What are the most upbeat songs with kind of depressing lyrics?
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Fish Yu Mang is a great album, and I'll never miss an opportunity to give it love. Definitely the depressed thoughts of a dude who suffers from crippling alcoholism, but somehow manages to sound fun and upbeat the whole time.
That's my take as well, I started giving it more attention only recently and there are many gems in it. Padrino is one of my all time favourites of the genre
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You are my sunshine (The Dead South do an excellent job illustrating how dark the song really is)
I'll Fly Away also fits that.
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The two I can think of are:
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
Living La Vida Loca and Macerena are both pretty dark.
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Hey Ya - Outkast
Ghettomusick - Outcast
It is a really sharp critique of the rap industry at the time.
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The two I can think of are:
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
My Worst Enemy - Lit
Man, who is probably an alcoholic, wakes up the next day from a bender to find his girlfriend has left him.
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Really? I'll have to check out the lyrics now. Such an 80s staple that I think I just sang along and never really processed the words.
The title of the song is a reference to nuclear war.
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The two I can think of are:
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
Boys of Summer is about toxic obsession.
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what do you mean? isn't that just about the modern american dream?
Shooting up your school? What schools did you go to?
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I fucking love Richard Cheese, especially his cover of Closer.
Check out his close friend and confidant, Johnny Aloha!
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Surprised that people haven't mentioned Yoru ni Kakeru (Racing into the Night) by Yoasobi. It's a Japanese song about depression and commiting suicide.
Specifically, it follows a guy who falls in love with a depressed and suicidal girl. Over time, the guy himself becomes depressed and tired of life and they both decide to commit suicide together.
^ Scrolled all the way down looking for this one.
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Jonathan Coulton has a bunch of these. "I Feel Fantastic" "Betty and Me" "Blue Sunny Day" "Shop Vac" "Chiron Beta Prime" "Future Soon" off the top of my head. "Skullcrusher Mountain" and "Re: Your Brains" to a lesser degree.
shop vac has been playing in my head on loop for a few weeks and it's been more than a decade since i last heard it. it's so depressing.
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The two I can think of are:
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
I think Enola Gay by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark is a perfect example.
It sounds upbeat and fun but it's about the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Some of the lyrics are incredibly powerful and I still get chills when I hear it.
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Jonathan Coulton has a bunch of these. "I Feel Fantastic" "Betty and Me" "Blue Sunny Day" "Shop Vac" "Chiron Beta Prime" "Future Soon" off the top of my head. "Skullcrusher Mountain" and "Re: Your Brains" to a lesser degree.
I love Future Soon.
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No Rain by Blind Melon... literally a song about deep depression with upbeat music
wrote last edited by [email protected]He committed suicide not long after that song hit the charts.
Looking at wikipedia it was longer than I thought
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The two I can think of are:
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
wrote last edited by [email protected]I know that there are probably a lot that I'm forgetting but here are the ones I remember:
No more crying by Sound Holic (lyrics)
Border of my life by Sound Holic (lyrics)
THE END by A-One
IT IS SO by A-One
U.N. Owen Was Her? by A-One
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The two I can think of are:
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
Timothy by The Buoys is a very happy song about men trapped in a mine collapse cannibalizing each other to survive.
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The two I can think of are:
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
Mack the Knife https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ0OOHLWo4w
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The two I can think of are:
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
pretty much anything by third eye blind
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The two I can think of are:
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
wrote last edited by [email protected]Zero 7 - Waiting to die
Snowpix mentioned lots of ska/ska punk I gotta agree, my pick is The Aquabats - chemical bomb
Maybe a bit of a stretch but just running with the musical tone doesn't match the lyrics Ben Folds - bitches ain't shit cover
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The two I can think of are:
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkrb4h4weW4
I can probably put some more but this one has been on me for a while.
