Is it possible to link artists mentioned in songs?

MusicBrainz
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Hello,
I have just linked Harry Enfield’s Loadsamoney to a number of songs that it interpolates in the music and lyrics. In the lyrics, Dennis Waterman is specifically mentioned along with Stock-Aitken (Mike Stock, Matt Aitken) who formed the popular production team Stock-Aitken-Waterman with Pete Waterman, not Dennis as mentioned in the song.

When looking through the ‘relationship types’ to link the songs, I wondered if the same could be done with people? Or places, brands etc.?
Dennis Waterman is specifically mentioned.

I ask the same question about “In The Air Tonight” (Phil Collins) mentioned in “Stan” by Eminem. I have linked the song (‘Quotes lyrics from’ relationship). But found no way of linking artists to recordings or works such as ‘mentioned in’, ‘named in’ etc. As Phil Collins is specifically mentioned in Stan.

Is this possible to do this at all? Am I failing to find the right relationship type?
Or if not possible, is it a planned new feature?
Thanks

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I don’t see a feature request for this in the ticket tracker, you can make a request for a new relationship type:

https://tickets.metabrainz.org/

Have another search though, maybe I used the wrong search terms!

Making a ticket is no guarantee that it will be implemented, or implemented soon, but without a ticket it definitely wont happen :smiley:

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I also feel like this would be a useful relationship, it would be used a lot for diss tracks, where rappers frequently mention each other directly on their songs.

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closest I know of is when a song is named after an artist, like Fahrenheit, named after Freddy Mercury (aka Mr. Fahrenheit). sounds like it might be new ticket time~

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