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{{quote|''"This is one of those love songs that crosses that narrow divide between 'romantic' and 'deeply disturbing.' You know, the difference between 'I always want to be with you' and 'I want to wear your skin like a sweater."''|''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''}}
 
The Obsession Song is like a love song written by a [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]] or a [[Yandere]]. Most examples simply involve [[Mad Love|obsessive love]] with heavy overtones of [[Stalking Is Love|stalking]] and possessiveness, but some take it to such extreme lengths that it sounds like the singer is planning on [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|raping you]], killing you, and [[Mummies At the Dinner Table|keeping your corpse under their bed]].
 
The Obsession Song falls into two basic varieties, although many have elements of both:
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** Strictly passive hence: Make Me Wanna Die
** Miss Nothing also applies.
* [[Bruno Mars]]' "sad" singles are all about this. Both [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6iYWJxHqs ''Grenade''] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xknW3A5LhZ0 ''Talkin' to the Moon''] depict a man who whines and obsessively laments over a dead relationship to the point where he turns into a [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|stalker,]] [[Love Makes You Crazy|driven]] [[Ax Crazy|crazy]] in [[All Take and No Give|hopes that his former significant other would notice such behavior]] and [[Love Redeems|take him back]]. Both songs take the Passive element described at the top of the page.
* [[Evanescence]] has ''Taking Over Me'' which falls into the Passive category.
** ''Away From Me'' also applies to passivity.
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* [[Billy Joel]] tried his hand at this one more than once. "All For Leyna" is a pretty good example of a passive one.
* About 50% of every Latin American bolero (as in the musical genre) song ever. If it was sung by Los Panchos, Julio Jaramillo, or La Lupe (among many, ''many'' others), chances are that they are singing one of those. Most of them are from the passive type, in the line of "I've shaped my whole life around you and now I don't have anything else, so why don't you love me back? Why? WHY?"
* [[Muse (Musicband)|Muse]]: Undisclosed Desires.
* Children of the Monkey Machine and Dani took the [[Final Fantasy VIII]] love song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qcW0oiLKHg Eyes On Me] and remixed it into [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMdV3EERK50 Obsession].
* Die Ärzte's "Bitte, Bitte".
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* [[Lisa Germano]]'s [[Nightmare Fuel|"...a psychopath"]] is a ''very'' aggressive [[Obsession Song]] sung from [[Inverted Trope|the perspective of the stalkee]].
** Which features an ''actual 911 call.''
* Pretty much any line from Animotion's "[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Obsession]]" could work as a page quote for this trope.
* Shellac's "Prayer To God" is a particularly nasty aggressive example.
* [[PJ Harvey]]'s "Legs" is another very aggressive example. Nothing says "I love you" like sawing someone's legs off to keep them from leaving you.
** She also did Rid of Me, which is...passive-aggressive?
* [[Blondie (Musicband)|Blondie]]- "One Way Or Another", "Accidents Never Happen", "Hangin' On the Telephone"
* [[Opeth]] - "The Leper Affinity."
* [[Ludo]] - "Go-Getter Greg."
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What you do in you're room, I could see it all<br />
You undress, I wish I was a fly on the wall. }}
* If we open it up to one fictional character singing it about another, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_95hSpuu4I Hellfire]" from the [[Disney]] version of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' about Frollo's obsession with Esmerelda qualifies. It's also his [[Villain Song]] with a nice [[Bilingual Bonus]].
{{quote| Protect me, Maria! Don't let this siren cast her spell!<br />
Don't let her fire sear my flesh and bone!<br />
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Choose me or your pyre<br />
Be mine or you will burn! }}
* [[Cobra Starship (Music)|Cobra Starship]] has "It's Warmer In The Basement," in which the stalker has ''already'' kidnapped the object of their affections. In the words of the lead singer, "This is a song about when you love someone so much you have to tie them up in your basement."
{{quote| ''You can't escape now<br />
I've got you locked inside this room<br />
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It's true, no one hears you in this room...'' }}
** Cobra Starship also has "You Belong To Me". I don't think an explanation is necessary.
* [[Voltaire (Musicband)|Voltaire]] has the [[Ear Worm|incredibly catchy]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YUFFMA4V-w "Ex-Lover's Lover"]
{{quote| ''I wait for the day when I'll finally defile<br />
The bodies of my ex-lover's lovers<br />
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And only there will I see them die.'' }}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LKcjsRkgs0 "True Love"] by ThouShaltNot is of the "[[If I Can't Have You]], no one will" variety.
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' has "Johanna", which in the film version of the play comes off as quite stalkerish -- the guy singing it has just taken one hell of a beating at the Beadle, and the look on his bloody face as he sings is quite creepy:
{{quote| ''"I'll steal you, Johanna, I'll steal you. Do they think that walls could hide you? Even now, I'm at your window. I am in the dark beside you, buried sweetly in your yellow hair! I feel you, Johanna, and one day I'll steal you!"''}}
** But it's nothing compared to the "Johanna" sung by Judge Turpin, which makes the above guy look positively heroic by comparison. Which may be the intention.
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* Parodied by [[Weird Al]] in "Do I Creep You Out?"
** Another Weird Al example - "Melanie," which includes lines "I had to go through your garbage just to learn more about you, Melanie!"
* [[Queens of the Stone Age (Music)|Queens of the Stone Age]] have "You Can't Quit Me Baby", which could be either extreme passive or aggressive depending on how one interprets the ambiguous ending; the protagonist is either [[Spurned Into Suicide]] or [[If I Can't Have You|murders the woman he is stalking]], if not both.
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDlUWur3kEE The Stalker Song]."
* [[They Might Be Giants]] - "I'm Your Boyfriend Now."
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Anyway I never see your face cause your window's up too high }}
* Charlotte Martin's "I'm Normal, Please Date Me" is a similarly comedic take on it, with a girl insisting that she's not stalking a guy, all the while making it increasingly clear that she is.
* [[The Smashing Pumpkins (Music)|The Smashing Pumpkins]]' "Ava Adore" might count.
** "Ava Adore" is, according to [[Word of God|Billy Corgan]], about his mother's death. Which may be even creepier...[[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]]
** "Zero" sounds a lot like the passive variety, although it's hard to tell between the [[Word Salad Lyrics|rather dense lyrics]].
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'Cause as they're draggin' me away<br />
I swear I saw her raise her hand and wave goodbye }}
* [[Space (Music)|Space]] ''love'' this trope. 'Drop Dead' (aggressive), 'Diary Of A Wimp' (both), 'There's No You' (passive), 'Bastard Me Bastard You' (aggressive), 'Turn Me On To Spiders' (aggressive)...and there's probably more.
* [[Lady Gaga]]'s "Paparazzi".
* [[My Dying Bride]] - "Black God" and "Sear Me."
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* Several comedy bands have variations on this including "Stalker Song" by Tripod and the reversed trope "Stalker Girl" by The Arrogant Worms.
* The [[Dark Reprise]] of "All I Ask of You" at the end of the first act of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' ends with: "You will curse the day you did not do/All that the Phantom asked of you!" The Phantom proves as good as his word when he causes the chandelier to fall immediately afterward.
** About half of everything the Phantom sings gets into this territory--the inevitable result of being both a [[Mad Artist]] and a [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]].
* "[[Goldeneye (Film)|Goldeneye]]" by Tina Turner, for the eponymous [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] movie.
* The appropriately titled "[[Obsesi Ã]]³n", by bachata group Aventura, is a kind of verbal confrontation between a [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]] (male singer) and the object of his affection (female voice, chorus), where the boy believes that his increasingly invasive, controlling ways are acceptable forms of showing love, and isn't clued by the fact that the girl has been avoiding him as he becoming creepier, and that she's saying quite directly in the chorus that whatever he feels, isn't truly related with love...
* "You Can't Change That", Ray Parker Jr.
* [[Depeche Mode]] - "It's No Good".
* [[Devo]]'s "I Desire" comes off as one (if you don't miss it due to [[Lyrical Dissonance]]) even ''without'' the knowledge that it's based on a poem written by real life [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]] [[wikipedia:John Hinckley Jr|John Hinckley Jr]].
* Although possibly not intended as one, Alison Krauss' "Baby, Now That I've Found You" does come off as an [[Obsession Song]] if you [[Lyrical Dissonance|pay attention to the lyrics]].
* "It's a Dangerous Game" from ''Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical'' almost sounds like a romantic duet, except that it's about a psychotic killer stalking a prostitute who's too terrified of/fascinated by him to make a run for it.
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** ''Hero'', while not really an [[Obsession Song]], has a very humorous parody of it called Stalkerbook.
* [[Sonata Arctica]] has a few. "The End of This Chapter" and "Don't Say a Word" are possibly the most obvious of them.
* [[Tech N 9 neN9ne]]'s "Psycho Bitch" features an actual answering message from the titular stalker.
* [[Steely Dan]]'s "Rikki Don't Lose That Number"
* ''Smiling Karen'' by Tito & Tarantula is about an extremally psychopathic case of this.
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* Depending on interpretation, Lou Christie's freakishly catchy "Lightning Strikes" is either a mild but smarmy type 2 or a combination of both -- it probably wasn't intended that way, but there's a clear subtext of a [[Casanova Wannabe]] pursuing an utterly uninterested woman.
* [[Jacks Mannequin]] gives us "What Gets You Off" and "Miss California".
* 'I Touch Myself' by Divinyls. Not only is it about some uhh [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|"quality time with oneself",]] it's also about being incredibly obsessed/devoted to them.
* Parachute's "Ghost". It seems passive at first, then it sounds more like the thoughts of an erotomanaical stalker who is trying to tell the victim that they are always together, whether they realize it or not. I honestly have no idea whether or not this was meant to be taken in that context.
{{quote| Look behind you <br />
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I see your face through that windowpane. My lips don't move as I scream your name (etc.) }}
* As if there wasn't already enough [[Foe Yay]] in Disney's ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', Ratigan designs his [[Death Trap]] with a [[Musical Trigger]] with "a sprightly tune I recorded especially for" Basil, with lyrics such as "You followed me, I followed you -- we were like each other's shadows for awhile."
* Several [[Muse (Musicband)|Muse]] songs, such as "Sing for Absolution", "Endlessly", and "Hysteria".
** "Space Dementia" describes a weird [[Tsundere]] version: "You make me sick / But I adore you so..." That is, if it's not just talking about [[Space Madness]]. (Although there's always the possibility that it's both.)
* "Don't Leave Home," by Dido.
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Either, Clementine would be his wife and his all<br />
Or he'd have her five years in an institution }}
* Chauvelin gets "Marguerite" in the musical adaptation of ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (Theatretheatre)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'', where's he [[Promoted to Love Interest]]. Ironically, his obsession in the original novel is even stronger... it's just for [[Foe Yay|the Scarlet Pimpernel]].
* [[Dream Theater (Music)|Dream Theater]]'s 1994 album ''Awake'' closes with "Space Dye Vest", a song about a deranged man who, rejected by numerous women, becomes obsessed with fashion catalog models to the exclusion of actual human relationships:
{{quote| Now that she's gone I'm trying to take it, learning to swallow the rage<br />
Found a new girl I think we can make it, as long as she stays on a page<br />
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{{quote| '''Passive:''' Just gonna stand there and watch me burn/ well that's alright because I like the way it hurts/ Just gonna stand there and see me cry/ well that's alright because I love the way you lie<br />
'''Agressive:''' If she ever tries to fuckin' leave again/ Imma tie her to the bed and set this house on fire }}
* [[Hurt (Music)|Hurt]]'s "Got Jealous" flips from one to the other over the course of the song.
{{quote| '''Aggressive:''' ''If you don't get outta here / I'm gonna kill someone /I think he's been in your room / For way too damn long''<br />
'''Passive:''' ''How will you let me know, when you let me go / My love, my love / Hey you, you're everything to me'' }}
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