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* Satsuki's [[https://youtu.be/19y8YTbvri8?si=YhgVHi7-z_yEnq3G Mesmerizer]] is a twinkly, frantic denpa song about using escapism in a futile attempt to cope with a toxic reality.
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* [[https://youtu.be/cDvPWk3d_Kc?si=HG56B5gp-sEqZn0m Sweet Float Flats]] by Manbo-P is a cutesy and upbeat song about an [[DysfunctionJunction apartment complex full of hopeless people]], including a hardcore masochist, a woman in an abusive relationship, a StringyHairedGhostGirl and a man who grows hallucinogenic mushrooms for TheYakuza (who are heavily implied to have [[YouHaveFailedMe killed him]] for accidentally letting the mushrooms loose in the apartments).

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* [[https://youtu.be/cDvPWk3d_Kc?si=HG56B5gp-sEqZn0m Sweet Float Flats]] by Manbo-P is a cutesy and upbeat song about an [[DysfunctionJunction apartment complex full of hopeless people]], including a hardcore masochist, a woman in an abusive relationship, a StringyHairedGhostGirl and a man who grows hallucinogenic mushrooms for TheYakuza the {{Yakuza}} (who are heavily implied to have [[YouHaveFailedMe killed him]] for accidentally letting the mushrooms loose in the apartments).
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* [[https://youtu.be/cDvPWk3d_Kc?si=HG56B5gp-sEqZn0m Sweet Float Flats]] by Manbo-P is a cutesy and upbeat song about an [[DysfunctionJunction apartment complex full of hopeless people]], including a hardcore masochist, a woman in an abusive relationship, a StringyHairedGhostGirl and a man who grows hallucinogenic mushrooms for TheYakuza (who are heavily implied to have [[YouHaveFailedMe killed him]] for accidentally letting the mushrooms loose in the apartments).
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* Kurage-P's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j0kfGNwIlw Chururira Chururira Daddadda!]] is a catchy and cheery rock song that has an MV with high meme-exploitation potential, but the lyrics are about a student council president played by Yuzuki Yukari, who abuses her authority to manipulate the school board to get expelled from school just so she could become the top student. Once every other student is expelled from school, she eventually turns against the teacher, getting rid of them as well.
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* Beneath the characters being alpacas, the pun in the title and the electro swing of ''[[https://vocaloidlyrics.fandom.com/wiki/夏に去りし君を想フ_(Natsu_ni_Sarishi_Kimi_o_Omofu) Leave in Summer, yet you're in my Fluffoughts]]'' is a story about the main character whose girlfriend only stays with him when 'it's winter'...aka, she only stays him when it's hard and leaves when it's not. Yet he still loves her.
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** Another interpretation that it's the viewpoint of an aromantic or asexual girl who is simply tired of all the men who try to seduce her, and ends up with the conclusion that there's no people who understand her at all, and she just wants someone who loves her without trying to seduce her pointlessly.
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* [[https://vocadb.net/S/8889 Bakusai Pudding]]. It's an alternative metal song with heavy guitars and melancholic lyrics... ''about spilled pudding''.

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* [[https://vocadb.net/S/8889 Bakusai Pudding]].Pudding/Pudding Annihilation]]. It's an alternative metal song with heavy guitars and melancholic lyrics... ''about ''[[LostFoodGrievance about spilled pudding''.pudding]]''.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQEX-7pxbvo Girls]] - a catchy techno track about an AlphaBitch who derides men wanting to chat her up, and ends up sad and lonely as a result.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQEX-7pxbvo Girls]] - a catchy techno track about from the viewpoint of an AlphaBitch who derides men wanting to chat her up, and up. By the end of the song, she ends up sad and lonely as a result.lonely.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQEX-7pxbvo Girls]] - a catchy techno track about an AlphaBitch who derides men wanting to chat her up, and ending up sad and lonely as a result.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQEX-7pxbvo Girls]] - a catchy techno track about an AlphaBitch who derides men wanting to chat her up, and ending ends up sad and lonely as a result.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQEX-7pxbvo Girls]] - a catchy techno track about an AlphaBitch who derides men wanting to chat her up, and ending up sad and lonely as a result.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbPsii3JukY And Then You Became The Moon]] sounds very happy, but the song itself is about dying from hyperthermia or a double suicide.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbPsii3JukY And Then You Became The Moon]] sounds very happy, but the song itself is about dying from hyperthermia hypothermia or a double suicide.



* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFfSXWxbZDw Don't look at me in that way]] – the song about a child who dies in a bike accident and whose ghost addresses his parents as they mourn him.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1mOeAtPkgk I'm sorry. I'm sorry.]] – the song with nauseating and violent lyrics about a young girl being sexually abused by her father and the song ends with the poor girl [[spoiler: being gang-raped by him and his friends]].

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFfSXWxbZDw Don't look at me in that way]] – the a gentle, twinkly song about a child who dies in a bike accident and whose ghost addresses his parents as they mourn him.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1mOeAtPkgk I'm sorry. I'm sorry.]] – the song with nauseating and violent lyrics about a young girl being sexually abused by her father and the song ends with the poor girl [[spoiler: being gang-raped by him and his friends]].
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HinT8DXYdDk You're a Useless Child]] - an upbeat-sounding song about an emotionally abusive mother and her relationship with her son, which ends with her son [[spoiler:either killing himself or running away. In any case, the child isn't here and no longer can be held (by the mother at least)]].

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HinT8DXYdDk You're a Useless Child]] - an upbeat-sounding song about an emotionally abusive mother and her relationship with her son, which ends with her son [[spoiler:either killing himself or running away. In any case, the child isn't here and no longer can be held (by the mother at least)]].least), resulting in the mother having a [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone crisis of conscience]]]].



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* [[https://youtu.be/hyV4qGAPKac?si=wr6XUkLUG8I3OTiy Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder]] is a vibrant, electric disco song about someone in a loveless, emotionally abusive relationship.
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* "Weekend (Worldend) is Coming!" is an adorable pop song about how war shatters a young schoolgirl's heart by taking her crush away.

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* "Weekend (Worldend) "The (Week)End is Coming!" is an adorable pop song about how war shatters a young schoolgirl's heart by taking her crush away.
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* xi-onP's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZylEIgiOh4 Laika]] is a cheery, upbeat and light pop song from the perspective of Laika, the Russian dog who was sent into space aboard the satellite ''Sputnik 2'' in 1957. The lyrics and video don't show Laika's final fate (but heavily imply it): the satellite wasn't built to return to Earth because the Russian scientists had to design and build it in less than a month, and she died in space shortly after launch.

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* xi-onP's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZylEIgiOh4 Laika]] is a cheery, upbeat and light pop song from the perspective of Laika, the Russian dog who was sent into space aboard the satellite ''Sputnik 2'' in 1957. The lyrics and video don't show Laika's final fate (but heavily imply it): the satellite wasn't built to return to Earth because the Russian scientists had were under orders to design and build it in less than a month, and she died in space shortly after launch.
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* xi-onP's Laika is a cheery, upbeat and light pop song from the perspective of Laika, the Russian dog who was sent into space aboard the satellite ''Sputnik 2'' in 1957. The lyrics and video don't show Laika's final fate (but heavily imply it): the satellite wasn't built to return to Earth because the Russian scientists had to design and build it in less than a month, and she died in space shortly after launch.

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* xi-onP's Laika [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZylEIgiOh4 Laika]] is a cheery, upbeat and light pop song from the perspective of Laika, the Russian dog who was sent into space aboard the satellite ''Sputnik 2'' in 1957. The lyrics and video don't show Laika's final fate (but heavily imply it): the satellite wasn't built to return to Earth because the Russian scientists had to design and build it in less than a month, and she died in space shortly after launch.
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* xi-onP's Laika is a cheery, upbeat and light pop song from the perspective of Laika, the Russian dog who was sent into space aboard the satellite ''Sputnik 2'' in 1957. The lyrics and video don't show Laika's final fate (but heavily imply it): the satellite wasn't built to return to Earth because the Russian scientists had to design and build it in less than a month, and she died in space shortly after launch.
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* Music/Deco27's [[https://youtu.be/3bEikMqDd3M?feature=shared Mono Posioner]] has a stylish and catchy funk rock beat with a roaring chorus... complete with lyrics about a DestructiveRomance from the perspective of an abusive boyfriend, [[{{Yandere}} who wants to maintain gripping and exclusive control]] on his girlfriend to the point he ''takes pleasure'' in physically abusing her and demonizing her.

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* Music/Deco27's [[https://youtu.be/3bEikMqDd3M?feature=shared Mono Posioner]] Poisoner]] has a stylish and catchy funk rock beat with a roaring chorus... complete with lyrics about a DestructiveRomance from the perspective of an abusive boyfriend, [[{{Yandere}} who wants to maintain gripping and exclusive control]] on his girlfriend to the point he ''takes pleasure'' in physically abusing her and demonizing her.
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* Music/Deco27's [[https://youtu.be/3bEikMqDd3M?feature=shared Mono Posioner]] has a stylish and catchy funk rock beat with a roaring chorus... complete with lyrics about a DestructiveRomance from the perspective of an abusive boyfriend, [[{{Yandere}} who wants to maintain gripping and exclusive control]] on his girlfriend to the point he ''takes pleasure'' in physically abusing her and demonizing her.
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* OPA's [[https://youtu.be/ugpNcEEjQrM Lover's Suicide Oblivion]] is a jazzy and bombastic rock song about a woman who loses her partner and (after an existential crisis where she wonders about the nature of death) [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] [[TogetherInDeath so she can see them again]], only to realize that by doing so she has condemned herself to being forgotten by the world.
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* An unusual example from Kikuo, "Yesterday, Everything Returns" sounds like music from Earthbound mixed with noise, with distorted lyrics barely heard over the rest of the track, but seems to be about slowly forgetting about a traumatic school life and growing away from it.

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* An unusual unusually positive example from Kikuo, "Yesterday, Everything Returns" sounds like music from Earthbound mixed with noise, with distorted lyrics barely heard over the rest of the track, but seems to be about slowly forgetting about a traumatic school life and growing away from it.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HinT8DXYdDk You're a Useless Child]] - an upbeat-sounding song about an emotionally abusive mother and her relationship with her son, which ends with her son [[spoiler:either killing himself or running away. In any case, the child isn't here and no longer can be held (by the mother at least).]].

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HinT8DXYdDk You're a Useless Child]] - an upbeat-sounding song about an emotionally abusive mother and her relationship with her son, which ends with her son [[spoiler:either killing himself or running away. In any case, the child isn't here and no longer can be held (by the mother at least).]].least)]].



* Kikuo's songs in general have a reputation for having upbeat lyrics to depressing topics. "Into the Water" is about suicide by drowning. "XXX Cat" appears to be about either actual or metaphorical horrific, disfiguring abuse. "Missing Missing" is about doing what one is told to and getting absolutely nothing as a reward (it was missing). "Good Child and Fox Spirit" has the fox luring the child into living with it via tricks, illusions, and lies, and the fox encouraging and eventually convincing the child to do the same. All to upbeat music.
* An unusual example from Kikuo, "Yesterday, Everything Returns" sounds like music from Earthbound mixed with noise, with distorted lyrics barely heard over the rest of the track, but seems to be about slowly forgetting about a traumatic school life and moving away and changing from it.

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* Kikuo's songs in general have a reputation for having upbeat lyrics to depressing topics. In addition to most of the entries on this page, "Into the Water" is about suicide by drowning. "XXX Cat" appears to be about either actual or metaphorical horrific, disfiguring abuse. "Missing Missing" is about doing what one is told to and getting absolutely nothing as a reward (it was missing). "Good Child and Fox Spirit" has the fox luring the child into living with it via tricks, illusions, and ("fun") lies, and the fox encouraging and eventually convincing the child to do the same. All to upbeat music.
* An unusual example from Kikuo, "Yesterday, Everything Returns" sounds like music from Earthbound mixed with noise, with distorted lyrics barely heard over the rest of the track, but seems to be about slowly forgetting about a traumatic school life and moving growing away and changing from it.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HinT8DXYdDk You're a Useless Child]] - an upbeat-sounding song about an emotionally abusive mother and her relationship with her son, which ends with her son [[spoiler:killing himself]].

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HinT8DXYdDk You're a Useless Child]] - an upbeat-sounding song about an emotionally abusive mother and her relationship with her son, which ends with her son [[spoiler:killing himself]].[[spoiler:either killing himself or running away. In any case, the child isn't here and no longer can be held (by the mother at least).]].


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* Kikuo's songs in general have a reputation for having upbeat lyrics to depressing topics. "Into the Water" is about suicide by drowning. "XXX Cat" appears to be about either actual or metaphorical horrific, disfiguring abuse. "Missing Missing" is about doing what one is told to and getting absolutely nothing as a reward (it was missing). "Good Child and Fox Spirit" has the fox luring the child into living with it via tricks, illusions, and lies, and the fox encouraging and eventually convincing the child to do the same. All to upbeat music.
* An unusual example from Kikuo, "Yesterday, Everything Returns" sounds like music from Earthbound mixed with noise, with distorted lyrics barely heard over the rest of the track, but seems to be about slowly forgetting about a traumatic school life and moving away and changing from it.

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LyricalDissonance is a very common theme used in numerous Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs. In fact, it's ''harder'' to find a song which doesn't follow this trope.

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LyricalDissonance is a very common theme used in numerous Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs. In fact, it's ''harder'' to find a song which doesn't follow this trope.
trope, as Vocaloid music (and electronic music in general) more readily lends itself to upbeat tempos.


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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVeIDmk3rBo Calc.]] by Jimmy Thumb-P is a concert favorite, with Miku's on-stage hologram rocking a Les Paul and performing Ted Nugent-style jumps whilst playing said guitar. The song itself is about a person trying to move on from an especially painful breakup. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozn2PUZh8hM This English cover by Lizz Robinett]] features what some would say is a more fitting bluegrass sound.

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* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHBFKhLUVig God-ish]] is ''about'' this trope. It's from the POV of a fan who doesn't understand how sad their favorite music is, but who grasps it by the end of the song and realizes they will never hear it the same way again.

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It's easier to count examples of Pepoyo songs with no lyrical dissonance than songs with it.
* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHBFKhLUVig God-ish]] com/watch?v=luqeDKM4TAQ Easy-Peasy Euthanasia]] is ''about'' this trope. It's a song about wanting to die, but not by suicide, as that would be too painful and messy--hence the the desire for an "Easy-Peasy Euthanasia" as the title describes. Even among other examples of lyrical dissonance, it is shocking the extent it plainly expresses how it feels to be suicidal.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv8oCf2ER2I ±0]] is about a person at rock bottom expressing just how worthless they are and how much they've failed at every possible turn--all to a ragtime ditty. It ends with them dying by suicide, declaring that if there's no point in adding or subtracting
from the POV of a fan who doesn't understand how sad their favorite music is, but who grasps life's equation, they might as well erase it by altogether.
-->''If there’s no meaning in adding or subtracting\\
then just erase
the end of the entire problem.\\
I will rest in peace.''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8KwcDrTuk Menheramen]] is a frenetic denpa
song like any other, but it drops the pure nonsense lyrics to create a creepy and realizes they will never hear it sometimes nauseating stream of consciousness intended to represent the same way again. unfiltered thoughts of a manic episode.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pKPFpX7Cqk Amedama]] sounds like a children's song, but based on just the first few lines alone, you can tell something is ''very'' wrong with it.


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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_FAIIuBXl8 Crappy Fantasy Days]] is about living through a "nothing" period of one's life--living each day unfulfilled and bored, unsure of when the nothingness will ever end.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCBF_XSFmng Motivation is Dead]] is, unsurprisingly, about being completely bereft of motivation, to the point of feeling completely empty inside.
-->''I lack any motivation, even enough to say I'm unmotivated,\\
So little I can't even feel motivated''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1pSSrmdEtw Apple Dot Com]] is a cheerfully peppy tune, complete with slightly-off-key recorder, about feeling imprisoned by one's own depression.
-->''I’m rotting away as I neglect myself.\\
My face’s smiling, but there’s a dart piercing it.\\
It’s such a pain, so I’m not doing anything.\\
I’ve got all kinds of debts lumped together haphazardly.''
* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHBFKhLUVig God-ish]] is ''about'' this trope. It's from the POV of a fan who doesn't understand how sad their favorite music is, but who grasps it by the end of the song and realizes they will never hear it the same way again.
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* EZFG's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O81HImHMASc Totemo Itai Itagaritai]] (unofficially translated to Hurting for a Very Hurtful Pain) is a pulse-pounding, catchy electro beat that's about an excruciating (implied to be mental) pain that the singer is experiencing.
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* "Our [=16Bit=] [=EndZ=] Trigger" is a bright-sounding song about disillusioned young soldiers in a war who have been so thoroughly beaten down by [[CrapsackWorld how far the world has fallen]] that they're actively wishing for the apocalypse to come, yet [[DefiantToTheEnd retain their defiant attitude nonetheless]] and rise up against their unfeeling superiors.
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Unless you know Japanese, [[SurpriseCreepy most of these songs are not obvious at first]], until you watch the videos with translated subtitles.

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* As the title suggests, “[[https://youtu.be/QA5zuzc1WYA Coin Locker Baby]]” is about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin-operated-locker_babies?wprov=sfti1 the abuse phenomenon of the same name]] in which parents in Asia who are unable to take care of newborn children abandon them in coin-operated lockers.

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* Mitchie M's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQoeuGNJfAg Bad Girl A]] is an up-tempo rock and roll song...about a girl who becomes a delinquent to escape her abusive father, only for her to end up stabbing him to death when he tries to take her back before engaging in a GameOfChicken with a fellow biker, where she plans to go out in a blaze of glory by driving off the cliff.
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* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHBFKhLUVig God-ish]] is ''about'' this trope. It's from the POV of a fan who doesn't really understand how sad their favorite artist's music is, but who grasps it by the end of the song and realizes they will never hear it the same way again.

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* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHBFKhLUVig God-ish]] is ''about'' this trope. It's from the POV of a fan who doesn't really understand how sad their favorite artist's music is, but who grasps it by the end of the song and realizes they will never hear it the same way again.
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* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHBFKhLUVig God-ish]] is ''about'' this trope. It's from the POV of a fan who doesn't really understand how sad their favorite artist's music is, but who grasps it by the end of the song and realizes they will never hear it the same way again.
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