Meanings
plural car crash songs · alternative car-crash song
- entertainmentA 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.
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.
1964 November 6, “LIFE”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 332 more examples
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.
2000 April 26, Richard Crouse, Big Bang, Baby: Rock Trivia, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 104Born 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.
2021 July 13, Joshua Clover, Roadrunner, Duke University Press, →ISBN
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