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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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*** "Gracie" is written (and named) for Folds' daughter.
**** Also Ben Folds' (no longer Five) "Saskia Hamilton"
* "Caroline" - Concrete Blonde
* "Grace" - [[Jeff Buckley]]
* "Magdalena", "Brena", and "Judith" - [[A Perfect Circle]]
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=== Country Rock ===
* "Amie" - Pure Prairie League
=== Dark Cabaret ===
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=== Folk ===
* "Suzanne" - [[Leonard Cohen]]
* "Barbara Allen" (Also "Barbarous Ellen", for her treatment of the Jimmy Grove.) - traditional British; variants all over the English-speaking world.
* "To Ramona" - [[Bob Dylan]]
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=== Indie Pop ===
* "Mary Jo" - Belle and Sebastian
* "Silvia" and "Julie" - [[Jens Lekman]]. (He also has a Dear Friend Lisa.)
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=== Post-Hardcore ===
* "Ashley" - Escape the Fate
* "Emily" - From First To Last
=== Post-Punk ===
* "Alice" and "Marian" - [[The Sisters of Mercy]]
** They also covered "Emma" by Hot Chocolate and "Jolene" by Dolly Parton.
=== Power Pop ===
* "Denise" - [[Fountains Of Wayne]]
=== R & B ===
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* "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" - [[The Beach Boys]]' surf rock classic, of course. They tried other girls, but they knew they wouldn't do.
* "Sara" - [[Bob Dylan]]
* "Sara" - [[Jefferson Airplane|Starship]] (Storms are the wind in her eyes, of course.)
* "Rosalita", "Leah", "Sherry Darling" - [[Bruce Springsteen]]
* "Suzy Lee" - [[The White Stripes]]
* "Emily" - The title of songs by From First to Last, [[Elton John]], and Michael W. Smith, and Frankie Valli, all unrelated to one another
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=== Rock and Roll ===
* "Donna" - Ritchie Valens
* "Lucille" - Little Richard
* "Maybellene" and "Nadine" - [[Chuck Berry]]
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=== Southern Rock ===
* "Jessica" - [[The Allman Brothers Band]]
** Also "Melissa", "Desdemona" and "Little Martha"
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''You made me so much money I wrote this song for you'' }}
* Subverted in [[My Chemical Romance|"Helena"]]; the song is about grieving for a dead woman ([[Word of God]] says the singer's grandma.)
* 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 ===
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=== Musical ===
* "Dammit, Janet" from the ''[[Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''. It's also a parody of these types of songs.
=== New Wave ===
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=== Pop ===
* "Alejandro" by [[Lady Gaga]] is possibly a triple subversion. First it is inverted. Second there are three men in the song. And finally Gaga is fending off their advances.
* "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 ===
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* "Martha My Dear" by [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]. It's about Paul's ''dog''.
* "Noelle" by [[Daniel Amos]], which isn't a love song by any means.
* "Mia" by [[Chevelle]]. [[Word Salad Lyrics|No one's quite sure what it's about]].
=== 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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