I'm not talking about songs that have a dated sound (there's more than I could ever list).
I'm referring to songs with a specific date or year in the lyrics, that are mentioned as the present or future.
Like Prince's "1999" (which will not be played as much now that it's date has come and gone). These are songs for which
the present or future they refer to, has come and gone. 1999 was the future in 1982, 1999 has now passed.
What I am NOT looking for, are songs like Bowling for Soup's "1985" which are written after the date
they are talking about. This song is looking back, or written from the point of view of after the date mentioned.
We also accept lyrics that mention prices that are now dated, such as 10 cent pay phone calls. Lyrics that mention a persons age at the time and that person is now past said age, and lyrics that mentioned events that were current at the time of the song but have now passed are also accepted.
Basically anything that definitively dates a song by any means other than the way it "sounds". Words/phrases/singing styles or instruments that were used commonly in a time period but are no longer used that much today are not accepted.
Dated References, ARTIST
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Hey would you help me make it to my rockin' chair
Love me all of my life
Don't wanna grow old without ya
Don't wanna be out in the cold without ya
No more
B. J. Thomas died in 2021, so his rocking chair phase has come and gone.
Submitted by: Not the Same Bob
I looked at my wife
And then and there I thanked the good Lord
For the gifts in my life
That's not Trisha Yearwood he's referring to (whom he hadn't met at the time), but his first wife and mother of his three children.
Submitted by: Nc Rene
Her Majesty is a pretty nice girl But she doesn't have a lot to say Her Majesty is a pretty nice girl But she changes from day to day I wanna tell her that I love her a lot But I gotta get a belly full of wine Her Majesty is a pretty nice girl Someday I'm gonna make her mine, oh yeah Someday I'm gonna make her mine
Queen Elizabeth died in 2022 (53 years after this song released)
Submitted by: Burger King Corporation
Our work is never over
Daft Punk broke up… their work is over btw the security code was “PS5” lol
Submitted by: Clever Name
It's got a CD player!
CD players in cars were considered impressive when the song came out, but not so much nowadays.
Submitted by: Steve
Tom Lerther's, "We Will All Go together When We Go"
Nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak
The world's population is slightly over 8 million in 2022
Submitted by: dayna
Chuck Wagon for the dawg in you
Ken-L-Ration and the Alpo too
Two dog food brands that don't even exist anymore. (Alpo is still being made.)
Submitted by: Celeste
Just come on home.
Baby, we'll laugh and sing.
We'll make love.
We'll let the telephone ring.
Telephone landlines were the order of the day in 1971. Unlike a modern mobile phone, landlines could not be turned off, thus forcing one to "let the telephone ring" if incoming calls were unexpected or unwanted. Voicemail did not exist then, either.
Submitted by: Not the Same Bob
"Women peak at 40 and men at 19"
I remember laughing my head off when I read that in a magazine
(I was 20 at the time.)
Now I'm staring 40 right in the face
She died in 2020 at age 78.
Submitted by: Tarzan
The other six months out of every year
We are hardly ever seen apart
But then the Washington Senators
take over my place in his heart.
The baseball team in question has been known as the Washington Nationals since 1960
Submitted by: dayna
There are more dated song lyrics available
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