This playlist we countdown our top ten favorite food-themed and ode-to-food lyrics & music videos of all time! Get ready for sticky, sweet, syrupy musical goodness. In no particular order…
Artist: Warrant
Song: Cherry Pie
Favorite Food Moments:
- Rollerbladin’ pie girl
- 80s rock to the core: love the use of red
- Cherry pie artwork
- Using pie as drums – classic
Artist: Weird Al Yankovic
Song: Just Eat It
Favorite Food Moments:
- Classic food lyrics – little food appearances
- Pizza, donuts, coffee, macaroons and Oreo’s
- Spoon Circle fight – 80s style
Artist: Kelis
Song: Milkshake
Favorite Food Moments:
- Various chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and float milkshake combos
- Buns fresh out of the oven make a cameo
- Whipped cream and cherries – 50’s style classic
Artist: Lady Gaga (ft. Beyonce)
Song: Telephone
Favorite Food Moments:
- Beyonce baling gaga out of jail, picking her up in THE pussy wagon from Kill Bill, and forcing her to eat a honey bun is simply classic
- Appearances by loafs of bread and lettuce
- Lets make a sandwich – wonderbread and miracle whip cameos
- Breakfast also makes an appearance – biscuits, bacon, eggs, all laced with poison -Eek – along with waffles, syrup, ketchup with fries, and toast
Artist: No Doubt
Song: Sunday Morning
Favorite Food Moments:
- When you have band practice, and also a taste for pasta
- Quality band-time: No Doubt preppin’ tomatoes, cooking tomato sauce from scratch, and dicing onions
- Spaghetti feeding between the bassist and guitarist (no homo)
- Sauce-on-the-floor fail: 3 second rule
- Nice meal turned to food fight is always awesome
Artist: Prince
Song: Starfish & Coffee
Favorite Food Moments:
- Coffee cup and Seymore the talking elephant
- It’s MUPPETS! What’s not to love?
- Cynthia Rose’s Lunchbox: All the goodies
- Food lyrics are catchy and addictive
- Rasberry Sorbet remix
Check out our tribute to “Starfish & Coffee” here.
Artist: Katy Perry
Song: This Is How We Do
Favorite Food Moments:
- Pizza, watermelon,tacos, pancakes, popsicles all have cameos in various forms
- The twerking sundae is everything!
- Stoned Ice Cream Sandwich and dancing watermelons
- Captain Crunch slo-mo is also very cool!
Artist: Katy Perry (ft. Snoop Dogg)
Song: California Gurls
Favorite Food Moments:
- Everything! Lollipop lined lane, gummies flipping you off, sugar cube die, random people trapped in various food-related items; bubble gum bubbles, green jello cubes, and of course candy wrappers
- Strawberry tat spotted on Katy’s ankle
- Saving Mr. Iced Gingerbread, then slowly eating him because it’s delicious
- Waffle cone trees and cotton candy clouds
- Bikini tops made of decorated, frosted donuts and peppermint candies
- Bras that shoot whipped cream
- Snoop Dogg in a cupcake suit with matching shades, emerging from a waffle cone castle: classic
Artist: Beastie Boys
Song: You Gotta Fight (For Your Right To Party)
Favorite Food Moments:
- Loafs of bread, head beatings in the right in the beginning
- Heineken beer chuggin’
- Chips, pizza, coke and flatbread(?)
- Pie throwing and face smashing goodness for most of the video
Artist: G. Love & Special Sauce
Song: Milk & Cereal
Favorite Food Moments:
- The anthem for “breakfast cereal”
- Ten different cereal shoutouts including:
- Wheaties
- Grape Nuts
- Special K
- Lucky Charms
- Apple Jacks
- Rice Krispies
- Boo Berry
- Cheerios
- Cocoa Puffs
- Trix