MC Skat Kat was created for the remix of "Opposites Attract," which was released as the last single from Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl album. The team that created the Kat also did a-ha's "Take On Me" video.
The CCR song "Run Through the Jungle" is about gun control.
Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" was the best-selling song of the 2000s in the US.
Jessie J had a lyric from her song "Who You Are" tattooed on her hip, but she spelled "lose" incorrectly so it reads: "Don't loose who you are in the blur of the stars."
Michael Jackson's "Liberian Girl" opens with the South African female singer Letta Mbulu saying the Swahili phrase "Naku penda piya-naku taka piya-mpenziwe." There was some geographic liberty here, as Swahili is not spoken in the West African nation of Liberia.
Jack & Diane started off as an interracial couple; Mellencamp took race references out of the song at the request of his record company.
Rickie Lee Jones on songwriting, social media, and how she's handling Trump.
Famous songs that lent their titles - and in some cases storylines - to movies.
Graham Nash tells the stories behind some of his famous songs and photos, and is asked about "yacht rock" for the first time.
Is Owl City on a quest for another hit like "Fireflies?" Adam answers that question and explains the influences behind many others.
He wrote "She Blinded Me With Science" so he could direct a video about a home for deranged scientists.
Known in America for the hit "If You Leave," OMD is a huge influence on modern electronic music.