: Re: How should I approach possibly unfamiliar pop culture in fiction? So sometimes I get an idea that forms specifically around some aspect of pop culture. They're often song lyrics. If the reader

@Debbie451

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I can think of two suggestions:

Have the character sing or quote the
verse you're referencing. If you were to have this brainwave in real life, you'd have to explain it to your friends who haven't heard the song anyway, right?
Put the verse as a block in italics
as a sort of one-paragraph preface. Stephen King did this in beginning of The Stand.

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