, despite being by far their best known...
** ...in the US. However, the song was a GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff case in the USA: in their native UK, it was not even a Top 40 hit, and they are remembered instead for "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)". The video for which ''did'' feature the hairstyle.

* Music/DeepPurple memorably blamed the Montreux Casino fire on "some stupid with a flare gun" in "Smoke on the Water", but it's actually not completely clear how the fire started. Music/FrankZappa's recollection was that an audience member shot a bottle rocket into the ceiling. Another witness said the audience member was actually lighting matches, tossing them in the air, and catching them, only to have one match go too high. It's also been suggested that it was caused by faulty wiring.

* Music/MikeOldfield is widely believed to be the composer of the iconic 1973 horror film ''Film/TheExorcist''. Although the opening section of his composition "Tubular Bells" was indeed used as the film's main theme, the remainder of the soundtrack was composed by Jack Nitzsche.

** The band is often cited as ''the'' {{Emo}} band, even though the members have pretty consistently said that they consider their music PopPunk and AlternativeRock, and they generally spurned the "emo" label. Only their first album ''You Brought Me Your Bullets, I Brought You My Love'' could really be classified as a straight example of the genre, and that one was made when the band was (by their own admission) [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness still trying to figure out their sound]]; by the time they had become widely-known with ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'', they had almost entirely abandoned it in favor of a more fast-paced, upbeat pop rock sound with occasional GothicHorror-inspired lyrics. Even if you still consider them part of the emo genre, they were far from the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]] and most certainly not the [[TropeMaker Trope Makers]], and weren't even the ones responsible for bringing it into the mainstream (that honor would probably go to Music/JimmyEatWorld with their 2001 platinum selling album ''Bleed American''). Folks have noticed that in addition to their punk sound, they often lean close to true metal with how [[CarefulWithThatAxe Gerard loves screaming his head off,]] especially during their many, many guitar solos. Most of their emo reputation comes from their breakout hit "Helena", often called an emo song because of its depressing lyrics, and because its music video featured a funeral procession; but that was because it was originally written as a tribute to Gerard and Mikey's deceased grandmother, whose name was "Elena".

** The band is often cited as ''the'' {{Emo}} band, even though the members have pretty consistently said that they consider their music PopPunk and AlternativeRock, and they generally spurned the "Emo" label. Only their first album ''You Brought Me Your Bullets, I Brought You My Love'' could really be classified as a straight example of Emo music, and that one was made when the band was (by their own admission) [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness still trying to figure out their sound]]; by the time they had become widely-known with ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'', they had almost entirely abandoned it in favor of a more fast-paced, upbeat pop sound with occasional GothicHorror-inspired lyrics. Folks have noticed that in addition to their punk sound, they often lean close to true metal with how [[CarefulWithThatAxe Gerard loves screaming his head off,]] especially during their many, many guitar solos. Most of their Emo reputation comes from their breakout hit "Helena", often called an Emo song because of its depressing lyrics, and because its music video featured a funeral procession; but that was because it was originally written as a tribute to Gerard and Mikey's deceased grandmother, whose name was "Elena".