Matt Yglesias flagged LFO's "Summer Girls" as possibly the worst summer pop hit ever, and while I haven't listened to the song in years, I'll be damned if he's not correct.
I mean, really. Can we establish a couple of very simple rules for referentiality in pop lyrics? 1) Just because you can drop cultural references, doesn't mean you should. There is no particular reason you need to carbon-date your songs in an era when things like AllMusic exist. 2) Particularly if they reveal you have dreadful, or even entirely indiscriminate taste. Rappers seem a lot better at sticking to this rule than mediocre pop-rap bands. And 3) Creating artificially-defined classes of girls works if you're the Beach Boys (particularly if you later use the lyric to insult a group of British fans by telling them "I wish you all could be California Girls" during an extremely surly concert. Live in London really is the best live album.) It does not work if you're defining them by a brand that won't be a standard in five years. 4) You are not accomplished enough to refer to William Shakespeare by the nickname "Billy." For serious.