History Main / MisogynySong

* "Just The Way You Are (Drunk at the Bar)" by Music/BrianMcFadden is a pro-rape song.

* Gaston's song ''Me'' from the stage version of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast.''

* 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.

* The song "Männer sind Schweine" ("Men are pigs") by the German all-male band [[Music/DieArzte Die Ärzte]] is about how horrible men are and why any woman that marries one must be insane. All sung to a cheerful, happy tune. To cross the line twice, the music video has the band members being beaten up by none other than an animated [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]].[[/folder]]

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* "Break Up With Him" by Old Dominion, being an EntitledToHaveYou song, has been accused of being this.

* Music/TheoryOfADeadman's "Bitch Came Back" and "[[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Gentleman]]". Both of which were co-written by a woman, Kara [=DioGuardi=]. (And it can be argued that [[NWordPrivileges "Gentleman" insults men at least as much as it insults women.]]) The music video for "Bitch Came Back" seems to imply an interesting twist to the song; the "Bitch" in question is a psychopathic woman jilted by her jerkass boyfriend, and proceeds to systemically stalk and kill off the boyfriend and his friends.

* Music/TheoryOfADeadman's "Bitch Came Back" and "[[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Gentleman]]". Both of which were co-written by a woman, Kara [=DioGuardi=]. (And it can be argued that [[NWordPrivileges "Gentleman" insults men at least as much as it insults women.]])

* Robin Thicke described the theme of his song "Blurred Lines" (featuring Pharrell Williams and Music/{{TI}}) as "what a pleasure to degrade a woman". However, he was quite upset by the InternetBackdraft the song generated, insisting that it was all good, clean fun because he, Pharrell, and T.I. are all happily-married {{Nice Guy}}s in RealLife. At one point, he even tried to spin the song as somehow feminist.

* "Playing Games" by Music/{{Loudness}}. Lyrics [[http://www.mp3lyrics.org/l/loudness/playing/ here]] (it's a lyrics site so have adblock activated and don't use an insecure computer). OldShame.

-->--'''''Magazine/TheEconomist''''', "India's women" (January 2013)

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

* Music/TheKnack received a lot of their HypeBacklash partly as much of their lyrics resembled (or seemed to resemble) this trope.

* Henry Higgins in ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' gets ''two'': "I'm an Ordinary Man" (in which he declares that he'll never fall in love with a woman because they're obnoxious wastes of time who bring out the worst in him) and "A Hymn to Him" (in which he laments that his relationship with Eliza isn't as simple as his friendship with Pickering).

The Misogyny Song is a song solely or primarily about the hatred or degradation of women. Often from the viewpoint of a deliberately psychopathic {{jerkass}}, and often to LyricalDissonance, of some sort. Quite a few are also sarcastic parodies of "bitches and hos" gangster rap songs.

* Music/MitchBenn's "Doctor Who Girl" satirizes the sexism often associated with old-school ''Series/DoctorWho''. The singer longs for a subservient woman to feed his ego, like the stereotypical companion on the show.

* "A Hymn to Him" from ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', where Henry Higgins wishes that his relationship with Eliza were as simple as his friendship with Pickering. Arguably even worse is "I'm an Ordinary Man," which is just about how all women are obnoxious wastes of time who encourage the men around them to be cruel.

-->-- "India's women", '''''The Economist'''''

-> ''Violence on women tends to reflect how they are treated across society. Attitudes, therefore, matter. India's film and music industries, for example, should stop depicting men who assault women as macho heroes.''
-->-- ''India's women''; The Economist

-->My mother buys diamonds, my mother buys pearls.
-->You know my Mommy is, she's a pearl of a girl.
-->I hate my mother, I hate my wife.
-->I'd like to kill em both, its a fact of life!
-->I'd like to plan it now, I'm gonna use a knife!

-->My wife is a hippo, she's as big as a house.
-->I'm gonna feed her a poisonous mouse.

-->My Mother buys Diamonds, my Mother buys Pearls.
-->You know my Mommy is, she's a Pearl of a Girl.
-->I hate my Mother, I hate my Wife.

-->My wife is a Hippo, she's as Big as a House.
-->I'm gonna feed her, a poisonous mouse.
-->I hate my Daughter, I hate my Mom.

-->I gotta run away, I'd like to use a Bomb.

* StephenSondheim:

* Robin Thicke described the theme of his song "Blurred Lines" (featuring Pharrell Williams and Music/{{TI}}) as "what a pleasure to degrade a woman". However, he was quite upset by the InternetBackdraft the song generated, insisting that it was all good, clean fun because he, Pharrell, and T.I. all happily-married {{Nice Guy}}s in RealLife. At one point, he even tried to spin the song as somehow feminist.

* DeanMartin and Nat King Cole recorded a duet called "Open Up the Doghouse (Two Cats Are Comin' In)", in which they lament their troubles with their respective wives and conclude that "we gotta slap 'em" and "show 'em who wears the pants". It's clearly PlayedForLaughs, though.

* "All Men Are Pigs" by Music/StudioKillers is a song about how AllMenArePerverts.

* Robin Thicke described the theme of his song "Blurred Lines" (featuring Pharrell Williams and Music/{{TI}}) as "what a pleasure to degrade a woman". However, he was quite upset by the InternetBackdraft the song generated, insisting that it was all good, clean fun because he, Pharrell, and T.I. all happily-married {{Nice Guy}}s in RealLife. At one point, he even tried to spin the song as feminist.

* By Music/RobinThicke's own admission, "Blurred Lines" is about degradation of women - as he puts it, "what a pleasure to degrade a woman". Feminists were [[InternetBackdraft not thrilled]]. Robin was quite upset by the negative reaction - he insisted that although it was sexist it was all good, clean fun because they're all happily-married {{Nice Guy}}s in real life, and even at one point attempted to explain the song was [[InsaneTrollLogic actually a new form of feminism that he had invented]].