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What are the most upbeat songs with kind of depressing lyrics? (lemmy.today)

submitted 3 days ago by KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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The two I can think of are:

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

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

            
              El Fusilado - Chumbawumba.  A happy clappy sunshiney recounting of the life and times of one Wenceslao Moguel, a soldier of Pancho Villa's who was captured, executed by firing squad, and lived to tell the tale.  Short version:  He got knocked down, but he got up again.
Scarborough Fair - Folk; often associated with Simon and Garfunkel.  I'm stretching the definition of "upbeat" here, but it baffles me that this is counted by anyone as a love song.  It's a song about two ex-lovers expressing how much they hate each other by assigning each other impossible tasks as conditions for taking them back.  He says "tell her I'll take her back if she sews me a shirt with no seams, washes it in a dry well and hangs it to dry on a vine with no thorns."  She says "O RLY? Well you tell him that if he finds an acre of land between the ocean and the beach, sews it all with one seed and reaps it with a leather scythe, I'll take him back.  And I'll even make him his damn shirt."  It's a bitter song.
Another Day In Paradise - Phil Collins.  Again I'm stretching the definition of "upbeat," it's slow in tempo, kind of heavy, but it has that big sexy hook, manages to feel kind of breezy, it feels designed for first dances at wedding receptions, and the refrain is "It's just another day for you and me in paradise."  It feels like a competitor to Fields of Gold by Sting.  It's not!  The verses are about the humanity crushing power of abject poverty.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Chumbawamba are great, especially that album.