| 1 | * The narrator of the song "I Am The Storm", on the Music/BlueOysterCult album ''Music/{{Mirrors|Album}}'', is in no doubt. His one-sided love has passed over the event horizon into an obsessive desire to inflict vengeance for being spurned. |
| 2 | * Music/TheTemptations' "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" evokes this trope as the narrator (the late Eddie Kendricks, singing what would be his last song with the group before he and his longtime friend and fellow founder Paul Williams left the group) goes on about how he can't stop thinking and imagining the life he wants with the girl he likes, but must resign himself to the fact that the person of his desires doesn't know him and most likely never will (while implying that he at least knows he should leave her alone). |
| 3 | * Music/LionelRichie's "Hello" takes on some creepy vibes in the video, where a college professor is obsessed with his blind student. Then again, she sculpts his face in class--despite never having seen it--just because she loves him as well, so we might be expected to think it isn't so bad. ''WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'' [[https://youtu.be/k_FzG59ITjo thinks]] otherwise. |
| 4 | * The narrator in "Every Breath You Take" by Music/ThePolice. [[IsntItIronic Yet people consider it a love song, much to Sting's disturbance]]. Worth mentioning as part of [[StalkingIsLove this article]]. Just listen to P. Diddy's cover. |
| 5 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh0AhrY9GjA This parody]] of Music/JustinBieber's "Boyfriend" [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/overly-attached-girlfriend and its accompanying image macros]], [[Creator/{{Laina}} The Overly Attached Girlfiend]]: |
| 6 | -->I'll always be checking up on you\ |
| 7 | Hey boy, ''who you talking to?''\ |
| 8 | If I was your girlfriend\ |
| 9 | I'd never let you leave\ |
| 10 | Without a small recording device\ |
| 11 | Taped under your sleeve\ |
| 12 | And you'll always look your best\ |
| 13 | Shave your face for me\ |
| 14 | Don't hide secrets in your house\ |
| 15 | 'Cause, boy, I stole the key. |
| 16 | * Music/WeirdAlYankovic has written two songs about these, [[Music/EvenWorse "Melanie"]] and [[Music/StraightOuttaLynwood "Do I Creep You Out"]]. |
| 17 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDlUWur3kEE Stalker Song]]. The singer is an obsessed stalker for his ex-girlfriend. He's determined to make her take him back by any means necessary, including taking the girl's cat and threatening to hurt it or worse if she doesn't comply with his demands. |
| 18 | --> Imagine me and you, I do |
| 19 | --> I think about you day and night |
| 20 | --> It's only right to think about the girl I '''stalk''' both day and night |
| 21 | --> So happy together |
| 22 | --> I dated you for just a week |
| 23 | --> You dumped me and I cried real hard and still can't sleep |
| 24 | --> So now I'm going to force you to come back to me |
| 25 | --> So happy together |
| 26 | |
| 27 | --> I can't see me stalking nobody, but you |
| 28 | --> For all your life |
| 29 | --> When you're with me, baby, the skies will be blue |
| 30 | --> For all my life |
| 31 | * "Creepy Stalker Girl" by Music/TheArrogantWorms. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RBhNIo79JE Comes with]] [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry cicadas]] if you act now. |
| 32 | * The narrator of "Go-Getter Greg" by Music/{{Ludo}}. |
| 33 | ** I'd say "The Horror of Our Love" falls into this category too. |
| 34 | * The narrator of "Du Riechst So Gut" by Music/{{Rammstein}}. Also one of the more terrifying examples: a translated part of the lyrics are written below. |
| 35 | -->The track is fresh and on the bridge\ |
| 36 | drops your sweat, your warm blood\ |
| 37 | I don't see you\ |
| 38 | I only smell you, I sense you\ |
| 39 | a predator that screams of hunger\ |
| 40 | I track you for miles by scent" |
| 41 | |
| 42 | -->You smell so good\ |
| 43 | you smell so good\ |
| 44 | I follow you\ |
| 45 | you smell so good\ |
| 46 | I find you\ |
| 47 | - so good\ |
| 48 | I'm after you \ |
| 49 | you smell so good\ |
| 50 | I will have you soon" |
| 51 | * The narrator of "Bloody Valentine" by Music/GoodCharlotte. |
| 52 | * The narrator of "I Will Possess Your Heart" by Music/DeathCabForCutie. |
| 53 | * "#1 Crush" by Music/{{Garbage}}. Between the relentlessly bludgeoning drums, discordant main riff and CreepyMonotone vocals, it might the best audio representation. |
| 54 | * Southside Movement's obscure funk song "I've Been Watching You". |
| 55 | * [[Music/GeorgeClinton Parliament]] also recorded a song called "I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)", whose lyrics are possibly the most minimal of the entire lot. |
| 56 | * "Stalker" by Goldfinger. Played in a humourous tone. In fact, the singer actually says he wants to marry her. |
| 57 | * Music/LisaGermano's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH5-qCmpCJU ...a psychopath]]" is quite possible one [[ParanoiaFuel creepiest]] examples of this trope in musical form. |
| 58 | * "Charlene (I'm Right Behind You)" by [[Series/TheColbertReport Stephen and the Colberts]], though this is a parody rather than an honest example. Stephen's stalking of his ex-girlfriend ([[KissingCousins and cousin]]) Charlene is a RunningGag on the show. |
| 59 | ** "Cold Cold Christmas", a bonus track on the ChristmasSpecial soundtrack, continues this theme. |
| 60 | ** "Charlene II (I'm Over You)" has Colbert describe how he's done stalking her, except the way he does makes it clear it's, at best, temporary. He still has her portrait (having moved it from his front hall to a room he barely uses, instead of just throwing it out), keeps the same email address (stephen@charleneforever.com), knows that she has lost weight, and wonders who someone named Alan is. Also, the very fact that he feels the need to write her a song about being over her is a clear indicator that he isn't. |
| 61 | * "Go Away Godboy" by S. J. Tucker is about a stalker who thinks he's Jesus. |
| 62 | * The controversial {{Music/Falco}} PowerBallad "Jeanny" is sung from the POV of one of these, as he stalks, kidnaps and possibly murders the title character. |
| 63 | * Music/BarenakedLadies' "Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank". It... doesn't end well. |
| 64 | -->''I know your address\ |
| 65 | I ring the bell\ |
| 66 | I bring you flowers and a .22 with shells'' |
| 67 | * Music/{{Morrissey}}'s "Suedehead": |
| 68 | -->''Why do you come here? And why do you hang around?\ |
| 69 | I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry...\ |
| 70 | Why do you come here, when you know it makes things hard for me?\ |
| 71 | When you know, oh why do you come?'' |
| 72 | |
| 73 | -->''had to sneak in to my room just to read my diary\ |
| 74 | it was just to see\ |
| 75 | just to see\ |
| 76 | all the things you knew\ |
| 77 | i've written about you'' |
| 78 | ** And from the opposite perspective, "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get" (So much better when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJCqMsIs-uk Bill Nye did it!]]): |
| 79 | --->''When you sleep\ |
| 80 | I will creep\ |
| 81 | Into your thoughts\ |
| 82 | Like a bad debt\ |
| 83 | That you can't pay\ |
| 84 | Take the easy way\ |
| 85 | And give in''\ |
| 86 | Yeah, and let me in. |
| 87 | * Music/{{Queen}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO2SIa1TEDQ&feature=relmfu You Take My Breath Away]]... so much, it's almost a little creepy. |
| 88 | ---> ''You can reduce me to tears\ |
| 89 | With a single sigh\ |
| 90 | (Please don't cry)\ |
| 91 | Every breath that you take -\ |
| 92 | Any sound that you make\ |
| 93 | Is a whisper in my ear\ |
| 94 | I could give up all my life for just one kiss\ |
| 95 | I would surely die\ |
| 96 | If you dismissed me from your love\ |
| 97 | \ |
| 98 | So please don't go\ |
| 99 | Don't leave me here all by myself\ |
| 100 | I get ever so lonely from time to time\ |
| 101 | I will find you\ |
| 102 | Anywhere you go, I'll be right behind you\ |
| 103 | Right until the ends of the earth\ |
| 104 | I'll get no sleep till I find you to tell you\ |
| 105 | That you just take my breath away'' |
| 106 | * Music/{{Nickelback}}'s "Follow You Home" comes across this way: |
| 107 | -->''You can steal me the keys to your daddy's Cadillac\ |
| 108 | You can tamper with the brakes and call it a mistake and pray I'm never coming back\ |
| 109 | And I'll stay alive just to follow you home.'' |
| 110 | * Some people have apparently interpreted "Hey There, Delilah" by the Plain White T's (which ''was'' actually about the songwriter's [[http://www.shoutmouth.com/index.php/news/21009 unrequited crush]]) this way. At least one filksinger even wrote a [[http://thefump.com/fump.php?id=110 parody]] in that vein. |
| 111 | * Music/TerriGibbs' 1981 song "Somebody's Knocking" tells the story of a young woman and a man who is a little more than interested in her[[note]] Originally addressing a sense of panic between single women regarding stalkers at the time, it became a chart-topping hit when it was released after the attempted assassination of President Reagan turned the panic into a near-paranoid state after it was known the assailant was just doing it to impress Jodie Foster[[/note]]. |
| 112 | * [[Series/AmericanIdol Clay Aiken's "Invisible"]] is a definite stalker song. [[LyricalDissonance It's also really freaking catchy,]] which is noted multiple times on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbhOVKhwO_4&ab_channel=ClayAikenVEVO YouTube video]] for the song. Lines from the chorus and second verse include: |
| 113 | -->''Whatcha doing tonight\ |
| 114 | I wish I could be\ |
| 115 | A fly on your wall\ |
| 116 | If I was invisible\ |
| 117 | Then I could just watch you in your room\ |
| 118 | If I was invincible\ |
| 119 | I'd make you mine tonight'' |
| 120 | -->AND\ |
| 121 | ''I keep tracing your steps\ |
| 122 | Each move that you make\ |
| 123 | Wish I could read what goes through your mind'' |
| 124 | * The narrator from the song "I Who Have Nothing". Some parts of the lyrics include: "You can go any place you want, to fancy clubs and restaurants, but I can only watch you with him... my nose pressed up against the window-pane," and "I who have no one, must watch you (I will watch you baby) passing by." |
| 125 | * Music/{{Evanescence}}: |
| 126 | ** The song, "Snow White Queen comes from Amy Lee's personal experience with a stalker. She never says the song is about a rape attempt, but the lyrics STRONGLY suggest it, particularly this part: |
| 127 | -->''All your hands on me''\ |
| 128 | ''I can't scream'' |
| 129 | ** There's also "Haunted", "Surrender", and "Give Unto Me", each displaying varying degrees of obsession. The latter has this as its first lyrics: |
| 130 | -->I've been watching you from a distance |
| 131 | * "Imagine You Were Mine" by Music/MitchBenn: |
| 132 | -->''It was almost like a dream come true,\ |
| 133 | When I moved in next door to you.\ |
| 134 | I didn't think you'd notice at all,\ |
| 135 | When I drilled those holes in the bathroom wall.\ |
| 136 | I'd watch you growing, never knowing,\ |
| 137 | Where your underwear kept going.\ |
| 138 | And as you checked the washing line,\ |
| 139 | I would sit and imagine you were mine.'' |
| 140 | * "Barrel of a Gun" by Guster. |
| 141 | * Cat Stevens' "Here Comes My Baby" could be interpreted this way. |
| 142 | * "Stan" by Music/{{Eminem}}, surely. Whether or not you read it as HoYay, he's [[LoonyFan violently obsessive about Slim]]. |
| 143 | * "Gonna Get Close to You" by Lisa Dalbello. When Queensr[[HeavyMetalUmlaut ÿ]]che did a cover of the song, the accompanying video was made of this trope. |
| 144 | ** Their version, [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7628272450820352412# especially the video]], comes pretty close to horrific indeed. |
| 145 | -->''I dial your telephone each and every afternoon\ |
| 146 | I wait by your door 'til you're asleep at night\ |
| 147 | And when you're alone I know\ |
| 148 | When you turn out the light'' |
| 149 | * The lyrics of "Possession" by Sarah [=McLachlan=] were allegedly taken from some of her more stalkerriffic fanmail. Interestingly, the stalker sued her for copyright infringement. |
| 150 | -->''Oh, you speak to me in riddles and\ |
| 151 | You speak to me in rhyme\ |
| 152 | My body aches to breathe your breath\ |
| 153 | And I won't be denied'' |
| 154 | * "I'm Your Boyfriend Now" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants is about half this trope, half LoonyFan. |
| 155 | * "You Were Meant For Me" by Ute Lemper qualifies. See the page quote for an example of the lyrics, and then there's the fact that the music itself has a disturbing James-Bond-villain-theme-song quality to it... |
| 156 | * The narrator in "Niki FM" by Hawthorne Heights is this... |
| 157 | -->''RIGHT NOW, \ |
| 158 | I'm outside of your window with my radio\ |
| 159 | RIGHT NOW, \ |
| 160 | I'm outside of your window with my radio'' |
| 161 | * "Shiver" by Music/{{Coldplay}} |
| 162 | -->''From the moment I wake\ |
| 163 | To the moment I sleep\ |
| 164 | I'll be there by your side\ |
| 165 | Just you try and stop me\ |
| 166 | I'll be waiting in line\ |
| 167 | Just to see if you care'' |
| 168 | * "Paparazzi" by Music/LadyGaga |
| 169 | -->''I'm your biggest fan,\ |
| 170 | I'll follow you until you love me.\ |
| 171 | Papa, paparazzi.'' |
| 172 | * Rob Dougan's "There's Only Me" from his ''Furious Angels'' album falls into this category for sure, but "Furious Angels" could qualify too, and "Left Me For Dead" could easily be "Stalker With A Crush Scorned". |
| 173 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqORTZgnxtw This Idol auditioner.]] |
| 174 | * Music/TaylorSwift's "You Belong With Me". A lot less stalker-ish in the video. |
| 175 | * "You Can't Change That" by Raydio. One verse from the song that's particularly creepy: |
| 176 | -->''You can change your telephone number\ |
| 177 | And you can change your address too\ |
| 178 | But you can't stop me from loving you\ |
| 179 | No, you can't change that, no, no'' |
| 180 | * "One Way or Another" by Music/{{Blondie|Band}}: |
| 181 | -->''One way or another, I'm gonna lose ya\ |
| 182 | I'm gonna give you the slip\ |
| 183 | I'll walk down the mall, stand over by the wall\ |
| 184 | Where I can see it all, find out who ya call'' |
| 185 | ** In a case where Main/RealLifeWritesThePlot, Debbie Harry was inspired to write the song after being stalked by an ex of hers. |
| 186 | ** Also "Accidents Never Happen": |
| 187 | --->''I saw you walking in the dark\ |
| 188 | So I slipped behind your footsteps for a while.\ |
| 189 | Caught you turning 'round the block\ |
| 190 | Fancy meeting in a smaller world, after all\ |
| 191 | Accidents never happen\ |
| 192 | Could have planned it all'' |
| 193 | ** And, for that matter, "Hanging on the Telephone": |
| 194 | --->''I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall\ |
| 195 | If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall\ |
| 196 | I know he's there, but I just had to call\ |
| 197 | Don't leave me hanging on the telephone\ |
| 198 | Don't leave me hanging on the telephone'' |
| 199 | * Music/RayStevens' "It's Me Again, Margaret" tells the story of a man who would always call and harass a woman he loved. He's eventually arrested and allowed one phone call... which he uses to call Margret. |
| 200 | * The 1981 song "Art Lover" by Music/TheKinks combines the implied loss of a child with creepy stalker behaviour: |
| 201 | -->''Little girl don't notice me\ |
| 202 | Watching as she innocently plays.\ |
| 203 | She can't see me staring at her\ |
| 204 | Because I'm always wearing shades.\ |
| 205 | She feeds the ducks, looks at the flowers.\ |
| 206 | I follow her around for hours and hours.\ |
| 207 | I'd take her home, but that could never be,\ |
| 208 | She's just a substitute\ |
| 209 | For what's been taken from me.'' |
| 210 | * "Obsession" by Music/SiouxsieAndTheBanshees. |
| 211 | -->''I broke into your room - I broke down in my room\ |
| 212 | Touched your belongings there - and left a lock of my hair\ |
| 213 | Another sign for you\ |
| 214 | You screamed into my face "Get the hell out of my place"\ |
| 215 | Another sign for me? can you forgive me? \ |
| 216 | For not understanding your ways\ |
| 217 | You know sometimes you take it all too far\ |
| 218 | Then I remember it's a game between you and me\ |
| 219 | A divine test for us two\ |
| 220 | It's all in my imagination\ |
| 221 | Yes they even say that our mission ...is only\ |
| 222 | My obsession'' |
| 223 | * "Special Delivery" by Music/TheOffspring, though the lyrics also strongly suggests he wants to ''[[AxCrazy kill]]'' the object of his affections: |
| 224 | -->''And I'll blow you away\ |
| 225 | You're gonna fall for me, you're gonna fall for me\ |
| 226 | [[HearingVoices And the voices tell me]] to blow you away\ |
| 227 | You're gonna fall for me, you're gonna fall for me'' |
| 228 | * Nominally, the song "They Don't Know" by Kirsty [=MacColl=] is a fairly typical {{Silly Love Song|s}}. But when Creator/TraceyUllman covered it during her [=mid-80s=] foray into music, she included a video that depicted her being obsessed with Music/PaulMcCartney, and fantasizing about them being a downtrodden [=60s-era=] couple. |
| 229 | * "Tigerlily" by Music/LaRoux is a particularly creepy example as the narration appears to [[BreakingTheFourthWall directly address the listener]], implying that [[ParanoiaFuel they're the one being stalked]]. |
| 230 | -->''Have you ever felt like you're being followed?\ |
| 231 | Or watched the ones that held your stare?\ |
| 232 | Turned around to see who's behind you to find there's no-one there?\ |
| 233 | Lurking in the dark, there's someone who breathes you night and day\ |
| 234 | There's a friend who wants so much more\ |
| 235 | [[IfICantHaveYou And if they can't have you, they'll never let you walk away...]]'' |
| 236 | * Music/SophieEllisBextor's "Catch You", of which the verses consist of [[ListSong Ellis-Bextor listing all the ways in which she's apparently spying on the target of her affections]], and the chorus consists of her bragging about how said target will never be able to escape her. |
| 237 | -->''Run to where you want, run to where you want\ |
| 238 | I am gonna find you\ |
| 239 | There ain't no distance far enough\ |
| 240 | My love's gonna find you\ |
| 241 | Run to where you want, run to where you want\ |
| 242 | But may I remind you\ |
| 243 | There ain't no engine fast enough\ |
| 244 | My love's gonna catch you'' |
| 245 | * Music/{{Portishead}}'s "All Mine" veers into this as the song goes on, and the instrumentation only makes it scarier. |
| 246 | -->''Make no mistake\ |
| 247 | You shan't escape\ |
| 248 | Tethered and tied, there's nowhere to hide from me...\ |
| 249 | ALL MIIIIIIIIIIIINE!\ |
| 250 | You have to be...'' |
| 251 | * "Creepin' Up on You" by Darren Hayes, obviously. |
| 252 | -->''No one else can love you like I do\ |
| 253 | Feel it when I'm creepin' up on you\ |
| 254 | And I know that it wouldn't be right\ |
| 255 | If I stayed all night\ |
| 256 | Just to peep in on you\ |
| 257 | Creepin' up on you.'' |
| 258 | * "It's Warmer in the Basement" by Music/CobraStarship. The song is largely responsible for Gabe Saporta's status as a MemeticMolester. In his own words, "This song is about when you love someone so much that you just have to tie them up in your basement so no one else can have them." D'awww. |
| 259 | -->''You can't escape now\ |
| 260 | I've got you locked inside this room\ |
| 261 | You know I tip good\ |
| 262 | and soon, you will love me too'' |
| 263 | ** It goes on with the narrator saying "don't make me hurt you," offering food, "just promise me you'll never make me believe you." And then the chorus: |
| 264 | -->''This is what you get\ |
| 265 | When you're talking back baby\ |
| 266 | I never bounce a check\ |
| 267 | So give it up, baby\ |
| 268 | Open up your eyes\ |
| 269 | I want to watch you cry\ |
| 270 | Come on, come on\ |
| 271 | The camera's on!'' |
| 272 | * Romance of the Damned, by Regurgitator. A sample: |
| 273 | -->''Your hand brushed my sleeve as we passed in the street\ |
| 274 | That means you're in love with me.'' |
| 275 | * "Tear You Apart" by She Wants Revenge. |
| 276 | --> ''Either way he wanted her and this was bad\ |
| 277 | He wanted to do things to her it was making him crazy\ |
| 278 | Now a little crush turned into a like\ |
| 279 | And now he wants to grab her by the hair and tell her\ |
| 280 | I want to hold you close\ |
| 281 | Skin pressed against me tight\ |
| 282 | Lie still, and close your eyes girl\ |
| 283 | So lovely, it feels so right\ |
| 284 | I want to hold you close\ |
| 285 | Soft breath, beating heart\ |
| 286 | As I whisper in your ear\ |
| 287 | I want to [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] tear you apart'' |
| 288 | * "We Get On", by Music/KateNash, presents a relatively harmless version, rife with SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: |
| 289 | --> ''I don't ever make up stuff about you and me\ |
| 290 | Because that is insanity\ |
| 291 | I don't ever drive by your house to see if you're in\ |
| 292 | I don't even have an opinion on that tramp that you're still seeing\ |
| 293 | I don't know your timetable\ |
| 294 | I don't know your face off by heart\ |
| 295 | But I must admit that there is still a part of me that still thinks\ |
| 296 | That we might get on'' |
| 297 | * "It's no good" by Music/DepecheMode |
| 298 | |
| 299 | --> '' Don't say you want me \ |
| 300 | Don't say you need me\ |
| 301 | Don't say you love me \ |
| 302 | It's understood\ |
| 303 | Don't say you're happy \ |
| 304 | Out there without me \ |
| 305 | I know you can't be \ |
| 306 | 'Cause it's no good... ''\ |
| 307 | |
| 308 | * "Strange and Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You)" by Aqualung |
| 309 | --> ''I've been watching your world from afar\ |
| 310 | I've been trying to be where you are\ |
| 311 | And I've been secretly falling apart, unseen...''\ |
| 312 | |
| 313 | * "Two Wuv" by Tally Hall, although it's mostly played for laughs. |
| 314 | * "Pain" by Four Star Mary (famous for playing Oz's band on Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}) is about an angry, spurned StalkerWithACrush. It seems innocent when Oz plays it on stage, but look up the lyrics... |
| 315 | * Taking Back Sunday's "[=MakeDamnSure=]". Fun fact: [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Stephanie Meyer]] [[MisaimedFandom was considering it as a song on the New Moon soundtrack.]] [[FridgeBrilliance Although...]] |
| 316 | * While the specific storyline is under debate among fans, Sonata Arctica has four songs spread across its albums which are often referred to as the "stalker saga." The chronological order (in terms of the stalker's life) is "Caleb," "End Of This Chapter," "Don't Say A Word," and "Juliet." |
| 317 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxZcFArCeKs "Shy"]] is a good example as well |
| 318 | * Music/{{Vocaloid}}: |
| 319 | ** Machigerita-P's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGThHuZ3lBQ "Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance (Stalker)"]]. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 320 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2_jQvwVUt0 "Love Disease"]] by Madaco covers similar content, with the singer (Megurine Luka) slowly growing from an obsessed and delusional stalker to a violent woman the moment he sees [[IfICantHaveYou her target has a girlfriend]]. |
| 321 | ** The Music/{{UTAU}} Sukone Tei is obsessed with Kagamine Len, to the point where many songs involving her voicebank have her stalking, chasing, and scaring poor Len the moment she looks at him. |
| 322 | ** ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'': "The Tailor of Enbizaka" is about a tailor who seems to be in love with a man, but turns out to be under the delusional impression that he is her husband and that every girl he travels with in the song (who turn out to be his daughters) is [[MurderTheHypotenuse in the way]]. [[spoiler:The light novels subvert this entirely; she is still a stalker for him, and she ''did'' love him once, but any feelings for him have dried up since she's taking ''vengeance'' on him for causing a fire that killed her family. The original song turns out to be a dream.]] |
| 323 | * The Sugarland song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCK1-4mHBU Steve Earle]]'' is all about a woman who wants to marry Steve Earle. |
| 324 | ** While the lyrics of [[CountryMusic Sugarland]]'s latest song "Stuck Like Glue" are bubbly and sweet, the music video has the lead singer take on an exaggerated version of this trope. PlayedForLaughs until the end. |
| 325 | * "Cherish", by The Association, has elements of this. |
| 326 | -->''You don't know how many times\ |
| 327 | I've wished that I had told you\ |
| 328 | You don't know how many times\ |
| 329 | I've wished that I could hold you\ |
| 330 | You don't know how many times\ |
| 331 | I've wished that I could\ |
| 332 | Mold you into someone who could\ |
| 333 | Cherish me as much as I cherish you'' |
| 334 | * The song "I Drove All Night" by Cyndi Lauper (later covered by Celine Dion) definitely invokes this trope. |
| 335 | -->''I drove all night to get to you\ |
| 336 | Is that alright?\ |
| 337 | I drove all night and crept in your room\ |
| 338 | Woke you from your sleep to make love to you.'' |
| 339 | * The song "Wasting Time" by Music/ThirstyMerc is about this; the second line is "I'm trying to make you notice me but you don't care" |
| 340 | * Music/NerfHerder's ''Golfshirt, Part 2'' is a great exemple of this trope, with all the ''parked at the dark end of your street'' thing. |
| 341 | * Music/NineInchNails' "Closer"/"Closer to God". Both songs are part this trope and part ObsessionSong. Closer is seductive and subdued with barely-held back insanity, while Closer to God is more violent, commanding and creepy. |
| 342 | * "Lily (My One and Only)" by Music/TheSmashingPumpkins: |
| 343 | -->''Silly, I know I'm silly\ |
| 344 | Cause I'm hanging in this tree\ |
| 345 | In the hopes that she will catch a glimpse of me...\ |
| 346 | But an officer is knocking at my door\ |
| 347 | And thru her window shade\ |
| 348 | I watch her shadow move'' |
| 349 | * Lena Meyer's "Sattelite" |
| 350 | -->''Where you go, I’ll follow\ |
| 351 | You set the pace, we’ll take it fast and slow\ |
| 352 | I’ll follow in your way,\ |
| 353 | You got me, you got me\ |
| 354 | A force more powerful than gravity\ |
| 355 | It’s physics, there’s no escape'' |
| 356 | * Freezepop's "Stakeout" |
| 357 | -->''from far away I check you out\ |
| 358 | can't let you see me'' |
| 359 | * Hugh Laurie's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBwbJWF8_-Q "I'm in Love with Steffi Graf"]] from the show ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie''. Made perfect by the way it's performed, with Laurie's {{narm}}tastic intensive and sincere expressions as his character describes his deep and completely ridiculous emotions. |
| 360 | * Caramell's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drCjltxCawY Ooa Hela Natten]]" is about a GenkiGirl who thinks StalkingIsLove. The object of her affections is creeped out, as is half the town. |
| 361 | * The chorus from Line of Fire by Tom [=McRae=] really speaks for itself. |
| 362 | * The narrator of "Taylor the Latte Boy," as elaborated in "Taylor's Response" |
| 363 | -->"When I walked in friday evening\ |
| 364 | To our gig in Arthurs basement\ |
| 365 | I saw Carol in the front row\ |
| 366 | And I heard her scream my name\ |
| 367 | Then my friend said 'Man, she's crazy\ |
| 368 | She's been here since 7:30\ |
| 369 | And she told me she's your girlfriend\ |
| 370 | And she's really glad she came'\ |
| 371 | And then when our gig was over\ |
| 372 | She followed me the whole way home..."\ |
| 373 | |
| 374 | * The music video for Music/SmashMouth's "I'm A Believer" is a brilliant subversion. The singer sees a girl at a party and pursues her throughout the video. Finally, he corners her at the dock... [[spoiler:And pulls out a pair of keys. Turns out she dropped them at the party and he's been trying to give them back. In a DoubleSubversion, the girl recognizes him and appears to be on the way to becoming one for ''him'']]. |
| 375 | * "Mama" by Music/{{Genesis|Band}} |
| 376 | -->''Now I can't keep you mama\ |
| 377 | But I know you're always there\ |
| 378 | You listen, you teach, me mama\ |
| 379 | And I know inside you care\ |
| 380 | So get down, down here, beside me\ |
| 381 | Oh you aint going nowhere\ |
| 382 | No I won't hurt you mama\ |
| 383 | But it's getting so hard, ooh'' |
| 384 | * Kim Boekbinder's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaoub0EL_YE Stalker.]] |
| 385 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mda4OBisT3o "You and me (in my pocket)"]] by the Belgian singer Milow: |
| 386 | -->''People say there are plenty of fish\ |
| 387 | In the sea, baby, all I do is wish.\ |
| 388 | I wish you were a little slower,\ |
| 389 | Not just slow but paralyzed,\ |
| 390 | Then I could plug you into a socket,\ |
| 391 | So you could never run away.\ |
| 392 | I really wish that you were smaller,\ |
| 393 | Not just small but really really short,\ |
| 394 | So I could put you in my pocket,\ |
| 395 | And carry you around all day.'' |
| 396 | * The song "Bill Watterson" by Music/LemonDemon is about the singer being this for the [[ReclusiveArtist reclusive author]] of ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes. |
| 397 | -->Don’t you know I think you’re the cat’s meow?\ |
| 398 | Where’s the tiger now? Where’s the tiger now?\ |
| 399 | Bill Watterson, can’t you hear me?\ |
| 400 | Bill Watterson, please don’t fear me.\ |
| 401 | Don’t treat me like I have rabies,\ |
| 402 | I only wanna have your babies.'' |
| 403 | * "Goodnight and Go" by Music/ImogenHeap is often [[MisaimedFandom mistaken]] for a SillyLoveSong due to its mostly cute sounding lyrics and [[LyricalDissonance sound]], however it has heavy undertones of stalking. |
| 404 | -->''Follow you home,\ |
| 405 | You've got your headphones on\ |
| 406 | And you're dancing.\ |
| 407 | Got lucky, beautiful shot:\ |
| 408 | You're taking everything off\ |
| 409 | Watch the curtains wide open\ |
| 410 | And you're following the same routine;\ |
| 411 | Flicking through the TV, relaxed and reclining\ |
| 412 | And you think you're alone...'' |
| 413 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFNaFeIm4bU "She"]] by [[Music/{{OFWGKTA}} Tyler, The Creator]] |
| 414 | * While it's probably meant to come off as a DoggedNiceGuy, "Say You Like Me" by We The Kings also sounds like an obsessive guy who can't take a hint: |
| 415 | -->''I say hi, but [[SelectiveObliviousness she's too shy to say hello]] |
| 416 | -->...\ |
| 417 | ''I wish my heart was always on her mind\ |
| 418 | 'Cause she's on mine like all day, all the time\ |
| 419 | Forget me not, forget me now\ |
| 420 | I've come too far to turn around\ |
| 421 | I'm here tonight\ |
| 422 | 'Cause I'm never going down\ |
| 423 | I'm never giving up\ |
| 424 | I'm never gonna leave\ |
| 425 | So put your hands up'' |
| 426 | -->...\ |
| 427 | ''It's time to fall into my arms\ |
| 428 | Cause I've been waiting for too long'' |
| 429 | -->All of which he says '''before she even acknowledges his existence.''' |
| 430 | * The CountryMusic song "What'll You Do About Me", written by Dennis Linde and most (in)famously recorded by Doug Supernaw: |
| 431 | -->What in the world are you plannin’ to do \ |
| 432 | When a man comes over just to visit with you\ |
| 433 | And I’m on the porch with a two-by-two[[note]]a later edit toned this down to "dinner for two"[[/note]]\ |
| 434 | Tell me what'll you do about me\ |
| 435 | You can call your lawyer, you can call the fuzz\ |
| 436 | You can sound the alarm, wake the neighbors up\ |
| 437 | Ain't no way to stop a man in love \ |
| 438 | What'Il you do about me |
| 439 | * "Oah", by Music/AlexanderRybak, is a perfectly innocent tune about a man who's in love with someone younger than himself. The ''music video,'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4sfh2u8cgU however...]][[note]]And coincidentally it's from an album called ''No Boundaries''.[[/note]] |
| 440 | ** "Leave Me Alone" is from the perspective of a ''victim'' of a stalker. The song was inspired by a real-life stalker that Alexander had to deal with. |
| 441 | -->It started with a phone I stupidly answered.\ |
| 442 | You said you got my number from one of the dancers.\ |
| 443 | You waited right outside\ |
| 444 | You had something of mine\ |
| 445 | But then I saw your eyes-- your crazy eyes\ |
| 446 | Now you've got me into something sick and twisted\ |
| 447 | An evil kind of game I didn't know existed\ |
| 448 | You travel overseas to terrorize me\ |
| 449 | And I don't understand, why can't you let me be? |
| 450 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sEzRWhxHOc "You'll Accompany Me"]] by Music/BobSeger. |
| 451 | * Haven't Had Enough by Marianas Trench is about an ex-boyfriend turned stalker, ''especially'' the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c5XkGbEQiE music video]] |
| 452 | * ''Music/{{Kesha}}'': The narrator of "Stephen". ''Very'' much so. |
| 453 | -->Stephen... I'll knit you a sweater. I wanna wrap you up... in my love... forever. I would ''never'' let you go, Stephen. I'll never let go. |
| 454 | * "Andy You're a Star" by Music/TheKillers is often interpreted as to be about a boy who is in love with the star quarterback of his school and stalks him. |
| 455 | * Until You're Mine by Music/DemiLovato has this kind of vibe.. |
| 456 | --->''My state of mind has finally got the best of me'' |
| 457 | --->''I need you next to me'' |
| 458 | --->''I'll try to find a way that I could get to you'' |
| 459 | ---> ''Just wanna get to you'' |
| 460 | * Music/TheVeronicas, |
| 461 | ** ''Secret'': A guy pretending to be gay and once discovered starts stalking them |
| 462 | ** ''This is How it Feels'': deals with a guy who starts stalking one of them after their break up. |
| 463 | * The Music/BlueOysterCult experiment with this trope in ''Monsters''. Here, after some unspecified disaster on Earth, only three humans are known to have got into space and relative safety. Two men and one woman. The man who is unfavoured by the woman crew member harbours fantasies and desires akin to stalking. Then he makes a pass at her. Her lover gets the wrong end of the stick and shoots ''her'' in a fit of rage. So the last two survivors of all humanity are two men... the ability of the human race to take a bad situation and make t worse is legendary.... |
| 464 | * The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QW1Ga7dGP0 Obsessie]]" (Obsession) by the Dutch singer Gio, complete with StalkerShrine. |
| 465 | * Edge of Dawn's "In Your Sleep": "I will haunt you in your sleep, for the promises you never never keep. Only this time, I'll be fine. [[ObligatoryBondageSong You'll be tied up]], and you'll be mine". |
| 466 | * Taken to extremes in the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JthbGaT_cFY&feature=related "Going Crazy"]] by Song Ji Eun and featuring Bang Young Gook. It starts off like a typical, incredibly serious guy-stalks-girl scenario with the singer singing the part of the girl and the rapper singing the part of the guy while the video shows a woman driving down an abandoned back country road. Then, toward the climax of the song, we suddenly see the male rapper [[WithMyHandsTied with his hands tied]], and all of a sudden, the woman gets out of her car, opens her trunk, and [[spoiler:lo and behold! There's a [[SharpDressedMan well-dressed]], [[AbductionIsLove kidnapped]] [[GenderFlip young man in there]]! [[BoundAndGagged Tied up]], [[BlindfoldedTrip blindfolded]], [[TheWoobie and literally trembling in fear]], the poor thing doesn't even know what's coming until the woman [[ManOnFire drenches him in gasoline, walks a few feet away, and lights a match]]. [[BolivianArmyEnding The video ends with her throwing the lighter behind her and walking away and cuts to black just as the stream of fire is about to reach the car.]]]] Turns out that it was [[spoiler:the ''woman'' who was the stalker the whole time, and the singer's and rapper's parts got {{Gender Flip}}ed.]] |
| 467 | ** There's another version of that music video which features Jieun and Yongguk as the main 'characters', in which Yongguk plays the typical stalker to Jieun (taking pictures of her, sending her bits of her hair, breaking into her apartment, etc.). |
| 468 | * In another [[KoreanPopMusic k-pop]] song by Kan Miyoun, ''also'' called "Going Crazy," we get a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_1KfUDB1zU much more comedic variant of this trope]]. The man in this video is [[AbductionIsLove kidnapped]] by a woman who [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe wants to marry him]]. [[spoiler:[[LockedInARoom It doesn't end well]] [[AllLoveIsUnrequited for either of them.]]]] |
| 469 | * Music/{{Buckethead}}'s ''Post Office Buddy'' is mostly an instrumental, being interrupted by a guy leaving messages on a woman's phone and growing [[AxCrazy increasingly frustrated]] with her not calling him back: "''Well, you think you're gonna get away with it? You think one dark night that I can't go in anywhere I want? So when you go to sleep, when you try to go to sleep, I want you to think about that nice, regular guy that you coulda met and had a really nice life with at the post office, but you went the wrong way...''" |
| 470 | * Psyborg Corp's [[TheCoverChangesTheGender gender-flipped]] cover of Music/LadyGaga's "Bad Romance" seems to [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning change the meaning]] of the lyrics to this. |
| 471 | * Music/DavidBowie's "Love You Till Tuesday", a pre-''Space Oddity'' number from TheSixties, is sung by one. There is a twist, though -- he admits that once the object of his affections returns them, the relationship will only last a few days before he falls out of love/obsession. |
| 472 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukNOaKeUEQY Awkward]]" by San Cisco is about a stalker who won't stop calling/texting/following the object of his affection, even when she demands that he leave her alone. |
| 473 | * In Little Boot's "Remedy", LB is being stalked by her ex-boyfriend and she goes out dancing "with (his) enemy" to get away from him. |
| 474 | * Tom Smith's ''[[http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/woth_the_wait.htm Worth the Wait]]'' is a borderline case in that the singer merely plays the DoggedNiceGuy, waiting for her to come to her senses. The line of "much I've needed what I've earned" reveals the case of entitlement he feels. |
| 475 | * "I Put A Spell On You" by Screaming Jay Hawkins has heavy undertones of this trope. |
| 476 | -->''I love you, I love you\ |
| 477 | I love you, anyhow\ |
| 478 | And I DON'T CARE IF YOU DON'T WANT ME\ |
| 479 | I'm yours right now\ |
| 480 | I put a spell on you\ |
| 481 | Because you're [[CarefulWithThatAxe MIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!]]'' |
| 482 | * "Watchin' You Sleep" by indie band Bleu is a pretty straightforward example. The song has the narrator following the girl to work, and of course, watching her sleep. |
| 483 | * "Stalker" by Music/{{Cascada}}, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as you'd expect from the title]]. |
| 484 | * "Kinda Kute" by Music/JoeJackson. Jackson sits and watches a woman from afar, and even buys a drink for her in the hope that she will come and talk to him. |
| 485 | * Pretty much all of Masked Intruder's self-titled album is a tongue-in-cheek description of a StalkerWithACrush. For example: |
| 486 | -->''Every night in my sweetest dreams I get to hold you in my arms'' |
| 487 | -->''I tried to get some in real life, honey, but just set off your burglar alarm'' |
| 488 | -->''Why are you calling the cops, baby? I don't mean you any harm'' |
| 489 | -->''Why don't you love me in real life?'' |
| 490 | -->''[...]'' |
| 491 | -->''Is it because of my mask, or just because I'm brandishing a knife?'' |
| 492 | -->''Why don't you love me in real life?'' |
| 493 | * 'Gimme Gimme' by the Music/LordsOfAcid. Subverted in that the song is from the perspective of the stalker's obsession, who has gotten a crush on her ''own'' stalker with a crush (or at least is very much turned on by the idea!). |
| 494 | * Music/TheJesusLizard's "Mailman", dealing with a woman who is constantly receiving disturbing, sexual notes from an anonymous stranger. Somewhat unusually, it's from the point of view of the woman in question, and thus it's much more about her terrified state of mind than it is about her actual stalker. |
| 495 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ElIXnmw5-U&list=UU3EKokt8lCDZm1F-VwPNliA&index=6 music video]] to Music/{{Daughtry}}'s "Outta My Head" comes off as this, with Chris chasing a woman through the city and eventually culminating into a ChaseScene with her [[BadassBiker on a motorcycle]] and Chris [[CoolCar in a Dodge Charger]]. It borders on UnfortunateImplications until [[spoiler: it turns out she left her cell phone and [[NiceGuy he was trying to give it back to her.]]]] |
| 496 | * "Stalker" by ThrashMetal band Warbeast is a song told from the post of view of a deranged stalker. He describes in disturbing detail how he plans to murder the woman he's stalking if she rejects his advances. |
| 497 | * The 1971 country song "Tomorrow Night in Baltimore" (written by Kenny Price, a hit for Roger Miller, also covered by Music/WaylonJennings). The narrator is obsessed with a burlesque dancer. He goes backstage after the show ("tonight I'm gonna take her") but her troupe is busy packing up for their next gig [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin (tomorrow night in Baltimore)]]. He vows to follow them. |
| 498 | * 'Sweet Tangerine' by the Hush Sound. Throughout most of the song, the narrator seems to be begging the object of his affections for forgiveness, until near the end when he sneaks into her room. |
| 499 | * 'Highschool Stalker' by Hello Saferide is about ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 500 | * The Music/{{Madonna}} song "Open Your Heart" is about a woman who wants someone who is ignoring her and shutting her out, put she ''really'' persists. "Don't try to run, I can keep up with you". |
| 501 | * In Caramella Girls' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GNVC3TPbg0 "We Love to Party"]], as evident by the line "We're coming after you", the girls are apparently stalking the guy that they want to "party" with. And this is [[LyricalDissonance a chirpy bubblegum Eurodancepop song]], to boot. |
| 502 | * Surprised no one's mentioned it yet, but maybe most tropers are too young to remember GeorgeMichael's 'Father Figure' which is totally this, and the "taxi driver" music video plays this trope up to eleven. |
| 503 | -->''Sometimes love can be mistaken'' |
| 504 | -->''For a crime...'' |
| 505 | * "Ich laß dich nicht los" ("I won't let you go") by Music/FettesBrot mit Finkenauer. |
| 506 | * Though the narrator and her object of affection are friends, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egUQju95vT8 "Jenny"]] by Music/StudioKillers has elements of this. |
| 507 | -->''Jenny, darling, you're my best friend''\ |
| 508 | ''But there's a few things that you don't know of''\ |
| 509 | ''Why I borrow your lipstick so often''\ |
| 510 | ''I'm using your shirt as a pillow case''\ |
| 511 | ''[...]''\ |
| 512 | ''Jenny, darling, you're my best friend''\ |
| 513 | ''I've been doing bad things that you don't know about''\ |
| 514 | ''Stealing your stuff now and then''\ |
| 515 | ''Nothing you'd miss but it means the world to me'' |
| 516 | |
| 517 | * Music/MichaelJackson's "Billie Jean", though the song is told from the stalked's POV. |
| 518 | * The music video for Music/MaroonFive's "Animals" features Adam Levine as a particularly creepy one. It's not helped by the lyrics, which compares [[IntercourseWithYou sex]] to animals eating each other, [[LyricalDissonance and set to a peppy beat]]. |
| 519 | * Music/JimmyReed has a few songs like this, "Knocking At Your Door" probably being the best-known example. Can overlap with DoggedNiceGuy, considering Jimmy Reed's overall persona. |
| 520 | * "Closer" by Burn Season contains the following lyrics which imply this: |
| 521 | --> Don't say that its over |
| 522 | --> I'd kill to be closer |
| 523 | --> A moment I'm passing to you |
| 524 | --> But to me |
| 525 | --> I will wait |
| 526 | --> And I'll take |
| 527 | --> Anything with your name |
| 528 | --> Don't say that its over |
| 529 | --> You can't live without me |
| 530 | |
| 531 | --> You say there's something wrong in my head |
| 532 | --> So I like to bleed |
| 533 | --> You say I'm scaring you now but I'm tired |
| 534 | --> From watching you sleep |
| 535 | |
| 536 | --> I'd erase what you say |
| 537 | --> Scramble words in the way |
| 538 | --> But you can't take away |
| 539 | --> Turn away |
| 540 | --> Run away |
| 541 | --> Fuck with me |
| 542 | * While the songs themselves aren't about stalking, the music videos for the Music/MarianasTrench songs "Cross My Heart" and "Beside You" definitely fit, and [[LampshadeHanging the band is well aware]]. Their song "Toy Soldiers" from ''Ever After'' is a straight example. The song even ends with ''[[IfICantHaveYou "if I can't have you, no one can"]]''! |
| 543 | * Music/{{ACDC}}'s "Night Prowler", about a boy who even enters his beloved's bedroom. In a case of MisaimedFandom, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez Richard Ramirez]] took a wrong interpretation of the song prior to his rape-and-murder antics, even leading to the nickname "Night Stalker". |
| 544 | * An example of RealLifeWritesThePlot: Music/MarkusSchulz made the songs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUvmaVgslqA "Nothing Without Me"]] and its sequel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbtvluwpJCE "Erase You"]] due to his experiences with an [[LoonyFan actual stalker]]. |
| 545 | * Cry Baby's ex-boyfriend in the Music/MelanieMartinez song "Teddy Bear" becomes one of these after she dumps him due to fears he wants to kill her. |
| 546 | -->''I threw you out''\ |
| 547 | ''I didn't outgrow you, I just didn't know you''\ |
| 548 | ''But now you're back''\ |
| 549 | ''It's so terrifying how you paralyze me''\ |
| 550 | ''Now you're showing up inside my house''\ |
| 551 | ''Breathing deep into the phone''\ |
| 552 | ''I'm unprepared''\ |
| 553 | ''I'm fucking scared'' |
| 554 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THRtKGX-czY An Unhealthy Obsession]]" by The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra plays up the two stalkers (one male, one female) as being extremely creepy, but it is [[LyricalDissonance surprisingly upbeat]]. There is a twist: It is implied that they are obsessing over ''each other''. The cover image even shows the woman filming the man through her window, while he tries to steal her washing from the clothes-line. |
| 555 | -->''Some call it "stalking", I say "walking, just extremely close behind"''\ |
| 556 | ''I'm sure if I sat down and asked you, well, you wouldn't really mind''\ |
| 557 | ''You've got those eyes that drive me crazy and I've got eyes to watch you sleep''\ |
| 558 | ''I brought a pack lunch and some coffee for my stakeout in your tree outside your house'' |
| 559 | * The White Tie Affair's "Watching You" is about a man being stalked: |
| 560 | -->Help me, help me\ |
| 561 | Somebody save me\ |
| 562 | I keep running\ |
| 563 | She keeps on chasing\ |
| 564 | Reminds me all the time, "No matter where you go, I'll always be watching you." |
| 565 | * "The Coffee Girl" by Temposhark seems to be about a man obsessed with a woman. He kills her lover after moving near to her. |
| 566 | * "Stalker" by German band In Extremo. |
| 567 | * Music/NewFoundGlory's music video for their song "Dressed to Kill" features a young man stalking his female neighbor across their cul-de-sac by watching her every move and taking photographs of her whenever she isn't looking. He ultimately tries to make a move by throwing a rock through her window while he's holding flowers, but he ultimately chickens out and runs away. [[spoiler:It turns out she's been aware of his presence the entire time. She's been watching and photographing his every move as well, smiling as he runs away.]] |
| 568 | * "I Want to Know" by Music/LivingColour |
| 569 | -->Baby you stole my heart\ |
| 570 | I don't know what to do\ |
| 571 | Got one problem on my mind\ |
| 572 | Do you feel the way I do?\ |
| 573 | |
| 574 | -->I'm standing in the shadows baby\ |
| 575 | I got one thing that's on my mind\ |
| 576 | Gonna make you love me baby\ |
| 577 | If it takes the rest of my life\ |
| 578 | |
| 579 | -->I'm very patient baby\ |
| 580 | And I've got a lot of time\ |
| 581 | I can see a clear horizon\ |
| 582 | You and me standing side by side |
| 583 | * The narrator in "I'd Find You Anywhere" by Creative Source says that it would be a waste of time for her obsession to try to leave her because she'd find him no matter where he went. |
| 584 | * In the music video for {{Music/LOONA}}'s "Heart Attack," Chuu follows Yves from afar, snapping pictures and trying to get her attention, while singing a love song. Downplayed, in that Yves notices and doesn't seem to mind the attention, and in some bits is implied to return Chuu's feelings. |
| 585 | * A downplayed example in "Johnny Delusional" by FFS[[note]]the compilation group of Music/{{Sparks}} and Music/FranzFerdinand[[/note]]. It's not so much that the singer is actively stalking the object of his affections, but he's still refusing to take no for an answer despite knowing the girl is simply way out of his league. He presumably considers himself a DoggedNiceGuy, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCxLpte5loY the music video]] in particular makes him just seem pathetic: |
| 586 | -->I know yes and no in a couple dozen other languages\ |
| 587 | But your form of no is the kind of look I can't deny\ |
| 588 | Tell me, are resistance and stupidity the same?\ |
| 589 | Tell me, is resistance so enticing, please explain\ |
| 590 | Though I want you\ |
| 591 | I know I haven't a chance\ |
| 592 | Still I want you\ |
| 593 | Johnny Delusional here |
| 594 | * The music video for Music/TheCars' "You Might Think" makes this theme more obvious. |
| 595 | * "Out of My Head" by Mobile seems to be about this. |
| 596 | * The Zutons' "Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?": |
| 597 | -->I chain you up\ |
| 598 | I make you mine\ |
| 599 | I keep you locked downstairs\ |
| 600 | With all the bugs\ |
| 601 | And all the knots\ |
| 602 | I feed you rodent hair\ |
| 603 | \ |
| 604 | I keep you in my cellar safe\ |
| 605 | Oughta keep you there til dawn\ |
| 606 | I wait until the sun comes up\ |
| 607 | And I'll poke and prod you more |
| 608 | * "Lonely Town" solo work from Brandon Flower's (of Music/TheKillers fame), has the chorus suggest the stalker is ''attempting to break into his crush's house.'' |
| 609 | * "День народження Наташi," (Natasha's Birthday) a Ukrainian song first by Music/VechirnyaShkola and then [[CoveredUp Covered Up]] by Music/{{Russya}} is about one of these pining after the titular Natasha. |
| 610 | * Recoil (a.k.a. Alan Wilder from Music/DepecheMode), |
| 611 | ** ''Stalker'': a man stalks a woman. Although the stalker [[LoveMakesYouEvil expresses more of resentment towards his 'crush']]. The song implies that he started to stalk her only after she either broke up or rejected him. |
| 612 | ** ''Control Freak'': a woman stalks a man, but the attraction turns out to be mutual. Once they start making out, the woman seemingly feels uncomfortable about it and runs away from him, but ends up sneering at him when he tells her to stay. |
| 613 | * The narrator of "It Should've Been Me" by R.I.P. is heavily implied to be one. |
| 614 | -->There you are\ |
| 615 | Can't they see it?\ |
| 616 | I'm enough\ |
| 617 | Could it be?\ |
| 618 | It's rude to stare\ |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/context.php
FollowingContext StalkerWithACrush / Music
Go To
- Show Spoilers
- Night Vision
- Sticky Header
- Wide Load
