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What are the most upbeat songs with kind of depressing lyrics?

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  • W [email protected]

    This is probably a controversial opinion, but Ive always felt a little bad for the guy this song is about.

    I think it's unfair for her to say he doesn't care a thing about her. He obviously does. If he didn't he wouldn't want her to still be a part of his life.

    This song is just about two people who want different things out of their relationship, and the singer is just unable to accept it.

    She has the ability to cut him out of her life if that's what she really wants, same as he does. She should cut herself free if it's too painful for her to be his friend.

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    I feel that. Maybe this song is her way of cutting herself free? Or by telling him to make a decision, she's giving him more autonomy than if she just left. Like she's saying, "Look, we need to commit to a decision, no more up and down, which way would you have it?"

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    • K [email protected]

      The two I can think of are:

      • It's Not Unusual
      • Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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      Rock-a-bye, baby

      On the tree top

      When the wind blows

      The cradle will rock

      When the bough breaks

      The cradle will fall

      And down will come baby

      Cradle and all

      We sing that shit to literal babies, what the fuck is wrong with us?

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      • K [email protected]

        The two I can think of are:

        • It's Not Unusual
        • Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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        When You Die - MGMT

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        • K [email protected]

          The two I can think of are:

          • It's Not Unusual
          • Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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          #185

          Happier - by Bastille and Marshmello.
          It might depend on the listener tho.

          Aint it fun - Paramore

          Honestly, i don't like that a lot of radio music is so sad. I have to look to real oldies to find a happy song.

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          • K [email protected]

            The two I can think of are:

            • It's Not Unusual
            • Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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            Love - Forever Changes. The whole album.

            https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lIfiGGgw0nJ6H3UcVvp1UbFhwr0LGPiBE

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            • K [email protected]

              The two I can think of are:

              • It's Not Unusual
              • Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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              Like half of Fall Out Boy's discography. "Hum Hallelujah" gets a special mention for literally being about a suicide attempt. Also "Dance In the Dark" by Lady Gaga, "Stomach Vs Heart" and "Humor of the Situation" by Barenaked Ladies ("Angry People" as well), "Slip Slidin Away" by Paul Simon, "When I Come Around" by Green Day...suffice it to say, I enjoy this trope a lot 😛

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              • K [email protected]

                The two I can think of are:

                • It's Not Unusual
                • Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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                Fast Car

                Pumped Up Kicks

                Flowers on the Wall

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                • snowpix@lemmy.caS [email protected]

                  90% of ska/ska punk music is like this. A few examples:

                  "The Science of Selling Yourself Short" - Less Than Jake

                  "Beer" - Reel Big Fish

                  "Struggler" and "I Don't Love You Anymore" - Bomb the Music Industry!

                  "The Last Bell I Will Ever Hear", "1-800-ALARM-ME" and "Last on my List" - The Arrogant Sons of Bitches

                  "Ska Dream" and "Checkerboard Ashtray" - Jeff Rosenstock

                  "A Better Place, a Better Time" and "As the Footsteps Die Out Forever" - Streetlight Manifesto

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                  Nearly Everything by Reel Big Fish. It's all fun ska and mostly about social anxiety, broken hearts, and substance abuse. I love them.

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                    Nearly Everything by Reel Big Fish. It's all fun ska and mostly about social anxiety, broken hearts, and substance abuse. I love them.

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                    I'll have to listen to that one! "I Know You Too Well to Like You Anymore" fits the bill as well. A very ugly fight between a couple who hate each other but can't live without one another.

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                    • snowpix@lemmy.caS [email protected]

                      I'll have to listen to that one! "I Know You Too Well to Like You Anymore" fits the bill as well. A very ugly fight between a couple who hate each other but can't live without one another.

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                      Oops, I messed up my capitalization. I just meant nearly every song by them.

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                      • K [email protected]

                        The two I can think of are:

                        • It's Not Unusual
                        • Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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                        My boyfriend said he thought about me when we listen to Saturday Night by the Misfits. I'm like.... do you want to murder me?...

                        The lyrics always sounded very murdery to me. I think they did an amazing job of making it sound romantic but bf read through the lyrics after that and hugged me when I got home and said he definitely didn't want to murder me.

                        Edit: Ok this one is purely personal but I just got done with work and it came out on the playlist, Achilles Come Down by Gangs of Youth.

                        I learned this song from my daughter. I let her control the music when we'd drive to school and back but I immediately loved this song because unlike me, she has an amazing voice. This is one I only ever heard underneath her crystalline soprano while she sang along.

                        It was always so beautiful that I didn't focus on the song so much as her. She made a haunting, sad song a beautiful, pleasant memory for me because now she's had her license for a while, she's doing her thing being an ambitious senior. I don't get to listen to her sing anymore between my work and her school/social schedule.

                        I miss the days when I stayed up after a 12 hour shift to take her to school because I miss listening to her sing. I brain was fuzzy and that morning sun seared my eyeballs but I cherish every morning now because I don't have many left. I acutally miss everything about my kids needing me now that one has been independent for quite a few years and the other two are almost independent. I'm listening right now and all I can hear is her voice.

                        Fuck that shit hits hard. Im going to be an empty nester soon. Fucking FUCK. Fuck does it hit hard. I should be proud. I am! Jesus am I. I don't know how I was blessed with these people, bio and adopted, that's how vlessed I am, but I don't want to look the gift horse in the mouth. Fucking wow, am I proud. But really I'm sad, too.

                        /soliloquy

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                        • K [email protected]

                          The two I can think of are:

                          • It's Not Unusual
                          • Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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                          #193

                          Hey Jealousy by The Gin Blossoms comes to mind.

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