In Music
- "La Cucaracha" ("The Cockroach") is a traditional Spanish language folk song.
- The Shuffle Demons did a song in 1986, Get Out Of My House, Roach, on the album Streetniks.
- The song Common People by the English alternative rock band Pulp contains lyrics about watching "roaches climb the walls".
- The album Infest from the band Papa Roach features a large roach on the cover.
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's second studio album, Of Natural History features the song Cockroach, which describes cockroaches with disgust.
- In 2007, American group Ween released their 11th studio album entitled La Cucaracha.
- International pop superstar Madonna has famously quoted, "I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me."
- The song "Doin' the Cockroach" by the band Modest Mouse is featured on the studio album The Lonesome Crowded West and the live album Baron von Bullshit Rides Again.
- The song Yonkers by the rapper Tyler, the Creator shows a cockroaches head being eaten.
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