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** There's also "Valentine's Day" from the same album, which is instead of the lovesickness variant.
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* [[Music/LemonDemon Lemon Demon's]] "No-Eyed Girl" is a weird-context example. It's a song about a man declaring his love for a woman...who happens to be a HumanoidAbomination from another dimension. The singer describes his love for the being, despite the fact that she [[BrownNoteBeing causes humans to implode by simply standing near them]], and merely learning her name could [[GoMadFromTheRevelation drive him to madness]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/101Dalmations'', "Cruella de Vil" is mostly a straight TheVillainSucksSong, but the bridge qualifies it as an AntiLoveSong:

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* In ''WesternAnimation/101Dalmations'', ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1961'', "Cruella de Vil" is mostly a straight TheVillainSucksSong, but the bridge qualifies it as an AntiLoveSong:
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* In ''WesternAnimation/101Dalmations'', "Cruella de Vil" is mostly a straight TheVillainSucksSong, but the bridge qualifies it as an AntiLoveSong:
-->At first, you think Cruella is a devil,
-->But after time has worn away the shock,
-->You come to realize: you've seen her kind of eyes
-->[[BaitAndSwitch Watching you from underneath a rock.]]
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--> You claw, you fight, you lose

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--> You claw, hate, you fight, bite, you lose
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* Music/{{Grimes}}'s song "Flesh Without Blood," which is about a [[WeUsedToBeFriends friendship falling apart.]]
--> You claw, you fight, you lose
--> After all, I just don't like you
--> It's nice that you say you like me, but only conditionally
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* Jason once wrote one of these to his sister Paige in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot.'' HilarityEnsues when it gets mixed up with a love poem his father wrote to his wife.

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* Jason once wrote one of these to his sister Paige in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot.'' HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues when it gets mixed up with a love poem his father wrote to his wife.
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* Music/BruceSpringsteen admits that he didn't have the emotional maturity to write straight love songs in his younger years. His early work is dominated by songs about casual sex ("Spirit in the Night", "Jungleland"), dysfunctional/doomed relationships ("Backstreets", "The River", "Racing in the Street"), and just generally writing about romance in the least romantic terms possible. Later in his career, following significant time in therapy and many years being HappilyMarried, he got quite a few SillyLoveSongs under his belt. However, he also picked up a habit of using romantic relationships as a metaphor for the current political climate in the United States, often to rather [[Squick unsettling effect]] ("Livin' in the Future", "Hey Blue Eyes").

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* Music/BruceSpringsteen admits that he didn't have the emotional maturity to write straight love songs in his younger years. His early work is dominated by songs about casual sex ("Spirit in the Night", "Jungleland"), dysfunctional/doomed relationships ("Backstreets", "The River", "Racing in the Street"), and just generally writing about romance in the least romantic terms possible. Later in his career, following significant time in therapy and many years being HappilyMarried, he got quite a few SillyLoveSongs under his belt. However, he also picked up a habit of using romantic relationships as a metaphor for the current political climate in the United States, often to rather [[Squick unsettling effect]] effect ("Livin' in the Future", "Hey Blue Eyes").
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* ''Music/{{Midnights}}'': "Maroon" opens with the first verse painting a very in love couple, but the beat and background music are very dark and downbeat, and it was revealed during the chorus that the couple has broken up and the rest of the song explored their breakdown and the messy legacy her ex-love has left upon her.

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* ** ''Music/{{Midnights}}'': "Maroon" opens with the first verse painting a very in love couple, but the beat and background music are very dark and downbeat, and it was revealed during the chorus that the couple has broken up and the rest of the song explored their breakdown and the messy legacy her ex-love has left upon her.
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* Music/BruceSpringsteen admits that he didn't have the emotional maturity to write straight love songs in his younger years. His early work is dominated by songs about casual sex ("Spirit in the Night", "Jungleland"), dysfunctional/doomed relationships ("Backstreets", "The River", "Racing in the Street"), and just generally writing about romance in the least romantic terms possible. Later in his career, following significant time in therapy and many years being HappilyMarried, he got quite a few SillyLoveSongs under his belt. However, he also picked up a habit of using romantic relationships as a metaphor for the current political climate in the United States, often to rather [[Squick unsettling effect]] ("Livin' in the Future", "Hey Blue Eyes").
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* “About a Girl” by {{Music/Nirvana}}, which was about a toxic relationship. Cobain wrote it about his then-girlfriend, who used to complain he wasn’t contributing. The lyrics indicate some agreement with this sentiment:
--> “I’ll take advantage while\\
You hang me out to dry.
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** Either [[SoundtrackDissonance weirdly]] or [[StalkerWithACrush fittingly]], this song was featured on the soundtrack of one of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' movies.

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** Either [[SoundtrackDissonance weirdly]] or [[StalkerWithACrush fittingly]], this song was featured on the soundtrack of one of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' movies.
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* ''Music/{{Midnights}}'': "Maroon" opens with the first verse painting a very in love couple, but the beat and background music are very dark and downbeat, and it was revealed during the chorus that the couple has broken up and the rest of the song explored their breakdown and the messy legacy her ex-love has left upon her.

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* "Solitaire" by Music/{{Carpenters}} is about a man who doesn't return the love that a woman shows him.

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"Solitaire" by Music/{{Carpenters}} is about a man who doesn't return the love that a woman shows him.him.
** "I Need To Be In Love" is a classic lovesickness song.
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* The subject of Music/PatricioReyYSusRedonditosDeRicota's "Motorpsico", from ''Oktubre'', is undergoing a CrisisOfFaith derived from a bad love experience.

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"Song to Say Goodbye" isn't really written with any romantic implications, it's kinda obvious from the perspective on "Valentine's Day" that the reason the singer is alone is that their partner is the one who died, and "The Horror of Our Love" isn't literal.


* Music/{{Placebo}}'s "A Song to Say Goodbye":
--> You are one of God's mistakes
--> You crying, tragic waste of skin
--> I'm well aware of how it aches
--> But you still won't let me in [...]
--> Now I'm breaking down your door
--> To try and save your swollen face
--> Tough I don't like you anymore
--> You lying, trying waste of space
* Music/TheKillers has a few, namely "Forget About What I Said":

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* Music/{{Placebo}}'s "A Song to Say Goodbye":
--> You are one of God's mistakes
--> You crying, tragic waste of skin
--> I'm well aware of how it aches
--> But you still won't let me in [...]
--> Now I'm breaking down your door
--> To try and save your swollen face
--> Tough I don't like you anymore
--> You lying, trying waste of space
* Music/TheKillers has have a few, namely few.
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"Forget About What I Said":



* Music/{{Maroon 5}} songs fall victims to this sometimes. "If I Never See Your Face Again" is about an unhealthy relationship about two that kind of hate each other but have sexual chemistry that keeps them coming back to each other.

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* Music/{{Maroon 5}} songs fall victims to do this sometimes. sometimes.
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"If I Never See Your Face Again" is about an unhealthy relationship about between two people that kind of hate each other but have sexual chemistry that keeps them coming back to each other.



* Music/LinkinPark's second album ''Meteora'' has as a common lyrical theme which links psychological damage to staying in an unhealthy relationship.

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* Music/LinkinPark's Music/LinkinPark:
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second album ''Meteora'' has as a common lyrical theme which links psychological damage to staying in an unhealthy relationship.



** Also "Valentine's Day", about a person ''literally dying'' because they can't get a date.



* We've gotten a long way down this list without Ludo's "Love Me Dead":

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* We've gotten a long way down this list without Ludo's Music/{{Ludo}}:
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"Love Me Dead":Dead", a song to a girlfriend who the singer has… mostly unkind things to say about:



** Their "The Horror of Our Love" fits a different part of this trope, being a completely serious love song... from a murderous stalker to a girl he kills midway through the song.

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** Their "The Horror of Our Love" fits this trope in a different part of this trope, way, being a completely serious love song... from likening the singer's intense feelings for their lover to those of a murderous stalker stalker, and their physical attraction to a girl he kills midway through the song.them to ''cannibalistic bloodlust.''



* The Mountain Goats' "No Children:"

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* The Mountain Goats' Goats have a number of these, with the most notorious being "No Children:"



** Actually, just about every song by The Mountain Goats qualifies.

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