History Main / GirlsLikeMusicians

** Part of what cements Mittens's attraction to Berlioz in “The Paris Trip” is his ability to play jazz piano.
** Penny has a short-lived relationship with a schoolmate who fancies himself a budding indie-rock star. While it doesn't last long, she develops a liking for this style of music as a result. Referenced in “The Ship” and “The Walk”; in the latter story, she is shown to still be unhappy with how things turned out.
** In “The Ship,” Penny's biology lab partner is described as having developed a crush on the lead trumpet player in the school marching band.

** Another strip has Jeremy's girlfriend watching him play guitar, wondering if he knows how hot he looks, and hten Jeremy wondering if he looks hot playing the guitar.

* ''VisualNovel/BeingADIK'': The MC is a skilled guitarist (for bonus points, he is self-taught) and is attractive to several girls at B&R. This plays into the relationship with Sage, who bonds with him over his guitar lessons to her, and most strongly with fellow musician Jill (she's a pianist), most notably if [[spoiler:he saves her recital by going on stage himself and playing the guitar when she is consumed by PerformanceAnxiety.]]

* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', a stereotypical bard uses their high charisma score to seduce AnythingThatMoves. This is technically because they're a high charisma class who could easily end an encounter by...turning it into an encounter, but the way this was attached to bards rather than other charisma-based classes is likely because of this trope.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'': While watching Jeremy and his band rehearse, Walt reminisces about his own days in a garage band, and says he doesn't know what it is, but girls seem to love a boy in a band. Meanwhile, Connie is staring at the band with a dreamy look in her eyes.

* ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' has Matt Olsen, lead guitar player and singer for his band, NiceGuy and LoveInterest for [[TheLeader Will Vandom]], not to mention a general ChickMagnet... which is unfortunate since Will is the [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous type]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': The mostly stoic Daria used to have a crush on Trent, the lead guitarist of an alternative band with a sort of rebel appeal. Even if the band is pretty bad and Trent is a flaky slacker, Daria remains smitten with him for a few years.

* In the ''Series/{{Seinfeld'' episode "The Rye", Elaine fantasizes about her musician boyfriend writing a song for her, and is disappointed that he doesn't fit the "wild and uninhibited" stereotype she associates with musicians.

* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', a stereotypical bard uses their high charisma score to seduce AnythingThatMoves. This is technically because they're a high charisma class who could easily end an encounter by...turning it into an encounter, but the way this was attached to bards rather than other charisma based classes is likely because of this trope.

A subtrope of ArtistsAreAttractive. Compare QuirkyUkulele for the female variant, as well as the ElegantClassicalMusician. Finally, see {{Groupie}}, for the dedicated female fans of an actual celebrity musician, which overlaps.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}''

After all, dating a musician has some perks. He could [[SerenadeYourLover serenade you outside your window]], or create songs just for you. He could help you get your toe into the industry, or get you free tickets to his next gig. If he does classical, he can play for your parent, winning them over easily. And even if he's not even close to being famous, but just likes to play, he'll often be charming, passionate, smart and talented- or at least, that's the ideal here. Because what's a musician without the personality to match?

This role, of course, only properly applies to the rock-star type or classical musician, so the BandGeek or PolkaDork need not apply. And because AllDrummersAreAnimals and NobodyLovesTheBassist, this rarely applies to them, too.

* In ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', Mimi is drawn to Roger's sensitive rock musician persona. His drive for most of the musical is creating the one song that will live on [[spoiler:before he dies of AIDS complications]].

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Part of what cements Mittens’s attraction to Berlioz in “The Paris Trip” is his ability to play jazz piano.