History MisaimedFandom / Music

* During the 2005 [[PoliticalSystemOfGermany German federal election]], future [[TheChancellorsOfGermany chancellor Angela Merkel's]] party attempted (and failed) to obtain the rights to use {{the Rolling Stones}} song "Angie" as the official song for her campaign. Considering that the song features lines like "But Angie, Angie, ain't it time we said good-bye?", the Stones probably did them a favour by denying them the rights.

* Rod Stewart took a lot of flack for "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" because people thought Rod was boasting about himself. Needless to say, he wasn't.

* In many films, when a character puts sunglasses and a leather jacket, then does something bad ass, ''Bad to the Bone'' by George Thorogood and the Destroyers will be played over the scene. Right away we know that this character is, in fact, bad to the bone. Who did Mister Thorogood have in mind whilst writing the song? Wait for it... Woody Allen!!

* The so-called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corna#Heavy_metal_subculture devil's horns]] hand gesture, popularized by the late singer RonnieJamesDio of Rainbow and BlackSabbath. was taken from his late Italian grandmother's Meditarrenean symbol for ''warding off'' the "evil eye", or the devil, as something to [[AudienceParticipationSong gather metal audiences together]]. It was later adopted by the heavy metal subculture as a satanic gesture.

* "Live To Win" has a really kickass melody and title, and was even used in the SouthPark episode "Make Love, Not {{Warcraft}}" for a training montage. However, if you actually read the lyrics, it's almost a completely depressing song about Obsession to the point of exhaustion or even death. However, it's possible that South Park did this intentionally for the irony. As they went through the Rocky-like WorldOfWarcraft training montage, physically the boys became LESS fit and agile.

** As far specific songs goes, there's "Guilty Of Being White". It's specifically about personal experiences Ian Mackaye had in high school, where he was the minority and was regularly beaten up for being white, but of course with a title like that it was also adopted as a pro-racism anthem.

* blink-182 created "All the Small Things" as a parody of boybands and pop music which resulted in numerous fans of the bands they were parodying flocking to them.

*** But then again, this song is from [[The Sixities]], a time when many Americans (especially those protesting the war) agreed with those viewpoints. The 60s was the era for protest songs.

* AliceCooper is maybe made of this trope. Alice (the stage persona) is supposed to be an evil character (hence the "executions" in live shows), and several of his songs like e.g. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDVhm0TErHs Wicked Young Man]] have the potential to be read in ways other than intended by Alice (the artist) himself.

* The Jonas Brothers covered Weezer's "My Name Is Jonas" live because of '''the title''' alone. Considering how different the lyrics are from their usual boy band bilge....

* Arguably the Gaga fans who like Gaga because she is "different" from usual pop stars and usually stick to indie artists or metal artists, even though she is not "different" from most contemporary pop for people who actually know anything about pop and her music is aimed at the pop crowd as a whole.

* During the 2005 German federal election, future chancellor Angela Merkel's party attempted (and failed) to obtain the rights to use {{the Rolling Stones}} song "Angie" as the official song for her campaign. Considering that the song features lines like "But Angie, Angie, ain't it time we said good-bye?", the Stones probably did them a favour by denying them the rights.

* KT Tunstal wrote "Suddenly I See" about Patti Smith. It was subsequently used in ''TheDevilWearsPrada''. Quoth Tunstal, "I didn't realize. . . it could sound like I was singing about wanting to be a fucking model!" Granted, the lyrics don't say ''why'' the narrator finds the unnamed woman so interesting.

* And even ''more'' misaimed Aussie patriotism (seems to be common) with the song "Waltzing Matilda". It's so famous and well-loved that some people push for it to be Australia's national anthem, and was again adopted by Australian cricket. Except that if one were to glance at the lyrics, they'd discover that the song was about a bushman who stole a sheep and then committed suicide in a lake to escape capture.
** [[DidNotDoTheResearch]]. The song's admirers (or at least those who first made it a patriotic anthem) were fully aware of what the lyrics said and their interpretation is entirely consistent with the author's intent, which was to romaticize life in the Australian bush. The swagman's sheep-stealing is supposed to celebrate how he's fiercely independent and lives off the land and his wits, in contrast to the wealthy, soft, greedy landowners. It's very similar to fiction set in the waning days of the American Old West, where the cowboys who practice open grazing are celebrated, in contrast to the rapacious cattle barons who owned huge ranches surrounded by barbed wire (which ended up replacing replaced the cowboy). The bushman's jumping into the lake to drown is supposed to show that he loves his freedom and independence so much that he'd rather die than let himself be imprisoned by {{The Man}}. It's essentially his {{I Die Free}} moment. Thinking that those traits aren't worty of patriotic lionization is {{Values Dissonance}} between a troper and the song's author/admirers, not misaimed fandom on the part of the admirers.

*** Actually, how is this "misaimed fandom." It's misinterpereting his lyrics, but unless there's a group of skinheads who became MJ fans because of this, it's hardly misaimed "fandom."

* The song "Song 2" by {{Blur}} was created as a mocking parody of the flash-in-the-pan "[[PostGrunge post-grunge]]" music (like Candlebox and Seven Mary Three) popular in the United States at the time. Unfortunatly, the song became wildly popular with the fans of the same genre they were mocking and hence, it became their biggest hit in the country. The fact that alternative rock radio - then beginning its split between more "indie rock" leaning stations and the [[PostGrunge post-grunge]]/ {{nu metal}} stations - picked up the song and played it to death didn't help things much.

* Many fans in the western side of the world inexplicably fail to realize that HelloProject fandom is meant to include both ninth-grade girls ''and college-age '''guys'''''.

* Like "I Will Always Love You" and "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)", "Every Breath You Take" by ThePolice is often played as a ballad of love, when in fact it's anything but. Sting wrote it after a guy [[StalkerWithACrush was stalking his wife]] to show the fine line between love and obsession.

** I don't think people see this as a love song. It doesn't stray away from the fact that it's pretty sexy.