History Main / ThisIsASong

* The Music/{{AJR}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4THFRpw68oQ "Bang!"]] includes the lyrics "pretend you love this song everybody" in the chorus.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' has "This is the Song That Goes On Forever", in a parody of the aforementioned "Song That Doesn't End".

* [[WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}} I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes...]]
** [[WesternAnimation/RobotBoy I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes...]]
*** [[RuleOfThree I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes...]]
*** [[OverlyLongGag I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes...]]
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blld6o0D2gs I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes...]]
*** [[OverlyLongGag This is the song that never ends/ And it goes on and on my friends/ Some people started singing it not knowing what it was/ and now they keep on singing it forever just because...]]
*** [[StopHavingFunGuys I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes...]]
*** [[PlaygroundSong I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes...]]
* "Let's Fighting Love" from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has the Japanese parts not only acknowledging that it's a song but mocking the fact that the English sections make no sense.
* Bubbles intones these lyrics from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''' "Love Makes The World Go 'Round":
-->''Everyone's got a special song deep inside their heart,''\\
''If you want you can sing with us, it's a perfect place to start.''
* In its {{Mister Sandman Sequence}}s, ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' has a "Generic [Time Period and Genre]" song playing on a car radio. As can be assumed by the titles, these songs have some very meta lyrics. For example:
-->''Generic '80s New Wave, be bop be bop be bop''\\
''This is a song from the '80s''\\
''The decade that you're currently in!''
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the yak song, which is about how it's not very long.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has the closing lines of the Fireside Girls' theme song from "Isabella and the Temple of Sap":
-->''This is the Fireside Girls song!''\\

** Also, "Buildin' a Supercomputer"
--> ''Our song is synchronic, not the least bit ironic\\
What you hear is exactly what you see\\

* [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Spongebob]]'s "The Campfire Song Song".
** Also, Patrick's song "I Wrote This".

-->''Oh, baby, I'm a-rackin' my brain, to think of a name\\

'Cause everyone's swingin' today''

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Whenever ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'s'' Team Rocket decide to forgo their usual motto in favor of a song:
--> ''You know us as Team Rocket, and we fight for what is wrong.''\\
''We're tired of our motto, so we thought we'd try a song.''

[[folder:Film - Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Shalalala float along, and listen to the song, the song say "Kiss the Girl!"]]
* "The Credits Song" from ''[[WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie]]'':
-->''This is the song that comes under the credits, These are the credits, so this is where it goes. Has nothing to do with the movie, so we'll say: Hey, hey, hey-hey hey hey hey hey!''
** And then later:
-->''There should be a rule that the song under the credits, remotely pertains to the movie's basic plot! That rule has not been made, so for now we'll have to say: Hey, hey, hey-hey hey hey hey hey!''

[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]

-->''You're watching Spy Hard.''\\
''It's the theme from Spy Hard.''

-->''I'm singing...I'm in a store, and I'm singing...''

--> "Hey, what's the use of singing this song/Some of you are not even listening"

--> The guy who wrote this song was deaf\\

This is the chorus, you're hearing now.

* "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Song That Never Ends]]" from ''Series/LambChopsPlayAlong''.
* [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] [[WithLyrics made one]] for ''Film/FugitiveAlien'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juvKrcMWXKc This is the song written for the train chase...]]

-->Oh, baby, I'm a-rackin' my brain, to think of a name\\

'Cause everyone's swingin' today

[[folder:Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy]]
* "The Chicken Parmigiana Song" on The D-Generation's ''The Satanic Sketches'' album, about a singer in a crowded hotel:
-->I'm just a singer in a crowded hotel\\
I only work here 'cause the money's steady\\
Sometimes I think no one's listening to my song\\
''(over PA, drowning out singer)'' Number 26! Your chicken parmigiana is ready!
* Comedy duo Shortis & Simpson have an AudienceParticipationSong called "Don't You hate It When They Make You Sing Along?"
* "This is the Chorus" by Morris Minor and the Majors, which is a parody of Music/StockAitkenWaterman that describes how formulaic it is.
-->And this is the chorus, yeah, this is the chorus,\\
It goes around and around and gets into your brain.\\
This is the chorus, the fabulous chorus,\\
And thirty seconds from now, you're gonna hear it again.

[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' has "Secret Song", the secret song on the CD ''Music/StrongBadSingsAndOtherTypeHits'', which is a love song sung by Homestar directed toward... the secret song.

* [[http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/annoying/ Oh my word! This Tune is annoying!]]
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' replaces the Shining Time song in ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'' with something [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovcUgFxV_GQ along these lines]]:
-->Here's our generic song\\

--> ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDD0JcHj40g This is a song,]] [[CaptainObvious this is a song]]. Everybody knows the words 'cause I just said them all.''

* WebOriginal/FundayPawpetShow's birthday song goes as follows (to the tune of "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay"):
-->This is your birthday song\\
It isn't very long

* WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie has ‘The Credits Song’:
—-> ‘’There once was a song that ran under the credits.’’\\
‘’These are the credits, so this is where it goes.’’\\
‘’Has nothing to do with the movie so we’ll say, hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey.’’

--> ''You know us as Team Rocket, and we fight for what is wrong.''
--> ''We're tired of our motto, so we thought we'd try a song.''

[[folder:Film]]
* The TitleThemeTune from ''Film/SpyHard''. Of course, given [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic the artist who wrote it]] and [[{{Parody}} the type of film it is]]...
-->''You're watching Spy Hard.''
-->''It's the theme from Spy Hard.''

* [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Shalalala float along, and listen to the song, the song say "Kiss the Girl!"]]

-->This is the last cowboy song

* Anything by Music/FallOutBoy.

Generally PlayedForLaughs. Closely related to TheSomethingSong. Compare SelfDemonstratingSong. Sometimes BreakingTheFourthWall. See also TropeName, {{Postmodernism}} and HeavyMeta.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

*** [[PlaygroundSong I know a song that gets on everybody's nevers, and this is how it goes...]]
* "Let's Fighting Love" from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has the Japanese parts not only acknowledging that it's a song, but mocking the fact that the English sections make no sense.

-->''Generic 80s New Wave, be bop be bop be bop''\\
''This is a song from the 80s''\\

-->''I may have made it rain''
-->''Please forgive me''
-->''My weakness caused you pain''
-->''And this song is my sorry''

-->''I am no good for you; I can do no wrong''
-->''I've written you this song''

-->''I hate the world''
-->''I hate my life and this song''
-->''Now run along''

-->''Now here's the part of the song where you'd expect to find a little''
-->''IRONY!''
-->''About how I'd really much rather have you back''
-->''SORRY!''

-->''This is a song,''
-->''All about...''
-->''The best darned food in the world,''
-->''It's called [[RuleOfThree Chick-Chick-Chicken]] and Corn.''

-->''And you can tell everybody''
-->''This is your song.''

-->''Don't play that song''
-->''That "Achy Breaky" song''
-->''You know I hate that song a bunch''
-->''And if you play that song''
-->''That nauseating song''
-->''It might just make me lose my lunch.''

-->''I've taken enough of your time with this stuff,''
-->''And all without a change of key.''
-->''The intention here was to try and help make it clear''
-->''Not to start crying pity for me.''

--> ''This may be the last thing''
--> ''That I write for long.''
--> ''Can you hear me smiling''
--> ''When I sing this song,''
--> ''For you and only you?''

--> ''Now she's even got her own song (But movin' on)''

---> ''It's the last song I'll ever write for you''
---> ''It's the last time that I'll tell you''
---> ''Just how much I really care''
---> ''This is the last song I'll ever sing for you''
---> ''You'll come looking for the light''
---> ''And it won't be there''

-->''I couldn't tell you that I was wrong,''
-->''Chickened out, grabbed a pen and a paper, sat down and I wrote this song.''

--> ''Second verse,''
--> ''The same as the first.''
--> ''I forgot the words again.''

--> ''Well, I thought I'd write a little song,''
--> ''So I wrote a little song.''
--> ''Then I tried to write some lyrics,''
--> ''But I didn't last too long.''
--> ''So I figured: why not sing about me''
--> ''Trying to write a song an' stuff,''
--> ''And I decided to keep on singing 'till I had had enough.''

* Let's not forget Music/{{Bowling for Soup}}'s song "A Really Cool Dance Song".
--> ''This song sounds like a dance song''
--> ''Because dance songs are cool now''
--> ''So get up and shake what your mama gave you''
--> ''It's our attempt at a dance song''
--> ''A really cool dance song''
--> ''It's gonna be a great big hit!''

--> ''I almost wrote a song, about you today,''
--> ''But I tore it all up and then I threw it away!''

--> ''There's only two songs in me, and I just wrote the third.''
--> ''Don't know where I got the inspiration or how I wrote the words.''
--> ''Spent my whole life just diggin' up my music's shallow grave''
--> ''For the two songs in me, and the third one I just made.''

--> ''This is a song about boys and girls''
--> ''You hear it playing all over the world''
* {{Music/Pulp}}'s "The Fear":
--> ''So now you know the words to our song,''
--> ''Pretty soon you'll all be singing along.''
--> ''When you're sad, when you're lonely & it all turns out wrong.''

--> ''So with the angst of a teenage band''
--> ''Here's another song about a gender I'll never understand''
--> ''Here's another song about a gender I'll never understand''

--> ''I'm writing a song all about you''
--> ''A true song as real as my tears''
--> ''But you've no need to fear it, 'cause no one will hear it''
--> ''Sad songs and waltzes aren't selling this year''

---> ''This is the part of the song where I talk about emotions''
---> ''And this is the part of the song where I sing about how I feel so cold inside''
---> ''And this is where my producer told me''
---> ''To say "Yeah!" (yeah!)''

--> ''This song ain't bad or good and as far as I know''
--> ''Don't infringe on anyone's copyright so''
--> ''This song we'll let be''

-->''This, this is our new song''
-->''Just like the last one''
-->''A total waste of time''
-->''My iron lung...''

-->''Here is my song for the asking''
-->''Ask me and I will play''
-->''So sweetly I'll make you smile''
-->''This is my tune for the taking''
-->''Take it, don't turn away''

-->''I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song''
-->''I'm twenty-two now, but I won't be long''

-->''Now it is time for the breakdown.''
-->''The breakdown allows the track to really break the repetition.''
-->''Let's filter the hi-hat, let's filter the chords, let's filter the bass.''
-->''I like the filters. I like the grooves, but I digress.''

-->''And I can tell now by the way that you’re looking at me''
-->''I’d better finish this song so my lips will be free.''

-->''This ain't no love song''
-->''I just felt like gettin' my guitar on''
-->''And singing a tune, singing about you''
-->''Yeah feeling good and tapping my shoes''
-->''And all this stuff I’m making up''
-->''Well, you probably wont be hearing it on the radio''
-->''But then you never know''
-->''So baby, if you want, you can sing along''
-->''But this ain’t no love song''

-->''And when at last I find you,''
-->''This song will fill the air''
-->''Sing it loud so I can hear you, make it easy to be near you''

--->''This is a great big opening song...''
--->''This is a very simple tune...''
--->''This is the song you've already heard...''

---> ''This iiisss - the Very Happy Ending Song !''
---> ''It's a happy, clappy ending song, it's a bit too long,''
---> ''But it has to go right here !''

-->''So this is a song about nothing (Nothing!)''
-->''This is a song about nothing at all''
-->''Some other bands try to write serious songs''
-->''But we'll just have a ball''

-->''And when I have some words''
-->''This is the way I'll sing -''
-->''Through a distortion box ''
-->''To make them menacing''
-->''Yeah, then I'm gonna have to write a chorus''
-->''We're gonna need to have a chorus''
-->''And this seems to be as good as any other place to sing it till I'm blue in the face''

-->''Welcome to this song, which I wrote all myself''
-->''It's all about this song, which I did write''

-->''Well we got no class''
-->''And we got no principles''
-->''And we got no innocence''
-->''We can't even think of a word that rhymes''

-->''This is not a song about politics''
-->''This is not a song about sex...''

-->'''Scatman John:''' Hey Louis!
-->'''Ghost of Louis Armstrong:''' Yeah...?
-->'''SJ:''' Is that you?
-->'''LA:''' Yes, yes.
-->'''SJ:''' Oh, I'm Scatman John! Would you like to sing a song, man?
-->'''LA:''' Well, sure could! Look out...

-->This is my song for you
-->Happiness will see you through
-->Listen to what I say
-->We can make a happy day

-->Just listen to the song,
-->That's as close as you'll get
-->To any sense of hope
-->To get your soul out of debt.

-->The end of a hundred year waltz
-->The voices sound sad as they're singing along
-->Another piece of America's lost

-->This is my fight song
-->Take back my life song
-->Prove I'm alright song

-->This is my heartbeat song and I'm gonna play it
-->Been so long I forgot how to turn it up up up up all night long

-->Here's our generic song
-->It sounds like hundreds of other songs
-->Things are always nice in this song
-->That's why no-one remembers it

-->''This is the Fireside Girls song!''
-->''And it's not too terribly long.''

-->''Everyone's got a special song deep inside their heart,''
-->''If you want you can sing with us, it's a perfect place to start.''

* Subverted by "This is Not a Song, It's a Sandwich" by Music/{{Psychostick}}. [[CaptainObvious Which is not a song]], [[SarcasmMode it's a sandwich]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo1VInw-SKc "Fight Song"]] by Rachel Platten

* Music/LeonardCohen' "Hallelujah" spells its own chord progression.

* The Frank And Walters' "This Is Not A Song", which arrives at its chorus after first telling us a whole list of things the song is ''not''.

* The Frank And Walters' "This Is Not A Song", which arrives at its [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming chorus]] after first telling us a whole list of things the song is ''not''.

* "This is the Chorus" by Morris Minor and the Majors, which is a parody of a Stock, Aitken and Waterman song that describes how formulaic it is.

* WebVideo/KeyOfAwesome's take on "You Don't Know You're Beautiful" by Music/OneDirection has this for its bridge: