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"Hot n Cold" by Katy Perry is about a real guy - an ex who would seem really interested at times but would then just disappear.

In The Band song "The Weight," Nazareth ("Went down to Nazareth") refers to a town in Pennsylvania where the Martin Guitar company was located.

Lil Wayne does an unlikely rap in a remix of the Joe Jonas song "Just In Love." The pair met at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.

Michael Jackson wrote the Diana Ross hit "Muscles," which he named after his pet boa constrictor.

The Ricky Martin song "She Bangs" found new life when William Hung performed it so horribly on a 2004 episode of American Idol that it went viral.
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