"The Village People" becomes a considerably more popular band. When under naval attack, everyone immediately plays it down US Navy frequencies, thus immobilising their crews with hysterical laughter, and enraging officers so much that they lose all capacity to make rational decisions. Thus, they revert to ram tactics, with fairly predictable results. Similarly, whenever the US Marines attack, "In the Navy" starts up again. Everyone soon knows how to counter this great fleet, and how to humiliate it.
Thus, it is made into an inneffectual embarrassment, with emphasis on the latter once the US Navy sets up adequate jamming equipment.
As an afterword, Dubya declares war on the band, having discovered that they may be doing a music video remake via intelligence, and with the assistance of a somewhat deceitful Tony Blair. They try desperately, with the full might of their armies, to hunt down this band, who are constantly on the run, and have managed to obtain the assistance of the NYPD, Construction workers' trade unions, and Native Americans. The war is still being waged.
I could go on. It is certainly about as likely as anything short of, say, the entire Pacific fleet being decimated in a rapid series of Pearl Harbouresque raids, which force the USA to their knees, and thereby prevent them from building much of a fleet to challenge the Japanese...