History Main / LetsDuet

** Orzabal and Smith sing "The Tipping Point" in its entirety together. The song is a tribute to Orzabal's late wife Caroline, who died of [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/08/tears-for-fears-reunion-interview liver cirrhosis,]] and since Caroline was Smith's ChildhoodFriend, he would also be affected by her passing to some degree. Both men share the lead vocals to express their mutual sadness at the loss of a person who was very dear to them and whom they've known since they were young teenagers.

** On the album version of "Music/TheHurting", Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith sing all the non-chorus lyrics in unison to impart to their listeners that they both suffer from the same psychological pain. However, when [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yh9uk performed]] [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xppc9 live,]] Orzabal sings the final 8-verse stanza on his own.
** [[Music/TheSeedsOfLove "Woman in Chains"]] is a duet with Orzabal and Oleta Adams, and they take turns singing different verses.

** On the album version of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL-CnhbNvYU The Hurting]]", Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith sing all the non-chorus lyrics in unison to impart to their listeners that they both suffer from the same psychological pain. However, when [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yh9uk performed]] [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xppc9 live,]] Orzabal sings the final 8-verse stanza on his own.
** "Woman in Chains" is a duet with Orzabal and Oleta Adams, and they take turns singing different verses.

** On the album version of "The Hurting", Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith sing all the non-chorus lyrics in unison to impart to their listeners that they both suffer from the same psychological pain. However, when [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yh9uk performed]] [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xppc9 live,]] Orzabal sings the final 8-verse stanza on his own.

* The ''Walk Hard'' example above is probably inspired by Cole Porter's equally DoubleEntendre-filled duet, "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)"
* "Dueling Banjoes", of all things, is itself a duet.

The "Hope" and "Fear" parts are sung together. One must listen to the music in order to fully understand how the duets work.

* Music/JohnLennon and Music/YokoOno did this on all three of John's solo albums, ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo1TwoVirgins'', ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo2LifeWithTheLions'' and ''Music/WeddingAlbum''. On the latter album we find the most famous example: "John & Yoko", where they have a CallAndResponseSong where they call each other's names to a HeartbeatSoundtrack.

Due to the intimacy that comes with sharing a song, by far the most common form of duet is the SillyLoveSongs type, where the two participants are meant to be lovers. Some composers play on this intimacy to give the duet a humourous or unsettling feel-- for example, having two HeterosexualLifePartners sing about their bromance, or giving the hero and the villain a duet to show they’re NotSoDifferent.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Sayaka and Kyoko's joint ImageSong ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH6NB2F-Jcw And I'm Home]]'', which is actually sang by [[Creator/EriKitamura their respective]] [[Creator/AiNonaka voice actresses]]. Made all the more poignant by the fact that [[spoiler:it plays over the credits of the episode where [[HeroicSacrifice Kyoko sacrifices herself]] to be TogetherInDeath with Sayaka]].

* Mixing this with TheVillainSucksSong, "Pore Jud is Daid" in ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}!'' is a duet sung by the hero and the villain, containing a bunch of thinly-veiled jabs the villain, who doesn't catch the insults.

->'''Laney:''' When people are in love, they sing duets.\\
'''Corey:''' It's, uh, like a rule.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'': In the episode, "All You Need is Cake", Corey and Laney perform a duet for a wedding gig. Their heartwarming song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ssHtBB8-SU "Please Come Back"]] is for the bride and groom however, but rather to bandmates Kin and Kon as an apology for letting Grojband break up.

-->-- WesternAnimation/GrojBand

* ''WesternAnimation/GrojBand'' has Corey and Laney perform a duet for a wedding gig.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': From ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatRace'', there's "You Can Only Be You", a song sung by Ashima and Thomas about her trying to get him to be himself, and him self-deprecating.

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* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[LesYay Sayaka and Kyoko's]] joint ImageSong ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH6NB2F-Jcw And I'm Home]]'', which is actually sang by [[Creator/EriKitamura their respective]] [[Creator/AiNonaka voice actresses]]. Made all the more poignant by the fact that [[spoiler:it plays over the credits of the episode where [[HeroicSacrifice Kyoko sacrifices herself]] to be TogetherInDeath with Sayaka]].

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* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB1AAn23VOs "This Grill Is Not A Home"]].
* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' has THE duet in "A Whole New World."
* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' follows up with "I See The Light." In context, it doesn't melt into love song until Flynn starts singing though one wouldn't assume it listening to it straight.
* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' has the song "Love is an Open Door" which is something of an AffectionateParody of when this trope is used to make characters instantly fall in love. [[spoiler: It's retroactively quite dark when you discover one half of the duet, Hans, was evil.]]
** The sisters Anna and Elsa also share a couple of DistantDuet & CounterpointDuet in "For The First Time In Forever" and its reprise but it is not until ''Disney/OlafsFrozenAdventure'' do the sisters truly sing together in "When we're Together".

* "Dancing on Air", the first in-universe song in the original ''MyLittlePony'' pilot, is a duet between Megan and Firefly. Up until the end Megan isn't buying Firefly's assurances that she will be of help to the talking ponies.

* ''Franchise/{{Tsukiuta}}'' has each of the six pairs sing two duet songs together, one by each of their composers. Some are heavy on sexual tension/ShipTease (e.g. "Koiwasuregusa"), some are more purely friendship songs (e.g. "Dakai"), and some seem to be romantic with a third party, the listener (e.g. "Tsuki to, Hoshi to, Maboroshi to"... though that one could be TriangRelations 8 just as easily as 7.)

-->Let's duet, in ways that make us feel good.
-->Lets duet, and make that sacred sound
-->Put two and two together, perfect harmony we found.

''DarthWiki/TheGingerverse'': While in Europe, Younghee Byeol sings two examples: Norway's Fjords, with Holden Gjertsen, and The Song of Berlin, with Gunter Kruger.

->'''Laney''': When people are in love, they sing duets.\\
'''Corey''': It's, uh, like a rule.

** The sisters Anna and Elsa also share a couple of duets in "For The First Time In Forever" and its reprise.