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* The video for "Take it off" by Ke$ha involves partying youths jumping into each other to explode into dry powder paint. Later on, the remaining partygoers have a powder-paint fight in a drained swimming pool, throwing handfuls of the stuff at each other. Which is all very fun... until you realise there was no paint in the scene at the beginning of the video, so they are in fact ''throwing corpses at each other...''

* The video for "Take it off" by Ke$ha involves partying youths jumping into each other to explode into dry powder paint. Later on, the remaining partygoers have a powder-paint fight in a drained swimming pool, throwing handfuls of the stuff at each other. Which is all very fun... until you realise there was no paint in the scene at the beginning of the video, so they are in fact ''throwing corpses at each other...''

* The entire body of [[ToshimitsuDeyama Toshi's]] solo work from 1996 to 2010, the "iyashi-kei," the healing music, the duets with Kaori and the formation of the "eco rock band T-Earth" all engineered by [[PathOfInspiration Masaya]].... who stole every bit of the money Toshi made from all the effort he put into these years of work, and used them to promote his fraudulent "self-improvement seminar" Home of Heart.

-->Go! Go! Godzilla!

* Tom Wait's "Lullaby", particularly this line: "Nothing's ever yours to keep." In context of the song, it's undoubtedly a [[TearJerker tearjerker]]; the song's supposed to be a [[IronicNurseryRhyme disconcerting lullaby]] telling a child that [[spoiler: their father is gone and very unlikely to come back]]. But take that line out of context and apply it to your own life. Think about it. Everything you consider to be 'yours' -- your glasses, your room, your dog, your friends, your mother, your father, your memories, your personality -- is going to be taken away from you. ''And there is nothing you can do to stop it from happening.''

* [[{{Lady Gaga}} Lady Gaga]]'s song Paparazzi, upon a casual read of lyrcis, is clearly about stalking someone. However, this troper was recently typing the lyrics back into iTunes and realized that 'paparazzi' is technically pluralized from the Italian word 'paparazzo'. While this could just be brushed off as a normal mistake (such as the Italian word for sandwich being 'panino' and the plural 'panini', where in America we have one specific sandwhich we call a - as in just one - 'panini'), there's another theory that kind of hurts. As Lady Gaga is Italian, she may have done this on purpose. Sure, saying you'll follow one person like a paparazzo is bad. What's worse than one stalker? Try ''hundreds'' of them. The feeling that harassment is coming from hoards of people when it's actually only one crazy-in-love gal. Pretty creepy? Oh yeah.
** Just Dance is a song about stumbling around half-delerious in a nightclub. Is this because she's drunk like she thinks? She sings in the first verse that she lost her drink - obviously losing your drink in a club is a bad idea, particularly for women. Then, Colby O'Donis sings about how hot the girls in the club are and how they have 'so much energy'. She also uses words like 'hypnotic' and 'bleed' while Colby insists she just needs to be close enough for him to get his dick in. In short - a hedonistic night out, or [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation a woman getting dosed with Rohypnol and date-raped]]?

-->Where sad-eyed merment tossed in slumbers

** Lampshaded by Seven of Nine in ''StarTrekVoyager'': Do you intend to soothe the child or traumatise it?

** Not only that, but that daughter is Maya Rudolph of SaturdayNightLive!

** Just Dance is a song about stumbling around half-delerious in a nightclub. Is this because she's drunk like she thinks? She sings in the first verse that she lost her drink - obviously losing your drink in a club is a bad idea, particularly for women. Then, Colby O'Donis sings about how hot the girls in the club are and how they have 'so much energy'. She also uses words like 'hypnotic' and 'bleed' while Colby insists she just needs to be close enough for him to get his dick in. In short - a hedonistic night out, or [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation a woman getting dosed with Rohypnol and date-raped]]?

** It's been stated that Murdoc's distinctive puggish nose is the result of being punched in the face on multiple instances, like a boxer. Granted, most of these were his own fault, so what's the problem? The artwork of Murdoc at 10 portrays him with this appearance, which implies that he'd already been [[AbusiveParents smashed in the face several times]] by that age.

* Fancy by Reba McEntire is about a girl being forced into prostitution by her mother.

** When I first heard the song, the lyrics: ''She smiled at me on the subway / She was with another man / But I won't lose no sleep on that / 'Cause I've got a plan'' never really seemed to fit that well into it, especially since the final lines go: ''But it's time to face the truth / I will never be with you''. It all seemed pretty contradictory. Then, later on, I saw the video. After thinking about what I saw, and reading a few entries here on TV Tropes, I remembered the that the end of the song involved James jumping into the ocean. And '''that's''' when I realized, with growing horror, that ''' ''suicide was the plan'' '''.

** When I first heard the song, the lyrics: ''She smiled at me on the subway / She was with another man / But I won't lose no sleep on that / 'Cause I've got a plan'' never really seemed to fit that well into it, especially since the final lines go: ''But it's time to face the truth / I will never be with you''. It all seemed pretty contradictory. Then, later on, I saw the video. After thinking about what I saw, and reading a few entries here on TV Tropes, I remembered the that the end of the song involved James jumping into the ocean. And '''that's''' when I realized, with growing horror, that ''' ''suicide was the plan'' '''.

* The video to James Blunt's song "You're Beautiful" shows him slowly stripping off on what appears to be an iceberg before jumping into the ocean. It doesn't make much sense, until you realise that when people are on the brink of death from hypothermia, they feel too hot and tend to remove their clothes. Even if this isn't what the director intended, it still gives it a much more sinister feel.

* [[{{Lady Gaga}} Lady Gaga]]'s song Paparazzi, upon a casual read of lyrcis, is clearly about stalking someone. However, this troper was recently typing the lyrics back into iTunes and realized that 'paparazzi' is technically pluralized from the Italian word 'paparazzo'. While this could just be brushed off as a normal mistake (such as the Italian word for sandwich being 'panino' and the plural 'panini', where in America we have one specific sandwhich we call a - as in just one - 'panini'), there's another theory that kind of hurts. As Lady Gaga is Italian, she may have done this on purpose. Sure, saying you'll follow one person like a paparazzo is bad. What's worse than one stalker? Try ''hundreds'' of them. The feeling that harassment is coming from hoards of people when it's actually only one crazy-in-love gal. Pretty creepy? Oh yeah.

** Actually, it was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gfG2zPNL_c originally Miku's version]] after all.

** Likewise, the German rhyme "Hoppa Hoppa Reiter", which loosely translates to "Hop hop goes the rider, when he falls he screams. If he falls in the ditch he'll be eaten by ravens, and if he falls in the swamp he'll go splash." Other versions translate ditch as grave, and add a couple lines about being bitten all over by mosquitoes. This is a song that's used to entertain children. Oh, those cheerful Germans.

** Actually, it was [[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gfG2zPNL_c originally Miku's version]] after all.

** Actually, it was [[originally Miku's version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gfG2zPNL_c]] after all.

* [[{{Vocaloid}} Vocaloid Kaito]] invokes one of these with his version of the song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTOngDS0dRI&feature=related Hatsune Miku no Soushitsu]]. Initially, it sounds just like a strange techno-pop Kaito song with static in. But then you watch the video... wait. Why is Kaito suddenly screaming in agony in the middle of the verse? Why did the screen suddenly go grayscale, with bursts of static intruding on the image? How come the lyrics went out of sync with his mouth? Why are his movements getting weaker, like it's difficult to stand? Why is he collapsing to his knees, clutching his head, but still wearing that serene smile and singing the peppy techno song? Well, that's an easy one: his file is being corrupted, ''hard''. In the middle of a song - and Kaito knows it. But he's a computer program designed to sing and dance, not show emotion. So despite the fact that he's managed to break through earlier, in order to scream, well... he's got a program to run. Face stuck in a static smile, being eaten apart by a virus, Kaito sings his song.

* "Benny the Bouncer" off of [[EmersonLakeAndPalmer ELP's]] ''Brain Salad Surgery'' is often treated as a gag-song, a silly filler with Greg Lake singing in a heavy, obscure voice while Keith Emerson is playing a honky-tonk piano. The song itself is about [[CaptainObvious a bouncer named Benny]] who meets his fate during a fight with a fellow named Savage Sid. If you focus on the lyrics, however, the song becomes much more macabre, as it describes Sid cutting apart Benny with a switchblade and a hatchet. The worst part about it is that it's stated the crowd who watched the fight tried to "put him back together" but was unable to because he was missing pieces, suggesting he was ''[[AndIMustScream still alive]]'' for a short time after he had been cut into bits.