The Lyrics Aren't True For the Artist Quiz

Answer: Kim Wilde

Kim Wilde was born in 1960 in England. She was 21 when she released "Kids in America" in America. 21 is a young age, but no one is legally still a kid at that age. People can vote, drive, go to R-rated movies, and drink alcohol by that age. I think that's more than enough to qualify as being no longer a kid.

She certainly isn't from America, or anywhere near it. This makes it strange that she says "We're the kids in America" including herself in the "We're" part. Listeners didn't care, as the song was a worldwide hit.

It was a top ten hit in at least ten different countries, but ironically the song only climbed to number 25 in the country mentioned in the song.

Answer: Icona Pop

Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo formed a pop duo known as Icona Pop. They broke through with their worldwide hit "I Love it," a break-up song in which the narrator didn't handle the break-up very well, to say the least. The two women sing the whole song in unison together, even though the lyrics repeatedly say "I" as if it were just one person singing.

At one point during the song, they reveal what was probably the whole problem with the relationship, in that the man was 20 years older than the woman was.

She tells him that he was born in the 1970s while she was born in the 1990s. Actually, Jawo was born in 1986 and Hjelt was born in 1987.

Answer: John Lennon

In fairness, the next thing he sang was "In the evening, I'm gonna die" so that part was true, but he sang that he was going to die in both the morning and the evening, so at least one of those was bound to be wrong. He then sang, "If I'm dead already, don't you know the reason why?" Indeed we do, John. It was because a mad fan named Mark Chapman shot you in 1980.

The song in question is called "Yer Blues" and it is on the White Album.

Answer: Alice Cooper

The name "Alice Cooper" was the name of a woman in Salem, Massachusetts in the 18th century. This woman was labeled a witch, and she was burned at the stake. Vincent Furnier, Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, and Neal Smith used that "witch's" name as the name of their band.

The band had a breakthrough hit with a song called "I'm 18," even though Furnier wasn't 18 when the song came out. After the band broke up, Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper.

Answer: KISS

The song "Beth" was a top ten hit in the U.S. That song, along with "Disco Duck" won a People's Choice Award. The song was never about a woman named "Beth." The song originated in drummer Peter Criss's band before KISS, a band called Lips. Someone in the band had a wife named Becky who kept calling her husband during band practice and saying please come home. The men got annoyed with this, so they wrote a song called "Beck" which originally was a rude song mocking the woman. Peter Criss brought the song to KISS for their album "Destroyer". He and producer Bob Ezrin rewrote the song to make it sound much nicer and more romantic.

There are conflicting accounts about why the name change occurred. Peter Criss said that Bob Ezrin suggested the name change because he didn't think the name "Beck" sounded romantic. Gene Simmons said that he mistakenly thought the song was about Jeff Beck, so he encouraged Criss to change the name to avoid that confusion. I believe Peter Criss's word to be the truth here, since he and Ezrin created the song while Simmons had nothing to do with the song.

Answer: Starship

"We Built This City" rose to the top of the charts in the United States, Canada, and Australia, and charted in several other countries. However, the song also voted the worst song of the 1980s by a 2011 poll conducted by Rolling Stone magazine.

There is no consensus as to what city is being talked about in the song. The song mentions the Golden Gate Bridge, which is in San Francisco, "the city that rocks," which is Cleveland because it has the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and "the city that never sleeps" which is New York City. Either way, none of these cities were built on rock and roll.

Answer: Elton John

Elton John is openly gay. So it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for him to be singing a song called "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart" with a woman. That didn't matter to many listeners, as the song rose to the top of more than ten charts and charted in the top ten in at least ten different countries.

The irony is that several lines sung by the woman, Kiki Dee, are 100% true in ways you would not expect. Lines such as "I couldn't if I tried" and "I won't go breakin' your heart" are 100% true because Kiki Dee, being a woman, just does not have the ability to break the heart of a gay man.

Answer: David Bowie

David Bowie was a rock musician from England who was popular in the 1970s. Some people refer to him as "Ziggy Stardust" because of a song he released in 1971, which some people think is autobiographical. Actually, Ziggy Stardust is a fictional character based mostly on rock singer Vince Taylor.

In the song, David Bowie claimed that he was in a band called Spiders From Mars, whose lead singer was a madman named Ziggy Stardust. In reality, Bowie was never in such a band with such a man. Near the end of the song "When the kids had killed a man, I had to break up the band." David Bowie never actually broke up a band for that reason.

Answer: John Fogerty

John Fogerty was the lead singer and songwriter of the band Creedence Clearwater Revival. This band had a popular song called "Born on the Bayou." "Bayou" is what they call a swamp in Louisiana. In reality, Fogerty was born in California, not on a bayou.

However, he seems to love New Orleans. In his 2018 concert in Vienna Virginia, he had a New Orleans jazz band join him onstage for a few songs. The songs played during this part of the show were "Born on the Bayou," Rockin' Sidney's "My Toot Toot" (Sidney was born in Louisiana), Hank Williams' "Jambalaya (on the Bayou)," and "When the Saints Go marching in." Another Creedence Clearwater Revival song that mentions Louisiana is "Cotton Fields." Fogerty seems to love New Orleans and Louisiana.

Answer: Steve Perry

"Born and raised in South Detroit." There is only Detroit. There is no city with a directional word and "Detroit" in the name. Steve Perry wasn't born and raised in Detroit anyway. He was born in California. However, that didn't stop the song from becoming a major hit. The song is often played at Detroit Red Wings games, and they turn off the music after "Born and raised in..." and the crowd shouts "South Detroit!"

Another contradiction is in the line "She took the midnight train going anywhere." Trains don't just go anywhere; they always have specific destinations.