Hit Song

{{for|the term used to describe a popular or well-known song or a song that charted on a record chart|Hit song}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Hit Song

| cover = Hit Song artwork.jpeg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Custard

| album = Loverama

| released = {{Start date|1999|04}}

| format =

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Pop, rock

| length = 9:19

| label = rooArt

| writer = David McCormack, Glenn Thompson, Paul Medew, Matthew Strong

| producer = Magoo

| prev_title = Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)

| prev_year = 1998

| next_title = Ringo (I Feel Like)

| next_year = 1999

}}

"Hit Song" is a song by Custard, released as the second single from the band's fifth album, Loverama. It reached No. 60 on the Australian ARIA singles chart,{{cite book|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|title=Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010|year=2011|publisher=Moonlight Publishing|location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia}} and No. 83 on the 1999 Hottest 100.{{Cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/archive/archive.htm?year=1999&alltime=0 |title=Triple j's Hottest 100 |website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=2014-09-19 |archive-date=2014-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924112752/http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/archive/archive.htm?year=1999&alltime=0 |url-status=dead }}

Lyrics

McCormack said, "The record companies are always keen for that radio-friendly, unit-shifting smash hit. And that is their job I guess. So I basically quoted all the things I'd heard them say to us and other people. Like you have to have a hit song -- you need a chorus and the verse and then the other chorus and it just seemed like a formula. So I thought that if they want a hit song I will just write exactly what they want and I guess they thought I was being too cynical and ironic but I was just trying to give them what they wanted. I gave them exactly what they asked for. And they said 'Thank you very much'."{{cite magazine| magazine= Rave|author=Simone Samuels| title=Custard| date=23 June 1999}}