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* The ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlsLopZUi1M Honest Holiday Card Song]]". The faces on the card photos sing a ridiculously upbeat melody about all of the various problems they are struggling with, like estranged marriages, struggling with obesity, losing one's job, etc.
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* The ''Website/CollegeHumor'' ''Creator/{{Dropout}}'' video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlsLopZUi1M Honest Holiday Card Song]]". The faces on the card photos sing a ridiculously upbeat melody about all of the various problems they are struggling with, like estranged marriages, struggling with obesity, losing one's job, etc.
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* Zigzagged in one episode of ''WebVideo/JimAndYahtzeesRhymedownSpectacular'', Yahtzee described "[[GameplayAndStorySegregation Ludonarrative Dissonance]]" by alternating between saying a poem about a man who tried to flee life of crime and violence only to go broke and be forced to return, and singing a merry, excited tune about the same man enjoying living a life of crime and violence.
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* Zigzagged in one episode of ''WebVideo/JimAndYahtzeesRhymedownSpectacular'', Yahtzee described "[[GameplayAndStorySegregation Ludonarrative Dissonance]]" "LudonarrativeDissonance" by alternating between saying a poem about a man who tried to flee life of crime and violence only to go broke and be forced to return, and singing a merry, excited tune about the same man enjoying living a life of crime and violence.
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* [[Creator/KevinTemmer Kevin Temmer’s]] ''What’s the Matter, Martha?'' is an upbeat tune sung by cheerful sentient objects to a woman who’s (according to WordOfGod) disillusioned with her restrictive life. As the song goes on, the lyrics begin to contrast with the happy melody.
-->Could it be, could it be
-->Life is just not quite what it’s cracked up to be?
-->Could it be, could it be
-->You broke your mind and didn’t get the warranty?
-->Could it be, could it be
-->You never read the fine print on conformity?
-->Give us a clue
-->What’s wrong with you?
-->Could it be, could it be
-->Life is just not quite what it’s cracked up to be?
-->Could it be, could it be
-->You broke your mind and didn’t get the warranty?
-->Could it be, could it be
-->You never read the fine print on conformity?
-->Give us a clue
-->What’s wrong with you?
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* The "[[MemeticMutation Dancing Polish Cow]]". Put to a goofy poorly-dithered gif of a cow dancing a jig, and when listened to by most it's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hhMUT2U2L4 pretty silly]]. However if you speak Polish that song, called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GCng7cjJ7M Gdzie jest biały węgorz? (Zejście)]], has among the most depressing lyrics you'll ever hear in your life.
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* In WebVideo/RhettAndLink's Good Mythical Morning guest starring Linkin Park, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKyas12ic8 this song]] plays as they eat Sour Patch Kids. A tinkling, music-box melody...about the acid from the candy burning the skin from your mouth.
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** InWebVideo/RhettAndLink's the Good Mythical Morning guest starring Linkin Park, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKyas12ic8 this song]] plays as they eat Sour Patch Kids. A tinkling, music-box melody...about the acid from the candy burning the skin from your mouth.mouth.
** "Get You Back" is a soft song about revenge.
** There's a song about squirrels which has a "squirrely" feel but portrays their anger about being shown all over the Web without giving consent first.
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** "Get You Back" is a soft song about revenge.
** There's a song about squirrels which has a "squirrely" feel but portrays their anger about being shown all over the Web without giving consent first.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Hp6i7ZQ9ULKBtVai6ayaQ hunter1s1k]] cover ''any'' song by doing agonizing screams. Even songs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY3HJqhrkRA that aren't anything agonizing]].
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Hp6i7ZQ9ULKBtVai6ayaQ hunter1s1k]] cover covers ''any'' song by doing agonizing screams. Even songs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY3HJqhrkRA that aren't anything agonizing]].
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/c/MelodickaBros/featured The Melodicka Bros]] are specialized in weird covers of songs. This include gems like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bt7j8sXTkY&ab_channel=MelodickaBros a sad version]] of Music/{{Aqua}}'s "Barbie Girl" or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O63HVfiiooY&ab_channel=MelodickaBros a happy version]] of Music/PapaRoach's "Last Resort".
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* ''WebVideo/TranslatorFails'' repurposes the original melodies of the songs that are run through Google Translate. Resulting in lyrics that really do not suit the melody or style of the original music.
** Case in point: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kNnIUwBAOk Google Translate Sings OPERA (not well)]].
** Case in point: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kNnIUwBAOk Google Translate Sings OPERA (not well)]].
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* ''WebVideo/TranslatorFails'' ''WebVideo/TwistedTranslations'' repurposes the original melodies of the songs that are run through Google Translate. Resulting in lyrics that really do not suit the melody or style of the original music.
** Case in point: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kNnIUwBAOk Google Translate Sings OPERA (not well)]].music.
** Case in point: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kNnIUwBAOk Google Translate Sings OPERA (not well)]].
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* Some of [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAVns3lt0t7w8lmUZQFlvrA Paint's]] parodies qualify on this, such as his most famous "After Ever After" songs recounts the depressing and/or disturbing future of [[Franchise/DisneyPrincesses several Disney Princesses]] to the tune of some of their movies' famous songs.
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* Some of [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAVns3lt0t7w8lmUZQFlvrA Paint's]] parodies qualify on this, such as his most famous "After Ever After" songs recounts the depressing and/or disturbing future of [[Franchise/DisneyPrincesses [[Franchise/DisneyPrincess several Disney Princesses]] to the tune of some of their movies' famous songs.
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* ''WebVideo/{{Rathergood}}'''s "Communist Christmas" sounds like a standard {{Christmas Song|s}}, complete with SnowySleighBells, but every other line is about communism. In the chorus, the communist cat cheerfully sings about celebrating and [[MoodWhiplash purging the enemies of the state]].
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* The background soundtrack to the utter destruction of the ''[[Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse Global Guardians']] Cape Town (UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica) team at the hands of the EvilOverlord-cum-EldritchAbomination Abyss, an event that ended in the horrific deaths of seven superheroes and tens of thousands of innocent bystanders, not to mention the leveling of almost half of Cape Town itself, was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFPqiziZxwA David Lee Roth's cover]] of "That's Life."
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* Website/{{Tumblr}} repurposed the tune from the classic {{Christmas song|s}} "Baby, It's Cold Outside" to tell a [[http://ms-demeanor.tumblr.com/post/168305679152/emilysidhe-dont-spoop-yourself-emilysidhe musical version]] of the scene in ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' when LadyMacbeth talks her VillainProtagonist husband into killing the king. (Note that due to ValuesDissonance, even the original song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" can retroactively come off as this trope to modern listeners, who often consider the male singer to be uncomfortably predatory. But of course, that wasn't the intent with which the song was written back in TheForties.)
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* Website/{{Tumblr}} repurposed the tune from the classic {{Christmas song|s}} "Baby, It's Cold Outside" to tell a [[http://ms-demeanor.tumblr.com/post/168305679152/emilysidhe-dont-spoop-yourself-emilysidhe musical version]] of the scene in ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' when LadyMacbeth talks her VillainProtagonist husband into killing the king. (Note that due to ValuesDissonance, even the original song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" can retroactively come off as this trope to modern listeners, who often consider the male singer to be uncomfortably predatory. But of course, that wasn't the intent with which the song was written back in TheForties.))
* ''WebVideo/TranslatorFails'' repurposes the original melodies of the songs that are run through Google Translate. Resulting in lyrics that really do not suit the melody or style of the original music.
**Case in point: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kNnIUwBAOk Google Translate Sings OPERA (not well)]].
* ''WebVideo/TranslatorFails'' repurposes the original melodies of the songs that are run through Google Translate. Resulting in lyrics that really do not suit the melody or style of the original music.
**Case in point: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kNnIUwBAOk Google Translate Sings OPERA (not well)]].
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* Pretty much the entire premise behind ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'':
-->It's a brand new day\\
And the sun is high\\
All the birds are singin'\\
That you're gonna die!
** Or "Everything You Ever", which has triumphant lyrics and a tune more in line with a funeral dirge.
-->[[PyrrhicVillainy "Here lies everything\\
The world I wanted at my feet\\
My victory's complete\\
So hail to the king..."]]
** And we can't forget "Everyone's A Hero" as sung by Creator/NathanFillion in full LargeHam mode:
-->Everyone's a hero in their own way
-->You and you and [[SmugSuper mostly me]] and you
-->I'm poverty's new sheriff
-->And I'm bashing in the slums
-->A hero doesn't care if you're a bunch of scary, alcoholic bums!
* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's theme song, by Kyle Justin. It's an uptempo song about how much James Rolfe hates the video games he has to review.
* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' has the cheery theme song for the [[ShowWithinAShow sitcom within the show]] ''Zorc & Pals'':
-->''The blood of the innocent will flow without end\\
His name is Zorc and he's destroying the world!''
* From Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos, we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihzJaCaJEd4 Slendy's Watching Me]]. It's a cute, upbeat song about a child being kidnapped by the Slender Man.
* Despite being one of the most upbeat numbers in WebVideo/HumanCentipedeTheMusical, Dr. Heiter's VillainSong depicts BodyHorror.
* The theme song of WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment, "Break Me" by The Irresponsibles. While being a rousing piece of Crowning Music of Awesome, it has rather dark lyrics you might notice on first hearing it. Lampshaded by Spoony in a commentary where he said he loved the song but it was "basically implying that I'm a girl who likes to be domestically abused."
* Zigzagged in one episode of ''WebVideo/JimAndYahtzeesRhymedownSpectacular'', Yahtzee described "[[GameplayAndStorySegregation Ludonarrative Dissonance]]" by alternating between saying a poem about a man who tried to flee life of crime and violence only to go broke and be forced to return, and singing a merry, excited tune about the same man enjoying living a life of crime and violence.
* Music/BrentalFloss does a lyric video for ''VideoGame/{{Limbo}}''. The tune he provides is an actual limbo song and he sings about the multiple ways you can die as the protagonist.
* Played with in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ixvsV-ahI0 "The Gypsy Bard"]] from ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'', a song about depression, having your life destroyed, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[ThePollyanna staying]] [[AngstWhatAngst strong]] [[ThinkHappyThoughts through music.]] [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Applejack.
--->[''Pinkie offers to sing a song.'']
---> '''Applejack:''' Doesn't matter which one, Pinkie. [[TemptingFate As long as it's not one of those sad ones with the deceptively happy tunes-]]
---> '''Pinkie:''' ''When you're [[DeusAngstMachina rife with devastation]], there's a simple explanation: / [[CosmicPlaything You're a toymaker's creation, trapped inside a crystal ball.]]''
** She tends to do this a lot. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y1s6Jbhrzc "The Orphanage Song"]] is about her attempts to remain optimistic despite being, well, orphaned and massive self-loathing. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=682pneYoP0c "Pinkie's Brew"]] starts off as a cheerful, bouncy song about potion-brewing, but soon becomes about her desperate loneliness and alienation, and desire to bring her dead parents back to life. [[TheWoobie She's had a hard life...]]
--> ''Crude stew. Do you fear it, Apple Bloom? / Sometimes life is not a cake-walk served up on a silver spoon.''
--> ''God help the outcast with her witchcraft. / Someday I'm gonna go home.''
* ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' has ''We're a Distraction'', the number one song on [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Krypton]] from 1983. The tune is standard dramatic-but-upbeat '80s power ballad. The lyrics are about how the world is going to end soon, so you might as well try and be happy in the short time you have left to take your mind off things.
** Actually, WordOfGod says that that's an interpretation that has nothing to do with what they intended.
* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20195_the-5-most-insane-teams-in-history-sports.html The 5 Most Insane Teams in the History of Sports]] describes an incident in the 1990s when the UsefulNotes/CanadianFootballLeague was attempting to expand into the United States. At one game, the Canadian national anthem was sung to the tune of "O Christmas Tree".
* The ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlsLopZUi1M Honest Holiday Card Song]]". The faces on the card photos sing a ridiculously upbeat melody about all of the various problems they are struggling with, like estranged marriages, struggling with obesity, losing one's job, etc.
* Creator/FilmCow's musical short, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNZzJELbFRI Ferrets]]".
-->'''Unnamed Ferret:''' These are all the little things that make me smile, these are all the stuff that makes life worthwhile! Everybody knows the Holocaust was a lie, so let's sing about the things we like and don't be shy!
-->'''Harold:''' ...wait, what was that about the Holocaust?
* The background soundtrack to the utter destruction of the ''[[Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse Global Guardians']] Cape Town (UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica) team at the hands of the EvilOverlord-cum-EldritchAbomination Abyss, an event that ended in the horrific deaths of seven superheroes and tens of thousands of innocent bystanders, not to mention the leveling of almost half of Cape Town itself, was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFPqiziZxwA David Lee Roth's cover]] of "That's Life."
* Some of [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAVns3lt0t7w8lmUZQFlvrA Paint's]] parodies qualify on this, such as his most famous "After Ever After" songs recounts the depressing and/or disturbing future of [[Franchise/DisneyPrincesses several Disney Princesses]] to the tune of some of their movies' famous songs.
* In WebVideo/RhettAndLink's Good Mythical Morning guest starring Linkin Park, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKyas12ic8 this song]] plays as they eat Sour Patch Kids. A tinkling, music-box melody...about the acid from the candy burning the skin from your mouth.
* ''WebVideo/UndertaleTheMusical'':
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNo4i_-0IsE Ghost Fight]]", an upbeat, energetic jazz number about how miserable [[TheEeyore Napstablook]] is. Although the lyrics start matching the tune after Frisk hugs the poor ghost.
** [[https://youtu.be/oB_lKI1o754 "Your Best Friend"]], Flowey's VillainSong. Fitting his general character, it sounds like something from Barney or other kid's show...but has lyrics about his [[TheSocialDarwinist twisted worldview and how he wants to murder the protagonist.]] [[https://youtu.be/hnHS6_PLDrw The latter reprise]] qualifies even more so, as he completely drops all pretense of benevolence and is entirely about his evil intentions.
** Flowey maintains this when he [[spoiler:[[OneWingedAngel becomes Omega Flowey]] and sings "[[https://youtu.be/z5yxcwrQkgY Your Best Nightmare]]", keeping the same style of singing while singing about his murderous intentions to murder Frisk over and over and become a God.]]
* Website/{{Tumblr}} repurposed the tune from the classic {{Christmas song|s}} "Baby, It's Cold Outside" to tell a [[http://ms-demeanor.tumblr.com/post/168305679152/emilysidhe-dont-spoop-yourself-emilysidhe musical version]] of the scene in ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' when LadyMacbeth talks her VillainProtagonist husband into killing the king. (Note that due to ValuesDissonance, even the original song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" can retroactively come off as this trope to modern listeners, who often consider the male singer to be uncomfortably predatory. But of course, that wasn't the intent with which the song was written back in TheForties.)
-->It's a brand new day\\
And the sun is high\\
All the birds are singin'\\
That you're gonna die!
** Or "Everything You Ever", which has triumphant lyrics and a tune more in line with a funeral dirge.
-->[[PyrrhicVillainy "Here lies everything\\
The world I wanted at my feet\\
My victory's complete\\
So hail to the king..."]]
** And we can't forget "Everyone's A Hero" as sung by Creator/NathanFillion in full LargeHam mode:
-->Everyone's a hero in their own way
-->You and you and [[SmugSuper mostly me]] and you
-->I'm poverty's new sheriff
-->And I'm bashing in the slums
-->A hero doesn't care if you're a bunch of scary, alcoholic bums!
* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's theme song, by Kyle Justin. It's an uptempo song about how much James Rolfe hates the video games he has to review.
* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' has the cheery theme song for the [[ShowWithinAShow sitcom within the show]] ''Zorc & Pals'':
-->''The blood of the innocent will flow without end\\
His name is Zorc and he's destroying the world!''
* From Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos, we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihzJaCaJEd4 Slendy's Watching Me]]. It's a cute, upbeat song about a child being kidnapped by the Slender Man.
* Despite being one of the most upbeat numbers in WebVideo/HumanCentipedeTheMusical, Dr. Heiter's VillainSong depicts BodyHorror.
* The theme song of WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment, "Break Me" by The Irresponsibles. While being a rousing piece of Crowning Music of Awesome, it has rather dark lyrics you might notice on first hearing it. Lampshaded by Spoony in a commentary where he said he loved the song but it was "basically implying that I'm a girl who likes to be domestically abused."
* Zigzagged in one episode of ''WebVideo/JimAndYahtzeesRhymedownSpectacular'', Yahtzee described "[[GameplayAndStorySegregation Ludonarrative Dissonance]]" by alternating between saying a poem about a man who tried to flee life of crime and violence only to go broke and be forced to return, and singing a merry, excited tune about the same man enjoying living a life of crime and violence.
* Music/BrentalFloss does a lyric video for ''VideoGame/{{Limbo}}''. The tune he provides is an actual limbo song and he sings about the multiple ways you can die as the protagonist.
* Played with in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ixvsV-ahI0 "The Gypsy Bard"]] from ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'', a song about depression, having your life destroyed, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[ThePollyanna staying]] [[AngstWhatAngst strong]] [[ThinkHappyThoughts through music.]] [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Applejack.
--->[''Pinkie offers to sing a song.'']
---> '''Applejack:''' Doesn't matter which one, Pinkie. [[TemptingFate As long as it's not one of those sad ones with the deceptively happy tunes-]]
---> '''Pinkie:''' ''When you're [[DeusAngstMachina rife with devastation]], there's a simple explanation: / [[CosmicPlaything You're a toymaker's creation, trapped inside a crystal ball.]]''
** She tends to do this a lot. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y1s6Jbhrzc "The Orphanage Song"]] is about her attempts to remain optimistic despite being, well, orphaned and massive self-loathing. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=682pneYoP0c "Pinkie's Brew"]] starts off as a cheerful, bouncy song about potion-brewing, but soon becomes about her desperate loneliness and alienation, and desire to bring her dead parents back to life. [[TheWoobie She's had a hard life...]]
--> ''Crude stew. Do you fear it, Apple Bloom? / Sometimes life is not a cake-walk served up on a silver spoon.''
--> ''God help the outcast with her witchcraft. / Someday I'm gonna go home.''
* ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' has ''We're a Distraction'', the number one song on [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Krypton]] from 1983. The tune is standard dramatic-but-upbeat '80s power ballad. The lyrics are about how the world is going to end soon, so you might as well try and be happy in the short time you have left to take your mind off things.
** Actually, WordOfGod says that that's an interpretation that has nothing to do with what they intended.
* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20195_the-5-most-insane-teams-in-history-sports.html The 5 Most Insane Teams in the History of Sports]] describes an incident in the 1990s when the UsefulNotes/CanadianFootballLeague was attempting to expand into the United States. At one game, the Canadian national anthem was sung to the tune of "O Christmas Tree".
* The ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlsLopZUi1M Honest Holiday Card Song]]". The faces on the card photos sing a ridiculously upbeat melody about all of the various problems they are struggling with, like estranged marriages, struggling with obesity, losing one's job, etc.
* Creator/FilmCow's musical short, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNZzJELbFRI Ferrets]]".
-->'''Unnamed Ferret:''' These are all the little things that make me smile, these are all the stuff that makes life worthwhile! Everybody knows the Holocaust was a lie, so let's sing about the things we like and don't be shy!
-->'''Harold:''' ...wait, what was that about the Holocaust?
* The background soundtrack to the utter destruction of the ''[[Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse Global Guardians']] Cape Town (UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica) team at the hands of the EvilOverlord-cum-EldritchAbomination Abyss, an event that ended in the horrific deaths of seven superheroes and tens of thousands of innocent bystanders, not to mention the leveling of almost half of Cape Town itself, was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFPqiziZxwA David Lee Roth's cover]] of "That's Life."
* Some of [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAVns3lt0t7w8lmUZQFlvrA Paint's]] parodies qualify on this, such as his most famous "After Ever After" songs recounts the depressing and/or disturbing future of [[Franchise/DisneyPrincesses several Disney Princesses]] to the tune of some of their movies' famous songs.
* In WebVideo/RhettAndLink's Good Mythical Morning guest starring Linkin Park, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKyas12ic8 this song]] plays as they eat Sour Patch Kids. A tinkling, music-box melody...about the acid from the candy burning the skin from your mouth.
* ''WebVideo/UndertaleTheMusical'':
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNo4i_-0IsE Ghost Fight]]", an upbeat, energetic jazz number about how miserable [[TheEeyore Napstablook]] is. Although the lyrics start matching the tune after Frisk hugs the poor ghost.
** [[https://youtu.be/oB_lKI1o754 "Your Best Friend"]], Flowey's VillainSong. Fitting his general character, it sounds like something from Barney or other kid's show...but has lyrics about his [[TheSocialDarwinist twisted worldview and how he wants to murder the protagonist.]] [[https://youtu.be/hnHS6_PLDrw The latter reprise]] qualifies even more so, as he completely drops all pretense of benevolence and is entirely about his evil intentions.
** Flowey maintains this when he [[spoiler:[[OneWingedAngel becomes Omega Flowey]] and sings "[[https://youtu.be/z5yxcwrQkgY Your Best Nightmare]]", keeping the same style of singing while singing about his murderous intentions to murder Frisk over and over and become a God.]]
* Website/{{Tumblr}} repurposed the tune from the classic {{Christmas song|s}} "Baby, It's Cold Outside" to tell a [[http://ms-demeanor.tumblr.com/post/168305679152/emilysidhe-dont-spoop-yourself-emilysidhe musical version]] of the scene in ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' when LadyMacbeth talks her VillainProtagonist husband into killing the king. (Note that due to ValuesDissonance, even the original song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" can retroactively come off as this trope to modern listeners, who often consider the male singer to be uncomfortably predatory. But of course, that wasn't the intent with which the song was written back in TheForties.)
