Songs That Mention Malibu

California Songs
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These are songs from the main list of songs about California that mention the city of Malibu, California (aka "The 'Bu"). A few songs only mention a place in Malbu such as Zuma Beach. There is also Malibu, a rum-based coconut flavored liqueur, and a mid-sized family car named the Chevy Malibu, which sometimes get mentioned in songs. I don't plan to list those here, but I will list songs with references to "Malibu Barbie" if they're about the California beach girl stereotype named after the doll.

Malibu is famous as a beautiful place with lots of beaches with good surfing and a lot of these songs are about surfing there, but California has a lot of beautiful beach towns and good surfing spots that are not celebrated in lots of songs as Malibu is. That is probably because Malibu is so close to Hollywood and the hills where a lot of entertaiment industry people live and play, including musicians and songwriters such as Miley Cyrus, who released her song about the city a year and a half before her house there burned down in the devastating 2018 wildfire.

Since the 1920s when land was first sold to create the Malibu Movie Colony, Malibu has been acclaimed as a seaside paradise inhabited by wealthy successful people and the priciest homes in the state. Unfortunately, that ritzy image often leads to Malibu being name-dropped in a song as part of the fixation with luxury status symbols and bragging about conspicuous consumption that plagues a lot of popular music these days. Some of them are surely paid product placements like those we see in movies, but probably not the Malibu mentions. It's doubtful that anyone needs to pay to promote the place.

Listed Alphabetically by Song Title

Includes any articles at the beginning - "The" - "A" - "La" - "Los" etc.

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Song Title (click the link to listen to the song)

Artist (with links to comments and lyrics)

24hrs (featuring Post Malone)

A

Kieran Armitage

California Christmas

B

Los Angeles is Burning

Peter Matthew Bauer

California Calling

Francesco Bianconi

California Christmas

C

Sunset Over Malibu

Everybody Knows

Colonel Loud (featuring Young Dolph, Ricco Barrino)

D

E

The Last Resort

F

California Smile

the kids are all dying

Five for Fighting

California Justice

David Frizzell and Shelly West

You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma

G

The J. Geils Band

Californicatin'

Guardian On They Keys

California Dreams!

H

Cold In California

I

J

Down at Malibu Beach

Summer Means Fun

Take Me To California

Waylon Jennings

Friends in California

K

L

The Next Best American Record

California Breeze

Gabe Lopez (featuring Belinda Carlisle)

California Blues

Malibu Love Nest

M

Joe Dee Messina

You're Not in Kansas, Anymore

Migos (featuring Polo G)

Sunsets in Malibu

The Mountain Goats

Going to Malibu

The Mountain Goats

Sinaloan Milk Snake Song

N

O

P

Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign

Q

R

Girl From Malibu

The Rolling Stones

California Paradise

S

California Dreaming

California Dreaming

Alana Springsteen

Spoiled Brats From Malibu

T

We Think the West Coast is the Best (California Suite)

U

V

California Love

Virginia to Vegas & NOTD

W

Stevie Lee Woods

California Girls Have Gone Country

X

Y

Country in California

Z

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