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* In ''Film/EddieAndTheCruisers II'', Eddie Wilson (in actuality, John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band) performs "Garden of Eden", a song about how women have been duping men to get their way since "the beginning of time." It's mainly about how men want something simple, but women always make it complicated by wanting to think it over and holding out for a commitment, apparently out of sheer perversity [[note]] instead of, you know, because they might get pregnant and nobody [i] wants [/i] to be a single mom or get an abortion. This shows that the narrator either doesn't care at all about women's welfare, or is really just too stupid to realize that she has a good reason for acting the way she does. Women actually do look for commitment in relationships, and it's understandable why that can sometimes be annoying: but there are practical reasons for it. [[/note]]

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* In ''Film/EddieAndTheCruisers II'', Eddie Wilson (in actuality, John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band) performs "Garden of Eden", a song about how women have been duping men to get their way since "the beginning of time." It's mainly about how men want something simple, but women always make it complicated by wanting to think it over and holding out for a commitment, apparently out of sheer perversity [[note]] instead of, you know, because they might get pregnant and nobody [i] wants [/i] ''wants'' to be a single mom or get an abortion. This shows that the narrator either doesn't care at all about women's welfare, or is really just too stupid to realize that she has a good reason for acting the way she does. Women actually do look for commitment in relationships, and it's understandable why that can sometimes be annoying: but there are practical reasons for it. [[/note]]
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* Mark Grondin of ''WebVideo/SpectrumPulse'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyqtbsuA2c assessed]] Music/FallOutBoy's comeback album ''Save Rock and Roll'' as a Misogyny Album, largely due to subtext and the music videos. Not only did the album's TakeThatAudience themes exist alongside the fact that the band's '00s fanbase had been comprised mostly of [[FanGirl teenage girls]], but every woman in the album's ''Young Blood Chronicles'' videos/film is presented as a villain, especially with the casting of Music/CourtneyLove, a major YokoOhNo fixation of Music/{{Nirvana}} fans, as the [[MoralGuardians Tipper Gore-esque leader]] of an evil cult of women who hate music. What's more, a strong RockIsAuthenticPopIsShallow streak runs through the album, from its very title to its aggressive assertion of a more hard-edged rock sound, which Mark saw as a response to both the IndiePop boom of the early '10s and their own dismissal in the past as a glorified BoyBand rather than "real" musicians. Reading between the lines, it's not difficult to see ''Save Rock and Roll'' as the band railing against their female fans as fickle killjoys who wrecked their careers by abandoning them for the new shiny object on pop radio.
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* Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} had quite a run of these in TheSixties, including "Play with Fire," "Under My Thumb," "Stupid Girl," "Out of Time," "Yesterday's Papers," and "Back Street Girl." Mick Jagger's justification is that the songs aren't about women in general, they're about specific relationships that annoyed him. So if he were gay, or a straight woman, he'd be writing the same songs about men.

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* Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} had quite a run of these in TheSixties, including "Play with Fire," "Under My Thumb," "Stupid Girl," "Out of Time," "Yesterday's Papers," and "Back Street Girl." Mick Jagger's Music/MickJagger's justification is that the songs aren't about women in general, they're about specific relationships that annoyed him. So if he were gay, or a straight woman, he'd be writing the same songs about men.
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* Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} had quite a run of these in the '60s, including "Play with Fire", "Under My Thumb", "Stupid Girl", "Out of Time", "Yesterday's Papers", and "Back Street Girl". Mick Jagger's justification is that the songs aren't about ''women'' per se, they're about specific relationships that annoyed him. So if he were gay or a woman he'd be writing the same songs about men.

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* Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} had quite a run of these in the '60s, TheSixties, including "Play with Fire", Fire," "Under My Thumb", Thumb," "Stupid Girl", Girl," "Out of Time", Time," "Yesterday's Papers", Papers," and "Back Street Girl". Girl." Mick Jagger's justification is that the songs aren't about ''women'' per se, women in general, they're about specific relationships that annoyed him. So if he were gay gay, or a woman straight woman, he'd be writing the same songs about men.
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* "Girls" from Music/MarinaDiamandis's debut album ''The Family Jewels'' is an example from a FemaleMisogynist's perspective, which explains [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/8260821/Im-Marina-Youre-the-Diamonds.html some of her subsequent]] CreatorBacklash against that song.
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* "Who Let the Dogs Out?", most famously performed by the Baha Men, was described by original writer Anselm Douglas as a "man-bashing song", in particular men who catcall women.
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** The Fiery Furnaces pulled TheCoverChangesTheMeaning in their adaptation of the song, "Single Again": Eleanor Friedberger sings the same lyrics [[TheCoverChangesTheGender but with all the female pronouns changed to male]], as set to a menacing synthesizer riff - the result is an unsettling song about a woman being traumatized by multiple abusive relationships.

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** The Fiery Furnaces pulled TheCoverChangesTheMeaning in their adaptation of the song, "Single Again": Eleanor Friedberger sings the same lyrics [[TheCoverChangesTheGender but with all the female pronouns changed to male]], as set to a menacing synthesizer riff - the result is while most other versions are played for BlackComedy, theirs comes off as an unsettling song about a woman being traumatized by multiple abusive relationships.
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** The Fiery Furnaces pulled TheCoverChangesTheMeaning in their adaptation of the song, "Single Again": Eleanor Friedberger sings the same lyrics [[TheCoverChangesTheGender but with all the female pronouns changed to male]] to more dissonant music, and the result is an unsettling song about a woman being traumatized by multiple abusive relationships.

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** The Fiery Furnaces pulled TheCoverChangesTheMeaning in their adaptation of the song, "Single Again": Eleanor Friedberger sings the same lyrics [[TheCoverChangesTheGender but with all the female pronouns changed to male]] male]], as set to more dissonant music, and a menacing synthesizer riff - the result is an unsettling song about a woman being traumatized by multiple abusive relationships.
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* 7 Year Bitch's "Dead Men Don't Rape".
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* Music/TheRollingStones had quite a run of these in the '60s, including "Play with Fire", "Under My Thumb", "Stupid Girl", "Out of Time", "Yesterday's Papers", and "Back Street Girl". Mick Jagger's justification is that the songs aren't about ''women'' per se, they're about specific relationships that annoyed him. So if he were gay or a woman he'd be writing the same songs about men.

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* Music/TheRollingStones Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} had quite a run of these in the '60s, including "Play with Fire", "Under My Thumb", "Stupid Girl", "Out of Time", "Yesterday's Papers", and "Back Street Girl". Mick Jagger's justification is that the songs aren't about ''women'' per se, they're about specific relationships that annoyed him. So if he were gay or a woman he'd be writing the same songs about men.
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This trope is about songs that attack women (or men) in general. A song that attacks an individual doesn't qualify.


* [[Music/{{Eurythmics}} Annie Lennox]]'s' "Thorn In My Side" is a thinly-disguised go at her former partner and musical collaborator Dave Stewart after the breakup of their band, Music/{{Eurythmics}}. It's a no-holds-barred beatdown - although they did reconcile some years later.
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* A musical interlude on ''Radio/RadioActive'' featured comedienne Helen Atkinson-Wood performing a vicious parody of Annie Lennox' scathing "this-man-held-me-back-and-what's-more-he-was-a-total-bastard-with-no-talent" song ''Thorn In My Side''. Only the parody version took the song's anti-men theme UpToEleven, went to the same tune, and was called ''Pain In My Arse''.

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* A musical interlude on ''Radio/RadioActive'' featured comedienne Helen Atkinson-Wood performing a vicious parody of Annie Lennox' scathing "this-man-held-me-back-and-what's-more-he-was-a-total-bastard-with-no-talent" song ''Thorn In My Side''. Only the parody version took the song's anti-men theme UpToEleven, up a notch, went to the same tune, and was called ''Pain In My Arse''.

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