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Silly Love Songs
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When you turn on the radio and hear music with lyrics, at least nine times out of ten, the song will be a love song of some sort, either praising love and one's lover (or wished-for lover) to the high heavens, or singing about how much angst or anger love gone sour has caused. (These songs are sometimes indistinguishable from songs about Intercourse with You.) For some reason, there's always a market for even the silliest of Silly Love Songs, making this an Undead Horse Trope. Frank Zappa once noted that if popular music really could change or affect people, everyone would be in love. Past music critics commonly referred to this sort of song as a "Moon-June song", sometimes with "spoon" added, after the (supposed) tendency for writers of these songs to rhyme the two words together. The originator of this name was likely the 1908 hit Shine On, Harvest Moon. Some performers write Anti-Love Songs because they want to try something different. They never stop the deluge of Silly Love Songs that fill the airwaves. And what's wrong with that? (A lack of variety, of course, but Tropes Are Not Bad all the time.) If you want to hear an example, just turn on your radio to any popular music station. You'll find one soon enough. Listing them all would be pointless and time-consuming. Some of the sillier examples could be listed here, especially those that hang a lampshade on their triteness. This trope name was first coined by John Lennon, who criticized Paul McCartney for always writing Silly Love Songs. McCartney in turn wrote the song he gave the title to as a rebuttal. Compare Intercourse with You, songs about... making love. Contrast Anti-Love Song, "I Hate" Song, and Break-Up Song. May be a Song of Many Emotions if it's about especially complicated love. May double as a Seduction Lyric if the singer takes the line that the next thing for the lovers to do is to express their affection physically. See also Narm, when the work unintentionally ends up coming out silly. |
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"Pet Name" from Factory Showroom is a tongue-in-cheek example, in that it's about a couple who are moving past the lovey-dovey portion of their relationship and now have to put more effort into it ("We've almost figured out how we'll get along / And given time we'll find it strange to be alone"). | |
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The experiment Overdrawn at the Memory Bank has "Loving Lovers Love," sung by Pearl and Observer. | |
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Bowser's love song "Peaches" is Played for Laughs, given how masculine of a bad guy he is and how rarely he sings in the series. You certainly wouldn't expect a big, scary turtle general to have a genuine, heartfelt song for his crush. The word "Peaches" gets repeated constantly at the end, as if he's already run out of ideas for lyrics, and escalates to Chewing the Scenery-levels of soulful. | |
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Franco De Vita: Many songs written by him are nothing but insightful love letters, but they've been acclaimed for their deep message of devotion to the target partner. Notable examples include "Te amo" (I Love You), "Entre tu vida y la mía" (Between Your Life And Mine), "Fuera de este mundo" (Out Of This World), "Ay Dios" (Oh God). | |
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"Louisa" by Lord Huron comes pretty close to this. | |
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Caravan have surprisingly many examples for a prog group, including the aptly-named "Love Song with Flute": | |
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"Mix Tape" and "Fantasies Come True" are more traditional, but Avenue Q parodies love songs in "The More You Ruv Someone." | |
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The Beautiful South's "One Last Love Song" is about these. The Beautiful South also wrote "Song For Whoever," which subverts the trope; the musician is writing songs to keep him in money ("I love the PRS cheques that you bring") based on whoever his latest girlfriend is — whose name he has conveniently forgotten. |
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Most Broadway musicals include at least one Silly Love Song; Spamalot has one titled "The Song That Goes Like This," which explains how every Broadway musical contains at least one Silly Love Song. Others include: "Love Song" from Pippin. "Hitler/Khan Love Duet" from The Complete Millennium Musical (Abridged). Also subject to hilarity in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. "Mix Tape" and "Fantasies Come True" are more traditional, but Avenue Q parodies love songs in "The More You Ruv Someone." |
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Air Supply, of course, made a whole career out of these songs. | |
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Also subject to hilarity in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. | |
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Zucchero: Some of his songs portray romance with a noticeably flowery narrative, such as "Indaco Dagli Occhi Del Cielo" (Indigo Like the Eyes of the Sky), where he describes love as an influx of "kisses falling from the sky" and which are "light as apple blossoms" and look like "mercury drops". The funny thing is that Zucchero himself claims that he wasn't always good at writing deeply romantic songs. | |
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Mildly parodied in The Turtles' "Elenore," which randomly juxtaposes straight Silly Love Song material with parental opposition and Intercourse with You themes. Word of God says that "Elenore" was written as a Take That! against the Executive Meddling of their record company, who wanted them to make more commercial hits like "Happy Together," when they wanted to move on to more progressive music and concept albums like Battle of the Bands. So they deliberately wrote the most banal bubblegum pop song they could, but it still was a big hit and a signature Turtles song. It includes the famous lines: | |
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Doraemon: In "A World Without Sound", from what little we read of Big G's song, it appears to be a peppy love song. "My love is like..." | |
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"Gitchee Gitchee Goo" from Phineas and Ferb is a parody of this. "Don't worry if you get lost, the lyrics are meaningless anyway." | |
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Tricia Yearwood's "How Do I Live", the closing theme to Con Air. It was later made even sillier with an intentionally cheesy, So Bad, It's Good cover by M.G. Bowman for Homestuck. | |
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Hugh Laurie sang the love song "Mystery" in A Bit of Fry and Laurie. It involved a girl he never met, whom he was almost completely incompatible with and that died over a decade ago. The mystery was why he was in love with her. And what tortured rhyme for "mystery" Hugh was going to come up with next. (Some examples: estuary, unsanitary, Port Authority.) | |
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Bonnie Tyler: "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" is, lyrics-wise, a song of deep devotion towards a lover, to the extent that Bonnie is too afraid that she might not have what it takes to be loved back anymore (as she feels she's past her beauty's prime). The song's video is much more surreal, however. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The experiment Overdrawn at the Memory Bank has "Loving Lovers Love," sung by Pearl and Observer. Another episode has "Gypsy Moon" (as in the film of the same name), making use of nearly every word that rhymes with 'moon.' |
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VeggieTales once replaced Larry's silly songs with "Love Songs by Mr. Lunt." It ended up being a song about a guy who really wants a cheeseburger, essentially falling in love with it. Not to mention "Pizza Angel", where Larry performs a fifties ballad (complete with double-tracked voice, leather jacket, and backup singers) to his delivery dinner. Or "Barbara Manatee." Larry's love ballad to a manatee from a soap opera. |
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Forever The Sickest Kids' song "King For A Day" in a large nutshell | |
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The Axis of Awesome - How to write a Love Song | |
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Probably one of the reasons why Robert Smith hates "Friday I'm in Love." Even their most straightforward love songs like "The Love Cats" aren't that simple. | |
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The sketch show Hello Cheeky had one or two songs every episode, written and performed by the regular cast. All that were love songs were parodies, such as Moon Over Romford, in which all the exotic locations typically found in love songs have been replaced with less glamorous English locations — Carrots For My Lady, about giving a sweetheart vegetables so she can cook an Irish stew — and Your Third Leg, about a woman with three legs. Then there's Don't Say Goodbye... | |
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The trope is affectionately deconstructed in Imelda May's "Human", which is about being loved passionately but realistically — because that's better than being silly. | |
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