Line #338 Main/SanitySlippageSong


1	->''"See what's going on inside my mind."''
2	-->-- '''Music/{{Disturbed}}''', "Perfect Insanity"
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4	Some songs are about [[SillyLoveSongs being in love]]. Some songs are about [[TrueArtIsAngsty angst]]. Some songs are about being insane. They may be incoherent, psychedelic messes or intricate folk songs, but they're about going insane. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Common themes are what drove the singer crazy and what it feels like in the depths of madness]].
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6	The music may rise and fall erratically or use other tricks to indicate the singer's fractured mental state, but just as often [[LyricalDissonance the tune sounds perfectly normal]].
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8	Note that if the singer is [[CreatorBreakdown mentally ill]] but the song is about something else, it doesn't count.
9
10	A SubTrope of SanitySlippage.
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12	Compare BSODSong and DisneyAcidSequence. If the slippage results from being driven mad by envy or sorrow, this could overlap with RevengeBallad. If it illustrates a VillainousBreakdown, then it doubles as a VillainSong. Might be paired with a DerangedDance.
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15	!!Examples:
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18	* [[SanitySlippageSong/{{Music}} Music]]
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20	[[folder:Anime]]
21	* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', "Komm, Süßer Tod" [[note]]German for "Come, Sweet Death"[[/note]] manages to perfectly show the final nails being hammered into Shinji's breakdown. As well as Asuka's, Misato's, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and everyone else on Earth]]. Any song where the lyrics are: "...so with sadness in my heart, it seems the best thing I can do is end it all and leave forever. What's done is done it feels so bad, what once was happy now is sad. I'll never love again, my world is ending." Counts merely from the lyrics, and that's before the triple whammy of LyricalDissonance, SoundtrackDissonance and MoodDissonance.
22	* A lot of the character songs from ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' deal with this, as to be expected [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness given the nature of the series]], but Satoshi Hojo's song ''[=YellowsicKING=]'' in particular stands out in this regard.
23	* The ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' ending theme, "La Divina Tragedia" is something like this, maybe mixed with an ObsessionSong as well.
24	* "Duvet" from ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' is this, especially the last verse.
25	* "Velveteen" from ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' seems to be this, though the fact that the lyrics switch languages several times make it hard to be certain.
26	* The lyrics to "The World" from ''Anime/DotHackSign'' might qualify given the nature of the series. They start out in 3rd person talking about loneliness and insanity, and end in a 1st person reluctant acceptance.
27	--> You are here alone again \| In your sweet insanity
28	--> All too calm you hide yourself from reality
29	--> Do you call it solitude? \| Do you call it liberty?
30	--> When all the world turns away \| Leaves you lonely
31	--> --
32	--> I am here alone again \| In my sweet serenity
33	--> Hoping you will ever find me in any place
34	--> I will call it solitude \| When all my songs fade in vane
35	--> Fly away \| On my own \| To eternity
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38	[[folder:Fan Works]]
39	* "Music/TheMoonRises", from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Luna's]] perspective in days of yore. It starts out as a calm nocturne, then her [[GreenEyedMonster envy]] and [[TheResenter resentment]] come more to the fore until the last verse is a MotiveRant, as she turns into Nightmare Moon.
40	-->''So say goodnight to this,''\
41	''The final setting of the sun,''\
42	''Tomorrow dawns in darkness;''\
43	''The nighttime has begun!''
44	* There are some fan remakes of Monika's song "My Reality" from ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' [[spoiler: which is itself a borderline example since it alludes to her existential suffering and going {{Yandere}}]] from the point of view of other characters undergoing sanity slippage.
45	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQw6z7rpd7M "Sayori's Reality"]] by Emirichu is about [[spoiler: deepening depression, being a StefordSmiler, anguished love, and suicidal thoughts.]]
46	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJez1Nejde8 "Yuri's Reality"]] also by Emirichu: [[spoiler: A disturbingly sexy but very creepy -- even more so when you've played the story -- song about Yuri's obsession with the PlayerCharacter, and with blood and cutting, when she starts totally losing it later in the game. Ends with her going LaughingMad and, well, that's again even more disturbing if you know what happens in the game at that point.]]
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49	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
50	* "Hellfire" in [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney's]] ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}'', which is when even [[KnightTemplar Frollo]] realizes he's crossing a line. He realizes he's [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny lusting for Esmeralda]], and he plays the NeverMyFault card and says he's willing to burn down Paris to find Esmeralda. The fact he tries to embrace a ghost of her doesn't help.
51	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012'':
52	** "How Bad Can I Be?" in begins with The Once-ler innocently asking how growing his business is a bad thing... and ends with him shouting the lyric with a [[SlasherSmile deranged grin]] as a challenge as he obliterates the forest.
53	** There's also the CutSong titled "The Once-ler's Traveling Madness," which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
54	** Another cut song, "Biggering" has the Once-ler pondering his simple beginnings and escalates to him responding to the Lorax's final words of warning with a reprise of the lyrics from "How Bad Can I Be", fully acknowledging that he's killing the environment and doesn't care in a frenzied act of spite to try and distance himself.
55	* "UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} is a Lonely Town" from ''WesternAnimation/GayPurree'', as Mewsette contemplates suicide.
56	* The "Que sera, Que sera" sequence from ''WesternAnimation/MaryAndMax''.
57	* Spinel's introduction in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' is a mixture of this and VillainSong. The electric swing is an especially nice touch and really lends it that cartoonish feel, considering many early cartoons employed jazz music in their scores.
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60	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
61	* ''Film/AnnaAndTheApocalypse:'' "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" sung by the villain Mr. Savage, he goes crazy prancing around the kitchen. At one point, the song seemingly ends, only for him to abruptly sing again.
62	* "Let The Monster Rise," "Legal Assassin," "Night Surgeon," and "Thankless Job" from ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera''. (So almost everything Nathan Wallace or [[spoiler:Repo Man]] sings.)
63	* The famous "Memo From Turner" from ''Film/{{Performance}}'' is, in context, a Sanity Slippage Song from an ImagineSpot in which Turner finds his persona and identity blurring with Chas's.
64	* [[Music/RoxyMusic Bryan Ferry's]] "Help Me", the song that is playing at the bar in ''Film/TheFly1986'', was originally commissioned to underscore the film's end credits but contrasted too much with Music/HowardShore's lush orchestral score to be an effective playout. The lyrics, reflecting the tragic dissolution of the protagonist's body and mind to BodyHorror, have the singer pleading for his lover to ''hopefully'' lead him back to himself via ThePowerOfLove. For bonus points, Ferry's body language in the music video produced for it suggests he's trapped and writhing in a straitjacket.
65	-->I'm a victim of the night\
66	Sold my soul, is it ever gonna pay?\
67	I beg you now, save me from myself\
68	Time is closing in\
69	There's no one I can turn to\
70	There's a power in love\
71	There's a danger in love\
72	But I need love to help me find a way.
73	* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'';
74	** "Rose Tint My World" is the characters admitting that Frank has broken them and they're now just living for sexual pleasure.
75	** "I'm Going Home", Creator/RichardOBrien says in the commentary that Frank hallucinates the audience that fades in.
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78	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
79	* With the lead being in the midst of a perpetual nervous breakdown, and a running theme among all the characters being unhealthy coping mechanisms (and unlearning them), it's no shock that ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'' has many songs that fit this trope. A particularly notable one is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtKtmXzeyqs After Everything I've Done For You (That You Didn't Ask For)]]", an homage to another famous SanitySlippageSong, [[Theatre/{{Gypsy}} "Rose's Turn"]].
80	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsOdQKQduW0 (Tell Me I'm Okay) Patrick]]" has Rebecca pleading for a bewildered delivery guy to tell her that she is not going crazy.
81	--> '''Rebecca''': Seriously, Patrick, was I sick the day in school they taught you how to be a normal person? It just feels like there's something fundamental I'm missing out on. Like, is there an instruction manual? You get what I'm saying, Patrick? It just - it just feels like everyone is in this cabal of normal people, and they're all laughing at me, like I'm the jester in my own Truman Show. Patrick, tell me what the secret is. Just tell me what the secret is. Is there a manual? Do you have the manual? I know you have the manual, Patrick. I KNOW IT'S IN YOUR TRUCK, PATRICK!
82	* Kurt singing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1dD7HDiZRw "Rose's Turn"]] on ''Series/{{Glee}}'' also counts
83	* In one episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' a monster (with [[WheelOFeet windmill legs]]) invites us into his mind, where he is running and running, singing "Windmills of Your Mind"... Ten times faster than it should ever be sung...
84	-->'''Monster:''' And on the outside... I'm very ''calm''... (Beat) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
85	* ''Bombshell'', the central ShowWithinAShow of ''Series/{{Smash}}'', features a song-and-dance called "Let's Be Bad" that shows a drug-addled Creator/MarilynMonroe barely making it through a movie's musical number and not knowing whether the crew's effusive praise is real or not.
86	* An episode of ''Series/TodaysSpecial'' has a sketch featuring three people singing "I Am Slowly Going Crazy," mentioned below.
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89	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
90	* Wrestling/RandyOrton's current entrance theme, ''Voices'' by Rev Theory[[note]] or, if you want to be more specific, [[MisattributedSong Jim Johnston featuring Rich Luzzi of Rev Theory]][[/note]], fits this structure. It's about finding strength in madness and nihilism.
91	* Wrestling/IoShirai's RageBreakingPoint and eventual FaceHeelTurn in 2019 was illustrated/visualized during video promos using Music/{{Poppy}}'s "Scary Mask". The song is actually about social anxiety, but the lyrics still correlates well to Io's obsession of winning the [[Wrestling/{{WWE NXT}} NXT]] Women's Title and her snapping when she failed repeatedly.
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94	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
95	* ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'' has a big set piece number called "Cabin Fever", when the ship is becalmed and the crew go a BIT bonkers. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment As soon as the song ends, however, everything goes back to normal]], and the only person who seems to remember the number is [[TheDitz Clueless Morgan]].
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98	[[folder:Theater]]
99	* "The Ballad of Sara Berry" from ''Theatre/ThirtyFiveMillimeterAMusicalExhibition'' is about the titular character trying to become the prom queen, growing more and more obsessed with it until she ends up [[spoiler:killing all the other candidates to win by default.]]
100	* In classical music this is a stock convention of Bel Canto opera -- the heroine is so overcome with grief at the tragic circumstances that she finds herself in that she goes temporarily or permanently insane, and [[TheOphelia has a "mad scene."]] Basically just an excuse for the composer to write amazing vocal pyrotechnics. One of the most famous and possibly the TropeCodifier for opera is the mad scene from Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor''. Outside of bel canto, probably the most notable one (and definitely the most famous ''male'' mad scene in opera) is the titular character's final aria in ''Theatre/PeterGrimes''.
101	* "Lot's Wife" in ''Caroline, Or Change'', in which a broken Caroline screams at God, losing (then regaining) her sanity as she comes to terms with the fact that she'll never escape her circumstances. Also qualifies as TheElevenOClockNumber and, to a lesser extent, a GriefSong.
102	* "The Destruction" in both versions of ''Theatre/{{Carrie}} the Musical'', which depicts the title character's mental breakdown after being humiliated at the prom.
103	* ''Theatre/TheDevil'', a rock-meets-classical take on the Faust legend, has [[https://youtu.be/CkQ-hMMdTDw "Mad Gretchen"]], where Gretchen is overwhelmed by what is happening to John, and, well...
104	* Though best remembered for being one of musical theatre's most amazing pieces, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," from ''Theatre/{{Dreamgirls}}'', is one of these. Effie, who's singing it, has just been kicked out of the Dreams and abandoned by Curtis, the group's manager and her former lover (and [[spoiler: the father of her unborn child]]). As he starts to leave, she begins to sing the song to him. Though it starts out openly defiant, Effie gradually loses her confidence--and mind--as she has a total mental breakdown from the grief and strain; a (frequently-cut) verse has her outright ''throwing'' herself at Curtis and begging him not to go. By the time she gets to the bridge of the song, Curtis isn't even on the stage any more, but Effie is still singing--and even screaming--as if he was in front of her as she goes into denial and rage. This is most apparent when the song is placed in the context of the show; [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning most cover versions]] play it up as stronger and more confident by removing the heavily painful overtones.
105	* "A Man Could Go Quite Mad" and "Both Sides of the Coin" from ''Theatre/{{Drood}}.''
106	* ''Theatre/Frankenstein2014'' has [[https://youtu.be/qM5cC644DsY "The Grand Beginning of the History of the Creation of Life"]], in which the execution of Victor's dear friend Henri (who died in Victor's place) pushes him to enact the plans he's been preparing for ages, to create life -- namely, to resurrect Henri. Some DeathlyDiesIrae and a lot more, as the song shifts from melody to melody, reflecting Victor's grief.
107	* Bruce has "Edges of the World" in ''Theatre/FunHome'' just before he [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]].
108	* "Eternity" from ''Theatre/FlyByNightMusical'' is about Harold and Crabble going a little bit mad, working in an endless, tedious sandwich shop.
109	* ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'':
110	** A downplayed version: Alexander briefly freaks out during "The World Was Wide Enough" [[spoiler:(to be fair, dying will do that to you)]], [[MadnessMantra repeating "rise up, rise up" over and over]], but gets it back together for his final lines.
111	** It's played straight in the same song for Aaron Burr, who becomes more and more irrational with each line, until he eventually breaks down and [[spoiler: shoots Hamilton in a rage.]]
112	--->''I had only one thought before the slaughter:''\
113	''[[TearJerker This man will not make an orphan of my daughter!]]''
114	* JD in ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'' has "Meant To Be Yours". We know before this that he's not entirely sane, but there was always a little bit of hope holding out, in songs like "Seventeen". This song, with its violent outbursts, terrifying lyrics, and crazy time signature changes makes sure it's painfully obvious just how far gone JD is.
115	* "Down With Love" from ''Hooray For What!'' is sometimes this. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rO1vtneCZY&feature=related Barbra Streisand]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYE-gSTwB20 Audra McDonald]] have both done it this way, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic and it's]] ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesome.]]''
116	* Frollo's song in the stage show for ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. Unlike the Disney version where he declares that he will have Esmeralda for himself or kill her so that no one else will, the stage Frollo goes into how deep his obsession runs. He knows as a man of God that it's forbidden for him to form a relationship with a woman. However, he feels something for Esmeralda that he never felt before and it's driving him insane. Like the title suggests ("Tu Vas Me Detruire"/"Your Love Will Kill Me"), he's worried that his feelings towards Esmeralda will be the death of him.
117	* "The World Has Gone Insane" from ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde''.
118	* Judas' final song in ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar''.
119	* In "Aiutami" from ''Theatre/TheLightInThePiazza'', Fabrizio has a meltdown over what he thinks is the end of him and Clara. His father, brother, and sister-in-law get sucked into the madness, encouraged by his mother.
120	-->So, give me suspicion
121	-->That's good
122	-->Give me tears
123	-->Yes
124	-->So, give me passion
125	-->That's right
126	-->Passion, passion
127	* "The Madness of King Scar" from [[TheMusical the stage version]] of Theatre/TheLionKing. If you thought Scar was a LargeHam in the movie...
128	* In ''The Medium'' by Gian-Carlo Menotti, Baba has a long lugubrious soliloquy late in the second act, wondering what is causing her to be so afraid. She tries to laugh it off, but it doesn't help her out of her despair.
129	* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' features [[KnightTemplar Inspector]] [[InspectorJavert Javert's]] stunning [[DrivenToSuicide closer]]:
130	-->And must I now begin to doubt,
131	-->Who never doubted all these years?
132	-->My heart is stone and still it trembles
133	-->The world I have known is lost in shadow.
134	* "Can't Keep Out The Night" from ''Literature/MobyDick! The Musical''. Also known as Ahab's sleep-deprived rock-solo freakout.
135	* “All You Wanna Do” from ‘’Six!The Musical’’. Katherine Howard’s solo is at first a brag about her promiscuous past but realised that men only want her for sex and she screams her lines at the end.
136	* "The Private and Intimate Life of the House" from ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812'', functions as one for Prince Bolkonsky as we see him have a meltdown when confronted with the effects of aging and mortality while searching for his glasses (which were on his head the whole time). A more subdued one for Princess Mary as well, who is suffering severely from being [[AbusiveParents her father's punching bag]] and the social isolation that comes with having to be her father's primary caregiver.
137	** In "Sonya & Natasha", Natasha has lost any semblance of rational thought, blinded so much by her infatuation with [[spoiler: Anatole]] and excitement over [[spoiler: their supposed elopement]] that she willingly risks becoming a [[DefiledForever fallen woman]] and shuts out Sonya, her "closest friend" according to [[IAmSong the opening number]].
138	*** She goes further off the deep end after [[spoiler: her elopement is shut down by Marya D. and it is revealed to her that Anatole is a cad who was [[SecretOtherFamily already secretly married]]. Shortly after the song ends, [[DrivenToSuicide she attempts to kill herself with poison]].]]
139	** In "Letters", Pierre rants about how Napoleon is Main/TheAntiChrist and he knows he is destined to kill the French general and save his country.
140	*** Arguably "The Duel" could count as well, where [[EmasculatedCuckold Pierre]] gets so furious at Dolokhov's obvious sexual relations with his wife that he challenges the man to a duel he knows he won't win (Dolokhov's identifier in the opening number is even that he's a "crazy good shot").
141	* Arguably half the songs in ''Theatre/NextToNormal'', although for a few of them this only becomes apparent later on.
142	* "Tu vas me détruire" [[note]]French for "You'll destroy me"[[/note]] in the French musical ''Theatre/NotreDameDeParis''.
143	* "Calm" from ''Theatre/OrdinaryDays'' shows how the stress of grad school life in New York is driving Deb insane. Written as a patter song, the frenetic pace highlights the constant anxiety Deb is experiencing.
144	* "[[https://youtu.be/QF7g3rCnD-w?t=44m28s Running the Whole Machine]]"[[note]] A parody of "Friends On The Other Side" from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''[[/note]] from ''Theatre/Portal2TheUnauthorizedMusical'' is the song [[spoiler: Wheatley]] sings after [[spoiler: taking control of Aperture]]. He's already DrunkWithPower from the start of the song, but when he [[spoiler: reveals he wants to keep Chell inside to perform tests for him]], he goes off the deep end ''fast''. And when [=GLaDOS=] insults him one final time at the end of the song, his last shred of sanity disappears as well.
145	-->'''[=GLaDOS=]''' You're a moron!\
146	'''[[spoiler: Wheatley]]:''' OH REALLY?!\
147	'''Choir:''' ''A moron, a moron, a moron you say?''\
148	'''[[spoiler: Wheatley]]''' ''We'll see if that's true. / 'Cause who's getting punched through the floor? / It isn't me...''\
149	'''Choir:''' ''So it must be YOU!''\
150	'''[[spoiler: Wheatley]]:''' ''RIGHT'' THROUGH THE FLOOR! WHO'S THE MORON NOW?! [[EvilLaugh Ahahaha, HAHAHAHAHA, AHAHAHAHAHA]], ''[[LaughingMad AHAHAHAHAHAAA]]!''
151	* While it’s not a ''completely'' straight example (he’s still sane by the end), “Betrayed” from ''Theatre/TheProducers'' definitely has shades of this due to it effectively being a [[VillainousBreakdown Villian Protagonist Breakdown]] for Max.
152	* ''Theatre/{{Ragtime}}'': "Coalhouse's Soliloquy" is this for the title character. "[[IWantSong Coalhouse Demands]]" shows exactly how far his sanity has slipped.
153	-->Say goodbye to music.
154	-->Say goodbye to light.
155	-->Anything I care for,
156	-->Take it from my sight.
157	-->Let me see no future
158	-->Let me hear no sound
159	-->Only darkness and pain
160	-->The anger and pain
161	-->The blood and the pain
162	-->They buried my heart in the ground....
163	-->In the ground...
164	-->When they buried you in the ground.
165	** Notably, the above verse is musically identical to Sarah's earlier Sanity Slippage Song, "Your Daddy's Son," which she sings to her and Coalhouse's child (though Coalhouse doesn't know the baby exists, as he abandoned her before he was born). As she remembers the pain and anguish that ultimately led her to try to ''kill'' the baby by [[BuriedAlive interring it alive]] ("When I ''buried you'' in the ground"), she has a complete breakdown that leads to a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment.
166	* "Ez a kez utoler" ("This Is The Hand That Will Strike") from the Hungarian version of ''Theatre/RomeoEtJulietteDeLaHaineALamour''. While its French counterpart, "C'est le jour", appeared in Act II and served mainly to exposit on Tybalt's [[KissingCousins obsession with Juliet]], the Hungarian version puts it midway through Act I, right after Tybalt has had a major epileptic fit, and the song becomes the frightening yet [[CryForTheDevil pity-inducing]] rant of a clearly unwell man. The way the actor on the DVD performance drops into just ''screaming'' is seriously terrifying.
167	* Moritz in ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'' starts to sound rather crazy in "Don't Do Sadness" as he is [[spoiler: driven to suicide, and accuses the world around him to be a cold, uncaring one.]] It seems like a combination of this and a normal BSODSong.
168	-->Awful sweet to be a little butterfly
169	-->Just wingin' over things, and nothin' deep inside.
170	-->Nothing going, going wild in you, you know.
171	-->You're slowing by the riverside, or floatin' high and blue!
172	* Music/StephenSondheim really seems to like these:
173	** "Rose's Turn" from ''Theatre/{{Gypsy}}''.
174	** "Getting Married Today" from ''[[Theatre/CompanySondheim Company]]''.
175	** The entire "Loveland" sequence from ''Follies.''
176	** ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': The title character's awesome VillainSong "Epiphany" is about him completely losing it after his first attempt at revenge goes wrong, and declaring a vendetta upon the entire human race.
177	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn1aAbY2aaE&feature=related Franklin Shepard Inc]] from ''Theatre/MerrilyWeRollAlong''.
178	** "Boom Crunch", the Witch's erratic showstopper that was cut from ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', fits this trope to a T. Its replacement, "Last Midnight", is tamer. In either version, the Witch [[spoiler: lectures the protagonists and then goes crazy and curses herself to disappear.]]
179	* "Mr. Andrews' Vision" from ''Titanic: TheMusical'', where the ship's builder, Mr. Andrews, [[spoiler: suffers a nervous breakdown as he realizes that the compromises he made in his design to accommodate the first class are the reason the 'Titanic' is doomed. As the ship sinks, he frantically redesigns his blueprints until he breaks off, visualizing the final moments of those who are left aboard the ship]]. As the song ends, [[spoiler: he is crushed to death by a piece of heavy furniture]].
180	* The extremely aptly named "The Breakdown" from ''Theatre/WeAreTheTigers'' is about as textbook with this trope as it gets. It also overlaps heavily with a textbook VillainSong, given that this is the song that reveals [[TenLittleMurderVictims who killed Chess and Farrah.]]
181	* "No Good Deed" from ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' is a song about Elphaba rocketing through the 7 stages of grief before her sanity shatters like glass around 3/4 of the way through, ending with her [[ThenLetMeBeEvil succumbing to the title and guise]] of "Wicked Witch of the West".
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184	[[folder:Video Games]]
185	* A rather interesting variation from [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts02BirthBySleepAFragmentaryPassage Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage]] involves Aqua's {{Leitmotif}}. The main version of her theme is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHB0S9Y8u1E gentle and melancholic,]] but [[spoiler: her fight with her mirror image comes with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5aobb-BLag chilling remix]] that perfectly represents the toll the Realm of Darkness has taken on her mind.]]
186	* The game VideoGame/{{Portal}} ends with the creepy song [[AwesomeMusic/{{Portal}} "Still Alive"]] sung by the crazy antagonist master computer [=GLaDOS=]. The song is about how the computer might have survived the ending which killed it, how it's glad it lost (not really), sung with a light-hearted catchy tune.
187	* ''VideoGame/TadpoleTreble'':
188	** [[EasterEgg The secret pause menu song]] starts out as a catchy ragtime tune [[AntiPoopSocking encouraging the player to take a break]] before things start to descend into madness.
189	-->''FREE ME FROM THE PAAAAUSE MENU SOOONG! (We're... we're trapped here forever!)''
190	** [[spoiler:The final boss's song]] has some undertones of this.
191	--> [[spoiler:Hey, Baton, we could just keep rockin' girl]]
192	--> [[spoiler:And we'll rock 'till we die or go INSANE!]]
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195	[[folder:WebAnimation]]
196	* "Off to the Henhouse" from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT4d7CeQmfQ Episode Three]] of ''WebAnimation/OfWeaselsAndChickens''. In this song, Prima, a psychotic weasel, sings about the wonders of killing chickens.
197	-->''We’re off to the henhouse, Marcus! That’s where we’ll get our food.\
198	It’s a long process, fun, regardless – and the killing feels so good!\
199	Screams filling all my senses, chickens helpless, defenseless,\
200	Why, it really sends a thrill when innocent blood I spill!''
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203	[[folder:WebComics]]
204	* {{Webcomic/Homestuck}}: There are three Flashes concerning [[SanitySlippage Sanity Slippage]]: "[S] John: Mental Breakdown" accompanied by Hardlyquin, "[S] Karkat: Mental Breakdown" with Frustracean, and finally [[spoiler:"[S] MSPA Reader: Mental Breakdown"]] accompanied by Hello Zepp from [[Film:Saw the Saw movies]]. The first two are fairly comedic, while the last... isn't.
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207	[[folder:Web Original]]
208	* "Slipping"(!) from ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog''. "My Eyes" conveys an increasingly depressed, cynical mindset, but "Slipping" is flat-out out mad. Also possible are "Brand New Day" and "Everything You Ever", But in theory the entire musical can be considered a downward spiral.
209	** Also in ''WebVideo/CommentaryTheMusical'', Dr. Horrible's [[CaptainObvious musical commentary]], "All About the Art" and to an even greater extent, "Neil's Song" are perfect examples of this trope.
210	---> "''What was his name?\
211	What should I say?\
212	The choices are endless...\
213	And here I am, at last alone, and friendless...\
214	No I'm not friendless.\
215	I've got some friends!\
216	They'll be here when this ends...\
217	'''If''' this ends...''"
218	* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick plays the Barber Of Seville overture whenever she's driven to madness by FridgeLogic.
219	* [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] resorts to "Combine Harvesters" by The Wurzels [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpBQp7QuyZA during his freak-outs]].
220	* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic has either the chorus of "Flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger or the "William Tell Storm" by Music/GioachinoRossini play whenever he loses his mind.
221	* WebVideo/TwistedTranslations, naturally plays this for laughs with "Google Translate Sings [[WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}} Try Everything]]", which turns "Try Everything" into one of these for Gazelle.
222	[[/folder]]
223
224	[[folder:Western Animation]]
225	* John Weldon's 1996 short film "Scant Sanity" is essentially a multi-part, animated Sanity Slippage Song.
226	* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Sting" in that Leela does not sing, but she's imagining the others singing (and participating in a DisneyAcidSequence).
227	-->'''Leela:''' I'm cracking up. In my dreams I'm happy because Fry is alive. But when I'm awake, my mind plays tricks on me.\
228	'''Hermes:''' Oh, take it easy, Leela.\
229	'''Amy:''' In every life we have some trouble.\
230	'''Bender:''' But when you worry, you make it [[RhymesOnADime double]].\
231	'''Amy:''' And ''(suddenly starts singing)'' don't worry, be happy!\
232	''(The song goes on until it concludes and the scene returns to normal.)''\
233	'''Leela:''' Uh, were you just singing?\
234	'''Bender:''' No, I was telling you not to worry. I'm not allowed to sing. Court order.
235	* The Ice King gets one in the episode "I Remember You" of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', with bonus TearJerker points as it's addressed to and ''sung by'' Marceline, who is reading the notes that her old friend Simon scribbled down trying to explain why he was slipping away just when she, a little girl, needed him most. Yikes.
236	** The episode "Simon and Marcy" has Simon (The Ice King) sing the song [[Series/{{Cheers}} "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"]] as he [[ReluctantPsycho fights his]] Sanity Slippage.
237	** Finn's song "Baby's Building A Tower Into Space", which he sings as he obsessively [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin builds a tower to space]] so he can [[MakesSenseInContext find his father and rip his arm off.]]
238	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': In "Ready, Set, Snow!", Molly goes outside to have fun on a snow day even though her family and friends would rather stay inside and cozy up by the fire. While outside, Molly sings an upbeat song about having fun in the snow despite the bitter cold, slowly but surely going insane as she tries to stay positive and convince herself she's in the right.
239	-->''This is awesome, I feel no pain,''
240	-->''I think there might be icicles inside my brain''
241	-->''But I'll contain my composure while dying of exposure''
242	-->'''Cause there's no way I'm missing even one little second of a snow day''
243	[[/folder]]
244
245	[[folder:Other]]
246	%%* A ''lot'' of Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs tend to fit in this trope.
247	* According to one of her routines, Creator/MariaBamford, on advice from her therapist, has come up with an "anxiety song" that she sings to reassure herself and fight off all her various neuroses.
248	-->If I keep the kitchen floor clean, no one will die\
249	As long as I clench my fists at odd intervals, then the darkness within me won't force me to do anything inappropriately viiii-lent or sexual at dinner parties...\
250	As long as I keep humming the tune, I won't "turn gay"\
251	It can't getcha if you're singin' a song! Yeah!
252	[[/folder]]

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