I don’t know, I just like fruit. I excluded songs whose titles don’t actually reference the fruit, in its fruit form (so, “orange sky,” “lemonade,” and “cherry pie” were all out). I only chose fruit that could be represented by an emoji (sorry, grapefruit, cantaloupe, and peacherine). For each fruit, I picked up to 3 song(s) fitting those criteria, and here we are.
Also, I will say, I played this as a party mix and it was relatively successful if a bit weird. Go forth and experiment, my dear fruits and fruit-lovers.
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Apple Orchard – Beach House
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Apple Cherry – NAO
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Cherry – Chromatics
Cherry – Ratatat
Cherry – Amy Winehouse
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Pear – Damien Jurado
Prickly Pear – Portico Quartet
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Bruised Orange (Song of Sorrow) – Justin Vernon
Orange Blossom – Gardens & Villa
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Lemon – Blkkathy
Lemonworld – The National
The Lemon Song – Led Zeppelin (sorry)
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Banana – Isaiah Rashad
Banana Clipper – Run the Jewels
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Peel me a Grape – Anita O’Day, Cal Tjader
Stomp Them Grapes – Mel Tillis and the Statesiders
The Grape and the Grain – John Joseph Brill
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Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles
Strawberry Swing – April Maze
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Peaches – In the Valley Bellow
Real Peach – Henry Jamison
Giant Peach – Wolf Alice
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Diced Pineapples – Rick Ross, Wale, Drake
Tendu-A Pineapple – Lisa Harris
Pineapples – Ester Adele
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The Pineapple vs. The Watermelon – Xiu Xiu
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Watermelon – Common
Watermelon Man – The Gun Club
Watermelon Man – Herbie Hancock
Spotify Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/autostraddle/playlist/5f3BJE1fdIGEbvHu0vfVjc
nice
If, like me, you are greedy and want multiple fruit in one song, may I suggest If You Were Fruit by The Lovely Eggs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4gsvvWtVoM
This is important
this is refreshing
wait until you get my “tall glass of cold juice” playlist
You should include pineapple/watermelon.
Mango is the number one fruit in the world and yet it does not get that much musical representation. What gives?
Does Mango need a new PR person or agent of some sort?
Could that PR person please teach me how to cut one?
My wife had the same question last week, weird…
All you have to do is peel and Slice it around the core, just Like an apple.
Oh, Don’t forget to wash it first
FWIW, mango is my favorite fruit
Top 5 favourite fruits (not in order)
Mango
Apple
Strawberry
Seedless grapes
Peach
I know there is a preschooler ear-worm type mango song in español :p
But in English I can’t think of a one. Maybe an instrumental Latin inspired bit with mango in the title.
I am however just one person in billions, there is much for me to be unaware of.
The Pineapple vs. The Watermelon – Xiu Xiu
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The Pineapple vs. The Watermelon – Xiu Xiu
This made me think that It’s been a while since I’ve had pineapple/watermelon juice. It’s so refreshing, great for the summer and goes really well with vodka.
May I also suggest The Wiggles – Fruit Salad for more than one fruit in one song?
Searched ‘abacaxi’ on spotify and found the oddly captivating ‘banana maca abacaxi’: https://open.spotify.com/track/3I5Wb947LbTNiIDHbd7ryY
omgosh
the way he croons ‘jabuci’ is mesmerizing
I’d like to offer up Led Zepplin’s Tangerine and suggest a queer lady type musician do a cover of it ASAP because look at these lyrics:
“Measuring a summer’s day, I only finds it slips away to grey,
The hours, they bring me pain.
Tangerine, Tangerine, Living reflection from a dream;
I was her love, she was my queen, And now a thousand years between.
Thinking how it used to be, Does she still remember times like these?
To think of us again? And I do.”
They beg for some of that slow, soft sad guitar shit that queers ladies not me love.
I just listened to Amy Winehouse’s Cherry and thought it would be similar to her posthumous song Cherry Wine, which features NAS. It was not.
I’d like to mention Girls of Wild Strawberries by Guided by Voices because that’s the band that saved my life.
I would also like to offer my favourite fruit song for one of my favourite fruit: La Guanabana
As a bonus, the same fruit is mentioned by the goddess Chavela in the best song of all time, where she calls her lover’s mouth a blessing of Guanabana:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF6jEclOMcw
another for the multiple fruit per song category: “peach, plum, pear” by joanna newsom.
Its refreshing