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== Films -- Animation ==
* In one of the ''[[Madoka Magica]]'' [[Compilation Movie]]s, when Mami fights Charlotte, there is a song called Wo Ist Die Käse?, which in less than perfect german is all about what Charlotte seems to desire most, [[Trademark Favorite Food|Cheese]].
* The [[Disney Animated Canon]], being mostly musicals, has many examples (nearly always sung by the [[Everything's Better with Princesses|princess of the moment]]):
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j6HI_dno_U "I'm Wishing"] from ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarves]]''.
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*** Also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iECANaKSWUA "God Help the Outcasts"], except with pathos instead of excitement.
*** Not to mention what may be the darkest "I Want" Song ever sung in a [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|children's movie]]: Frollo's [[Villain Song]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1AeqrD9EUQ "Hellfire"], where he prays for God to "Destroy Esmerelda, and let her taste the fires of Hell! [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny|Or else let her be mine and mine alone]]!"
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5jDlLJPz1A "Go The Distance"] from ''[[Hercules (
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiLOVazwnWM "Reflection"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm3ijOVsraA "A Girl Worth Fighting For"] from ''[[Mulan]]''.
*** And in the sequel, there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUIUmxpxr8 "I Want To Be Like Other Girls"].
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* "Someday I Can Fly" and its reprise from ''Katy the Caterpillar''.
* ''[[The Swan Princess]]'' has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GABQU6gK03g "Far Longer Than Forever"].
== Films -- Live-Action ==
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I want it that way }}
* Swedish [[Girl Group]]/[[wikipedia:Dansband|dansband]] FACE-84 has a released a song called "Jag vill ha dig" ("I Want You"). Nothing noteworthy about that, you may say, until you consider their most famous song, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEPfdvHtDvo "Alla gamla x"] (roughly, "All Those Old Ex-Boyfriends"), which was actually a candidate to represent Sweden in the 2008 [[Eurovision Song Contest]]. This number starts as a generic [[Break Up Song]] but quickly (d)evolves into [[Anti-Love Song|more devious]] [[Sanity Slippage Song|stages]]. Its [[Lyrical Dissonance|lyrics include the lines]]:
{{quote|I want a chickenwire cage with [[If I Can't Have You|all (my) old ex-es in it in my attic]]
[[
I will be so tender and understanding
Encouraging and comforting
And then they will scream:
"Please take me back!" }}
* "I Want Love" by [[Elton John]].
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* [[Mitch Benn]]'s "I Want" is a string of [[The Prima Donna|Diva]]-ish outrageous demands:
{{quote|I want twelve or thirteen dressing rooms where I can swan about,
Six hundredweight of [[British English|Smarties]] [[Van Halen|with the pink ones taken out]],
A limo in the dressing room to drive me to the stage,
And twenty Fillipino girls of varying height and age. }}
** Mitch's "The Lonesome Fuhrer" is a bizarre one: It's ''[[Adolf Hitler]]'' singing that he ''wants to be a cowboy''!
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* "Star" from [[David Bowie]]'s ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'', as the protagonist imagines how great life would be if he were a rock star.
* [[Insane Clown Posse]]'s "I Want My Shit". The "shit" in question being, a rusty axe, a fat woman named Bridgett and a sip of [[Trademark Favorite Food|Faygo]].
* Subverted in Wir werden jetzt Stars (We now become stars) by [[
{{quote|"Ich will keine Texte mehr, nur noch Rattatataa
Will schief singen trotzdem Applaus wie Chaka Khan
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** "Everything You Ever" is a dark subversion as it as about Billy getting everything he wanted {{spoiler|except Penny, and as a result everything else just leads him to a spiral into disaster and a total transformation into Dr. Horrible.}}
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' [http://www.infauxmedia.com/ The Musical] has an amazing "I Want" Song in Luke Skywalker's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PktN2MrRQGU "One Season More"].
* ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'' possibly has one as it's opening song "Goin' Back to Hogwarts" has Harry and several other characters excitedly singing about returning to school. Malfoy's verse of the song is definitely this trope as he sings about all the things he wants. Later in the show Malfoy attempts to sing an "I Want" Song about his dream school Pigfarts but Snape interrupts him.
** In ''[[A Very Potter Sequel]]'', Hermione has "The Coolest Girl". She's tired of being the object of derision and scorn
* In Dozerfleet's ''[[Camelorum Adventures]]'' - inspired by ''[[The Tale of Emily Barnes and the Two Jens]]'' by Chad Patterson - Emily "Semaphore" Barnes gets n subverted version that doubles as a [[Wanderlust Song]]. The scenario in which she sings it is set up similarly to a Disney Princess singing about wanting "more". But the majority of her lyrics are simply about going wherever she wants to without fear of others placing responsibilities on her that she didn't ask for. Instead of the traditional Disney genre, however, she is indicated in notes to be attempting to sing the entire thing in ska-punk vocals, in the style of bands like [[Reel Big Fish]] and [[Save Ferris]]. This is a commentary on how Disney seems to avoid adapting ska for its animated princesses.
* Sally Nieryan in ''[[The Slushy Show]]'' employs this trope, as she only wants her father's job at the radio station to be spared so she doesn't have to worry about significant lifestyle changes being made in her own life.
== Western Animation ==
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** "I'm Not Too Little".
** "Man Oh Man Oh Manners".
* ''[[The Fairly
** Note that this also doubles as a [[Villain Song]], since Norm is the bad guy. The second half is a duet with [[Non-Singing Voice|Cos]][[Cross-Dressing Voices|mo]], playing this a bit straighter.
* The third season of ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' has the song "Before We Die". Some of the characters sing about what they want to do if they don't die at the end of the song, which they were led to believe they were going to. "I Wanna Be Famous" is another song that speaks of...a desire to be well-known.
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* Groundskeeper Willie gets a parody of one in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "My Fair Laddy", called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkAQ5M9OhSY "Wouldn't It Be Adequate?"]
* In the ''[[Animaniacs]]'' short "West Side Pigeons", the sparrows get a parody of "America" in ''[[West Side Story]]'':
{{quote|We wanna sit on [[Martin Scorsese|Scorsese]]'s head,
But we can't sit on Scorsese's head,
Goodfeathers sit on Scorsese's head,
We wanna sit on Scorsese's head! }}
** Rita has had a few of these, mostly about wanting a home.
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