History Main / OneWomanSong

** Also "Julliane," "Kate," "Alice Childress," and "Gracie."

* "Tallulah", "Letter to Dana", "Mary Lou", "Victoria's Secret", "My Selene" and "Juliet" - Sonata Arctica. None of these songs are named after the love interest of the singer, and none of them actually exist as anything but in-song characters, but they all contain a girls name. There's also "Shamandalie" which treats the title as if it was a girl's name but it isn't a real one.

* "Rosalita" - Bruce Springsteen

!!!Straight Examples:

* "Roxanne" - ThePolice about "redeeming" a prostitute.
* "Michelle" - Old [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]] from TheBeatles when they didn't know how to write anything else.
* "Angie" - Depending on which rumor you believe: Mick Jagger [[YourCheatingHeart bragging about nailing David Bowie's wife]], Mick Jagger [[TriangRelations lamenting wanting Bowie's wife]], or Mick Jagger [[TakeAThirdOption apologizing for nailing her husband]].
* "Gloria" - Wise-ass Laura Brannigan disco hit.
** [[Music/{{Them}} GLOOOOOOOORIA! G-L-O-R-I-A!]] [[EpicRiff (insert guitar riff here)]]
* "Cecilia" - SimonAndGarfunkel (She's breaking his heart, and he's begging her to come home)
* "Maggie May" - Faces song about a possessive girlfriend.
* "Barbara Ann" - TheBeachBoys' surf rock classic, of course.
* "Billie Jean" - MichaelJackson's signature song, pretty standard little pop number.
* "Layla" - Riff-driven Derek and the Dominoes signature song.
* "Jenny from the Block" - Jennifer Lopez's RockstarSong

* "Minnie the Moocher" - CabCalloway scat-heavy jazz hit.
* "Eleanor Rigby" - The classic Beatles TearJerker, of course.
* "Valleri" - The Monkees
* "Elenore" - The Turtles

* "Haushinka" - Green Day
* "Josie" - Blink 182

* "Mary Jo" - Belle and Sebastian

* "Suzanne" - Leonard Cohen
* "Sara" - BobDylan
* "Denise" - FountainsOfWayne
* "Sara" - Starship (Storms are the wind in her eyes, of course.)
* "Beth" - KISS (He hears her callin', but he can't come home right now)
* "Carrie" - Europe
* "Bernadette" - Four Tops (Some men spend their whole lives searching for what we had)
* "Rosalita" - Bruce Springsteen
* "Donna" - Ritchie Valens
* "Lucille" - Little Richard
* "Suzy Lee" - The White Stripes
* "Ashley" - Escape the Fate
* "Emily" - The title of songs by From First to Last, Elton John, and Michael W. Smith, and Frankie Valli, all unrelated to one another
* "Amie" - Pure Prairie League
* "Jessica" - Allman Brothers
** Also "Melissa", "Desdemona" and "Little Martha"

* "Molly" - John Denver
* "Isabel" - John Denver
* "Susie Q" - originally by Dale Hawkins, made famous by Creedence Clearwater Revival (Baby, I love you)
* "Polly" - Nirvana
** If addressing your rape victim as if she was a pet bird counts.
* "Delilah" - The Dresden Dolls
** Of course we cannot forget the more famous song of the same name by TomJones (she stood there laughing, but when we felt the knife in his hands, she laughed no more.)
* "Kitty" - Written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn, recorded by Racey and CoveredUp by Toni Basil.

* "Bonita Applebaum" - ATribeCalledQuest

* "Maria" - RageAgainstTheMachine
* "Stevie" - HedPE
* "Magdalena" - APerfectCircle
* "Rosemary" - Lenny Kravitz
* "Lisa" - Dead Flowers
* "Lydia" - Fur Patrol
* "Alice" and "Marian" - TheSistersOfMercy
** They also covered "Emma" by Hot Chocolate and "Jolene" by Dolly Parton.
* "Maria Maria" - Santana
* "Mary" - The Feelers
* "Jacqueline" - Franz Ferdinand
* "Brena" - A Perfect Circle
* "Judith" - A Perfect Circle
* "Darlene" - {{Erasure}} (interesting in that it is sung as if to a love interest, but the singer is a gay male)
* "Jezebel" - DepecheMode
* "Jezebel" - Two Hours Traffic

* "Sherry", "Ronnie", "Dawn" and "Marlena" are all - the Four Seasons.

* "Tautou" - BrandNew
* "Mary", "Talula", "Ophelia", "Marianne" and "Josephine" - ToriAmos
* "My Sharona" - The Knack (by the way, the woman named Sharona, who was on the single cover, is an ordinary woman who sells real estate in Southern California.)
* "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", "Peg", and "Josie" by SteelyDan.
* "Maybellene" and "Nadine" - ChuckBerry

* "Audrey," "Jessica," and (debatably) "Amber" - Dir en Grey
* "Ramona" - From ''ScottPilgrimVersusTheUniverse'', actually written and sung by {{Beck}}.

Subversions:
* "Kim" - {{Eminem}}. [[{{Understatement}} Not in the way this trope usually goes.]] This is no SillyLoveSong.

* "Lola" - Silly little number by TheKinks... that's actually about a {{Transvestite}}. [[EpilepticTrees Maybe]].
** Silmilarly, "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis.
* "Dammit, Janet" from the ''RockyHorrorPictureShow''. It's also a parody of these types of songs.

* "Melissa" - Mercyful Fate. She is actually a human sacrifice in black mass.
* "Tallulah", "Letter to Dana", "Mary Lou", "Victoria's Secret", "My Selene" and "Juliet" - Sonata Arctica. None of these songs are named after the love interest of the singer, and none of them actually exist as anything but in-song characters, but they all contain a girls name. There's also "Shamandalie" which treats the title as if it was a girls name but it isn't a real one.
* More than half of the songs on Slint's ''Tweez'' are named after women ("Carol", "Charlotte", "Darlene", "Rhoda", and "Nan Ding"). The thing is that all of these are [[NonAppearingTitle non-appearing titles]] that have nothing to do with the song content, and the remaining four songs have male names. They decided to just title the songs as [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming arbitrary shout outs to band members' parents]]. As for why there's an odd number of names, well, Nan Ding was apparently ''a dog''.
* "52 Girls" - The B-52s: a song full of girls' names!

* "Delilah" by Queen. The lines "You get away with murder so innocent" and "you pee all over my Chippendale suit" feel [[LyricalDissonance somewhat out of place]] in a sweet and catchy love song, if you don't realise that [[spoiler: it's about a cat]]
* "Alejandro" by LadyGaga is possibly a triple subversion. First it is inverted. Second there are three men in the song. And finally Gaga is fending off their advances.
* "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers, which is about the man's wife running off and leaving him to raise their four children alone on a farm.

* "Grace" - Jeffy Buckley

* "Roxanne" - Song - ThePolice about "redeeming" a prostitute.

** Also "Melissa" and "Desdemona"

* "Emaline" - Ben Folds Five

* "Isobel" - [[{{Bjork}} Björk ]]

* "Lucille" - Little Richard

** Of course we cannot forget the more famous song of the same name by [[Tom Jones]] (she stood there laughing, but when we felt the knife in his hands, she laughed no more.)

* "Delilah" by Queen. The lines "You get away with murder so innocent" and "[[Squick you pee all over my Chippendale suit]]" feel [[LyricalDissonance somewhat out of place]] in a sweet and catchy love song, if you don't realise that [[spoiler: it's about a cat]]

* "Delilah" by [[Queen]]. The lines "You get away with murder so innocent" and "When you pee all over my Chippendale suit" feel [[[[Squick]] somewhat]] [[LyricalDissonance out of place]], if you don't realise that [[spoiler: it's about a cat]]

* "Nadine" - ChuckBerry

* "Donna" - Richie Valens

* "Nadine" - Chuck Berry

* "Angie" - Depending on which rumor you believe, Mick Jagger bragging about nailing David Bowie's wife, lamenting wanting Bowie's wife, or apologizing for nailing her husband.

* "Cecilia" - SimonAndGarfunkel

* "Beth" - KISS (He hears he callin', but he can't come home right now)