@RowinSpeez depends on what you mean. Jazz and bluegrass both lean heavily on instrumental references to/quotes from other songs. Solos in both idioms frequently, almost ubiquitously, quote from elsewhere in their respective canons. Jam rock in the era of Phish does the same. Not sure anything in any genre tops "real gs move in silence/like lasagna" for inside references though
If you mean just talking about yourself, yeah, those are the ones
@mrcompletely@RowinSpeez I meant lyrically, but I’ll take any facet of songwriting. I like your examples, mine were basically the songs titled (insert anything here) Blues,. What else comes mind is the song Hip-Hop by Dead Prez, or that song that just has the chorus that goes “Counnnnnntraaaaaay”
@RowinSpeez hard rock has a lot of songs about the act of rocking. AC/DC, KISS, Led Zeppelin... Even Neil Young has a song about rocking in the free world
Rap is def replete with lyrics about the MC's lyrical skills. One of the ur-themes along with booty, crime and cops
Bluegrass has songs about bluegrassing for sure
No doubt the blues is overwhelmingly about having the blues
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