In August 1980, Benatar released her LP, Crimes of Passion, featuring her signature song " Hit Me with Your Best Shot " along with the controversial song " Hell is for Children ", which was inspired by reading a series of articles in the New York Times about child abuse in America.

* The 2006 song The Kid Who Collected Crimes!

Broken Social Scene's song " Lover's Spit " from 2002's You Forgot It in People has been featured in director Clément Virgo's movie Lie with Me ( 2005 ), Paul McGuigan's Wicker Park ( 2004 ), Bruce McDonald's The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess ( 2004 ), Showtime's Queer as Folk ( 2003 ) and the penultimate episode of the Canadian series Terminal City.

The song they recorded (" I Did Crimes For You ") became part of their January 2011 album Deerhoof vs.

Conversely, Robert Christgau alleged that the only good song on the album was " Almost Crimes ( Radio Kills Remix )".

Reid wrote that " Headlights Look Like Diamonds " " pretty much lifts the entire verse from Broken Social Scene song " Almost Crimes ( Radio Kills Remix )".

*" Ave Maria ", a song by Rowland S. Howard from his album Pop Crimes

In France, avant-garde director René Clair made surreal use of song and dance in comedies like Under the Roofs of Paris ( 1930 ) and Le Million ( 1931 ).

Generally speaking, he tended to use tap and other popular dance idioms to express joy and exuberance – as in the title song from Singin ' in the Rain or " I Got Rhythm " from An American in Paris, whereas pensive or romantic feelings were more often expressed via ballet or modern dance, as in " Heather on the Hill " from Brigadoon or " Our Love Is Here to Stay " from An American in Paris.

While Paris inspected them, each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia, Athena offered wisdom and skill in war, and Aphrodite, who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras ), offered the world's most beautiful woman ( Euripides, Andromache, l. 284, Helena l. 676 ).

As Adam Mickiewicz explained in 1842 to students of Slavic Literature in Paris, the song " begins with verses which are the emblem of recent history: ' Poland has not yet perished, so long as we still live '.

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

While it was primarily a comical song about a Judge and his courtroom it is also notable for the political lyrics " I'm goin ' to Paris to stop this war " and " I had a chat with Ho Chi Minh " both social commentary references about wanting to go to the Paris Peace Accord negotiations to stop the war in Vietnam.

" A recording of Johnson playing the song appears on the compact disc, James P. Johnson: Harlem Stride Piano ( Jazz Archives No. 111, EPM, Paris, 1997 ).

As for the composition date of Mozart's Variations, for a time the variations were thought to have been composed in 1778, while Mozart stayed in Paris from April to September in that year, the assumption being that the melody of a French song could only have been picked up by Mozart while residing in France.

Carmen initially gained its reputation through a series of productions outside France, and was not revived in Paris until 1883 ; thereafter it rapidly acquired celebrity at home and abroad, and continues to be one of the most frequently performed operas ; the " toreador's song " from Act 2 is among the best known of all operatic arias.

* " Grey ", a song from the album Paris Kills by the Finnish gothic rock band The 69 Eyes

The emotions of an extended upper-class family in Manhattan are followed in song from NY to Paris and Venice.

Though the song was originally written by a citizen of Strasbourg, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792, and it was originally a war song for the revolutionary Army of the Rhine, it became famous when it sung on the streets of Paris by the volunteers from Marseille, who had heard it when it was sung in Marseille by a young volunteer from Montpellier named François Mireur.

These fédérés were making their entryway into the city of Paris on 30 July 1792 after a young volunteer from Montpellier called François Mireur had sung it at a patriotic gathering in Marseille, and the troops adopted it as the marching song of the National Guard of Marseille.

There he appeared in the marionette theaters and in the motley entertainments — featuring song, dance, audience participation, and acrobatics — that were calculated to draw a crowd while sidestepping the regulations that ensured the Théâtre-Français a monopoly on " regular " dramas in Paris.

* " Paris " ( song ), a 2008 song by Friendly Fires

* " Paris " ( Kanye West and Jay-Z song ), a song by Kanye West and Jay-Z

* " Paris ", a song by Dido from Life for Rent

* " Paris ", a song by Groove Armada from Soundboy Rock

* " Paris ", a song by Kate Nash from My Best Friend Is You

* The song " The Third Temptation of Paris " by Alesana tells the story of Helen and Paris from the viewpoint of Paris.

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.

A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

* " Alien " ( song ), by Pennywise

* " Alien ", a song by Bush on the album Sixteen Stone

* " Alien ", a song by Erasure on the album Loveboat

* " Alien ", a song by Japan on the album Quiet Life

* " Alien ", a song by Lamb on the album Fear of Fours

* " Alien ", a song by Nerina Pallot on the album Dear Frustrated Superstar

* " Alien ", a song by Thriving Ivory on their self-titled album

* " Alien ", a song by Tokio Hotel on the album Humanoid

* " My Alien ", a song by Simple Plan on the album No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls

* Austin ( song ), a single by Blake Shelton

* Aberdeen ( song ) A song by alternative rock band Cage The Elephant

* " Animals ", by Coldplay as one of the B-sides for " Clocks " ( song )

Its album Pimp to Eat featured guest appearances by various members of Rhyme Syndicate, Odd Oberheim, Jacky jasper ( who appears as Jacky Jasper on the song " We Sleep Days " and H-Bomb on " War "), D. J.

* " Atlantic " ( song ), by Keane

* " Atlantic ", a song by Thrice from Vheissu

* " Atomic " ( song ), a song by Blondie