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Radio Song
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A Radio Song is any song about the medium or culture of radio itself, or that incorporates it as a central metaphor. Radio as a technology and as a medium has played an indispensable role in shaping our popular culture and consciousness—especially so in the world of music. For decades before the advent of streaming services and widely available digital music, radio was the arbiter of public taste: who got played on the radio (and at what time of day) dictated who got popular and sold records, ranking systems like the Top 40 decided who was the best of the best, and station identities helped codify modern genre classifications. As such, many artists over the years have had a . . . complex relationship to this medium that could make or break them on a whim. And, as musicians tend to do when confronted with complexity, many have written songs about it. Since most of these songs were themselves written to be played on the radio, this is a subtrope of Heavy Meta. However, these can forfeit their own Radio Friendliness if they overlap with Protest Songs written by Disillusioned Artists about how Music Is Politics. Compare Hymn to Music, This Is a Song. Sister-trope to Rock Star Song. Because of the prominence of car radios, this often overlaps with Driving Song and maybe Car Song. Not to Be Confused with Radio Friendliness, about songs written for but not about radio. |
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Daryl Hall & John Oates' "Portable Radio" is an ode to the portable fun of the boom box and FM radio. Hell, the cover of the album it's from, X-Static, features a boom box in its pure glory. From the same album, the video for Wait For Me depicts the band playing inside a boom box. |
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Rush's "The Spirit of Radio" is half a delightfully verbose celebration of the medium and half a lament on FM radio passing into more regulated, commercial formats during the late 70s. | |
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Mark Germino's "Rex Bob Lowenstein" is about a Johnny Fever type D.J. who refuses to play the station's playlist and has to be dragged out of the booth. | |
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Twenty One Pilots have "Car Radio," about someone whose car radio has been stolen discovering how much they've been using music to block out uncomfortable thoughts. | |
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Bonnie Raitt's "Love Letter", about writing a love letter while listening to a love song on the radio. | |
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One of Elvis Costello's most beloved songs (and the one that got him banned from Saturday Night Live for a while) is the iconoclastic "Radio Radio." | |
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Maren Morris's "My Church" combines this with Driving Song, describing listening to music on the road as a religious experience. | |
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"On the Radio" by Cheap Trick, which Rick Nielsen described as "about being fourteen years old and wishing you had a car, riding out, where your best friend was the guy on the radio." | |
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Queen's "Radio Ga Ga," an unabashed ode to the radio. | |
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Sloan: "Listen To The Radio" where the singer listens to the radio but there is just static. | |
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"Midnight Radio" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, about the magic of radio and rock 'n roll. | |
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Rammstein's "Radio" is about evading East Germany's censorship by surreptitiously listening to foreign broadcasts late at night on shortwave radios. | |
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