The "15 minutes of fame" theory is a real thing. Frank Zappa witnessed it himself during news accounts of the Los Angeles Watts riots.

Romance is alive in this song, taking place in Nuevo Laredo, a small Mexican town just below the Texas border.

Bobbie Gentry has written one of the most talked about songs of the century. The mystery endures: what DID Billie Joe throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge?

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• Orville from MsIt has always been clear to Mississippians the reason the young lady lost her appetite was because she was pregnant by Bobbie Joe and that’s why she left town after he committed suicide because of the old gay guy abusing him after he got him drunk. Nothing else to see here. Just shows how families can go off the rails after such an event.

Pretty self-evident, this song about 1880s rodeoing in Texas is fantastical and truth-laden all at once.

After winning the first-ever American Idol, Kelly Clarkson felt forced to return fire when so much of the press and paparazzi began taking pot shots at her.