History Main / AntiLoveSong

* In the musical version of ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'', Elphaba and Glinda sing a song about one another (titled "What is This Feeling?" but [[RefrainFromAssuming frequently referred to as]] "Loathing") which could almost be a love song if only a few words were tweaked.

* And of course, Music/GoodCharlotte's "[[strike:I Don't Want to Be in Love]] [[RefrainFromAssuming Dance Floor Anthem]]".

* Cantata Pansophical made a series of songs parodying ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', following one of the story arcs from ''WebVideo/CriticalRole''. Their version of "Helpless", which was originally a love song, gets turned into a scene of a city being sacked by four ancient dragons, and the adventuring party Vox Machina are too powerless to do anything but run away and vow revenge.

* Music/TheRollingStones, "Stupid Girl", spits vitriol over a particular type of female

-->''I betcha you’re unhappy''\\

''There ain’t no sense in crying''\\

''And baby that’s the bottom line''\\

* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' features, in one of its Silly Songs segments, a performance by Mr. Lunt of "My Cheeseburger", a love ode to a cheeseburger that is unrequited because Burger Bell is closed.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has "Baby on Board," a song from the episode "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" that Homer pens after being inspired by a sticker Marge buys for their car. It sounds just enough like a standard [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]] that it might take a listen or two to realize that it's literally about the sticker, which Homer loves because it lets him drive in the carpool lane.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Christian Rock Hard" Cartman embarks on a quest to get rich writing Christian Rock songs, using the formula of taking ordinary pop songs and [[CriticalResearchFailure replacing the word "Baby" with the word "Jesus"]]. The result is a series of [[GodIsLoveSongs creepy songs that make it sound like the singer is]] ''[[GodIsLoveSongs physically]]'' [[GodIsLoveSongs in love with Jesus]], with lyrics like "Crawl into my bed, Jesus, and let's keep each other warm tonight."

* Music/{{Skyclad}}'s "Little Miss Take":

For anyone who has burned out after one love song that TastesLikeDiabetes too many, the cure is obvious: the '''Anti Love Song'''. This medicine comes in several flavors:

** "Superman" borrows the flow of Music/LLCoolJ's "Looking For Love" to degrade and sneer at {{Groupies}}.

** "So Much Better" has Slim taunting his girl about how much better his life would be if she died.

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Superman" certainly sounds like a love song until you listen to those words. "Crazy In Love" fits too.
** Eminem actually has several of these, most of which were directed at his ex-wife, Kim.

*** "august" took this UpToEleven, with every verses and chorus started by expressing the singer's longing for the guy... Only to subverted at the end of each verse by concluding that "You aren't mine to lose".

* Crush by Jennifer Paige is this UpToEleven.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_XdtK3WLJo Maybe I Was Boring]]" by Music/WilburSoot is an upbeat-sounding song about a girl who has fallen out of love with her boyfriend, but won't break up with him because ''he's'' still smitten with her, and she fears breaking his heart.

* {{Subverted}} in ''Literature/TheBible'' (no, really), though you have to know the context. The Song of the Vineyard in [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=is%205&version=NIV Isaiah 5]] speaks of a vineyard that's just no good, even though its owner does everything he's supposed to, so he's advised to just ditch it. Apparently, the people of Jerusalem were supposed to understand this as an ironic metaphor with the vineyard being a wife. When the metaphor is explained in the end, it turns out that the man is actually God and the vineyard is the nation of Israel. Oops.

-->If your heart isn?t in it,\\

* "Desperado" by Music/{{Eagles}} concerns the outlook of a young man who chooses the rough tough fast-lane life over sweet and gentle love.

* Music/ThomasRhett's "Marry Me" opens with him lamenting what kind of a wedding the love of his life wants and how nervous he is to attend it... before revealing that she is ''not'' marrying him. Later verses elaborate how he chickens out confessing his feeling to her and that he missed his chances because she is marrying the love of ''her'' that isn't him.
--->I'll wear my black suit, black tie, hide out in the back
--->I'll do a strong shot of whiskey straight out the flask
--->I'll try to make it through without cryin' so nobody sees
--->Yeah, she wanna get married
--->But she don't wanna marry me

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** "Duh!" parodies the whole 'I'm an idiot for never noticing her' trope by leaning on how Josh is just kind of a BrainlessBeauty in general - "Wait, I gotta go get her! I gotta get her, like, right this second! ''*cut to Josh running down the street*'' I'm coming for you baby! ...wait, I don't have my keys. I left my keys and phone at the club? ...''duh.'''"

* Bart writes a quick one in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Stark Raving Dad", quoted above.
** To the music of the "Colonel Bogey March" (AKA "The song from ''Film/BridgeOverTheRiverKwai''")

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has a tie-in website [[http://tedmosbyisajerk.com here]] with one of these on the home page. The singer alternates between seething hatred and being Barney's [who was masquerading as Ted] StalkerWithACrush. Oh, and it goes for twenty minutes, getting progressively crazier as it goes along.

When I delete you maybe I'll stop feeling so bad ''[sung as the accompanying subtitles replace these last five words with "[REDACTED]"]''

* "Love is an Open Door" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' ''sounds'' like a typical upbeat Disney love duet, but it becomes this due to later revelations: [[spoiler:Anna is genuine but so desperate for affection that she's not thinking straight, while Hans is just sucking up to her until he can claim her kingdom]].

** Music/MotleyCrue wrote "You're All I Need" in ''Girls, Girls, Girls'', which sounds like a typical love ballad, but in reality is about obsessively killing a woman and ending in jail.
*** They also wrote "Too Young to Fall in Love" which describes a bitter relationship (This song would be mentioned in their song "Don't Go Away Mad")

* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' features, in one of its Silly Songs segments, a performance by Mr. Lunt of "My Cheeseburger", a love ode to a cheeseburger that is unattainable because Burger Bell is closed.

* "Still Alive," the now-famous ending theme of ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', is an unusually passive-aggressive example.