Random Song Titles We Just Now Realized We’ve Been Getting Wrong (13 items)

(#9) Nope, It's Not 'Apple Bottom Jeans,' It's 'Low'

Flo Rida's debut single “Low,” featuring T-Pain, is widely known by its most prominent lyric, “Apple Bottom Jeans.” The song was a massive success, being the most-downloaded digital song of the 2000s.
Fun fact: The “Apple Bottom Jeans” are not a reference to the shape of a woman's backside, but the brand started by rapper Nelly in 2003.
(#12) Total Eclipse of My Heart
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The most interesting thing about this one is not whether you thought this song was titled “Turn Around” or “Bright Eyes,” but that it was originally titled “Vampires in Love.”
This multi-award-winning UK number-one song was written and produced by Jim Steinman, who told Playbill,
With “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” I was trying to come up with a love song, and I remembered I actually wrote that to be a vampire love song. Its original title was “Vampires in Love” because I was working on a musical of Nosferatu, the other great vampire story.
(#1) Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
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Yep, the “Pina Colada” song is titled “Escape.” And if this comes as a surprise, it may gratify you to know that the word “escape” only appears in the song four times.
Of course, the much more prominent “pina coladas” only appear in the song five times, so…
Rupert Holmes has expressed some disdain for the song, believing it has overshadowed the rest of his songwriting career:
I have a feeling that if I saved an entire orphanage from a fire and carried the last child out on my shoulders, as I stood there charred and smoking, they’d say, "Aren’t you the guy who wrote the piña colada song?"
(#8) Tubthumping
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“Tub-thumping” means to express yourself in a loud, public, possibly violent, rant. That makes this one-hit wonder from Chumbawamba aptly named, though many people probably refer to it by its declamatory chorus: “I Get Knocked Down.”
According to Boff Whalley (founding member of Chumbawamba), the song is a drinking song inspired by an often inebriated neighbor that would always sing "Danny Boy” when drunk and falling over. Yet, it's also about the struggles of the middle class, which is in line with the UK band's anarchist and anti-establishment messaging featured in their other songs.
(#11) Baby Got Back
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Although it might seem like the real title, “I Like Big Butts" is only a lyric in Sir Mix-A-Lot's immensely successful song "Baby Got Back.” At the time, this was an intensely controversial and misunderstood song that Sir-Mix-Alot did not think would be successful. He even said:
I hated “Baby Got Back.” I thought, “This song will never make it.” I thought it was going to p*** everybody off.
The song was also believed to be taboo and sexual because of its reference to women with big butts, but according to Sir Mix-A-Lot, that wasn’t his intention:
When I did the song… it was supposed to be something serious. But I was being tongue-in-cheek about it. People think I wrote it as a novelty song, but I really didn’t. If you listen to the lyrics, it’s actually saying some real sh*t but I’m having fun with it. It was basically me mocking what, at that time, was the establishment’s idea of what beauty was. That’s what that song’s about.
(#10) Wannabe
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According to one study, “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls is the catchiest song in the United Kingdom in recent history. It's been almost 27 years since this debut song was released and went to the number-one spot in many countries worldwide, including the UK, Australia, and the US.