History HilariousInHindsight / Music

* The New Musical Express spoofed {{Oasis}}'s thrall to the Beatles and their tendency to plagarise with a fictitious interview in which Noel Gallagher claimed to be 'Bigger Than God'. Just one year later, in real life, Noel Gallagher made exactly the same claim.

** Hardly ''that'' surprising. The song was autobiographical. It was about resisting rehab. She stopped resisting.
*** This page isn't about surprising it's about funny.

** Wasn't that ''always'' what the song was supposed to be about? This is the man who brought us the song ''Smut!''
*** Yes, that was always what the song was about. For those who were unsure, one only has to read the official song book. In fact, he revised it to take current events into account (that dentist line was CLEARLY ripped from the headlines). The performance instructions say to point out an attractive member of the opposite sex in the audience when saying "...give it to you!"
*** It was always about [=STDs=], but in the post-antibiotics pre-[=AIDS=] era, they weren't such a big deal.
** A better example is the opening lines of "George Murphy": "Hollywood's often tried to mix/show business with politics/from Helen Gahagan/to ...Ronald Reagan?"

* A recent Inhindsight happened in one night. In the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, KanyeWest interrupted TaylorSwift after she won best Female Artist just to tell {{Beyonce}} that she had one of the best videos of all time. Later that night, she would win Best Video of the Year.

*** "You lie!" happened before the Taylor Swift incident, so it's not really "hindsight."

** Elton was openly gay (or at least "bisexual") since 1976. The fact that the plot of the video shows Elton romancing a woman does nor infer that the woman is "Nikita". Elton (or rather, his lyricist Bernie Taupin, a straight man), is likely referring to Nikita ''Khrushchev'', and/or to a gay affair, which MTV probably was unable/unwilling to show in a video.
** The "sugar bear" in the song "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" refers to [[TheAdventuresofSonictheHedgehog Long John Baldry]]. Apparently, he convinced Elton John to not go through with a marriage to a woman and that it was alright to be gay.
*** Baldry was the "someone", not the "sugar bear". [[RefrainFromAssuming Read the lyrics closely]].
*** While indeed he was the "someone", the "sugar bear" is also him. Bernie Taupin put [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someone_Saved_My_Life_Tonight that name in there as a show of gratitude]] and a bit of a ShoutOut. Regardless, it's still amusing and could make an interesting YouTubePoop.
** "Nikita" is a unisex name, but perhaps it counts.
*** I don't believe it is.
**** A beggary to differ: it's a female given name in India. It's male in Russia and nearby, which is more familiar. Elton John is English, so it's not like he unambiguously referred to Russians... at least until the video came out. Wikipedia says it's sometimes female in France, but can't confirm this as of now. So it's not like it's unisex in the sense of 'Alex' or 'Yuki,' more like 'Andrea.' But yeah.

* LadyGaga's current look (blonde hair cut into bob, sunglasses with "cool" design) is '''not''' as original as she would like to think due to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaGG3WhuEgE Fascinated]] by RavenMaize featuring KatherineEllis. When did this come out?? ''2002''. Watch the background dancer in the video (wearing black, then white catsuit). Proof that LadyGaga's supposedly distinctive look is OlderThanTheyThink.

* LadyGaga's current look (blonde hair cut into bob, sunglasses with "cool" design) is '''not''' as original as she would like to think due to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaGG3WhuEgE Fascinated]] by RavenMaize featuring KatherineEllis. When did this come out?? ''2002''. Watch the background dancer in the video. Proof that her look is OlderThanTheyThink

* One of the last songs recorded by TheSmiths, "Paint A Vulgar Picture," bemoaned the music industry's habit of continually rehashing of old material ("Best Of/Most Of/Satiate the Need!/Slip Them into Different Sleeves!/Buy Both, and Feel Deceived!"). After TheSmiths broke up, the band's record label faced criticism for continually releasing compilations of Smiths recordings, each sharing most of the same songs repeatedly, ''including'' one poorly received GreatestHits collection that was [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo split onto two separately sold albums]].

* One of the last songs recorded by TheSmiths, "Paint A Vulgar Picture," bemoaned the music industry's habit of continually rehashing of old material ("Best Of/Most Of/Satiate the Need!/Slip Them into Different Sleeves!/Buy Both, and Feel Deceived!"). After TheSmiths broke up, the band's record label faced criticism for continually releasing compilations of Smiths recordings, each sharing most of the same songs repeatedly.

** ''The Who Sell Out'' was a mock radio program promoting products from the typical (cars, soft drinks) to the ridiculous (deodorant, baked beans, acne cream). Today, companies use rock songs for commercials, even if they have nothing to do with the products they're promoting

* "Spontaneous Apple Creation" by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown depicts a bunch of surreal events, culminating with everybody in the world with an apple in his hand, with new creations of apples being an common event. Years later, the Apple computer company had iPods and various spin-off products like the iPhone and iPad being released with much fanfare.

* Kind of sad, but still kind of funny: [[TheBeatles Paul McCartney]] once wrote, "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?" On his 64th birthday, he was embroiled in a messy divorce with his second wife.

* The MoodyBlues tribute to LSD guru Timothy Leary, "Legend of a Mind", opens with the line ''Timothy Leary's dead / no, no, he's outside looking in''. After Leary's death, some of his ashes were launched into space, where they remained in orbit around the earth for a couple of years.

* FrankZappa and The Mother's legendary anti-hippie album ''We're Only In It For The Money'' mentions a hippie going to San Francisco to, among other things, get crabs (i.e. a specie of louse). Years later, the family restaurant Joe's Crab Shack had a psychedelic advertisement promoting "Peace, Love and Crabs", unaware of the potential double entendre related to the album.

* FrankZappa and The Mother's legendary anti-hippie album ''We're Only In It For The Money'' mentions a hippie going to San Francisco to, among other things, get crabs (i.e. a specie of louse). Years later, the family restaurant Joe's Crab Shack had a psychedelic advertisement promoting "Peace, Love and Crabs", unaware of the potential double entendre.

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** John Lennon said similar things about not wanting to sing "I Want To Hold Your Hand" when he was 40. Which makes it also HarsherInHindsight. Doubly ironic in that Lennon claimed in interviews in 1980 he was going to go on tour in 1981 and he was hoping to perform a rearranged version of the song.

* What was the name of one of the first and most influential emo bands in the early 80s? The Hated.

* Before Billie Piper became an actress she was a successful pop singer. Her first and possibly most famous song, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsYSdmMKCe8 "Because We Want To"]] begins with her getting beamed down from a spaceship before she begins singing. Fast forward to 2005, and... well, she's [[DoctorWho spending a lot of time in spaceships.]] Even a lot of the special effects look similar enough to make it really funny.