Songs About Girls

Another "Opposites" music post heading your way, and it's a three-parter. (You're welcome.) This one's Songs About Girls, the next one's Songs About Boys, and the last one's Songs About Boys AND Girls. Yes, there are actually enough songs with the words "boy" and "girl" in their titles to constitute three whole posts. With plenty to spare. That being said, let's get started!  ~  JH

1)  Madonna  ~  "Material Girl"

2)  Aqua  ~  "Barbie Girl"

3)  David Lee Roth  ~  "California Girls"

4)  Oh Land  ~  "Renaissance Girls"

5)  Metric  ~  "Gold Guns Girls"

6)  Green Day  ~  "Last Of The American Girls"

7)  Hayley Kiyoko  ~  "Girls Like Girls"

8)  Cyndi Lauper  ~  "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"

9)  The Black Keys  ~  "Next Girl"

10)  Britney Spears  ~  "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman"

11)  Carrie Underwood  ~  "All-American Girl"

12)  The Killers  ~  "Just Another Girl"

13)  Gwen Stefani  ~  "Hollaback Girl"

14)  P!nk  ~  "Most Girls"

15)  The Temptations  ~  "My Girl"

16)  Paula Abdul  ~  "Forever Your Girl"

17)  Scotty McCreery  ~  "The Trouble With Girls"

18)  Veruca Salt  ~  "Volcano Girls"

19)  MIKA  ~  "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)"

20)  Martina McBride  ~  "This One's For The Girls"

21)  Counting Crows ft. Sheryl Crow  ~  "American Girls"

22)  702  ~  "Where My Girls At"

23)  Anouk  ~  "Girl"

24)  Tim McGraw  ~  "Southern Girl"

25)  Jamie Grace  ~  "God Girl"

Same Name, Different Song: Vol. 5

If you're onto my game, this is more of the same. If you don't know the score, let me show you what for. These songs right here share a title, you see? But the songs are all different, it's plain as can be. This is part 5 – see, I've done 4 before these. And before this week's over, I may do even more these. Okay, so that last rhyme was forced if not absent. But let's not harp on that, 'cuz you know what I meant. I hope you'll enjoy these – I can't always tell. I like 'em, so even if you don't, oh well!  ~  JH

1)  "Come Back To Me"

David Cook

vs.

Janet Jackson

2)  "Count On Me"

Jefferson Starship

vs.

Whitney Houston & CeCe Winans

3)  "Without You"

The Doobie Brothers

vs.

Harry Nilsson

4)  "Tonight, Tonight"

Hot Chelle Rae

vs.

The Smashing Pumpkins

5)  "Stuck On You"

Elvis Presley

vs.

Lionel Richie

vs.

Meiko

6)  "When I Grow Up"

Fever Ray

vs.

Garbage

7)  "Dreams"

Fleetwood Mac

vs.

The Cranberries

8)  "Down"

blink-182

vs.

311

9)  "Dream On"

Aerosmith

vs.

Robyn

10)  "Hold On"

En Vogue

vs.

KT Tunstall

vs.

Sarah McLachlan

Same Name, Different Song: Vol. 4

I warned you a couple of weeks ago that there may be more of these posts, which feature completely different songs sharing the same song titles. And here they are! As before, I encourage your input as to which of the two songs (or three, in a couple of cases here) you prefer. If you like these kinds of posts, you're in luck – I'm already working on Vol. 5! If you hate these kinds of posts, well, you'll probably hate the ones to come as well. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  "Blue Skies"

Jamiroquai

vs.

Bing Crosby

2)  "Never Alone"

BarlowGirl

vs.

Jim Brickman ft. Lady Antebellum

3)  "Bye Bye Love"

The Cars

vs.

The Everly Brothers

4)  "Chain Reaction"

Diana Ross ft. Bee Gees

vs.

Journey

5)  "Cherish"

The Association

vs.

Kool & The Gang

vs.

Madonna

6)  "Clumsy"

Fergie

vs.

Our Lady Peace

7)  "Closer"

Corinne Bailey Rae

vs.

Kings Of Leon

8)  "Creep"

Radiohead

vs.

TLC

vs.

Stone Temple Pilots

9)  "Crush"

Jennifer Paige

vs.

Dave Matthews Band

10)  "Heaven"

Bryan Adams

vs.

Los Lonely Boys

"Second" Songs

I was going to do a short miniseries of posts with the words "First," "Second," "Third," and so forth in the titles. But as it turns out, I've already done "First" songs previously (in a "First" & "Last" Songs post), and "Third" songs and beyond are pretty hard to come by. So here's a small selection of "Second" songs. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Shinedown  ~  "Second Chance"

2)  LIGHTS  ~  "Second Go"

3)  Eddie Rabbitt  ~  "On Second Thought"

4)  Shalamar  ~  "The Second Time Around"

5)  Faber Drive  ~  "Second Chance"

6)  Smokey Robinson & The Miracles  ~  "I Second That Emotion"

7)  38 Special  ~  "Second Chance"

8)  El DeBarge  ~  "Second Chance"

9)  Jeff Bates  ~  "One Second Chance"

10)  TV On The Radio  ~  "Second Song"

11)  Darryl Worley  ~  "Second Wind"

12)  Rend Collective  ~  "Second Chance"