car crash song

See also: car-crash song

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Noun

car crash song (plural car crash songs)

  1. (music) A genre of music, popular in the mid-20th century and typically in pop rock style, about the tragic death of a teenage lover in a car crash.
    Hypernyms: teenage tragedy, splatter platter, death disc, tearjerker
    • 1964 November 6, “LIFE”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 33:
      They now have had five top-ten singles in a row, including Dead Man's Curve, the first car crash song, and the first comic car song, Little Old Lady from Pasadena.
    • 2000 April 26, Richard Crouse, Big Bang, Baby: Rock Trivia, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 104:
      Dinning was a pioneer in the morbid field of car crash songs. These tunes have morbid lyrics (see above), usually centring around an unrequited love, and in all of them someone dies a horrible death.
    • 2021 July 13, Joshua Clover, Roadrunner, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
      Born with the Interstate Highway System, the car crash song is not just parallel but party to the rise of rock & roll, serving paradoxically as both the end and the guarantor of the freedom that the highway promises.
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