When you turn on the radio and hear music with lyrics, at least nine times out of ten, the song will be a love song of some sort, either praising love and one's lover (or wished-for lover) to the high heavens, or singing about how much angst or anger love gone sour has caused. (These songs are sometimes indistinguishable from songs about Intercourse with You.) For some reason, there's always a market for even the silliest of Silly Love Songs, making this an Undead Horse Trope.

Frank Zappa once noted that if popular music really could change or affect people, everyone would be in love.

Past music critics commonly referred to this sort of song as a "Moon-June song", sometimes with "spoon" added, after the (supposed) tendency for writers of these songs to rhyme the two words together. The originator of this name was likely the 1908 hit Shine On, Harvest Moon.

Some performers write Anti-Love Songs because they want to try something different. They never stop the deluge of Silly Love Songs that fill the airwaves. And what's wrong with that? (A lack of variety, of course, but Tropes Are Not Bad all the time.) If you want to hear an example, just turn on your radio to any popular music station. You'll find one soon enough. Listing them all would be pointless and time-consuming. Some of the sillier examples could be listed here, especially those that hang a lampshade on their triteness.

This trope name was first coined by John Lennon, who criticized Paul McCartney for always writing Silly Love Songs. McCartney in turn wrote the song he gave the title to as a rebuttal.

Compare Intercourse with You, songs about... making love. Contrast Anti-Love Song, "I Hate" Song, and Break-Up Song. May be a Song of Many Emotions if it's about especially complicated love. May double as a Seduction Lyric if the singer takes the line that the next thing for the lovers to do is to express their affection physically. See also Narm, when the work unintentionally ends up coming out silly.

Particularly silly examples:

• Atlantic Starr: "Secret Lovers" is sung as a duet between Atlantic Starr members Barbara Weathers and David Lewis, is the story of a man and a woman who are having an affair with each other, even though they are both married to other people. Although they know their actions are wrong and are forced to keep their relationship secret as a result (hence the title of the song), they love each other too much to let the affair end. They also justify the affair by trying to convince themselves that maybe their spouses have their own "secret lovers" as well.
  Secret lovers, yeah, that's what we are.
  Trying so hard to hide the way we feel
  Because we both belong to someone else,
  But we can't let it go 'cause what we feel is oh so real.
  So real, so real.
  You and me, are we fair?
  Is this cruel or do we care?
  Can they tell what's in their minds?
  Maybe they've had secret loves all of the time.
• Bonnie Tyler: "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is, lyrics-wise, a song of deep devotion towards a lover, to the extent that Bonnie is too afraid that she might not have what it takes to be loved back anymore (as she feels she's past her beauty's prime). The song's video is much more surreal, however.
• Franco De Vita: Many songs written by him are nothing but insightful love letters, but they've been acclaimed for their deep message of devotion to the target partner. Notable examples include "Te amo" (I Love You), "Entre tu vida y la mía" (Between Your Life And Mine), "Fuera de este mundo" (Out Of This World), "Ay Dios" (Oh God).
• "Do Fries Go With That Shake" from George Clinton's third solo album, R&B Skeletons In The Closet.
• Zapp and the late Roger Troutman made quite a few in the 1980's with songs like "Computer Love" and "Itchin' For Your Twitchin" from Zapp IV, "I Want To Be Your Man" from Roger's solo album Unlimited!, and "Ooh Baby Baby" from Zapp V.
• Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." Never gonna giiiive you up, never gonna leeeet you down...
• The song "King For A Day" from Forever the Sickest Kids in a large nutshell, is about doing anything for a specific someone, even going as far as to tell them if he was king for a day, he would make her their queen.
• Played with by Australian comic, Tim Minchin, at the 2008 Secret Policeman's Ball, where he sang a song that began by extolling the virtues of his lover, but then got to the chorus which went: "If I didn't have you... then I'd probably have somebody else..." Still played fairly straight, as the song says that although he might have somebody else without her, he does have her, and that's special. Also subverted by Tim Minchin (several times) with "Inflatable You;" a loving ode to an inflatable doll. And "You Grew on Me," which compares his love to his partner as quickly worsening diseases. And more. Tim seems to like his messed up love songs.
• The George Gershwin song "Blah, Blah, Blah."
• Paul McCartney's song "Silly Love Songs," as quoted above. It's technically by Wings, but the misattribution is not exactly wrong. As you might guess from the title it's also Heavy Meta. He did invert this trope on at least a couple of occasions, with the haunting "Eleanor Rigby" and the raucous "Helter Skelter".
• Paul Williams:
  • "An Old Fashioned Love Song," as well as Three Dog Night's cover:
    Just an old-fashioned love song playin' on the radio
    And wrapped around the music is the sound
    Of someone promising they'll never go
  • There's also a few levels of this trope working, as the song's about an actual love song playing on the radio as well as being a love song itself (since listening to the love song on the radio prompts the singer to muse about his own romance.)
  • It isn't that silly — unless you watch him singing it with a pair of Muppet clones of himself.
• Most Broadway musicals include at least one Silly Love Song; Spamalot has one titled "The Song That Goes Like This," which explains how every Broadway musical contains at least one Silly Love Song. Others include:
  • "Love Song" from Pippin.
  • "Hitler/Khan Love Duet" from The Complete Millennium Musical (Abridged).
  • Also subject to hilarity in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
  • "Mix Tape" and "Fantasies Come True" are more traditional, but Avenue Q parodies love songs in "The More You Ruv Someone."
  • Assassins features "Unworthy of Your Love", which could easily be mistaken for a typical love duet, albeit one in which both singers have very low self-esteem. In actuality, it's sung by two would-be presidential assassins. And they aren't even singing it to each other, but rather to Jodie Foster and Charles Manson.
• Probably one of the reasons why Robert Smith hates "Friday I'm in Love." Even their most straightforward love songs like "The Love Cats" aren't that simple.
• Air Supply, of course, made a whole career out of these songs.
• Don Johnson's "Heartbeat," while faring better than many actors-turned-singer albums, has been thoroughly roasted by the likes of The Agony Booth and legitimate music critics. Don sings well, but his lyricism and stage performance could've used a bit more polish.
  Miles Antwiler: You can't help but chuckle at the repetitive nature of Don's songs. After all, we are "looking for a heartbeat," but we also learn "the last sound love makes is a heartbreak" and also "when looking for love, it is a heartache away." It is like filling out a MadLibs but replacing all nouns with either "love," "heartache" or "heartbreak."
• FM Static's song "My First Stereo." A line in the chorus goes "My first love was my first stereo." Yes, it's true.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000:
  • The experiment Overdrawn at the Memory Bank has "Loving Lovers Love," sung by Pearl and Observer.
  • Another episode has "Gypsy Moon" (as in the film of the same name), making use of nearly every word that rhymes with 'moon.'
• Old radio play The Sentimental Locomotive, starring talking steam engines, has a particularly goofy one ("Hubert's Serenade") that starts as sounding like a normal, generic love song before abruptly switching to crooning jazz in the chorus, which is as follows:
  I wanna run on your track, baby
  I wanna woo woo woo with you
  You'll be my little queen
  With eyes of red and green
  I'll always flag you right on through
  I'm gonna build a little roundhouse, baby
  Beside a water tank for three
  Because pretty soon we'll hear
  Some tiny wheels, my dear
  So won't you woo woo with me?
• VeggieTales:
  • One video once replaced "Silly Songs with Larry" with "Love Songs with Mr. Lunt." It ended up being a song about a guy who really wants a cheeseburger, essentially falling in love with it.
  • A different video has "Pizza Angel", where Larry performs a fifties ballad (complete with double-tracked voice, leather jacket, and backup singers) to his delivery dinner.
    Pizza Angel, please come to me
    Tomato sauce and cheese so gooey
    Pizza Angel I'm on my knees
    You'll live forever in my me-e-emorieeees.
  • Another video had the Silly Song "Endangered Love," which is basically Larry's love ballad to a manatee from a soap opera.
• Subverted by Sara Bareilles with "Love Song." The story goes that her producer told her that she was doing pretty well as an up-and-coming artist, but she still needed a big hit. "You need to write me a love song," said the producer. Sara, not liking this idea, decided instead to write a song about how she's not gonna write him a love song. And now it's her Signature Song. And now it's probably stuck in your head.
• The Beautiful South's "One Last Love Song" is about these.
  Those bloody great ballads we hated at first
  Well, I bought them all and now I'm writing worse.
  • The Beautiful South also wrote "Song For Whoever," which subverts the trope; the musician is writing songs to keep him in money ("I love the PRS cheques that you bring") based on whoever his latest girlfriend is — whose name he has conveniently forgotten.
    And when you've gone upstairs I'll creep
    And write it all down
    Down
    Down
    ...Oh, Julie, oh Alison, oh Philippa, oh Sue...
• "Title of the Song" by Da Vincis Notebook is a meta "love song." The songwriter started out intending to write a parody of a Boy Band song and ended up parodying ALL boy band songs. Ever.
• Older / Deader than you think: Back in the 1800s Ambrose Bierce commented:
  Moon-kiss-June-bliss.
  'Tis this appalling stuff,
  such miserable trash,
  that makes us cry out, 'Hold! Enough!'
  and use too oft a big, big—
• "My Lovely Horse" from Father Ted, a very silly appreciation of a horse created in-universe by Ted and Dougal, and as a real B-side by The Divine Comedy.
• "Songs of Love" by The Divine Comedy (which is, incidentally, a reworked version of the theme for Father Ted that they composed), is about a boy who sits in his room writing love songs while his peers are out chasing girls.
• "Falling in Love" by Randy Newman is a sweet song about the titular action…though Randy, as ever, also pokes fun at the fact that those who fall in love often don’t seem to do much to deserve that feeling.
• Mildly parodied in The Turtles' "Elenore," which randomly juxtaposes straight Silly Love Song material with parental opposition and Intercourse with You themes. Word of God says that "Elenore" was written as a Take That! against the Executive Meddling of their record company, who wanted them to make more commercial hits like "Happy Together," when they wanted to move on to more progressive music and concept albums like Battle of the Bands. So they deliberately wrote the most banal bubblegum pop song they could, but it still was a big hit and a signature Turtles song. It includes the famous lines:
  Elenore, gee, I think you're swell
  And you really do me well.
  You're my pride and joy, et cetera.
• Noah and the Whale had a little hit among indie-folk fans with the song "Five Years' Time." Why it's silly?
  "I no longer feel I have to be James Dean..."
• Subverted and quite possibly deconstructed by, of all people, Taylor Swift with the song "Fifteen." A freshman girl in High School meets a boy that she feels is her true love, and she's already planning to marry him... and then he dumps her for another girl, breaking her heart. The song was based on the experience of Taylor's longtime friend Abigail Anderson, who is mentioned by name in the song and appears in the video.
• Michael Bublé:
  • The song "Everything" seems to fit with this trope.
    You're a mystery
    You're from outer space.
  • "Haven't Met You Yet" is a bit of a reconstruction, it's a silly love song to his future significant other, and he has no idea who it is. The whole thing is filled with hopes and promises to a woman he's never met.
  • If we're talking Bublé, we have a whole plethora: "The Best is Yet to Come," "I've Got The World on a String," "Crazy Love," "All I Do is Dream of You," "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)," "How Sweet It Is," and "Moondance," just to name a few. Although all of those songs are covers.
• The tribute album I Miss Buffy The Vampire Slayer (three guesses what it's a tribute to, and the first two don't count) is pretty silly overall, so its love song, "Kinda Wish D'Hoffryn Was My Boyfriend" is exceptionally silly.
  Bumpy and lumpy, I know it sounds corny,
  I kinda like a guy who's a little bit horny.
  He's a vengeance demon; don't wanna cross him.
  His swingin' hell dimension is totally awesome!
• A common subject of parodies by "Weird Al" Yankovic, both specifically (e.g., "Addicted to Spuds" of "Addicted to Love") and generally (e.g., "I Was Only Kidding" and "You Make Me.") Some are silly love songs in their own right (very silly love songs; "You Make Me", which Al himself calls the most straightforward love song he's ever written, is an Oingo Boingo style pastiche that compares the singer's feelings to increasingly bizarre activities), while others are actually about a Stalker with a Crush or outright hatred for the other party.
• The subject of the Paul and Storm song, I Will Sing a Lullabye (to your vagina).
• The Suicide Machines' "Sometimes I Don't Mind" gently parodies these: The first verse and the chorus both sound like a generic love song, which makes the second verse seem a little weird ("You lick my hands then I get a rash, but that's okay,") but in the third verse it becomes obvious that it's been about a pet dog the whole time ("You won't lay down, you'll hardly sit / I give you a bath when you smell like shit, but you don't mind..."). The joke is made more obvious by the music video, which follows the antics of a fursuited human behaving like a real dog.
• "Gitchee Gitchee Goo" from Phineas and Ferb is a parody of this. "Don't worry if you get lost, the lyrics are meaningless anyway."
• The Dutch group Jazzpolitie has the song Liefdesliedjes (Love Songs) in which they lampshade most love song clichés. But the refrain is still: "There's only one way to tell you [what I feel for you]... Love Songs... You should hear them..."
• Supertramp has a few. Notably, Give a little bit, Downstream, and Oh! Darling!
• The Magnetic Fields' album 69 Love Songs, which is not quite what the title says by being 69 songs about love songs. In frontman Stephin Merritt's own words:
  69 Love Songs is not remotely an album about love. It's an album about love songs, which are very far away from anything to do with love.
• Brotherhood of Man's "Save All Your Kisses For Me" is a subversion, with the last line being 'even though you're only three'. This has been covered to make the song into a Last Note Nightmare shockfest about child rape.
• The Moldy Peaches song "Anyone Else But You" is an INCREDIBLY silly love duet including references to the Konami Code and shaking turds out of pants.
• "Baby" by Justin Bieber. All his other songs qualify, too.
• Delta Goodrem's Believe Again; every possible instrument and happy musical quotation is in this song, so it may have lived in Narm almost entirely, if the verses didn't save it so much…The chorus for your reading pleasure:
  I'd lost my faith in love, now I believe again
  My heart was a broken place, now I feel whole again
  You bring me honesty,and that's worth believing in
  and I believe, I believe again
• Hugh Laurie sang the love song "Mystery" in A Bit of Fry and Laurie. It involved a girl he never met, whom he was almost completely incompatible with and that died over a decade ago. The mystery was why he was in love with her. And what tortured rhyme for "mystery" Hugh was going to come up with next. (Some examples: estuary, unsanitary, Port Authority.)
  Dead since 1973
  You've been dead now ... wait a minute, let me see...
  Fifteen years come next January (jan-YOO-ary)
  As a human being, you are history
  So why do I still long for you?
  Why is my love so strong for you?
  Why did I write this song for you?
  Well, I guess it's just the mystery
• Tricia Yearwood's "How Do I Live", the closing theme to Con Air. It was later made even sillier with an intentionally cheesy, So Bad, It's Good cover by M.G. Bowman for Homestuck.
• The Axis of Awesome: "How to Write a Love Song" is a list of cliches to include in your '90s R&B boy band song.
• The sketch show Hello Cheeky had one or two songs every episode, written and performed by the regular cast. All that were love songs were parodies, such as Moon Over Romford, in which all the exotic locations typically found in love songs have been replaced with less glamorous English locations — Carrots For My Lady, about giving a sweetheart vegetables so she can cook an Irish stew — and Your Third Leg, about a woman with three legs. Then there's Don't Say Goodbye...
  Don't say goodbye, my dar-ling
  Goodbye is a terrible word
  Farewell and adieu
  Are terrible too
  And ta-ta is simply absurd
  Don't say goodbye, my darling
  Because it would make me feel low
  So don't say goodbye, my darling...
  Just pack up your suitcase and go!
• The opening lines of Selena Gomez and the Scene's "Love You Like A Love Song" deserve mention simply for lampshading the oversaturation.
  It's been said and done
  Every beautiful thought's already been sung
  And I guess right now here's another one
  So your melody will play on and on with the best of 'em
• Frank Zappa largely avoided writing love songs but when he did write them, he couldn't help parodying them. Freak Out and Cruising with Ruben & the Jets contain perhaps the best examples. An outstandingly silly example is "Charva":
  Charva, I loved you
  I loved you through and through
  I loved you since in grammar school
  When we were sniffing glue
  I loved you purty baby doll
  And I don't know what in the world to do about it
  Boppa-ba-boppa-choo-wah
• "Cadence and Cascade," from King Crimson's second album In The Wake of Poseidon. Not a place you'd expect one, but there you are.
• They Might Be Giants:
  • "Pet Name" from Factory Showroom is a tongue-in-cheek example, in that it's about a couple who are moving past the lovey-dovey portion of their relationship and now have to put more effort into it ("We've almost figured out how we'll get along / And given time we'll find it strange to be alone").
  • "Another First Kiss" from Mink Car is a more straightforward example. They themselves describe it as pretty much the only straight love song they've ever done, but in their typical style, it's a (their words) "Screw that" to the idea that you need to be young to be in love and instead depicts a happy couple with history.
  • From Dial-a-Song comes another mostly-straight example, "Ampersand." The lyrics reminisce over childhood memories of the narrator with the other subject, and spell out an excitedly childish message to them. It's ambiguous enough that it could also be about a pair of friends, though.
    We talk right through the night
    Then the morning's here and all the sun is shining down on millions more
    But really it's for
    You ampersand me
    C'mon, dot dot dot dot, dot dot dot dot
    You ampersand me
    Exclamation point, exclamation point
    (aka "You & me — C'mon........ You & me!!)
• Jonathan Coulton's cover of "Baby Got Back". The Sir Mix-A-Lot original, not so much.
• Mitch Benn has written a few of these, as well as Anti Love Songs. "Disgustingly in Love" is positive for the couple, if not anyone around them; "My Girlfriend is an Alien" has the singer conclude that he doesn't mind; and "One of These Days" is so sincere it's barely funny at all.
• Chériefm, a French radio station, offering in its site, several webradio specialized in various musical genres dont chérie love song (its slogan "la webradio de l'amour" in English is "the webradio of the love") and periodically "cheriefm romantic" its slogan? "la webradio des amoureux" (in English: "the sweetheart's webradio)
• Extreme included Tragic Comic to keep their concept album "III Sides To Every Story" from getting too heavy (and bid for another pop hit). The accompanying video adds a cute nod to the Trope Namer, showing their bassist playing McCartney's signature guitar.
• "When I Decide" by My Terrible Friend somehow manages to be one of these while also being about planning to kill the object of the singer's affections. At no point does the song stop being earnestly romantic, even during the murder-plotting part.
• Roy Orbison wrote and performed dramatic and operatic Love Songs.
• The name of an episode of Glee wherein they perform the Trope Namer along with other love songs. Love songs become an annual Valentine's Day theme on the show.
• When The Aquabats! do silly love songs, the emphasis is usually on "silly", from the ska-punk love ballad "Red Sweater!" ("You're not fat, you don't smell bad / You're always smiling, never sad") to the pop-sounding "Lovers of Loving Love!" to the mock-epic "The Legend is True!"
• Inverted by Matt Fishel's "Radio-Friendly Pop Song". It tells the story of a young artist, whose producer tells him he was "a talented guy" who could be very successful... if only his songs weren't gay-themed. (''But this is an industry where people make money, so your art has to sell/ And you should never seek to challenge an audience/ They buy what they're told and we never get it wrong/ Go write us a non-offensive, tasteful, conventional song...) This implies the taste of the audience is limited to silly love songs with very heterosexual pairings. The chorus is itself a parody to this concept since these are the producers only requirements for a song. (Girls like boys and boys like girls/ And that's the way it should be/ Forever) The song inverts both: It's neither a love song to a specific person nor is it heterosexual themed, but instead addressing the pressure of gay (male) artists to remain closeted to be successful.
• The Beach Boys have done several, but "Little Deuce Coupe" is an oddball one, because it's a love song about a car.
• "Louisa" by Lord Huron comes pretty close to this.
• The trope is affectionately deconstructed in Imelda May's "Human", which is about being loved passionately but realistically — because that's better than being silly.
  So come adore me, but know I'm gonna fall
  Off of this pedestal that I hope you've put me on
  And as God's above me, I swear I'll try to be
  All that you ever want and I'll be the best of me
  I wanna be your human...
• Caravan have surprisingly many examples for a prog group, including the aptly-named "Love Song with Flute":
  I'm needing you — though it may not seem to be
  I'm needing you — you're all I care to see
• Culture Club created "Love Is Love" for the film Electric Dreams, which also appears on a few of their Greatest Hits albums.
• Doraemon: In "A World Without Sound", from what little we read of Big G's song, it appears to be a peppy love song. "My love is like..."
• Robert S. Rosefsky, the author of Frauds, Swindles, and Rackets wrote a deliberately bad song called "Ethel Is My Only Love" to test whether vanity music "publishers" would accept absolutely anything they were sent. When he received three positive responses he decided to write an even worse song as a further test.
  I Think I Adore You, Ralph
  
  Oh Ralph, I think I adore you, Ralph
  You, You, You, You! !
  I don't care what anyone says.
  The fellows down at the plant say,
  "What's a nice guy like you doing hanging
  around with a sissy-boy like Ralph?"
  But I don't care, I don't care.
  I'm old enough, old enough to know what I want—
  And it's not Ethel anymore.
  It's you, Ralph, I think I adore you.
  You harlequin you!
  Oh, oh, oh, oh, RALPH!
• NOFX have a few fun love song parodies: "Whatever Didi Wants" rejects the kind of exaggerated promises made in love songs (e.g., "I wouldn't walk 500 miles / when I could fly coach") but is still a love song itself. Others tend to just be love songs towards unconventional subjects: "Hot Dog In A Hallway" is an ode to a Big Beautiful Woman, while "Monosyllabic Girl" is about being in love with an extremely Terse Talker (I take her down to the aquarium, she says "shark" / I take her to the planetarium, she says "dark").
• Eddie Cantor's "I Love Me".
  Oh, I love me, I love me, I'm wild about sweet me
  I love me, only me, so I'm content you see,
  I like myself with such delight
  I take me right straight home each night
  And sleep with me till broad day light
  I'm wild about myself.
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Bowser's love song "Peaches" (partially written, and performed, by Bowser's voice actor and Tenacious D singer, Jack Black) is Played for Laughs, given how masculine of a bad guy he is and how rarely he sings in the series. You certainly wouldn't expect a big, scary turtle general to have a genuine, heartfelt song for his crush. The word "Peaches" gets repeated constantly at the end, as if he's already run out of ideas for lyrics, and escalates to Chewing the Scenery-levels of soulful.
• Zucchero: Some of his songs portray romance with a noticeably flowery narrative, such as "Indaco Dagli Occhi Del Cielo" (Indigo Like the Eyes of the Sky), where he describes love as an influx of "kisses falling from the sky" and which are "light as apple blossoms" and look like "mercury drops". The funny thing is that Zucchero himself claims that he wasn't always good at writing deeply romantic songs.
• Steam Powered Giraffe: Despite the band supposedly being composed of emotionless automatons (at least in Kayfabe), they have a few sugary-sweet love songs in their repertoire. The Spine in particular seems to have a great affinity for this genre, being the lead singer on such tracks as "Me and My Baby", "She Said Maybe", "I Don't Have a Name For It", and "Love World of Love" (just to name a few).
• Sonic R's soundtrack has a ton of these, courtesy of composer Richard Jacques and singer TJ Davis. They're definitely a product of their time, taking heavy inspiration from 90's europop and being chock-full of Love Is a Drug lyrics, but most fans find them endearing and even unironically enjoyable to listen to regardless. The credits song, "You're My Number One," is probably the most prominent example.
  All I need is you, for always and forever
  All you need is me, remember when I say
  All we need is love, for us to be together
  'Cause you're my number one!
• Hannah Diamond takes this to a degree that is so sincere you might mistake it for Satire. Funnily enough, despite the hyper-real and post-ironic approach the rest of the label is soaked in, Hannah admits that they actually come from a place of genuine sincerity and heart.
  "I am a total sap. With 'Hi,' the lyrics are so extreme. No one would admit to being that much of a loser that they'd write messages to people they fancy who don't reply and then get really sad about it, but that is actually me. I'm a melancholy person and I'm really really sensitive. Part of me wants romance to be about gooey stuff and not how romance is boiled down nowadays—booty size and money and cars. But I'm not really interested in masking who I am."
• Með allt á hreinu opens with the bands practicing one. Harpa thinks it's dumb and outdated, which leads to the bands falling out with each other.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Parodied with "My Tighty Whiteys" from The Best Day Ever album, which is a song sweetly arranged In the Style of Pet Sounds and every verse of its lyrics contains geniunely romantic ways of showing love... while the chorus keeps singing "Tighty whiteys..." to remind everyone that SpongeBob is actually singing to his underwear.
• "Der Hofnarr" ("The Court Jester") by german fun metal band J.B.O. is surprisingly romantic for an intentionally silly example. Rough translation of the chorus:
  Let me be your court jester, and you are my queen
  Let me be your court jester, your all private harlequin
  I'll make you laugh
  We do funny stuff
  Because I'm so foolishly in love with thee
• Art and Dotty Todd had a hit with "Chanson d'Amour (Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta)". The first part of the title means "Love Song". Leaving out the nonsense syllables, the verses are:
  "Chanson d'amour, play encore here in my heart more and more"
  "Chanson d'amour, I adore each time I hear Chanson d'amour"
  "Chanson d'amour, I adore each time I hear Chanson d'amour; every time I hear Chanson, chanson d'amour"
• Tony Tammaro usually put way more emphasis on the "silly" part than he does on the "love song" part:
  • Played straight in "Il mozzarellista", a rather sweet love song if not for the setting: the protagonist sells cheese in a van, while his love interest is the daughter of a dairy owner. He also tells the girl to make love in his van between the many cheeses he carries. A cheesy love song indeed. [[note]]There's no correlation between cheese and mediocrity in italian.[[\note]]
  • Zig-Zagged in "Dint' 'a villa", a love song between the tender romance between to teenagers. Until the ending, when the girl's father assaults the boy with a jack and yells at him.
  • "Se potrei avere te": A declaration of love full of grammatical errors from an ignorant man to a woman who got higher education, only for the protagonist to change idea in the end as the man recognizes to be harmful to her knowledge.
  • "Patrizia": a straight but still light-hearted example about a man succesfully wooing the (beauty) queen of all Baia Domizia.
• In The Outer Worlds 2, the Order of the Ascendant's radio station consists of songs about math... and very nerdy love songs, which also have math puns and/or double entendres. It's a telling cultural clue: the Auntie's Choice radio station is 24/7 song-length jingles for their myriad products, and the closest Protectorate radio gets to a "love song" is a song praising the Sovereign.