History Main / IAmGreatSong

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour'': Upon her arrival to the competition when the teams merge, Blaineley sings "Blaineriffic", a song about [[SmallNameBigEgo how awesome she thinks she is]]. Only Owen is impressed, everyone else expresses dismay or confusion as to who Blaineley even is. Blaineley angrily reveals her credentials, those of a WhiteDwarfStarlet, at which point the final lines of the song are Heather and Courtney gleefully pointing out how Blaineley isn't as famous as she makes herself out to be.

You smell as fresh as a flower.''\\
(I guess...)\\

''You can pleasure sixty concubines in only an hour!''\\
([[SpeedSex Less!]])\\

-->'''Soldier:''' ''Caked in mud, or drenched in blood\\

'''Achmed:''' I guess...\\
'''Soldiers:''' ''But no one remembers Achmed!''\\
'''Soldier:''' ''You can pleasure sixty concubines in only an hour!''\\
'''Achmed:''' [[SpeedSex Less!]]\\
'''Soldiers:''' ''But no one remembers Achmed!''

See also BraggingThemeTune, BoastfulRap. Can overlap with TheDissTrack if they're praising themselves but trashing someone else, with BravadoSong if they're boasting about their fearlessness or bravery, and with GainingConfidenceSong if they only realize they're great partway through.

* ''Theatre/SixTheMusical'' has "Get Down," where Anne of Cleves is ''supposed'' to be singing about how her marriage to Henry VIII ruined her life, thus proving that she had the most tragic fate out of all his wives in their competition. But she just can't help telling the truth: she went back home to Germany to rule over her own castle, free to do whatever she felt like doing "with more money than I could ever spend in a lifetime!"

* In ''Theatre/AChorusLine'', Mike brags to Zach about how he could rapidly pick up new choreography and dance steps since he was a little kid.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood]]'': Bollywood star Jiggy gets a whole musical number where he gloats about being a famous celebrity.

* "The Family Madrigal" is a We Are Great! song sung by Mirabel about her superpowered family in the beginning of ''Film/{{Encanto}}''. It gets subverted by the end when [[spoiler: it is inferred that Mirabel does not have powers like the rest of her family and feels an inferiority complex because of this]].

** ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': The opening song, "Perfect World," is all about how Kuzco believes the entire world revolves around him and how he gets everything he wants with zero difficulty. The rest of the film then proceeds to BreakTheHaughty in him.

* {{Music/Weird Al Yankovic}}'s "This is the Life". "You're Pitiful" is a variant, where the narrator follows "My life is brilliant", with a long TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime VII: The Stone of Cold Fire'' has "Very Important Creature", a song where [[WellIntentionedExtremist Pterano]] outright states that him being in charge would be best for everybody.

See also BraggingThemeTune, BoastfulRap. Can overlap with TheDissTrack if they're praising themselves but trashing someone else, and with GainingConfidenceSong if they only realize they're great partway through.

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** ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'': The VillainSong "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNlpuD42_BM Gaston]]" is more of a "You are Great" song by Gaston's admirers, but he happily joins in on praising himself partway through.

* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Blue", the VR "Arnold Rimmer Experience" ends with a song sung tiny munchkin Rimmers.

* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' has "Master of the House", in which Thenardier brags about what a [[BlatantLies good, honest, smart man he is]]. Taken UpToEleven in the TriumphantReprise "Beggars at the Feast", where the Thenardiers brag about how they managed to lie, scam, cheat, and rob their way into the upper class, [[KarmaHoudini and are the best off of any of the characters at the end of the show despite being by far the worst]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': "Jack's Lament" is an interesting variation on this; Jack sings his own praises at several points in the song, to drive home the point of just how bored he is with his job as the King of Halloween.

''Manga/TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK'': In episode 18 of the anime, the class goes to a karaoke club. When [[SchoolIdol Kokomi Teruhashi]] gets her turn, she smugly laments on the cliché that people assume that someone as beautiful as her can't sing-