History ParanoiaFuel / Music

* "Muthufukka" by Music/{{Beck}}: "Everyone's out to get you, motherfucker!"

* ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' by Music/MichaelJackson. Just watch the ending of the music video with the close up on his demonic face, combined with his "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial this is not an occult video]]" message at the beginning.
* "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell has this trope as its general theme.
** Which led to its use in a 2008-09 series of GEICO commercials (the version used in the commercials is a remix by Mysto and Pizzi), where your money is watching you. With a big bug-eyed stare.
* Music/TomWaits' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaLjwSpZ6Cs "What's He Building In There?"]] from ''Music/MuleVariations'' defines this trope, musically; it's never made entirely clear whether the narrator of the song is just an over-paranoid and unstable person fixating on some innocent and harmless (if slightly reclusive and unconventional) neighbour, or whether the neighbour actually ''is'' up to something very sinister indeed...
* Tin Hat's cover of "Daisy Bell" turns a charming turn-of-the-century love song into a softly-voiced stalker's fantasy.

* The track "Faaip di Oiad" on the Music/{{Tool}} album ''Lateralus''. It sounds like a desperate, last-ditch final broadcast by someone who has discovered a number of terrifying things: Aliens are here. They've been here for a while. They've infiltrated many areas of the government and military. They have plans for this planet. And they're coming to get me because I know the truth.
** The name itself means something like "Voices of your God" in Enochian ("Angelic"). Eep.
** The pAper chAse's version-less Ministry and more Penderecki-2 versions, respectively titled It's Out There and it's Gonna Get You (which introduces We Know Where You Sleep) and We Will Make One of Us (one of their most ''upbeat'' tracks, leading into the track The House is Alive & The House Is Hungry.)
** Even more chilling is that the lyrics are a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3bld4lTG0&feature=related recording]] of a former Area 51 employee calling Coast to Coast AM, a radio show hosted at the time by Art Bell. It ''could'' be fake, the guy ''could'' be a great actor pretending to have vital information so horrific it causes him to break down and sob, and it ''could'' have been a satellite error that caused the radio station to go off the air. But we'll never know, will we?
** Another Music/{{Tool}} song, Lost Keys, seems to fit perfectly with Faaip de Oiad. The instrumentals don't clash, and the lyrics of Lost Keys start just after Faaip de Oiad's cut off.
* The ''Geto Boys''' classic song ''My Mind's Playing Tricks on Me'' is a very disturbing song of paranoia and Schizophrenia.
* "Every Breath You Take" by Music/ThePolice on the surface appears to be a sweet, soft rock song - until one listens to the lyrics closely. '''"[[StalkerWithACrush I'll be watching you...]]"'''
* Music/{{Queensryche}}'s ''Gonna get close to you''. It's the 80's prog-metal version of ''Every Breath You Take'' -- only not nearly so subtle.
* ''Second Lives'' by Vitalic. Or rather, the video, where a camera is observing the users of a bathroom stall [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuwRxha8zSU and at the end Vitalic comes in and picks up his camera.]]

--> ''When they went to bed that night no one would have believed''
--> ''That in the morning, light would not be there''
--> ''The dark hung heavy on the air like the grip of a jealous man''
--> ''No place was there known to have been spared''
--> ''Then panic took control of minds and fear hit everyone''
--> ''The day the light went out of the daytime sky.''

* Judging from the lyrics, the song "Lost Northern Star" on Tarja's solo album after her [[CreativeDifferences falling-out]] with Music/{{Nightwish}} is probably supposed to be about a guardian angel. But when you [[LyricalDissonance actually]] ''hear it'', it comes across more like it's about [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]].