Anti-Love Song: Difference between revisions

 

== Inside Fiction ==

* [[Harry Potter (novel)|Wizard Rock]] band Split Seven Ways has a song called "Sour Grapes" which may or may not fit into this. In it, Draco Malfoy complains about Harry with lines like: ''It takes more to win the war than sheer dumb luck / If he's not got his friends around to think for him then he's stuck''. But the song's full title is "Sour grapes, or a [[Alternative Character Interpretation|Passive-aggressive Love Song]]".

* Harley Quinn does a truly demented one in the ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' episode "Harlequinade", called "Say That We're Sweethearts Again" from a 1944 movie called ''Meet The People''.

* "Still Alive," the now-famous ending theme of ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'', is an unusually passive-aggressive example.

* [[Played With]] in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]: Return of Jafar.'' [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Iago]] sings "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMrbT4Ycv1A Forget About Love]," but it's actually [[Reverse Psychology|a ploy]] to get Jasmine to forgive Aladdin for lying to her. Naturally, it's transformed into a legitimate love song between the couple by the end.

{{quote|''At least out loud / I won't say I'm in love.''}}

* In ''[[Forgetting Sarah Marshall]]'', the protagonist sings [[Self-Deprecation|one to himself.]]

{{quote|Everybody hates you.../everybody wishes that you were dead/ 'Cause Peter you suck,/ Peter you suck/ Peter your music is fucking terrible...}}