Sad material, female's arresting love song (4,5,5)
I believe the answer is:
blue suede shoes
'love song' is the definition.
'blue suede shoes' can be an answer for 'song'. I'm not certain of the 'love' bit.
'sad material female's arresting' is the wordplay.
'sad' becomes 'blue' ('blue' can be similar in meaning to 'sad').
'material' becomes 'suede' (suede is a kind of material).
'female's arresting' becomes 'shoes' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'blue'+'suede'+'shoes'='BLUE SUEDE SHOES'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for blue suede shoes that I've seen before include "Hit" , "Song sung by Elvis" .)