History SweetDreamsFuel / Music

* Even Music/NoxArcana scores a few points here. For the most part, Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski wouldn't know a happy tune if it jumped on them and licked their faces, and neither man seems to have ever heard of this thing called a happy ending. The exception is any album with the word "Winter's" or "Ebonshire" in the title, all of which contain nothing but soft, beautiful tracks that can be played at any holiday party and wouldn't even scare an infant.

** To top it all off, Jepsen herself is incredibly attractive.

* Music/CarlyRaeJepsen. "This Kiss" is one of those songs that's just so upbeat and infectious it's almost criminal. In the video she wears many beautiful costumes, and it ends with her kissing a guy underwater.

* Music/CarlyRaeJepsen herself. "This Kiss" is one of those songs that's just so upbeat and infectious it's almost criminal. In the video she wears many beautiful costumes, and it ends with her kissing a guy underwater.

** Music/LemonJelly's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioudby-xooc "Nice Weather for Ducks"]] is a beautiful mixture of MindScrew, WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs, AcidTripDimension, and this trope blended in a way that can't help but make you smile and go, "wtf did I just watch!?"

** [[https://youtu.be/yZvTzAhRMog Shining Unity by Galderia.]]

* PowerMetal itself is well known for being an exception amongst metal genres, being uplifting, emotionally powerful, and anthem-like rather than dissonant, [[NightmareFuel nightmare inducing]], or, well, heavy:

* Norwegian singer-songwriter Odd Nordstoga's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfFDNdzJ93A Svingensongen]] ("The Swing Song), from the children's show ''Linus i Svingen'' and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO6QsPcQohc Jul i Svingen]] ("Christmas at the Swing") from the sequel series of the same name. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Kick-ass]], powerful, cheerful sweet dreams fuel.

* Many songs by Music/{{Rhapsody Of Fire}} qualify. One notable example is ''March Against the Tyrant'', a gorgeous HighFantasy [[EpicRocking epic]] about fighting evil and oppression.

* PowerMetal itself is well known for being an exception amongst metal genres, being uplifting and happy-sounding rather than dissonant, [[NightmareFuel nightmare inducing]], or, well, heavy:

* Music/FreedomCall describe their genre as "happy metal" and it shows through several of their cute, cheery songs such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu4TGlKrc1A 'Follow Your Heart']] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pOXw-qMX24 'Power and Glory']]. Their vocalist, Music/ChrisBay, has recently brought out a solo album with a more pop-rock sound, which is equally uplifting; opening track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgXY3HugVUE 'Flying Hearts']] even has a video made up of Chris's holiday footage, and you can tell he had fun making it.
* Also from the PowerMetal genre, ''Music/TwilightForce'' and particularly their song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-OzvIL4d2w Flight of the Sapphire Dragon]]. With their twinkly orchestration and high-fantasy lyrics it all creates a very uplifting sound that just helps the listener to find themselves in a good mood and smiling with joyful glee as their songs awaken memories of classical HighFantasy. There's a reason their fans often refer to them as "Disney metal".
* PowerMetal itself is well known for being an exception amongst metal genres, being uplifting and happy-sounding rather than dissonant, [[NightmareFuel nightmare inducing]], or, well, heavy. Another example, [[https://youtu.be/yZvTzAhRMog Shining Unity by Galderia.]]

** Their entire 2015 children's album ''Why?'', which, given that it was sourced from their Dial-a-Songs at the time and the band reportedly had trouble figuring out which songs went here and which went on the "adult" album ''Glean'', reads as a much LighterAndSofter version of their adult albums, which the same catchy tunes and clever wordplay without any of the usual darker lyrics that hide within. Many of the songs have their SDF factor improved by the music videos, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFEpGSNJ63U "Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees, and Hares"]], which has an extremely charming artstyle to its animations of the titular animals (with the trumpet provided by an equally adorable squirrel) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0XwJC6FbtA&e "Walking My Cat Named Dog"]], which has similarly adorable animations of a world where cats act like dogs. And then, for the album closer, [[https://youtu.be/qBtJq1kQS7k?feature=shared "Then Thr Kids Took Over"]] plays, which is maybe one of the most powerfully inspirational examples of a GreenAesop ever given.

** Their entire 2015 children's album ''Why?'', which, given that it was sourced from their Dial-a-Songs at the time and the band reportedly had trouble figuring out which songs went here and which went on the "adult" album ''Glean'', reads as a much LighterAndSofter version of their adult albums, which the same catchy tunes and clever wordplay without any of the usual darker lyrics that hide within. Many of the songs have their SDF factor improved by the music videos, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFEpGSNJ63U "Moles, Hounds, Bees, Hares, and Bears"]], which has an extremely charming artstyle to its animations of the titular animals (with the trumpet provided by an equally adorable squirrel) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0XwJC6FbtA&e "Walking My Cat Named Dog"]], which has similarly adorable animations of a world where cats act like dogs. And then, for the album closer, [[https://youtu.be/qBtJq1kQS7k?feature=shared "Then Thr Kids Took Over"]] plays, which is maybe one of the most powerfully inspirational examples of a GreenAesop ever given.

** Their entire 2015 children's album ''Why?'', which, given that it was sourced from their Dial-a-Songs at the time and the band reportedly had trouble figuring out which songs went here and which went on the "adult" album ''Glean'', reads as a much LighterAndSofter version of their adult albums, which the same catchy tunes and clever wordplay without any of the usual darker lyrics that hide within. Many of the songs have their SDF factor improved by the music videos, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFEpGSNJ63U "Moles, Hounds, Bees, Hares, and Bears"]], which has an extremely charming artstyle to its animations of the titular animals (with the trumpet provided by an equally adorable squirrel) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0XwJC6FbtA&e
"Walking My Cat Named Dog"]], which has similarly adorable animations of a world where cats act like dogs. And then, for the album closer, [[https://youtu.be/qBtJq1kQS7k?feature=shared "Then Thr Kids Took Over"]] plays, which is maybe one of the most powerfully inspirational examples of a GreenAesop ever given.

** [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PwEb9g3-nbQ "Ampersand"]] is a sweet punctuation-themed song about running in the fields with your friends/lovers.

* PowerMetal itself is well known for being an exception amongst metal genres, being uplifting and happy-sounding rather than dissonant, [[NightmareFuel nightmare inducing]], or, well, *heavy.* Another example, [[https://youtu.be/yZvTzAhRMog Shining Unity by Galderia.]]

* Yet another PowerMetal example, [[https://youtu.be/yZvTzAhRMog Shining Unity by Galderia.]]

* Surprisingly enough, an Music/{{NWA}} song from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton'' qualifies as this. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy4I2ZRGzns "Express Yourself"]] is a great song about DoingItForTheArt.

** Three words: "[[https://youtu.be/CPAC2SWvo6E Mr. Blue Sky]]" It's impossible to listen to this song and not feel like everything is going to be okay.

* "Waiting For a Star to Fall" by Music/BoyMeetsGirl, as well as "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (the last two of which Boy Meets Girl wrote for Music/WhitneyHouston). All three songs share a relentless, upbeat sweetness, as well as being hopeful and optimistic about finding love. [[note]]It also helps that "Waiting For a Star to Fall" resembles [[VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings "Pollyanna (I Believe in You)"]] in a few places, especially the intro.[[/note]]

** The also wrote Summertime as the theme song for the North American dub of ''Anime/TheSecretWorldOfArrietty'', which is another sweet dreams song.