pretentious

arrogant; intended to attract notice and impress others

Heard in 56 songs (220M+ combined views) — most famously in "Listen Before I Go" by Billie Eilish.

Updated August 6, 2026

Songs Featuring “pretentious

Billie Eilish - Listen Before I Go

Time: 0:14

Tell me, love is endless, don't be so pretentious

Leave me, like you do (like you do)

Billie Eilish - Listen Before I Go

Tyler, the Creator - SORRY NOT SORRY

Time: 2:09

I'm not Superman, but I could try

I'm sorry I'm pretentious

Sorry that the talent, knowledge, passion isn't missin'

Tyler, the Creator - SORRY NOT SORRY

Arthur Nery - Life Puzzle

Time: 2:36

We'll walk the streets on fire and fill it with lights

No, I don't want to be pretentious, you're a goddess

I sound a little bit ridiculous but I'm honest

Arthur Nery - Life Puzzle

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

Time: 0:10

Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

Juice WRLD - The Light

Time: 2:07

And me, I'ma admit it

All of these hoes one thing, that's pretentious

And if I know one thing, then I know this

Juice WRLD - The Light

Kendrick Lamar - Worldwide Steppers

Time: 2:24

The media's the new religion, you killed the consciousness (what the fuck?)

Your jealousy is way too pretentious, you killed accomplishments (what the fuck?)

Niggas killed freedom of speech, everyone sensitive (what the fuck?)

Kendrick Lamar - Worldwide Steppers

Finger Eleven - Paralyzer

Time: 0:37

And I feel awkward as I should

This club has got to be the most pretentious thing

Since I thought of you and me

Finger Eleven - Paralyzer

Nirvana - Spank Thru

Time: 0:09

And as the soft pretentious mountains

Glisten in the light of the trees

Nirvana - Spank Thru

Kevin Gates - Counting On Ya

Time: 0:39

Awkward interviews, discussin' my inner views, on life itself

Figure me pretentious, evadin' mischief by writin' hymns

Labels shown interest, no showers are showin' interest (I did it)

Kevin Gates - Counting On Ya

Gracie Abrams - Blowing Smoke

Time: 2:19

I know everything they don't

And I find your books pretentious now

At the time, they'd fed the fantasy

Gracie Abrams - Blowing Smoke

ABBA - Ode to Freedom

Time: 1:11

It would be a simple Ode to Freedom

Not pretentious, but with dignity

I would like to think that freedom is

ABBA - Ode to Freedom

Drake - War

Time: 0:58

The woman I do end up with has to be a bad gyal just like Munchy

Can't have no pretentious ting when I know this road gets bumpy

Word to the broski Jay, he got different names in different countries

Drake - War

Conan Gray - Footnote

Time: 0:45

For me

So I'll stop being pretentious and loathing our friendship

You taught me a lesson, that love isn't precious

Conan Gray - Footnote

Five Finger Death Punch - Death Before Dishonor

Time: 2:43

Ugh, fuck!

You're self righteous, self pretentious

Your ways are not for me

Five Finger Death Punch - Death Before Dishonor

Madonna - Rescue Me

Time: 0:50

You see that I'm ferocious, you see that I am weak

You see that I am silly, and pretentious and a freak

But I don't feel too strange for you

Madonna - Rescue Me

Lecrae - I Wouldn’t Know

Time: 1:06

Got me feeling like a beast

A sickness and God is my witness but the foreign car making my pockets pretentious, Lord

Somebody help me

Lecrae - I Wouldn’t Know

CKY - Flesh into Gear

Time: 0:26

If the future looks bleak (then you're connected to me)

Flesh into gear, myself appears dissected and pretentious

A simple sound, a heavy sigh could win the whole world over

CKY - Flesh into Gear

Father John Misty - Ballad Of The Dying Man

Time: 1:42

Just think of all the overrated hacks running amok

And all of the pretentious, ignorant voices that will go unchecked

The homophobes, hipsters, and 1%

Father John Misty - Ballad Of The Dying Man

Bauhaus - Dark Entries

Time: 1:39

If only for the old times, cold times

Don't go waving your pretentious love

Bauhaus - Dark Entries

Asking Alexandria - Down To Hell

Time: 1:16

I can't hear you through the new sound

Insufferable, emotional graveyard, pretentious dick

Don't waste your time, it's not a secret, believe it

Asking Alexandria - Down To Hell

Enter Shikari - Sorry, You're Not a Winner

Time: 1:02

What have you got

To lose but false intentions and a life so pretentious?

Scratch card glory or waist low pleasure?

Enter Shikari - Sorry, You're Not a Winner

Olivia Dean - Crosswords

Time: 0:40

Something important, I smile and half understand it

But they're all pretentious and you're sincere

Way beyond your years

Olivia Dean - Crosswords

Motionless in White - Hollow Points

Time: 0:22

Looking down your nose, feeling saved

A pretentious vice

Ego toxicity, brand your faith a currency

Motionless in White - Hollow Points

Wale - The Curse of the Gifted

Time: 2:12

Pray to not know the feeling, sitting on a couple million

Sipping pretentious liquids

Ease with they money when hella finding is on the trippin

Wale - The Curse of the Gifted

Ashnikko - Skin Cleared

Time: 1:44

From social climbing, eagle eyeing

You pretentious bitch

Just needed a muse for your writing

Ashnikko - Skin Cleared

MF Doom - Forever People

Time: 0:42

Big headed, I better try the wide lenses

Quite pretentious, bars like my mic got a life sentence

Don't lose your cool or show your cards too early

MF Doom - Forever People

Anthony Hamilton - I'll Wait to Fall in Love

Time: 0:54

Like an olden day movie

Not pretentious, both interests agree

That we belong in love

Anthony Hamilton - I'll Wait to Fall in Love

Missing Persons - I Can't Think About Dancin'

Time: 1:17

For starving hearts it never ends

So let's not be pretentious

I can't think about dancin'

Missing Persons - I Can't Think About Dancin'

Placebo - Blue American

Time: 0:11

I wrote this novel just for you

It sounds pretentious but it's true

I wrote this novel just for you

Placebo - Blue American

Beach Bunny - Nice Guys

Time: 0:00

You're so pretentious

Pretending like you hate me when the world don't go your way

Beach Bunny - Nice Guys

Disturbed - Meaning of Life

Time: 2:55

And now the hunger's getting bigger

Come a little closer now pretentious whore and pull my trigger

Free the violence that is building in me

Disturbed - Meaning of Life

Say Anything - Admit It Again

Time: 1:56

And I don't define my enemies by the clothes they wear

Or the pretentious bands they like

It's about how you seek to control minds

Say Anything - Admit It Again

Serj Tankian - Empty Walls

Time: 0:32

Your empty walls, your empty walls

Pretentious attention

Dismissive apprehension

Serj Tankian - Empty Walls

Mastodon - Where Strides the Behemoth

Time: 1:11

Further chase the prize

Pretentious you follow

Religion is mine

Mastodon - Where Strides the Behemoth

Switchfoot - Dig New Streams

Time: 1:58

Come all, you worn out, burn out, sick and tired

Come all, you fake, pretentious suit and ties

Come with your filthy hands and your blackened eyes

Switchfoot - Dig New Streams

Against Me! - Don’t Lose Touch

Time: 0:07

You're coming off kinda contrived and pretentious

You're not saying anything we haven't heard before

Against Me! - Don’t Lose Touch

Kesha - High Road

Time: 1:43

Oy vey, okay, hope y'all have a blessed day

So pretentious, I'm so damn pretentious

Delete the message, and pass me that beverage (hey)

Kesha - High Road

Genesis - It

Time: 2:42

With enough grit to survive

If you think that it's pretentious

You'll be taken for a ride

Genesis - It

Nas - Escobar '97 [From Men in Black-the Album]

Time: 0:32

Quick to celebrate it, poppin' corks like they made it

Pretentious, arrogant niggas is senseless

Pro-ball players with white wives, peep they night lives

Nas - Escobar '97 [From Men in Black-the Album]

Jon B. - Bonafide

Time: 2:08

[Incomprehensible]

I'm not pretentious, I invent this vibe that you feel

A me oh, my God ya look so fine

Jon B. - Bonafide

Death Cab for Cutie - Information Travels Faster

Time: 0:33

Of dancehall hips, pretentious quips

A boxer's bob and weave

Death Cab for Cutie - Information Travels Faster

Kid Ink - My System

Time: 0:56

I done had too many sips of this Patrone up in my system

Baby, dont be too pretentious, aint nobody paying attention

Do your dance, do your dance just dont drop that thunder, thunder

Kid Ink - My System

Sleaford Mods - Tory Kong

Time: 1:26

The URL are you playing at?

We ain't pretentious, no

This ain't a disco nap

Sleaford Mods - Tory Kong

Bo Burnham - What's Funny

Time: 0:27

My show is a little bit silly

And a little bit pretentious

Like Shakespeare's willy

Bo Burnham - What's Funny

Cadence Weapon - Hype Man

Time: 1:33

Most incredible gig, these relatives get to peddle shit

For my thought retention and it's so pretentious

I came to ball, not ride the benches, with you, you fuckin'

Cadence Weapon - Hype Man

Doechii - Stressed

Time: 1:41

This body is in remembrance of the last lost

And this lady is too pretentious of the mascot

Look got a 22

Doechii - Stressed

Lil Yachty - Westside

Time: 1:40

Mama keepin' up with my expenses (yeah)

Lot of these hoes so pretentious (woo)

Swear they ballin', warmin' up the benches (woo)

Lil Yachty - Westside

Dev - Lightspeed

Time: 0:18

Fuck the haters, give me some love

Don't be so pretentious

I fit gold like a dentist

Dev - Lightspeed

Lauren Sanderson - Everyone's Pretentious & I'm Bored

Time: 0:34

I'm about to kill the vibe

Everyone's pretentious and I'm bored (bored, bored, bored)

How's it feel to be empty at the core? (Core, core)

Lauren Sanderson - Everyone's Pretentious & I'm Bored

Wiki - Never Fall Off

Time: 0:21

She likes to listen

Slightly pretentious, but she gets it when she heard my songs

She bop along

Wiki - Never Fall Off

Stone Sour - Omega

Time: 1:39

And there was never anyone to begin with now was there?

Sanctimonious pretentious dastardly bastards

With their thumb on the pulse

Stone Sour - Omega

Mick Jenkins - P's & Q's

Time: 1:00

Pray you perceive it in the way that I intended

I ain't preaching and I'm never that pretentious

Not pretending, Quasimodo how my back is

Mick Jenkins - P's & Q's

The Velvet Underground - Velvet Nursery Rhyme

Time: 1:08

Now you got here john and me, we want no part of this

That's because we think it is real pretentious shit

The Velvet Underground - Velvet Nursery Rhyme

Slayyyter - $T. LOSER

Time: 1:40

You don't think about me (huh)

So pretentious looking down at my $t. Loser misery

I think about me

Slayyyter - $T. LOSER

Sigrid - I'll Always Be Your Girl

Time: 1:13

Hard to get impressed when you're bending the truth

You think that I'm pretentious and I say that you're rude

Sigrid - I'll Always Be Your Girl

Leon Thomas - WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY?

Time: 0:23

You think that money alone's the root to being happy, happy

You're too pretentious, self-conscious pride in driving Mercedes

Always done up, but I doubt you looked in the mirror lately

Leon Thomas - WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY?