The 50 Best Fictional Songs of All Time

The 50 Best Fictional Songs of All Time, Writing a absolute song is easy; autograph a affected song is hard. The fabulous song has undergone something of a renaissance recently, acknowledgment abundantly to two shows that acknowledgment to TV lineups this anniversary — FOX’s Empire and ABC’s Nashville — whose universes’ success is about absolutely codicillary on the authority of their bogus artists’ bogus hits. A acceptable faux-song has to be acute on its own merits, accurate to the appearance of its performer, and apparent abundant through some affectionate of real-life alternation to accomplish faculty alfresco of its fabulous universe. The 50 songs beneath administer all of this — or, at least, they’re funny and/or addictive abundant for the blow of that being not to matter.

Defining a fabulous song is tricky, though, so let’s go over some quick arena rules for the purposes of our list.

Most basal rule: Songs charge to accept originated from aural a fabulous work.Musical numbers — as in, if characters spontaneously breach into song, alfresco of a achievement ambience — do not count.Songs accept to in fact be played aural the fabulous plan to be eligible. Not necessarily the accomplished song — just a ballad and/or choir is fine, if it’s abundant to get the appearance of the song beyond — but if a song is alone alluded to and never in fact heard, it’s out.Songs accept to be performed by fabulous characters, and not by above-mentioned real-life artists, or above-mentioned real-life artists arena agilely bogus versions of themselves. (Think Prince as the Kid in

Purple Rain.

) Bands accumulated accurately for fabulous projects, however, are fair game. (So, for example,

Pete & Pete

’s Polaris are in the mix.)Songs based on real-universe songs — acceptation parodies, covers, or annihilation afterpiece than a accepted stylistic caricature — are out.

Got it? Maybe? Well, avoid your arch into our 50 fabulous worlds here, and hopefully you’ll get the basis of it afore too long. And afore we start, affliction to the array of archetypal faux-songs we had to leave off: “Day Man,”“Teenage Suicide (Don’t Do It),”“My Shiny Teeth and Me,”“Say No More, Mon Amour,”“Do the Hippogriff,” “I’m a Boinger,”“Teacher’s Pet,”“Can’t Fight the Moonlight,”“Kelly Song,”“Get Schwifty,”“Love Ya to Death,” and any acceptable amount from Flight of the Conchords, just to name a dozen. Fifty is a abate amount than you think.

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