Songs about photography

I wanted to write something about music since I’ve started this. Music that specifically mentions photography, to be precise.

After thinking for a few months without any kind of research, I came to the conclusion that few songs were written about the subject in general, at least in my favorite genres, and I ended up with a short list. Hey, it was an almost-year-old draft and I had to publish it one day.

• Photograph, by Def Leppard;
• Cyclops, by Bruce Dickinson;
• The Camera Eye, by Rush;
• Electric Eye, by Judas Priest;
• Pictures Of Home, by Deep Purple.

Short list, yes, but I’m mainly a Hard Rock and Metal guy, so I have no idea (nor the inclination to find out) if Lady Gaga or whomever the kids listen to these days wrote a song about selfies or the such.

In the end, I wondered for a few minutes if photography is still seen by people these days as something romantic enough to have a song written about, but then I remembered that most of the music these days is unlistenable, so no, I’d rather not know.

Actually, almost all cameras these days are as disposable and uninteresting as today’s pop songs, so there’s that.