Pop 101- Marianas Trench
Metafiction- occurs in fictional stories when the story examines the elements of fiction itself. In this case, the song Pop 101 illustrates exactly how a pop song is constructed.
Marianas Trench's Josh Ramsey wrote this song wanting to list and explain many conventions that can be found in almost EVERY pop song there is modern pop culture. During an interview, he mentioned, “A little while back, I did an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit. I ended up getting a lot of hilarious flak about ‘Call Me Maybe,’ which inspired me to write a list of instructions on how to create a huge pop song. I basically went on to write lyrics that explain step by step exactly what’s happening in the music at that moment. It’s meant to illustrate how big artists do their thing, like a magician revealing his secrets to an audience. It definitely pokes a lot of fun but it’s also meant as a tip of the hat to those artists. Above all, it’s very me – clever, silly and sassy to the core.”
And true to his word, all of this song's lyrics are exactly what you would find in almost any pop song. To view the lyrics to this song, click here. For example:
“The bridge is The part where You bring in A rapper friend You simplify, and slow the beat Abbreviate "feature to feat." ”- This so called 'instruction' is exactly like what you would find in most songs these days, where a song group would bring in a rapper to rap where the bridge part of a song is and feature his/her name in the song.
To view a website that breaks down Pop 101's lyrics further, click here.
Writing lyrics like this add to the overall song piece because we as the audience have learned to like how this layout is used for most pop songs, and to write a step-by-step song explaining exactly how this method is used is amazing, and gives us a chance to make fun of the pop music industry. When I first listened to this song, I found it really interesting because Josh Ramsey really excelled in basically making a how-to song that was both funny and entertaining.
“The bridge is The part where You bring in A rapper friend You simplify, and slow the beat Abbreviate "feature to feat." ”- This so called 'instruction' is exactly like what you would find in most songs these days, where a song group would bring in a rapper to rap where the bridge part of a song is and feature his/her name in the song.
To view a website that breaks down Pop 101's lyrics further, click here.
Writing lyrics like this add to the overall song piece because we as the audience have learned to like how this layout is used for most pop songs, and to write a step-by-step song explaining exactly how this method is used is amazing, and gives us a chance to make fun of the pop music industry. When I first listened to this song, I found it really interesting because Josh Ramsey really excelled in basically making a how-to song that was both funny and entertaining.
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