• Tue, Jul 19 2011

10 Pop Songs That Can Help You With Your Homework

Every couple months an expert will tell us how trash TV and pop music is rotting the brains of our youth. Well, in high school I impressed my history teacher with facts about Napoleon that I learned on Smallville, and somewhere there’s a seven year old claiming first prize at a spelling bee because of Gwen Stefani. Take that, experts.

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  • Jessica B

    I got an extra participation percentage in my tutorial last year when I answered the question, “What is irony?” with, “Rain on your wedding day.”

  • Lilit Marcus

    The TMBG song “The Sun Is A Mass of Incandescent Gas” also helped me learn that, well … the sun is a mass of incandescent gas.

    • Lucia Peters

      Seconded!

  • Claudia

    Blondie teaches us about the atomic bomb. Atomic.

  • Christina

    My 10th grade history teacher had a lesson on “We Didn’t Start the Fire” Easily the best day. We just watched the music video and “analyzed the historic events of the lyrics”.

  • Laura

    Jay-Z’s “99 Problems” helped me study for the bar exam: “My glove compartment’s locked/So is the trunk in the back/And I know my rights/So you gonna need a warrant for that”

  • chris

    Don’t forget Webbie’s I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T to help with spelling…

    (I judge myself for even knowing that…)

  • Eileen

    True story: I would have forgotten about the Bay of Pigs on my AP US History test if I hadn’t been singing “We Didn’t Start the Fire” in my head.

    Also, New Amsterdam got renamed New York when the English took over the colony from the Dutch and the townspeople hated Peter Stuyvesant so much that they decided they’d rather be English than be ruled by him (oversimplification, but nevertheless kind of an awesome story).

  • Natalie

    LOL I do use Hollaback Girl to spell bananas!!!

  • Michelle

    “Moulin Rouge” has been spelled wrong.