Human Animals ＆ Their Songs

This page is a collection of ≈200 song lyrics and commentary, with music videos, annotated with some respect to humanity.

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The Mating Game

• ABBA — Take a Chance on Me
• Britney Spears — Baby One More Time
• Carly Simon — You're So Vain
• Michael Jackson — Thriller
• Sheena Easton — Strut

• Michael Jackson — Billie Jean
• Rihanna — SOS
• Britney Spears — Womanizer
• Blondie — One Way or Another
• Anya Marina — Whatever You Like (Gossip Girl)

Hymn to Sweet Sixteens

• Billy Idol — Sweet Sixteen
• ABBA — Dancing Queen
• 再会吧！十七岁 (Goodbye, Seventeen)
• 鄧麗君 — 南海姑娘 (The Tropics Sea Girl)
• 鄧麗君 — 海韵 (Sea Rhythm)

Dance Frenzy

Songs: Dance Frenzy

Rap

• Shaggy — Hey Sexy Lady
• RuPaul — Super (South Park song)
• Moloko — Fun For Me
• Humor: Weird Al — White ＆ Nerdy

Free Spirit Defiance

• Madonna — Like It or Not
• Björk — Unison
• Björk — Bachelorette
• Eurythmics — I Need A Man

The Masochistic Wail of Lovelorn Females

• Portishead — Wandering Stars
• Portishead — Glory Box
• Portishead — The Rip
• Portishead — Small
• Portishead — Elysium
• Mono — Slimcea Girl
• Dido — White Flag

Courtship and Love

The supremacy of sexual love.

• Jennifer Rush — The Power of Love

Info Era High

• Daisy Bell
• Sharon Apple — Information High (Macross Plus)

A Tale To Tell

Songs: A Tale to Tell

The Love and Pain of Human Animals

• 周璇 — 月圆花好
• 鄧麗君 — 但願人長久
• 周璇 — 真善美 (Truth, Virtue, Beauty)
• 林子祥 ＆ 葉蒨文 — 乾一杯 (A Toast to Friendship)
• Moody Blues — Nights in White Satin

• Kumiko Noma — Lilium (Elfen Lied)
• Enya — Cursum Perficio
• Llorando (Crying) (song in Mulholland Drive)

In Praise of Br��sts, Butt��ks, and C�p�lation

• Prince — Kiss
• Cyndi Lauper — She Bop

• Sheena Easton — My Sugar Walls
• Prince — Little Red Corvette
• Black Eyed Peas — My Humps
• No Reason To Be Shy

• Sharon Apple — the Borderline
• Björk — Cocoon
• Björk — Possibly Maybe

Unsorted

• Blondie — Dreaming
• Blondie — Heart of Glass
• Blondie — Rapture
• Blondie — Atomic
• Blondie — In The Flesh
• Blondie — Fade Away and Radiate
• Katy Perry — Last Friday Night
• Snake River Conspiracy — You And Your Friend

• Laura Branigan — Self Control
• Bonnie Tyler — Total Eclipse of the Heart
• VNV Nation — Illusion
• Cry For Love (Schrei nach Liebe)
• 21st Century Schizoid Man
• Rammstein — Engel
• Midnight Poison; Space Dementia by Muse; Eva Green

• Censorship Humor: BPA — Toe Jam
• Karmin — Look at Me Now

• James Brown — It's a Man's World
• Madonna — Don't Cry For Me Argentina

• Lana Del Rey — Video Games
• Twin Peaks Theme — Into the Night
• Sail — AWOLNATION
• Lhasa de Sela — Anywhere on this Road

• Joey Dyser — 100 years
• Dusty Springfield — The Windmills Of Your Mind

• Faye Wong — Eyes on Me (Final Fantasy VIII)
• Sarah Brightman — Harem
• Incredible Beauty: Erika Marozsán in Gloomy Sunday
• Portishead — Machine Gun (Song)
• Madonna — American Life
• Eurythmics — the King and Queen of America
• Cute Girls Singing Adele's “Rolling in the Deep”
• Selena Gomez — Love You Like a Love Song
• Anya Marina — All the Same to Me
• Macross Plus — Pulse (song)

• Choi Sung-Bong - Nella Fantasia
• Moon (Song from Turn A Gundam)
• Arcade Fire — Abraham's Daughter (Hunger Games Ending Song)
• the Philosophy of F�ck Sh�t Stack
• A Real Hero (movie “Drive” theme song)
• Rebecca Black - Friday (song)
• Radiohead — Creep
• Pixies — Where is My Mind
• Moonlight Sonata Dubstep

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