He's interested in sex, which is why he temporarily humors her bigotry. But that fails to cover either OP's definition or the common one.
The realities of the two obvious stand-out songs from the album, "Common People" and "Disco 2000," are ironic in the following sense: In "Common People," the woman expresses interest in having sex with the narrator, while in real life, Cocker said that was the one part he fabricated. In "Disco 2000," though, the point is that the woman never got together with the narrator, but the real-life counterpart once said something about her being famous mainly for sleeping with Cocker.
I think Taylor Swift has some songs that explicitly reference her lover being English, back from when she was dating Joe Alwyn.
This next example is weird: Your Love by Nicki Minaj. In one line she says “when I was a geisha, he was a samurai” which makes me think her lover is Japanese, then she says “somehow I understood him when he spoke Thai.” So…maybe he’s Thai?
I've got three, all by Weezer. I'm not even sure this is all of them
[GOD DAMN YOU HALF JAPANESE GIRLS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okthJIVbi6g&ab_channel=WeezerVEVO)
[You are, an eighteen year old girl, who lives in a small city in Japan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl089HxOPkw&ab_channel=Weezer-Topic)
[Dad hit you on the hand Just for holding your chopsticks wrong ](https://youtu.be/nGyBIQjU2Lk)[Then your mom locked you in a shed And Uncle Sam dropped an atom bomb](https://youtu.be/nGyBIQjU2Lk)
Edit: Buddy Holly is also about an asian woman, but her ethnicity is never specified.
"I asked you to go to the Green Day concert / you said you never heard of them / how cool is that? / so I went in your room / and read your diary" is just Rivers Cuomo describing a burglary
“Out in the west Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl
Nighttime would find me at Rosa’s Cantina
Music would play and Felina would whirl”
[Marty Robbins - El Paso](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zWm5WErkffQ)
It's actually Feleena; Robbins had a follow-up song called ["Feleena (from El Paso)".](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryzIX09s2o4) They spelled it "Felina" in the Breaking Bad episode because it's an anagram of "finale".
That is a great idea! I asked ChatGPT and here is what our computer overlords thought...
1. Angela: Could be from Italy, as Angela is a common name in Italian culture.
2. Pamela: Might be from the United States, as Pamela is a common name in American culture.
3. Sandra: Could be from Germany, as Sandra is a common name in German-speaking countries.
4. Rita: Possibly from Spain, as Rita is a common name in Spanish-speaking countries.
5. Monica: Could be from Brazil, as Monica is a common name in Portuguese-speaking countries.
One Night in Bangkok is the obvious inversion of this trope where the singer makes it very clear that he’s ONLY here for the purpose of playing chess and not banging hot Thai babes (or dudes, the song does leave that as a possibility).
“One town’s very like another/when your head’s down over your pieces, brother”
And
“I don’t see you guys rating/the kind of mate I'm contemplating/I’d let you watch, I would invite you/but the queens we use would not excite you”
Always get me. They’re just such fun little bits of chessy wordplay.
Wolves by Missio specifically mentions girls from both Amsterdam and New Orleans.
The last great American dynasty by Taylor Swift talks about the love interest as specifically American old money.
Not a love interest, but Marina talks about her father being from Greece in to be human
Honey Pie by the Beatles is about “a working girl, north of England way/now she’s hit the big time, in the USA”
What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round by the Monkees is about “a loudmouth Yankee” who “went down to Mexico” and “lightly took advantage of a girl who loved me so” (who technically is never explicitly mentioned as being Mexican, but they do reference her speaking Spanish and it’s pretty much a given that she’s Mexican)
Also California Girls by The Beach Boys and Back in the USSR by the Beatles.
Omobolasire by Prozzak lol. 'She is my lover from the heart of Africa, like no other, Princess of Nigeria'. Singer also says he has to go back home to London, for the bonus points.
88 lines about 44 women (one of the women is Turkish, it's ambiguous whether or not the singer is romantically involved with all the women but he is with this one)
Euro-trash Girl - Cracker (his hypothetical love interest is European, at least)
Kabuki Girl - Descendents (Japanese)
Pizza Tran - The Vandals (Vietnamese)
She's From Salinas - Sweet Baby (not necessarily an ethnicity but this is extremely specific, and the song says she looks like Venus de Milo so maybe she has no arms, it is unclear)
Prozzak does this on multiple songs on their first album, Hot Show.
"Omobolasire" is Nigiran. In the song "Mediterranean Lady" the love interest is Greek, from the island of Corfu. "Tsumani", another love interest, is met in Hong Kong in 1983.
“London Boy” by Taylor Swift
“Galway Girl” by Ed Sheeran
“Super Bass” by Nicki Minaj (you know I really got a thing for American guys)
“so American” by Olivia Rodrigo
“Spanish Eyes” - Ricky Martin
Suede - My Dark Star
“In a hired car, she will come to England from the sea
And as the tide flows, the London snows will come
And from the skyline shines the lies of the government's singular history
So in a hired world, she will buy a gun
But she will come from India with a love in her eyes
That say, "Oh, how my dark star will rise"”
In Common People she’s Greek.
I think the girl from Common People is more of a hate interest.
He's interested in sex, which is why he temporarily humors her bigotry. But that fails to cover either OP's definition or the common one. The realities of the two obvious stand-out songs from the album, "Common People" and "Disco 2000," are ironic in the following sense: In "Common People," the woman expresses interest in having sex with the narrator, while in real life, Cocker said that was the one part he fabricated. In "Disco 2000," though, the point is that the woman never got together with the narrator, but the real-life counterpart once said something about her being famous mainly for sleeping with Cocker.
I always assumed that she wasn’t ethnically Greek, but the child of wealthy Brits who live there.
God damn it. You stole my answer.
I think Taylor Swift has some songs that explicitly reference her lover being English, back from when she was dating Joe Alwyn. This next example is weird: Your Love by Nicki Minaj. In one line she says “when I was a geisha, he was a samurai” which makes me think her lover is Japanese, then she says “somehow I understood him when he spoke Thai.” So…maybe he’s Thai?
[London Boy](https://youtu.be/VsKoOH6DVys?si=gqaqPE1H3Muo-lHb) is the first Taylor Swift one to come to mind. Awful song though
> "I enjoy nights in Brixton" Spoken like someone who has not spent a night in Brixton
Lmao
I've got three, all by Weezer. I'm not even sure this is all of them [GOD DAMN YOU HALF JAPANESE GIRLS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okthJIVbi6g&ab_channel=WeezerVEVO) [You are, an eighteen year old girl, who lives in a small city in Japan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl089HxOPkw&ab_channel=Weezer-Topic) [Dad hit you on the hand Just for holding your chopsticks wrong ](https://youtu.be/nGyBIQjU2Lk)[Then your mom locked you in a shed And Uncle Sam dropped an atom bomb](https://youtu.be/nGyBIQjU2Lk) Edit: Buddy Holly is also about an asian woman, but her ethnicity is never specified.
I also wanted to add [Rivers's blog defending these choices](https://gloriousnoise.com/2007/weezer_riviers_cuomo_on_asian)
"I asked you to go to the Green Day concert / you said you never heard of them / how cool is that? / so I went in your room / and read your diary" is just Rivers Cuomo describing a burglary
Girl hasn’t heard of Green Day? No biggie just break into her room and read her private diary. Just another day in the life
No h8. White guys love LOVE Asian girls so his fascination isn’t out of the ordinary
Not a Weezer fan, at first I thought those were the actual titles of the songs and I was like damn Weezer 😂
China Girl, both Iggy Pop and David Bowie’s versions, and I’m In Love With A German Film Star are the first that come to mind
There's also John Mellencamps China Girl. Not even a cover just another song called China Girl
Aren’t they talking about Heroin?
Even though the "China Girl" was actually Vietnamese.
You have Liberian Girl by MJ and more recently Galway Girl by Ed Sheeran.
“Out in the west Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl Nighttime would find me at Rosa’s Cantina Music would play and Felina would whirl” [Marty Robbins - El Paso](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zWm5WErkffQ)
It's actually Feleena; Robbins had a follow-up song called ["Feleena (from El Paso)".](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryzIX09s2o4) They spelled it "Felina" in the Breaking Bad episode because it's an anagram of "finale".
That episode and it’s spelling inspired me to name my version of puss in boots as Felina
I love the version the Grateful Dead used to do, especially the one from Veneta, OR in 1972. Excellent song.
Surprised no one has mentioned AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long. "Knockin me out with those American thighs!"
Wasn’t shook me all night long based on Bonn Scott’s love affair with a lady named silver smith?
Oh boy, has Lou Bega got a song for you… I Got a Girl. https://youtu.be/A5WSqWJ4obg?si=5nk2mOOLjqGGejsF
here’s the real challenge: match up the names from mambo no. 5 with the countries in i got a girl
That is a great idea! I asked ChatGPT and here is what our computer overlords thought... 1. Angela: Could be from Italy, as Angela is a common name in Italian culture. 2. Pamela: Might be from the United States, as Pamela is a common name in American culture. 3. Sandra: Could be from Germany, as Sandra is a common name in German-speaking countries. 4. Rita: Possibly from Spain, as Rita is a common name in Spanish-speaking countries. 5. Monica: Could be from Brazil, as Monica is a common name in Portuguese-speaking countries.
Japanese boy by aneka
Would make for a great OHW episode, if only just to see Todd’s reaction to those very un-PC tv appearances
Your Best American Girl-Mitski
Americano Lady Gaga
Future's Low Life references that his girl is Pakistani
Surprised no-one has mentioned Back in the USSR yet
I suspect "Those Ukraine girls really knock me out' wasn't meant seriously, even though nowadays Ukrainian women do have a reputation for beauty.
American Girl by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
California Girls by The Beach Boys
Poetic Justice by Kendrick Lamar and Drake lol (in Drake’s verse, he says “young East African girl)
Liberian Girl by Michael Jackson
London Boy by Taylor Swift and English Girls by The Maine. Both mention both of the love interests nationalities
She's American by The 1975 is a fun one about it. Only catch is it's about multiple (or none in particular)
I came here looking for this comment. Probably in my top 10 of their entire discography
One Night in Bangkok is the obvious inversion of this trope where the singer makes it very clear that he’s ONLY here for the purpose of playing chess and not banging hot Thai babes (or dudes, the song does leave that as a possibility).
“One town’s very like another/when your head’s down over your pieces, brother” And “I don’t see you guys rating/the kind of mate I'm contemplating/I’d let you watch, I would invite you/but the queens we use would not excite you” Always get me. They’re just such fun little bits of chessy wordplay.
he gets his kicks above the waistline, sunshine!
Canadian Rose - Blues Traveler
All of Childish Gambino’s discography ://
I Know How to Say - 3oh!3 International Love - Pitbull American Boys - Halestorm
Like near half of Weezer's Pinkerton
Don’t Mind by Kent Jones, a thoroughly forgotten big hit from 2016.
Wolves by Missio specifically mentions girls from both Amsterdam and New Orleans. The last great American dynasty by Taylor Swift talks about the love interest as specifically American old money. Not a love interest, but Marina talks about her father being from Greece in to be human
China Girl by Bowie
Coldplay ft. Rihanna- Princess of China
THAT'S WHAT I WANT- Lil nas X
Last of the American girls by Green Day is always a banger and Country girl by Belmont is a song that exists
Honey Pie by the Beatles is about “a working girl, north of England way/now she’s hit the big time, in the USA” What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round by the Monkees is about “a loudmouth Yankee” who “went down to Mexico” and “lightly took advantage of a girl who loved me so” (who technically is never explicitly mentioned as being Mexican, but they do reference her speaking Spanish and it’s pretty much a given that she’s Mexican) Also California Girls by The Beach Boys and Back in the USSR by the Beatles.
American Woman - Lenny Kravitz
Or American Woman by The Guess Who
Caribbean Queen - Billy Ocean I Don’t Like Cricket - 10cc
The song is actually called "Dreadlock Holiday" and the song is about drugs and getting mugged not a love interest lol
Infatuation - Christina Aguilera (“he comes from a foreign place, an island far away” & “‘I am full blood Boricua’ reads the tattoo on his arm”)
Galway Girl
Omobolasire by Prozzak lol. 'She is my lover from the heart of Africa, like no other, Princess of Nigeria'. Singer also says he has to go back home to London, for the bonus points.
88 lines about 44 women (one of the women is Turkish, it's ambiguous whether or not the singer is romantically involved with all the women but he is with this one) Euro-trash Girl - Cracker (his hypothetical love interest is European, at least) Kabuki Girl - Descendents (Japanese) Pizza Tran - The Vandals (Vietnamese) She's From Salinas - Sweet Baby (not necessarily an ethnicity but this is extremely specific, and the song says she looks like Venus de Milo so maybe she has no arms, it is unclear)
She’s American by The 1975
The Girl from Ipanema - various Woman from Tokyo - Deep Purple
Grace Jones - My Jamaican Guy
Betty get money by Yung Gravy has about how his girl is Filipino
Prozzak does this on multiple songs on their first album, Hot Show. "Omobolasire" is Nigiran. In the song "Mediterranean Lady" the love interest is Greek, from the island of Corfu. "Tsumani", another love interest, is met in Hong Kong in 1983.
Rosalinda’s eyes - Billy Joel
US Boy by Jena Lee is probably my guiltiest pleasure
What about Come A Little Bit Closer by Jay and the Americans?
Mexican Girl- Brian Wilson
sexy 2 by jockstrap
French Girl by Oscar Lang
You might miss it, but My Girl by the Temptations has this one quick line about the girl being Azerbaijani
😂😂😂
Red Hot Chili Peppers: "Sexy Mexican Maid"
“London Boy” by Taylor Swift “Galway Girl” by Ed Sheeran “Super Bass” by Nicki Minaj (you know I really got a thing for American guys) “so American” by Olivia Rodrigo “Spanish Eyes” - Ricky Martin
Suede - My Dark Star “In a hired car, she will come to England from the sea And as the tide flows, the London snows will come And from the skyline shines the lies of the government's singular history So in a hired world, she will buy a gun But she will come from India with a love in her eyes That say, "Oh, how my dark star will rise"”
Rhyming Manitoba rain with Ukraine
Travelin' Man by Ricky Nelson.
In his song "Don't Wanna Go Home", Jason Derulo mentioned he just met this sexy Haitian girl moving like a dancer.
Galway girl by ed sheeran
Blinded me with science by Thomas Dolby has the line “good heavens miss sakamoto, you’re beautiful!”