History StepfordSmiler / Music

* In the planned music video for "Rhinestone Eyes" by Music/{{Gorillaz}}, there's a sequence where Crazy Cyborg Noodle goes on a killing rampage while wearing a creepy ear-to-ear grin, which ends with a close up of her crying
eye.

* In the planned music video for "Rhinestone Eyes" by Music/{{Gorillaz}}, there's a sequence where Crazy Cyborg Noodle goes on a killing rampage while wearing a creepy ear-to-ear grin, which ends with a close up of her crying eye.

* One of the interpretations of Music/{{BTS}}' ''Fake Love'' can be that it describes the relationship many Kpop idols have with their fans, with companies creating an idealized, cleaned-up version of themselves through make-up, editing, and control of their image through ContractualPurity, which idols maintain in order to make their fans happy.

* One of the interpretations of Music/{{BTS}}' ''Fake Love'' can be describing the relationship of many Kpop idols with their fans, with companies creating an idealized, cleaned-up version of themselves through make-up, editing, and control of their image through ContractualPurity, which idols maintain in order to make their fans happy.

* Music/RageAgainstTheReflection:
** "Where Will You Go" counts as this.
-->''I know who you really are''
-->''You're the one who cries when you're alone''

* "Smiling Faces", sung by The Temptations, the Undisputed Truth, David Ruffin solo...

** For what it's worth, the RealitySubtext (the song was written and recorded as Freddy Mercury as entering the final stages of dying of an AIDS-related illness) heavily supports a Depressed interpretation of someone desperately trying to put a brave face on tremendous pain and unhappiness.

* Paramore's "Brick by boring brick" has shades of this:

* The song "Ah, but Underneath" from ''{{Follies}}.'' The entire song sings about a woman who seemed to be something on the surface, but was something different underneath the top layer. But that layer, too, was "just a shell," and so it continues. The very last line is "Sometimes when the wrappings fall, there's nothing underneath at all!" making this Emptiness.

* The song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dYk_9R8yPs Shallow]]" by Music/PoetsOfTheFall could be the Empty Smiler's Anthem.

* The song "Shallow" by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dYk_9R8yPs Poets of the Fall]] could be the Empty Smiler's Anthem.

* Smokey Robinson's "Tears of a Clown" is practically the musical TropeCodifier.

** Also Robinson's "The Tracks of My Tears":

\\Gonna be fine if I die without you/Baby I'm gone
\\These are the lies that I tell myself at night/These are the lies that are keeping me alive

* The main character of the music video for "Everybody's Fool" by Music/{{Evanescence}}.

* The chorus of Music/TaylorSwift's "Tied Together With A Smile" is about a Depressed childhood friend of Taylor's who had anorexia.

* Music/LadyGaga's "Dance in the Dark": "Baby loves to dance in the dark / cuz when he's looking she falls apart".

* "Lucky" by Music/BritneySpears, the video shows it perfectly!

* The subject of "Everybody's Fool" by Music/{{Evanescence}} is somewhere between Depressed and Empty. In the video, the dissonance between the facade and the emptiness inside results in some RageAgainstTheReflection.
** "Where Will You Go" counts as this, too.

* [[Music/InsaneClownPosse Insane Clown Posse's]] "Mr. Happy" details the day-to-day life of a friendly serial killer who is all smiles unless deprived of victims to strangle.

* Music/{{Sia}}'s "Chandelier" is about a party girl who turns to a night of drunken debauchery to try and push down a gnawing sense of fear and distress.

* "Dollhouse" by {{Music/Melanie Martinez}} is sung from the POV of a girl discussing her family. Despite her dad's infidelity, mom's alcoholism, the DomesticAbuse between them, and her brother's drug use they maintain a normal, happy family image to others.

* priscilla ahn's "Fine on the outside", the title explains it all.

* The song "[[Franchise/EvilliousChronicles Gift from the Princess who Brought Sleep]]" by {{Mothy}}. More specifically, the character who sings it, Margarita Blankenheim (played by Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku).

* "Dollhouse" by Melanie Martinez is sung from the POV of a girl discussing her family. Despite her dad's infidelity, mom's alcoholism, the DomesticAbuse between them, and her brothers drug use they maintain a normal, happy family image to others.

* The song "Ah, but Underneath" from ''{{Follies}}.'' The entire song sings about a woman who seemed to be something on the surface, but was something different underneath the top layer. But that layer, too, was "just a shell," and so it continues. The very last line is "Sometimes when the wrappings fall, there's nothing underneath at all!" making this a type B.
* The chorus of Music/TaylorSwift's "Tied Together With A Smile" is about a Type 1 childhood friend of Taylor's who had anorexia.

* "The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most" by Dashboard Confessional is about a Type A:

* Skin's "Nothing But" rings as either a type A or B. The entirety of the song has lyrics which insist that the narrator is happy ("I feel nothing just joy, and pride, and happiness.") but the tune denotes a sense of LyricalDissonance.

* Mr. Smiley from the Mustard Plug song of the same name is a variation of the classic smiley-face badge thing. A Type C - he goes nuts and kills his entire family.

* The subject of "Everybody's Fool" by Music/{{Evanescence}} is somewhere between Type A and Type B. In the video, the dissonance between the facade and the emptiness inside results in some RageAgainstTheReflection.

* Music/DavidBowie's "D.J." is sung from the perspective of a Type B radio deejay who's "got believers" but is losing his mind and approaching Type C status; the ConceptVideo contrasts his happy public facade with his increasingly violent, despairing nature in-studio. "I am a D.J., I am what I play/Can't turn around, no, can't turn around..."

* Music/{{Queen}}'s "The Show Must Go On" describes a Type B (it could also fit a Type A, but Type B fits better)

** For what it's worth, the RealitySubtext (the song was written and recorded as Freddy Mercury as entering the final stages of dying of an AIDS-related illness) heavily supports a Type A interpretation of someone desperately trying to put a brave face on tremendous pain and unhappiness.

* The song "Shallow" by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dYk_9R8yPs Poets of the Fall]] could be the type B Smiler's Anthem.

* "Go Away" by Delain is a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to a Type A, a person who puts all their effort into putting on an act instead of solving their problems.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG7DoUR93yk "Leave a Scar"]] by Music/MarilynManson describes a type C:

Please don't let them look through the curtains.

'Cause I'm just holding out for tonight

* The song [["Franchise/EvilliousChronicles Gift from the Princess who Brought Sleep"]] by {{Mothy}}. More specifically, the character who sings it, Margarita Blankenheim (played by Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku).

* The song "GIFT of Princess Sleep-Bringer" by {{Mothy}}. More specifically, the character who sings it, Margarita [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Branchenheim]] (played by Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku).