| 1 | ->'''Brian:''' Wow, a song named after a girl. There aren't a million of those already.\ |
| 2 | '''Stewie:''' [[NameOne Name twenty]].\ |
| 3 | '''Brian:''' [[Music/{{Toto}} Rosanna]], [[Music/ThePolice Roxanne]], [[Music/TheBeatles Mich]][[Music/GunsNRoses elle]], [[Music/ElvisCostello Alison]], [[Music/ThinLizzy Sarah]], [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Angie]], [[Music/LookingGlass Brandy]][[note]]Full title "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"[[/note]], [[Music/BarryManilow Mandy]], [[Music/VanMorrison Glo]][[Music/LauraBranigan ria]], [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Cecilia]], [[Music/RodStewart Maggie May]], [[Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand Jessica]], [[Music/FrankSinatra Nancy]], [[Music/TheBeachBoys Barbara Ann]], [[Music/MichaelJackson Billie Jean]], [[Music/EricClapton Layla]], [[Music/TheKinks Lola]], [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Polly]], [[Music/MyChemicalRomance Helena]], [[Music/JenniferLopez Jenny from the Block.]]\ |
| 4 | '''Stewie:''' [[MovingTheGoalposts Name six more]].\ |
| 5 | '''Brian:''' [[Music/FrankieValliAndTheFourSeasons Sherry]], [[Music/ScissorSisters Laura]], [[Music/TheBeachBoys Wendy]], [[Music/{{Blondie|Band}} Ma]][[Theatre/WestSideStory ria]], [[Music/BuddyHolly Peggy Sue]], [[Music/CabCalloway Minnie the Moocher]].\ |
| 6 | '''Stewie:''' [[RuleOfThree Name five more]].\ |
| 7 | '''Brian:''' [[Music/TheCufflinks Tracy]], [[Music/{{Oliver}} Jean]], [[Music/BarenakedLadies Ja]][[Music/JeffersonStarship ne]], [[Series/EurovisionSongContest Mary Ann]], [[Music/TheBeatles Eleanor Rigby]].\ |
| 8 | '''Stewie:''' ([[RageQuit throws down guitar]]) Go fuck yourself. |
| 9 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', "Ocean’s Three and a Half" |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Songs named after girls, usually the LoveInterest of the male singer. This trope [[UndeadHorseTrope is one that just keeps coming back]], but for some reason female singers tend to not name songs specifically after guys. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Not to be confused with OneWomanWail. For songs about men, see OneManSong. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | When the One Woman in question is a HistoricalDomainCharacter, this may be a HistoricalBiographySong. |
| 17 | ---- |
| 18 | |
| 19 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 20 | |
| 21 | !!Standard Examples: |
| 22 | |
| 23 | [[folder:Alternative Dance]] |
| 24 | * Music/DepecheMode: |
| 25 | ** "Jezebel" |
| 26 | ** "Lillian" |
| 27 | * Music/BigElectricCat: |
| 28 | ** "Christabel" |
| 29 | ** "Rebecca" |
| 30 | * "Sylvie" - Music/SaintEtienne |
| 31 | * "Cathy" - Hubert Kah |
| 32 | * "Cecilia" - Music/AceOfBase (no relation to the Music/SimonAndGarfunkel song) |
| 33 | * "Sophia" - Parallels |
| 34 | [[/folder]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:Alternative Hip Hop]] |
| 37 | * "Bonita Applebaum" - Music/ATribeCalledQuest |
| 38 | * "[[Music/LaurynHill Ms. Hill]]" - Talib Kweli (not about a love interest, this one is a tribute to Lauryn Hill). |
| 39 | * "Ms. Jackson" - Music/OutKast |
| 40 | [[/folder]] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | [[folder:Alternative Rock]] |
| 43 | * "Laura" - Music/ScissorSisters' pop number opening their first full album. Also the name of a song by Billy Joel. |
| 44 | ** Also, "Mary". |
| 45 | * "Mary Jane" - Music/AlanisMorissette |
| 46 | * "Valerie" - The Zutons (covered - Mark Ronson, of course). Also the name of a song by Steve Winwood. |
| 47 | * "Arabella" - Music/ArcticMonkeys |
| 48 | * "Ramona" - Beck (From ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'') |
| 49 | * "Isobel" - Music/{{Bjork}} |
| 50 | * "Emaline" - Ben Folds Five |
| 51 | ** Also "Julianne," "Kate," "Alice Childress," and "Gracie." |
| 52 | *** "Gracie" is written (and named) for Folds' daughter. |
| 53 | *** Also Ben Folds' (no longer Five) "Saskia Hamilton" and "Kylie from Connecticut" |
| 54 | * "Caroline" and "Rosalie" - Concrete Blonde |
| 55 | * "Music/{{Grace}}" - Music/JeffBuckley |
| 56 | * "Magdalena", "Brena", and "Judith" - Music/APerfectCircle |
| 57 | * "Jacqueline" - Music/FranzFerdinand |
| 58 | * "Tautou" - Music/BrandNew |
| 59 | * "Mary", "Talula", "Ophelia", "Marianne" and "Josephine" -Music/ToriAmos |
| 60 | * "Lucy" - Music/{{Skillet}} |
| 61 | * "Djohariah", "Tonya Harding" - Music/SufjanStevens |
| 62 | * "Ruby [[note]]Ruby Ruby Rubaaaaaaaay![[/note]] " -The Music/KaiserChiefs |
| 63 | * "Adrienne" - Music/TheCalling |
| 64 | * "Alison" - Music/{{Slowdive}} |
| 65 | * "Claudia Lewis" - Music/{{M83}} |
| 66 | * "Alice", "Marian (Version)" and "Lucretia My Reflection" - Music/TheSistersOfMercy |
| 67 | * "Christine" - Music/SiouxsieAndTheBanshees, especially odd due to the song being sung by a woman. |
| 68 | * "Charlotte Sometimes" and "A Letter To Elise" - Music/{{The Cure|Band}} |
| 69 | * "Caroline" and "Louise" from Music/TheVelvetUnderground's much-maligned album ''[[Music/{{Squeeze1973}} Squeeze]]'' |
| 70 | * "I Love You Suzanne" from Music/LouReed's solo album ''Music/NewSensations'' |
| 71 | * "Ana Ng" and "Ondine" - Music/TheyMightBeGiants |
| 72 | * "Isabel" - Music/EgoLikeness |
| 73 | * "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" - Music/TheKillers |
| 74 | * "Angelene", "My Beautiful Leah", "A Perfect Day Elise", "Catherine", and "Joy" - Music/PJHarvey (All from one [[Music/IsThisDesire album]]) |
| 75 | [[/folder]] |
| 76 | |
| 77 | [[folder:Ambient]] |
| 78 | * ''Tales of Us'' by Music/{{Goldfrapp}} is an entire hard-to-categorise album of down-tempo single-person songs and seven of them are [[OneWomanSong One Woman Songs]]: "Jo", "Annabel", "Drew", "Ulla", "Thea", "Simone" and "Laurel". |
| 79 | [[/folder]] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | [[folder:Big Band]] |
| 82 | * "I'll Take Tallulah" - Tommy Dorsey and Music/FrankSinatra. |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | [[folder:Blues]] |
| 86 | * "Maissie" - Syd Barrett |
| 87 | [[/folder]] |
| 88 | |
| 89 | [[folder:Blues-Rock]] |
| 90 | * "Layla" - Riff-driven Music/DerekAndTheDominos SignatureSong. |
| 91 | * "Maggie M'Gill" - Music/TheDoors |
| 92 | [[/folder]] |
| 93 | |
| 94 | [[folder:Chanson]] |
| 95 | * "Natahlie" - Gilbert Bécaud. |
| 96 | * "Caroline, Caroline" - Creator/{{Bourvil}}. |
| 97 | * "Les Sabots d'Hélène" - Music/GeorgesBrassens. |
| 98 | * "Louise" - Creator/MauriceChevalier. |
| 99 | * "Félicie aussi", "Pour Virginie", "Francine" - Creator/{{Fernandel}}. |
| 100 | * "Bélinda" - Music/ClaudeFrancois. |
| 101 | * "Elisa" - Music/SergeGainsbourg. |
| 102 | * "Gabrielle", "Marie" and "Laura" - Creator/JohnnyHallyday. "Laura" is named after his daughter. |
| 103 | * "Ophélie", "Priscilla" - Music/JadWio. |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:Classical]] |
| 107 | * Swedish-language lied "Rose-Marie" by Zachris Topelius and Karl Collan. It's about Rose-Marie being pretty and seventeen. |
| 108 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVW8tgGY_w Für Elise]]" by Music/LudwigVanBeethoven; an instrumental piano piece but well known by the name of the woman it's dedicated to. |
| 109 | [[/folder]] |
| 110 | |
| 111 | [[folder:Country]] |
| 112 | * "Molly", "Isabel" and "Annie's Song" - John Denver |
| 113 | * "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" -Johnny Darrell (CoveredUp by Music/KennyRogers) |
| 114 | ** Spawned an answer song "Billy, I've Got To Go To Town" by Geraldine Stevens |
| 115 | * "My Maria" - B.W. Stevenson (CoveredUp by Music/BrooksAndDunn) |
| 116 | * "Sweet Annie" - Music/ZacBrownBand |
| 117 | * "Adalida" - Music/GeorgeStrait |
| 118 | * Zig-zagged with Music/AlanJackson's "Dallas". The title refers to both the city and a girl named Dallas, with the narrator singing that "I wish Dallas was in Tennessee". |
| 119 | * "Louise" - Music/DanielRomano |
| 120 | * "Amy's Song" by Brent Anderson, which samples "Amie" as seen below |
| 121 | * "Annabelle (Arkansas Is Callin' You)" by Hot Apple Pie |
| 122 | * "Arlene" by Marty Stuart |
| 123 | * "Kathleen" and "Loretta" - Music/TownesVanZandt |
| 124 | * "My Antonia" by Emmylou Harris and Dave Matthews |
| 125 | * "Valerie Leon" - Music/DanielRomano |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:Country Rock]] |
| 129 | * "Amie" - Pure Prairie League |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Dance]] |
| 133 | * "Angeline" - Groove Coverage |
| 134 | * The trance act Ayla and their self-titled song were named after a girl who was in the studio while lead producer DJ Tandu (Ingo Kunzi) was recording said song. It later received a SequelSong in the form of "Ayla Part II". |
| 135 | * "Boten Anna", "Camilla", "Elinor" - Basshunter |
| 136 | * "Charlene" - Missing Heart |
| 137 | * "Macarena" - Los Del Rio |
| 138 | * "Maria" - TKA (the chorus has a ShoutOut to the song of the same name from ''Theatre/WestSideStory'') |
| 139 | * "Stella" - FM Attack (dedicated to the artist's daughter) |
| 140 | * "Stella" - Jam & Spoon |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[folder:Dark Cabaret]] |
| 144 | * "Bernadette" - IAMX |
| 145 | * "Delilah" - The Dresden Dolls |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder:Folk]] |
| 149 | * "Suzanne" - Music/LeonardCohen |
| 150 | * "Barbara Allen" (Also "Barbarous Ellen", for her treatment of Jimmy Grove.) - traditional British; variants all over the English-speaking world. |
| 151 | * "To Ramona" - Music/BobDylan |
| 152 | * "For Emma" - Music/BonIver |
| 153 | * "Hazey Jane I" and "Hazey Jane II" - Music/NickDrake |
| 154 | * "Molly Malone" - an Irish traditional about a beautiful seafood-peddling girl who died and continued wandering the streets with her barrow as a ghost. |
| 155 | * "Peggy Gordon" - a Canadian song of unknown origin. |
| 156 | * "Flora" and "Polly Von" - Music/PeterPaulAndMary |
| 157 | * "Annmarie" - Music/AnaisMitchell. The singer pleads with the titular woman. |
| 158 | * "Marianne" - The Easy Riders |
| 159 | * "Aura Lee and "Lorena" - American Civil War ballads. |
| 160 | * "Lily Munro" - The adventures of a SweetPollyOliver. |
| 161 | [[/folder]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | [[folder:Folk Rock]] |
| 164 | * "Cecilia" - Music/SimonAndGarfunkel (She's breaking his heart, shaking his [[OverlyLongGag confidence daily]]; AND he's begging her please to come home) |
| 165 | ** And its updated version, "Oh Cecilia", by Music/TheVamps and Music/ShawnMendes. |
| 166 | ** "Mrs. Robinson", also by Simon and Garfunkel. |
| 167 | ** If you're feeling generous, "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her" ... though with that one if you don't know what the name is you would ''never'' guess it (there's no chorus ''per se'' and the name "Emily" never appears in the song itself at all, only in the title). |
| 168 | * "Sally Anne", "Penelope" and "Margarita" - Music/GreatBigSea. |
| 169 | * "Rosie" - Fairport Convention |
| 170 | * "Alison Gross" (a witch) - Steeleye Span |
| 171 | * "Hey Rose", "Genevieve", and "Viola" by Music/{{Girlyman}}, though only one was written by a man. |
| 172 | * "[[Music/JanisJoplin Janis]]" by Country Joe [=McDonald=]. |
| 173 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPlOQy4p9w Martina]]-Phranc, by a woman this instance. |
| 174 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWoKv2eZLo0&list=UU9PEibgWOqZ-1I1JdxRmr6g&index=2&feature=plcp "Polly"]] by Music/WalkOffTheEarth |
| 175 | * "Jenny" by Music/TheMountainGoats (an allusion to Music/PirateJenny). |
| 176 | * "Come On Eileen" - Music/DexysMidnightRunners |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Hard Rock]] |
| 180 | * "Beth" - Music/{{KISS}} (He hears her callin', but he can't come home right now) |
| 181 | * "Carrie" - Music/{{Europe}} |
| 182 | * Music/ThinLizzy have "Sweet Marie", "Sarah", and "Sarah": Both songs called "Sarah" were completely unrelated musically, but were about different relatives of Phil Lynott with that first name (the first was about his grandmother, the somewhat more well-known second was about his then-new-born daughter). There's also "Rosemarie", which they CoveredUp from Music/BobSeger. |
| 183 | * "My Michelle" - Music/GunsNRoses |
| 184 | * "Theodora" and "Penelope Graves" - Dirt Poor Robins |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[folder:Indie Pop]] |
| 188 | * "Mary Jo" - Belle and Sebastian |
| 189 | * "Silvia" and "Julie" - Music/JensLekman. (He also has a Dear Friend Lisa.) |
| 190 | * "Hey There Delilah" - Music/PlainWhiteTs |
| 191 | * "Luna" - Ollie Wride |
| 192 | * "Delilah", "Grace", "[[Music/PattiSmith Patricia]]" - Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine |
| 193 | * "Miranda" - Music/NationOfLanguage |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:Indie Rock]] |
| 197 | * "Sylvia" - The Antlers |
| 198 | * "Alisa" - Music/CutCopy |
| 199 | * "Cath..." - Music/DeathCabForCutie |
| 200 | * "Geraldine" - Glasvegas |
| 201 | * "Celestine" - Kirsty Mac Coll |
| 202 | * "Girl Called Alex" - Music/KurtVile |
| 203 | * "Silvia" and "Billie Holliday" - Miike Snow |
| 204 | * "Jezebel" - Two Hours Traffic |
| 205 | * "Dr. Suzanne Mattox [=PhD=]" and "Patricia the Stripper" - The Wombats |
| 206 | * "Josephine" and "Caroline" by Brandi Carlile |
| 207 | * "Irene" - Pinguini Tattici Nucleari |
| 208 | * Pick ONE post-"Ho Hey" hit for The Lumineers. "Ophelia", "Gloria", "Angela", "Cleopatra"...you get it. |
| 209 | * "Jenny", "Anna Sun", "Lisa Baby", "Candycane Jane" - Music/WalktheMoon |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder:J-pop]] |
| 213 | * "Itoshi No [[WesternAnimation/InsideOut Riley]]" - DREAMS COME TRUE |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Jazz]] |
| 217 | * "Minnie the Moocher" - Music/CabCalloway scat-heavy jazz hit. |
| 218 | * 'Naima" - Music/JohnColtrane, from his album ''Music/GiantSteps''. |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | [[folder:Jazz Rock]] |
| 222 | * "Emmie" by Music/LauraNyro. |
| 223 | * "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", "Peg", and "Josie" by Music/SteelyDan. |
| 224 | [[/folder]] |
| 225 | |
| 226 | [[folder:Metal]] |
| 227 | * "audrey", "JESSICA", and (debatably) "AMBER" - Music/DirEnGrey |
| 228 | * "Tallulah" - Music/SonataArctica |
| 229 | * "Eva" by Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} is a melancholy ballad about a lonely girl who lives in her imagination. |
| 230 | * "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)" from ''Music/LedZeppelinII'' by Music/LedZeppelin. |
| 231 | * "Tomyris" by Music/ASoundOfThunder |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:Musical]] |
| 235 | * "Esther" from ''Two's Company'' (1952). |
| 236 | * "Gigi" from ''Film/{{Gigi}}.'' |
| 237 | * "Ilona" from ''Theatre/SheLovesMe.'' |
| 238 | * "Johanna" and its reprise from ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'': the young sailor addresses beautiful Johanna and tells her he's going to take her away. |
| 239 | * "Margot" from ''Theatre/TheDesertSong''. |
| 240 | * "Maria" from ''Theatre/WestSideStory''. |
| 241 | * "Marian the Librarian" from ''Theatre/TheMusicMan''. The full title [[NonAppearingTitle never literally appears in the song]], but its [[SublimeRhyme rhyme]] occurs frequently. |
| 242 | * "Marianne" from ''The New Moon'' (1928). This replaced a CutSong of the same name. |
| 243 | * "Melinda" from ''Theatre/OnAClearDayYouCanSeeForever''. |
| 244 | * "Mimi" from ''Film/LoveMeTonight''--an odd one, since it's sung to/about a character named [[TheDanza Jeanette]]. The name may be a reference to ''Theatre/LaBoheme.'' |
| 245 | * "My Darlin' Eileen" from ''Theatre/WonderfulTown''. |
| 246 | * "Rosabella" from ''Theatre/TheMostHappyFella''. (It's not her real name.) |
| 247 | * "Rose-Marie" from ''Good Morning Dearie'' (1921). |
| 248 | * "Rose-Marie" from ''Rose-Marie'' (1924). Lampshaded in the 1936 film version, where Sgt. Bruce (Nelson Eddy) tells Marie he's sung the same song with other girls' names. |
| 249 | * "Rosemary" from ''Theatre/HowToSucceedInBusinessWithoutReallyTrying''. When reprised by Rosemary, she sings the title motif as "J. Pierpont." |
| 250 | * "Rosie" from ''Theatre/ByeByeBirdie''. |
| 251 | * "Roxie" from ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}''. |
| 252 | * "Song of Love" from ''Theatre/OnceUponAMattress'', despite repeating a girl's name over and over in the lyrics, has a generic title to avoid spoiling the rather unusual name: [[spoiler:Fred]]. |
| 253 | * "Talia" from ''Theatre/RideTheCyclone''. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:New Wave]] |
| 257 | * "Darlene" - Music/{{Erasure}} (interesting in that it is sung as if to a love interest, but the singer is a gay male) |
| 258 | * "Josee" - Music/TransX |
| 259 | * "Does Caroline Know?" - Music/TalkTalk |
| 260 | * "Louise" - Music/TheHumanLeague |
| 261 | * "Maria" - Music/{{Blondie|Band}} |
| 262 | [[/folder]] |
| 263 | |
| 264 | [[folder:Pop]] |
| 265 | * "Maggie May" by Rod Stewart, about a possessive girlfriend. |
| 266 | * Music/MichaelJackson: |
| 267 | ** "Billie Jean" - Music/MichaelJackson's signature song, from ''Music/{{Thriller}}''. It's about how the titular Billie Jean has been going around telling everyone she and the narrator are lovers, and that her child is his. |
| 268 | ** Also, "Dirty Diana," from the ''Music/{{Bad}}'' album. |
| 269 | * "Jenny from the Block" - Jennifer Lopez's RockstarSong |
| 270 | * "Kitty" - Written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn, recorded by Racey and CoveredUp by Toni Basil as "Mickey". |
| 271 | * "Eve" and "Julia" - Chantal Kreviazuk. |
| 272 | * Music/TheFourSeasons: |
| 273 | ** "Sherry" |
| 274 | ** "Ronnie" |
| 275 | ** "Dawn" |
| 276 | ** "Marlena". |
| 277 | * "Brandy" - Looking Glass (She's a fine girl. [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 What a good wife she would be.]]) |
| 278 | * "Diana" by Paul Anka: "[[PrecociousCrush I'm so young and you're so old, this, Diana, I've been told.]]" |
| 279 | * "[[https://youtu.be/Gq4ychrRkQA Rosanna]]" by Music/{{Toto}}, sung about the keyboarist's girlfriend at the time, Creator/RosannaArquette. |
| 280 | ** Less famous ones from various albums include "Angela", "Manuela Run", "Lorraine", "Goodbye Elenore", "Carmen", "Holyanna", "Lea", "Anna", "Mushanga", "Pamela", "Mrs. Johnson", "Miss Sun", "Melanie", and "Chelsea" |
| 281 | * "[[https://youtu.be/mak-aWAcXYM Alison]]" - Jordy (with both the singer and the [[RogerRabbitEffect cartoon girl]] being children). |
| 282 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzz-iUQbkb0 Célimène]]" - David Martial. |
| 283 | * "Oh! Carol" - Music/NeilSedaka |
| 284 | * "Windy" - Ruthann Friedman, sung by The Association |
| 285 | * "Angie" - Music/CobraStarship |
| 286 | * "Carrie Ann" - Music/TheHollies |
| 287 | * "Jean" - Music/{{Oliver}} |
| 288 | ** Also "Angelica", "Anna", and "The Picture of Kathleen Dunne" |
| 289 | * French singer Najoua Belyzel is particuarly fond of these songs, as she has a female example and THREE male examples. The female example is "Stella" and the male examples are "Gabriel", "Denis" and "Jérémie". |
| 290 | * "From Sarah With Love" - German singer Sarah Connor. |
| 291 | * "I've Got A Crush On Music/HilaryDuff" - Australian singer Scott Cain. |
| 292 | * "Racey Lacey" - Music/GirlsAloud |
| 293 | * "Anita" - Music/DoeMaar |
| 294 | * "Nachtzuster ("Night Nurse") - Music/DoeMaar from their album ''Music/VirusAlbum''. |
| 295 | * "Black Lady" from Music/DonnaSummer's ''Music/IRememberYesterday''. |
| 296 | * "Diana" and "Olivia" from Music/OneDirection |
| 297 | * "Eloise" - Barry Ryan |
| 298 | * "Yoshimé (and the Pink Robots)" - The Flaming Lips |
| 299 | * "Chloe (You're the One I Want" by Emblem3 |
| 300 | * "Juliet" - The Four Pennies |
| 301 | * "Caldonia" - Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five |
| 302 | * "Delilah" - Music/TomJones |
| 303 | * "Ginny Come Lately" - Brian Hyland |
| 304 | * "Diane" - The Bachelors |
| 305 | * "Bernadette" - Music/FourTops |
| 306 | * "Bernadine" - Pat Boone |
| 307 | * "Candida" - Tony Orlando & Dawn |
| 308 | * "Lady In Black" - Bad Boys Blue |
| 309 | [[/folder]] |
| 310 | |
| 311 | [[folder:Pop Punk]] |
| 312 | * Music/GreenDay: |
| 313 | ** "Haushinka" |
| 314 | ** "Maria" |
| 315 | ** "Amy" |
| 316 | ** "Ashley" |
| 317 | ** "Amanda" |
| 318 | * "Josie" - Music/Blink182 |
| 319 | * "Jasey Rae" - All Time Low |
| 320 | * "Dakota" - A Rocket to the Moon |
| 321 | * "Sarah Smiles" - Music/PanicAtTheDisco |
| 322 | [[/folder]] |
| 323 | |
| 324 | [[folder:Pop Rock]] |
| 325 | * "Gloria" - Wise-ass Laura Brannigan disco hit. |
| 326 | ** [[Music/{{Them}} GLOOOOOOOORIA! G-L-O-R-I-A!]] [[EpicRiff (insert guitar riff here)]] |
| 327 | * "Valleri" - Music/TheMonkees |
| 328 | ** "Mary, Mary" |
| 329 | * "Elenore" - The Turtles |
| 330 | * "Lisa" - Dead Flowers |
| 331 | * "Jane" - Music/BarenakedLadies |
| 332 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGll0KmTW2w Alia]]" - Music/RozaRymbaeva. This song is a {{Dedication}} to a [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Great Patriotic War]] sniper. |
| 333 | * "Jessica" - Elliot Minor, about [[Creator/JessicaAlba Miss Alba]]. |
| 334 | * "Deborah" who 'looks like a zeb-er-a' - Marc 'lyrical genius' Bolan. |
| 335 | * Music/TheEraserheads: In their first album, Music/{{Ultraelectromagneticpop}}: |
| 336 | ** "Toyang" |
| 337 | ** "Ligaya" |
| 338 | ** "Shirley" |
| 339 | * "Niina" by Music/{{PMMP}} subverts: in the end parts the narrator starts confusing her memories of Niina with a number of other women such as Pauliina, Noora, and Aurora. |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:Post-Hardcore]] |
| 343 | * "Ashley" - Escape the Fate |
| 344 | * "Emily" - From First To Last |
| 345 | [[/folder]] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | [[folder:Post-Punk]] |
| 348 | * "Alice" and "Marian" - Music/TheSistersOfMercy |
| 349 | ** They also covered "Emma" by Hot Chocolate and "Jolene" by Dolly Parton. |
| 350 | * " "Medusa," "Louise," "Lorraine," "Evelyn," "Clementina," "Cynara," "Desdemona," [[AerithAndBob and]] "Michelle" - Music/ClanOfXymox |
| 351 | * "Anna" by Music/TheMenzingers, about narrator's faltering long-distance relationship with the titular Anna. |
| 352 | [[/folder]] |
| 353 | |
| 354 | [[folder:Power Pop]] |
| 355 | * "Denise" - Music/FountainsOfWayne |
| 356 | * "Jenny" - Music/TheClickFive |
| 357 | * Music/Waltham were apparently pretty fond of this trope, as four different songs on their self-titled album were named after women: |
| 358 | ** "Cheryl (Come And Take A Ride)" |
| 359 | ** "Joanne" |
| 360 | ** "Maria Simeone" |
| 361 | ** "Nicole" |
| 362 | [[/folder]] |
| 363 | |
| 364 | [[folder:R & B]] |
| 365 | * "Bernadette" - Four Tops (Some men spend their whole lives searching for what we had) |
| 366 | * "Charlene" - Anthony Hamilton |
| 367 | [[/folder]] |
| 368 | |
| 369 | [[folder:Rap]] |
| 370 | * "Michelle" and "Mari-Johanna" - by Mariska, a female artist. Even though the song explicitly refers to Mari-Johanna as a girl it can be easily taken to stand in for [[SubvertedTrope something other than an actual girl]]. |
| 371 | ** "Michelle" is an unusual entry on this list since it has the narrator longing for their crazy romance with Michelle -- but they acknowledge that their feelings are irrational, as their life is now good and a living hell with Michelle, an apparent narcissist and explicitly stated psychological and physical abuser. |
| 372 | ---> ''kun sä lähdit sen jälkeen en oo osannu luoda mitään''\ |
| 373 | ''aiheet pistit taskuun mulle ei jäänyt''\ |
| 374 | ''kuin mustelmat siitä illasta marraskuun''\ |
| 375 | ''Sairaalalaskuun kääntöpuolelle raapustan kaipaan sua Michelle'' |
| 376 | * "Sherane a.k.a. [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Master Splinter's]] Daughter" - Music/KendrickLamar, based on his real high school girlfriend of the same name. |
| 377 | * "Thotiana" by Blueface. |
| 378 | * "Roxanne" by Arizona Zervas. |
| 379 | [[/folder]] |
| 380 | |
| 381 | [[folder:Rap Metal]] |
| 382 | * "Maria" - Music/RageAgainstTheMachine |
| 383 | [[/folder]] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | [[folder:Reggae]] |
| 386 | * "Cherry Oh Baby" - Music/UB40 |
| 387 | [[/folder]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:Rock]] |
| 390 | * "Ah! Leah!" -- Donnie Iris |
| 391 | * "Amanda" - Music/{{Boston}} |
| 392 | * "Angie" - Depending on which rumor you believe: Mick Jagger bragging about nailing David Bowie's wife, Mick Jagger [[LoveTriangle lamenting wanting Bowie's wife]], or Mick Jagger [[TakeAThirdOption apologizing for nailing her husband]]. |
| 393 | * "Ann" - Andy Dwyer's song about Ann Perkins on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''; written and performed by Chris Pratt, [[TheCastShowoff the actor who plays Andy]]. Subverted in a later episode when he wrote a song about April... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKEc0PxrHDQ and titled it "November"]]. |
| 394 | * "Barbara Ann" - The Regents, from 1961. Covered later by Music/TheBeachBoys on their CoverAlbum ''[[Music/BeachBoysParty Party]]''. They tried other girls, but they knew they wouldn't do. |
| 395 | * "Carol" [[note]]and "Anna"[[/note]] - Al Stewart |
| 396 | * "Cross-Eyed Mary" - Music/JethroTull, from ''[[Music/AqualungJethroTullAlbum Aqualung]]'' |
| 397 | * "Dear Prudence" - Music/TheBeatles. This song was written by Music/JohnLennon in India while they were studying Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. One of their friends, Prudence Farrow (Creator/MiaFarrow’s sister), became overzealous in her meditation and turned into a recluse. Lennon wrote this song as a message to snap her out of it. |
| 398 | * "Debbie/Denise" - Music/BlueOysterCult |
| 399 | ** "Eleanor Rigby" - The classic Music/TheBeatles TearJerker, of course. |
| 400 | ** "Julia" and "Sexy Sadie", too. |
| 401 | * "Emily" - The title of songs by From First to Last, Music/EltonJohn, and Michael W. Smith, Music/PinkFloyd, and Frankie Valli, all unrelated to one another |
| 402 | * "Jane" - [[Music/JeffersonAirplane Jefferson Starship]] |
| 403 | * "Janie Jones" - The Clash |
| 404 | * "Janis" - Music/{{Focus}} |
| 405 | * "Lucille" - Music/RauliBaddingSomerjoki |
| 406 | * "Lydia" - Fur Patrol [[note]]The same band later inverted this trope with their next single "Andrew".[[/note |
| 407 | * "Maria Maria" - Santana |
| 408 | * "Mary" - The Feelers |
| 409 | * "Martha" - Music/TomWaits from ''Music/ClosingTime''. |
| 410 | * "Milla" - Music/AnssiKela |
| 411 | * "Ramona" - Music/TuomariNurmio |
| 412 | * "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.) |
| 413 | * "Michelle" - The quintessential [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]] from Music/TheBeatles. |
| 414 | * "Peggy" and "Amalia" - Music/SamuliEdelmann |
| 415 | * "Rosalita", "Leah", "Sherry Darling" - Music/BruceSpringsteen |
| 416 | * "Rosemary" - Lenny Kravitz |
| 417 | * "Roxanne" - Music/ThePolice about "redeeming" a prostitute. |
| 418 | * "Sara" - Music/BobDylan |
| 419 | * "Sara" - [[Music/JeffersonAirplane Starship]] (Storms are the wind in her eyes, of course.) |
| 420 | * "Sophia" - Music/HedPE |
| 421 | * "Susie Q" - originally by Dale Hawkins, made famous by Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival (Baby, I love you) |
| 422 | * "Suzy Lee" - Music/TheWhiteStripes |
| 423 | * "Sylvia" - Music/{{Focus}} |
| 424 | * "Vera" - Music/PinkFloyd (The One Woman in this case is the real-life Vera Lynn) |
| 425 | * "Vera" - Music/BlueOysterCult |
| 426 | * "Vivica" - Jack Off Jill |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | [[folder:Rock and Roll]] |
| 430 | * "Donna" - Music/RitchieValens |
| 431 | * "Hello Mary Lou" - Johnny Duncan |
| 432 | * "Lucille" - Music/LittleRichard |
| 433 | * "Maybellene" and "Nadine" - Music/ChuckBerry |
| 434 | * "Peggy Sue" - Music/BuddyHolly |
| 435 | * "Ruby Baby" - Dion |
| 436 | * "She She Little Sheila" - Gene Vincent |
| 437 | * "Sheila" - Tommy Roe |
| 438 | [[/folder]] |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[folder:Roots Rock]] |
| 441 | * Music/TheBlasters' catalogue is full of these. "Kathleen," "Marie, Marie," "Justine," "Julie" .... |
| 442 | [[/folder]] |
| 443 | |
| 444 | [[folder:Schlager]] |
| 445 | * A metric tonne of Finnish Schlager canon, including but not limited to: |
| 446 | ** Foksi songs: "Eeva", "Irja", "Maruzella", "Karina" |
| 447 | ** Humppa songs: "Sheila", "Amalia" (or "Erokirje heilille") |
| 448 | ** Walzes: "Emma", "Saariston Sirkka", "Ramona", "Kyllikki", "Joensuun Elli", "Anniina" |
| 449 | ** Finnish Tangos: "Humiko", "Sabina", "Aila", "Annabella", "Anneli Anneli Anneli", "Monika Monika Monika", "Ritva", "Angelique" |
| 450 | ** Humorous couplets: "Lievestuoreen Liisa", "Babylonin Sanna", "Ieva", "Lenita", "Elsa, kohtalon lapsi", "Esteri, tyttö sadepisarain" |
| 451 | ** Others (not intended to be danced): "Lulu", "Sulamit" |
| 452 | * Tango songs: "Perfidia" |
| 453 | [[/folder]] |
| 454 | |
| 455 | [[folder:Southern Rock]] |
| 456 | * "Jessica" - Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand |
| 457 | ** Also "Melissa", "Desdemona" and "Little Martha" |
| 458 | [[/folder]] |
| 459 | |
| 460 | [[folder:Traditional]] |
| 461 | * "Santa Lucia" is originally a Neapolitan song that's about the city and boating with repeats of "Saint Lucy" added in pretty much like filler, but the Nordic Saint Lucy celebration songs actually are about the saint. |
| 462 | * "Lili Marlene" |
| 463 | [[/folder]] |
| 464 | |
| 465 | And ''countless'' others. |
| 466 | |
| 467 | !!Others: |
| 468 | |
| 469 | [[folder:Alternative Dance]] |
| 470 | * "Lilian" - Music/DepecheMode. Ostensibly about a ''really'' evil ex who's just broken up with the singer. |
| 471 | [[/folder]] |
| 472 | |
| 473 | [[folder:Alternative Rock]] |
| 474 | * "Mary Jane" - Music/ToriAmos. It's not about a girl. |
| 475 | * Also subverted in "Song for Whoever" by Music/TheBeautifulSouth, A song about a cynical songwriter of these kinds of songs, who due to repeated MuseAbuse, can't remember which of the many One Women is which: |
| 476 | --> ''Oh Shirley, oh Deborah, oh Julie, oh Jane''\ |
| 477 | ''I wrote so many songs about you I forget your name'' |
| 478 | ** And it's all for [[MoneyDearBoy the money]]: |
| 479 | --> ''Oh Cathy, oh Alison, oh Phillipa, oh Sue''\ |
| 480 | ''You made me so much money I wrote this song for you'' |
| 481 | * Subverted in [[Music/MyChemicalRomance "Helena"]]; the song is about grieving for a dead woman (WordOfGod says the singer's grandma.) |
| 482 | * Subverted in "Debra" - Music/{{Beck|Musician}}. The song's lyrics begin to direct the song towards a woman named ''Jenny'' ("oh girl, I only wanna be down with you") until it's revealed that Beck has a secondary interest: Debra, Jenny's sister ("and your sister, I think her name is Debra"). The track is done in the vein of R. Kelly-like R&B ballads and seems to be one until the hilarious twist of Beck pining for a little more is made apparent. |
| 483 | * "Jamie" by Weezer, a tribute to their lawyer. Similarly, "Susanne", about their A & R assistant. |
| 484 | * "Magdalena" by Music/{{dEUS}} from ''Music/TheIdealCrash''. |
| 485 | * "Whatsername" by Music/GreenDay. |
| 486 | * Music/TheyMightBeGiants: "She Thinks She's Edith Head" is a one-woman song, but not about the woman whose name is in the title. |
| 487 | [[/folder]] |
| 488 | |
| 489 | [[folder:Country]] |
| 490 | * "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. |
| 491 | ** Played with in that Rogers is not singing as the jilted husband, but as the poor barfly Lucille was trying to hook up with who is now having to watch this poor stranger's life fall apart. |
| 492 | * "Jolene" by Music/DollyParton, sung by the cuckolded wife to the woman her man is having an affair with. |
| 493 | * "Boy Named Sue" - Johnny Cash, as the title says the girl's name in this case doesn't relate to a girl. |
| 494 | [[/folder]] |
| 495 | |
| 496 | [[folder:Electronic]] |
| 497 | * "Christiane" by Music/Apollo440. There are no actual lyrics; only {{One Woman Wail}}s. |
| 498 | * "Song for Thelma" by Anders Enger Jensen was dedicated to a friend's dog that had passed away. |
| 499 | [[/folder]] |
| 500 | |
| 501 | [[folder:Folk]] |
| 502 | * "Diana" by Comus. It's about rape. |
| 503 | [[/folder]] |
| 504 | |
| 505 | [[folder:Folk Rock]] |
| 506 | * "Reva Thereafter" by Music/{{Girlyman}}, about the singer's grandmother, and coping with her suicide. |
| 507 | * "Pretty Girl from Chile" and "Pretty Girl from San Deigo" by the Avett Brothers are both slightly debatable examples; they're seemingly named after specific girls, it's just that they don't reveal the names of these girls. |
| 508 | [[/folder]] |
| 509 | |
| 510 | [[folder:Funk]] |
| 511 | * "Mary Jane" by Rick James. Like the Tori Amos song, not about a girl. |
| 512 | [[/folder]] |
| 513 | |
| 514 | [[folder:Grunge]] |
| 515 | * In "Polly" by Music/{{Nirvana}} the narrator addresses their rape victim as if she was a pet bird. |
| 516 | * "Ana's Song" by Music/{{Silverchair}}. 'Ana' is actually short for anorexia, not a girl's name. |
| 517 | [[/folder]] |
| 518 | |
| 519 | [[folder:Heavy Metal]] |
| 520 | * "Melissa" - Mercyful Fate. She is actually a human sacrifice in black mass. |
| 521 | * "Sinéad" - Music/WithinTemptation. She is a SerialKillerKiller. |
| 522 | * "Alice" and "Bathory Ersebet" - Music/SunnO |
| 523 | * "Natasha", "Jennifer" - Music/PigDestroyer |
| 524 | [[/folder]] |
| 525 | |
| 526 | [[folder:Hip Hop]] |
| 527 | * "Kim" - Music/{{Eminem}}. Not in the way this trope usually goes. This is no [[SillyLoveSongs Silly Love Song]]. |
| 528 | * "Anne Bonny" - Music/DeathGrips |
| 529 | [[/folder]] |
| 530 | |
| 531 | [[folder:Indie Pop]] |
| 532 | * "June" - Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine. It refers to when the song, written in support of the [=LGBT=] community, took place (namely the 2016 Pulse nightclub shootings). |
| 533 | [[/folder]] |
| 534 | |
| 535 | [[folder:Musical]] |
| 536 | * "Dammit, Janet" from the ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. It's also a parody of these types of songs. |
| 537 | [[/folder]] |
| 538 | |
| 539 | [[folder:New Wave]] |
| 540 | * "52 Girls" - Music/TheB52s: a song full of girls' names! [[NonIndicativeName 24 of them to be precise.]] |
| 541 | * "Shirley" - by Music/CharliePeacock, which is a song with seemingly WordSaladLyrics. |
| 542 | [[/folder]] |
| 543 | |
| 544 | [[folder:Pop]] |
| 545 | * "Matilda" by Harry Belafonte is about a woman who stole $500 from the narrator and ran off to Venezuela. |
| 546 | * "Molly" by Bobby Goldsboro is about a newly-blinded soldier returning to his wife and child. |
| 547 | [[/folder]] |
| 548 | |
| 549 | [[folder:Post-Rock]] |
| 550 | * More than half of the songs on Music/{{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, Rhoda was drummer Britt Walford's dog. |
| 551 | [[/folder]] |
| 552 | |
| 553 | [[folder:R & B]] |
| 554 | * "Natalie" by Music/BrunoMars, about a GoldDigger on whom the singer/protagonist vows revenge. |
| 555 | [[/folder]] |
| 556 | |
| 557 | [[folder:Rock]] |
| 558 | * "Lola" - Silly little number by Music/TheKinks... that's actually about a {{transvestite}}. [[EpilepticTrees Maybe]]. All we know for sure is that the singer is "glad I'm a man, [[AmbiguousSyntax and so is Lola.]]" |
| 559 | * "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis. |
| 560 | * "Delilah" by Music/{{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]]. |
| 561 | * [[Creator/LeeleeSobieski Why Leelee Won't Love Me]] by Primitive Whore. |
| 562 | * "Martha My Dear" by Music/TheBeatles. It's about Paul's ''dog''. |
| 563 | * "Noelle" by Music/DanielAmos, which isn't a love song by any means. |
| 564 | * "Mia" by Music/{{Chevelle}}. [[WordSaladLyrics No one's quite sure what it's about]]. |
| 565 | * "Andzia" by the Polish band Oddział Zamknięty. This is ostensibly a love song about a girl the singer "can no longer live without". In reality, while "Andzia" is a girl's name, it also sounds very much like "gandzia" (pronounced similar to "ganja"), i.e. cannabis. The song, in reality, is about a man's enjoyment/addiction to marijuana. |
| 566 | * "Sara", "Rhiannon" and "Annabel Lee" by Music/FleetwoodMac. |
| 567 | * "Ilona" by {{Apulanta}} is about Ilona's suicide and the narrator's grief, not the girl herself. |
| 568 | * "Thea"[[note]]Demo version of "Blood-Spattered Sundress"[[/note]] by SchoolyardHeroes is about a real bitch of a (former) friend. |
| 569 | * "Rene" by Music/TheSmallFaces. She's a prostitute in the London Docks of the 1960s. |
| 570 | [[/folder]] |
| 571 | |
| 572 | [[folder:Schlager]] |
| 573 | * "Pamela" by JaakkoTeppo is about the character in ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' and the narrator is a (moderately sane) LoonyFan who sings about his reasoning behind his choice of Pamela as his favourite lady. (Lucy is too "tiny" and Sue-Ellen too heavy a drinker for him.) |
| 574 | [[/folder]] |
| 575 | |
| 576 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 577 | * Creator/StephenColbert had a signature song that was "chart-adjacent" in the eighties, entitled "Charlene", where the narrator is obsessed with the titular woman and the song literally spells out how the narrator stalks her. |
| 578 | ** There was a sequel song recently that Colbert sang with the Black Belles called "Charlene 2 : I'm over you". Hint:he's not really. |
| 579 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzFu3nIPJJU Martina Navratilova, Wish You Were Mine]]-As heard on the [[ShockJock ''Tony Horne In The Morning'']], the song talks about how the legendary tennis champ is NotLikeOtherGirls, [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength broke the singer's fingers]], [[LadyLooksLikeADude looks manly]], and how he probably wishes she was his girlfriend. |
| 580 | * Creator/PaulAndStorm have "K-R-I-S-T-I" about Kristi Lee of the Bob & Tom show, which is a song in the acrostic poem mold. The first I stands partially for "my eye, which you adorned with pepper spray", while T is for "tears I shed from love ... and pepper spray" and the other I is for "my other eye, which you also pepper sprayed." |
| 581 | * "Carol Brown" - Flight of the Concords. Though many other women are mentioned, the chorus is punctuated with a last line about the titular Carol. |
| 582 | [[/folder]] |
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