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The song "King For A Day" from [[Music/Forever The Sickest Kids]] in a large nutshell, it's about someoeg singing about doing anything for a specific someone, even going as far as to tell them if he was king for a day, he would make her their queen

The song "King For A Day" from {{Forever The Sickest Kids}} in a large nutshell, it's about someoeg singing about doing anything for a specific someone, even going as far as to tell them if he was king for a day, he would make her their queen

* [[Music/ForeverTheSickestKids Forever The Sickest Kids']] song "King For A Day" from their album in a large nutshell

* Music/DeltaGoodrem's Believe Again is this UpToEleven, every possible instrument and happy musical quotation is in this song, so it may have lived in {{Narm}} almost entirely, if the verses didn't save it so much…The chorus for your reading pleasure:

* Taken UpToEleven by Music/RoyOrbison who wrote and performed dramatic and operatic Love Songs.

* Probably one of the reasons why [[Music/TheCure Robert Smith]] [[CreatorBacklash hates]] [[DaysOfTheWeekSong "Friday I'm in Love."]] Even their most straightforward love songs like "The Love Cats" aren't that simple.

** Speaking of P-Funk related material, Zapp and the late Roger Troutman made quite a few in the 1980's 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.

* Similar to [=McCartney=]'s lampshading of this trope, Music/PaulWilliams' "An Old Fashioned Love Song," as well as Three Dog Night's cover:

** It isn't ''that'' silly -- unless you watch him [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qjtj9lliXU singing it]] [[Series/TheMuppetShow with a trio of Muppet clones of himself]].

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

* There are a number of silly love songs in musicals:
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Love Song"]] from ''Theatre/{{Pippin}}''.
** [[CrackPairing "Hitler/Khan Love Duet"]] from ''The Complete Millennium Musical (Abridged)''.
** Also subject to hilarity in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''.
** "Mix Tape" and "Fantasies Come True" are more traditional, but ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' parodies love songs in [[SlapSlapKiss "The More You Ruv Someone."]]

* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'': In [[Recap/DoraemonV3C1AWorldWithoutSound "A World Without Sound"]], from what little we read of Big G's song, it appears to be a peppy love song. "My love is like..."

-->-- '''[[Music/{{Wings}} Paul McCartney and Wings]]''', ''[[TropeNamers Silly Love Songs]]''

Compare IntercourseWithYou, songs about... making love. Contrast AntiLoveSong, IHateSong, and BreakupSong. May be a SongOfManyEmotions if it's about especially complicated love. May double as a SeductionLyric if the singer takes the line that the next thing for the lovers to do is to express their affection physically. See also {{Narm}}, when the work can unintentionally end up coming out silly.

Compare IntercourseWithYou, songs about... making love. Contrast AntiLoveSong, IHateSong, and BreakupSong. May be a SongOfManyEmotions if it's about especially complicated love. May double as a SeductionLyric if the singer takes the line that the next thing for the lovers to do is to express their affection physically. See also {{Narm}}, when the work is meant to be serious but ends up coming out silly.

Compare IntercourseWithYou, songs about... making love. Contrast AntiLoveSong, IHateSong, and BreakupSong. May be a SongOfManyEmotions if it's about especially complicated love. May double as a SeductionLyric if the singer takes the line that the next thing for the lovers to do is to express their affection physically.

* 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 growing tired of each other and now have to put more effort into their relationship ("We've almost figured out how we'll get along / And given time we'll find it strange to be alone"). 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.]]

Compare IntercourseWithYou, songs about... making love. Contrast AntiLoveSong and BreakupSong. May be a SongOfManyEmotions if it's about especially complicated love. May double as a SeductionLyric if the singer takes the line that the next thing for the lovers to do is to express their affection physically.

Compare IntercourseWithYou, songs about... making love. Contrast AntiLoveSong and BreakupSong. May be a SongOfManyEmotions if it's about especially complicated love.

* Music/DonJohnson's "Heartbeat," while faring better than many actors-turned-singer albums, has been thoroughly roasted by the likes of ''Website/TheAgonyBooth'' and legitimate music critics. Don sings well, but his lyricism and stage performance could've used a bit more polish.

Some performers write [[AntiLoveSong Anti-Love Songs]] 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.)

This trope name was first coined by Music/JohnLennon, who criticized Music/PaulMcCartney for always writing Silly Love Songs. [=McCartney=] in turn wrote the song he gave the title to as [[TropesAreTools a rebuttal]].

* Subverted by Music/SaraBareilles with "Love Song." The story goes that her producer told her that she was doing pretty well as an up-and-coming artist, but she still needed a big hit. "You need to write me a love song," said the producer. Sara, not liking this idea, decided instead to write a song ''about how she's not gonna write him a love song''. And now it's her SignatureSong. And now it's probably [[EarWorm stuck in your head]].

* Robert S. Rosefsky, the author of ''Frauds, Swindles and Rackets'' wrote a deliberately bad song called "Ethel Is My Only Love" to test whether vanity music "publishers" would accept absolutely anything they were sent. When he received three positive responses he decided to write an even worse song as a further test.

* 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]]. He did invert this trope on at least a couple of occasions, with the haunting "Eleanor Rigby" and the raucous "Helter Skelter".

** Another episode has "Film/GypsyMoon" (as in the film of same name), making use of nearly every word that rhymes with 'moon.'

Well I bought them all [[LampshadeHanging and now I'm writing worse]].

* "Title of the Song" by Music/DaVincisNotebook is a meta "love song." The songwriter started out intending to write a parody of a BoyBand song, and ended up parodying ALL boy band songs. Ever.

''As a human being you are history''\\

* [[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 successful... if only his songs weren't 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 taste of the audience is limited to silly love songs with [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday very heterosexual pairings]]. The chorus is itself a parody to this concept, since these 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 addressing the pressure of gay (male) artists to remain closeted to be successful.

** Played with in ''Theatre/MyFairLady''.

Compare IntercourseWithYou, songs about... making love. Contrast AntiLoveSong and BreakupSong.

* Music/RickAstley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." ''[[{{Rickroll}} Never gonna giiiive you up, never gonna leeeet you down...]]''