History HilariousInHindsight / Music

** "I'm Back", the bravura passage at the end of the second verse ("''miiind'' with no sense-in-it, ''friiied'' schizo-phrenic, whose ''eyeees'' get so-squinted, I'm ''bliiind'' from smoke in-'em-with ''myyy'' windows tinted, with ''niiine'' limos rented, doin' ''liiines'' of coke in 'em with a bunch of guys hoppin' out all ''hiiigh'' and in''[[AccentOnTheWrongSyllable do]]''-scent-ed...") ends with a big gasp for air. Funny in 2000 - hilarious considering [[TechnicianVersusPerformer just how much more technical]] Eminem would get over the years. As early as 2002, "White America" and "Lose Yourself" contain far more complex passages that he manages without any audible effort. And if you'd only heard his post-2010 material like "Rap God", "Vegas" and "Godzilla" (or even his not-ultra-technical cuts like "Untitled" and "Cold Wind Blows"), and you heard "I'm Back" for the first time, you could be forgiven for not even realising he'd warmed up. The gasp therefore goes from a BadassBoast into [[ComicalOverreacting amusingly contrived]] [[MinorInjuryOverreaction overreacting]].

** "I'm Back", the bravura passage at the end of the second verse ("''miiind'' with no sense-in-it, ''friiied'' schizo-phrenic, whose ''eyeees'' get so-squinted, I'm ''bliiind'' from smoke in-'em-with ''myyy'' windows tinted, with ''niiine'' limos rented, doin' ''liiines'' of coke in 'em with a bunch of guys hoppin' out all ''hiiigh'' and in''[[AccentOnTheWrongSyllable do]]''-scent-ed...") ends with a big gasp for air. Funny in 2000 - hilarious considering [[TechnicianVersusPerformer just how much more technical]] Eminem would get in later songs like "Rap God" and "Godzilla". A fan of Eminem's 2020s music listening to "I'm Back" for the first time could be forgiven for not even realising he'd started, turning the gasp from a BadassBoast into [[ComicalOverreacting hilariously]] contrived [[MinorInjuryOverreaction overreacting]].

** The HellBentForLeather waitress that Britney played ended up becoming ArtImitatingLife ''and'' TheRedStapler, with people looking on eBay for her outfit/

* Among the instruments Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand used in the song "Jessica" was the Hammond organ. About thirty years later, the name Hammond became even closer associated to the song when it became the theme song to ''Series/TopGear'' (co-hosted by Richard Hammond).

* In a mix of this and SocietyMarchesOn, Gladys Knight and the Pips' 1973 hit "Midnight Train to Georgia" has lost much of its meaning. The original song is about a would-be actor who abandons his dreams of stardom after much hardship in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, and returns home to Georgia. In TheNewTens, {{UsefulNotes/Atlanta}} has become a center of the motion picture industry, and moving from Los Angeles in search of work is a valid and increasingly popular lateral career move for young actors.

* "Complete Control" by Music/TheClash has the line, "You're my [[VideoGame/GuitarHero guitar hero]]!" Funny enough as it is, but the song is also included in ''Guitar Hero: Aerosmith'', and is also downloadable for ''VideoGame/RockBand'', whose creators created the original ''Guitar Hero''.

* Seth Putnam believes this regarding Music/AnalCunt's "You're In A Coma", based on his own experience. Ditto with "Your Wife Left You". [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Posthumously]], fans consider "Don't Give Me Weak Drugs or I'll Kick Your Ass" this as well, since Putnam's years of superhuman drug abuse helped contribute to his fatal heart attack.

* The CharlieDanielsBand released a song titled "In America" back in 1980. Nowadays, more people would think of Bandit Keith's infamous VerbalTic from ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''.

* The Music/CharlieDanielsBand released a song titled "In America" back in 1980. Nowadays, more people would think of Bandit Keith's infamous VerbalTic from ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''.

* Music/CarlyRaeJepsen may have fallen into MemeticMutation status with her SignatureSong "Call Me Maybe" but the video proved to be HilariousInHindsight - as only a few months later, a 21-year-old girl in Nottingham was seen doing pretty much the same thing (except to "A Change Will Do You Good" by Music/SherylCrow). Same sort of dance routine, but not the same song.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zOv0slZARY B-U-T-T Out]]" from ''The Adventures of Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen: The Case of the Thorn Mansion''. It's pretty much a [[TheDissTrack diss track]] by the twins directed at their younger sister Creator/ElizabethOlsen. They might have been doing their sister a favor, now that Elizabeth is best known for playing [[Characters/MCUScarletWatch Scarlet Witch]], who is a twin who has twin kids. After the release of ''Series/WandaVision'', many joked that the video was one of Wanda's traumatic flashbacks that Agatha overlooked.

* Music/BritneySpears did this with her single "Womaniser" in 2004 which is a trifecta of this trope:

** Made funnier by the {{mondegreen}} "Snakes in airplanes".

* Around 2007, Music/LeAnnRimes was a presenter at an awards show. She decides to poke a little fun at the various celebrity train wrecks of the time, and says something to the extent of "Just for the record, [I'm] twenty-five, no divorces, just the one marriage." She's being accused of being a home-wrecker and is involved in the collapse of ''two'' marriages, thinking about her saying that becomes even funnier. Although, as the situation between her, her husband, and his ex-wife gets uglier and uglier, it might not be quite so funny anymore.

* Seth Putnam believes this regarding Music/AnalCunt's "You're In A Coma", based on his own experience. Ditto with "Your Wife Left You". Posthumously fans consider "Don't Give Me Weak Drugs or I'll Kick Your Ass" this as well, since Putnam's years of superhuman drug abuse helped contribute to his fatal heart attack.

* "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles laments that the rise of video technology had deprecated the music industry. The song was released in 1979. In 1981, it would be one of the first songs featured on Creator/{{MTV}}, the station that kicked off a revolution in the music industry. Part of that revolution was the popularization of the music video, which in turn contributed to the rise of some of the biggest superstars in modern music history.

** When Seth and drummer Tim Morse came up with the band, they picked the title to be "really dumb and offensive". Years later, GG Allin would write a song parodying how people saw him as dumb and offensive, and, by pure coincidence, named it... "Anal Cunt."

* ''Method Man'' by Wu-Tang is full of pop culture references, and you'd be forgiven to think the words [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} "catchin' 'em all]] would be one of them, even though the song came first.

* On Music/{{Kelly Rowland}}'s 2002 single "Stole" she sings on the second chorus "Greg was always getting net from 20 feet away. He had a tryout with the Sixers couldn't wait for Saturday. Now we're never gonna see him slam flyin' as high as Kobe can. His life was stole Oh! Oh! Now we'll never know." 18 years later after the song was released Kobe Bryant tragically lost his life on January 26, 2020 in a helicopter accident with his daughter and 5 other passengers on board. "Stole" resurfaced because of Bryant's death and Rowland mentioning him in the lyrics.

* In the Music/{{Eminem}} music video "Without me," he dresses up as Robin. Robin's inclusion in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' has him [[http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2011/06/robinfullbodyrenderpr-1024px.jpg looking like Eminem in that video]].
* On Music/{{Eminem}}'s song "The Way I Am," he raps, "I'm so sick and tired of bein admired/that I wish that I would just die or get fired/and dropped from my label and stop with the fables/I'm not gonna be able to top on "My Name is.."". The album ''The Slim Shady LP,'' which includes "My Name Is..." sold some 4 million copies in the U.S. ''The Marshall Mathers LP,'' which includes "The Way I Am," has sold some 10 million copies in the U.S. This song is preceded by the skit "Steve Berman," which is about the eponymous record company employee telling Eminem that he needs to "change the album or it's not coming out," because he "can't sell" an album full of "songs about homosexuals and vicodin."

* There's a song called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVeGgV8MtJA Disneyland]] from an obscure 80's musical called ''Smile'' that's just chock full of these. First off, the lyrics were written by Howard Ashman from before he teamed up with Alan Menken to become one of Disney's greatest songwriting duos. Not only that, but the woman singing is Jodi Benson, most famous as the voice of Ariel in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''. There's even a reference to a [[{{Disney/Aladdin}} magic carpet]]!