"California Girls" inspired the titles of Big Star's "September Gurls" (1974) and identically-named songs by Gretchen Wilson (from her 2006 album "All Jacked Up") and the Magnetic Fields (from their 2008 album "Distortion"). The latter song describes a protagonist who wishes to murder upper-class girls from California with a battle axe, a theme that carried on from Sonic Youth's "Expressway to Yr. Skull" from "Evol" (1986). Katy Perry's "California Gurls" (2010) initiated a dispute with publisher Rondor Music regarding its use of the lyric "I wish they all could be California girls".