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Telephone Song
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A popular way to convey details about someone's relationship is to have them sing about their telephone calls. One person is often singing about how much they want to call another person, or for another person to call them. The singer acquires his true love's phone number and has to muster the courage to call her; or maybe he's nervous because she promised she would call him and he's starting to have doubts. The song might convey a call's dialogue with one or two people singing about their conversation. The song could also take place in the aftermath of an attempted telephone call and describe its emotional toll. While these types of Telephone Songs are popular, the genre also covers a wide range of situations involving telephone calls, including gossip, prank calls, and advertisements. As communication technology has evolved, so have songs about them. In many countries payphones and phone booths are disappearing, so songs that mention them are becoming rarer. Mobile phones are becoming more popular, though landline phones are still prevalent in popular culture. Often overlaps with Break-Up Song. Super-trope to Phone Number Jingle. |
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Foreigner: "Love on the Telephone" is about nervously maintaining a long-distance relationship. | |
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"The Telephone Hour" in Bye Bye Birdie has a bunch of characters singing over the telephone that Hugo gave his fraternity pin to Kim, which symbolizes they're in a serious relationship. | |
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"The Smart Phone Hour" from Be More Chill is a reference to the above song. It features Jenna, Brooke, and Chloe spreading gossip about the party from the night before—namely Rich setting a fire at the house. | |
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Carly Rae Jepsen: "Call Me Maybe" is about giving one's number to a love interest. | |
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Travis Tritt's "Here's A Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares", which is a Break-Up Song where the singer leaves his ex by a payphone with a quarter to call someone else. | |
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The Replacements: In "Answering Machine", the singer gets frustrated when he's trying to call someone but only gets the answering machine. | |
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The whole trope wouldn't be possible without Alexander Graham Bell! | |
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Sesame Street In "Telephone Rock", Little Jerry and the Monotones ask the operator to "put some rockin' and rollin' on the telephone." Eventually the operator calls the police on them. At the end of the song, Big Bird says "I wonder how they got that piano in there?" Monty in "Watermelons and Cheese" advises the characters how to properly answer the telephone, saying you should't say "watermelons and cheese" (unless you're a watermelon or a cheese). |
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The Sonic Boom episode "Mister Eggman" has a "The Villain Sucks" Song done as a homage to Bye Bye Birdie's "The Telephone Hour". | |
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Undertale, has the "Wrong Number Song", which is sung by a caller during a random even in Snowdin who realizes they got the wrong number. | |
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Rixton: "Speakerphone" has the singer calling his baby only when he's drunk, and demanding that she uses speakerphone because he knows she's not alone. | |
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Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson: The 1899 song "Hello! Ma Baby", popularized by the short One Froggy Evening, is probably the Ur-Example. It has a man singing about his girlfriend, whom he only knows through the telephone. | |
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beabadoobee: The chorus of "Worth It" is about difficulties communicating over the phone and text with a new love interest, while the music video consists of Bea running around picking up and hanging up a landline phone. "She Plays Bass" begins with worries about not getting texts from someone, before switching topics for the rest of the song. |
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The Steven Universe song "Full Disclosure", from the episode of the same name, is about Steven not answering Connie's persisting phone calls because he feels he needs to push her away for her own safety. Steven's custom ringtone for Connie is the refrain. | |
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Phineas and Ferb episode "Backyard Aquarium": "When Will He Call Me" is a song about Candace's distress over waiting for Jeremy to call or message her. | |
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Both of the theme songs for Crank Yankers qualify: "Come one, come all, 'cause we're havin' a ball. We're just makin' some calls to strangers!" and "This the new edition Mr. Telephone Man. Somebody playin' on the lines, run as fast you can!" | |
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Ditto Sandy & Junior's "Baby, Liga Pra Mim". | |
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Madness's "Close Escape" from Absolutely is a black comedy number from the point of view of an obscene phone caller. | |
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In the theme song for Kim Possible, Kim tells the audience to "Call me, beep me" if they need to reach her for help. The chime of her communication device is incorporated into the music. | |
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CollegeHumor has a sketch called "The Other Side Of Adele's 'Hello'". Mike Trapp is Adele's ex-boyfriend and she keeps calling him during their meeting. He keeps picking up and talking to her because he's afraid... that she's gonna write a song about him. | |
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Fountains of Wayne: "Hung Up on You" tells the story of a guy who keeps calling his former lover from lots of different places, hoping to get through to her. | |
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The Two Ronnies as Jehosophat and Jones: In "Stuttering Bum" the singer is calling his love on the telephone, trying to overcome a nervous stutter as he does so. | |
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Elvis Costello: "No Action" (from This Year's Model) is from the perspective of a man who no longer feels anything for his girlfriend—mentioning several times how, every time they talk on the phone, all he wants to do is hang up. | |
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The theme of the Ghostbusters franchise urges listeners to call the ghost-hunting team. | |
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Charlie Puth: In "One Call Away", the singer assures his lover he'll be there if she calls. | |
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AC/DC: "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" is about a hooligan who tells various subjects to call him so he can relieve certain issues. | |
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Tommy Tutone: "867-5309/Jenny" is about a guy who finds Jenny's number on some Bathroom Stall Graffiti and wants to call it. The number in question has since become a Stock Shout-Out. | |
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Blondie: "Call Me" is about the day to day business of a call girl. Their song "Hanging On the Telephone" is about a women's frustration with a guy leaving her hanging on the telephone. |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus' "The Phone-In" is ostsensibly a panel discussion where listeners call with questions. The topic is farming but the calls coming in are from what sounds like a clandestine love affair with some cheating going on. The studio guests actually engage the callers. When an actual call about farming comes in, the presenter intones "I'm sorry but we only want questions about farming!" | |
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Logic, Khalid, and Alessia Cara: "1-800-273-8255" is about talking someone out of suicide. The title is the number of the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, though it isn't actually mentioned in the song itself. | |
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10cc: "Don't Hang Up" is about a man trying to rekindle things while on the phone with his estranged wife. Fittingly enough it's the last song on the last album before Kevin Godley and Lol Creme left the band. | |
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In Bells Are Ringing, the song "A Perfect Relationship" is about how a telephone operator has a crush on one of her clients. They can only hear each other's voices, too bad she put on an old woman voice to talk to him at first and is now stuck. | |
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Cole Swindell's "Dad's Old Number": the narrator reflexively calls the number years after his father passed away; the song is his conversation with the stranger who answers. | |
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Parry Gripp: "I'm A Crazy Weirdo" is, well... a song about a self-proclaimed "crazy weirdo" calling someone repeatedly. "You're Driving Me Crazy" features someone complaining about someone who won't stop calling them. "This Is My Ringtone" is a person's ringtone that seems to exist only to gloat about the fact that the phone it's on is an iPhone. |
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