Закон мира таков: чем милее японская песня, тем страшнее её перевод
Translated: The law of the world is this: The cuter the Japanese song, the scarier its translation.
—A comment on Divine Purge! Loli God’s Requiem
by Shigure Ui
by Shigure Ui"So with sadness in my heart
Feel the best thing I could 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..."
Feel the best thing I could 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..."
—The End of Evangelion, "Komm, Süsser Tod" ("Come, Sweet Death")
The songs are always happy,
But nobody listens to [the singer]...
—わたしのココ, "ララのうた" (translated from Japanese)
She got a new apartment out on the escarpment
And in her glove compartment are my songs
She hasn't even heard them since she found out what the words meant
She decided she preferred them all wrong
Kind of like the last time, with a bunch of really fast rhymes
If we're living in the past I'm
Soon gone
And in her glove compartment are my songs
She hasn't even heard them since she found out what the words meant
She decided she preferred them all wrong
Kind of like the last time, with a bunch of really fast rhymes
If we're living in the past I'm
Soon gone
— Barenaked Ladies, "Testing 1, 2, 3"
He's Mister Stabby
Doo doodoo-doo-doo-doo
Doo doodoo-doo-doo-doo
He's Mister Stabby
La lala-la-la-la
La lala-la-la-la la la
Doo doodoo-doo-doo-doo
Doo doodoo-doo-doo-doo
He's Mister Stabby
La lala-la-la-la
La lala-la-la-la la la
— Weebl & Bob, "Mister Stabby theme song."
These are all the little things that make me smile,
This is all the stuff that makes life worthwhile
One day I will eat your brain and it'll be great,
So let's sing about the things we like and meet your fate!
This is all the stuff that makes life worthwhile
One day I will eat your brain and it'll be great,
So let's sing about the things we like and meet your fate!
— "Ferrets", Filmcow
"I think their undisputed masterpiece is 'Hip To Be Square'. A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself."
— Patrick Bateman talking about a song by Huey Lewis and the News, American Psycho
"I don't understand French, but if I could,
I would write beautiful songs about horrible things..."
I would write beautiful songs about horrible things..."
— The Sound Of Animals Fighting, "Uzbekistan"
I should have known as soon as she asked
"Why do all your songs sound happy
But seem so sad"
"Why do all your songs sound happy
But seem so sad"
— Get Set Go, "I'm a Goner"
"I like a funeral dirge you can dance to."
— Junior Gorg, Fraggle Rock, "The Challenge"
Pinkie: Wanna hear the song I sing to my parents? Oh, sorry, the song they sang to me?
Applejack: Doesn't matter which one, Pinkie. As long as it's not one of those sad ones with deceptively happy tunes.
Applejack: Doesn't matter which one, Pinkie. As long as it's not one of those sad ones with deceptively happy tunes.
— Friendship is Witchcraftnote
"It's toe-tappingly tragic!"
— Dr. Zoidberg, Futurama
"Had George Michael and Lindsay stayed, they might have discovered what Michael and Maeby did— that "Afternoon Delight" was more adult-themed than its innocent melody would have you believe."
— Narrator, Arrested Development
"He didn't know the words, and couldn't read the lyric sheets, but the music was happy and made him feel good inside. Whenever he was having a foul day, rather than reaching for pop music in a language he understood, he'd usually reach for the strange album about creatures who might be giants [...] All at once, the happy, bouncy little song that kept him company turned into something painful, and Seiki cried for the first time in days."
"If the beat's all right, she will dance all night!"
— Chris Rock, on women who don't pay attention to songs with misogynistic lyrics
"Ooohh. ...Okay. Now it makes sense. This song is literally from the actual victims of Pompeii, stuck in stasis because their bodies have been literally preserved in hot ash for millennia, buried in volcanic debris, frozen in the moments of their violent, fiery demise for all eternity. WEY-HO WEY-HO, WEY WEY-HO WEY-HO—! ♫"
— Todd in the Shadows on Bastille's "Pompeii"
♪Can I take you out to the pictures, Jo-oh-oh-oan?♪
Yawn. Yeah, yeah, they'll go to the pictures and probably have six kids and a spaniel by the end of the next verse. Sometimes the Beatles can be so predictab—
♪But as she's getting ready to go, a knock comes on the door/BANG BANG! Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head♪
We stop in our tracks, our ears prick up. What — I didn't just hear what I think I just heard, did I? No, no, of course not. It's obviously more of that tiresome innuendo. Mentally we block out all words except "hammer", "came" and "head", and we wonder if the Beatles were really so sexually frustrated.
♪BANG BANG! Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead♪
No doubt there. We're caught completely off guard. Our expectations foiled, screwed up, stamped on, kicked around the room, mauled by the dog and put out on the garden table for birds to nibble on. We start considering when this song was written, and try to remember if any of the Fab Four had just come out of rocky marriages at the time or had a history of mental illness. Are we really listening to a jolly little song about bludgeoning murders?
Somebody Gimme a Grade!
I need a man keeping me down!
Somebody Gimme a Grade!
Is there a red pen in this town?
Somebody Gimme a Grade!
I already said it! I need some extra credit todaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy!!
And make it an A!
I need a man keeping me down!
Somebody Gimme a Grade!
Is there a red pen in this town?
Somebody Gimme a Grade!
I already said it! I need some extra credit todaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy!!
And make it an A!
"And when I find that girl, I'm gonna kill that girl! I'm gonna WHAM, BAM, BLAM, and drill that girl! Won't rest until that girl is safe and sound six feet below! Ooooooh, No! When I find my baby, I ain't lettin' her go!"
— Shanke, to some nice, smooth, jazzy disco music, Sister Act
Daddy's got an arm
And baby's gonna harm his arm
By tearing it off his dad
Baby's building a tower into space
Space is where he's gonna find his dad.
And baby's gonna harm his arm
By tearing it off his dad
Baby's building a tower into space
Space is where he's gonna find his dad.
"Hey, he's not happy at all. He lied to us through song! I hate when people do that!"
— Homer, The Simpsons, "Homer and Apu"
"Let's explain the meaning of his pitiful existence to him in the form of a feel good song!"
— A planet, The Amazing World of Gumball
He ended up sad!
He ended up sad!
He ended up really, really, really sad!
He ended up sad!
He ended up sad!
He ended up really, really, really sad!
— They Might Be Giants, "Mr. Me", perhaps the most cheerfully-sung chorus in their repertoire.
Y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance."
— OutKast, "Hey Ya!"
kawaiilluminatii: YMCA but instead of young man they say comrade and YMCA is USSR
liquidcoma: comrade, steel production is down/i said comrade, you must sleep on the ground
liquidcoma: comrade, steel production is down/i said comrade, you must sleep on the ground
It's a good music writing — songwriting technique, to write about something bad, with a good-sounding melody, because if you can get people to feel good about something bad, then you're bulletproof. In life.
—bill wurtz, on his song "Mount St. Helens Is About to Blow Up" [1]
"So, I wanted to take the absolute happiest song I could think of, and turn it into dark Billie Eilish. And what's happier than Happy by Pharrell [Williams]? [...] Yes, the song that was in Minions and with Pharrell dancing...
—Kurt Hugo Schneider, What if HAPPY was by Billie Eilish
"I wipe the tears from my eye-y-y-y-y-y-y! Want to sit down and cry-y-y!"
— Little Jerry, singing in a cheerful way, Sesame Street
"Please, I wanna die, die, die. Die, die, die."
— ASDF Movie, "The Muffin Song", which sounds upbeat despite its protagonist singing about wanting to die.
"It's super damn important that we practice isolation, 'cause we're asymptomatic while it's in incubation. We'll overwhelm the hospitals if there's not mitigation! It's super damn important that we practice isolation! If we don't do it then we're all gonna die. If we don't do it then we're all gonna die."
— "Super Bad, Transmittable, Contagious, Awful Virus", a parody of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins
"It sounds like a freaking 80s high school prom slow dance song, not a song about an ex-villain conversing with another villain surrounded by deadly rocks that could kill or overpower him at any moment!"
—HezuNeutral, "Tangled the Series Review"
"If you have a minute, come and sit a while with me
This song comes off as happy but it’s kinda sad you see…
This song comes off as happy but it’s kinda sad you see…
— DECO*27, "Once Upon a Me", English cover by splendiferachie
It’s like dying while insisting "I’m super healthy, healthy"
That sounds desperate, ultimately
That sounds desperate, ultimately
"There was something very subversive about singing about... Agent Orange, in a way that people thought I was singing about what a pleasant day it was."
— Natalie Merchant, on writing lyrics for 10,000 Maniacs.
"Wait, no. This song is about the death of a loved one. I can’t believe I just danced to it."
— Sergio's comment on the official music video of "Veil" by Keina Suda
"Such a happy little tune for such misery."
— We Streem, commenting on Welcome to the Internet
, commenting on Welcome to the InternetLiz: How are you not moved by this?!
Jack: Because I'm listening to the words.
Jack: Because I'm listening to the words.
— 30 Rock
Would you prefer if I sat patiently
And pretended like nothing was going on?
Would you prefer if I didn't have some friends
Show up with black ski masks on?
Maybe all it takes is a baseball bat to show you what I mean
The click in your jaw is a testament for trying to test me
Maybe all it takes is a baseball bat to show you what I mean
The click in your jaw is a testament for trying to test me
An apology won't mend a broken orbital
An apology won't mend a collapsed lung
An apology won't make you walk again...
And pretended like nothing was going on?
Would you prefer if I didn't have some friends
Show up with black ski masks on?
Maybe all it takes is a baseball bat to show you what I mean
The click in your jaw is a testament for trying to test me
Maybe all it takes is a baseball bat to show you what I mean
The click in your jaw is a testament for trying to test me
An apology won't mend a broken orbital
An apology won't mend a collapsed lung
An apology won't make you walk again...
— ohnickel, "Proper Introduction"
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