Diss Track Song

"Cruella deVil, Cruella deVil / If she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will / To see her is to take a sudden chill / Cruella, Cruella deVil" - *101 Dalmatians*

The **Diss Track Song** is a song type in fiction, intended to verbally attack a character.

## Examples

### Music

* "Evil Woman" by Electric Light Orchestra.
* "I'm Still Standing" by Elton John was intended to insult singers of that time.
* "Mean Mr Mustard" by Beatles. It's about a mean old man... named Mr Mustard.
* "Mr. Blackwell" by Kiss.
* "Yankee Doodle" was actually first meant as this, invented as the British troops to mock American colonial troops. However, this became an Insult Backfire as the song was subsequently used by Americans as a national pride song.

### Films

#### IRL films

* *Super Mario Bros* (1993): Toad is arrested for singing one about Koopa as a street corner protest.
* *The Wizard of Oz*: "Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead"

#### Animated films

* *101 Dalmatians*: "Cruella deVil", it is the trope quote.
* *The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad*: "The Headless Horseman" in *The Legend of Sleepy Hollow* segment.
* *Aladdin*: Jafar's reprise of "Prince Ali".
* *The Lion King: Simba's Pride*: "Not One of Us" could be this, but it's a lot more complicated.
* *The Loud House Movie*: Luan sings a short diss track about Morag.
* *Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio*: Pinocchio rewrites the words of a patriotic song about Benito Mussolini and turns the song into a complete mockery of him, directly calling him a crybaby and a piece of poop in his face.
* *Robin Hood* (1973): "The Phony King of England"
* *South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut*: "Kyle's Mom's a Bitch"

#### Semifilms

* *How the Grinch Stole Christmas* (1966): "You're a Mean One, Mr Grinch" consists entirely of some of the most creative and eloquent insults ever devised possibly in any language. During the song, the singer (Thurl Ravenscroft) calls the Grinch "a mean one", "a monster", "a vile one", "a rotter", "the king of sinful sots", "a crooked jerky jocky", "a foul one" and "a nasty wasty skunk", compares Grinch to "a bad banana with a greasy, black peel" and "a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce", calls him "as cuddly as a cactus" and "as charming as an eel", notes they wouldn't touch Grinch with a 39 1/2 ft. pole, describes him as having termites in his smile, claims he's about as tenderly sweet as a seasick crocodile (even choosing the crocodile over him), calls his brain "full of spiders", his heart "an empty hole", "a dead tomato splotch with moldy purple spots" and "full of unwashed socks", and even describes his soul as having garlic in it, "full of gunk", and "an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots!" At the end of the song, the singer quotes three words best used to describe Grinch: "stink", "stank", "stunk".

### Series

#### Animated short films

* *Three Little Pigs* (1933): "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf"

#### Animated series

* *The Fairly Oddparents*: "Icky Vicky" and "Vicky-Free Summer".
* *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*: "Bad Seed" from the episode "One Bad Apple".
* *Steven Universe*: Garnet's song "Stronger Than You" can be considered this, since she's addressing Jasper directly as she's singing it, telling her that she has no idea who she's up against.

### Fanfictions

#### Red Raptor Productions

* *Weirdo Neighborhood*: "Big Bad Bird" (based on My Little Pony's "Bad Seed") is a subversion. It is meant to warn Beth about how dangerous Raven is, when in reality she is Not Evil, Just Misunderstood.