4 Alt-Rock Songs That Were Secretly About Other Musicians

We all love a good mystery in music, especially when that mystery has lore to it.

Sometimes the lore is very clear, and other times it isn’t, leading to a lot of songs that are secretly about things and people you might not expect. For example… other musicians? Below, we’ve compiled a list of alt-rock songs from the past few decades that are secretly about other rockers, whether it be directly or slightly more indirectly…

Fall Out Boy – “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” is apparently about The Killers

On their third studio album, Infinity on High, Chicago’s own Fall Out Boy delivered a pop-rock anthem with “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race,” which bassist and songwriter Pete Wentz has said was a “kind of a tongue-in-cheek look at the way we are so addicted and obsessed with n