History Main / TheVillainSucksSong

* Music/DoryPrevin's "Beware of Young Girls" is a scathing attack on Creator/MiaFarrow, who stole Previn's husband.

* "The Rains of Castamere" from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is about the last lord of house Reyne (whose seat was the castle of Castamere), who rebelled against House Lannister, and what Tywin Lannister [[KillEmAll did to him and his house in response]]. Tywin, needless to say, is fond of the song. He even gets a practical use out of it; when other lords loyal to House Lannister have considered acts of rebellion and such, Tywin has responded by sending a musician to sing "The Rains of Castamere" to those lords. Their capitulation was ''quite'' swift.

* "Kyle's Mom Is A Bitch" from the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo. Taken [[UpToEleven up to eleven]] when it was re-used in the movie (mentioned above).

* ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'' has a The VillainProtagonist Sucks song about Scrooge [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBthi_An5qQ here]]. The lyrics are basically about how Scrooge is a cold-hearted, miserly JerkWithAHeartOfJerk who absolutely nobody likes.

[[BalefulPolymorph He'll turn you to a tree of oil]],\\

* The rather obscure 1974 musical ''Jack the Ripper'' features [[BlackComedy a merry soft-shoe number about the titular serial killer]] entitled "Ripper's Going to Get You."

* "Wintersmith" on Music/SteeleyeSpan's ConceptAlbum ''Wintersmith'', based on the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}''. It's about the Wintersmith.

->''"Weeeeell, Kyle's mom's a bitch, she's a big fat bitch, she's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world..."''
-->-- '''Eric Cartman''', ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' (though first heard in "Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo")

** ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' has "The Phony King of England", written by Johnny Mercer, of all famous songwriters one otherwise wouldn't associate with Disney. The aforementioned king [[RightBehindMe catches Sir Hiss and the Sheriff of Nottingham singing this song]], and chucks a bottle of wine at the latter, just barely missing him -- but covering him with the contents. Upon being told the whole village is singing it, he says they'll be singing a different tune from now on. "Double the taxes! ''Triple'' the taxes! ''SQUEEZE EVERY LAST DROP'' out of those insolent -- musical -- peasants."

* [[TropeCodifier "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"]] from ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' consists entirely of some of the most creative and eloquent insults ever devised possibly in any language. Throughout the song, the singer (Creator/ThurlRavenscroft) likens the Grinch to "a bad banana with a greasy, black peel", "a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce" and even describes his soul as "an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable!"

* During the Season 1 finale of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Garnet's song "Stronger than you" can be considered this, since she's addressing Jasper directly as she's singing it, and Jasper is one of the few reoccurring villains that never reforms on the show.

** ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' had "Never Smile at a Crocodile", which was about Tick Tock the Crocodile. Lyrics were written for it, but only the melody made it into the final film (though the song ended up in a Sing-Along Songs video, however). On the other hand, the sequel ''WesternAnimation/ReturnToNeverLand'' has "Here We Go, Another Plan", which starts out praising Captain Hook but ends up mocking him at the last line.
-->''Who else can think of the perfect crime''
-->''And bumble and fumble it every time''

** ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' inverts this with "Gaston", a song about how ''[[VillainWithGoodPublicity great]]'' the villain is. Later in the movie we get a TheHeroSucksSong in the form of the "Mob Song", lead by Gaston.

-->''And I fortunately know a little magic''\\

* ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'' has a The VillainProtagonist Sucks song about Scrooge [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBthi_An5qQ here]]. The lyrics are basically about how how Scrooge is a cold-hearted, miserly JerkWithAHeartOfJerk who absolutely nobody likes.

* The ''Film/JamesBond'' series loves these, though it's less "the villain sucks" than "the villain is pretty awesome, but dangerous and evil".
** The title song to ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. "He loves only gold; he loves only gold; he loves '''GOOOOOOOOOOOOLD!!!'''" Why yes. Yes he does.

* Subverted in ''Film/TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord''. Nick Cave sings the real-life song "The Ballad of Jesse James", which villifies Robert Ford and casts James as a martyr. Ford hears the song and is enraged by the bias as well as his own guilt.

** Season 3 antagonist Sebastian Smythe gets one of these - within minutes of his first appearance! Played with in that the song being sung in this case - "A Boy Like That" from West Side Story - wasn't sung with him in mind for any of the Glee club members in-universe. The school happened to have West Side Story as their musical that year, and the song cuts between Santana singing this song as Anita and Sebastian's conversation with Blaine, providing a a sort of musical exposition for the audience to show just [[ObviouslyEvil what kind]] [[FauxAffablyEvil of guy]] [[SmugSmiler we can]] [[SmugSnake expect him]] [[DepravedHomosexual to turn]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing out to]] [[StalkerWithACrush be]].

* In ''Series/AlloAllo'', Colonel Von Strohm's and Captain Geering are captured by The Resistance and [[ItMakesSenseInContext forced to pretend]] to be British [=POWs=] during an inspection. Face to face with General Von Klinkerhoffen (who knows them quite well), they attempt to bolster their [[PaperThinDisguise paper thin disguises]]; Von Strohm affects faux English mannerisms, while Geering resorts to singing, "Hitler has only got one.."

--> "You wanna know what the difference is between me and you? I ''earned'' those 'You Suck's!"
** In a later face turn Kurt Angle inverted this in a different way, twice. Initially he actually started (usually against heels) starting to point at his opponent saying "You Suck" alongside them and the announcers actually played this as the crowd now respecting Kurt Angle and showing contempt towards his opponent. Interestingly the only face he ever did this against was Rey Mysterio once. Later his theme song was modified to leave out the part where the crowd chanted "You Suck' entirely, though some crowds would still say it at random intervals.

** Despite Cena himself being a face for most of his career, his overexposure caused many to get sick of him (putting him basically on the same level as a heel to them), and caused them to sing "John Cena Sucks!" to the tune of his theme whenever he came out. Cena himself embraced the chants, and even taught the audience on Conan O'Brien's show to sing "John Cena Sucks!" when he was a guest there. Recently, the chants have died down considerably, mainly because Wrestling/RomanReigns is now in the position of overexposure that Cena once was in and the crowds have come to appreciate Cena's talent over Reigns.

* ''Series/SpittingImage'' has "I've Never Met A Nice UsefulNotes/{{South Africa}}n" (written during UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra)--though it turns into a straight-up VillainSong during the refrain, when the chorus of {{Amoral Afrikaner}}s start [[CardCarryingVillain gleefully boasting about how rotten they are]].

* "Pore Jud is Daid" in ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'' amounts to Curly making a bunch of thinly-veiled jabs at Jud. Interesting example because it's a duet sung ''with'' the villain [[ComicallyMissingThePoint who doesn't catch the insults]]. It's a parody of NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead, because Curly is singing about how much everyone would like Jud if only he would kill himself.

** "Apex Predator" plays this straight with all of Janis's portions, warning Janis of how dangerous Regina can be and compares her to a lioness in the wild, hunting it's prey, further advising her to stay away, which Cady, of course, doesn't listen to.

* Music/BadLipReading's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKjn2_Ina5o "Beard With Glue"]] (based off "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt) is what happens when you cross this trope with WordSaladLyrics. It's unclear who the song is about, but the singer and the bullfrog bolth hate them and they have a habit of [[KickTheDog sneaking off to punch Brazilian orphans.]]

* "Mortimer, Mortimer, Mortimer Mouse" in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' -- was originally a song penned by Mortimer to sing his own praises, but Daisy, Clarabelle and Minnie reworked the lyrics because as they were, the audience was not buying it.

** And predating that, the episode "Dunces and Dragons", Squidly, the royal fool, sings a song to King Krabs to make up for making a bad joke ([=SpongeBob=] and Patrick had joined along the singing), but the song was insulting that King Krabs had ordered Squidly, [=SpongeBob=], and Patrick to be executed.
-->Oh, hear me king, for I must sing,\\

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi5U9REm4AI "Versus"]] is an interesting example, as it's primarily [[EvilVersusEvil two villains]] ([[AlphaBitch Heather]] and Alejandro) singing about each other. This makes it both a VillainSong (as it is song by villains) and a "The Villain Sucks" Song at the same time.

* In the Slappy Squirrel ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' short "Frontier Slappy", Daniel Boone's backup singers start by singing his praises, but eventually it devolves into one of these kinds of songs, after he crosses the MoralEventHorizon. After taking offense, he fires them.

* ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'' ended its segment on SLAPP suits like this. John and an ensemble of performers essentially invoke RefugeInAudacity and claim that Bob Murray (a CorruptCorporateExecutive who previously filed a SLAPP suit against the show) has done multiple horrible things, including assaulting Nancy Kerrigan ForTheEvulz, being the Zodiac Killer, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and not liking Tom Hanks]]. (The RefugeInAudacity part being that since all the claims are clearly jokes, they aren't grounds for a libel lawsuit.)

** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' opens with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnh-sxaBwk "Bells of Notre Dame"]], most of which is all about just how evil Frollo is and how he's the real monster of the story. It's one long MoralEventHorizon in song form. So much so that the backing vocals borrow "Kyrie eleison" and "Dies irae" from liturgical music. "Lord have mercy" and "Day of wrath" indeed...

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvWRMAU6V-c "We Don't Talk About Bruno"]] which details the many ways the family's BlackSheep Bruno has ruined the lives of the Madrigals and the town's residents with his predictions. [[spoiler: Ultimately a subversion, as Bruno is [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold a genuinely kind person]] whose HarbingerOfImpendingDoom powers have given him a bad reputation because everyone else thinks CassandraDidIt. The film actually has NoAntagonist, but the song fills this narrative purpose until the reveal that Bruno isn't one.]]

* [=MuggleNet=], a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fansite, has several song parodies that fall under this category, including "You're A Mean One, Voldemort", sung to the tune of [[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"]] and "Dolores Umbridge", which is set to the tune of [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians "Cruella De Vil".]]

** "Cruella De Vil" from ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. She apparently doesn't like it very much, given hearing it on the radio in ''Patch's London Adventure'' is enough to make her kick her dashboard until it shuts up. Even the [[Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996 live-action version]] has the song play over the credits, even though there's no in-universe version since Roger got his career changed (again).

* [[TropeCodifier "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"]] from ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' consists entirely of some of the most creative and eloquent insults ever devised possibly in any language. Throughout the song, the singer (Creator/ThurlRavenscroft) likens the Grinch to "a bad banana with a greasy, black peel", a "three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce" and even describes his soul as "an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable!"

* [[TropeCodifier "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"]] from ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' consists entirely of some of the most creative and eloquent insults ever devised possibly in any language. Throughout the song, the singer (Creator/ThurlRavenscroft) likens the Grinch to "a bad banana with a greasy, black peel", a "three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce" and even describes his soul as "an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful of deplorable rubbish imaginable!"

* [[TropeCodifier "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"]] from ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' consists entirely of some of the most creative and eloquent insults ever devised possibly in any language.

* "Pore Jud is Daid" in ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'' amounts to Curly making a bunch of thinly-veiled jabs at Jud. Interesting example because it's a duet sung ''with'' the villain [[ComicallyMissingThePoint who doesn't catch the insults]].
** ''And'' it's a parody of NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead, because Curly is singing about how much everyone would like Jud if only he would kill himself.
** ''And'' it's really really creepy because Curly is trying to [[DrivenToSuicide drive Jud to suicide]].
** Or (less creepily) Curly's trying to [[ReversePsychology get Jud to lighten up and laugh at his own gloominess]]. Some residual creepiness, in that [[ThePollyanna Curly's a trifle optimistic for a grown man]] about Jud actually having a sense of humor...but then, Curly IS the guy who sang "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!"

** Elphaba is arguably a VillainProtagonist though

* Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates gave us a "Maneater" ("the beauty is there but a beast is in the heart").