100 Best Songs About Hotels
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Good songwriters bring to life different memories associated with hotels.
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Be it a holiday or an official work trip, when we travel to a destination, we have a lot of stories to tell about the hotels we stay in. Through songs, musicians creatively bring to life the different memories associated with hotels. While certain songs with “hotel” in the title are actually about hotels and experiences about staying at hotels, a great number of songs bring to life a deeper meaning with a metaphorical explanation.
What Does the Word “Hotel” Convey in Songs?
In songs, the word “hotel” conveys a wide range of attributes associated with the heart and mind. Different aspects of the spending time at a hotel are narrated in creative ways to convey a thought process. Certain singers express their thoughts about how it feels when they are required to spend many days in hotels due to hectic touring schedules. These songs bring to life varied aspects of loneliness musicians experience when they are away from home and family. The eagerness to get back home is thoughtfully conveyed with an aesthetic sense of yearning.
Certain singers and songwriters showcase matters of the heart in a confessional tone with deep metaphorical elements in songs. These songs compare the silence in hotel rooms to the harsh reality of experiencing a bitter breakup. While certain songs present an exaggerated outlook on relationships, majority of songs bring to the forefront startling facts about heartbreak with the protagonist pondering over thoughts in a hotel room. The adventures of staying in a roadside motel are described in a lucid manner in songs about travelling.
Some hotel songs address loneliness musicians feel when they're away from home.
What Do Hotels Symbolize in Songs?
In songs, hotels symbolize diverse aspects of life intellectually, philosophically, or rationally. Singers and songwriters may convey an idea or concept through a factual account or through a figurative interpretation. Through their travels to different destinations, certain musicians pay an ode to the best hotels to stay in. These songs often narrate the experiences of staying at a hotel with mention of extremely helpful staff who go out of their way to cater to every need. Certain songs explore the dark aspects of insecurities, social pressure, and lack of stability in real life, with hotel rooms portrayed as a way of escapism.
Sometimes aspects of dark love or lustful desire are brought to life through a series of thoughts of the protagonist who fantasizes of getting intimate with someone in a hotel room. These songs highlight the apathy of individuals who suffer from low self esteem brought on either through rejection or a traumatic episode in their life. Certain songs describe the depressing feeling of being in a hotel room and drinking or doing drugs to escape from the situation one is in. In certain music videos, a lavish lifestyle is represented through luxurious hotels, cars, and partying. These songs often showcase the dark underbelly of the flamboyant lifestyle certain celebrities lead. Although a wide spectrum of introspective elements is associated with hotels, in songs, they denote or symbolize
- Luxury
- Party
- Insecurities
- Dreams
- Loneliness
- Fantasies
- Greed
- Sex
- Lifestyle
- Boredom
- Lust
- Vacation
- Money
- Adventure
- Breakup
- Escapism
Other songs are fantasies about getting intimate in a hotel room.
The list below showcases a collection of rock songs, pop songs, country songs, R&B songs, folk songs, hip hop songs, indie songs, alternative songs, disco songs, reggae songs, jazz songs, blues songs, synthpop songs, electropop songs, EDM songs, and dance songs about hotels. If you have a view, opinion, or song suggestion, let us know in the comments section.
Top 10 Best Songs About Hotels
1. “Hotel Room Service”—Pitbull
2. “Hotel California”—Eagles
3. “Heartbreak Hotel”—Elvis Presley
4. “Blue Hotel”—Chris Isaak
5. “Little Motel”—Modest Mouse
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6. “Memory Motel”—The Rolling Stones
7. “Hotel”—Cassidy featuring R. Kelly
8. “Hotel Yorba”—The White Stripes
9. “Hotel Room”—Calum Scott
10. “Seven Doors Hotel”—Europe
#11—20
11. “The London”—Young Thug featuring J. Cole and Travis Scott
12. “Imperial Hotel”—Stevie Nicks
13. “Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino”—Arctic Monkeys
14. “Hotel Walls”—Smith & Thell
15. “Grand Hotel”—Regina Spektor
16. “Hotel Bed”—Chelsea Collins featuring Swae Lee
17. “Tokyo Love Hotel”—Rina Sawayama
18. “Chelsea Hotel #2”—Leonard Cohen
19. “Brothers on a Hotel Bed”—Death Cab for Cutie
20. “Hotel Lobby”—Pop Smoke
#21—40
21. “Hotel”—Kid Ink featuring Chris Brown
22. “Sitting in My Hotel”—The Kinks
23. “Heart Hotels”—Dan Fogelberg
24. “Hotel Lounge”—Antonia
25. “This Place Hotel”—The Jacksons
26. “Star Hotel”—Cold Chisel
27. “Motel”—Meg Myers
28. “At the Hotel”—Gunna featuring Lil Uzi Vert and Young Jordan
29. “A House Is Not a Motel”—Love
30. “Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel”—Frank Zappa
31. “Gran Hotel”—Interpol
32. “Motels and Memories”—T.G. Sheppard
33. “(She Was A) Hotel Detective”—They Might Be Giants
34. “Hotel”—Kita Alexander
35. “Hotel Crazy”—Robbie Williams featuring Rufus Wainwright
36. “Hotel”—Koda Kumi
37. “Hotel Shampoos”—Carly Rae Jepsen
38. “N.Y. Hotel”—Knife
39. “Hungover in a Hotel Room”—Luke Bryan
40. “Trash a Hotel Room”—John Pardi
#41—60
41. “Heartbreak Hotel”—Yohio
42. “Janice at the Hotel Bar”—Hailey Whitters
43. “Hotel Key”—Old Dominion
44. “Hotel”—Tori Amos
45. “Heartbreak Hotel”—Grieves
46. “Surprise Hotel”—Fool’s Gold
47. “The Old Lucky Diamond Motel”—Vince Gill
48. “This Hotel Room”—Jimmy Buffett
49. “At the Hotel”—Eunice Collins
50. “Hotel Nacional”—Gloria Estefan
51. “Hotel Arizona”—Wilco
52. “Cheap Hotel”—Mamas Gun
53. “Motel Flamingo”—Madeline Merlo
54. “Hotel Whiskey”—Hank Williams Jr.
55. “Hotel Majestic”—Fountains of Wayne
56. “Twilight Hotel”—Quiet Riot
57. “Clifton Grange Hotel”—Thin Lizzy
58. “Hotel Song”—Regina Spektor
59. “The Motel”—David Bowie
60. “Fugitive Motel”—Elbow
#61—80
61. “Hotel Hell”—Skyhooks
62. “Wrecking Hotel Rooms”—MxPx
63. “Hotel Illness”—The Black Crowes
64. “Heartbreak Hotel”—Whitney Houston featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price
65. “Buffet Hotel”—Jimmy Buffett
66. “Paper Thin Hotel”—Leonard Cohen
67. “Motel Shaker”—Foghat
68. “Hotels”—Juliana Hatfield
69. “One Way Hotel”—Slade
70. “Hotel Chelsea Nights”—Ryan Adams
71. “Hotel in Benidorm”—Paul McCartney
72. “Karma Hotel”—Spooks
73. “Broadway Hotel”—Al Stewart
74. “Hotel”—The Antlers
75. “Motel”—B’z
76. “Hotel”—Lawsy
77. “Leaving Heartbreak Hotel”—The Temper Trap
78. “The Hotel Song”—Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers
79. “Hotel Lobby”—Quavo & Takeoff
80. “The Cheatin’ Hotel”—Hank Williams Jr
#81—100
81. “Cheap Motel”—Justin Mylo
82. “Hot Rod Hotel”—Billy Bragg and Wilco
83. “Hotel Bar”—The Tallest Man on Earth
84. “Hotel Ceiling”—Push Baby (Formerly Rixton)
85. “The Howl & the Hum”—A Hotel Song
86. “Hotel”—Toby Fox
87. “Hotel Party”—Lil Smurf
88. “Cheap Hotel”—Leon Elso
89. “Hotel Aurora”—Tin Hat
90. “Hotel Normandy”—Patricia Kaas
91. “Motel Song”—Hectorine
92. “The Last Frontier Hotel”—Golden Earring
93. “Gramercy Park Hotel—Edwin McCain
94. “Meet Me at the Hotel”—Joris Delacroix
95. “Hotel Happiness”—Leon Carr
96. “Hotel Hobbies”—Marillion
97. “Home Sweet Hotel”—New Rules
98. “My Heart’s Not a Hotel”—Brooks & Dunn
99. “Hotel Room View”—Vonda Shepard
100. “Hotel Pool”—Lily & Madeleine
Other Notable Hotel Songs
- “White Hotel”—Karl S. Williams
- “The Bristol Hotel”—LL Cool J
- “No Hotel”—Lykke Li
- “Hotel”—Claire Rosinkranz
- “Ghost Hotel”—Night Traveler
- “Floyd’s Hotel”—The J. Geils Band
- “Hotel Motel”—K7
- “Hotel Paper”—Michelle Branch
- “Hotel Bars”—Ritual
- “November Hotel”—Mad Season
- “Looking Over From My Hotel Window”—Yoko Ono
- “Nice Hotel”—Julian Smith
- “Hotel Roosevelt”—Augustana
- “There’s a Small Hotel”—Frank Sinatra
- “Little Hotel Room”—Ray Charles and Merl Haggard
- “Riverside Hotel”—Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe
- “Hotel Radio”—Nick Frater
- “Hotel Vegas”—Omer Balik
- “Fat Chance Hotel”—Public Limited Company
- “No Tell Motel”—Don Covay
- “The Room in a Love Hotel”—Entree
- “Big Hotel”—Big Pig
- “Hamburg Hotel”—Underworld
- “Dream Hotel”—Texas
- “Back to the Hotel”—N2Deep
- “Crow Bar Hotel”—Dirty Heads
- “Hangdog Hotel Room”—Gordan Lightfoot
- “Hotel Party”—Wreck the System
- “Motel Lover”—Marvin Sease
- “The Beat Hotel”—Allan Taylor
- “Love Motel”—Bill Frisell
- “Hotel Motel Holiday Inn”—Bogus Trizzy
- “Hotel Lover”—Julian Vaughn
- “American Hotel”—Tom Russell
- “The Hotel”—Stevie Bill
- “Hotel Happiness”—Brook Benton
- “The Hotel Song”—David Numwami
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