History Main / AntiLoveSong

* NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" is a rare example of an anti-love song sung by a boy band:

--> I don't wanna be a fool for you

--> Call me crazy, but this ain't no lie

--> Do you really wanna make this tough?

--> Might sound crazy, but it ain't no lie

* JonathanCoulton is known for this enough that PaulAndStorm imitated him for a competition (and doing so very well) by writing a song ("Live") about a mad scientist trying to create the perfect girl by making a female {{Frankenstein}}'s monster.

** The latest and possibly funniest one of these is "Do I Creep You Out", a [[StalkerWithACrush stalker-related]] parody of overblown love songs (and specifically ''Series/AmericanIdol''-winner Taylor Hicks' song "Do I Make You Proud"):

* In Saki's short story, "The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope," the protagonist writes the following:

** There's also Stephen and the Colbert's famous 80s hit "Charlene (I'm Right Behind You)", which has the subtext of being a song about a girl Colbert is stalking.

* Harley Quinn does a truly demented one in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Harlequinade", called "Say That We're Sweethearts Again" from a 1944 movie called ''Meet The People''.

* Dorothy Shay, the "Park Avenue Hillbillie", sang the dysfunctional torch song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pSpDSblssk "Say That We're Sweethearts Again",]] later covered by Virginia O'Brien and Harley Quinn.

* The Deadpan Diva of 1940's MGM musical comedy, Virgina O'Brien, provides a torch song UrExample with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EOSesOOD_g "Say We'll Be Sweethearts Again]]

* ''The Baddest Girl,'' an original song by ACapella group {{Music/Pentatonix}}:

* ''The Baddest Girl,'' an original song by ACapella group {{Music/Pentatonix}:

* "Love Song" from the musical ''Love Life''. (Key line: "But nobody listens to my song.")

* Brett Anderson's "The Empress" is may be a strange and melancholy song about a failed love affair, or it may describe some weirder sort of bad relationship. The first line is definitely "Didn't I try to love her?"

** "Da Da Da" by Trio. Those crazy Germans. The refrain is "Ich liebe dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht". It is only at the end of the song that they say it in English: "I don't love you you don't love me".

* Mika's [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=PJVMWtv9JZI "Lollipop"]] is a happy little pop song about how love will ruin your life. "Erase" sounds like a regretful breakup song until you realize he's actually taunting his former lover, and suggesting they they kill themselves in order to get over him:

Compare AntiChristmasSong, SpoofAesop. See also LyricalDissonance. Contrast SillyLoveSongs

!!Examples:

* PlayedWith in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}: Return of Jafar.'' [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Iago]] sings "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMrbT4Ycv1A Forget About Love]]," but it's actually [[ReversePsychology a ploy]] to get Jasmine to forgive Aladdin for lying to her. Naturally, it's transformed into a legitimate love song between the couple by the end.

* [[StylisticSuck The overdone song]], where the lyrics get so purple you have to laugh.

-->-- I Was Only Kidding, Music/WeirdAlYankovic

* "Die, Die My Darling" by TheMisfits.

* {{GWAR}} has a few songs like this: "Sick of You" ("It's just your luck/You really suck/That's all--I'm sick of you") and "Hate Love Songs, which is about, well, hating love songs, among other things.
* ElvisCostello:

** The latest and possibly funniest one of these is "Do I Creep You Out", a [[StalkerWithACrush stalker-related]] parody of overblown love songs (and specifically ''AmericanIdol''-winner Taylor Hicks' song "Do I Make You Proud"):

--> they're so