Opera tunes are traditionally known by their first lines note This is mostly for practical purposes. Or sometimes the other way around, which apparently represents the musicians giving up and titling the song what everyone calls it anyway, but retaining their original title in parenthetized form. Phrase 1 is the official title and Phrase 2 is the line that repeatedly appears in the lyrics that everyone thinks is the title. Songs that outlast their initial airplay popularity to become incorporated into other works such as films and video games as background music are particularly vulnerable to this, as contemporary listeners can catch the title being mentioned by a radio DJ or see the credits of the music video.Īs a general rule, if the song title is given as "Phrase 1 (Phrase 2)", it's probably this type of song. Also, songs are frequently played on the radio (or by friends) with no introduction, so the best anyone can do for identification is typing whatever line is most memorable into Google with "lyrics" after it or humming a few bars. In the defense of such listeners, this Title Confusion often results from idiosyncratic song naming, where the title of the song has apparently nothing whatsoever to do with the tune (thereby averting Title Drop). They're liable to say something like "I love that song 'Teenage Wasteland'" and get permanently branded a noob or a poser, or just get banned altogether for mentioning a Fandom-Enraging Misconception. However, woe betide to the casual listener who assumes that this is true of all songs. Most songs have the title of the song as the refrain or otherwise prominently featured in the lyrics.
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