Line #39 FridgeHorror/Music


1	* Fridge/{{Aaliyah}}
2	* Fridge/BritneySpears
3	* Fridge/BruceSpringsteen
4	* Fridge/{{CocoRosie}}
5	* Fridge/DavidBowie
6	* Fridge/EmersonLakeAndPalmer
7	* Fridge/{{Eminem}}
8	* Fridge/{{Gorillaz}}
9	* Fridge/JamesBlunt
10	* Fridge/{{Kesha}}
11	* Fridge/LadyGaga
12	* Fridge/TheLonelyIsland
13	* Fridge/{{Ludo}}
14	* Fridge/LynyrdSkynyrd
15	* Fridge/MyChemicalRomance
16	* Fridge/NickCave
17	* Fridge/OwlCity
18	* Fridge/PinkFloyd
19	* Fridge/{{Polysics}}
20	* Fridge/{{Queen}}
21	* Fridge/RebaMcEntire
22	* Fridge/TomWaits
23	* Fridge/{{Vocaloid}}
24	** Fridge/EvilliousChronicles
25	* Fridge/WeirdAlYankovic
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28	* ''Rock a Bye Baby'': "Rock a bye baby, on the tree top. When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. And down will come baby, cradle and all." Seriously, look at it. It's a song about a baby ''falling'' off a tree, although there are alternative theories about this being a "dandling song" sung whilst the baby is being tossed in the air or that it portrays the baby's nightmare whilst being rocked in its sleep.
29	** {{Lampshaded}} by Seven of Nine in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': "Do you intend to soothe the child or traumatize it?"
30	** Also {{Lampshaded}} in one of the original Simpsons shorts, where Marge sings this song to Maggie, who has a nightmare about falling out of a tree during the song.
31	* Likewise, the German nursery rhyme ''Hoppe Hoppe 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. The rhyme accompanies a game with a small child as the rider and the parent's knees moving up and down as the horse. At the end, the knees move apart, but the parent prevents an actual fall.
32	* "The Song That Doesn't End."
33	-->This is the song that doesn't end.\
34	Yes it goes on and on my friend.\
35	'''Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was\
36	[[FateWorseThanDeath And they'll continue singing it forever just because...]]'''\
37	This is the song that doesn't end...
38	** Clearly the best musical example of OffscreenInertia.
39	* Waltzing Matilda does this pretty bloody well. It's a song that every Australian is taught as a child, and therefor in every Australian's life there is that little [[{{Oh Crap}} Oh Crap]] moment too when they first fully appreciate the lyrics...
40	* The children's song "Ring Around the Rosie" is actually about the millions and millions of people dying during the Black Plague. The posies were lain as burial flowers, and then the bodies of all those who "fell down" were burned into "ashes."
41	** Most folklorists believe this is incorrect, the apparent plague references are absent in the oldest versions of the song which is itself not very old, the first published versions date to the 1880s with some references to it from the 1850s.
42	* The French children's song "Alouette" is about plucking (i.e. ripping the feathers out of) a lark. Specifically, it lists the different bits of the bird that the singer will pluck in order. Including its beak.
43	* The Christmas carol "[[ChristmasMusic Do You Hear What I Hear?]]" seems like a cookie cutter religious song about the birth of Jesus and how word got to the king. However, the truth of the matter was that the song was [[NewerThanTheyThink written in 1962]] as a plea for peace during the [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheColdWar Cuban Missile Crisis]]. That makes the first verse of this song ("A star dancing in the night, with a tail as big as a kite") extremely horrifying when you realize that they were likely referring to a nuclear missile. The [[SpeedyTechnoRemake Eurodance cover]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVX0POYD2sU by La Bouche]] [[LyricalDissonance makes matters worse]].
44	** Not just that, but who was the king during Jesus' birth? King Herod, the one who killed every single baby just to try to get to Jesus! Looks like it wasn't the wise men who told on him after all, but an innocent little boy.
45	* In the Music/HermansHermits song ''I'm Henry VIII I Am'', he's talking about a widow who's had seven previous husbands (all named Henry). If she's been widowed ''seven times'' and still looking for another husband, it's clear this marriage won't last long--and considering [[BlackWidow she's a widow,]] neither will the singer...
46	* The band Zebra, has a song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhSHQTElwuI Who's Behind The Door]]." Not only are the people at the computers in the music video strongly similar to government types, but the lyrics have very heavy themes of both existential surveillance (i.e. {{God}} or maybe an EldritchAbomination is watching) and mundane surveillance (i.e. the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} or UsefulNotes/{{FBI}} is also watching). But [[ThisIsNoTimeToPanic don't panic]].
47	--> ''They watch us all They're only making sure that we don't trip and fall/ Now they look so hard but they can't tell us why they're here and just what for/ Because they don't know Who opened up the door/ How can we find out more Who owns the keyless door...''
48	* "You are my Sunshine is a classic example of a ChorusOnlySong. People who have heard the full version will often tell you it's not about a parent and their child, but a person whose lover has broken up with them. The song however can be intepreted as a song about a parent whose young child has died. The lines "but if you leave me to love another, you'll regret it all one day" sort of ruin both interpretations unless you take it as a song about a very overprotective parent.
49	* Maybe more Fridge {{Squick}} than FridgeHorror, but in Music/KennyRogers' "Coward of the County", he sings about how the Gatlin boys "took turns with Becky", and then adds - in a very matter-of-fact way - "there was three of them". Think hard enough, and then you realize that they may not have just taken turns with Becky, but may have taken advantage of her ''all at once.''
50	* Music/GarthBrooks has a song called "Burning Both Ends of the Night" about how he and a friend worked for an older lady on her farm one summer, and then one night she comes to him 'hot cup of coffee and a smile/in a dress that I was certain she hadn't worn in quite a while' and it sounds at first like he rebuffs her: 'when I told her that I'd never, she softly whispered that's all right'----nope. The chorus strongly implies they coupled, and given that the opening stanza makes clear that he and his friend are 'two teenage kids so far from home'----the lady's actions suddenly seem predatory and awful.
51	** He has another one called "Beaches of Cheyenne" which tells the story of a woman freaking out over her husband/boyfriend's refusal to withdraw from a rodeo in which he drew a bull known to be dangerous. She gives him an ultimatum, but he lies to her and enters the rodeo anyway. This apparently leads to the woman having a kind of breakdown, in which she does damage to a door and a wall, before running into the ocean, where sometimes she haunts the beach. Her reaction seems overblown at first, until you stop and realize that at no point in the song is it indicated that her cowboy survived his ride. (Hence, presumably, why his father is being given his buckles and saddle; they're all that's left of him.)Worse still; the last thing she apparently said to him when told he was going to ride anyway was 'I don't give a damn if you never come back.' Sure enough.....he didn't.
52	* A music video example, according [[https://youtu.be/HTU3W-76xmE to]] [[WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow The Music Video Show]], Santa Claus in the {{Music/Train}} video for "Shake It". He is helping people get to a Train concert with the help of a small snowglobe. It causes earthquakes, which possibly destroys some parts of the Earth and causing a security guard to put his job in trouble. ALL for people who want to go to the concert.
53	* B.J. Thomas' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TKCJjGwTac "Rock N' Roll Lullaby"]] is about a teen mom being alone in the world, except for her baby, going through hardships, yet somehow able to calm her child with a song. The singer mentions "I can't recall the words at all", which would lead one to wonder why he doesn't ask his mother (who his only 16 years older) what the song was she sang to him. If he can't, the only logical assumption is she's since died. Perhaps of an illness, or maybe suicide?
54	* ''Music/{{Sabaton}}'': "To Hell And Back" about American UsefulNotes/WW2 hero Audie Murphy features lyrics based on his poem ''The Crosses Grow On Anzio'', including a line describing hell as six feet deep. Audie was less than six feet tall.
55	* If you listen to the lyrics of "One Step Closer" by S Club Juniors at face value it's about a young woman, possibly even a teenager, fantasizing about dying so she can be with her boyfriend in heaven. The fact it's sung really upbeat by a teenybopper band just makes it all the more disturbing.
56	* "Spectacular" by Kiely Williams: Even though the narrator insists that she enjoyed the experience, the song has several lines suggesting that she was raped and may have been drugged:
57	** The guy she has sex with was buying her drinks, and she later remarks, "What was I drinking/I can't believe I blacked out". At best, she lost track of how much she was drinking, which still suggests that [[ButLiquorIsQuicker the guy kept buying her drinks so he could take advantage of her later]]. It's also possible that he intentionally gave her drinks with deceptively high alcohol content, or outright [[SlippingAMickey drugged her]]. In fact, the narrator later says that the sex "felt so good, [she] must've been on drugs".
58	** The narrator seems to have blacked out ''during'' the sex, as she notes that "Last I remember, I was [...] dozed off" and "I don't remember except for rollin' over", and it's possible that the guy kept going after that point. Even if he didn't, the fact that the narrator blacked out and barely remembers anything means she was so drunk that her consent was [[QuestionableConsent questionable at best]].
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Context FridgeHorror / Music