# robot romance **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-romance/241368 "2004-04-22T04:13:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![owlofcreamcheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@owlofcreamcheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlofcreamcheese)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-romance/241368/1 "2004-04-22T04:13:06Z")
the flameing lips – one more robot electric lights orchestra – yours truely 2095 tommarow’s retro future – robot heartache pollen – girls love robots T.A.T.U – robot (yeah its in russian… its still about loveing a robot) dresden dolls – coin opperated boy (does that count? close enough…) duran duran – electric barbarella what else? any other songs about robots being in love? or gaining emotions? ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-romance/241368/2 "2004-04-22T04:32:34Z")
Well, there’s[Marvin The Paranoid Android](http://www.thebigcdomain.com/media/marvin.html)’s line of songs… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-romance/241368/3 "2004-04-22T06:29:16Z")
Styx…Mr. Roboto Alan Parsons…I, Robot ``` Gary Numan Albums....Robots,Androids,machmen (Machines),replicas,aliens Dark,Dark cool stuff! "I am a human being who has intercourse with a machine"... Twilight of the Machman ``` ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-romance/241368/4 "2004-04-22T06:43:49Z")
Does Bjork’s [_All is Full of Love_](http://www.huntershome.hpg.ig.com.br/homogenic/allisfulloflove/main_image_part1.jpg) count? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-romance/241368/5 "2004-04-22T12:42:20Z")
Theme music from _The Stepford Wives_? There’s a manga titled _Chobits_ that addresses this idea, too… ---
**Author:** ![owlofcreamcheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@owlofcreamcheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlofcreamcheese)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-romance/241368/6 "2004-04-22T17:56:44Z")
any more? ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-romance/241368/7 "2004-04-22T19:24:13Z")
Was (Not Was) - “Robot Girl” There are lots of anime & manga with this theme - Hand Maid May, Boku no Marie(sor t of), Mahoromatic Maid, Ping from Megatokyo, all off the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-romance/241368/8 "2004-04-22T20:36:38Z")
There’s always [Diesal Sweeties](http://www.dieselsweeties.com/) on-line robot romance comic. ---
**Author:** ![owlofcreamcheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@owlofcreamcheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlofcreamcheese)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-romance/241368/9 "2004-04-22T22:56:24Z")
the theme has been done to death in anime and manga… I’d have no problem finding that topic covered in anime. its basicly assumeable that if you see a humanoid robot it will gain emotions if its in anime (possibly right before heroicly sacrificeing itself). what I want is specific songs with this theme. robots gaining emotion… or humanity. or else robots who fall in love, or people who fall in love with robots. ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-romance/241368/10 "2004-04-23T06:20:25Z")
> [@owlofcreamcheese](#): > > … or people who fall in love with robots. While I’m not sure he is actually in love with the robot in the same way he’d be in love with a true “soul mate”, Alice Cooper sings of having a robot woman in the song “Woman Machine” from the album _Muscle of Love_ (1974)… \*She’ll do your work in half the time Never sick and can’t go blind Oh, woman machine Brain of tape that fill her head She knows more now than all the dead Oh, woman machine Oh, woman machine Oh, woman machine Oh, woman machine Oh, woman machine Heart of steel and skin that’s cold Can’t wear her out, she can’t grow old Oh, woman machine She goes to bed when her work is through She’ll do it all, just change the tubes Oh, woman machine [chorus] She can’t talk back With no playback But she’ll listen To all your woe Trade your old one For a new one They just don’t make 'em like they used to No! [chorus]\* Doesn’t sound like Alice really loves her. At least not on an emotional level. I’m sure he loves her for what she can do, however. 😉 He shows more emotion when singing about dead women. :evil grin: Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robot-romance/241368/11 "2004-04-23T07:36:01Z")
> [@Mr. Roboto](#): > > Styx…Mr. Roboto > Alan Parsons…I, Robot > > ``` > Gary Numan Albums....Robots,Androids,machmen (Machines),replicas,aliens > Dark,Dark cool stuff! > > "I am a human being who has intercourse with a machine"... > Twilight of the Machman > > ``` Domo arigato, Mr Roboto.