In Swedens top 20 (Svensktoppen) the key change became a ridiculed trope. See, Sweden top 20 is for Swedish musichians only. The imported (American and British

In Swedens top 20 (Svensktoppen) the key change became a ridiculed trope. See, Sweden top 20 is for Swedish musichians only. The imported (American and British mostly) music had a separate list, "Tracks". Neither of the lists was based on sales by the way, since the state media monopoly was supposedly non-commercial. Anyway the Sweden top 20 stuff stayed dance-based (think jitterbug, not rave). Somewhere someone started talking about the key change. Even non-musichians learned to hear and point out the key change (easy, almost always the last refrain). Sweden top 20 leaned in to it. More humor oriented songs now include the key change in the lyrics ("here comes the pull-up).