{"id":3467,"date":"2016-03-22T01:26:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T08:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2016-07-05T12:02:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T19:02:08","slug":"some-songs-about-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/some-songs-about-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Songs About Cicadas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows cicadas love to sing (the males) or be serenaded (the females). <\/p>\n<p>A lot of people like to write songs inspired by cicadas. If you search online music stores or YouTube, you&#8217;ll find hundreds of songs about cicadas, in every genre imaginable including rap, country, rock, folk, dance, parody, classical and experimental. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some cicada songs:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cicada Song by CincyPolly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Genre: Rock.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bn07-oPT_Sc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cicada Serenade by The Pheromones<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Genre: 1980s Rap.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wJCSGiHelLI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cicada By Hannah Gansen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TqPLlgrQw9o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Imbruglia sings her song Cicada<\/strong> on a talk show for teens (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_detailpage&#038;v=5rdQG63_j70\">YouTube Link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>(You might want to skip ahead 20 seconds to when the music starts.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5rdQG63_j70?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of my favorite bands, <strong>Southern Culture on the Skids peforming their song Cicada Rock<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5VfKvABXWjQ\">YouTube link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5VfKvABXWjQ?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>CICADA Song &#8211; SICKA CICADAS by Kathy Ashworth<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OvJrEPEx27A?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not quite a song, but still very much an audio performance about cicadas: <strong>Tessa Farmer and David Rothenberg perform Magicicada in Dublin<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ATNGHCBVL4Y&#038;feature=youtu.be\">YouTube Link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATNGHCBVL4Y?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you have a favorite cicada song? Let us know in the comments! <\/p>\n<p>Bonus: Another cicada song send by a reader:<\/p>\n<p><strong>CICADA by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liamtitcomb.com\">Liam Titcomb<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z28q4c6OCUk\">YouTube link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z28q4c6OCUk?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And more:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seventeen Years (a cicada love song) &#8211; Lloyd H. Miller<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MS6w6XSOtQM\">YouTube Link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MS6w6XSOtQM?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Baby Bug by Samm Bennett<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eFHar6Kod0w?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Seventeen Years&#8221; by Jen Schaffer and the Shiners<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0oBVfOEijzw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>I Ate A Cicada Today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bXwwX0thK_U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Periodic Cicadas by Dr. Chordate<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>No video for this song, but <strong>Dr Chordate<\/strong> wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myspace.com\/drchordate\/music\">a song called Periodic Cicadas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows cicadas love to sing (the males) or be serenaded (the females). A lot of people like to write songs inspired by cicadas. If you search online music stores or YouTube, you&#8217;ll find hundreds of songs about cicadas, in every genre imaginable including rap, country, rock, folk, dance, parody, classical and experimental. Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}