Response Songs

The Guardian has a fun little round up of songs written in response to other songs. Like how Southern Man by Neil Young spawned Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynrd.

Apparently there's some recent rap kerfuffle that set this off.

Rap seems to have a lot of this thing, if you Google for Rap Beefs you'll probably find a huge amount of examples. Anyway...

The article starts off:

Frankee's smash hit F.U.R.B. (F U Right Back) is just the latest in a line of response songs that is almost as old as pop

But surely every school kid who kept awake during English knows it goes back further than that. Response poems were quite the thing once. The most famous probably being The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd.