History Main / TheChanteuse

Every lounge will have a sultry female singing a sultry song (or TorchSong). Her favorite outfit is a [[PimpedOutDress long evening gown]] with a [[SexySlitDress slit up the side,]] pearl necklace, and more than likely [[HighHeelPower high heels]] and [[HighClassGloves opera gloves]]. At some point, she will probably be seen SittingSexyOnAPiano. If she becomes a named character, she will often be the Veronica in a BettyAndVeronica romantic subplot. She could also just be there in the background because every lounge that has anything approaching a FilmNoir feel must have this trope.

* Partially with Fairy Godmother doing "Holding Out for a Hero" in ''Animation/Shrek2''.

* Partially with Fairy Godmother doing "Holding Out for a Hero" in ''Film/Shrek2''.

* The video for [[https://youtu.be/zPonioDYnoY "Élan"]] by Music/{{Nightwish}} depicts lead vocalist Floor Jansen performing in this manner in a working-class tavern.

Every lounge will have a sultry female singing a sultry song (or TorchSong). Her favorite outfit is a [[PimpedOutDress long evening gown]] with a slit up the side, pearl necklace, and more than likely [[HighHeelPower high heels]] and [[HighClassGloves opera gloves]]. At some point, she will probably be seen SittingSexyOnAPiano. If she becomes a named character, she will often be the Veronica in a BettyAndVeronica romantic subplot. She could also just be there in the background because every lounge that has anything approaching a FilmNoir feel must have this trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman'' has an unnamed singer at the Penguin's club swaying from side to side and winking while singing a song with the lyrics "Betcha never thought we'd get this far. Betcha never, never ever, Betcha never you'd touch my heart."

* The unnamed singer who performs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GoPZBYCHDd0 "Betcha Neva" in the Iceberg Lounge]] in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman,'' who is actually an InkSuitActor of French pop star Cyndi Almouzni.

* Mae (Rebecca Ferguson) in ''Film/Reminiscence''. One of the characters explicitly refers to her using the word ''chanteuse'', in a somewhat mocking way.

A stock character in anything even very loosely inspired by FilmNoir, and likely the first thing that comes to mind when people hear the word "FemmeFatale". Every lounge will have a sultry female singing a sultry song (or TorchSong). Her favorite outfit is a [[PimpedOutDress long evening gown]] with a slit up the side, pearl necklace, and more than likely [[HighHeelPower high heels]] and [[HighClassGloves opera gloves]]. At some point, she will probably be seen SittingSexyOnAPiano. If she becomes a named character, she will often be the Veronica in a BettyAndVeronica romantic subplot. She could also just be there in the background because every lounge that has anything approaching a FilmNoir feel must have this trope.

* Oruha from Outo Country in ''Manga/TsubasaChronicle''.
** And in her original series ''Manga/{{Clover}}''

* Carol [=MacLaine=] in ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition''. She owns one of the bars in town, the bizarrely-named Galaxy of Terror, and frequently performs on its stage. She only has one song, which goes from being in coherent English to... not so much. And it's the only thing in the game that's not subtitled, even in cutscene form.

* Sapphire in ''VideoGame/DiscworldNoir'' is basically an {{Expy}} of Ruby in ''Moving Pictures'', with a song that includes the lines "The minute you walked through the wall,/I could see you were a troll of destruction".

* One animated version of Charles Dickens' ''Cricket On The Hearth'' has a very...''strange'' example of this trope, shown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwqr6lK5DBU here]]. She appears, sings a catchy song, then leaves. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment The movie continues on as if she never showed up in the first place]].
* Bridgette on ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour'', in particular during one of the Aftermath episodes, where she sings "[[AwardBaitSong I'm Sorry]]" in this style to Geoff, and was even SittingSexyOnAPiano for part of it.

* Music/{{Madonna}} in her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bgNyaAz1jg performance]] for the 1991 Oscars.

* During ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'', an alien once mistakes Leia for a renowned chanteuse and ropes her into dressing up and performing.

* Michelle Pfeiffer from ''The Fabulous Baker Boys''. The movie's SittingSexyOnAPiano scene is parodied in ''Film/HotShots''

A stock character in anything even very loosely inspired by FilmNoir, and likely the first thing that comes to mind when people hear the word "FemmeFatale". Every lounge will have a sultry female singing a sultry song (or TorchSong). Her favorite outfit is a long evening gown with a slit up the side, pearl necklace, and more than likely high heels and opera gloves. If she becomes a named character, she will often be the Veronica in a BettyAndVeronica romantic subplot. She could just be there in the background because every lounge that has anything approaching a FilmNoir feel must have this trope.

This character may frequently be seen SittingSexyOnAPiano.

A saloon singer may fill a similar role in [[TheWestern Westerns]], and a comely barmaid singing Irish ballads and sentimental songs may take the role in an Irish pub (be it in Ireland or, at least as often, [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishDiaspora abroad]]) Compare GlamorousWartimeSinger, LoungeLizard. The rarely seen [[SpearCounterpart male version]] is known as a ''chanteur''.

* Music/ShirleyBassey

* Creator/JulieLondon

* Music/JulieLondon

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: N.U.G.G.E.T" (which plays out like a Western goldmining story, only with ''chicken'' nuggets in place of gold ones), Numbuh 3, her sister and Numbuh 1's girlfriend Lizzie fill the role of the Saloon Singer variant.

* Envy Adams from ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' fits the criteria, despite not being FilmNoir.