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* MC Chris, eventually, started to dislike the term "nerdcore" because it was too broad a term, and people were rapping about ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' and computers, not just the new movement. Eventually, he became more and more outspoken for various reasons, before finally lashing out in his blog against the media, then against other nerdcore artists, [[SmallNameBigEgo who he says stole all his glory, that the media only focuses on them, and how much they suck.]] He now no longer does nerdcore.

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* MC Chris, eventually, started to dislike the term "nerdcore" because it was too broad a term, and people were rapping about ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' and computers, not just the new movement. Eventually, he became more and more outspoken for various reasons, before finally lashing out in his blog against the media, then against other nerdcore artists, [[SmallNameBigEgo who he says stole all his glory, that the media only focuses on them, and how much they suck.]] suck. He now no longer does nerdcore.
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* Kristin Hayter of Music/LinguaIgnota fame based most of her music on her various instances of enduring trauma throughout her life, primarily regarding domestic abuse, retaliatory violence, and the despair of survivorship. ''Sinner Get Ready'' in particular was made during a nearly-two-year relationship with Alexis S.F. Marshall, who she has accused of extensive emotional and sexual abuse which nearly drove her to suicide. In the end of 2022, Hayter announced her retirement of the Lingua Ignota project specifically because she found it unhealthy to continue invoking and reliving her trauma, especially in performing it, [[CreatorRecovery leading her to pursue doing music in a less emotionally destructive manner]] as Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter.
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* As Music/KurtCobain felt increasingly guilty of his newfound fame and spiraling deeper into his heroin addiction, his band Music/{{Nirvana}} followed up their landmark ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'' album with ''Music/InUtero'', a darker, less-accessible album that contained the lyric [[HarsherInHindsight "look on the bright side it's suicide"]]. Kurt Cobain also included the sarcastic lyric "my favorite inside source" in "Rape Me" as a result of an associate being interviewed, as an anonymous inside source, for Vanity Fair's infamous article on his wife Courtney Love's pregnancy.

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* As Music/KurtCobain felt increasingly guilty of his newfound fame and spiraling deeper into his heroin addiction, his band Music/{{Nirvana}} followed up their landmark ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'' ''Music/{{Nevermind|Album}}'' album with ''Music/InUtero'', a darker, less-accessible album that contained the lyric [[HarsherInHindsight "look on the bright side it's suicide"]]. Kurt Cobain also included the sarcastic lyric "my favorite inside source" in "Rape Me" as a result of an associate being interviewed, as an anonymous inside source, for Vanity Fair's infamous article on his wife Courtney Love's pregnancy.
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* Music/{{Beck}}'s ''Music/SeaChange'' was written in response to a break-up, and boy, does it ever show.

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* Music/{{Beck}}'s Music/{{Beck|Musician}}'s ''Music/SeaChange'' was written in response to a break-up, and boy, does it ever show.
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* Singer/songwriter E, leader of the band Music/{{Eels}}, wrote hit album ''Electro-Shock Blues'' after the death of his mother from cancer and his sister's subsequent suicide. The first track contained poetry that his sister had written while in a mental hospital and included songs with titles like "Going to Your Funeral, Part 1" and "Cancer for the Cure". However, the album does end on a happy note, "P.S. You Rock My World", which closes with the line "Maybe it's time to move on".

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* Singer/songwriter E, leader of the band Music/{{Eels}}, wrote hit album ''Electro-Shock Blues'' after the death of his mother from cancer and his sister's subsequent suicide. The first track contained poetry that his sister had written while in a mental hospital and included songs with titles like "Going to Your Funeral, Part 1" and "Cancer for the Cure". However, the album does end on a happy note, "P.S. You Rock My World", which closes with the line "Maybe it's time to move on".live".
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** His last two albums, ''Storm Front'' and (especially) ''River of Dreams'', are (relatively) darker in tone, a product of his marital troubles and eventual breakup to Christie and to legal hassles with his ex-brother in law (of first wife Elizabeth Weber), who, as his manager, reportedly swindled Joel out of millions of dollars. ''The Nylon Curtain'' was a dark album reflecting on the political and economic climate of TheEighties, made in the wake of his divorce from Elizabeth and while recovering from a nasty motorcycle accident that damaged his hands.

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** His last two albums, ''Storm Front'' and (especially) ''River of Dreams'', are (relatively) darker in tone, a product of his marital troubles and eventual breakup to Christie and to legal hassles with his ex-brother in law (of first wife Elizabeth Weber), who, as his manager, reportedly swindled Joel out of millions of dollars. ''The Nylon Curtain'' was a dark album reflecting on the political and economic climate of TheEighties, The80s, made in the wake of his divorce from Elizabeth and while recovering from a nasty motorcycle accident that damaged his hands.



* By 1970, Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone was on a nearly two-year hiatus that spawned a stopgap singles compilation. Previously, they played upbeat psychedelic funk and sang about unity and dismantling barriers, being also one of the few multiracial/multigendered bands of TheSixties. The band's successful breakout album, ''Stand!'', had big shoes to fill and the Family Stone was expected to release a follow-up as vibrant and passionate as ''Stand!'' Unfortunately, Sly Stone developed drug problems, and that, along with the turmoil of [[TheSeventies Vietnam-era America]], was enough for Sly to build his own studio, play most of the instruments himself or with friends (as opposed to all the band members playing on ''Stand!''), and record most of his vocals while lying in bed. The resulting record, ''There's a Riot Goin' On'', was a dark and depressing record that was somewhat the opposite of ''Stand!''. The record would later be acclaimed as the band's masterpiece.

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* By 1970, Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone was on a nearly two-year hiatus that spawned a stopgap singles compilation. Previously, they played upbeat psychedelic funk and sang about unity and dismantling barriers, being also one of the few multiracial/multigendered bands of TheSixties. The60s. The band's successful breakout album, ''Stand!'', had big shoes to fill and the Family Stone was expected to release a follow-up as vibrant and passionate as ''Stand!'' Unfortunately, Sly Stone developed drug problems, and that, along with the turmoil of [[TheSeventies [[The70s Vietnam-era America]], was enough for Sly to build his own studio, play most of the instruments himself or with friends (as opposed to all the band members playing on ''Stand!''), and record most of his vocals while lying in bed. The resulting record, ''There's a Riot Goin' On'', was a dark and depressing record that was somewhat the opposite of ''Stand!''. The record would later be acclaimed as the band's masterpiece.



** Reed actually said that, despite writing songs about it, he didn't use heroin that much in TheSixties or TheSeventies, although this may be a case of historical revisionism on his part; he is on record as having preferred amphetamines, about which he wrote the song "White Light/White Heat", among others. In any case, Reed was horrified when people would tell him they [[MisaimedFandom shot up to "Heroin"]], which would contribute to his being hesitant to play the song despite it being one of his best-known numbers.

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** Reed actually said that, despite writing songs about it, he didn't use heroin that much in TheSixties The60s or TheSeventies, The70s, although this may be a case of historical revisionism on his part; he is on record as having preferred amphetamines, about which he wrote the song "White Light/White Heat", among others. In any case, Reed was horrified when people would tell him they [[MisaimedFandom shot up to "Heroin"]], which would contribute to his being hesitant to play the song despite it being one of his best-known numbers.

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* Music/FinArgus's 2022 song "Exposure" is an AuthorTract about how he hates the need to have an active social media presence in order for his work to be known and how he doesn't want to post everything about his life online even though he feels pressured to.

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* Music/FinArgus's 2022 song "Exposure" is an AuthorTract about how SocialMediaIsBad, he hates the need to have an active social media presence in order for his work to be known known, and how he doesn't want to post everything about his life online even though he feels pressured to.to.
* Music/WillWood's ''"In case I make it,"'' is a 16-track album of sorrowful songs about cute animals dying, how he hates being famous, substance abuse, the regrets he's had in his life, and a bit of SocialMediaIsBad. He went on an indefinite hiatus shortly after its release.
-->''"And write a fucking song about it! 'Cause it has to be all about Will's fucking drama! God damn it!"''

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* CreatorBreakdown:[[invoked]] Part of the story in ''HYPERPUNK''. Following his bad response to his band's controversy, the protagonist is convinced that "everything he makes is shit" and wants to go insane. Someone convinces him that his sanity is actually helpful, so he realizes that ''nothing'' he makes will ever actually work. Cue a MadnessMantra of "I still SUCK!"

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* CreatorBreakdown:[[invoked]] Music/{{Qbomb}}: Part of the story in ''HYPERPUNK''. Following his bad response to his band's controversy, the protagonist is convinced that "everything he makes is shit" and wants to go insane. Someone convinces him that his sanity is actually helpful, so he realizes that ''nothing'' he makes will ever actually work. Cue a MadnessMantra of "I still SUCK!"SUCK!"
* Music/FinArgus's 2022 song "Exposure" is an AuthorTract about how he hates the need to have an active social media presence in order for his work to be known and how he doesn't want to post everything about his life online even though he feels pressured to.
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** ''Music/reputation'' is primarily about an extremely stressful period in her career when she felt her reputation (some of it accurate, or at least based in truth, some of it not) was overshadowing her work and who she truly is. It also has some influences from her sexual assault trial and her extremely public blowup with Kanye West which caused a lot of the public to turn against her, the latter of which became HarsherInHindsight when, in 2020, new footage surfaced that revealed she had been more truthful about what exactly went down. She's said in interviews writing the album was therapeutic for her — fittingly, her next album ''Music/Lover'' is pure CreatorRecovery.
** Her very next two albums after ''Music/Lover'', ''Music/{{folklore|2020}}'' and ''Music/{{evermore|2020}}'' were written back-to-back throughout the quarantine of the COVID-19 Pandemic, which undoubtedly influence the extreme darkness in the albums compare to her body of works, with multiple songs mentioning or heavily implying death, loss, grief, mental health deterioration, and/or abuse, on top of lacking the typical happy endings permeate her usual works.
** While promoting ''[[Music/{{Red2012}} Red]] (Taylor's Version)'', she revealed that she was going through a very hard time in her life when creating and promoting the original, to the point of having to hide in the bathroom and cry in between interviews, while still trying to put on a happy face for the cameras. The album itself covers a very painful breakup, "Forever Winter" express her immense guilt and sadness at not noticing someone close to her struggled so much with mental health issues (widely speculated to be about Jeff Lang and why many fans thought it wasn't included in the original track list because it was too painful for her) and the ten-minute version of "All Too Well" hints at her struggles with an eating disorder (something she only publicly acknowledged for her documentary Miss Americana in 2020). She admitted it was a relief to be able to make the album over again when she was in a much better place emotionally.

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** ''Music/reputation'' ''Music/{{Reputation}}'' is primarily about an extremely stressful period in her career when she felt her reputation (some of it accurate, or at least based in truth, some of it not) was overshadowing her work and who she truly is. It also has some influences from her sexual assault trial and her extremely public blowup with Kanye West which caused a lot of the public to turn against her, the latter of which became HarsherInHindsight when, in 2020, new footage surfaced that revealed she had been more truthful about what exactly went down. She's said in interviews writing the album was therapeutic for her — fittingly, her next album ''Music/Lover'' ''Music/{{Lover}}'' is pure CreatorRecovery.
** Her very next two albums after ''Music/Lover'', ''Music/{{folklore|2020}}'' ''Music/{{Lover}}'', ''Music/Folklore2020'' and ''Music/{{evermore|2020}}'' ''Music/Evermore2020'' were written back-to-back throughout the quarantine of the COVID-19 Pandemic, which undoubtedly influence the extreme darkness in the albums compare to her body of works, with multiple songs mentioning or heavily implying death, loss, grief, mental health deterioration, and/or abuse, on top of lacking the typical happy endings permeate her usual works.
** While promoting ''[[Music/{{Red2012}} ''[[Music/Red2012 Red]] (Taylor's Version)'', she revealed that she was going through a very hard time in her life when creating and promoting the original, to the point of having to hide in the bathroom and cry in between interviews, while still trying to put on a happy face for the cameras. The album itself covers a very painful breakup, "Forever Winter" express her immense guilt and sadness at not noticing someone close to her struggled so much with mental health issues (widely speculated to be about Jeff Lang and why many fans thought it wasn't included in the original track list because it was too painful for her) and the ten-minute version of "All Too Well" hints at her struggles with an eating disorder (something she only publicly acknowledged for her documentary Miss Americana in 2020). She admitted it was a relief to be able to make the album over again when she was in a much better place emotionally.
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** His final album, ''Music/BlackstarAlbum'', was produced after he was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2014 and spent much of the following year recording this album as a reflection of what was then the very real possibility of his death; the cancer would be declared terminal in November 2015, with Bowie meeting the inevitable just two days after the album's release in January 2016. The whole record is Bowie's most personal since ''Music/{{Low|DavidBowieAlbum}}'' nearly 40 years prior, being an extended musing on his amplified awareness of his own mortality and his uncertainty at the time regarding whether or not he would live (he wouldn't), and his feelings of uncertainty and desire to tie up as many loose ends as possible is very much apparent.
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* Philadelphia rapper Lil Uzi Vert hasn't had it easy out of the stage. Despite scoring charting hits with his mixtape ''Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World'', and landing a guest spot in Migos's chart-topping, meme-spawning "Bad and Boujee", he struggled with drug abuse and a turbulent relationship with his girlfriend, Brittany Byrd. Eventually he broke up with her, but it only made the situation even worse. This eventually culminated in the song "XO TOUR [=Llif3=]", where he details his trials and tribulations in love and addiction.

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* Philadelphia rapper Lil Uzi Vert hasn't had it easy out of the stage. Despite scoring charting hits with his their mixtape ''Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World'', and landing a guest spot in Migos's chart-topping, meme-spawning "Bad and Boujee", he they struggled with drug abuse and a turbulent relationship with his their girlfriend, Brittany Byrd. Eventually he they broke up with her, but it only made the situation even worse. This eventually culminated in the song "XO TOUR [=Llif3=]", where he details his they detailed their trials and tribulations in love and addiction.

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* Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes' difficulties with his wife following the birth of their daughter led to the [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible difficult]], [[TrueArtIsAngsty angsty]] 2007 albums ''Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?'' and ''Icons Abstract Thee'', where he invented the {{Alter Ego|Acting}} of Georgie Fruit, whom he now performs as and has let "write" the band's (even more difficult, slightly less angsty) two albums since.

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* Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes' difficulties with his wife following the birth of their daughter led to the [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible difficult]], difficult, [[TrueArtIsAngsty angsty]] 2007 albums ''Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?'' and ''Icons Abstract Thee'', where he invented the {{Alter Ego|Acting}} of Georgie Fruit, whom he now performs as and has let "write" the band's (even more difficult, slightly less angsty) two albums since.



** The third occurred after the death of Keith Moon in 1978 and the Who's breakup in 1982 after years running on autopilot. Townshend wrote the contemplative, [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible abstract]], synth-heavy solo album ''All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes''.

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** The third occurred after the death of Keith Moon in 1978 and the Who's breakup in 1982 after years running on autopilot. Townshend wrote the contemplative, [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible abstract]], abstract, synth-heavy solo album ''All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes''.
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* CreatorBreakdown:[[invoked]] Part of the story in ''HYPERPUNK''. Following his bad response to his band's controversy, the protagonist is convinced that "everything he makes is shit" and wants to go insane. Someone convinces him that his sanity is actually helpful, so he realizes that ''nothing'' he makes will ever actually work. Cue a MadnessMantra of "I still SUCK!"
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** While promoting ''Red'' (Taylor's Version), she revealed that she was going through a very hard time in her life when creating and promoting the original, to the point of having to hide in the bathroom and cry in between interviews, while still trying to put on a happy face for the cameras. The album itself covers a very painful breakup, "Forever Winter" express her immense guilt and sadness at not noticing someone close to her struggled so much with mental health issues (widely speculated to be about Jeff Lang and why many fans thought it wasn't included in the original track list because it was too painful for her) and the ten-minute version of "All Too Well" hints at her struggles with an eating disorder (something she only publicly acknowledged for her documentary Miss Americana in 2020). She admitted it was a relief to be able to make the album over again when she was in a much better place emotionally.
** ''Music/Midnights'' is explicitly about the "sleepless nights" that she experienced. The album is filled to the brim with BreakUpSongs and touches on self-loathing, sexism, loneliness, and loss of innocence. And is much HarsherInHindsight when she broke up with her long term boyfriend causing revaluation and the realization that a lot of the "happy love songs" were quite depressing under the surface.

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** While promoting ''Red'' ''[[Music/{{Red2012}} Red]] (Taylor's Version), Version)'', she revealed that she was going through a very hard time in her life when creating and promoting the original, to the point of having to hide in the bathroom and cry in between interviews, while still trying to put on a happy face for the cameras. The album itself covers a very painful breakup, "Forever Winter" express her immense guilt and sadness at not noticing someone close to her struggled so much with mental health issues (widely speculated to be about Jeff Lang and why many fans thought it wasn't included in the original track list because it was too painful for her) and the ten-minute version of "All Too Well" hints at her struggles with an eating disorder (something she only publicly acknowledged for her documentary Miss Americana in 2020). She admitted it was a relief to be able to make the album over again when she was in a much better place emotionally.
** ''Music/Midnights'' ''Music/{{Midnights}}'' is explicitly about the "sleepless nights" that she experienced. The album is filled to the brim with BreakUpSongs BreakUpSong and touches on self-loathing, sexism, loneliness, and loss of innocence. And is much HarsherInHindsight when she broke announced her break up with her long term boyfriend Creator/JoeAlwyn causing revaluation and the realization that a lot of the "happy love songs" were quite depressing under the surface.

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* Music/TaylorSwift admitted that all her self-written songs were inspired by real-life experiences, saying that "If you listen to my albums, it's like reading my diary". Then tag the fact that a lot of her songs were about relationships with people (both friendly and romantic) with whom she parted ways...
** Her two albums released in 2020, ''Music/{{folklore|2020}}'' and ''Music/{{evermore|2020}}'' were written back-to-back throughout the quarantine of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, which undoubtedly influence the [[DarkerAndEdgier extreme darkness]] in the albums compare to her body of works, with multiple songs mentioning / heavily implied death, loss, grief, mental health deterioration, abuse and lacking the typical happy endings permeate her usual works.

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* Music/TaylorSwift admitted that all her self-written songs were inspired by real-life experiences, saying that "If you listen to my albums, it's like reading my diary". Then tag the fact that a lot of her songs were about relationships with people (both friendly and romantic) with whom she parted ways...
ways... Three particular instances stand out, mostly because all three of them are one long breakdown for the entire albums and not just particular songs:
** ''Music/reputation'' is primarily about an extremely stressful period in her career when she felt her reputation (some of it accurate, or at least based in truth, some of it not) was overshadowing her work and who she truly is. It also has some influences from her sexual assault trial and her extremely public blowup with Kanye West which caused a lot of the public to turn against her, the latter of which became HarsherInHindsight when, in 2020, new footage surfaced that revealed she had been more truthful about what exactly went down. She's said in interviews writing the album was therapeutic for her — fittingly, her next album ''Music/Lover'' is pure CreatorRecovery.
** Her very next two albums released in 2020, after ''Music/Lover'', ''Music/{{folklore|2020}}'' and ''Music/{{evermore|2020}}'' were written back-to-back throughout the quarantine of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, COVID-19 Pandemic, which undoubtedly influence the [[DarkerAndEdgier extreme darkness]] darkness in the albums compare to her body of works, with multiple songs mentioning / or heavily implied implying death, loss, grief, mental health deterioration, abuse and and/or abuse, on top of lacking the typical happy endings permeate her usual works.works.
** While promoting ''Red'' (Taylor's Version), she revealed that she was going through a very hard time in her life when creating and promoting the original, to the point of having to hide in the bathroom and cry in between interviews, while still trying to put on a happy face for the cameras. The album itself covers a very painful breakup, "Forever Winter" express her immense guilt and sadness at not noticing someone close to her struggled so much with mental health issues (widely speculated to be about Jeff Lang and why many fans thought it wasn't included in the original track list because it was too painful for her) and the ten-minute version of "All Too Well" hints at her struggles with an eating disorder (something she only publicly acknowledged for her documentary Miss Americana in 2020). She admitted it was a relief to be able to make the album over again when she was in a much better place emotionally.
** ''Music/Midnights'' is explicitly about the "sleepless nights" that she experienced. The album is filled to the brim with BreakUpSongs and touches on self-loathing, sexism, loneliness, and loss of innocence. And is much HarsherInHindsight when she broke up with her long term boyfriend causing revaluation and the realization that a lot of the "happy love songs" were quite depressing under the surface.



* Fictional example: ''Film/LemonadeMouth'' bassist Mohini (Naomi Scott), after breaking up with her boyfriend Scott, sings the rather angry "She's So Gone" to show how she's changed.

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* [[Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge Josh Homme]] went through this during the time between ''Era Vulgaris'' and ''...Like Clockwork''. In 2010, he contracted major depression thanks to a leg injury that left him hospitalized for about four months. To make matters worse, the surgery performed on his leg was seriously botched, resulting in his ''heart stopping for a few minutes'' before he was revived through a defibrillator. Needless to say, this experience informs a good percentage of the lyrics on ''...Like Clockwork.''

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* [[Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge Josh Homme]] Josh went through this during the time between ''Era Vulgaris'' and ''...Like Clockwork''. In 2010, he [[HeroicRROD years of overwork]] lead to him needing knee surgery. The exact circumstances of what happened next aren't really clear:
** According to some sources, Josh's [[NightmareFuel heart stopped on the operating table]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong from complications from anaesthetic]], and was only brought back after several minutes of being functionally dead.
** According to others, Josh
contracted major depression thanks to a leg injury that left him hospitalized for about four months. To make matters worse, the surgery performed on antibiotic resistant 'superbug' MRSA from his leg was seriously botched, resulting in his ''heart stopping for surgery, choked on a few minutes'' before he was breathing tube while sick, then suffered heart failure and had to be revived through with a defibrillator. Needless [[UsefulNotes/{{Defibrillators}} defribrillator]].
** Either way, it's clear that he suffered a traumatising NearDeathExperience, which then served
to say, this experience informs a good percentage of heavily influence the lyrics on and tone of ''...Like Clockwork.''Clockwork''.
** ''Lullabies to Paralyze'' was this, as well. The album's darker and moodier tone was the result of Josh's frustration with Nick Oliveri.
** Happened again after Josh and his wife Brody Dalle divorced in 2019. His anguish and loneliness really show in the songs he performed in his bathroom at the start of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.
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* Music/NineInchNails are known for this, to say the least. Trent Reznor started to write his first album with politically themed, socially conscious lyrics. That didn't sound genuine, so he went to his journal for lyrics. That's number one. Number two came when he was out touring and his record label was screwing him, trying to get him to record another ''Pretty Hate Machine''. He then wrote ''Broken'', a 30-minute chunk of death. After that, still not having worked through all of those issues, he wrote and recorded ''The Downward Spiral'', an album about a depressed, suicidal man who [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kills God]] and [[spoiler:attempts to kill]] himself. After that album was released, his psyche was wounded even further on tour, developing alcoholism, a cocaine addiction, and severe struggles with depression. A brief period of sobriety and subsequent relapse after the death of his grandmother informed ''The Fragile''. ''Seriously'' known for this.

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* Music/NineInchNails are known for this, to say the least. Trent Reznor started to write his first album with politically themed, socially conscious lyrics. That didn't sound genuine, so he went to his journal for lyrics. That's number one. Number two came when he was out touring and his record label was screwing him, trying to get him to record another ''Pretty Hate Machine''. He then wrote ''Broken'', a 30-minute chunk of death. After that, still not having worked through all of those issues, he wrote and recorded ''The Downward Spiral'', an album about a depressed, suicidal man who [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kills God]] and [[spoiler:attempts to kill]] himself.kill himself]]<. After that album was released, his psyche was wounded even further on tour, developing alcoholism, a cocaine addiction, and severe struggles with depression. A brief period of sobriety and subsequent relapse after the death of his grandmother informed ''The Fragile''. ''Seriously'' known for this.
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* Music/{{Zucchero}}: The 1992 album ''Miserere'', and in particular the song of the same name that was part of it, were conceived as Zucchero's way of expressing how his personal life struggled due to his divorce from his first wife.
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* Why Ryo Kinoshita left Music/CrystalLake. A combination of the COVID-2019 Pandemic sweeping the world and mental health issues cause Ryo to be diagnosed with Adjustment Disorder led him to stepping down from Crystal Lake in 2021. [[https://youtu.be/OxYCjH105VA Ryo and Yosh explain more in this interview with Nik Nocturnal here.]]
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* Music/MeganTheeStallion ''Traumazine'' was released in an extremely difficult circumstances in her life; with songs detailing her reaction to the death of her grandmother and mother as well as the legal battles against her label and rapper Tory Lanez who was alleged (and later found guilty) to have shot her.

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** Pretty much every song on his first solo album, ''Music/JohnLennonPlasticOnoBand'', was written when he was going through Primal therapy. The album was all about him addressing his personal issues--everything from his relationship with his dead mother to the break-up of the Beatles.

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** Pretty much every song on his first solo album, ''Music/JohnLennonPlasticOnoBand'', was written when he was going through Primal primal scream therapy. The album was all about him addressing his personal issues--everything from his relationship with his dead mother to the break-up of the Beatles.



* "So Broken" by Music/{{Bjork}}. She wrote it after an incident with the ''very'' crazy fan Ricardo López, who, among other things, [[NightmareFuel sent her an acid bomb]] (that got intercepted, thank God).

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* "So Broken" by Music/{{Bjork}}. She wrote it after an incident with the ''very'' crazy fan Ricardo López, who, among other things, [[NightmareFuel sent her an acid bomb]] (that got intercepted, thank God).God) before taking his own life.



** The lyrics of "Ten Years Gone" are an homage to Plant's ex-girlfriend who told him to choose between her and his music.
** "Going to California" is rumored to be about the band's unfulfilled crush on Music/JoniMitchell -- Plant even mutters "Oh Joni!" on the live version included on "How the West Was Won".



* Music/KanyeWest's gone through this several times:
** ''808s and Heartbreak'' is a result of his mother's death as well as an obviously bitter breakup with his fiancée, that mostly features him singing (albeit with pitch corrector AutoTune) instead of rapping.

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* Music/KanyeWest's gone through Music/KanyeWest DEFINES this several times:
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** ''808s and Heartbreak'' is a the result of his mother's death as well as an obviously bitter breakup with his fiancée, that mostly features him singing (albeit with pitch corrector AutoTune) instead of rapping.



* Music/SteelyDan partially went through this during the recording of their seventh album ''Gaucho''. This is because of the series of events that plagued Walter Becker (one half of the duo):
** First, he was going through a crippling heroin addiction
** His girlfriend (also addicted to heroin) then ''died'' of an overdose in his Manhattan apartment.
** Her parents then sued Becker for $17.5 million dollars in a wrongful death suit, claiming he exposed her to the drug and influenced her into addiction.
** To add literal injury to insult, Becker was hit by a cab while crossing the street, severely injuring him and resulting in additional delays to the completion of the album.
** The stressful recording of the album (which released in 1980) affected both Walter Becker and Donald Fagen so much that they called it quits and officially dissolved the band the following year, not reuniting for another 12 years when they began touring again, while they didn't record another album until twenty years later, in 2000.



** Her song "You Belong With Me'' was inspired by her feelings of sympathy over a male friend being yelled at over the phone by his girlfriend.
** Her album ''{{Music/reputation}}'' is primarily about an extremely stressful period in her career when she felt her reputation (some of it accurate, or at least based in truth, some of it not) was overshadowing her work and who she truly is. It also has some influences from her extremely public blowup with Music/KanyeWest, which caused a lot of the public to turn against her. (Which got HarsherInHindsight when, in 2020, new footage surfaced that revealed Taylor had been more truthful about what, exactly, went down.); as well as her sexual assault trial. She's said in interviews writing the album was therapeutic for her -- fittingly, her [[{{Music/Lover}} next album]], is pure CreatorRecovery.
** However, even on ''that'' album, there's one song that fits: "Soon You'll Get Better," which is about her mother's battles with cancer. She's stated that, while she's proud of the song, she'll never perform it live, and she seriously debated whether it was wise to even release it since it was so personal to her.
** Her very next two albums, ''Music/{{folklore|2020}}'' and ''Music/{{evermore|2020}}'' were written back-to-back throughout the quarantine of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, which undoubtedly influence the [[DarkerAndEdgier extreme darkness]] in the albums compare to her body of works, with multiple songs mentioning / heavily implied death, loss, grief, mental health deterioration, abuse and lacking the typical happy endings permeate her usual works.

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** Her song "You Belong With Me'' was inspired by her feelings of sympathy over a male friend being yelled at over the phone by his girlfriend.
** Her album ''{{Music/reputation}}'' is primarily about an extremely stressful period in her career when she felt her reputation (some of it accurate, or at least based in truth, some of it not) was overshadowing her work and who she truly is. It also has some influences from her extremely public blowup with Music/KanyeWest, which caused a lot of the public to turn against her. (Which got HarsherInHindsight when,
two albums released in 2020, new footage surfaced that revealed Taylor had been more truthful about what, exactly, went down.); as well as her sexual assault trial. She's said in interviews writing the album was therapeutic for her -- fittingly, her [[{{Music/Lover}} next album]], is pure CreatorRecovery.
** However, even on ''that'' album, there's one song that fits: "Soon You'll Get Better," which is about her mother's battles with cancer. She's stated that, while she's proud of the song, she'll never perform it live, and she seriously debated whether it was wise to even release it since it was so personal to her.
** Her very next two albums,
''Music/{{folklore|2020}}'' and ''Music/{{evermore|2020}}'' were written back-to-back throughout the quarantine of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, which undoubtedly influence the [[DarkerAndEdgier extreme darkness]] in the albums compare to her body of works, with multiple songs mentioning / heavily implied death, loss, grief, mental health deterioration, abuse and lacking the typical happy endings permeate her usual works.
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** The last few months of 2022 can be seen as a ''major version'' of that for him with Ye, starting with him wearing a "White Lives Matter" t-shirt during a fashion show of his October 2 that year in Paris and only getting worse from there once he commented that fellow rapper Music/PuffDaddy was being controlled by Jews and that he was "going [[DefconFive death con 3]]" on Jewish people days later. Later in the month, unaired segments from both an interview he gave to Tucker Carlson of Fox News fame and to UsefulNotes/LeBronJames on The Shop: Uninterrupted proclaimed more outlandish things about Jewish people that would be considered antisemitic canard to most, but caused a stir in Los Angeles on October 22 where a neo-Nazi group called the GDL (Goyim Defense League) held a protest that claimed that "Kanye is right about the Jews". This incident combined with a story released on October 27 about him having a disturbing history of admiring UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (despite previously being against (neo-)Nazis earlier in his youth and career), to the point of reading Literature/MeinKampf and almost naming his album released in 2018 as "Hitler" instead of "Ye", led to him losing his collaborations, sponsorships, and relationships with companies like the Creative Artists Agency, Vogue, Balenciaga, Adidas, Gap, Foot Locker, T.J. Maxx, and Sketchers and no longer being a billionaire in the process. He then doubled down on his breakdown on November & December that year first by participating in a dinner at the Mar-a-Lago with former President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and livestreamer Nick Fuentes (who's best known for his political commentary that includes views of white nationalism and Holocaust denial, as well as [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking supporting the incel community]]) and then joining Fuentes in a political podcast where Ye tried (and failed) to talk about his own antisemitic beliefs there (to the point of basically ragequitting the show at one point). However, his most infamous moment happened in a December 1, 2022 appearance on Alex Jones' [=InfoWars=] show, which Ye's moments originally appearing to be CrossingTheLineTwice to suddenly being a RefugeInAudacity scenario from a painfully unfunny pun gag on UsefulNotes/BenjaminNetanyahu (I brought Net and Yoo-hoo here) to multiple, blatant comments giving his praises for Hitler and the Nazis (to the point where one of those comments by him had him say he himself is a Nazi) to having some Holocaust denial involved to even posting an image on Twitter of the Star of David with a Swastika inside of it afterward, which caused Elon Musk to permanently remove him from Twitter going forward. Then for extra measure, in an interview with Gavin [=McInnes=] (best known as a creator for Vice magazine and the far-right neo-fascist (and in some nations, terrorist) group known as the Proud Boys) days later, he said that the Jews should forgive Hitler and compared abortions in the modern-day era to the Holocaust as a modern-day equivalent of sorts. Despite this career suicide taking place in 2022, he still has expressed his interest in running for President of the U.S.A. on November that same year while those controversies were still going on.
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** The last few months of 2022 can be seen as a ''major version'' of that for him with Ye, starting with him wearing a "White Lives Matter" t-shirt during a fashion show of his October 2 that year in Paris and only getting worse from there once he commented that fellow rapper Music/PuffDaddy was being controlled by Jews and that he was "going [[DefconFive death con 3]]" on Jewish people days later. Later in the month, unaired segments from both an interview he gave to Tucker Carlson of Fox News fame and to UsefulNotes/LeBronJames on The Shop: Uninterrupted proclaimed more outlandish things about Jewish people that would be considered antisemitic canard to most, but caused a stir in Los Angeles on October 22 where a neo-Nazi group called the GDL (Goyim Defense League) held a protest that claimed that "Kanye is right about the Jews". This incident combined with a story released on October 27 about him having a disturbing history of admiring UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (despite previously being against (neo-)Nazis earlier in his youth and career), to the point of reading UsefulNotes/MeinKampf and almost naming his album released in 2018 as "Hitler" instead of "Ye", led to him losing his collaborations, sponsorships, and relationships with companies like the Creative Artists Agency, Vogue, Balenciaga, Adidas, Gap, Foot Locker, T.J. Maxx, and Sketchers and no longer being a billionaire in the process. He then doubled down on his breakdown on November & December that year first by participating in a dinner at the Mar-a-Lago with former President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and livestreamer Nick Fuentes (who's best known for his political commentary that includes views of white nationalism and Holocaust denial, as well as [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking supporting the incel community]]) and then joining Fuentes in a political podcast where Ye tried (and failed) to talk about his own antisemitic beliefs there (to the point of basically ragequitting the show at one point). However, his most infamous moment happened in a December 1, 2022 appearance on Alex Jones' [=InfoWars=] show, which Ye's moments originally appearing to be CrossingTheLineTwice to suddenly being a RefugeInAudacity scenario from a painfully unfunny pun gag on UsefulNotes/BenjaminNetanyahu (I brought Net and Yoo-hoo here) to multiple, blatant comments giving his praises for Hitler and the Nazis (to the point where one of those comments by him had him say he himself is a Nazi) to having some Holocaust denial involved to even posting an image on Twitter of the Star of David with a Swastika inside of it afterward, which caused Elon Musk to permanently remove him from Twitter going forward. Then for extra measure, in an interview with Gavin [=McInnes=] (best known as a creator for Vice magazine and the far-right neo-fascist (and in some nations, terrorist) group known as the Proud Boys) days later, he said that the Jews should forgive Hitler and compared abortions in the modern-day era to the Holocaust as a modern-day equivalent of sorts. Despite this career suicide taking place in 2022, he still has expressed his interest in running for President of the U.S.A. on November that same year while those controversies were still going on.

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** The last few months of 2022 can be seen as a ''major version'' of that for him with Ye, starting with him wearing a "White Lives Matter" t-shirt during a fashion show of his October 2 that year in Paris and only getting worse from there once he commented that fellow rapper Music/PuffDaddy was being controlled by Jews and that he was "going [[DefconFive death con 3]]" on Jewish people days later. Later in the month, unaired segments from both an interview he gave to Tucker Carlson of Fox News fame and to UsefulNotes/LeBronJames on The Shop: Uninterrupted proclaimed more outlandish things about Jewish people that would be considered antisemitic canard to most, but caused a stir in Los Angeles on October 22 where a neo-Nazi group called the GDL (Goyim Defense League) held a protest that claimed that "Kanye is right about the Jews". This incident combined with a story released on October 27 about him having a disturbing history of admiring UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (despite previously being against (neo-)Nazis earlier in his youth and career), to the point of reading UsefulNotes/MeinKampf Literature/MeinKampf and almost naming his album released in 2018 as "Hitler" instead of "Ye", led to him losing his collaborations, sponsorships, and relationships with companies like the Creative Artists Agency, Vogue, Balenciaga, Adidas, Gap, Foot Locker, T.J. Maxx, and Sketchers and no longer being a billionaire in the process. He then doubled down on his breakdown on November & December that year first by participating in a dinner at the Mar-a-Lago with former President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and livestreamer Nick Fuentes (who's best known for his political commentary that includes views of white nationalism and Holocaust denial, as well as [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking supporting the incel community]]) and then joining Fuentes in a political podcast where Ye tried (and failed) to talk about his own antisemitic beliefs there (to the point of basically ragequitting the show at one point). However, his most infamous moment happened in a December 1, 2022 appearance on Alex Jones' [=InfoWars=] show, which Ye's moments originally appearing to be CrossingTheLineTwice to suddenly being a RefugeInAudacity scenario from a painfully unfunny pun gag on UsefulNotes/BenjaminNetanyahu (I brought Net and Yoo-hoo here) to multiple, blatant comments giving his praises for Hitler and the Nazis (to the point where one of those comments by him had him say he himself is a Nazi) to having some Holocaust denial involved to even posting an image on Twitter of the Star of David with a Swastika inside of it afterward, which caused Elon Musk to permanently remove him from Twitter going forward. Then for extra measure, in an interview with Gavin [=McInnes=] (best known as a creator for Vice magazine and the far-right neo-fascist (and in some nations, terrorist) group known as the Proud Boys) days later, he said that the Jews should forgive Hitler and compared abortions in the modern-day era to the Holocaust as a modern-day equivalent of sorts. Despite this career suicide taking place in 2022, he still has expressed his interest in running for President of the U.S.A. on November that same year while those controversies were still going on.
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** The last few months of 2022 can be seen as a ''major version'' of that for him with Ye, starting with him wearing a "White Lives Matter" t-shirt during a fashion show of his October 2 that year in Paris and only getting worse from there once he commented that fellow rapper Music/PuffDaddy was being controlled by Jews and that he was "going [[DefconFive death con 3]]" on Jewish people days later. Later in the month, unaired segments from both an interview he gave to Tucker Carlson of Fox News fame and to UsefulNotes/LeBronJames on The Shop: Uninterrupted proclaimed more outlandish things about Jewish people that would be considered antisemitic canard to most, but caused a stir in Los Angeles on October 22 where a neo-Nazi group called the GDL (Goyim Defense League) held a protest that claimed that "Kanye is right about the Jews". This incident combined with a story released on October 27 about him having a disturbing history of admiring UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (despite previously being against (neo-)Nazis earlier in his youth and career), to the point of reading UsefulNotes/MeinKampf and almost naming his album released in 2018 as "Hitler" instead of "Ye", led to him losing his collaborations, sponsorships, and relationships with companies like the Creative Artists Agency, Vogue, Balenciaga, Adidas, Gap, Foot Locker, T.J. Maxx, and Sketchers and no longer being a billionaire in the process. He then doubled down on his breakdown on November & December that year first by participating in a dinner at the Mar-a-Lago with former President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and livestreamer Nick Fuentes (who's best known for his political commentary that includes views of white nationalism and Holocaust denial, as well as [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking supporting the incel community]]) and then joining Fuentes in a political podcast where Ye tried (and failed) to talk about his own antisemitic beliefs there (to the point of basically ragequitting the show at one point). However, his most infamous moment happened in a December 1, 2022 appearance on Alex Jones' [=InfoWars=] show, which Ye's moments originally appearing to be CrossingTheLinesTwice to suddenly being a RefugeInAudacity scenario from a painfully unfunny pun gag on UsefulNotes/BenjaminNetanyahu (I brought Net and Yoo-hoo here) to multiple, blatant comments giving his praises for Hitler and the Nazis (to the point where one of those comments by him had him say he himself is a Nazi) to having some Holocaust denial involved to even posting an image on Twitter of the Star of David with a Swastika inside of it afterward, which caused UsefulNotes/ElonMusk to permanently remove him from Twitter going forward. Then for extra measure, in an interview with Gavin [=McInnes=] (best known as a creator for Vice magazine and the far-right neo-fascist (and in some nations, terrorist) group known as the Proud Boys) days later, he said that the Jews should forgive Hitler and compared abortions in the modern-day era to the Holocaust as a modern-day equivalent of sorts. Despite this career suicide taking place in 2022, he still has expressed his interest in running for President of the U.S.A. on November that same year while those controversies were still going on.

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** The last few months of 2022 can be seen as a ''major version'' of that for him with Ye, starting with him wearing a "White Lives Matter" t-shirt during a fashion show of his October 2 that year in Paris and only getting worse from there once he commented that fellow rapper Music/PuffDaddy was being controlled by Jews and that he was "going [[DefconFive death con 3]]" on Jewish people days later. Later in the month, unaired segments from both an interview he gave to Tucker Carlson of Fox News fame and to UsefulNotes/LeBronJames on The Shop: Uninterrupted proclaimed more outlandish things about Jewish people that would be considered antisemitic canard to most, but caused a stir in Los Angeles on October 22 where a neo-Nazi group called the GDL (Goyim Defense League) held a protest that claimed that "Kanye is right about the Jews". This incident combined with a story released on October 27 about him having a disturbing history of admiring UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (despite previously being against (neo-)Nazis earlier in his youth and career), to the point of reading UsefulNotes/MeinKampf and almost naming his album released in 2018 as "Hitler" instead of "Ye", led to him losing his collaborations, sponsorships, and relationships with companies like the Creative Artists Agency, Vogue, Balenciaga, Adidas, Gap, Foot Locker, T.J. Maxx, and Sketchers and no longer being a billionaire in the process. He then doubled down on his breakdown on November & December that year first by participating in a dinner at the Mar-a-Lago with former President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and livestreamer Nick Fuentes (who's best known for his political commentary that includes views of white nationalism and Holocaust denial, as well as [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking supporting the incel community]]) and then joining Fuentes in a political podcast where Ye tried (and failed) to talk about his own antisemitic beliefs there (to the point of basically ragequitting the show at one point). However, his most infamous moment happened in a December 1, 2022 appearance on Alex Jones' [=InfoWars=] show, which Ye's moments originally appearing to be CrossingTheLinesTwice CrossingTheLineTwice to suddenly being a RefugeInAudacity scenario from a painfully unfunny pun gag on UsefulNotes/BenjaminNetanyahu (I brought Net and Yoo-hoo here) to multiple, blatant comments giving his praises for Hitler and the Nazis (to the point where one of those comments by him had him say he himself is a Nazi) to having some Holocaust denial involved to even posting an image on Twitter of the Star of David with a Swastika inside of it afterward, which caused UsefulNotes/ElonMusk Elon Musk to permanently remove him from Twitter going forward. Then for extra measure, in an interview with Gavin [=McInnes=] (best known as a creator for Vice magazine and the far-right neo-fascist (and in some nations, terrorist) group known as the Proud Boys) days later, he said that the Jews should forgive Hitler and compared abortions in the modern-day era to the Holocaust as a modern-day equivalent of sorts. Despite this career suicide taking place in 2022, he still has expressed his interest in running for President of the U.S.A. on November that same year while those controversies were still going on.

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** ''ye'' treaded in this again following the multiple public breakdowns and long-term hospitalization he experienced between 2016 to 2018. The album returns to a stripped-back sound and introspective demeanor similar to ''[=808s=]'', with a more existential tone focused on his own mental health in light of his UsefulNotes/BipolarDisorder diagnosis. The album was also said to have been hastily rewritten and re-recorded within the last few weeks before release, primarily as a result of Kanye ending up in yet another public controversy about his political comments (stating in an interview with TMZ that "slavery was a choice") -- the song "Wouldn't Leave" directly references the incident and the subsequent turmoil he and then-wife Kim Kardashian experienced, fearing they were about to "lose it all".
** ''Jesus Is King'' is a sudden turn towards born-again Christianity that was in part the result of his struggling mental health and rumoured drug addiction. Ye felt that he was not able to be as creative as he wanted on medication and stopped taking it, putting his faith in God to keep him sane, and engaged in controlling behaviour during the making of the album (such as requiring contributors to refrain from swearing or extra-marital sex).
** ''Donda'' once again hearkens back to the death of his mother that inspired ''[=808s=]'', mixed in with his new mentalities of his born-again Christianity. Several lyrics, and especially the song "Lord I Need You", also allude to Kanye's then-recent divorce from Creator/KimKardashian. Its sequel ''Donda 2'' continues along these themes, along with threatening songs about Kim's new boyfriend Creator/PeteDavidson, fury about the way the press was treating him due to his behaviour, and elements of Ye's new ConspiracyKitchenSink beliefs.

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** ''ye'' ''Ye'' treaded in this again following the multiple public breakdowns and long-term hospitalization he experienced between 2016 to 2018. The album returns to a stripped-back sound and introspective demeanor similar to ''[=808s=]'', with a more existential tone focused on his own mental health in light of his UsefulNotes/BipolarDisorder diagnosis. The album was also said to have been hastily rewritten and re-recorded within the last few weeks before release, primarily as a result of Kanye ending up in yet another public controversy about his political comments (stating in an interview with TMZ that "slavery was a choice") -- the song "Wouldn't Leave" directly references the incident and the subsequent turmoil he and then-wife Kim Kardashian experienced, fearing they were about to "lose it all".
** ''Jesus Is King'' is a sudden turn towards born-again Christianity that was in part the result of his struggling mental health and rumoured rumored drug addiction. Ye felt that he was not able to be as creative as he wanted on medication and stopped taking it, putting his faith in God to keep him sane, and engaged in controlling behaviour behavior during the making of the album (such as requiring contributors to refrain from swearing or extra-marital sex).
** ''Donda'' once again hearkens back to the death of his mother that inspired ''[=808s=]'', mixed in with his new mentalities of his born-again Christianity. Several lyrics, and especially the song "Lord I Need You", also allude to Kanye's then-recent divorce from Creator/KimKardashian. Its sequel sequel, ''Donda 2'' 2'', continues along these themes, along with threatening songs about Kim's new boyfriend Creator/PeteDavidson, fury about the way the press was treating him due to his behaviour, behavior, and elements of Ye's new ConspiracyKitchenSink beliefs.beliefs.
** The last few months of 2022 can be seen as a ''major version'' of that for him with Ye, starting with him wearing a "White Lives Matter" t-shirt during a fashion show of his October 2 that year in Paris and only getting worse from there once he commented that fellow rapper Music/PuffDaddy was being controlled by Jews and that he was "going [[DefconFive death con 3]]" on Jewish people days later. Later in the month, unaired segments from both an interview he gave to Tucker Carlson of Fox News fame and to UsefulNotes/LeBronJames on The Shop: Uninterrupted proclaimed more outlandish things about Jewish people that would be considered antisemitic canard to most, but caused a stir in Los Angeles on October 22 where a neo-Nazi group called the GDL (Goyim Defense League) held a protest that claimed that "Kanye is right about the Jews". This incident combined with a story released on October 27 about him having a disturbing history of admiring UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (despite previously being against (neo-)Nazis earlier in his youth and career), to the point of reading UsefulNotes/MeinKampf and almost naming his album released in 2018 as "Hitler" instead of "Ye", led to him losing his collaborations, sponsorships, and relationships with companies like the Creative Artists Agency, Vogue, Balenciaga, Adidas, Gap, Foot Locker, T.J. Maxx, and Sketchers and no longer being a billionaire in the process. He then doubled down on his breakdown on November & December that year first by participating in a dinner at the Mar-a-Lago with former President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and livestreamer Nick Fuentes (who's best known for his political commentary that includes views of white nationalism and Holocaust denial, as well as [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking supporting the incel community]]) and then joining Fuentes in a political podcast where Ye tried (and failed) to talk about his own antisemitic beliefs there (to the point of basically ragequitting the show at one point). However, his most infamous moment happened in a December 1, 2022 appearance on Alex Jones' [=InfoWars=] show, which Ye's moments originally appearing to be CrossingTheLinesTwice to suddenly being a RefugeInAudacity scenario from a painfully unfunny pun gag on UsefulNotes/BenjaminNetanyahu (I brought Net and Yoo-hoo here) to multiple, blatant comments giving his praises for Hitler and the Nazis (to the point where one of those comments by him had him say he himself is a Nazi) to having some Holocaust denial involved to even posting an image on Twitter of the Star of David with a Swastika inside of it afterward, which caused UsefulNotes/ElonMusk to permanently remove him from Twitter going forward. Then for extra measure, in an interview with Gavin [=McInnes=] (best known as a creator for Vice magazine and the far-right neo-fascist (and in some nations, terrorist) group known as the Proud Boys) days later, he said that the Jews should forgive Hitler and compared abortions in the modern-day era to the Holocaust as a modern-day equivalent of sorts. Despite this career suicide taking place in 2022, he still has expressed his interest in running for President of the U.S.A. on November that same year while those controversies were still going on.
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** ''Donda'' once again hearkens back to the death of his mother that inspired ''[=808s=]'', mixed in with his new mentalities of his born-again Christianity. Several lyrics, and especially the song "Lord I Need You", also allude to Kanye's then-recent divorce from Creator/KimKardashian. Its sequel ''Donda 2'' continues along these themes, along with threatening songs about Kim's new boyfriend Creator/PeteDavison, fury about the way the press was treating him due to his behaviour, and elements of Ye's new ConspiracyKitchenSink beliefs.

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** ''Donda'' once again hearkens back to the death of his mother that inspired ''[=808s=]'', mixed in with his new mentalities of his born-again Christianity. Several lyrics, and especially the song "Lord I Need You", also allude to Kanye's then-recent divorce from Creator/KimKardashian. Its sequel ''Donda 2'' continues along these themes, along with threatening songs about Kim's new boyfriend Creator/PeteDavison, Creator/PeteDavidson, fury about the way the press was treating him due to his behaviour, and elements of Ye's new ConspiracyKitchenSink beliefs.
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** Similarly, "911" off of ''Chromatica'' is about Gaga's use of olanzapine following a psychotic break.
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* The Music/{{Queen}} songs "These Are the Days of Our Lives", "I'm Going Slightly Mad", and "The Show Must Go On" were recorded not long before Music/FreddieMercury's death of AIDS -- all released on an album named ''Innuendo''.

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* The Music/{{Queen}} Music/{{Queen|Band}} songs "These Are the Days of Our Lives", "I'm Going Slightly Mad", and "The Show Must Go On" were recorded not long before Music/FreddieMercury's death of AIDS -- all released on an album named ''Innuendo''.''Music/{{Innuendo}}''.
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* ''The Great Southern Trendkill'' by Music/{{Pantera}} was recorded during a time of tension within the band. Frontman Philip Anselmo had started distancing himself from his bandmates and was using heroin to deal with his chronic back pain. The tension between Anselmo and the rest of the band was so bad that he recorded in a separate studio from them. The result is the darkest, hardest album in the band's discography, swinging between rage (War Nerve, Sandlasted Skin), despair (Floods, Suicide Note Pt. 1), and a combination of the two (Suicide Note Pt. 2).

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* ''The Great Southern Trendkill'' by Music/{{Pantera}} was recorded during a time of tension within the band. Frontman Philip Anselmo had started distancing himself from his bandmates and was using heroin to deal with his chronic back pain. The tension between Anselmo and the rest of the band was so bad that he recorded in a separate studio from them. The result is the darkest, hardest album in the band's discography, swinging between rage (War Nerve, Sandlasted Skin), Skin, 10's, the title track), despair (Floods, Suicide Note Pt. 1), and a combination of the two (Suicide Note Pt. 2).

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