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* '[[http://clockworkquartet.com/music.php The Watchmaker's Apprentice]]' by the Clockwork Quartet is from the POV of a disgruntled ex-employee framing his boss for murder. As the song progresses, he gradually gets more and more unhinged.
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* TransSiberianOrchestra's third [[ChristmasSong Christmas album]], ''The Lost Christmas Eve'' features "What Is Christmas?", sung by a Scrooge-like character whom an embittered businessman agrees with.
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* TransSiberianOrchestra's third [[ChristmasSong [[ChristmasSongs Christmas album]], ''The Lost Christmas Eve'' features [[AntiChristmasSong "What Is Christmas?", Christmas?"]], sung by a Scrooge-like character whom an embittered businessman agrees with.
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* TransSiberianOrchestra's third [[ChristmasMusic Christmas album]], ''The Lost Christmas Eve'' features "What Is Christmas?", sung by a Scrooge-like character whom an embittered businessman agrees with.
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* TransSiberianOrchestra's third [[ChristmasMusic [[ChristmasSong Christmas album]], ''The Lost Christmas Eve'' features "What Is Christmas?", sung by a Scrooge-like character whom an embittered businessman agrees with.
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* TransSiberianOrchestra's third [[ChristmasMusic Christmas album]], ''The Lost Christmas Eve'' features "What Is Christmas?", sung by a Scrooge-like character whom an embittered businessman agrees with.
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* Music/PepeDeluxe, ''Music/QueenOfTheWave'', "A Night and a Day". The liner notes describe the subject as "a poetic synopsis" of Mainin's descent into "destroy the world"-tier villainy, and the lyrics don't suggest even a hint of regret.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxScTbIUvoA Hey There Cthulhu]] is about a [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu cultist]] who's being driven insane and wants to bring about the end of the world.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxScTbIUvoA Hey There Cthulhu]] is about a song sung by [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu cultist]] who's being driven insane and wants to bring about the end of the world.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxScTbIUvoA Hey There Cthulhu]] is about a [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu cultist]] who's being driven insane and wants to bring about the end of the world.
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* KanyeWest's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLHU3w1nwdY Power]] is basically about an all powerful celebrity getting off on how much people hate him.
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* KanyeWest's Music/KanyeWest's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLHU3w1nwdY Power]] is basically about an all powerful celebrity getting off on how much people hate him.
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* Rush's concept album ''Clockwork Angels'' has one in "The Anarchist".
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* Rush's concept album ''Clockwork Angels'' has one in "The Anarchist".Anarchist".
* KanyeWest's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLHU3w1nwdY Power]] is basically about an all powerful celebrity getting off on how much people hate him.
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** A few more examples: "Reprehensible", "Hall Of Heads" (commonly interpreted to be about Princess Mombi (or Princess Langwidere from the book version) of ReturnToOz), "No One Knows My Plan and "I'm Your Boyfriend Now" (named after a [[NightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kreuger]] line).
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** A few more examples: "Reprehensible", "Hall Of Heads" (commonly interpreted to be about Princess Mombi (or Princess Langwidere from the book version) of ReturnToOz), ''ReturnToOz''), "No One Knows My Plan Plan" and "I'm Your Boyfriend Now" (named after a [[NightmareOnElmStreet [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 Freddy Kreuger]] line).
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* MCFrontalot 's "Final Boss", which is sung from the perspective of, predictably enough, the final boss.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFOpL2eTlKc Chainsaw Charlie (Murders in the New Morgue)]] by W.A.S.P., which is sung from the perspective of a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporate Executive]].
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFOpL2eTlKc Chainsaw Charlie (Murders in the New Morgue)]] by W.A.S.P., which is sung from the perspective of a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporate Executive]].CorruptCorporateExecutive.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-pQ-lv-N9M "House Party at Arkham Asylum"]] by TheGreatLukeSki is sung by TheJoker.
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* Bigg Milt's newest rap "what's going on" is a rather strange version of this trope, instead of being sung from the point of view of a actual person, it's actually sung from the point of the drug dope, claiming he is the real terror in the world and even says [[GodIsEvil god is evil]] the wrote about him in the Bible.
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* Bigg Milt's newest rap "what's going on" is a rather strange version of this trope, instead of being sung from the point of view of a actual person, it's actually sung from the point of the drug dope, claiming he is the real terror in the world and even says [[GodIsEvil god is evil]] GodIsEvil the wrote about him in the Bible.
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** "Running Gun Blues" (''The Man Who Sold the World'') is sung by a soldier who no longer has a war to fight, but (being AxCrazy) decides to just keep killing people. As the song begins, he's "cut twenty-three down since Friday".
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* [[GodIsEvil God Himself]] gets in on the action in ''Faust'' by RandyNewman, singing "How Great Our Lord", with a wonderfully slimy performance by JamesTaylor. Newman himself sings the Devil's parts; the most straightforward Villain Song from him is probably "Can't Keep A Good Man Down", where he plots to return to Heaven by winning a (heavily stacked) wager with God.
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* [[GodIsEvil God Himself]] gets in on the action in ''Faust'' by RandyNewman, singing "How Great Our Lord", with a wonderfully slimy performance by JamesTaylor. Newman himself sings the Devil's parts; the most straightforward Villain Song from him is probably "Can't Keep A Good Man Down", where he plots to return to Heaven by winning a (heavily stacked) wager with God.
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* Music/BlindGuardian's "Ride Into Obsession" is an introduction to the two opposing main characters of the WheelOfTime series... from the viewpoint of the villain of course! Keep in mind, the quoted section is merely the opening.
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* Music/BlindGuardian's "Ride Into Obsession" is an introduction to the two opposing main characters of the WheelOfTime [[Literature/TheWheelOfTime Wheel of Time]] series... from the viewpoint of the villain of course! Keep in mind, the quoted section is merely the opening.
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** Phantom of the Opera is about the the "phantom" in the novel (and later play/film) of the same name.
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but I will [[RageAgainstTheHeavens rage against the light]] forever more."
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but I will [[RageAgainstTheHeavens rage against the light]] forever more.""
* Rush's concept album ''Clockwork Angels'' has one in "The Anarchist".
* Rush's concept album ''Clockwork Angels'' has one in "The Anarchist".
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* '[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuiaspFqEyc Taxman]] ' by Music/TheBeatles plays with this trope. [[CaptainObvious This song is about a Taxman]] singing of how he will take almost everything from you, how you should be thankful that he doesn't take ''everything'' from you, and also basically rubbing in your face how you can do nothing about it because you cannot work for anyone but him. However, it ''sounds'' like a hero song,]] with positive cries of ''Taxman!'' similar to cries of the names of heroes, like ''Batman!''. However, the lyrics do nothing to hide the character's moral depravity.
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* '[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuiaspFqEyc Taxman]] ' by Music/TheBeatles plays with this trope. [[CaptainObvious This song is about a Taxman]] Taxman singing of how he will take almost everything from you, how you should be thankful that he doesn't take ''everything'' from you, and also basically rubbing in your face how you can do nothing about it because you cannot work for anyone but him. However, it ''sounds'' like a hero song,]] with positive cries of ''Taxman!'' similar to cries of the names of heroes, like ''Batman!''. However, the lyrics do nothing to hide the character's moral depravity.
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** Of particular note is "Nothing's Free" which serves as the villain song for The Showman of his concept album "The Last Temptation" and the NeilGaiman penned comic of the same name.
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** Of particular note is "Nothing's Free" which serves as the villain song for The Showman of his concept album "The Last Temptation" and the NeilGaiman penned comic [[ComicBook/TheLastTemptation comic]] of the same name.
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in angry mobs with torches bright outside my door\\
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* [[http://brownbird.net Brown Bird]] has the song [[http://brownbird.net/lyrics Blood of Angels]], with the chorus:
-->"You could be right, they might come for me at night\\
in angry mobs with torches bright outside my door\\
for all my spite, I might never win the fight\\
but I will rage against the light forever more."
-->"You could be right, they might come for me at night\\
in angry mobs with torches bright outside my door\\
for all my spite, I might never win the fight\\
but I will rage against the light forever more."
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** Unlike most villain songs, Wily doesn't pull this out while there's still any chance of his plan being stopped. He waits until his victory is essentially secured.
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** Their contribution to the ''BatmanArkhamCity'' soundtrack is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woPliVs5uqM "Deranged"]], sung from The Joker's point of view about Batman.
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* Music/{{Disturbed}} has Inside the Fire, in which [[DealWithTheDevil the devil]] tries to [[DrivenToSuicide convince the grieving David Draiman]] to [[YourSoulIsMine give up his soul]] and be with his girlfriend [[YouAreWorthHell in hell.]]
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* Music/{{Disturbed}} has Inside the Fire, in which [[DealWithTheDevil the devil]] tries to [[DrivenToSuicide convince the grieving David Draiman]] to [[YourSoulIsMine give up his soul]] and be with his girlfriend [[YouAreWorthHell in hell.]]]]
* Heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Enough said. Their songs takes a lot of historical and or literature roots, and "villain songs" are a part of this mix:
**Phantom of the Opera is about the the "phantom" in the novel (and later play/film) of the same name.
* Heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Enough said. Their songs takes a lot of historical and or literature roots, and "villain songs" are a part of this mix:
**Phantom of the Opera is about the the "phantom" in the novel (and later play/film) of the same name.
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** Let Me Put You On Game is one of the most evil rap songs you will ever here, starting with an evil laugh and ending with a gunshot.
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** There's a whole ''album'' dedicated to Charles XII of Sweden, also known as Carolus Rex, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZMY-YXLa38 the titular song definitely fits the bill well]], and is handled a lot more favorably than the previously mentioned examples by the band.
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* DavidBowie's "Running Gun Blues" is sung by a soldier who no longer has a war to fight, but (being AxCrazy) decides to just keep killing people. As the song begins, he's "cut twenty-three down since Friday".
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* DavidBowie's DavidBowie examples:
** "Please Mr. Gravedigger" (1967 SelfTitledAlbum) starts with the singer sarcastically addressing the gravedigger, who's also a grave ''robber''...but then he reveals that the reason he's been able to witness these crimes is because he keeps visiting the grave of a little girl he murdered, and he's got a grave ready for the gravedigger to go into.
** "Running Gun Blues" (''The Man Who Sold the World'') is sung by a soldier who no longer has a war to fight, but (being AxCrazy) decides to just keep killing people. As the song begins, he's "cut twenty-three down since Friday".
** "Please Mr. Gravedigger" (1967 SelfTitledAlbum) starts with the singer sarcastically addressing the gravedigger, who's also a grave ''robber''...but then he reveals that the reason he's been able to witness these crimes is because he keeps visiting the grave of a little girl he murdered, and he's got a grave ready for the gravedigger to go into.
** "Running Gun Blues" (''The Man Who Sold the World'') is sung by a soldier who no longer has a war to fight, but (being AxCrazy) decides to just keep killing people. As the song begins, he's "cut twenty-three down since Friday".
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* A lot of Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs qualify, in particular we have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uU2PZVfM8 Kaito Ga Uninstall]] for Kaito, in which he [[{{Yandere}} murders all of the other Vocaloids so their master will only pay attention to him]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGThHuZ3lBQ Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance]] for Miku, in which she's a murderous, psychopathic StalkerWithACrush who kills a cat and leaves its head on the doorstep of her "beloved", [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFfeTIWWco Fear Garden]] for Rin, in which she [[AxeCrazy cuts off the other vocaloids' arms and]] [[GardenOfEvil plants them like flowers in her garden]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeQ0w3OR_U Spice]] for Len, in which he [[TheCasanova courts and has sex with various girls]] but at the same time [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove considers concepts like "love" and "satisfaction" to be absurd]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cli6w_izx0o Love Disease]] for Luka, another stalker song, and just about anything {{Mothy}} writes, as he's currently writing a series called The ''Evil''lious Chronicles, with the SevenDeadlySins as a major theme.
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* A lot of Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs qualify, in particular we have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uU2PZVfM8 Kaito Ga Uninstall]] for Kaito, in which he [[{{Yandere}} murders all of the other Vocaloids so their master will only pay attention to him]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGThHuZ3lBQ Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance]] for Miku, in which she's a murderous, psychopathic StalkerWithACrush who kills a cat and leaves its head on the doorstep of her "beloved", [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFfeTIWWco Fear Garden]] for Rin, in which she [[AxeCrazy cuts off the other vocaloids' arms and]] [[GardenOfEvil plants them like flowers in her garden]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeQ0w3OR_U Spice]] for Len, in which he [[TheCasanova courts and has sex with various girls]] but at the same time [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove considers concepts like "love" and "satisfaction" to be absurd]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cli6w_izx0o Love Disease]] for Luka, another stalker song, and just about anything {{Mothy}} writes, as he's currently writing a series called The ''Evil''lious Chronicles, with the SevenDeadlySins as a major theme. It should be noted that many of these could also be viewed as VillainLoveSong[=s=].
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** "Love at First Fright," a love song toward Reagan from ''TheExorcist'', sung from the point of view of the demon possessing her.
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* "Make Me Smile", sung by a psychotic anthropomorphic ferret definitely counts. It's a cheerful, jaunty tune that features holocaust denial, a pro eugenics attitude, molestation, murder and cannibalism. It's absolutely hilarious.
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* A lot of Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs qualify, in particular we have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uU2PZVfM8 Kaito Ga Uninstall]] for Kaito, in which he [[{{Yandere}} murders all of the other Vocaloids so their master will only pay attention to him]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGThHuZ3lBQ Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance]] for Miku, in which she's a murderous, psychopathic StalkerWithACrush who kills a cat and leaves its head on the doorstep of her "beloved", [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFfeTIWWco Fear Garden]] for Rin, in which she [[AxeCrazy cuts off the other vocaloids' arms and]] [[GardenOfEvil plants them like flowers in her garden]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeQ0w3OR_U Spice]] for Len, in which he [[TheCasanova courts and has sex with various girls]] but at the same time [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove considers concepts like "love" and "satisfaction" to be absurd]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cli6w_izx0o Love Disease]] for Luka, another stalker song, and just about anything {{Mothy}} writes, as he's currently writing a series called The ''Evil''lious Chronicles, with the SevenDeadlySins as a major theme..
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* A lot of Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs qualify, in particular we have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uU2PZVfM8 Kaito Ga Uninstall]] for Kaito, in which he [[{{Yandere}} murders all of the other Vocaloids so their master will only pay attention to him]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGThHuZ3lBQ Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance]] for Miku, in which she's a murderous, psychopathic StalkerWithACrush who kills a cat and leaves its head on the doorstep of her "beloved", [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFfeTIWWco Fear Garden]] for Rin, in which she [[AxeCrazy cuts off the other vocaloids' arms and]] [[GardenOfEvil plants them like flowers in her garden]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeQ0w3OR_U Spice]] for Len, in which he [[TheCasanova courts and has sex with various girls]] but at the same time [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove considers concepts like "love" and "satisfaction" to be absurd]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cli6w_izx0o Love Disease]] for Luka, another stalker song, and just about anything {{Mothy}} writes, as he's currently writing a series called The ''Evil''lious Chronicles, with the SevenDeadlySins as a major theme..theme.
* Music/{{Disturbed}} has Inside the Fire, in which [[DealWithTheDevil the devil]] tries to [[DrivenToSuicide convince the grieving David Draiman]] to [[YourSoulIsMine give up his soul]] and be with his girlfriend [[YouAreWorthHell in hell.]]
* Music/{{Disturbed}} has Inside the Fire, in which [[DealWithTheDevil the devil]] tries to [[DrivenToSuicide convince the grieving David Draiman]] to [[YourSoulIsMine give up his soul]] and be with his girlfriend [[YouAreWorthHell in hell.]]
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* A lot of Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs qualify, in particular we have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uU2PZVfM8 Kaito Ga Uninstall]] for Kaito, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGThHuZ3lBQ Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance]] for Miku, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFfeTIWWco Fear Garden]] for Rin, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeQ0w3OR_U Spice]] for Len, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cli6w_izx0o Love Disease]] for Luka, and just about anything {{Mothy}} writes.
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* A lot of Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs qualify, in particular we have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uU2PZVfM8 Kaito Ga Uninstall]] for Kaito, in which he [[{{Yandere}} murders all of the other Vocaloids so their master will only pay attention to him]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGThHuZ3lBQ Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance]] for Miku, in which she's a murderous, psychopathic StalkerWithACrush who kills a cat and leaves its head on the doorstep of her "beloved", [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFfeTIWWco Fear Garden]] for Rin, in which she [[AxeCrazy cuts off the other vocaloids' arms and]] [[GardenOfEvil plants them like flowers in her garden]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeQ0w3OR_U Spice]] for Len, in which he [[TheCasanova courts and has sex with various girls]] but at the same time [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove considers concepts like "love" and "satisfaction" to be absurd]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cli6w_izx0o Love Disease]] for Luka, another stalker song, and just about anything {{Mothy}}
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* A lot of Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs qualify, in particular we have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uU2PZVfM8 Kaito Ga Uninstall]] for Kaito, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGThHuZ3lBQ Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance]] for Miku, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFfeTIWWco Fear Garden]] for Rin, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeQ0w3OR_U Spice]] for Len, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cli6w_izx0o Love Disease]] for Luka, and just about anything {{Mothy}} writes.
* A lot of Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs qualify, in particular we have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uU2PZVfM8 Kaito Ga Uninstall]] for Kaito, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGThHuZ3lBQ Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance]] for Miku, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFfeTIWWco Fear Garden]] for Rin, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeQ0w3OR_U Spice]] for Len, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cli6w_izx0o Love Disease]] for Luka, and just about anything {{Mothy}} writes.
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* '[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuiaspFqEyc Taxman]] ' by Music/TheBeatles plays with this trope. [[CaptainObvious This song is about a Taxman]] singing of how he will take almost everything from you, how you should be thankful that he doesn't take ''everything'' from you, and also basically rubbing in your face how you can do nothing about it because you cannot work for anyone but him. However, it ''sounds'' like a hero song,]] with positive cries of ''Taxman!'' similar to cries of the names of heroes, like ''Batman!''. However, the lyrics do nothing to hide the character's moral depravity.
* '[[http://clockworkquartet.com/music.php The Watchmaker's Apprentice]]' by the Clockwork Quartet is from the POV of a disgruntled ex-employee framing his boss for murder. As the song progresses, he gradually gets more and more unhinged.
-->I rigged up a watch to do more than just chime,\\
And I didn't balk ''once'' at the depth of my crime!\\
The most perfect invention, that still kept impeccable time!
* "Mack the Knife". adapted from the German ''Dreigroschenoper''. Who knew so many wholesome 1950s singers could get away with singing gleefully about a spree killer and thief?
* Tom Smith, writer of many famous {{Filk Song}}s, has had a musical called ''Skullrose And Tourmaline'' kicking around the back of his brain for years. He's written three songs so far: [[http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/heat_blood.htm "Heat Of The Blood"]], [[http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/ho_death.htm "Ho! For The Death Of Time"]], and "This Ain't Over Yet." They're ''all'' {{Villain Song}}s.
** In TomSmith's Musical ''TheLastHeroOnEarth'' there's both "[[MadScientist Mad Scientists United]]" and "The Sinister Cavortings of Sir Wilfred P. Hufflebaggins III (There's a reason why of him you never have heard.)
* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s "When You're Evil" fits this rather well while being generic enough to work for most any villain. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZBSDzimfq8 Here's]] a video made using various Disney villains. See the Cartoons sections below for his other works.
** A few others are "BRAINS!", "Almost Human" (a villain song for [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]], no less), "Ex Lover's Lover" and "Dead Girls".
* Janeen Brady's ''Standing Tall'' series - 12 tapes highlighting 12 virtues - includes the tape ''Gratitude'', in which the most enjoyable song is the Rabbit's VillainSong close to the beginning. Of course, the song itself is {{Anvilicious}}, and the guy learns his lesson by the end and pulls a HeelFaceTurn, but hey:
-->''I never say thank you, I never intend''\\
''Nobody likes me - but who needs a friend?''\\
''I never say thank you, don't even know how''\\
''And it's too late to change that now!''
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny7NZPfl0l4&feature=related "Mordred's Lullaby"]] by Heather Dale is about [[KingArthur Morgause]] singing a prophecy to her son about how he is going to be used to bring about King Arthur's destruction -- and die in the process.
** The song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-74MSONOf_E "Medusa"]] by Heather Dale may also be qualified as this. It is mostly about being yourself in the face of others, through the PointOfView of [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Medusa]]. "My garden's full of pretty men who couldn't stay away."
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84xZYSQRhQ4&feature=related "Joan"]], also by Heather Dale, can qualify depending on how you look at it. "I kill without consequence", after all.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMjMvrKbrYA "Crashing Down"]] is officially about Mordred convincing his men to rebel against King Arthur.
* Music/IronSavior has a few songs exemplifying this, notably [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgiomDEzyl0 "Protect the Law"]], by the titular starship, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsQY3duvMcc&feature=related "Protector"]], about the now-quite-deranged creator of said titular starship. "Outcast in the void, now I'm stronger than before / Landed to retake the crown, your conqueror comes ashore!" The villain gets the best lines indeed.
* Ra's song ''Parole'', is about the P.O.V. character leaving prison to pursue what is presumably an ex who is the reason he was put away to begin with. The lines include, "I called your mom and she told me/That you're afraid of me," and "I won't be disregarded/I won't be turned away/We'll finish up what you started/You're gonna pay today."
* Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" is about ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* [[http://www.jonathancoulton.com Jonathan Coulton]] ''loves'' this trope. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV3LP7P_8a4 "Skullcrusher Mountain"]] (sung by a generic supervillain) may be the best example, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjcH2UmK1uo# "Re: Your Brains"]] ([[ZombieApocalypse zombies]]), [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGNHWrIPHu8 "I Crush Everything"]] (some sort of [[CombatTentacles kraken]]), [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbClSmM-dVc "The Future Soon"]] (somebody who hopes to grow up to be a [[HollywoodCyborg cyborg]] [[RobotWar supervillain]]), and of course [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI "Still Alive"]] (the evil [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] from VideoGame/{{Portal}}) all qualify.
** The kraken is evil? He's more sympathetic, like the vampire in "Blue Sunny Day". "Skullcrusher Mountain" is really a VillainLoveSong... but the other ones, definitely. Also, don't forget "I'm a Mason Now" - while not inherently villainous, it's certainly vengeful and gloating.
** The villainy of the kid from "The Future Soon" is also debatable - he announces his intentions to end world hunger, but then soon starts talking about how his robots are probably going to start a war on Earth and he'll end up kidnapping the girl he has a crush on when she rejects him. It's possible that the latter parts are just the painful reality that he'll always be a loser intruding on his otherwise nice fantasy.
* "Live" by Paul and Storm is all about a mad scientist's desire to create an undead bride. Though it's arguably the villagers who are more villainous as they burst in and kill him as he and his bride finally get to be together.
** It's worth noting that Paul and Storm wrote this song as a parody of Jonathan Coulton's songs in the same vein. His response was to write a song parodying their music, called "Big Dick Farts a Polka".
* "Make Me Smile", sung by a psychotic anthropomorphic ferret definitely counts. It's a cheerful, jaunty tune that features holocaust denial, a pro eugenics attitude, molestation, murder and cannibalism. It's absolutely hilarious.
* {{Lordi}}'s ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLSE0S0nrPA Blood Red Sandman]]'' falls under here.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4dzUh2hOkg Beelzeboss]]'' by Tenacious D (featuring Dave Grohl from The Foo Fighters as Satan). See also the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6--17I9A17E Lion King version]], just for giggles.
** This also doubles as an IWantSong for Satan.
* "Trouble" by ElvisPresley kind of counts.
* {{Ayreon}}'s ''The Human Equation'' has Day 16: Loser, which is basically the protagonist imagining his father (named Father, for simplicity's sake) showing up to gloat about how much of a failure the protagonist is, throwing various insults at him and claiming that even though he's constantly sued by his exes and half his kids are in jail, he ''still'' always comes out on top. It doesn't fit the formula perfectly, but it certainly gets the over the top gloating tone perfectly.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBBvBY6q2Nw Ignorance is Bliss]]'' by Jellyfish is sung from the perspective of [[SuperMarioBros Bowser]].
* "Behind Blue Eyes" by Music/TheWho is a lament from the perspective of an ([[AntiVillain anti-]]) villainous character, and was intended to be the theme song for the antagonist in a Rock Opera planned by Pete Townsend.
* DoctorSteel is the embodiment of this trope. Almost every song he produces is from the viewpoint of WellIntentionedExtremist MadScientist Dr. Steel. Particularly "Back and Forth" which is designed as hypnotic propaganda, and "Ode to Revenge" in which he laments the state of society, and calls up his legion of followers [[FanNickname (Toy Soldiers)]] to "burn it all down".
* Music/AliceCooper's songs are kind of like this, especially ''Black Widow'' and ''Devil's Food''.
** Of particular note is "Nothing's Free" which serves as the villain song for The Showman of his concept album "The Last Temptation" and the NeilGaiman penned comic of the same name.
* The metal band Sabaton, who have a lot of songs about historical battles, has done a few that are clearly done from the perspective of the side they wouldn't support. The most obvious examples are [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aebOM8M_jtc Stalingrad]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wik-Xv9uD7I We Burn]] (the latter is about the Yugoslavian Civil War).
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULSKZ7IP930 The Rake's Song]]'' from The Decemberists' Rock Opera "The Hazards of Love" is sung by an unrepentant murderer who [[OffingTheOffspring killed his three children.]] The [[MyBelovedSmother jealous forest queen's]] song "The Queen's Rebuke" as well as the Rake's lines in "Margaret in Captivity" may also count, though it's his solo song that really stands out.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiHr7qLxOvU Supervillain]] by Powerman 5000.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0yc9tGBtf4 "Don't Mess With Me"]] by Temposhark.
* "Sympathy for the Devil" by Music/TheRollingStones. As you can expect, it takes on a SympatheticPOV.
* "Iron Man" by Music/BlackSabbath is about a man who becomes unable to speak and then revenges mankind because of this, killing everyone. In fact, Black Sabbath only used the name "Iron Man" because the song is about a villain; otherwise they would have been sued by Marvel Comics.
* "Police Truck" by the Music/DeadKennedys
* The song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfDVg6fs71I "Un Mauvais Dieu"]] ("A Bad God") from French Hip-Hop group ''Manau'' tells in it's intro the story an evil deity trapped below the earth by the druids, foretold to return at the dawn of the year 2000. The actual song is the aforementioned evil god bragging about how dark and sinful he is, and how he will bring hatred and suffering to the Earth once he is free.
* Music/TheProtomen have given one to their version of Dr. Wily with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBcDoZnN8ac "The Hounds"]]. He spends half the song ''gloating'' about framing Dr. Light for ''murder''. For something that seems to depict just how much of a sociopath Wily is, it's an absolute EarWorm with a tune that one can dance to.
** It also explains part one of his totalitarian state, which is "a giant screen in the middle of town everyone can see and hear, constantly barraging the populace with misinformation and propaganda." So basically, you standard dictatorship, but more high tech.
* TheyMightBeGiants like this trope. For example, there's "Kiss Me, Son of God", sung from the perspective of a CorruptCorporateExecutive VillainWithGoodPublicity:
-->"I built a little empire out of\\
Some crazy garbage called the blood of the\\
Exploited working class\\
But they've overcome their shyness,\\
Now they're calling me 'Your Highness'\\
And the world screams,\\
'Kiss me, Son of God!'"
** A few more examples: "Reprehensible", "Hall Of Heads" (commonly interpreted to be about Princess Mombi (or Princess Langwidere from the book version) of ReturnToOz), "No One Knows My Plan and "I'm Your Boyfriend Now" (named after a [[NightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kreuger]] line).
* Music/DreamTheater's "Home" from their brilliant album "Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes from a Memory" follows this trope. The song contains a section where it is revealed through soliloquy that [[spoiler: the character named "the Miracle" is actually in love with his brother's girlfriend and is sleeping with her. He laments that despite the shame he feels, he will find a way to tear them apart so that he can have Victoria. In fact, the whole song is about the two brother's different sins while the narrator of the whole story remains oblivious to the truth]]. Its a powerful song.
* Symphony X has an entire album of these with their latest release, Paradise Lost, unsurprising as most of the songs are from the point of view of Lucifer. Almost every single song is a Villain Song from Lucifer, with the only exception being the opening and 'The Sacrifice'.
* Pain of Salvation's 2004 concept album "Be" features a few of these, most notably "''Dea Pecuniae''", in which the villainous character sings about how he got rich through cut-throat duplicity, before it becomes a duet between him and the very voice of his dark desires.
* Many Finntroll songs are Villain songs, given that they're mostly about trolls eating people, sung from the point of view of the trolls.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul-ZUQTdT1Q I Wanna Be Evil]]'' by Eartha Kitt is about a GirlNextDoor who is convinced that EvilIsSexy and wants to set aside her frills and become a FemmeFatale.
* ''Mister Bad Example'' by Warren Zevon.
-->I'm proud to be a glutton, and I don't have time for sloth\\
I'm greedy, and I'm angry, and I don't care who I cross\\
I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt\\
I like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt\\
I'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me\\
I'll live to be a hundred, and go down in infamy
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhEsuwp6g8 Mirdautas Vras]]'' by {{Summoning}}, a villainous {{fanfare}} that provides the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome crowning track]] of their ''Oath Bound'' album, and written in BlackSpeech no less. Translated excerpt:
-->Northwards ride on [[EvilArmy a thousand orcs]],\\
On [[BigBadassWolf wolves]] with giant bloody fangs;\\
They take the storm and power\\
Of {{Mordor}} through the world!\\
Fire and ice - the Nazgul fly!\\
It is a good day to kill!\\
[[RedSkyTakeWarning Painted red is earth and sky]] -\\
Even [[GoD Manwe]] shall bow down!
* In the continuity of CoheedAndCambria's [[ConceptAlbum concept albums]], Al the Killer's IWantSong triple feature, The Velorium Camper. Most notably [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCqNcl-HAzw The Velorium Camper I:Faint of Hearts]]
** From Good Apollo vol. I, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk33WaLEff0 The Willing Well III: The Telling Truth]] is a surprisingly catchy villain song.
*** Actually, it's technically an AntiHero song, primarily sung by the Writer, but the [[DarkReprise reprise]] of [[ContinuityNod Everything Evil]] within it is believed to be sung by [[TheDragon General Dettenwolf.]]
** And from ''Second Stage Turbine Blade'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Us4BKf4gI Godsend Conspirator]], sung by [[BigBad Wihelm Ryan.]]
* Arguably,[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGitBIedvbY I Can't Decide]] by the Scissor Sisters, since it is Foe Yay in song form.
* "Villain Song" by Kirby Krackle.
** Despite the title, the song is actually about a villain announcing retirement as opposed to about how he's going to kill everything. [[spoiler: Or at least, it is until the final verse.]]
* The punk/cabaret act [[TheWorldInfernoFriendshipSociety World/Inferno Friendship Society]] have "Fiend in Wien", a raucous villain song from the perspective of Hitler about his awful youth and how he came to see the world as shit. Considering the band's main hero is PeterLorre and they're a bunch of anarchists, it's more sarcastic than anything else.
** "Lust for Timing" from ''The True Story of the Bridgewater Astral League'' is sung by the League's leader, Jon Gilch, as he gloats over his [[NothingCanStopUsNow luck and apparent invincibility]] while heading a crime syndicate. The previous song, "Incendiarism", is sung by the League as a whole while in the process of joyfully stealing cars with the foolproof alibi of being asleep at the time. However, the musical casts the BWAL members sympathetically rather than as hardened criminals, especially in the second act.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFOpL2eTlKc Chainsaw Charlie (Murders in the New Morgue)]] by W.A.S.P., which is sung from the perspective of a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporate Executive]].
* What's the only way {{Gorillaz}} could top making Mos Def their band's BigBad, you ask? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNUzz898tAs SWEEPSTAKES! You're a winner!]] That's how. Not to mention their previous song "Murdoc Is God".
* Cowboy music group ''Riders in the Sky'' do a song called ''Someone's got to do it!'' in which a pair of b-movie villains sing about how the story needs then to work.
* {{Kamelot}}'s ''Epica'' has "Descent of the Archangel", in which Ariel, the album's protagonist, is about to kill himself in despair over the fact that his search for the meaning of life went fruitless for years when Mephisto approaches him and [[DealWithTheDevil offers him the resources to continue his search in exchange for his soul]].
** And then there's "March of Mephisto" from ''The Black Halo'' which is essentially gloating over [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Helena's]] death and how this will aid Mephisto's plan to win Ariel's soul and re-enter heaven.
* Pick a {{GWAR}} song. Chances are good that it's probably one of these, either about [[VillainProtagonist the band]] or one of their many enemies.
* Music/LupeFiasco's got quite a few for the characters he created in his rap songs. Here's three:
** The Cool
** The Coolest
*** The Die, which actually is about the villain's death.
* You're kidding...you posted about the friggin' HERO of the story compared to The Game!
** Let Me Put You On Game is one of the most evil rap songs you will ever here, starting with an evil laugh and ending with a gunshot.
*** When read, the first line doesn't sound too bad. "Don't you know that I run this place? That I've begun this race? Must I rerun this pace? I'm the reason it's become this way, and their love for it is the reason I have become this praised...
**** But then the rest plays out: "They...love my darkness...I'll make 'em heartless...and in return, they have become my martyrs..."
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR2TLxroHhw Career of Evil]]" by Music/BlueOysterCult has it right there in the title.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-pQ-lv-N9M "House Party at Arkham Asylum"]] by TheGreatLukeSki is sung by TheJoker.
* MCFrontalot 's "Final Boss", which is sung from the perspective of, predictably enough, the final boss.
* {{Savatage}} likes to make use of this trope on their RockOpera albums.
** ''StreetsARockOpera'' has the song "Agony and Ecstasy", which is also part BSODSong. The villain portion represents the knowledge that drugs destroyed DT once, cannot do anything to help him, but he still longs for them.
** ''DeadWinterDead'' has two: "I Am" is human selfishness and greed turning people against each other, "Doesn't Matter Anyway" is for the [[ArmsDealer Arms Dealers]] getting rich off the war and don't give a damn about ideology or politics of their buyers.
** ''TheWakeOfMagellan'' has "Complaint in the System", the Irish mobsters and drug dealers have created a status quo that benefits them and will protect it.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB2BKdgSW4U Club Villain]]'', by Your Favorite Martian.
* Bigg Milt's newest rap "what's going on" is a rather strange version of this trope, instead of being sung from the point of view of a actual person, it's actually sung from the point of the drug dope, claiming he is the real terror in the world and even says [[GodIsEvil god is evil]] the wrote about him in the Bible.
* DavidBowie's "Running Gun Blues" is sung by a soldier who no longer has a war to fight, but (being AxCrazy) decides to just keep killing people. As the song begins, he's "cut twenty-three down since Friday".
* TheMegas have crafted many a VillainSong for the various and sundry [[VideoGame/MegaMan Robot Masters]], as well as one for Doctor Wily himself.
* [[GodIsEvil God Himself]] gets in on the action in ''Faust'' by RandyNewman, singing "How Great Our Lord", with a wonderfully slimy performance by JamesTaylor. Newman himself sings the Devil's parts; the most straightforward Villain Song from him is probably "Can't Keep A Good Man Down", where he plots to return to Heaven by winning a (heavily stacked) wager with God.
* The Toadies' "Possum Kingdom", sung by a serial killer to his victim.
* Music/BlindGuardian's "Ride Into Obsession" is an introduction to the two opposing main characters of the WheelOfTime series... from the viewpoint of the villain of course! Keep in mind, the quoted section is merely the opening.
-->"Come, I'll show you the end.\\
You're damned, 'cause no-one can defy me!\\
Just watch these maddened creatures,\\
Like you they all once reached out,\\
A war to win,\\
But I'm gonna burn their vision down!"
** There's also "Under the Ice", from the POV of [[TrojanWar Queen Klymnestra]]. Not to mention all of their songs from the POV of [[TheSimarillion Morgoth]] and [[TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]].
* "Skeletons on Parade" by {{Ludo}} counts, going from lighthearted parody to creepy in the span of about a minute.
* IcedEarth has The Dark Saga, based on {{Spawn}}, with three - ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqFYIpe82zw The Last Laugh]]'' by [[BigBad Male]][[DealWithTheDevil bolgia]], ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcgn0Qo9fe4&feature=related Violate]]'' by [[MonsterClown Violator]], and ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is7we-6N7g4&feature=related The Hunter]]'' by [[WellIntentionedExtremist Angela]] pre-HeelFaceTurn. There's also ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqGf2WgixWA&feature=related Vengeance is Mine]]'', which is more like a TheVillainSucksSong that Spawn sings to [[BadHumorTruck Billy Kincaid]], but [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the measures he takes]] are gruesome.
* Pretty much any song written by Wednesday 13, be it with the Murderdolls, Bourbon Crow, Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13, Gunfire 76, or his self-named band. Some gems include:
** "Love at First Fright," a love song toward Reagan from ''TheExorcist'', sung from the point of view of the demon possessing her.
** "A Dead Body," an outlaw country song about being too drunk to dig a shallow grave at the roadside.
** "All-American Massacre." ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''Craig'' by Stephen Lynch, about Jesus' JerkJock brother Craig Christ who spends his time partying it up unlike his pussy brother and his gay little buddies.
-->[[TheUnfavorite Jesus was our mothers fave,]]\\
All her love to him she gave.\\
But there's no sibling rivalry,\\
When he's nailed to that tree...\\
* '[[http://clockworkquartet.com/music.php The Watchmaker's Apprentice]]' by the Clockwork Quartet is from the POV of a disgruntled ex-employee framing his boss for murder. As the song progresses, he gradually gets more and more unhinged.
-->I rigged up a watch to do more than just chime,\\
And I didn't balk ''once'' at the depth of my crime!\\
The most perfect invention, that still kept impeccable time!
* "Mack the Knife". adapted from the German ''Dreigroschenoper''. Who knew so many wholesome 1950s singers could get away with singing gleefully about a spree killer and thief?
* Tom Smith, writer of many famous {{Filk Song}}s, has had a musical called ''Skullrose And Tourmaline'' kicking around the back of his brain for years. He's written three songs so far: [[http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/heat_blood.htm "Heat Of The Blood"]], [[http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/ho_death.htm "Ho! For The Death Of Time"]], and "This Ain't Over Yet." They're ''all'' {{Villain Song}}s.
** In TomSmith's Musical ''TheLastHeroOnEarth'' there's both "[[MadScientist Mad Scientists United]]" and "The Sinister Cavortings of Sir Wilfred P. Hufflebaggins III (There's a reason why of him you never have heard.)
* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s "When You're Evil" fits this rather well while being generic enough to work for most any villain. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZBSDzimfq8 Here's]] a video made using various Disney villains. See the Cartoons sections below for his other works.
** A few others are "BRAINS!", "Almost Human" (a villain song for [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]], no less), "Ex Lover's Lover" and "Dead Girls".
* Janeen Brady's ''Standing Tall'' series - 12 tapes highlighting 12 virtues - includes the tape ''Gratitude'', in which the most enjoyable song is the Rabbit's VillainSong close to the beginning. Of course, the song itself is {{Anvilicious}}, and the guy learns his lesson by the end and pulls a HeelFaceTurn, but hey:
-->''I never say thank you, I never intend''\\
''Nobody likes me - but who needs a friend?''\\
''I never say thank you, don't even know how''\\
''And it's too late to change that now!''
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny7NZPfl0l4&feature=related "Mordred's Lullaby"]] by Heather Dale is about [[KingArthur Morgause]] singing a prophecy to her son about how he is going to be used to bring about King Arthur's destruction -- and die in the process.
** The song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-74MSONOf_E "Medusa"]] by Heather Dale may also be qualified as this. It is mostly about being yourself in the face of others, through the PointOfView of [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Medusa]]. "My garden's full of pretty men who couldn't stay away."
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84xZYSQRhQ4&feature=related "Joan"]], also by Heather Dale, can qualify depending on how you look at it. "I kill without consequence", after all.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMjMvrKbrYA "Crashing Down"]] is officially about Mordred convincing his men to rebel against King Arthur.
* Music/IronSavior has a few songs exemplifying this, notably [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgiomDEzyl0 "Protect the Law"]], by the titular starship, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsQY3duvMcc&feature=related "Protector"]], about the now-quite-deranged creator of said titular starship. "Outcast in the void, now I'm stronger than before / Landed to retake the crown, your conqueror comes ashore!" The villain gets the best lines indeed.
* Ra's song ''Parole'', is about the P.O.V. character leaving prison to pursue what is presumably an ex who is the reason he was put away to begin with. The lines include, "I called your mom and she told me/That you're afraid of me," and "I won't be disregarded/I won't be turned away/We'll finish up what you started/You're gonna pay today."
* Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" is about ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* [[http://www.jonathancoulton.com Jonathan Coulton]] ''loves'' this trope. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV3LP7P_8a4 "Skullcrusher Mountain"]] (sung by a generic supervillain) may be the best example, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjcH2UmK1uo# "Re: Your Brains"]] ([[ZombieApocalypse zombies]]), [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGNHWrIPHu8 "I Crush Everything"]] (some sort of [[CombatTentacles kraken]]), [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbClSmM-dVc "The Future Soon"]] (somebody who hopes to grow up to be a [[HollywoodCyborg cyborg]] [[RobotWar supervillain]]), and of course [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI "Still Alive"]] (the evil [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] from VideoGame/{{Portal}}) all qualify.
** The kraken is evil? He's more sympathetic, like the vampire in "Blue Sunny Day". "Skullcrusher Mountain" is really a VillainLoveSong... but the other ones, definitely. Also, don't forget "I'm a Mason Now" - while not inherently villainous, it's certainly vengeful and gloating.
** The villainy of the kid from "The Future Soon" is also debatable - he announces his intentions to end world hunger, but then soon starts talking about how his robots are probably going to start a war on Earth and he'll end up kidnapping the girl he has a crush on when she rejects him. It's possible that the latter parts are just the painful reality that he'll always be a loser intruding on his otherwise nice fantasy.
* "Live" by Paul and Storm is all about a mad scientist's desire to create an undead bride. Though it's arguably the villagers who are more villainous as they burst in and kill him as he and his bride finally get to be together.
** It's worth noting that Paul and Storm wrote this song as a parody of Jonathan Coulton's songs in the same vein. His response was to write a song parodying their music, called "Big Dick Farts a Polka".
* "Make Me Smile", sung by a psychotic anthropomorphic ferret definitely counts. It's a cheerful, jaunty tune that features holocaust denial, a pro eugenics attitude, molestation, murder and cannibalism. It's absolutely hilarious.
* {{Lordi}}'s ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLSE0S0nrPA Blood Red Sandman]]'' falls under here.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4dzUh2hOkg Beelzeboss]]'' by Tenacious D (featuring Dave Grohl from The Foo Fighters as Satan). See also the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6--17I9A17E Lion King version]], just for giggles.
** This also doubles as an IWantSong for Satan.
* "Trouble" by ElvisPresley kind of counts.
* {{Ayreon}}'s ''The Human Equation'' has Day 16: Loser, which is basically the protagonist imagining his father (named Father, for simplicity's sake) showing up to gloat about how much of a failure the protagonist is, throwing various insults at him and claiming that even though he's constantly sued by his exes and half his kids are in jail, he ''still'' always comes out on top. It doesn't fit the formula perfectly, but it certainly gets the over the top gloating tone perfectly.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBBvBY6q2Nw Ignorance is Bliss]]'' by Jellyfish is sung from the perspective of [[SuperMarioBros Bowser]].
* "Behind Blue Eyes" by Music/TheWho is a lament from the perspective of an ([[AntiVillain anti-]]) villainous character, and was intended to be the theme song for the antagonist in a Rock Opera planned by Pete Townsend.
* DoctorSteel is the embodiment of this trope. Almost every song he produces is from the viewpoint of WellIntentionedExtremist MadScientist Dr. Steel. Particularly "Back and Forth" which is designed as hypnotic propaganda, and "Ode to Revenge" in which he laments the state of society, and calls up his legion of followers [[FanNickname (Toy Soldiers)]] to "burn it all down".
* Music/AliceCooper's songs are kind of like this, especially ''Black Widow'' and ''Devil's Food''.
** Of particular note is "Nothing's Free" which serves as the villain song for The Showman of his concept album "The Last Temptation" and the NeilGaiman penned comic of the same name.
* The metal band Sabaton, who have a lot of songs about historical battles, has done a few that are clearly done from the perspective of the side they wouldn't support. The most obvious examples are [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aebOM8M_jtc Stalingrad]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wik-Xv9uD7I We Burn]] (the latter is about the Yugoslavian Civil War).
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULSKZ7IP930 The Rake's Song]]'' from The Decemberists' Rock Opera "The Hazards of Love" is sung by an unrepentant murderer who [[OffingTheOffspring killed his three children.]] The [[MyBelovedSmother jealous forest queen's]] song "The Queen's Rebuke" as well as the Rake's lines in "Margaret in Captivity" may also count, though it's his solo song that really stands out.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiHr7qLxOvU Supervillain]] by Powerman 5000.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0yc9tGBtf4 "Don't Mess With Me"]] by Temposhark.
* "Sympathy for the Devil" by Music/TheRollingStones. As you can expect, it takes on a SympatheticPOV.
* "Iron Man" by Music/BlackSabbath is about a man who becomes unable to speak and then revenges mankind because of this, killing everyone. In fact, Black Sabbath only used the name "Iron Man" because the song is about a villain; otherwise they would have been sued by Marvel Comics.
* "Police Truck" by the Music/DeadKennedys
* The song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfDVg6fs71I "Un Mauvais Dieu"]] ("A Bad God") from French Hip-Hop group ''Manau'' tells in it's intro the story an evil deity trapped below the earth by the druids, foretold to return at the dawn of the year 2000. The actual song is the aforementioned evil god bragging about how dark and sinful he is, and how he will bring hatred and suffering to the Earth once he is free.
* Music/TheProtomen have given one to their version of Dr. Wily with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBcDoZnN8ac "The Hounds"]]. He spends half the song ''gloating'' about framing Dr. Light for ''murder''. For something that seems to depict just how much of a sociopath Wily is, it's an absolute EarWorm with a tune that one can dance to.
** It also explains part one of his totalitarian state, which is "a giant screen in the middle of town everyone can see and hear, constantly barraging the populace with misinformation and propaganda." So basically, you standard dictatorship, but more high tech.
* TheyMightBeGiants like this trope. For example, there's "Kiss Me, Son of God", sung from the perspective of a CorruptCorporateExecutive VillainWithGoodPublicity:
-->"I built a little empire out of\\
Some crazy garbage called the blood of the\\
Exploited working class\\
But they've overcome their shyness,\\
Now they're calling me 'Your Highness'\\
And the world screams,\\
'Kiss me, Son of God!'"
** A few more examples: "Reprehensible", "Hall Of Heads" (commonly interpreted to be about Princess Mombi (or Princess Langwidere from the book version) of ReturnToOz), "No One Knows My Plan and "I'm Your Boyfriend Now" (named after a [[NightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kreuger]] line).
* Music/DreamTheater's "Home" from their brilliant album "Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes from a Memory" follows this trope. The song contains a section where it is revealed through soliloquy that [[spoiler: the character named "the Miracle" is actually in love with his brother's girlfriend and is sleeping with her. He laments that despite the shame he feels, he will find a way to tear them apart so that he can have Victoria. In fact, the whole song is about the two brother's different sins while the narrator of the whole story remains oblivious to the truth]]. Its a powerful song.
* Symphony X has an entire album of these with their latest release, Paradise Lost, unsurprising as most of the songs are from the point of view of Lucifer. Almost every single song is a Villain Song from Lucifer, with the only exception being the opening and 'The Sacrifice'.
* Pain of Salvation's 2004 concept album "Be" features a few of these, most notably "''Dea Pecuniae''", in which the villainous character sings about how he got rich through cut-throat duplicity, before it becomes a duet between him and the very voice of his dark desires.
* Many Finntroll songs are Villain songs, given that they're mostly about trolls eating people, sung from the point of view of the trolls.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul-ZUQTdT1Q I Wanna Be Evil]]'' by Eartha Kitt is about a GirlNextDoor who is convinced that EvilIsSexy and wants to set aside her frills and become a FemmeFatale.
* ''Mister Bad Example'' by Warren Zevon.
-->I'm proud to be a glutton, and I don't have time for sloth\\
I'm greedy, and I'm angry, and I don't care who I cross\\
I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in the dirt\\
I like to have a good time, and I don't care who gets hurt\\
I'm Mr. Bad Example, take a look at me\\
I'll live to be a hundred, and go down in infamy
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhEsuwp6g8 Mirdautas Vras]]'' by {{Summoning}}, a villainous {{fanfare}} that provides the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome crowning track]] of their ''Oath Bound'' album, and written in BlackSpeech no less. Translated excerpt:
-->Northwards ride on [[EvilArmy a thousand orcs]],\\
On [[BigBadassWolf wolves]] with giant bloody fangs;\\
They take the storm and power\\
Of {{Mordor}} through the world!\\
Fire and ice - the Nazgul fly!\\
It is a good day to kill!\\
[[RedSkyTakeWarning Painted red is earth and sky]] -\\
Even [[GoD Manwe]] shall bow down!
* In the continuity of CoheedAndCambria's [[ConceptAlbum concept albums]], Al the Killer's IWantSong triple feature, The Velorium Camper. Most notably [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCqNcl-HAzw The Velorium Camper I:Faint of Hearts]]
** From Good Apollo vol. I, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk33WaLEff0 The Willing Well III: The Telling Truth]] is a surprisingly catchy villain song.
*** Actually, it's technically an AntiHero song, primarily sung by the Writer, but the [[DarkReprise reprise]] of [[ContinuityNod Everything Evil]] within it is believed to be sung by [[TheDragon General Dettenwolf.]]
** And from ''Second Stage Turbine Blade'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Us4BKf4gI Godsend Conspirator]], sung by [[BigBad Wihelm Ryan.]]
* Arguably,[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGitBIedvbY I Can't Decide]] by the Scissor Sisters, since it is Foe Yay in song form.
* "Villain Song" by Kirby Krackle.
** Despite the title, the song is actually about a villain announcing retirement as opposed to about how he's going to kill everything. [[spoiler: Or at least, it is until the final verse.]]
* The punk/cabaret act [[TheWorldInfernoFriendshipSociety World/Inferno Friendship Society]] have "Fiend in Wien", a raucous villain song from the perspective of Hitler about his awful youth and how he came to see the world as shit. Considering the band's main hero is PeterLorre and they're a bunch of anarchists, it's more sarcastic than anything else.
** "Lust for Timing" from ''The True Story of the Bridgewater Astral League'' is sung by the League's leader, Jon Gilch, as he gloats over his [[NothingCanStopUsNow luck and apparent invincibility]] while heading a crime syndicate. The previous song, "Incendiarism", is sung by the League as a whole while in the process of joyfully stealing cars with the foolproof alibi of being asleep at the time. However, the musical casts the BWAL members sympathetically rather than as hardened criminals, especially in the second act.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFOpL2eTlKc Chainsaw Charlie (Murders in the New Morgue)]] by W.A.S.P., which is sung from the perspective of a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporate Executive]].
* What's the only way {{Gorillaz}} could top making Mos Def their band's BigBad, you ask? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNUzz898tAs SWEEPSTAKES! You're a winner!]] That's how. Not to mention their previous song "Murdoc Is God".
* Cowboy music group ''Riders in the Sky'' do a song called ''Someone's got to do it!'' in which a pair of b-movie villains sing about how the story needs then to work.
* {{Kamelot}}'s ''Epica'' has "Descent of the Archangel", in which Ariel, the album's protagonist, is about to kill himself in despair over the fact that his search for the meaning of life went fruitless for years when Mephisto approaches him and [[DealWithTheDevil offers him the resources to continue his search in exchange for his soul]].
** And then there's "March of Mephisto" from ''The Black Halo'' which is essentially gloating over [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Helena's]] death and how this will aid Mephisto's plan to win Ariel's soul and re-enter heaven.
* Pick a {{GWAR}} song. Chances are good that it's probably one of these, either about [[VillainProtagonist the band]] or one of their many enemies.
* Music/LupeFiasco's got quite a few for the characters he created in his rap songs. Here's three:
** The Cool
** The Coolest
*** The Die, which actually is about the villain's death.
* You're kidding...you posted about the friggin' HERO of the story compared to The Game!
** Let Me Put You On Game is one of the most evil rap songs you will ever here, starting with an evil laugh and ending with a gunshot.
*** When read, the first line doesn't sound too bad. "Don't you know that I run this place? That I've begun this race? Must I rerun this pace? I'm the reason it's become this way, and their love for it is the reason I have become this praised...
**** But then the rest plays out: "They...love my darkness...I'll make 'em heartless...and in return, they have become my martyrs..."
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR2TLxroHhw Career of Evil]]" by Music/BlueOysterCult has it right there in the title.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-pQ-lv-N9M "House Party at Arkham Asylum"]] by TheGreatLukeSki is sung by TheJoker.
* MCFrontalot 's "Final Boss", which is sung from the perspective of, predictably enough, the final boss.
* {{Savatage}} likes to make use of this trope on their RockOpera albums.
** ''StreetsARockOpera'' has the song "Agony and Ecstasy", which is also part BSODSong. The villain portion represents the knowledge that drugs destroyed DT once, cannot do anything to help him, but he still longs for them.
** ''DeadWinterDead'' has two: "I Am" is human selfishness and greed turning people against each other, "Doesn't Matter Anyway" is for the [[ArmsDealer Arms Dealers]] getting rich off the war and don't give a damn about ideology or politics of their buyers.
** ''TheWakeOfMagellan'' has "Complaint in the System", the Irish mobsters and drug dealers have created a status quo that benefits them and will protect it.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB2BKdgSW4U Club Villain]]'', by Your Favorite Martian.
* Bigg Milt's newest rap "what's going on" is a rather strange version of this trope, instead of being sung from the point of view of a actual person, it's actually sung from the point of the drug dope, claiming he is the real terror in the world and even says [[GodIsEvil god is evil]] the wrote about him in the Bible.
* DavidBowie's "Running Gun Blues" is sung by a soldier who no longer has a war to fight, but (being AxCrazy) decides to just keep killing people. As the song begins, he's "cut twenty-three down since Friday".
* TheMegas have crafted many a VillainSong for the various and sundry [[VideoGame/MegaMan Robot Masters]], as well as one for Doctor Wily himself.
* [[GodIsEvil God Himself]] gets in on the action in ''Faust'' by RandyNewman, singing "How Great Our Lord", with a wonderfully slimy performance by JamesTaylor. Newman himself sings the Devil's parts; the most straightforward Villain Song from him is probably "Can't Keep A Good Man Down", where he plots to return to Heaven by winning a (heavily stacked) wager with God.
* The Toadies' "Possum Kingdom", sung by a serial killer to his victim.
* Music/BlindGuardian's "Ride Into Obsession" is an introduction to the two opposing main characters of the WheelOfTime series... from the viewpoint of the villain of course! Keep in mind, the quoted section is merely the opening.
-->"Come, I'll show you the end.\\
You're damned, 'cause no-one can defy me!\\
Just watch these maddened creatures,\\
Like you they all once reached out,\\
A war to win,\\
But I'm gonna burn their vision down!"
** There's also "Under the Ice", from the POV of [[TrojanWar Queen Klymnestra]]. Not to mention all of their songs from the POV of [[TheSimarillion Morgoth]] and [[TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]].
* "Skeletons on Parade" by {{Ludo}} counts, going from lighthearted parody to creepy in the span of about a minute.
* IcedEarth has The Dark Saga, based on {{Spawn}}, with three - ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqFYIpe82zw The Last Laugh]]'' by [[BigBad Male]][[DealWithTheDevil bolgia]], ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcgn0Qo9fe4&feature=related Violate]]'' by [[MonsterClown Violator]], and ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is7we-6N7g4&feature=related The Hunter]]'' by [[WellIntentionedExtremist Angela]] pre-HeelFaceTurn. There's also ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqGf2WgixWA&feature=related Vengeance is Mine]]'', which is more like a TheVillainSucksSong that Spawn sings to [[BadHumorTruck Billy Kincaid]], but [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the measures he takes]] are gruesome.
* Pretty much any song written by Wednesday 13, be it with the Murderdolls, Bourbon Crow, Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13, Gunfire 76, or his self-named band. Some gems include:
** "Love at First Fright," a love song toward Reagan from ''TheExorcist'', sung from the point of view of the demon possessing her.
** "A Dead Body," an outlaw country song about being too drunk to dig a shallow grave at the roadside.
** "All-American Massacre." ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''Craig'' by Stephen Lynch, about Jesus' JerkJock brother Craig Christ who spends his time partying it up unlike his pussy brother and his gay little buddies.
-->[[TheUnfavorite Jesus was our mothers fave,]]\\
All her love to him she gave.\\
But there's no sibling rivalry,\\
When he's nailed to that tree...\\
