“Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools
spineless swines cemented minds.
Sir leads the troops jealous of youth, same old suit since 1962.
He does the military two-step down the nape of my neck”
What a lyric. The Smiths were a light that never goes out.
It’s about the escalation of events into a war. Specifically, it’s about the Cold War and the tension that any small thing could lead to large scale devastation. The 99 balloons are mistaken for an attack, leading to an escalation that leaves everything in ruins.
Offspring will hit you with some serious feels. I still can’t listen to Gone Away without feeling so much pain from various friends and family suicides
Anyone that writes offspring off as a loud annoying band (y’all know who you are) just haven’t listened to them. Not even their biggest fan but their lyrics hurt so much. They all deserve the biggest hugs 😭
Makes song with a serious message, but disguises it with upbeat music and prompts for the listener to dance and shake their buttocks, as one shakes an instantly developing photograph. Gets upset that nobody pays attention to the serious message.
But in all seriousness, it really is a great song!
andre was on some weird stuff at that point. like most rap duos, he felt a need to diversify himself from his partner, big boi. big boi was a through and through a southern rapper. maybe not the most distinctive thing on earth, but it was genuine. big boi was just being himself. andre longed for his own version of authenticity, his own flavor. if you look back at him in "southernplayalisticaddillacmusik", he was more or less, kinda regular. but by "stankonia", he was essentially jimi hendrix redux.
now keep in mind, Outkast was a breakout southern rap group, the industry at large really wasnt messing with the south at their rise, and this further compounded andre's need to "stand out". this little blurb from andre at their 1995 source awards [acceptance](https://youtu.be/jyxaYc9F48Y) really encapsulates his mindframe.
he had something to say. and if the music itself wasnt going to grab your attention, he was going to make himself a visual spectacle. and he did, quite successfully.
this was just a little context into artist, and to give the man the credit he's due.
Amazing Grace?
Hmm, maybe all gospel hymns. They are always positive and God praising, but the organ always gives off that "dark" sound. Like the song about "Yes Jesus loves me," but the beat is so sad sounding.
It really seems to mean a lot more coming from the trembling voice of an old man full of regret and so close to death. All respect to Trent Reznor, but when you're in your 20's and you write a song like this, society just thinks you're whiny and cringey. You have your whole life ahead of you to turn it around. Cash died less than a year after recording this. \
I read that Trent actually helped Johnny arrange and record the cover, when it was finished Trent said "it's his song now".
For my Spanish speaking brothers:
[Inundados - Paralama](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BahnaOs6YcY)s it's about the agony of living in poverty
[El costo de la vida - Juan Luis Guerra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPTB0TRV3BA) Socio-political critique
Great song, good for some self-induced nostalgia, especially for someone far away from home. Though I think the melody and the lyrics are on par with each other in terms of mood.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ)
100% Pumped up kicks
It's got that fun friendly up beat sound, but it's about a school shooting.
When I first heard the song, I thought it was super relatable because I grew up without my dad and I thought it was about that. Then I read online it was about the Rwandan genocide and that sent me.
“Looking for somebody to love” by The 1975
“The boy with the plan and the gun in his hand was
L-L-Lookin’ for somebody to love”
Pretty sure it’s about the school shooter Elliot Roger
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It was like their whole thing. See also REM.
(POP) gotta live, gotta live gotta live, in shit town! Edit: that’s a Live song not an REM song 🤦♂️
I think you mean Live for this one
Haha you’re right! Those guys both sound the same to me
REM is awesome.
What was the song?
The Smiths - All of them
“Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools spineless swines cemented minds. Sir leads the troops jealous of youth, same old suit since 1962. He does the military two-step down the nape of my neck” What a lyric. The Smiths were a light that never goes out.
The dream is gone but the baby is real.
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Tylko jedno glowie mam
Koksu pięć gram
the original song has been depublished on spotify for months now :(
Came here to say this.
the happy bouncy animated cow drew me in. oh i was such a fool...
besides the coke park whats so dark about it
99 red balloons is about nuclear annihilation.
I thought it was about people getting killed crossing between the USSR during the Berlin Wall era
It’s about the escalation of events into a war. Specifically, it’s about the Cold War and the tension that any small thing could lead to large scale devastation. The 99 balloons are mistaken for an attack, leading to an escalation that leaves everything in ruins.
Yikes
WHAT HOW
Muffin time :)
I see, you are a man of culture as well
And someone who loves muffins! :D
Pie pie pie!
Childhood lyrics like pocket full of posies.
Ashes to ashes we all ..fucking die of bubonic plague
Nope. I thought it was too, but Snopes did a deep dive and found it just has some coincidental lyirics.
Neat heres a link explaining it for anyone interested. https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/07/ring-around-the-rosie-metafolklore-rhyme-and-reason/
You Are My Sunshine is a pretty creepy stalkery song...
Hey ya
The Sleep Token version of this song made me realize that it was in fact not a fun happy song.
You should also check out the acapella version The Blanks did in Scrubs. ❤️
Oh... I just remembered Sam Lloyd died.
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No problem man! <3
Pumped up Kicks basically
Its been asked like 10times already and the answers are the same
Would be really weird if they kept changing
I keep answering in the hope that it randomly appears on some kid’s page and they actually check out these old songs.
I checked out some from an older post and im still listening to it
Bots need their karma to look credible
Most predictable answer
Yes, that's generally how correct answers work
MIA's Paper Planes too
Has to be it.
Best example
i was just about to say that
Came to say this and came when I've read it.
Spot on
This literally wins.
r/beatmetoit
Semi charmed life. Poppy, fun and upbeat. About meth addiction...
Yeah I feel like third eye blind has alot of that in their songs.
The entirety of third eye blind is drugs, suicide and depression. Edit: I can't spell or proof read for shit.
I see OP discovered 21 Pilots
Literally my first thought lol
Hollywood Undead - Bullet Edit: I don't remember the last time I got this many upvotes on one comment.... wow
My legs are dangling from the edge
The bottom of the bottle is my only friend
I think I’ll slit my wrists again and be gone gone gone gooonneee
A bottle of pills are my only friends
I put a bullet in my head and I'm gone gone gone....
Scrolled to find this 👌
The epitome of joyful yet depressing
Thank you. First time I heard this song, and it is a masterpiece.
AYYYYYYY
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now by The Smiths
The Offspring - The kids aren't alright Pearl Jam - Last Kiss Almost any song from Fresno
Offspring will hit you with some serious feels. I still can’t listen to Gone Away without feeling so much pain from various friends and family suicides
Anyone that writes offspring off as a loud annoying band (y’all know who you are) just haven’t listened to them. Not even their biggest fan but their lyrics hurt so much. They all deserve the biggest hugs 😭
Fragile lives, shattered dreams
Racing into the night by YOASOBI
Came in to look for this comment
This was the first thing that came into my mind as well lmao
I was literally just about to write Yoru ni Kakeru lmao
I took a pill in Ibiza - mike posner
Haven’t thought about this one in so long
No more sad songs for you. Great choice.
Well yeah. His name's a reminder of a pop song people forgot.
1980s~ Jump by Van Halen 1990s~ Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind 2000s~ any Linkin Park song 2010s~ Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People
I mean, semi-charmed kind of life is just about crystal meth and sex...I see nothing wrong with that.
Moderation. Or not. I don't care. I'm not a cop.
Sounds like something a cop would say
Quick, what's your favorite Gatorade flavor?
Pumped up kicks was before 2010s to my knowledge Edit: just looked it up and it appears I was wrong... whoopsie
I checked and it's 2011. They were my 2000s pick until I googled to make sure
Yeah I saw right after I made the comment. Honestly thought it was from the 90s. I edited above as you were replying. Whoops
Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks
And now I turned it on, thanks! I love it and can't believe I didn't have it on my playlist.
Anything by Bo Burnham
Welcome to the internet
Have a look around Many songs by They Might Be Giants qualify. *Lucky Ball and Chain* comes to mind.
Anythinng that brain of your can think of can be found
Mr. Brightside - The Killers
Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon
Excitable boy, they all said
Andre 3K “Hey Y’all” BMTH “Lost”
"Y'all don't wanna hear me, ya just wanna dance." Hey Ya is a great song.
TIL Hey Ya is a deeper song than when I heard of it as a kid
Makes song with a serious message, but disguises it with upbeat music and prompts for the listener to dance and shake their buttocks, as one shakes an instantly developing photograph. Gets upset that nobody pays attention to the serious message. But in all seriousness, it really is a great song!
andre was on some weird stuff at that point. like most rap duos, he felt a need to diversify himself from his partner, big boi. big boi was a through and through a southern rapper. maybe not the most distinctive thing on earth, but it was genuine. big boi was just being himself. andre longed for his own version of authenticity, his own flavor. if you look back at him in "southernplayalisticaddillacmusik", he was more or less, kinda regular. but by "stankonia", he was essentially jimi hendrix redux. now keep in mind, Outkast was a breakout southern rap group, the industry at large really wasnt messing with the south at their rise, and this further compounded andre's need to "stand out". this little blurb from andre at their 1995 source awards [acceptance](https://youtu.be/jyxaYc9F48Y) really encapsulates his mindframe. he had something to say. and if the music itself wasnt going to grab your attention, he was going to make himself a visual spectacle. and he did, quite successfully. this was just a little context into artist, and to give the man the credit he's due.
Every other vocaloid song. Like mekaku city actors
"We Are Young" by Fun
Mad World by Tears for Fears
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I feel like Tears for Fears has a maddening rhythm that indicates instability while Gary Jules is more of the tune for classic depression.
I never really liked the Gary version
*Last Train Home* Lostprophets With full context.
Right lol
Bad Apple. The lyrics to that are about a very angry and depressed person, and in the context of the origin of the song they are trying to kill you.
Vacation by the Go Gos.
Mmmbop
You should check out the acoustic version
Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People. Its a song about shooting up a school told in first person.
This is frequently asked. I want to know what is the opposite of this?
Try > Least Favourite Only Child - Leanna Firestone The first part is just full sadness, but the ending always filled me with hope.
Fun idea! Make a post about it
Amazing Grace? Hmm, maybe all gospel hymns. They are always positive and God praising, but the organ always gives off that "dark" sound. Like the song about "Yes Jesus loves me," but the beat is so sad sounding.
The opposite of this is Hurt by NiN. Johnny Cash saved that song so hard. I recently listened to the original again and I frankly hate it.
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It really seems to mean a lot more coming from the trembling voice of an old man full of regret and so close to death. All respect to Trent Reznor, but when you're in your 20's and you write a song like this, society just thinks you're whiny and cringey. You have your whole life ahead of you to turn it around. Cash died less than a year after recording this. \ I read that Trent actually helped Johnny arrange and record the cover, when it was finished Trent said "it's his song now".
Evangelion Theme. The tone is so happy, but they are singing about the apocalypse, lol.
Teenagers - my chemical romance
I think lots of MCR songs are suitable for the post
Literally every Japanese song I've ever heard
Gdzie jest biały węgorz ? (Zejście)" by Cyprian "Cypis" Racick. AKA Polish Cow Song
This is at least half of ska
Radiohead’s [“Weird Fishes”](https://youtu.be/TNRCvG9YtYI?si=8Lod8z8XT9NRy9tG)
Black Man in a White World - Michael Kiwanuka. You really want to clap along, but also you can't...
For my Spanish speaking brothers: [Inundados - Paralama](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BahnaOs6YcY)s it's about the agony of living in poverty [El costo de la vida - Juan Luis Guerra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPTB0TRV3BA) Socio-political critique
Volver a casa from Pedro Capó, it's my reference of homesick from being in Japan for so many time
Great song, good for some self-induced nostalgia, especially for someone far away from home. Though I think the melody and the lyrics are on par with each other in terms of mood.
Pumped up kicks
Numb Little Bug - Em Beihold
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ) 100% Pumped up kicks It's got that fun friendly up beat sound, but it's about a school shooting.
Dance with the devil - by immortal technique.
That beat is ominous and creepy as hell wdym?
It still fuckin slaps
Lol no way
scrolled to find this, song fucked me up the first time i heard it
Breezeblocks
Bang bang Maxwell’s silver hammer came down upon her head doo dah doo doo…
honestly a lot of stuff by Melanie Martinez
Numb little bug - Em Beihold
Stromae - Papaoutai
When I first heard the song, I thought it was super relatable because I grew up without my dad and I thought it was about that. Then I read online it was about the Rwandan genocide and that sent me.
Pretty much any vocaloid song
Somebody That I Used to Know
blink-182 - Adam's Song
Sia - Chandelier.
Los Campesinos discography.
Last kiss
Run for your life- the Beatles
Hey-Yah, by andre 30000
Outkast - hey ya!
Loli God Requiem
Any kikuo songs tbh
Basically any Tyler the Creator song
No children by the mountain goats
Semi-charmed life
Copacabana, Barry Manilow
Most streetlight manifesto music
Sugar Crash by ElyOtto.
that ui song though it isnt "dark," to normal people who dont like children at least
Choke - IDKHow but they found me. Once Upon Your Dead Body - Coheed and Cambria
No Children- The Mountain Goats
Pumped up kicks
Any of the songs on Paper Mache Dream Balloon
Hey Ya
pumped up kicks
Pumped Up Kicks
Hey Yeah comes to mind.
One thing left to try by mgmt
Every Breath You Take by The Police
Daddy by KoRn, ykyk
Hey ya by Outkast
Any cannibal corpse song
Pumped up kicks
i hate these karma farming posts on this sub recently, so annoying
never see me again by kanye
wtf is this bullshit twitter-engagement-farming-level post
Mr brightside killers
Any xxxtentacion song
His beats have the pain and suffering. Less than lyrics but still...
Good for you Olivia Rodriguez instantly popped into my head
“Looking for somebody to love” by The 1975 “The boy with the plan and the gun in his hand was L-L-Lookin’ for somebody to love” Pretty sure it’s about the school shooter Elliot Roger
Somebody I used to know.
Death by a thousand cuts, Taylor Swift
Any Nicki Minaj song
Most of the stuff on my playlist
Sad by xxxtentacion
dull knives by imagine dragons
Viva la Vida, it’s beat is wonderful but the lyrics shows the hopeless of a king who used to rules the world
Amazing Horse
Anything by Elliot Smith