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If something was originally intended to be funny or lighthearted, that's "Funny Aneurysm" Moment. Harsher in Hindsight is for when already negative things end up getting worse. Regardless of what was going on behind the scenes, it sounds like they wanted the song to be seen as lighthearted based on the "silly joke song" comment, so it sounds like the former trope would apply.
Edited by GastonRabbit You can't just say "perchance".

Here is the example in question:
Also "I'm Going Slightly Mad" is not so funny when you know it was all his fears about dementia brought on by AIDS, though Word of God said himself that it was just a silly joke song he wrote in about 5 minutes.
How to keep all that info while still joining both of them together? Right now, it is a conversation.