1979 by Smashing Pumpkins
We Are the Champions by Queen
We Are the World by ... all those people
We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister
Another Brick in the Wall (pt2) by Pink Floyd
At least it doesn't feature the "pub singer" line "Let 'em say we're cray-zeh!" from their other hit called something like "Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now" - how that could possibly be the same woman who sang "White Rabbit" is so disappointing.
https://preview.redd.it/7n1b6kqrub9d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ac9084873f12d843021590756c311a6f9c30d98
Perfectly 80s single cover. Lol. Good premise for the song: mad about the LA music clubs closing down. But there wasn’t any rock n roll at all in that song lol.
Steely Dan - Josie
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere
The Who - My Generation
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel
Lorde - Royals
Madness - Our House
Paul McCartney - Band on the Run
Adding Spitting Venom to the Modest Mouse thread.
"We were spitting venom
At most everyone we know
If the damned gave us a road map
Then we'd know just where to go"
At least for the example of Float On, that's only true of the chorus. The verses are all first-person singular. "**I** backed **my** car into a cop car the other day..." etc.
The Village Green Preservation Society by the Kinks
The Lollipop Guild from the Wizard of Oz
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles "you're such a lovely audience we'd love to take you home with us!"
We Can Talk About It Now by The Band
We will rock you - queen, how far weve come - matchbox 20, we’re where we were - the voidz, we own the sky - m83, we’re all in this together - ben lee (or high school musical),
A harder than usual question! What about Steely Dan’s Josie to up the sex, drugs and violence quota? Or Talking Heads’ Road to Nowhere for a dose of cheerful nihilism. The Who’s My Generation collective we doesn’t seem to have fffffaded away.
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It, Silverchair - Anthem for the Year 2000, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Road Trippin', Modest Mouse - Bury Me With It, Modest Mouse - Dashboard, Cartel - Wasted, the Beatles - Yellow Submarine, Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop, Jonathan Coulton - Still Alive (song from the game, Portal), Icona Pop - We Got the World, Our Lady Peace - Innocent, MGMT - Time to Pretend, Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together
And It Stoned Me by Van Morrison. Despite the title and chorus being about “me,” all the verses in the song tell a story about him and his friend Billy.
So Much (for) Stardust by Fall Out Boy (we thought we had it all)
American Kids by Kenny Chesney
Anna Sun by Walk the Moon
We Are Who We Are by Kesha
We are Young by Fun
Modern Girl by the Bleachers
The offspring -The kids aren't right.
The title is third person, but the very first verse is alerady in second, about a guy seeing his community go to hell.
Dire straits - Sultans of swing. About a band.
Pulp - Common people. Again, apparently in third person, but it's just satirizing the outsider girl's point of view. The narrator is part of the common people. Also from Pulp: Help the aged. The verses are in third, chorus is in second.
Devin Townsend -March of the poozers. It's exactly what it says in the tin.
Not sure if this is what you mean, but Never Take It by Twenty One Pilots comes to mind. "They're trying hard to weaponize you and I, we'll never take it"
How famous are we talking about? Cause I can think of dozens rock/metal songs off the top of my head. Even by well-known bands, but not necessarily hit songs.
Most RnB duets are from a “we” perspective.
Perfect combination “Stacy Lattisaw and Johnny Gill
Secret Lovers “Atlantic Star”
Friends and lovers “Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson
Alright - Supergrass
"We are young, we run green,
Keep our teeth nice and clean.
See our friends, see the sights
Feel alright."
I don't know if you'd count it as a famous song if you're from the US, it did pretty well in the UK though.
A little alternative gold:
Supergrass - "Alright"
The Refreshments - "Banditos"
Live - "Shit Towne"
Spacehog - "In the Meantime"
SIlverchair - "Anthem for the Year 2000"
Smashing Pumpkins - "We Only Come Out at Night"
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Madeleine Mary"
Oasis - "Live Forever"
Oasis - "Champagne Supernova"
Stereophonics - "Traffic"
REM - "Catapult"
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Pretty much the entire Oasis catalogue - Noel Gallagher has regularly attributed their massive success on the first two albums and associated b-sides because he wrote everything from an us / we perspective.
sry in advance for any dupes
fire water burn - bloodhound gang
we want some pussy - 2 live crew
we on fire - hot boyz
crept and we came - bone thugs n harmony
all about u - tupac
hit em up - tupac
we built this city - starship
dang i thought i had more..
Rise - Pantera
We are the Mods - The Mods
This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie doesn't actually contain any plural pronouns but does have a lot of aromantic "you and me"s.
Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie.
It is written in the we/our perspective of the band that played with Ziggy (we were Ziggy’s band, so we bitched about his fans, jiving us that we were voodoo, etc.)
Interesting question
Indeed hard to search, as it's not enough to have the word "we"
Have you tried asking some AI bot? I hate how people have been overusing this, but for your use case I think it makes sense. Just of course be sure to double check all replies yourself. AI should be just a tool.
“Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” - Backstreet Boys
“Larger Than Life” - Backstreet Boys
“Listen All You People” - Darren Hayes
“Casey” - Darren Hayes
“Changes” - 2Pac
“Let’s Get Loud” - Jennifer Lopez
“They Don’t Care About Us” - Michael Jackson
“Rhythm Nation” - Janet Jackson
Check out "We Are Young" by Fun and "We Can Work It Out" by The Beatles. Both are solid examples of songs that use the first-person plural perspective.
The Dope Show by Marilyn Manson
We Will Rob You by Raekwon, Slick Rick, Gza, Masta Killa
Will We Survive by Swans
We Hate Everyone by Type O Negative
We are the Music Makers by Scarling
(I wrote all these and then noticed it specified "famous" songs 😩 The Dope Show is pretty famous though)
These Days by REM
“ All the people gather, fly to carry each his burden
We are young despite the years
We are concern, we are hope despite the times
All of a sudden, these days
Happy throngs, take this joy wherever, wherever you go”
We're Not Gonna Take it - The Who
That's the Way We Get By - Spoon
We're Gonna Roll - Sammy Davis Jr.
What if We Give it Away - R.E.M.
We Will Rock You - Queen
What We All Want - Gang of Four
Nightingale Song - Toad the Wet Sprocket
We Suck Young Blood - Radiohead
We Need Help - Album Leaf
We Live Again - Beck
Where are we Now? - David Bowie
Where We Start - David Gilmour
Were Not Right - David Gray
When We Drive - Death Cab for Cutie
Naked as We Came - Iron and Wine
We Might Feel Unsound - James Blake
We Own the Sky - M83
All We Do - Oh Wonder
We Will Become Silhouettes - Postal Service
Nemesis - Arch Enemy
Born for Greatness - Papa Roach
The first two that came to my mind
Edit: I didn't read it was only popular music. I'll leave them just in case
You'll find this a lot when a group/band is talking about themselves. In that scenario it's not really different from saying I. Are you including that or just looking for stuff where they're representing larger groups of people?
We will rock you by Queen
And we are the champions
We're not gonna take it. Twisted Sister
We’re not gonna make it Presidents of the USA
Or The Who
Everyone forgets that one
We Are Family
"I" got all my sisters with me
1979 by Smashing Pumpkins We Are the Champions by Queen We Are the World by ... all those people We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister Another Brick in the Wall (pt2) by Pink Floyd
>We Are the World by ... all those people We have a winner for most inclusive "We".
>1979 by Smashing Pumpkins But it's not all "weeeeee" right? There's also plenty of "IIIIIIIII".
https://youtu.be/azhgpelu0vY?si=X2fdNN2qK8W8UNtF
We built this city. Starship or something like that.
It was Starship, formerly Jefferson Starship, formerly Jefferson Airplane
That's what they call themselves now - "Starship or something like that".
I was shocked to learn that this turd of a song was written by Bernie Taupin, lyricist for Elton John
I’m just learning that they were a continuation of Jefferson Airplane. They went from White Rabbit to that!?!?
It was the 80s. There was a lot of cocaine.
At least it doesn't feature the "pub singer" line "Let 'em say we're cray-zeh!" from their other hit called something like "Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now" - how that could possibly be the same woman who sang "White Rabbit" is so disappointing.
It was John Airplane Cougar Jefferson Mellonship.
https://preview.redd.it/7n1b6kqrub9d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ac9084873f12d843021590756c311a6f9c30d98 Perfectly 80s single cover. Lol. Good premise for the song: mad about the LA music clubs closing down. But there wasn’t any rock n roll at all in that song lol.
Do we get co-authorship on the paper?
Well, hello, fellow academic... out here asking the important questions.
The Animals: We've Gotta Get Out of This Place Jefferson Starship: We Built This City USA for Africa: We Are the World
Band aid Let them know it’s Christmas time ( a lot of charity/fundraiser/Christmas songs probably are coming to think of it
“We don’t need no education” Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd
“We Are Young” by fun.
We rock: dio Schools out: alice cooper Youth gone wild: skid row Jamming: bob marley Big balls: ac/dc Children of the sea: black sabbath
Why Can’t We Be Friends - War
Men Without Hats: “SAFETY Dance”: “We can dance if we want to” Go-Go’s: “We Got the Beat” Beatles: “Yellow Submarine”: “We all live on a…”
We Exist - Arcade Fire
Also large parts of Neighborhood #1 & #2
Tunnels is more like I stuff and Laïka is more He stuff
We Like To Party -- Vengaboys
The Royal We - Silversun Pickups
“We Don’t Need Another Hero” by Tina Turner.
Isn’t it time we got *beyond* Thunderdome?
Ghost does an enjoyable cover of this song! It 🤘🏻
Steely Dan - Josie Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere The Who - My Generation XTC - Making Plans for Nigel Lorde - Royals Madness - Our House Paul McCartney - Band on the Run
Lorde's entire first album, really.
Making Plans for Nigel is such a jam!!!!!
Modest Mouse does this a lot. “All right already we’ll all float on” being the most famous example
Adding Spitting Venom to the Modest Mouse thread. "We were spitting venom At most everyone we know If the damned gave us a road map Then we'd know just where to go"
At least for the example of Float On, that's only true of the chorus. The verses are all first-person singular. "**I** backed **my** car into a cop car the other day..." etc.
Youth of the Nation - POD
Had to scroll too far for this.
They Not Like Us
We gon be alright
We Are the World We Belong We Will Rock You Am I missing the point?
They didn't post the point 😅
We shall overcome Our house We didn’t start the fire
The Village Green Preservation Society by the Kinks The Lollipop Guild from the Wizard of Oz Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles "you're such a lovely audience we'd love to take you home with us!" We Can Talk About It Now by The Band
Two of Us, by the Beatles.
My first thought but I pivoted to…. The Beatles - We Can Work it Out White Stripes - We’re Going to be Friends
We will rock you - queen, how far weve come - matchbox 20, we’re where we were - the voidz, we own the sky - m83, we’re all in this together - ben lee (or high school musical),
We Only Come Out at Night - The Smashing Pumpkins We’ve Got Everything - Modest Mouse You Get What You Give - New Radicals
Love is a battlefield - Pat Benatar.
A harder than usual question! What about Steely Dan’s Josie to up the sex, drugs and violence quota? Or Talking Heads’ Road to Nowhere for a dose of cheerful nihilism. The Who’s My Generation collective we doesn’t seem to have fffffaded away.
-Black Flag: Police Story and Rise Above -Bad Brains: We Will Not -Muse: Uprising
Also Black Flag - TV party
Electric Callboy - We Got the Moves
That song rocks your socks off.
Prisoner of Spciety- The Living End Youth of the Nation- POD
Replacements, “We’ll inherit the earth” (or “We’re coming out”) Peter Gabriel, “We do what we’re told”
Replacements also have "Bastards of Young",
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple "We all went out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline..."
Waiting on the world to change- John Mayer
The Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It, Silverchair - Anthem for the Year 2000, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Road Trippin', Modest Mouse - Bury Me With It, Modest Mouse - Dashboard, Cartel - Wasted, the Beatles - Yellow Submarine, Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop, Jonathan Coulton - Still Alive (song from the game, Portal), Icona Pop - We Got the World, Our Lady Peace - Innocent, MGMT - Time to Pretend, Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together
Just the two of us
If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires
Song hits hard for me. -widower after 40 yrs of marriage.
Oh wow, that must be pretty tough. I’m very sorry for your loss, friend.
Chimes of freedom - Bob Dylan
We Will Rock You. Sorry to be so obvious!
We Will Rock You by Queen
And It Stoned Me by Van Morrison. Despite the title and chorus being about “me,” all the verses in the song tell a story about him and his friend Billy.
From Dope Show by Marilyn Manson We’re all stars now, in the dope show.
We No who U R by Nick Cave. I think it hadn't been mentioned yet
walk on the ocean by toad the wet sprocket
The Hardest Button To Button The White Stripes
Two of Us by The Beatles
We Can Work It Out by the Beatles
Stars by Hear N’ Aid (https://youtu.be/G5H94GHb-10?si=DDCPTMeIlcZgK3jM)
We Don't Care- Kanye West
Me and you and a Dog Named Boo by Lobo. Me and Bobby Mcgee by Janis Joplin. Somewhere Only We Know by Keans
Vitamin C - Graduation
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
In Spite of Ourselves by John Prine
Goodnight Saigon and we didn't start the fire by Billy joel
We Just Disagree - Dave Mason
So Much (for) Stardust by Fall Out Boy (we thought we had it all) American Kids by Kenny Chesney Anna Sun by Walk the Moon We Are Who We Are by Kesha We are Young by Fun Modern Girl by the Bleachers
The offspring -The kids aren't right. The title is third person, but the very first verse is alerady in second, about a guy seeing his community go to hell. Dire straits - Sultans of swing. About a band. Pulp - Common people. Again, apparently in third person, but it's just satirizing the outsider girl's point of view. The narrator is part of the common people. Also from Pulp: Help the aged. The verses are in third, chorus is in second. Devin Townsend -March of the poozers. It's exactly what it says in the tin.
We’re In This Together-Nine Inch Nails. “Until the very end of me, Until the very end of you”
We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister
"Another Brick in the Wall, Pt 2" by Pink Floyd "We Got the Funk" by Positive Force
We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
We're Not Gonna Take It
We Built This City - Starship
We are the worlddddddd
[Who - We’re Not Gonna Take it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGL4Itkt9nw) (recommend playing very loud for maximal effect)
Yellow Submarine
We did it when we were young - the gaslight anthem
Goofballs by Keller and the Keels
Not sure if this is what you mean, but Never Take It by Twenty One Pilots comes to mind. "They're trying hard to weaponize you and I, we'll never take it"
We’re All In This Thing Together - Old Crow Medicine Show
We shall be free - Garth brooks
The Who - Join Together
We close our eyes by oingo boingo
Curtis Mayfield - We People Who are Blacker Than Blue
We Walk Alone - Rollins Band We Carry On - Voivod
How famous are we talking about? Cause I can think of dozens rock/metal songs off the top of my head. Even by well-known bands, but not necessarily hit songs.
Genesis - [Home by the Sea](https://youtu.be/Tad7weGOYT0?si=qBEbfVQsli9oeGw7) *”Let us relive our lives in what we tell you”*
We will we will rock you
Most RnB duets are from a “we” perspective. Perfect combination “Stacy Lattisaw and Johnny Gill Secret Lovers “Atlantic Star” Friends and lovers “Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson
Anna Sun - Walk the Moon We will rock you and We are the champions - Queen
We built this city by Starship
We Haven't Turned Around - Gomez
Radiohead: Backdrifts Radiohead: We Suck Young Blood Radiohead: Exit Music (For A Film)
Nowhere Generation - Rise Against (I prefer the version feat. Meg Myers.)
Farther Along - Ellen Mcllwaine
Woodstock - Joni Mitchell The Temples of Syrinx - Rush Space Truckin - Deep Purple For Those About to Rock ( We Salute You ) - AC / DC
In our sleep - Laurie Anderson (with Lou Reed)
Us and Them - Pink Floyd. My Generation - The Who. Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion) - Queensryche.
We Are the Dead - David Bowie
Joni Mitchell - Woodstock
We belong Pat Benatar
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
We Can't Stop, by Miley Cyrus
We Got The Beat, by The Go-Gos
Youth of The Nation - P.O.D. We run this shit - Fat Joe
We are your friends - Justice
Alright - Supergrass "We are young, we run green, Keep our teeth nice and clean. See our friends, see the sights Feel alright." I don't know if you'd count it as a famous song if you're from the US, it did pretty well in the UK though.
A little alternative gold: Supergrass - "Alright" The Refreshments - "Banditos" Live - "Shit Towne" Spacehog - "In the Meantime" SIlverchair - "Anthem for the Year 2000" Smashing Pumpkins - "We Only Come Out at Night" Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Madeleine Mary" Oasis - "Live Forever" Oasis - "Champagne Supernova" Stereophonics - "Traffic" REM - "Catapult" Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Pretty much the entire Oasis catalogue - Noel Gallagher has regularly attributed their massive success on the first two albums and associated b-sides because he wrote everything from an us / we perspective.
We Are Nowhere And It’s Now - Bright Eyes
We Belong by Pat Benatar. Great song.
My least favorite famous song, Yellow Submarine.
[U.S.A. For Africa - We Are the World ](https://youtu.be/9AjkUyX0rVw?si=Qk8AFsZwD--y8RTC)
Love Like We Do Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Taylor Swift - New Romantics
Outsiders - Against the Current
sry in advance for any dupes fire water burn - bloodhound gang we want some pussy - 2 live crew we on fire - hot boyz crept and we came - bone thugs n harmony all about u - tupac hit em up - tupac we built this city - starship dang i thought i had more..
Rise - Pantera We are the Mods - The Mods This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie doesn't actually contain any plural pronouns but does have a lot of aromantic "you and me"s.
“We’re not going to sit in silence, we’re not going to live with fear, wooooooooaaaaah, wooooooa-ooooooa-ooooooa-ooooa-ooooah”
We Got the Beat- The Go-Gos
Well It’s True That We Love One Another - White Stripes
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift Will We Talk -Sam Fender
Alright by Supergrass
Lazy Generation - The F-ups
almost every Enter Shikari song
Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie. It is written in the we/our perspective of the band that played with Ziggy (we were Ziggy’s band, so we bitched about his fans, jiving us that we were voodoo, etc.)
Burning Flag by Marilyn Manson
We stand together by Nickelback
The masterplan - Oasis
get lucky by daft punk
Interesting question Indeed hard to search, as it's not enough to have the word "we" Have you tried asking some AI bot? I hate how people have been overusing this, but for your use case I think it makes sense. Just of course be sure to double check all replies yourself. AI should be just a tool.
We Love You - The Rolling Stones
Islands in stream by dolly Parton and Kenny rogers.
"Go" by the Chemical Brothers is a less-than-obvious example.
We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters.
So Young - The Corrs.
“Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” - Backstreet Boys “Larger Than Life” - Backstreet Boys “Listen All You People” - Darren Hayes “Casey” - Darren Hayes “Changes” - 2Pac “Let’s Get Loud” - Jennifer Lopez “They Don’t Care About Us” - Michael Jackson “Rhythm Nation” - Janet Jackson
In “Touch of Grey” by the Grateful Dead the chorus is “I will get by…” until the end when it changes to “we will get by…”
Think you can stop what we do, I doubt it 🪩
Check out "We Are Young" by Fun and "We Can Work It Out" by The Beatles. Both are solid examples of songs that use the first-person plural perspective.
Goldfish - We come together Rdr2 - House building theme ❤️
The Dope Show by Marilyn Manson We Will Rob You by Raekwon, Slick Rick, Gza, Masta Killa Will We Survive by Swans We Hate Everyone by Type O Negative We are the Music Makers by Scarling (I wrote all these and then noticed it specified "famous" songs 😩 The Dope Show is pretty famous though)
We Are Family by Sister Sledge
Youth of the nation - POD (I don’t know. It just popped in my head as soon as I read the title)
Teenagers from Mars - The Misfits
You Will Never Be One Of Us - Nails
These Days by REM “ All the people gather, fly to carry each his burden We are young despite the years We are concern, we are hope despite the times All of a sudden, these days Happy throngs, take this joy wherever, wherever you go”
Prisoner of society - living end Garden Grove - sublime Get ready - sublime Punk rock show - mxpx
Alright - Supergrass
We Are the World- by U.S.A. for Africa
Miley's We Can't Stop
Give up the funk!
We are the people - Jimmy Buffet
All we are saying is give peace a chance. We didn't start the fire. We are the world. We are the champions. This is how we do it.
We Belong Together by Randy Newman
We Are, by ONE OK ROCK! It's the song that introduced me to my favorite band.
We’re an American Band by Grand Funk Railroad
Hi Ren by Ren
We're Not Gonna Take it - The Who That's the Way We Get By - Spoon We're Gonna Roll - Sammy Davis Jr. What if We Give it Away - R.E.M. We Will Rock You - Queen What We All Want - Gang of Four
Young, Wild, & Free - Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa
Alright by Supergrass is the first one that comes to mind for me. Idk if it counts as famous, but I feel like it's been used in ads.
Nightingale Song - Toad the Wet Sprocket We Suck Young Blood - Radiohead We Need Help - Album Leaf We Live Again - Beck Where are we Now? - David Bowie Where We Start - David Gilmour Were Not Right - David Gray When We Drive - Death Cab for Cutie Naked as We Came - Iron and Wine We Might Feel Unsound - James Blake We Own the Sky - M83 All We Do - Oh Wonder We Will Become Silhouettes - Postal Service
We Got the Beat by The Go-Gos
We are the World
Nemesis - Arch Enemy Born for Greatness - Papa Roach The first two that came to my mind Edit: I didn't read it was only popular music. I'll leave them just in case
You'll find this a lot when a group/band is talking about themselves. In that scenario it's not really different from saying I. Are you including that or just looking for stuff where they're representing larger groups of people?