Phrases That Are Now "Owned" By Pop Songs

In musicals people seem to break out into song all the time. People (at least the ones I hang out with, sappy folks that they are) are always saying things like that they wish they lived in that kind of world, the world where people are always just bursting out into song. But sometimes, in my mind, I sort of feel like I live in that world. Sometimes I hear something and have to do all that I can to hold myself back from "bringin' the noize" at an otherwise unmusical moment. Allow me explain.

You know how there are certain phrases that sometimes come up and you can't help but just bust out into song when you hear them? Well, with the help of the friends around me, I've been compiling a list of these phrases for a while now, and I think that by listing them I might just get a better sense of how infectiously musical life really is. I won't say what the songs are, because if you don't know, then maybe these phrases aren't as synonymous with these songs as I thought. This is a test. Here goes:

• I'm so excited.
• It's been a while.
• Taking care of business.
• Say my name.
• Isn't it ironic?
• You're so vain.
• Straight up.
• That's just the way it is.
• Help!
• I think we're alone now.
• Wake me up.
• It was good.
• All night long.
• What's goin' on?
• That's what friends are for.
• You can't touch this.
• You're never gonna get it.
• It's too late.
• I like big butts.
  
• There goes the neighborhood.
• Cry me a river.
  
• Alright, stop.

I forgot a few. Some were written on a napkin at the Super Bowl. Others were written on my hand and have since washed off. Remind me. Or make suggestions. Good ones. Ones that show that you "get it," if at all possible.

Do some of these totally not ring a bell? If so, let me know. This is important research I am doing here.

P.S. The first person to tell me who the guy with the accordion is in that picture gets a special prize. I can tell you this much, he is certainly proving that one song from Ishtar to be wrong:

Telling the truth can be dangerous business;
Honest and popular don't go hand in hand.
If you admit that you play the accordion,
No one will hire you in a rock 'n' roll band.

Of course we all know that bands like The Decemberists (a band whose popularity I have never understood) have made accordions cool again. This will be my next list: What are some bands who everyone else seems to go ga-ga for but that you just don't get? Go ahead, be mean, it's ok. We live in a sphere of buzz, and you vocally not liking them will not do anything to make them less popular. I'll get things started with an obvious one: The White Stripes. Or oh, what about The Polyphonic Spree. Ew, I know.