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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]s in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* When Giuseppe Verdi and Arrigo Boito wrote an opera over Shakespeare's ''[[Othello]]'' they added the aria [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QpxMMSuj-E "Credo in un Dio crudel"] ("I believe in a cruel God"), a sublime villain song, where the villain Iago, in a parody of a Christian creed, confesses to do evil [[Nietzsche Wannabe|because the world is pointless and everything is ruled by Fate]]▼
{{quote| And after all this mockery comes death.<br />▼
▲* When [[Giuseppe Verdi]] and [[Arrigo Boito]] wrote an opera over Shakespeare's ''[[Othello]]'' they added the aria [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QpxMMSuj-E "Credo in un Dio crudel"] ("I believe in a cruel God"), a sublime villain song, where the villain Iago, in a parody of a Christian creed, confesses to do evil [[Nietzsche Wannabe|because the world is pointless and everything is ruled by Fate]]
And then? And then?<br />▼
Death and Nothingness<br />▼
Heaven is an old wives tale [[Evil Laugh|Ahahahahahahaha!]] }}
* Also Verdi: "La donna è mobile" from ''[[Rigoletto]]'' is the Duke's villain song and apparently he sings it a lot. A lot of the commercials that use it to sell their products seem to forget it's a villain song.
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* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUgoMzkaSoE Le Veau d'Or]'' from Gounod's ''Faust'', sung by Mephistopheles himself. Mephistopholes also gets the mocking serenade, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c78KhJkwxN8 Vous qui faites l'endormie].
* Faust operas are great for this kind of thing. Mefistofele, in Arrigo Boito's ''Mefistofele'', has some awesome ones. "I am the spirit that denies all things..." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OCOc4nZCjk&feature=related Creepy].
* The villain Caspar in Carl Maria von Weber's ''[[
* The Secret Police Agent in Menotti's "The Consul" has a pretty terrifying aria in the first act, where he attempts to intimidate the protagonist, Magda Sorell.
* Claggart's song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSLt2oJebEM "O beauty, O handsomeness, goodness!"] in Benjamin Britten's ''Billy Budd''. Unlike a classic Villain Song in that he is anything BUT happy about his situation... still. You've gotta love a song with lyrics like "There I established an order such as reigns in Hell", and "With hate and envy I am stronger than love", and "I, John Claggart, Master-at-Arms upon the ''Indomitable'', have you in my power, and I will destroy you, I will destroy you."
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* [[Kanye West]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLHU3w1nwdY Power] is basically about a all powerful celebrity getting off on how much people hate him.
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