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{{quote|'''Brian:''' Wow, a song named after a girl. There aren't a million of those already.
'''Stewie:''' [[Name One|Name twenty]].
'''Brian:''' [[Toto
'''Stewie:''' [[Moving the Goalposts|Name six more]].
'''Brian:''' [[Frankie Valli and
'''Stewie:''' Name five more.
'''Brian:''' Tracy, Jean, [[Barenaked Ladies
'''Stewie:''' ([[Rage Quit|throws down guitar]]) Go *[[Sound Effect Bleep|
Songs named after girls, usually the [[Love Interest]] of the male singer. This trope [[Undead Horse Trope|is one that just keeps coming back]], but for some reason female singers tend to not name songs specifically after guys.
▲Songs named after girls, usually the [[Love Interest]] of the male singer. This trope [[Undead Horse Trope|is one that just keeps coming back]], but for some reason female singers tend to not name songs specifically after guys.
Not to be confused with [[One-Woman Wail]].
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=== Alternative Dance ===
* "Jezebel" - [[
=== Alternative Hip Hop ===
* "Bonita Applebaum" - [[
=== Alternative Rock ===
* "Joey" - [[Music/Concrete Blonde|Concrete Blonde]]. A rare example of a One Man Song.
* "Laura" - [[
** Also, "Mary".
* "Mary Jane" - [[
* "Valerie" - The Zutons (covered - Mark Ronson, of course). Also the name of a song by Steve Winwood.
* "Ramona" - Beck (From ''[[Scott Pilgrim Versus the World]]'')
* "Isobel" - [[
* "Emaline" - Ben Folds Five
** Also "Julianne," "Kate," "Alice Childress," and "Gracie."
*** "Gracie" is written (and named) for Folds' daughter.
**** Also Ben Folds' (no longer Five) "Saskia Hamilton"
* "Caroline" - Concrete Blonde
* "Grace" - [[
* "Magdalena", "Brena", and "Judith" - [[A Perfect Circle]]
* "Jacqueline" - [[
* "Tautou" - [[Brand New]]
* "Mary", "Talula", "Ophelia", "Marianne" and "Josephine" -[[
* "Lucy" - [[
* "Ruby <ref>Ruby Ruby Rubaaaaaaaay!</ref> " -The [[Kaiser Chiefs]]
* "Adrienne" - [[The Calling (
=== Blues ===
* "Maissie" - Syd Barrett
=== Blues-Rock ===
* "Layla" - Riff-driven Derek and the Dominoes signature song.
=== Country ===
* "Molly" and "Isabel" - John Denver
* Ruby<ref>That's a different Ruby</ref> - Kenny Rogers
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* "My Maria" - Brookes and Dunn
=== Country Rock ===
* "Amie" - Pure Prairie League
=== Dark Cabaret ===
* "Delilah" - The Dresden Dolls
** Of course we cannot forget the more famous song of the same name by Tom Jones (she stood there laughing, but when we felt the knife in his hands, she laughed no more.)
=== Folk ===
* "Suzanne" - [[
* "Barbara Allen" (Also "Barbarous Ellen", for her treatment of the Jimmy Grove.) - traditional British; variants all over the English-speaking world.
* "To Ramona" - [[
=== Folk Rock ===
* "Cecilia" - [[
* "Sally Anne", "Penelope" and "Margarita" - [[Great Big Sea]].
* "Rosie" -Fairport Convention
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPlOQy4p9w Martina]-Phranc, by a woman this instance.
=== Grunge ===
* "Polly" - [[
** If addressing your rape victim as if she was a pet bird counts.
=== Hard Rock ===
* "Beth" - [[
* "Carrie" - [[Europe (
=== Indie Pop ===
* "Mary Jo" - Belle and Sebastian
* "Silvia" and "Julie" - [[Jens Lekman]]. (He also has a Dear Friend Lisa.)
=== Indie Rock ===
* "Geraldine" - Glasvegas
* "Celestine" - Kirsty Mac Coll
* "Jezebel" - Two Hours Traffic
=== Jazz ===
* "Minnie the Moocher" - [[
=== Jazz Rock ===
* "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", "Peg", and "Josie" by [[
=== Metal ===
* "Audrey," "Jessica," and (debatably) "Amber" - Dir en Grey
=== New Wave ===
* "Darlene" - [[
=== Pop ===
* "Maggie May" by Rod Stewart, about a possessive girlfriend.
* "Billie Jean" - [[
** Also, "Dirty Diana," from the ''Bad'' album.
* "Jenny from the Block" - Jennifer Lopez's [[Rockstar Song]]
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* "Brandy" - Looking Glass (She's a fine girl. What a good wife she would be.)
* "Diana" - Paul Anka
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4ychrRkQA Rosanna]" by [[
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mak-aWAcXYM Alison]" - Jordy (with both the singer and the [[Roger Rabbit Effect|cartoon girl]] being children).
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzz-iUQbkb0 Célimène]" - David Martial.
* "Oh! Carol" - Neil Sedaka
* "Windy" - Ruthann Friedman, sung by The Association
* "Angie" - [[
* "Carrie Ann" - [[The Hollies]]
=== Pop Punk ===
* "Haushinka" - [[
** "Maria" as well.
* "Josie" - [[Blink
* "Jasey Rae" - All Time Low
* "Dakota" - A Rocket to the Moon
* "Sarah Smiles" - [[Panic!
=== Pop Rock ===
* "Gloria" - Wise-ass Laura Brannigan disco hit.
** [[Music/Them|GLOOOOOOOORIA! G-L-O-R-I-A!]] [[Epic Riff|(insert guitar riff here)]]
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* "Elenore" - The Turtles
* "Lisa" - Dead Flowers
* "Jane" - [[
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGll0KmTW2w Alia]" - [[Roza Rymbaeva]]. This song is a [[Dedication]] to a [[Great Patriotic War]] sniper.
=== Post-Hardcore ===
* "Ashley" - Escape the Fate
* "Emily" - From First To Last
=== Post-Punk ===
* "Alice" and "Marian" - [[
** They also covered "Emma" by Hot Chocolate and "Jolene" by Dolly Parton.
=== Power Pop ===
* "Denise" - [[Fountains Of Wayne]]
=== R & B ===
* "Bernadette" - Four Tops (Some men spend their whole lives searching for what we had)
* "Roni" - Bobby Brown
=== Rap Metal ===
* "Maria" - [[
=== Rock ===
* "Roxanne" - [[
* "Michelle" - Old [[Silly Love Songs|Silly Love Song]] from [[The Beatles (
** "Eleanor Rigby" - The classic Beatles [[Tear Jerker]], of course.
** "Julia" and "Sexy Sadie", too.
* "Angie" - Depending on which rumor you believe: Mick Jagger [[Your Cheating Heart|bragging about nailing David Bowie's wife]], Mick Jagger [[Triang Relations|lamenting wanting Bowie's wife]], or Mick Jagger [[Take a Third Option|apologizing for nailing her husband]].
* "Barbara Ann" - [[
* "Sara" - [[
* "Sara" - [[
* "Rosalita", "Leah", "Sherry Darling" - [[
* "Suzy Lee" - [[
* "Emily" - The title of songs by From First to Last, [[
* "Susie Q" - originally by Dale Hawkins, made famous by [[
* "Sophia" - [[
* "Rosemary" - Lenny Kravitz
* "Lydia" - Fur Patrol
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* "Carol" and "Anna" - Al Stewart
* "Vivica" - Jack Off Jill
* "Jane" - [[Jefferson
=== Rock and Roll ===
* "Donna" - Ritchie Valens
* "Lucille" - Little Richard
* "Maybellene" and "Nadine" - [[
* "Peggy Sue" - [[
=== Southern Rock ===
* "Jessica" - [[
** Also "Melissa", "Desdemona" and "Little Martha"
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=== Alternative Dance ===▼
* "Lilian" - [[
▲== Alternative Dance ==
▲* "Lilian" - [[Depeche Mode (Music)|Depeche Mode]]. Ostensibly about a ''really'' evil ex who's just broken up with the singer.
=== Alternative Rock ===
* "Mary Jane" - [[
* Also subverted in "Song for Whoever" by the [[Beautiful South]], where due to repeated [[Muse Abuse]] the singer/writer can't remember which of the many One Women is which:
{{quote|
''I wrote so many songs about you I forget your name'' }}
** And it's all for [[Money, Dear Boy|the money]]:
{{quote|
''You made me so much money I wrote this song for you'' }}
* Subverted in [[My Chemical Romance
* Subverted in "Debra" - Beck. The song's lyrics begin to direct the song towards one girl ("oh girl, I only wanna be down with you") until it's revealed that Beck has a secondary interest: Debra, the girl's sister ("and your sister, I think her name is Debra"). The track is done in the vein of R. Kelly-like R&B ballads and seems to be one until the hilarious twist of Beck pining for a little more is made apparent.
=== Country ===
* "Lucille" by Kenny Rogers, which is about the man's wife running off and leaving him to raise their four children alone on a farm.
* "Jolene" by Dolly Parton, sung by the cuckolded wife to the woman her man is having an affair with.
=== Folk Rock ===
* "Reva Thereafter" by [[Girlyman]], about the singer's grandmother, and coping with
=== Heavy Metal ===
* "Melissa" - Mercyful Fate. She is actually a human sacrifice in black mass.
=== Hip Hop ===
* "Kim" - [[
=== Musical ===
* "Dammit, Janet" from the ''[[Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''. It's also a parody of these types of songs.
=== New Wave ===
* "52 Girls" - [[The B
* "Shirley" - by [[Charlie Peacock]], which is a song with seemingly [[Word Salad Lyrics]].
=== Pop ===
* "Alejandro" by [[
* "Stephen" by [[
* "Etienne" by Guesch Patti, also a song by a woman about a man.
=== Post-Rock ===
* More than half of the songs on Slint's ''Tweez'' are named after women ("Carol", "Charlotte", "Darlene", "Rhoda", and "Nan Ding"). The thing is that all of these are [[Non-Appearing Title|non-appearing titles]] that have nothing to do with the song content, and the remaining four songs have male names. They decided to just title the songs as [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming|arbitrary shout outs to band members' parents]]. As for why there's an odd number of names, well, Nan Ding was apparently ''a dog''.
=== Rock ===
* "Lola" - Silly little number by [[
** Similarly, "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis.
* "Delilah" by [[
* [[Leelee Sobieski|Why Leelee Won't Love Me]] by Primitive Whore.
* "Martha My Dear" by [[The Beatles (
* "Noelle" by [[
* "Mia" by [[
=== Comedy ===
* [[Stephen Colbert]] had a signature song that was "chart-adjacent" in the eighties, entitled "Charlene", where the narrator is obsessed with the titular woman and the song literally spells out how the narrator stalks her.
** There was a sequel song recently that Colbert sang with the Black Belles called "Charlene 2 : I'm over you". Hint:he's not really.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzFu3nIPJJU Martina Navratilova, Wish You Were Mine]-As heard on the [[Shock Jock|''Tony Horne In The Morning'']], the song talks about how the legendary tennis champ is [[Not Like Other Girls]], [[Does Not Know His Own Strength|broke the singer's fingers]], [[Lady Looks Like a Dude|looks manly]], and how he probably wishes she was his girlfriend.
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