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6	[[quoteright:340:[[Film/TheFabulousBakerBoys https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/piano_lean.png]]]]
7	[[caption-width-right:340:[[DistractedByTheSexy I bet none of you noticed the pianist upon first glance.]]]]
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9	Stock pose for sultry songbirds of every type, from [[TheChanteuse cabaret crooners]] to [[GlamorousWartimeSinger navy nightingales]]. In essence, the singer sits on or leans heavily against a piano, posturing suggestively. If the piano is big enough, she'll often actually lie on top of it.
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11	Compare ReadyForLovemaking, which this is no doubt meant to invoke. There's often some playful teasing going on with ThePianoPlayer-- [[{{Fanservice}} and of course, the audience]].
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13	Do not expect her to be paired with a LoungeLizard, unless he's actually a competent pianist. Compare ElegantClassicalMusician, when the attractive person is ''playing'' the piano.
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15	!!Examples:
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19	[[folder:Comic Books]]
20	* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': Saloon singers tend to do this.
21	* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue63 All in Moderation]]", as part of the Prohibition pastiche, the underground sugar bar set up in the Apples' barn includes Fluttershy singing while lounging on Spike's piano in a dress.
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24	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
25	* ''ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane'': Edda and several other female characters can ''play'' the piano like this.
26	* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': In a way, Lucy Van Pelt leaning on Schroeder's piano, though she usually doesn't sing.
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29	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
30	* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'': Parodied and exaggerated when the sickeningly sweet child actress Darla Dimple does this on a piano sized for her enormous butler Max. You get the impression she could roll around for several hours and never be in danger of falling off.
31	* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}'': Laverne the old lady gargoyle puts on a feather boa and poses on a piano during their DisneyAcidSequence.
32	* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'': The FairyGodmother does this when she's singing "Holding Out For A Hero".
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35	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
36	* ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'': When John Malkovich enters the portal into his mind, he ends up in a restaurant where everyone has his face and can only say his last name. Among them is a lounge singer on the piano singing, well, you know...
37	* ''Film/{{Chicago}}'': Roxie Hart during her imaginary first performance ("My Funny Honey") rides this pony for all it's worth.
38	%%* ''Film/CoolWorld'' has this with the FemmeFatale villainess.%%Has what?
39	* ''Film/DownWithLove'': Barbara Novack does this during the song that plays over the closing credits.
40	* In ''Film/TheFabulousBakerBoys'', Michelle Pfeiffer frequently does this; it's even the page image!
41	%%* ''Film/TheHollywoodRevueOf1929'': Creator/JoanCrawford does this the only time she sings onscreen.%%Does what?
42	* ''Film/HotShots'': Parodied when the singer lies at a physically impossible angle on the open lid of a grand piano and (in the process of wiggling seductively) manages to shimmy right off.
43	* ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar'': In the 2000 version, Herod, of all people, does it during Herod's Song.
44	* ''Film/JohnnyDangerously'': Johnny's girlfriend Lil Sheridan does this while singing in a nightclub.
45	* ''Film/LemonadeJoe'' has a rare gender-flipped example when Doug Badman half-lies on the piano in his saloon when he tries to persuade TheChanteuse Tornado Lou to leave with him for Europe.
46	* ''Film/LittleMissMarker'': Bangles the sexy nightclub singer does this as part of her act. So it comes off as a little weird later in the film, when six-year-old Marthy (Temple) decides to imitate Bangles by hopping on a piano and singing a song.
47	* In ''Film/TheRacket'', Helen, TheChanteuse, sits atop a piano to sing a song. It's an upright, but she still works it.
48	* A DeletedScene for ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'' has Velma getting [[DrunkOnMilk "drunk"]] and singing "Too Good To Be True" while laying on top of a piano.
49	* ''Film/TuffTurf'': At the country club, Morgan asks Frankie if she can sing. She says no, so he tells her to sit on the piano and look pretty while he sings a romantic ballad.
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52	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
53	%%* ''Series/AmericanIdol'': Haley Reinhart. B-B-B-Benny. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBbSvcJdGO4 And the Jetsssss....]]. Outright stated to be a shoutout to ''Film/TheFabulousBakerBoys''.%%Word cruft, word cruft, and no context
54	* ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'': Benny would frequently play a singer who has trouble hopping up onto the piano.
55	* ''Series/BlackBooks'': Parodied when Fran tries to use this to seduce someone, but accidentally hits a handful of keys as she sits down.
56	* ''Series/TheChamberQuintette'' has a skit parodying this, with Keren Mor singing ''Bab el-Wad'', a memorial song for dead soldiers, as a sexy cabaret girl.
57	* In ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'' "Tell Me I'm Okay" features Rebecca doing this while the delivery driver she's serenading plays, then she plays while the driver sits on the piano looking confused, then both of them are on the piano while the delivery package plays.
58	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand The Lie of the Land]]", Missy does this while discussing with the Doctor how to defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek. Which doesn't seem sexy in itself, but given the preference by Time Lords for platonic rather than sexual relationships, the scene has a definite FoeRomanceSubtext.
59	* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': Blanche does this in "Journey to the Center of Attention", complete with a [[Creator/MichellePfeiffer red dress]]. Of course, [[EpicFail it fails horribly]]; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZDQn93ngK8 watch to see just how.]] Rue [=McClanahan=] named this as her favorite musical scene.
60	%%* ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'': Parodied by Kevin [=McDonald=] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ygnGE2gIlQ this sketch]].%%ZCE, dead link
61	* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': Jan does this for her scene in Michael's movie, "Threat Level Midnight".
62	* ''Series/ParkerLewisCantLose'': In an ImagineSpot, Miss Musso is seen doing this.
63	* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' parodied this trope thrice:
64	** The [=LeBron=] James/Kanye West episode (the first episode of season 33) had the Digital Short, "Iran So Far," which featured Fred Armisen as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a red dress on top of a piano.
65	** On the Sigourney Weaver/The Ting Tings episode (from season 35), Weaver plays a lounge singer who invokes this trope, but ends up yelling at the piano player (played by Bobby Moynihan) when she starts freaking out about how high up she is. [[spoiler:The piano player thinks she's kidding, until she ends up falling 60 feet and the piano player immediately notices.]]
66	** When Martin Short hosted the last episode of 2012, he attempted this trope during a BawdySong about Christmas. "How ''does'' a man sit on a piano?"
67	* ''Series/ShortRibbs'': In one episode, Creator/PattyMaloney does it during [[https://youtu.be/2HCxzQQmSzQ?t=323 her song]].
68	* In ''Series/SpicksAndSpecks'' (an Australian Comedy Musical Quiz show) host Adam Hills does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrqLG2Sxsmw this]] while being serenaded by comedian Tim Minchin.
69	* In ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', Tori does this during the song "Tell Me That You Love Me".
70	* ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'': In one episode, Wayne Brady does this during a playing of Greatest Hits while singing in the style of Eartha Kitt. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAXEbmTf8ZQ&t=1m28s Here's the clip.]]
71	* ''Series/WillAndGrace'': In one episode, Karen makes Will do this while singing a TorchSong in order to persuade her to become a client of his firm. He gets about halfway through the song [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere before quitting out of sheer embarrassment]].
72	* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' puts a hologram of Major Kira into this role, complete with a [[MsFanservice wonderful]] red dress, since it would be massively out of character for the real Kira.
73	* Invoked by Creator/ConnieChung, of all people, in the bizarre gown-and-sequins TorchSong finale to her short-lived talk show ''Weekends with [[Series/{{Maury}} Maury]] and Connie.'' The internet watched in [[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/connie-chungs-serenade-gag-a-web-hit/ horrified fascination]].
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77	* ''VideoGame/{{Brandish}}'': [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/91_qnd5r29l_ss500.jpg The cover art]] for the Piano Collection shows Dela lying prone on a piano, while facing the viewer and showing a considerable amount of cleavage.
78	* "Edge of Paradise": A promotional picture has the lead singer lie on top of a white grand piano [[http://www.edgeofparadiseband.com/resources/EOP_KE_B_009.JPG.opt795x528o0%2C0s795x528.JPG here]].
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82	* ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'': The script calls for Roxie to do this during "Funny Honey", citing Helen Morgan as the example to follow.
83	* This was Helen Morgan's routine in the 1920s; she performed "Bill" this way (for a rather dissipated version of "sexy") in the original production of ''Theatre/ShowBoat'' (but not the 1936 film version).
84	* ''Theatre/FaceTheMusic'': Referenced in "Torch Song":
85	-->I longed to sit upon a piano or an organ\
86	Pouring out my heart, the same as Helen Morgan.
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90	* In ''VideoGame/{{Contrast}}'', Kat does this during her performance.
91	* ''Videogame/LeagueOfLegends'': The splash art for [[TheChanteuse Secret Agent]] Miss Fortune shows her doing this -- surrounded by slaughtered clubgoers.
92	* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': While making friends with her, Undyne tells you about the time Alphys' friend (implicitly Mettaton) came over to lie on her piano while [[GrapesOfLuxury feeding himself grapes]]. Made funnier since [[spoiler:he was still in his normal [[TinCanRobot rectangular]] form, with no mouth.]]
93	-->'''Undyne:''' I don't like that guy, but I admire his lifestyle.
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96	[[folder:Webcomics]]
97	* ''Webcomic/BugMartini'' claims that a downside to owning a piano is that one is always having to shoo sultry lounge singers off it before their sequins scratch the varnish.
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100	[[folder:Western Animation]]
101	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Dot Warner occasionally does this. One notable instance was in the short "Roll Over, [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]".
102	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': [[Characters/DCAUHarleyQuinn Harley Quinn]] does this in "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE7Harlequinade Harlequinade]]". She then manages to fall off the piano, causing Batman to HeadDesk.
103	* ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale'': Clarice, a chipmunk lounge singer, does this in ''Two Chips and a Miss''.
104	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'''s girlfriend Patti Mayonnaise in one of his fantasy sequences.
105	* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'': Ling-Ling does this for his musical number in the musical series finale.
106	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Lois does this after Peter remodels their basement into a club.
107	%%* ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'': June does this in one episode.
108	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS24E20TheFabulousFakeBoy The Fabulous Fake Boy]]": Bart has a huge crush on his piano teacher Zhenya. He imagines himself playing the piano while Zhenya is a seductive [[TheChanteuse chanteuse]] who is dressed in a tight-fitting red dress. She's seen in various poses -- either sitting or lying -- on their piano.
109	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': In ''Total Drama World Tour'', Bridgette does this in the beginning of her musical number, "I'm Sorry".
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112	[[folder:Real Life]]
113	* Creator/LaurenBacall struck a relatively innocent version of this pose in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lauren_Bacall_with_Vice_President_Truman.jpg a famous photo]] with then-Vice President UsefulNotes/HarryTruman at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in February 1945. Truman ''still'' got in trouble with his wife.
114	* Music/YoshikiHayashi, when he's not actually playing the piano, will sometimes do this.
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