She utilized the Michael Jackson reference in the song to perform a dance routine paying homage to Jackson, at the awards ceremony.
The songs from his latest album, "A Sailor's Guide to Earth," served as the road journal of a weary troubadour and an open letter to his young son, a mix of parental advice, lost-at-sea longing and tall tales (with likely the first reference in a country song to "king cobras fighting in boxing rings").
The choice of name was tongue-in-cheek as Lennon regarded the reference in the school song to "straining each muscle and sinew" as risible.
Sigur Rós have made a career out of being alien and remote, but Of Monsters and Men seem instinctively down-to-earth, from the mulchy references in their songs to their proto-Dexys wardrobe.
(She says that she got the name from a reference, in a Nick Cave song, to the Greenwich Village hospital where Dylan Thomas died).
Nor were they afraid to be obvious, putting drug references in song titles and reveling in the wallop of simple rock beats.
Louboutin, whose name has been referenced in songs by everyone from Jennifer Lopez to the Beastie Boys, is keen to protect his signature from those who would like a piece of his high-profile red carpet monopoly.
Angry and unfocused, she denounced her ex-lover's tendency to "turn the tables" on her during their arguments, an expression that Tedder decided to reference in the song's lyrics.
I had Izzy Stradlin from Guns N' Roses storm out because I had the temerity to ask about heroin references in songs the band had gone on record as saying were, um, about heroin.
The station was often referenced in songs, most notably Sway's Little Derek and Lady Sovereign's 2006 hit 9 to 5: ("Oh! Channel U are the ones that made me huge / Like Katie Price's boobs").
