The events described in Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic," like rain on your wedding day, are not examples of irony. Irony is the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.
Pink wrote "Just Give Me A Reason" about how one partner can feel jilted over something trivial, like how her boyfriend passes her the butter.
Bruce Springsteen's "Streets Of Philadelphia" won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1994, beating out Neil Young's "Philadelphia," which was also written for the movie Philadelphia.
"Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve samples an obscure orchestral arrangement of the 1965 Rolling Stones song "The Last Time." The Verve had to sign away most of the royalties before they could release the song.
"Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" was written by Boy George about his relationship with Culture Club's drummer Jon Moss.
"Pink Cadillac" was a B-side for Bruce Springsteen in 1984, but after Aretha Franklin sang about pink Cadillacs on "Freeway Of Love" the following year, Natalie Cole covered the song and had a hit with it in 1988.
Rickie Lee Jones on songwriting, social media, and how she's handling Trump.
Some album art was at least "inspired" by others. A look at some very similar covers.
With his X-wife Exene, John fronts the band X and writes their songs.
Chad tells tales from his time as drummer for Nirvana, and talks about his group Before Cars.
Jim talks about the impact of "The Middle" and uses a tree metaphor to describe his songwriting philosophy.
The longtime Eagle talks about soaring back to his solo career, and what he learned about songwriting in the group.