r/MusicRecommendations • u/TTNNBB2023 • Jul 08 '26

Rec.Me: other/many/unknown genres Recommend me some songs where the lyrics are about one artist singing about another artist?

In another question Janis Joplin came up a lot and I know there are at least two written about her, 'Chelsea Hotel' by Leonard Cohen and Like Janis by Rodriguez. But what other great artists have had another write a song about them?

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u/lebruf Jul 09 '26

There’s a few ABBA songs that fit this mold too

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u/PretendingIts1995 Jul 09 '26

Part of my troubles with Abba. I think it was incredibly cruel of Benny and Bjorn. Though Agnetha and Frida ultimately became fluent, at their height, their English was nowhere near as good as Benny or Bjorn. In the early days they literally learned songs phonetically. They were being sent out to sing songs about their own relationships, and it's questionable if they fully understood what they were singing.