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A song about the life and times of a lady of the night. The narrator could be a male admirer who is in love with her and wishes she'd leave the profession behind to be with him, but the song can also be neutral and might simply be about her struggles and decision to walk the streets. If the artist is a woman, the song might be from the perspective of the worker herself. The song is rarely upbeat, as her life isn't exactly celebrated, but it usually stops short of all-out tragedy. Its main goal is to humanize sex workers and put a person behind the alluring face and body, hence why many of these songs are named after the woman in question. While prostitutes are the most common subject for this song, it can also be about a stripper, dominatrix, etc. Sub-trope of Job Song and Bad Girl Song. Can overlap with Intercourse with You if it gets graphic, or Bawdy Song if it's Played for Laughs. |
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Clean Bandit's "Rockabye", featuring Sean Paul & Anne-Marie, is about a Single Mom Stripper taking care of her six year old son, while also making ends meet at a strip club. | |
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Tina Turner: In "Private Dancer," she sings as a sex worker so jaded that she does not think of her clients as men, just a source of income ("You don't think of them as human / You don't think of them at all / Just keep your mind on the money / And your eyes on the wall"). The video changes the context to taxi dancing, though it's strongly implied to be a metaphor for prostitution. "Acid Queen," from The Who's Rock Opera Tommy, tells the story of a prostitute employed to see if she can restore Tommy's senses through sex. |
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"Out Tonight" from RENT is Mimi's solo song. On paper, it's just about having a night on the town, but the musical and especially the movie frame it in the context of her working as a stripper. Unlike the usual tone of these songs, Mimi enjoys her line of work. | |
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"Another Suitcase in Another Hall" from Evita is sung by Peron's Mistress, said to be a teenager, after his future wife Eva kicks her out. She goes unnamed, but her sad song about her unsure future humanizes her and serves as A Day in the Limelight, while also framing Eva as a cruel social climber. Some productions more sympathetic to Eva, including the film version, have Eva sing it or sing along with it to humanize her. | |
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"The A Team" by Ed Sheeran is about a sex worker addicted to crack cocaine. | |
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"Old Compton Street Blues" by Al Stewart is about a woman who moved to London chasing dreams of stardom and instead ended up becoming a streetwalker in Soho. | |
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From The Threepenny Opera, "Zuhalterballade" (Pimp's Ballad), euphemistically translated as "The Ballad of Immoral Earnings", is a nostalgic duet between Macheath and Jenny telling how the former was the pimp of the latter, including things such as domestic abuse and backalley abortion. | |
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"Novocane" and "Pyramids" by Frank Ocean are about dating a woman who does porn (while studying to be a dentist) and a stripper respectively. | |
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'The Girls Of The Night' from Jekyll & Hyde is a heart-tugging duet between Lucy and Nellie, two sex workers, as Nellie tells Lucy to give up on chasing empty dreams. | |
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"I Dreamed a Dream," "Lovely Ladies," "Fantine's Arrest," and "Come to Me" from Les Misérables trace the fall of Fantine after she is fired from her factory job in 19th-Century France, forced to turn to prostitution to support her young daughter born out of wedlock. She develops tuberculosis and dies in a hospital. | |
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"Acid Queen," from The Who's Rock Opera Tommy, tells the story of a prostitute employed to see if she can restore Tommy's senses through sex. | |
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Unsounded: The prostitutes of the Deadly Nevergreen have a song, the "House Special", they sing to prospective clientele about their job. | |
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Flight of the Conchords "You Don't Have To Be A Prostitute" is a parody of "Roxanne" by The Police. | |
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"I'm in Love (Wit a Stripper)" by T-Pain is self-explanatory, though the lyrics make it clear that the "love" he feels is entirely superficial. | |
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Iron Maiden introduced "Charlotte the Harlot" in a 1980 song of the same name describing her life on the job. Charlotte would become a recurring character for the band, appearing again in the songs "22 Acacia Avenue" in which the narrator tries to persuade her to give up her dangerous lifestyle, and "From Here to Eternity" which sees her taking a fateful motorcycle ride with the devil. | |
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"Keisha's Song (Her Pain)" by Kendrick Lamar is a tragic cautionary tale about a prostitute who is stabbed and killed by one of her clients. Also a sort of Morality Ballad, as Kendrick says he played the song for his sister to ensure she'd never become a prostitute. (The song doesn't condemn Keisha for being a sex worker, more commenting on the dangers of being an impoverished woman in the sex industry). | |
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"There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" from Sweet Charity is slightly more cheerful version, sung by three "taxi dancers" (which some interpret as The '60s code for prostitute, others as just one step up from it) as they express their determination to get out of the business. It is the fact that their dreams are all relatively modest (hat check girl or receptionist) that make it somewhat sad. | |
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"Shaking Hands" by Nickelback is about a high class stripper who has politicians, judges and other powerful men as her clients, allowing her to live an expensive lifestyle. | |
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