History LyricalDissonance / Pop

* "Fenibut" by Russian singer neksyusha is an upbeat, almost cutesy-sounding song about someone planning to [[SuicideByPills kill themselves in the bath by overdosing on the drug Phenibut]].

* Xibom Bombom's ''music video'' makes it sound like a typical lighthearted Axé music video with a lot of {{Fanservice}}, but the lyrics are actually about economic status and wanting to feed oneself. (A sampling of the lyrics: "I want to get out of this precarious situation/Where the rich (get richer)/And the poor (get poorer)")

* Xibom Bombom's ''music video'' makes it sound like a typical lighthearted Axè music video with a lot of {{Fanservice}}, but the lyrics are actually about economic status and wanting to feed oneself. (A sampling of the lyrics: "I want to get out of this precarious situation/Where the rich (get richer)/And the poor (get poorer)")

* The Carpenters' "Superstar" is clearly about a naive young girl running into the musician she had a fling with, only to have the musician not know who she is. Someone forgot to give Luther Vandross (and Ruben Studdard) the memo.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTsVJ1PsnMs Vamos a la playa by Righeira]] a poppy italian (but sung in Spanish) summer hit in Europe of the early [[TheEighties Eighties]]. The lyrics between the chorus:
-->"la bomba estalló,
-->las radiaciones tuestan
-->y matizan de azul."
-->..."El viento radiactivo
-->despeina los cabellos."
-->"al fin el mar es limpio.
-->No más peces hediondos,
-->sino agua fluorescente."
** In other words : a song about nuclear bombs and war neatly packaged in a poppy tune and video.

* [[Music/TheZombies The Zombies']] album ''Odyssey and Oracle'' has "Care of Cell 44" - a bright, bouncy tune where Colin Blunstone breathily sings of waiting to see his girl again. The lyrics are in fact cheery and anticipatory...then the last line of the first verse says "And then you can tell me about your prison stay." It's never stated what put her in jail, but another line "Kiss and make up and it will be so nice" implies he was on the receiving end of it. [[note]] WordOfGod has since confirmed that she stole his chequebook (and other friends and relations chequebooks too) and had been writing bad cheques all over the county until she got caught [[/note]]

* The Zombies' album ''Odyssey and Oracle'' has "Care of Cell 44" - a bright, bouncy tune where Colin Blunstone breathily sings of waiting to see his girl again. The lyrics are in fact cheery and anticipatory...then the last line of the first verse says "And then you can tell me about your prison stay." It's never stated what put her in jail, but another line "Kiss and make up and it will be so nice" implies he was on the receiving end of it. [[note]] WordOfGod has since confirmed that she stole his chequebook (and other friends and relations chequebooks too) and had been writing bad cheques all over the county until she got caught [[/note]]

* "Fenibut" by Russian singer neksyusha is an upbeat, almost cutesy-sounding song about someone planning to kill themselves in the bath by overdosing on the drug Phenibut.

* "Fenibut" by Russian singer neksyusha is an upbeat, almost cutesy-sounding song about someone planning to kill themselves in the bath by overdosing on the drug Fenibut.

* "Fenibut" by Russian singer neksusha is an upbeat, almost cutesy-sounding song about someone planning to kill themselves in the bath by overdosing on the drug Fenibut.

* Bobby Darin's 1959 cover of *Mack The Knife* from the 1928 German operetta "The Threepenny Opera" was a huge, finger-snapping, big-band swinging hit ... about a gangster and the murders he commits.

* ur pretty's "Keep Riding Me", "Hit My Spot", and "Fill Me Up", all of which blend feel-good instrumentals with very pornographic lyrics about homosexual sex, to jarring levels.

* "Chemical Bomb" by The Aquabats is a delightful, lighthearted tune in which the narrator expresses his lack of objection to his visions of world hunger, war, and Biblical apocalypse.

* Xibom Bombom's ''music video'' makes it sound like a typical lighthearted music video with a lot of {{Fanservice}}, but the lyrics are actually about economic status and wanting to feed oneself. ("I want to get out of this precarious situation/Where the rich get richer/And the poor get poorer")

** "Staying Alive," also by the Bee Gees. It seems like no swaggering PowerWalk is complete without it in pop culture, but the song was written for ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'', and once you get past the opening line about struttin' like a ladies' man, the lyrics become very specific to protagonist Tony Manero's hopeless, depressing situation in the film:

** Her other song "Byot - Znachit Lyubit" ("If He Beats You, It Means He Loves You") is another example of this trope. Though it has an upbeat tune, this song is a commentary about the normalization of abuse.

** "Erase", just - Erase.

* One of Music/TaylorSwift "From the Vault" tracks on ''[[Music/{{Red}} Red (Taylor's Version)]]'' is "Forever Winter" - an up-beat and fast tempo pop track accompanied by bright horn... overlay with lyrics about the narrator discovering her subject has prolonged depression and begging desperately for them not to "[[DrivenToSuicide go]]", even go so far as offering to be their LivingEmotionalCrutch. The song is also widely speculated to be inspired by one of Taylor's friend death by overdose.