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* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Both of Marinette’s love interests are talented musicians with hearts of gold, Adrien being a classical pianist who is selfless to a fault, and Luka being a cool guitar player who can get in touch with people’s souls.
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* Duke Evans, the local playboy/[[TheCharmer charmer]] of ''VideoGame/HarvestTown'' is also a guitarist/musician. However, his popularity is more or less an InformedAttribute, given that none of the female characters in the game hardly ever say anything about him or his music.
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* ''Series/RaisingHope'': Jimmy used to be a musical prodigy before he was accidentally hit in the head. When he shows his love interest Sabrina a tape of him playing, she seems impressed. This causes Jimmy to try and regain his talent, believing this will win Sabrina's affections.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}}''. In one episode Erotica mentions she's crazy about musicians, but worries that the one she's interested will be [[MyGirlIsNotASlut turned off by the fact that she's a stripper]]. When he finally gets up on stage, his singing turns out to be awful, so she immediately confesses to being a stripper.
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* In an episode from Series 4 of ''Series/TheITCrowd'', Jen is smitten with the very unattractive keyboardist of a band. Roy insists she's only attracted to him because he's in a band, which she denies, but once he gets kicked out of the band Jen immediately stops loving him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Kaeloo's love interest, Mr. Cat, plays the piano. While she's already attracted to him, she fawns over him even more when he plays music.
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* Lampooned in a set of Website/CollegeHumor videos titled "Learning Guitar/Piano To Get Laid". The guys in the video managed to attract ''an entire harem'' by the end. Also, no, learning [[NobodyLovesTheBassist the bass]] will NOT get you laid.
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* ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' has Matt Olsen, lead guitar player and singer for his band, NiceGuy and LoveInterest for [[TheLeader Will Vandom]], not to mention a general ChickMagnet... which is unfortunate since Will is the [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous type]].
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'''Colin:''' Just piano, guitar, trumpet, drums and bass.\\
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* ''WesternAnimation/EquestriaGirls'' has Flash Sentry, Twilight's love-interest in the human world, who is introduced as an attractive guitarist with a band. He even helps her win prom-queen by playing, which leads to a shot of her gleefully admiring him.
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** Leela reveals she has a thing for musicians, having dated a saxophone player (until he cheated on her) and swooned over Fry when he played the holophone for her when he was infected by a parasite that made him smarter, and again [[spoiler: in the original finale when he trades his hands for the robot devil's]].
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** This trope plays a major part of the episode [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E17BoyzCrazyBoyz Crazy]]."Boyz Crazy"]], where Mabel and her friends rescue a boy band made of enslaved clones, only for Mabel to get a little too attached to them.
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After all, dating a musician has some perks. He could [[SerenadeYourLover serenade you outside your window]], or create songs just for you. He could help you get your toe into the industry, or get you free tickets to his next gig. If he does classical, he can play for your parent, winning them over easily. And even if he's not even close to beinhg famous, but just likes to play, he'll often be charming, passionate, smart and talented- or at least, that's the ideal here. Because what's a musician without the personality to match?
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Ah, music. What could be better than enjoying some tunes? Well, for a lot of girls, the answer is obvious: it's the person ''behind'' the instrument they like. ArtistsAreAttractive, after all, and so musicians are just inherently appealing.
After all, dating a musician has some perks. He could [[SerenadeYourLover serenade you outside your window]], or create songs just for you. He could help you get your toe into the industry, or get you free tickets to his next gig. If he does classical, he can play for your parent, winning them over easily. And even if he's not even close to beinhg famous, but just likes to play, he'll often be charming, passionate, smart and talented- or at least, that's the ideal here. Because what's a musician without the personality to match?
And, even if the girl isn't into music herself, there's just something about musicians that make them popular love-interests. The crush will play music, regardless of what the girl actually ''thinks'' about music. This character is, after all, likely meant to appeal to the ''audience'' as well, who are also bound to find the boy more attractive just because he can play an instrument.
That said, if a character attempts to invoke this, results may vary. If their only reason for picking up an instrument is to impress some girls, they probably won't have the motivation to actually ''learn to play.''
This role, of course, only properly applies to the rock-star type or classical musician, so the BandGeek or PolkaDork need not apply. And because AllDrummersAreAnimals and NobodyLovesTheBassist, this rarely applies to them, too.
A subtrope of ArtistsAreAttractive. Compare QuirkyUkulele for the female variant, as well as the ElegantClassicalMusician. Finally, see {{Groupie}}, for the dedicated female fans of an actual celebrity musician, which overlaps.
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* Following Archie and Betty's catastrophic breakup before the beginning of ''ComicBook/ArchieComics2015'', Jughead schemes to get Archie to perform at Homecoming. Betty, who won Homecoming Queen, looks on longingly as he rocks out on stage. Jughead admits later that his plan all along was to remind each other of what they had been missing instead of forcing a connection -- evidently, Archie's musical skill was part of that.
* ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' mocks this trope. Tess outright admits that she puts up with her boyfriend because he's in a band, though whether this is because she actually likes musicians or because she wants to look cool is unclear.
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* In ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Lucy's crush is on the piano-playing Schroeder, fawning over his music as he tries to concentrate.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EquestriaGirls'' has Flash Sentry, Twilight's love-interest in the human world, who is introduced as an attractive guitarist with a band. He even helps her win prom-queen by playing, which leads to a shot of her gleefully admiring him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'': The intellectual Lisa is clearly enraptured by Colin's musical skill. The sadness of their separation is punctuated by him writing a song for her.
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* Lampshaded in ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' when Pink talks about quitting the football team:
"I don't know, I just think it'd be the same if we were in a band."
* In ''Film/ZombielandDoubleTap'', Little Rock runs away with Berkeley, a NewAgeRetroHippie-type musician. She swoons over his guitar-playing and the songs he claims he writes for her. After the final battle, [[spoiler:presumably his charm has worn off and she dumps him, saying "even twelve-year-olds know who Music/BobDylan is".]]
* ''Film/TheDuff'': The main character Bianca has a huge crush on guitar-playing Toby.
* In ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'', Michael is introduced playing in a garage band to establish that he's the protagonist' (and many other girls') crush.
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* ''Series/{{Awkward}}'':
** Secondary love-interest Jake was a laid-back NiceGuy, who, fittingly, played the guitar and even had a short musical career. He has managed to attract four different girls over the course of the series.
** For a brief time, Jenna had a fling with a boy named Owen, who's main character trait was being a talented and dedicated classical pianist. She even met him while he was playing, and their relationship was based on their supposed shared interest in music- with Jenna pretending to understand his jargon.
* On ''Series/{{Community}}'', Vaughan is sort of a parody of the MrFanservice cool rocker type. He's always playing guitar on the quad and is first introduced as Greendale's main musician, and both Britta and Annie are attracted to him and date him at various points on the show.
* In ''Series/DerryGirls'', Erin's crush David is in a band and also works as a DJ. Erin clearly thinks this is very impressive and tries to act cooler around him.
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': One of the reason Drake is so popular with girls is that he's a talented guitarist with his own band, and thus he's able to woo with his music in addition to his looks and charm.
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': Fabian, the protagonist's love-interest and the main-focus of a love-triangle, played guitar. He even played it around Nina, despite his general embarrassment when others catch him practicing, all-the-while crushing on each other.
* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': Ned attempted to invoke this, as one reason for learning to play the guitar was his belief that his crush, Suzy Crabgrass, would be attracted to him if he were a rockstar.
* PlayedWith in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Someone To Watch Over Me." Seven of Nine has chosen to try dating...
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* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': While not as much as [[ChickMagnet Beck]], the musically-inclined Andre gets plenty of attention from girls. Oftentimes, he's approached by girls after concerts. At the end of an episode where he was pinning over Jade, he gets over these feelings once another girl shows interest in him.
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* Music/NinjaSexParty: In "Dragon Slayer", Danny attempts to score with a woman by making up lies about how awesome he is. One of his attempts has him pointing out that he's in a band. [[SubvertedTrope The woman is still unimpressed.]]
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* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', a stereotypical bard uses their high charisma score to seduce AnythingThatMoves. This is technically because they're a high charisma class who could easily end an encounter by...turning it into an encounter, but the way this was attached to bards rather than other charisma based classes is likely because of this trope.
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* In ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'', the song "He Plays the Violin" explains how soft-spoken Thomas Jefferson managed to win over his beloved wife.
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* ''Videogame/TheKingOfFighters'': A part of Athena and Kensou's backstories is that, as a guitarist in Athena's IdolSinger concerts, Kensou gets his own fangirls too, from which he gets a lot of gifts. Athena is also his LoveInterest, although she acts more like his caring best friend.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** The episode "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" features an alien called Edna who wants to mate with a rock star.
** Leela reveals she has a thing for musicians, having dated a saxophone player (until he cheated on her) and swooned over Fry when he played the holophone for her when he was infected by a parasite that made him smarter, and again [[spoiler: in the original finale when he trades his hands for the robot devil's]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Candace's love-interest Jeremy plays guitar in a band, which has lead to her fawning over him as he plays, being directly sung to, and even buying him a special silver guitar she knew he wanted. Meanwhile, her friend Stacey ended up crushing on his band-mate and best-friend, Coltrane.
* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this with an insipid pop star named Justin Beaver, whose ChickMagnet status is only because his manager wrote MindControlMusic for him. When Sonic breaks Justin and his fangirls of their brainwashing, Justin loses his appeal and abandons his music career.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'': When Gwen was falling for Trent, one of her main reasons for liking him was that she just couldn't resist boys who played guitar, which he was known for. The opening even has him playing his guitar for her near a campfire, the two of them just about to kiss.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Steve mentions taking up the cello just so he can hook up with girls.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** Greg Universe was a fledgling rock star who had one of his modest concerts attended by Rose Quartz, a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens "magical alien"]] known as a Gem, and the leader of the rebel faction known as the Crystal Gems. Drawn by Greg's personality and love of music, the two began a romantic courtship that consummated in the birth of their son and eponymous protagonist, Steven...at the cost of Rose's own life.
** It's also implied that Greg was not the first "musician" that Rose fell in love with during her [[LongLived many millennia]] on Earth. One telling of her origin story shows an image of her falling in love with a dancing tribal from a very ancient civilization.
* Wendy from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' seems to be into musicians if her relationship with Robbie is any indication, and this trope plays a major part of the episode [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E17BoyzCrazy Boyz Crazy]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': The mostly stoic Daria used to have a crush on Trent, the lead guitarist of an alternative band with a sort of rebel appeal. Even if the band is pretty bad and Trent is a flaky slacker, Daria remains smitten with him for a few years.
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Ah, music. What could be better than enjoying some tunes? Well, for a lot of girls, the answer is obvious: it's the person ''behind'' the instrument they like. ArtistsAreAttractive, after all, and so musicians are just inherently appealing.
After all, dating a musician has some perks. He could [[SerenadeYourLover serenade you outside your window]], or create songs just for you. He could help you get your toe into the industry, or get you free tickets to his next gig. If he does classical, he can play for your parent, winning them over easily. And even if he's not even close to beinhg famous, but just likes to play, he'll often be charming, passionate, smart and talented- or at least, that's the ideal here. Because what's a musician without the personality to match?
And, even if the girl isn't into music herself, there's just something about musicians that make them popular love-interests. The crush will play music, regardless of what the girl actually ''thinks'' about music. This character is, after all, likely meant to appeal to the ''audience'' as well, who are also bound to find the boy more attractive just because he can play an instrument.
That said, if a character attempts to invoke this, results may vary. If their only reason for picking up an instrument is to impress some girls, they probably won't have the motivation to actually ''learn to play.''
This role, of course, only properly applies to the rock-star type or classical musician, so the BandGeek or PolkaDork need not apply. And because AllDrummersAreAnimals and NobodyLovesTheBassist, this rarely applies to them, too.
A subtrope of ArtistsAreAttractive. Compare QuirkyUkulele for the female variant, as well as the ElegantClassicalMusician. Finally, see {{Groupie}}, for the dedicated female fans of an actual celebrity musician, which overlaps.
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* Following Archie and Betty's catastrophic breakup before the beginning of ''ComicBook/ArchieComics2015'', Jughead schemes to get Archie to perform at Homecoming. Betty, who won Homecoming Queen, looks on longingly as he rocks out on stage. Jughead admits later that his plan all along was to remind each other of what they had been missing instead of forcing a connection -- evidently, Archie's musical skill was part of that.
* ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' mocks this trope. Tess outright admits that she puts up with her boyfriend because he's in a band, though whether this is because she actually likes musicians or because she wants to look cool is unclear.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Lucy's crush is on the piano-playing Schroeder, fawning over his music as he tries to concentrate.
''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'': While watching Jeremy and his band rehearse, Walt reminisces about his own days in a garage band, and says he doesn't know what it is, but girls seem to love a boy in a band. Meanwhile, Connie is staring at the band with a dreamy look in her eyes.
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[[folder:Film-- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/EquestriaGirls'' has Flash Sentry, Twilight's love-interest in the human world, who is introduced as an attractive guitarist with a band. He even helps her win prom-queen by playing, which leads to a shot of her gleefully admiring him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'': The intellectual Lisa is clearly enraptured by Colin's musical skill. The sadness of their separation is punctuated by him writing a song for her.
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[[folder:Film-- Live-Action]]
* Lampshaded in ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' when Pink talks about quitting the football team:
"I don't know, I just think it'd be the same if we were in a band."
* In ''Film/ZombielandDoubleTap'', Little Rock runs away with Berkeley, a NewAgeRetroHippie-type musician. She swoons over his guitar-playing and the songs he claims he writes for her. After the final battle, [[spoiler:presumably his charm has worn off and she dumps him, saying "even twelve-year-olds know who Music/BobDylan is".]]
* ''Film/TheDuff'': The main character Bianca has a huge crush on guitar-playing Toby.
* In ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'', Michael is introduced playing in a garage band to establish that he's the protagonist' (and many other girls') crush.
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* ''Series/{{Awkward}}'':
** Secondary love-interest Jake was a laid-back NiceGuy, who, fittingly, played the guitar and even had a short musical career. He has managed to attract four different girls over the course of the series.
** For a brief time, Jenna had a fling with a boy named Owen, who's main character trait was being a talented and dedicated classical pianist. She even met him while he was playing, and their relationship was based on their supposed shared interest in music- with Jenna pretending to understand his jargon.
* On ''Series/{{Community}}'', Vaughan is sort of a parody of the MrFanservice cool rocker type. He's always playing guitar on the quad and is first introduced as Greendale's main musician, and both Britta and Annie are attracted to him and date him at various points on the show.
* In ''Series/DerryGirls'', Erin's crush David is in a band and also works as a DJ. Erin clearly thinks this is very impressive and tries to act cooler around him.
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': One of the reason Drake is so popular with girls is that he's a talented guitarist with his own band, and thus he's able to woo with his music in addition to his looks and charm.
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': Fabian, the protagonist's love-interest and the main-focus of a love-triangle, played guitar. He even played it around Nina, despite his general embarrassment when others catch him practicing, all-the-while crushing on each other.
* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': Ned attempted to invoke this, as one reason for learning to play the guitar was his belief that his crush, Suzy Crabgrass, would be attracted to him if he were a rockstar.
* PlayedWith in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Someone To Watch Over Me." Seven of Nine has chosen to try dating...
-->'''Seven:''' I've narrowed the list to two crewmen, based on work performance and compatible interests.
-->'''Harry Kim:''' I didn't know you had any interests.
-->'''Seven:''' Neither did I, but apparently they include astronomy, quantum mechanics and music.
-->'''Harry Kim:''' I play the clarinet, you know.
-->'''Seven:''' You are not one of the candidates, Ensign.
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': While not as much as [[ChickMagnet Beck]], the musically-inclined Andre gets plenty of attention from girls. Oftentimes, he's approached by girls after concerts. At the end of an episode where he was pinning over Jade, he gets over these feelings once another girl shows interest in him.
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* Music/NinjaSexParty: In "Dragon Slayer", Danny attempts to score with a woman by making up lies about how awesome he is. One of his attempts has him pointing out that he's in a band. [[SubvertedTrope The woman is still unimpressed.]]
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* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', a stereotypical bard uses their high charisma score to seduce AnythingThatMoves. This is technically because they're a high charisma class who could easily end an encounter by...turning it into an encounter, but the way this was attached to bards rather than other charisma based classes is likely because of this trope.
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* In ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'', the song "He Plays the Violin" explains how soft-spoken Thomas Jefferson managed to win over his beloved wife.
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* ''Videogame/TheKingOfFighters'': A part of Athena and Kensou's backstories is that, as a guitarist in Athena's IdolSinger concerts, Kensou gets his own fangirls too, from which he gets a lot of gifts. Athena is also his LoveInterest, although she acts more like his caring best friend.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** The episode "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" features an alien called Edna who wants to mate with a rock star.
** Leela reveals she has a thing for musicians, having dated a saxophone player (until he cheated on her) and swooned over Fry when he played the holophone for her when he was infected by a parasite that made him smarter, and again [[spoiler: in the original finale when he trades his hands for the robot devil's]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Candace's love-interest Jeremy plays guitar in a band, which has lead to her fawning over him as he plays, being directly sung to, and even buying him a special silver guitar she knew he wanted. Meanwhile, her friend Stacey ended up crushing on his band-mate and best-friend, Coltrane.
* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this with an insipid pop star named Justin Beaver, whose ChickMagnet status is only because his manager wrote MindControlMusic for him. When Sonic breaks Justin and his fangirls of their brainwashing, Justin loses his appeal and abandons his music career.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'': When Gwen was falling for Trent, one of her main reasons for liking him was that she just couldn't resist boys who played guitar, which he was known for. The opening even has him playing his guitar for her near a campfire, the two of them just about to kiss.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Steve mentions taking up the cello just so he can hook up with girls.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** Greg Universe was a fledgling rock star who had one of his modest concerts attended by Rose Quartz, a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens "magical alien"]] known as a Gem, and the leader of the rebel faction known as the Crystal Gems. Drawn by Greg's personality and love of music, the two began a romantic courtship that consummated in the birth of their son and eponymous protagonist, Steven...at the cost of Rose's own life.
** It's also implied that Greg was not the first "musician" that Rose fell in love with during her [[LongLived many millennia]] on Earth. One telling of her origin story shows an image of her falling in love with a dancing tribal from a very ancient civilization.
* Wendy from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' seems to be into musicians if her relationship with Robbie is any indication, and this trope plays a major part of the episode [[Recap/GravityFallsS1E17BoyzCrazy Boyz Crazy]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': The mostly stoic Daria used to have a crush on Trent, the lead guitarist of an alternative band with a sort of rebel appeal. Even if the band is pretty bad and Trent is a flaky slacker, Daria remains smitten with him for a few years.
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