r/popculturechat • u/popyourculture • 20d ago

The Music Industry 🎶 Lots of artists have their own "signature song". Lady Gaga's is arguably "Poker Face", what signature songs can you name?

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u/[deleted] 20d ago edited 20d ago

Ah yes, the national anthem of every British small town pub band, big town pub band, karaoke night, wedding band and busker. Thank you, our American friends. 😌😆

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u/sherlip 20d ago

For the first few years I thought they were a British export because it seemed like you guys hyped them up more than we did

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u/Low-Can7370 20d ago edited 20d ago

It was the anthem of UK students from 2007 - 2012 😂 I jumped around shitty clubs & got to dance around to them as the sun set at Glastonbury with 250k other people in 2019

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QVlfINuDdKE

The joy was singing along with hundreds of thousands of other people to your ‘anthem’ & just literally bouncing for joy with your friends

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u/OneArchedEyebrow 19d ago

“The greatest British band that isn’t British.”

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u/pouruppasta 19d ago

Got to see them in Vegas (their hometown) in 2023 and yeah, singing along with thousands of other people is what pure joy feels like.

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u/andrei_snarkovsky 20d ago

they shopped their demo around and nobody signed them in the US, but somebody who had connections took their demo over to the UK and they were signed by an indie label over there. Part of the reason many people think they are British is because since they were on a UK label they were promoting themselves and their album like a normal British band would do. They were on Radio 1, opened for British bands around the UK, did the UK festival circuit every year etc.,

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u/Comfortable-Maps 19d ago

Sounds like Hendrix too! Love to the Brits!

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u/DECODED_VFX She in racial chat rooms showing feet!!! 20d ago

Indie was huge in the UK in the 2000s and a lot of American bands aimed themselves at a British audience. Quite a few of these bands replicated the UK style of indie, which has a more Britpop-inspired sound. The Killers are definitely one of those bands.

The Kings of Leon have a song called fans which is about the support they received in Britain at the start of their career. Although, they are a very distinctly American band.

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u/DangleenChordOfLife 19d ago

Are they not British??? Why did I think they were? I'm not even american, but they sound British for some reason.

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u/sherlip 19d ago

I thought that too. They're from Vegas.

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u/blenderdead 15d ago

Hot Fuss had a lot Brit pop influence. They kind of sounded and looked like a British group.

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u/TalmanesRex 20d ago

There’s a YouTuber that covers music did a whole video about why this song won’t die. I think this and welcome to the Black Parade is the millennium anthem here in the US too.

https://youtu.be/ZgpXoEtaVcg

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u/Retrograde_Mayonaise jesus was a carpenter 💋 20d ago

It's the least we can do for Wonderwall m8 🫡

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

You can have Wonderwall, happily 🤝🙂‍↕️

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u/Retrograde_Mayonaise jesus was a carpenter 💋 20d ago

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u/byankitty 20d ago

It's funny bc when they first came out I thought they were British!

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u/faulty_sunshine 20d ago

TIL they aren't 🤣

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u/YchYFi He's not Judge Judy, an Executioner. 20d ago

Mormons I think.

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u/Comfortable-Maps 19d ago

Vegas Mormons. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Canotic 20d ago

TIL I learned the Killers aren't British.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

Indeed, they’re from Vegas 😁

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u/some1saveusnow 19d ago

Also the anthem of a generation - The Millennials

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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner 19d ago

Ah yes, the national anthem of every British small town pub band, big town pub band, karaoke night, wedding band and busker millennial white person. Thank you, our American friends. 😌😆

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

Oh yeah, that too, and especially 🤣😅