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“Pop Goes the World” is a song by Canadian New Wave group Men Without Hats, featured on the group’s 1987 album of the same name. The song very generally tells a story of “Johnny” and “Jenny,“ the two members of a fluid musical group (both the members’ instruments of choice and the band name appears to change throughout the song) on their quest for fame in the industry, though at one point the lyrics note that they come to the realization that they could make “more money on a movie screen.“ The lyrics imply that the fictional group’s best-known single is, in fact, called Pop Goes the World. Interjected in the narrative about Johnny and Jenny are more abstract (or less sensical) lyrics such as “One two three and four is five/Everybody here is a friend of... Read on...