Four-letter Word - Use in Titles

Use in Titles

• Cheap Trick's 1982 album One On One finishes with a song titled "Four Letter Word".
• The fact that love is a word with four letters has been used in several popular songs, including "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" written by Bob Dylan and performed by Joan Baez, "Four Letter Word" written by Ricki and Marty Wilde and performed by Kim Wilde, "4 Letter Word" written by Claude Kelly and Matt Squire and performed by David Cook .
• A television show called Love Is a Four-letter Word was produced by ABC in Australia.
• The band Cake made a play on words in their song "Friend Is a Four Letter Word."
• In a song sung by Cilla Black and covered by The Smiths, "Work Is a Four-letter Word," this phrase is used to describe work as obscene.
• Work Is a Four-Letter Word is the title of a 1968 British comedy film.
• That Four-Letter Word is a 2006 independent film from India.
• Welsh punk band Four Letter Word, formed in 1991, named themselves after the phrase. This later inspired locals The Lostprophets to also parody the phrase in their song "Five Is a Four Letter Word".
• Jack Ingram's song "Love You", uses love as a play on another four letter word: "Yeah, I'm sick an' lovin' tired of all your lovin' around".
• Metallica uses the line "Love is a four-letter word" in the song "The Day That Never Comes" from their album Death Magnetic.
• A Four Letter Word is also the title of a 2007 gay-themed movie starring Jesse Archer and Charlie David.
• R&B singer Raheem DeVaughan used the "love" meaning in his song "Four Letter Word" on his 2008 album Love Behind The Melody.
• "Four Letter Word" is also the title of a 2003 song by Def Leppard.
• American punk-rock band Gossip released a track entitled 'Four Letter Word' on their 2009 album Music For Men.
• The 2007 Cold in California album by Ingram Hill includes a track entitled 'Four Letter Word.'
• The opening track of Beady Eye's 2011 album Different Gear, Still Speeding is entitled 'Four Letter Word.'
• Echobelly on their album On (Echobelly album) included a song named: 'Four Letter Word.'

• Popular singer Jason Mraz' upcoming album is entitled "Love is a four-letter word"