History HilariousInHindsight / Music

* The Canadian prog rock band Music/{{Rush}} have a song called "I Think I'm Going Bald" that muses on hair loss. It was based off guitarist Alex Lifeson's fear of losing his long blonde hair and going bald in the future. The song was released in 1974. [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CbG0XS6wsMc/Tl7Ze11VK2I/AAAAAAAAABs/-nSbdGvbmko/s1600/AF2Ktouralex-1.jpg Lifeson in the 70s]]. [[http://www.rushisaband.com/graphics/ti/full/104.jpg Lifeson circa 2007]].

-->'''Commenter:''' I remember being forced to watch this because my younger sister owned this. Funny how back then, no one knew that the little sister will grow to become the more famous of the trio, where in 20 years time, people will still be talking about Scarlet Witch while the twins have been fading into obscurity for the last two decades. Hell, in another 10 years, people won't even remember the Olsen Twins with how most kids and teens nowadays don't even know ''Series/FullHouse'' was a thing.

* In a 1970 interview, Music/TheRollingStones' Mick Jagger was quoted as saying, "I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five." Sir Mick, now in his seventies, continues to perform the song at every concert the Stones give.

** Her "showgirl" outfit was around before TheTraffordCentre took the [[{{Cowboy}} cowgirl]], MissKitty and MsFanservice tropes UpToEleven. Fast forward to February 2013, and TheTraffordCentre was running its [[http://www.traffordcentre.co.uk/news/beautyshowdown BeautyShowdown]] event - which [[http://www.englisc-gateway.com/bbs/topic/39328-native-american-anger-at-cowboy-and-indian-trafford-centre-beauty-showdown-event/ caused some controversy]] and had UnfortunateImplications.

* The song "Twin Rocks, Oregon" by Shawn Mullins has a line that goes: I don't reckon I'll be makin' it big/You know, it's hard to get rich off a tout of coffee house gigs/ And he said "Yeah, but ain't it a blessin' to do what you wanna do. "Twin Rocks, Oregon" just so happened to be on the same album as Mullins' other hit "Lullaby", the song that very well made him a buttload of money. So, in other words, Mullins found himself making money doing what he wanted to do.

* In an analysis of Music/{{Journey}}'s music video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQbZRMLKozk Separate Ways]]", Brazilian comedian Marcos Mion compared Steve Perry to singer [[Music/{{Angra}} Andre Matos]]. Then Matos covered [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9LLs79hcGQ that same song]]...

* The cover of Argentine rock band Bersuit Vergarabat's album ''Hijos del culo'' ("Sons/Children of the Asshole") features [[https://images.genius.com/220cbbb91b54b25702523b258480b52b.300x300x1.jpg girl in pigtails with an unnerving gaze]] that is strikingly similar to the poster of the horror film ''Film/{{Orphan}}''. One might think that it's a reference to said poster... if not for the fact that ''Orphan'' came out in 2009 and ''Hijos del culo'' came out almost a decade earlier in 2000.

* Music/BobDylan's fan community had lots of fun with the 1978 song "No Time To Think" during the Clinton impeachment because it includes the line "In the Federal City you've been blown and shown pity."

** Her song 22 presents an [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism amusing contrast]] to Music/TaylorSwift's 22 as it sounds like the aftermath of the latter song; the reality of Swift's expectation.

* During a mid-nineties fad of [[PatrioticFervor Uber-nationalism]] in Venezuela, singer Carlos Baute rose to fame by singing several pseudo-folkloric songs, one of them is dedicated to claim how much he loved the country no matter how bleak the future looked and included the lyric "I stay in Venezuela, because I'm optimistic". Suddenly, in 2000, he moved his career to Spain, and has been trying to distance from his past and the political situation of his mother country since then.

* ''[[Music/BillyBirmingham Still The Twelfth Man]]'' mentions "Wasee Acrim" ("Was he a crim?"), a [[PunnyName pun]] on Pakistani cricketer Wasim Akram - several years before Akram was the subject of match-fixing allegations.

* 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... "Music/Anal Cunt."

* The Plain White T's song "Hey There Delilah" was originally released in 2005. It contained the line "Two more years you'll be done with school and I'll be making history". Two years later it was rereleased and went to #1

* Music/TheBeeGees classic song, "Stayin' Alive" turns out to have a steady beat that is the ideal rhythm for CPR chest compressions. In other words, the song helps people actually stay alive.

* The Swedish ethnologist Richard Dybeck was not happy when he found out that a small song he had written for a festive occation in 1845 had been published as part of a collection:
--> The extremely mediocre lyrics for this song, which are clearly something that has been casually written down, should never have been published. Any right-thinking human should be appalled.
The song in question is today Sweden's national anthem, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LiN57nfjFw ''Du gamla, du fria'']].

The song in question is today Sweden's national anthem, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LiN57nfjFw''Du gamla, du fria'']].

* Music/BillyJoel was involved in a series of minor car accidents in the Oughties. He wasn't seriously injured in any of them [[note]] If he were, this would be a Funny Aneurysm Moment. [[/note]], but it does make these lines from "You May Be Right" a little funnier:

* Save Ferris's "Spam" includes the line "They said if I eat it for dinner, that I would grow up like Bruce Jenner". The singer is a buxom brunette named Monique Powell

* Seth Putnam believed 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.

* Music/{{REM}}'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" is an interesting example that occurs ''right after'' the potential FunnyAneurysmMoment.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1 Birds]] and [[Film/SnakesOnAPlane snakes, an aeroplane]]...''

* 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. [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Although, as the situation between her, her husband Eddie Cibrian, and his ex-wife Brandi Glanville got ugly, it wasn't really funny in retrospect]].

** It's since turned into either HarsherInHindsight or FunnyAneurysmMoment after the election of Donald Trump and the rise of white supremacy.

** First of all, it reflects [[{{Scandalgate}} -gate scandals involving politicians]]. (Which Britney herself had one of, so also FunnyAneurysmMoment)

* This video from PrincessSuperstar for her 2007 single "Exceeder" as seen at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y9UlEof6XI YouTube]] featured CaseyBatchelor, better known for being in ''[[Series/BigBrother Celebrity Big Brother]]''. It can now be seen in a different light now that Channel 5 aired ''Celebrity Big Brother'', and is retroactively hilarious. Also a FunnyAneurysmMoment too, in a sort of way, as people at the time thought she'd get overexposure in the media back then... which she did, kinda.

* It's either this or FunnyAneurysmMoment, but thanks to the use of "Music/HoldingOutForAHero" by Bonnie Tyler in ''Film/ShortCircuit 2'', the music video for the song somehow foreshadows the events of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', especially with [[spoiler:the final mission of Chapter 6. To quote WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic: Never has a battle between [[HandicappedBadass a ratty, sick, dying cowboy protagonist]] and a [[BigBad frumpy]] [[EvilOldFolks old]] {{fat|Bastard}} [[TheMole mole]] [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome seemed so epic]]!]]

** First of all, it reflects -gate scandals involving politicians. (GateConstruction, which Britney herself had one of, so also FunnyAneurysmMoment)

* In Music/WeirdAlYankovic's first, self-titled, album, he included the song "I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead." This includes a bridge that states multiple times about not wanting to be vegetarian and wanting to eat hamburgers. He's now a vegan, which makes listening to this song funny in a way he probably didn't intend in the early 80's.
** In an "Ask Al" article originally printed in April 1994 and available for reading on his website, Al admits that his pet peeves are "war, plague, famine & pestilence." Judging by the cover of his 2011 album "Alpocalypse", he's mended some broken bridges since then.
** Writing a rap song about the Milton Bradley board game Twister? Weird Al did it in 1988. Then Hasbro did it for real in 2011, complete with a website where you can download the single.
** Al once wrote a song called "I Lost on Jeopardy". Later, he went on ''Rock & Roll Series/{{Jeopardy}}''...[[SelfFulfillingProphecy and lost]].
*** Al also won a game of ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' during a charity week, but lost on the "Friday Finals" tournament at the end of the week.
** "Theme from Rocky XIII" depicted the Champ taking ownership of the neighborhood deli... twenty-two years before ''Film/RockyBalboa'', wherein he purchased a restaurant.
** In "It's All About the Pentiums", Al describes his personal computer as having a 40-inch-wide flatscreen monitor, 100 gigabytes of RAM, and a 32-bit operating system which is connected to the internet via a T1 line. While 40 inch monitors did exist and in fact became common a few years later as UsefulNotes/HighDefinition became standard, 32-bit x86 processors (Pentiums) cannot address more than 64 gigabytes of RAM, and no commercial 32-bit operating system as of 1999 permitted addressing more than 4. However, some versions of the 64-bit Windows 7 (and now Windows 8) can address 192 gigabytes of RAM thus making the lyrics of his song a possibility. As of now, most commercial motherboards can only support between 32-64 gigabytes of RAM. A dedicated RAM disk, on the other hand...
*** In the same song, Al says, "You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette." While small floppy diskettes can actually store up to over 200 megabytes of RAM, they were actually superseded through the years up from 1999 by data storage methods such as USB flash drives, which could now contain up to a terabyte; these drives were in their stages of infancy in 1999 at the time that the song was released, and did not go into the first commercial product until over a year later.
*** Also, not withstanding, that with the advance of this technology, it has since become common practice for one to back up their entire hard drive so they don't lose any of their files in the event of their computer becoming unusable.
** At one time in the music video for "White & Nerdy", one fictional ''TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit'' game asks a question on what page in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the next book]] Literature/HarryPotter [[TheHeroDies would die]]. Given the way ''Deathly Hallows'' ended...
** The video for "Ringtone", produced by the minds behind ''WesternAnimation/{{Supernews}}'', was released in August 2009. During the list of people who hate the ringtone, once the lyrics get to "all the Pakistanis", Osama bin Laden can be seen hiding behind them. The existence of the Abbottabad compound wouldn't be revealed to the American public until almost two years later.
** This happened ''twice'' to the song "Yoda", which features the line "I'll be playing [[Franchise/StarWars this part]] 'till I'm old and gray." At the time, it was believed that George Lucas had six more films planned in the series. He would later recant this claim, paring it back to just three films, all of them prequels that would not feature Luke at all, making the song amusingly dated. But then, in 2013, it became hilarious for the exact opposite reason -- a new trilogy was announced that would indeed feature Creator/MarkHamill in a supporting role as a much older Luke Skywalker.
** "Albuquerque":
--->And, by the way, if one day you happen to wake up and find yourself in an existential quandary, full of loathing and self-doubt, and wracked with the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence... at least you can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that somewhere out there in this crazy old mixed-up universe of ours, there's still a little place... [[Series/BreakingBad called Albuquerque!]]
** "White and Nerdy" has a line that mentions social networking site Website/MySpace, which was overtaken by Facebook in terms of popularity just a few short years later.
** The cover of ''Alpocalypse'' (released in 2011) features the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse, of which one is Al riding a horse that has his signature hairstyle for a mane. Cue February 2014, when Al ''voices'' a horse that has his signature hairstyle for a mane in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
*** One of the songs from that album, "Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me", had Al ranting about unwanted things being sent to his email address. In the same vain, one of those happened to be unicorns, one of the pony races in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic FiM]].
** From "[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Polkamon]]". [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Oh, if only he knew...]]
--->"Hold on a minute, there's still at least one hundred twenty-seven more!"

* Sally Shapiro's intended GrandFinale single was titled "If You Ever Wanna Change Your Mind". Sure enough, [[TenMinuteRetirement in late 2021, the duo got back together]].

** The video and single cover art for "We Made You" shows Slim Shady shirtless, in a fur deerstalker cap and facial hair, standing behind an American government desk ([[UnintentionalPeriodPiece attempting to seduce Sarah Palin]]). It's difficult to watch it after the 2021 storming of the Capitol without seeing it as Shady parodying [[https://twitter.com/Shadyinfo/status/1347175108142526466 the Q Shaman]].

** "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, after his post-2010 material like "Rap God", "Vegas" and "Godzilla" (or even his not-ultra-technical cuts like "Untitled", "Cold Wind Blows" or "Venom"), you could be forgiven for not even realising he'd finished warming up. The gasp therefore goes from a BadassBoast into [[ComicalOverreacting amusingly contrived]] [[MinorInjuryOverreaction overreacting]].