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Another Grammy winner, the self-descriptive “Goin’ Back to New Orleans,” followed in 1992.

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2019

That’s due in part to the self-descriptive slacker ballad “Sadly Beautiful,” but it’s due most of all to “Nobody,” a dissolute blast of pop, rock, and soul that Mehr, oddly, doesn’t even mention.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

Joni Mitchell’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns, he notes, is “maybe the most self-descriptive album title in all pop, apart from Trogglodynamite by the Troggs.”

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2014

And if they don’t want to be quite this blatant in their self-promotion, they might ask the tattoo artist to write the self-descriptive word in a foreign language.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2013

He runs mySociety, a non-profit organisation founded in 2003 that builds simple web-based tools with self-descriptive names like “faxyourmp” and “fixmystreet”.

From Economist • Feb. 4, 2010