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The shout-out before the song.
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A subtrope of [[Dedication]]. Not to be confused with a song dedicated to this website.
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=== [[Documentary]]/[[Rockumentary]] ===▼
▲== [[Documentary]]/[[Rockumentary]] ==
* ''[[Green Day]]: Bullet in a Bible''
{{quote|'''Billie Joe Armstrong:''' This song is dedicated to everybody who took the train to get here tonight, alright? This song's called 'Jesus of Suburbia.'}}
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* [[Lady Gaga]] dedicated 'Boys Boys Boys' to "all the gay boys and girls out there" at pretty much every concert of her Monster Ball tour. This following the explanation of how [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|she was donating ten thousand dollars in a randomly picked audience member's name]] to a fund for LGBT homeless youth.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* ''The Parkers'' episode "Funny, Funny Valentine"
{{quote|'''"Ideal" Lead Singer:''' This song goes out to a newly engaged couple in the audience.
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{{quote|'''Veronica:''' This song goes out to my friends in the Tritons.}}
=== [[Music]] ===
* [[Flight of the Conchords]] prefaces live performances of "Ladies of the World" with this usually.
* Jpop BENNIE K's song "Okay" begins with one of the singers saying, "Hey yo, this song is for my girls."
* [[Five Iron Frenzy]] spoofs this on one of their live albums when Jeff says, "This song goes out to all the people who are over here ''(indicating one side of the audience)''."
* MC Hawking's song "Fuck the Creationists" starts with "This song goes out to all my homies working in the field of evolutionary science".
* A wonderfully bitchy example by [[Eagles]], when Don Henley said "I'd like to dedicate [
* Paul Stanley of [[KISS]] is ''legendary'' for his between song banter, rife with [[Unusual Euphemism]] and [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|manly boasting]]. There exists a bootleg CD with 70 pristine-sounding tracks of Stanley's greatest song introductions, called ''People, Let Me Get This Off My Chest''.
* On their ''Severe Tire Damage'' live album, [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]] dedicate their song "S-E-X-X-Y" to "the one love of my life -- the ladies!"
* On the first track of ''[[Danger Days: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys]]'', Dr. Death Defying begins the lead-in to "Na Na Na" with, "This one's for all you rock-and-rollers, all you crash queens and motor babies..."
* [[Faith No More]]'s cover of "Easy" opens with "Turn the lights on baby... this one's for the ladies in the house."
* Parodied by [[Richard Cheese]], who dedicates "for the ladies"... "[[Nirvana|Rape Me]]".
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{{quote|This song goes out to all the hopeless sinners...}}
=== [[Professional Wrestling]] ===
* Non-musical example, Scott Steiner used to end his promos with "This goes to all my freaks in [name of city]! Big Poppa Pump is your hookup! Holla if ya hear me!"
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* Linked example in ''[[Auto Tune the News]].''
* [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad Email "caper"]]:
{{quote|'''Strong Bad:''' The Cheat, man. ''{Music begins}'' Where did we go wrong? It seems like just yesterday we were setting fire to Strong Sad's underwears.
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'''Strong Bad:''' This one's for you.
''Cue "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}HBUP2jAPExU#t{{=}}58s The Cheat is Not Dead]".'' }}
* One of [https://web.archive.org/web/20141010072121/http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/ "hiimdaisy's"] ''[[Phoenix Wright]]'' parodies has Gavin dedicating a song to "all the disembarred lawyers out there": 'Forging Evidence (till the Break of Dawn).'
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[The Simpsons]]''
** "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"
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* Invoked in [[Family Guy]] when showcasing how overprotective Peter is. At a concert Peter decks the lead singer of the band they're seeing because he dedicated a song to "all the ladies out there."
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* ''
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Friends]]'', "The One Where Ross and Rachel Take a Break": after they break up, Ross calls a DJ to dedicate [[U2]]'s ''With or Without You'' to Rachel. Rachel calls the station to tell them how Ross slept with someone during the break, and the dedication is cancelled.
* Subverted in ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', when a little girl who is dying to see {{spoiler|Logan}} get back together with Veronica calls a radio station and asks Nick Lachey's "What's Left of Me" to be dedicated to her, from him. Funny, of course, because neither him nor her are exactly the romantic type... and yet this cheesy song somehow rings true.
=== Music ===
* Cpop singer Landy Wen has a song, "Can U Feel It", where she sings about her anger at her lover (who she thinks does not care about her anymore) until she hears him dedicate a song to her on the radio, at which point they reconcile.
* There's a country song out there that's basically about "My girl's leaving me; I hope she hears this dedication and is convinced to turn around before she gets out of range."
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[The Simpsons]]''
** "Cape Feare"
{{quote|'''Radio DJ:''' All right, this next song is dedicated to Bart Simpson, with the message "I am coming to kill you slowly and painfully."}}
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* A Radio Caroline DJ in the mid-1970s:
{{quote|I'd like to dedicate this next song to Lofty. And at three foot eight, what else would you call him?}}
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