The 10 Most Unlikely Songs About Celebrities

DJ team Duck Sauce appear to have achieved global dance floor dominance thanks to their hit “Barbra Streisand,” earning chart slots everywhere from the UK to Australia to South Africa. It’s a catchy, bouncy, feverish track, but it’s certainly not one that Barbra Streisand would release. It seems like an odd match: a club track about your grandma’s favorite vocalist? So it got us thinking about other unlikely celebrity-inspired songs, from Mu’s electro-freakout “Paris Hilton,” to Woody Guthrie’s musings on Ingrid Bergman. Check out our top ten after the jump.

“David Duchovny” by Bree Sharp

Bree Sharp’s homage to David Duchovny is pretty sweet, in a celebrity stalker way, but it seems like an odd person to have a crush on. Sure, he’s cute on The X-Files, but don’t singer-songwriters have crushes on more sensitive, artsy types and not, say, a deeply troubled sex addict? It’s a good thing the chorus alone — “David Duchovny/Why don’t you love me?” — is worth the weirdness factor.

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How about taking the 11 minutes out of your life and actually listening to the original of "Joey". Mr. Gallo spent the better part of the 60s in jail and was gunned down in Little Italy on his 43rd b-day in 1972. The backing vocals of Emmylou Harris alone make it worthwhile.

The Ataris - "My So-Called Life"

All Girl Summer Fun Band's "Jason Lee" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypCeqPrgMIQ featuring the dopey pick up line, "never realized just how much you are like me/I used to skateboard, but I wasn’t very good/we both like obscure music, and we’re both 33"

You forgot Pase & Spank Rock's 'Lindsay Lohan's Revenge'!