575: Tag Combination

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Tag Combination
I love Eileen / and want you to love her / When you're around / I'm one floor above her / If you could see / just how much I adore her / Oh, that pretty red dress / I'd do anything for her / (Too ra loo ra too ra loo rye ayy)
Title text: I love Eileen / and want you to love her / When you're around / I'm one floor above her / If you could see / just how much I adore her / Oh, that pretty red dress / I'd do anything for her / (Too ra loo ra too ra loo rye ayy)

Explanation

Ambox notice.png This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: If people could elaborate on the specific tags used in the comic, that would be great. Not a music buff, don't know much about these tags.
If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks.

Song tags are a form of file Metadata used to categorize music. Tags will typically describe the content and genre of the song, and many music organization programs and services will allow users to find all songs that contain a particular tag; so when a user searches for "Country breakup music," they will receive a list of country songs about breaking up.

In this comic, Cueball tests Megan's claim that she can make a song name for any set of tags by coming up with a collection of mostly unrelated words: "lesbian voyeurism one-hit wonder mash-up." In response, Megan almost immediately replies with two song titles that look like they would fit the tags well.

Megan's first title, "I Wish That Stacy's Mom Had Jessie's Girl" is a mash-up of Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield, and Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne, which were both one-hit-wonders. The second title, "When You Come on Eileen I Touch Myself" is a mash-up of Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners, and I Touch Myself by The Divinyls.

The title text is a set of potential lyrics to Megan's second title.

Transcript

Cueball: So you can come up with a song title fitting any tag combination?
Megan: Try me.
Cueball: Lesbian voyeurism one-hit wonder mash-up.
Megan: "I wish that Stacey's Mom had Jessie's Girl."
Cueball: Well, that was one, but-
Megan: "When you Come On Eileen I touch myself."
Cueball: Okay, wow.


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Heyyy, that's pretty good. 172.69.69.92 02:31, 11 July 2021 (UTC)