History Main / SillyLoveSongs

** "Songs of Love" by The Divine Comedy (part of which, incidentally, was used as the theme for ''Father Ted''), is about a boy who sits in his room writing love songs while his peers are out chasing girls.

Some performers write AntiLoveSong[=s=] because they want to try something different. They never stop the deluge of Silly Love Songs that fill the airwaves. And what's wrong with that? (A lack of variety, of course, but [[TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]] all the time.)

* "Do Fries Go With That Shake" from GeorgeClinton's third solo album, R&B Skeletons In The Closet.

''Boppa-ba-boppa-choo-wah''\\

* The trope is affectionately deconstructed in Creator/ImeldaMay's "Human", which is about being loved passionately but realistically.

-->So come adore me, but know I'm gonna fall\\

I wanna be your human...

* Music/PaulMcCartney's song "[[TropeNamers Silly Love Songs]]," as quoted above. It's technically by Music/{{Wings}}, but the misattribution is [[IAmTheBand not exactly wrong]].

Music critics of the past commonly referred to this sort of song as a "Moon-June song", sometimes with "spoon" added, after the (supposed) [[PainfulRhyme tendency]] for writers of these songs to rhyme the two words together. The originator of this name was likely the 1908 hit ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_On,_Harvest_Moon Shine On, Harvest Moon]].''

* ''[[{{Rickroll}} Never gonna giiiive you up, never gonna leeeet you down...]]''

* Anything by Music/CelineDion. Oh, the {{Narm}}...

* Taken UpToEleven by Music/RoyOrbison who wrote and performed dramatic and operatic Love Songs. [[TropesAreNotBad His fans and music critics insist that he's amazing for precisely that reason]].

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by ''Matt Fishel's'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogsbUiSY2TU Radio-Friendly Pop Song]]". It tells the story of a young artist, whose producer tells him he was "a talented guy" who could be very sucessful... if only his songs were'nt gay themed. (''But this is an industry where people make money, so your art has to sell/ And you should never seek to challenge an audience/ They buy what they're told and we never get it wrong/ Go write us a non-offensive, tasteful, conventional song...) This implies the tast of the audience is limited to Silly Love songs with [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday very heterosexual pairings]]. The chorus is itself a parody to this concept, since this are the producers only requirements for a song. (Girls like boys and boys like girls/ And that's the way it should be/ Forever) The song inverts both: It's neither a love song to a specific person at all nor is it heterosexual themed, but instead adressing the pressure of gay (male) artists to reamain closeted to be sucessful.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by ''Matt Fishel's'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogsbUiSY2TU Radio-Friendly Pop Song]]". It tells the story of a young artist, whose producer tells him he was "a talented guy" who could be a very sucessful artist... if only his songs were'nt gay themed. (''But this is an industry where people make money, so your art has to sell/ And you should never seek to challenge an audience/ They buy what they're told and we never get it wrong/ Go write us a non-offensive, tasteful, conventional song...) This implies the tast of the audience is limited to Silly Love songs with [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday very heterosexual pairings]]. The chorus is itself a parody to this concept, since this are the producers only requirements for a song. (Girls like boys and boys like girls/ And that's the way it should be/ Forever) The song inverts both: It's neither a love song to a specific person nor is it heterosexual themed, but instead adressing gay (male) relationships, gay (male) stereotypes and how they are, well, nothing but stereotypes.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by ''Matt Fishel's'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogsbUiSY2TU Radio-Friendly Pop Song]]". It tells the story of a young artist, whose producer tells him he was "a talented guy" who could be a very sucessful artist... if only his songs were'nt gay themed. (''But this is an industry where people make money, so your art has to sell/ And you should never seek to challenge an audience/ They buy what they're told and we never get it wrong/ Go write us a non-offensive, tasteful, conventional song...) This implies the tast of the audience is limited to Silly Love songs with [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday very heterosexual pairings]]. The chorus is itself a parody to this concept, since this are the producers only requirements for a song. (Girls like boys and boys like girls/ And that's the way it should be/ Forever) The song inverts both: It's neither a [[Pun straigtforward]] love song to a specific [[LoveInterest love interest]] nor is it heterosexual themed, but instead adressing gay (male) relationships, gay (male) stereotypes and how they are, well, nothing but stereotypes.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by ''Matt Fishel's'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogsbUiSY2TU Radio-Friendly Pop Song]]". It tells the story of a young artist, whose producer tells him he was "a talented guy" who could be a very sucessful artist... if only his songs were'nt gay themed. (''But this is an industry where people make money, so your art has to sell/ And you should never seek to challenge an audience/ They buy what they're told and we never get it wrong/ Go write us a non-offensive, tasteful, conventional song...) This implies the tast of the audience is limited to Silly Love songs with [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday very heterosexual pairings]]. The chorus is itself a parody to this concept, since this are the producers only requirements for a song. (Girls like boys and boys like girls/ And that's the way it should be/ Forever) The song inverts both: It's neither a straigtforward love song to a specific love interest nor does it focus on heterosexuality altogether, but instead adressing gay (male) relationships, gay (male) stereotypes and how they are, well, nothing but stereotypes.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by ''Matt Fishel's'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogsbUiSY2TU Radio-Friendly Pop Song]]". It tells the story of a young artist, whose producer tells him he was "a talented guy" who could be a very sucessful artist... if only his songs were'nt gay themed.
(''But this is an industry where people make money, so your art has to sell/ And you should never seek to challenge an audience/ They buy what they're told and we never get it wrong/ Go write us a non-offensive, tasteful, conventional song...) This implies the tast of the audience is limited to Silly Love songs with [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday very heterosexual pairings]]. The chorus is itself a parody to this concept, describing the song the producer desires being of no other content than heterosexual love. (Girls like boys and boys like girls/ And that's the way it should be/ Forever) The song itself conforms to neither: It is

* Music/TheyMightBeGiants' "Pet Name" musically sounds like this, except that if you listen to the lyrics, you'll realize it's a song about a couple who are utterly sick of each other but mask it behind a sentimental facade. They do, however, have one straightforward example: "Another First Kiss." They themselves describe it as pretty much the only straight love song they've ever done, but in their typical style, it's a ([[WordOfGod their words]]) "Screw that" to the idea that you need to be young to be in love and instead depicts a [[HappilyMarried happy couple with history.]]

* Music/PaulMcCartney's song "[[TropeNamer Silly Love Songs]]," as quoted above. It's technically by Music/{{Wings}}, but the misattribution is [[IAmTheBand not exactly wrong]].

* Creator/MitchBenn has written a few of these, as well as {{Anti Love Song}}s. "Disgustingly in Love" is positive for the couple, if not [[SickeninglySweethearts anyone around them]]; "My Girlfriend is an Alien" has the singer conclude that he doesn't mind; and "One of These Days" is so sincere it's barely funny at all.

* Music/PaulMcCartney's song "Silly Love Songs," as quoted above. It's technically by Music/{{Wings}}, but the misattribution is [[IAmTheBand not exactly wrong]].

* "Cadence and Cascade," from KingCrimson's second album ''In The Wake of Poseidon''. Not a place you'd expect one, but there you are.

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* The name of an episode of ''Series/{{Glee}}'' wherein they perform the TropeNamer along with other love songs. Love songs become an annual Valentine's Day theme on the show.
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*** Because all woman love to be called confusing space aliens.

** Speaking of P-Funk related material, Zapp and the late Roger Troutman made quite a few in the 1980's with songs like with songs like "Computer Love" and "Itchin' For Your Twitchin" from Zapp IV, "I Want To Be Your Man" from Roger's solo album Unlimited!, and "Ooh Baby Baby" from Zapp V.

** Speaking of P-Funk related material, Zapp and the late Roger Troutman made quite a few in the 1980's with songs like with songs like "Computer Love" and "Itchin' For Your Twitchin" from Zapp IV, "I Want To Be Your Man" from Roger's solo album Unlimited!, and "Ooh Baby Baby from Zapp V.

* Most Broadway musicals include at least one Silly Love Song; ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}'' has one titled "The Song That Goes Like This," which explains how every Broadway musical contains at least one Silly Love Song.