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* "Call Me" by Music/{{Blondie}}. The singer is a girl, and she's asking for a call. Get the picture?

** {{Wrestling/Naomi}} originally had a fun dance tune to fit with her 'Funkadactyl' gimmick. When she turned heel, she adopted a BraggingThemeTune called "I'm Amazing".

* "I Wanna be Evil" from ''Film/KinkyBoots''. Sung by Lola (despite being a drag queen).
** And the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul-ZUQTdT1Q original]] "I want to Be Evil", as sung by Eartha Kitt.

Adina Howard's "Freak Like Me. Hell, this trope fits EVERY Adina Howard song. (Zero-Context Example)

* "A Lady Must Live" from ''Film/AmericasSweetheart''.

* "Shady Lady Bird" from ''Theatre/BestFootForward''.

* "Please Don't Make Me Be Good" from ''Theatre/FiftyMillionFrenchmen''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK7UbORbBJE "I Want To Be Bad"]] from ''Theatre/FollowThru''. The song was also sung by Helen Kane.

* "Laura de Maupassant" from ''Theatre/HazelFlagg''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ckNG_hyTY "My Body, My Business"]] from ''Theatre/TheLife''.

* "I Wanna Be Good 'N' Bad" from ''Theatre/MakeAWish''.

* "The Lorelei" from ''Theatre/PardonMyEnglish'', except in the original production, which made the ill-advised decision to change it into a more generic comic duet. No wonder it flopped.
* "I'll Show Him" from ''Theatre/PlainAndFancy'', in which an Amish maiden vows to [[BeAWhoreToGetYourMan do "sinful" things to get her man]].

* "Reciprocity" from ''Theatre/{{Seventeen}}'', a GoodBadGirl's interpretation of TheGoldenRule.

* "Any Kind Of Man" from ''Theatre/{{Sometime}}''. (Creator/MaeWest was singing this number in 1918.)

* "Good Little Girls" from the revue ''Theatre/TwosCompany'', a song about all the exciting places "smart little girls" would rather go to than Heaven.

%%* Adina Howard's "Freak Like Me. Hell, this trope fits EVERY Adina Howard song. (Zero-Context Example)

Adina Howard's "Freak Like Me. Hell, this trope fits EVERY Adina Howard song.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1puXXH0DZ4 "Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts"]] from ''Film/WhistleDownTheWind'': "Those good girls never know what they're missing / But us bad girls almost always do." (What exactly it is they're missing ranges from peroxide hair to "some real good times.")
* "A Little Brains, A Little Talent" from ''Theatre/DamnYankees''.
** "Whatever Lola Wants"
* "I Wanna Be Good 'N' Bad" from ''Make a Wish''.
* "Please Don't Make Me Be Good" from ''Fifty Million Frenchmen''.
* "I'll Show Him" from ''Plain and Fancy'', in which an Amish maiden vows to [[BeAWhoreToGetYourMan do "sinful" things to get her man]].
* "A Lady Must Live" from ''America's Sweetheart''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PBvjz-OWkc "Raunchy"]] from ''Theatre/OneTenInTheShade''. Although it is sung by the main character, who is DEFINITELY not a bad girl, she sings it while flirting with the idea of being one for a while.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AuxNImLIHI "Turn Back O Man"]] from ''{{Theatre/Godspell}}'' is traditionally performed this way.
* "Reciprocity" from ''Seventeen'', a GoodBadGirl's interpretation of TheGoldenRule.
* "Any Kind Of Man" from ''Sometime''. (Creator/MaeWest was singing this number in 1918.)
* "The Lorelei" from ''Pardon My English'', except in the original production, which made the ill-advised decision to change it into a more generic comic duet. No wonder it flopped.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt5MUqKvcUA "Twice in Love Every Day"]] from ''Theatre/TheLikesOfUs''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGwVLJrhw5Q "There Are Worse Things I Could Do"]] from ''Film/{{Grease}}''.
* "My Picture in the Papers" from ''Theatre/TheGoldenApple'', where Helen celebrates with the men about town her transformation into an "ultra-physical and slightly aphrodisical" HardDrinkingPartyGirl.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG3VfKlfDEk "Hey, Big Spender"]] from ''Theatre/SweetCharity''. About dancers (including those of the lap variety), not prostitutes, but certainly about the fun, laughs and good times that you can have with said dancers.
** Though it is a bit of a subversion in that none of the girls singing are happy about it - the song is traditionally performed with very deadpan, bored faces and singing styles, despite the bouncy, seductive song.
* Natalie's section of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv1PvJnpzlI "Wish I Were Here"]] in ''Theatre/NextToNormal''; she's gone from a stressed student to an even more stressed club-goer who routinely steals medication from her bipolar mother.
* Depending on the version of the musical, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F50f76_CdIU "A Lotta Locomotion"]] from ''Theatre/StarlightExpress'' has elements of this: except for Dinah, who establishes herself as a wholesome, hardworking waitress, the coaches characterize themselves in terms of the vices they enjoy. ("A Whole Lotta Locomotion," however, is a ChorusGirls song.)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do-j6ZnpCEE "The Heat is on in Saigon"]] from ''Theatre/MissSaigon'' has a few verses sung by the prostitutes, along with the soldiers.
* "The Girl Gets Around" from ''Film/{{Footloose}}''.
* "Laura de Maupassant" from ''Hazel Flagg''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w3QlDMhoFc "Nonono"]] from the Slovak musical Adam šangala.
* "Good Little Girls" from the revue ''Two's Company'', a song about all the exciting places "smart little girls" would rather go to than Heaven.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQOoTX1Nxx8 "Candy Store"]] from ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'' is one for all three of the Heathers, though it best applies to [[AlphaBitch Heather Chandler.]]
* ''Theatre/SixTheMusical'' has two.
** First, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao3nXzMuWw0 "Don't Lose Ur Head"]] for Anne Boleyn, in which she playfully and proudly boasts about her beauty, and her affair (and eventually marriage) to Henry. Her flirtatiousness and hot temper eventually lead to her execution, but she still seems to think it was WorthIt.
** Then we get [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V2Pb6cNDXs "All You Wanna Do"]] for Katherine Howard, and it's a complete {{deconstruction}}. Katherine starts out enjoying her flings, completely oblivious to how bad it is that adult men are willing to sleep with her when she's ''thirteen''. She genuinely believes each of the men love her, and that "this guy is different," only to be proven wrong. By the end, she's utterly broken by the realization that men just see her a sex object, not a real person, ''especially'' when she realizes that Thomas, who she thought of as a best friend, was only trying to get in her pants.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jMTMowKomI&list=PLtk7Oj-CH4vbXdc_zdFaonDlWhdk4SQfD&index=8 "Nur kein genieren"]] (Don't Be Embarrassed) from ''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}'' has Madame Wolf and Lucheni presenting the prostitutes and their specialties, and promising a great time with the ladies.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vasNenR_DL0 "Our Lady of the Underground"]] is this for Persephone in ''Theatre/{{Hadestown}}''.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LHl3JWSYAo Noel's Lament]]" from ''Theatre/RideTheCyclone'' is a parody of the genre sung by the character Noel Gruber -- the only out gay teen in the entire town of Uranium, Saskatchewan, who has just died in a tragic roller coaster derailment with the rest of his high school choir. His "lament" is a cabaret-inspired number where he fantasizes about living as a "hooker with a heart of black charcoal" in post-war France. He describes his ideal life as a troubled but beautiful lady of the night: murdering Johns who mess with him, drinking himself into oblivion, "writing poems to burn by moonlight," getting addicted to opium, catching typhoid, and dying in an alley.
--> For I sing songs until the break of day,\\
I embrace a new man every night!\\
My life's a never ending carnival,\\
A whirl of boozy-floozy-flashing lights!\\
I want to be that [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Fucked. Up. Girl.]]
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQeka-7k8bc Charming]]" from ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812'' has Hélène flatter the innocent, engaged Natasha into going to a ball without her betrothed, in order to push her towards her lustful brother. It's sung as if Hélène ''herself'' was flirting with Natasha (especially since she is labeled "a slut" in the opening number). Doubles as VillainSong.

* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq37wQC2yOk "I'm Me"]] from WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb, sung by [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Vanessa]], ''can'' be seen in this light, but ''only'' if you use the {{Double Entendre}} interpretation of the apparently meaningless lyrics.

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And Mary's got some scary little games to play! ♫]]

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ol4oWChjzk "Cause I'm a Blonde"]] from ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy'' (sung by Julie Brown) Also, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2LQKBlxr9o "Brand New Girl"]] (also sung by Julie Brown), which is about a GoodBadGirl teaching the Good Girl heroine how to ''act'' bad to get her boyfriend's attention. ("Your beauty's fresh and wholesome, but science has a cure!")
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDFdv87iedk Naughty But Nice]]" from ''The Belle of New York''.
* Although a preexisting song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy5THitqPBw "Why Don't You Do Right?"]] serves as this for Jessica Rabbit in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', in spite of her not actually being bad, just drawn that way.
* "I Wanna be Evil" from ''Film/KinkyBoots''. Sung by Lola (despite being a drag queen).
** And the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul-ZUQTdT1Q original]] "I want to Be Evil", as sung by Eartha Kitt.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bgy9mzmi14 "Sooner Or Later"]] as performed by [[{{Music/Madonna}} Breathless Mahoney]] in ''Film/DickTracy.''

* "Let Me Be Good To You" from ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''.
* "Little Mary Sunshine" from ''Film/ReeferMadnessTheMusical'', in which the innocent Mary Lane turns into an evil dominatrix after [[DrugsAreBad smoking a single joint]].
* "My Name is Tallulah" from ''Film/BugsyMalone''
* "Your Goodwill Ambassador" from ''Film/DarlingLili''
* Villain song from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' "Poor Unfortunate Souls" is somewhat of a play on this. While mostly a song of a villain pretending to be good, her side comments to her eel henchmen show Ursula's real colors - bad, and lovin' it.
* ''{{Film/Chicago}}'':
** "When You're Good To Mama", though the subject is a little older than most examples. It establishes Mama Morton as the dirty prison warden, and the film version shows her taking all sorts of bribes. The number is shot and framed in a very sexual way.
--->"You put in for Mama, she'll put ''out'' for you..."
** "The Cell Block Tango" is this and a VillainSong, since Velma is a VillainProtagonist. Each of the inmates get a solo detailing what they did to their lyr to get into prison, reiterating that "he had it coming". They perform the number in {{Stripperiffic}} costumes and suggestive dance moves.
* ''{{Film/Cabaret}}'' memorably has "Mein Herr", establishing Sally as a GoodBadGirl. It's her first song of the film.
-->"You have to understand the way I am, Mein Herr."
* ''Film/WalkingOnSunshine'' has two: "[[Music/CyndiLauper Girls Just Wanna Have Fun]]" and "[[Music/DuranDuran The Wild Boys]]", a male version.

* Lots of The Music/{{Millionaires}} songs. Their remix of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOBbAho1Ccg My Chick Bad]] might be the best example.
* "Private Dancer" by Tina Turner.

* "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer, anyone?

* Pretty much any song by Music/{{Beyonce}} after her split from Music/DestinysChild. Girl Power attached to a danceable beat and long legs.

* The Music/PussycatDolls "Don't Cha"
* "Shove" by Music/{{L7}} from the ''Film/TankGirl'' soundtrack.
* "None Of Your Business" by Salt N Pepa.
-->If I wanna take a guy home with me tonight, it's none of your business\\
And if she wanna be a freak and sell it on the weekend, it's none of your business
* A lot of Music/MarinaDiamandis's songs, particularly from the [[ConceptAlbum concept album]] ''Music/ElectraHeart'', but Bubblegum Bitch and Homewrecker deserve special mention.
-->"I'm only happy when I'm on the run\\
I broke a million hearts just for fun\\
I'm the image of deception."
* The Lady In Red by Allie Wrubel:
-->"The fellows are crazy for the lady in red\\
The lady in red is fresh as a daisy\\
When the town is in bed."
* "Bad Woman Blues," by blues singer Beth Hart. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiRiPtg9EFk Enjoy.]]
* Creator/DollyParton's [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning version]] of "The House of the Rising Sun" is about a prostitute and the titular brothel that's "been the ruin of many a good girl".
* "Bad Girl" by Music/{{Madonna}} from ''Music/{{Erotica}}'', as evidenced in the lyrics:
-->''[[TitleDrop Bad girl]], drunk by six\\
kissing someone else's lips,\\
I smoked too many cigarettes a day\\
Not happy when I feel this way...''
* Britney Spears' gender-flipped cover to Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative" definitely fits, while the original didn't make much of a stir back in the day. DoubleStandard anyone?
* Christina Aguilera's Dirrty, which opens with the words "too dirty to clean my act up!"
* Many Missy Elliot songs, but mostly Pass That Dutch.
* Eartha Kitt's "I Want to Be Evil" is a variant, describing how tired she is of [[BeingGoodSucks playing the good girl]] and how much more [[EvilIsCool fun it will be to be bad]] in (mostly) PokeThePoodle ways.
-->"I wanna be horrid, I wanna drink booze\\
(I wanna be horrid, I want to make news)\\
And whatever I've got, [[{{Double Entendre}} I'm eager to lose]]"

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A18kYnP4Pec "I Cain't Say No"]] from ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZTuNf2nmNs "You Can Always Count on Me"]] from ''City of Angels''.
* "The Real Love of My Life" from ''Brigadoon''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w7ywCbuXNY "It's All the Same"]] and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUAzljzoha0 Aldonza]]" from ''Man of La Mancha''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ckNG_hyTY "My Body, My Business"]] from ''The Life''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LroABeeh99E "Out Tonight"]] and Maureen's half of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAfMZ_vWJDo "Take Me Or Leave Me"]] in ''Theatre/{{Rent}}''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72C-B4DTGgw "Queenie Was A Blonde"]] for Queenie and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r073CbIA3KM&feature=plcp "Look At Me Now"]] for Kate, from Andrew Lippa's ''Literature/TheWildParty''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK7UbORbBJE "I Want To Be Bad"]] from ''Follow Thru''. The song was also sung by Helen Kane.
* "Shady Lady Bird" from ''Best Foot Forward''.
* Variation (and/or possible subversion)- The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUqCv_1kGzM "Toucha Toucha Toucha Touch Me"]] in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' is sung by Janet [[AudienceParticipation "SLUT!"]] Weiss who is both the main female character and a pretty innocent girl... until Frank gets to her, that is.

* "Your Goodwill Ambassador" from ''DarlingLili''

This may double as a SeductionLyric, if the Bad Girl is currently engaged in exerting her badness on a potential partner; her line may well be "I'm ''good'' at being bad and you'll enjoy it".

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQeka-7k8bc Charming]]" from ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812'' has Hélène flatter the innocent, engaged Natasha into going to a ball without her betrothed, in order to push her towards her lustful brother. It's sung as if Hélène ''herself'' was flirting with Natasha (especially since she is labeled "a slut" in the opening number).

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQeka-7k8bc Charming]]" from ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812'' has Hélène flatter the innocent, engaged Natasha into going to a ball without her betrothed, in order to push her towards her lustful brother. The song leaves it up to interpretation whether Hélène ''herself'' wasn't flirting as well, since she is labeled "a slut" in the opening number.

* "Noel's Lament" from ''Theatre/RideTheCyclone'' is a parody of the genre sung by the character Noel Gruber -- the only out gay teen in the entire town of Uranium, Saskatchewan, who has just died in a tragic roller coaster derailment with the rest of his high school choir. His "lament" is a cabaret-inspired number where he fantasizes about living as a "hooker with a heart of black charcoal" in post-war France. He describes his ideal life as a troubled but beautiful lady of the night: murdering Johns who mess with him, drinking himself into oblivion, "writing poems to burn by moonlight," getting addicted to opium, catching typhoid, and dying in an alley.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQeka-7k8bc Charming]]" from ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812'' has Hélène flatter the innocent, engaged Natasha into going to a ball without her betrothed, in order to push her towards her lustful brother. The song itself leaves it up to interpretation whether Hélène ''herself'' wasn't flirting as well, since she is married and labeled "a slut" in the opening number.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQeka-7k8bc Charming]]" from ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812'' has Hélène flatter the innocent, engaged Natasha into going to a ball without her betrothed, in order to push her towards her lustful brother. The song itself leaves it up to interpretation whether Hélène ''herself'' wasn't flirting as well.

* "Charming" from ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812'' is an interesting variation, as rather than trying to tempt a man, Hélène is trying to tempt another woman to do bad things. She convinces the engaged and innocent Natasha to let loose and go out in society while she's in the city, slowly but surely pushing her towards her lustful brother Anatole. And why? Because [[ItAmusedMe she finds it amusing]].

--->''Easy money, lying on a bed\
Just as well they never see the hate that's in your head.\
Don't they know they're making love to one already dead?''

** "The Cell Block Tango" is this and a VillainSong, since Velma is a VillainProtagonist. Each of the inmates get a solo detailing what they did to their lover to get into prison, reiterating that "he had it coming". They perform the number in {{Stripperiffic}} costumes and suggestive dance moves.

In musicals, usually sung by the secondary female character (soubrette). She might be anything from a [[BalladOfASexWorker prostitute]] to a GoodBadGirl. Not to be confused with a VillainSong by a female villain.