It's not a practice that's brand new by any means: from The Beatles to Nirvana to the Spice Girls to Rihanna, there have been plenty of artists who have offered up deceptive lyrics behind a tonally opposite rhythm. But some artists have snuck some supremely dark subject matter into dancey tunes, and other songs have painted a somber picture out of rather inspiring words. So, with this in mind, this writer has assembled a handful of upbeat songs with dark lyrics as well as a few tear-jerkers that will leave you smiling.


Any fan of punk rock should be able to tell you that The Vandals add a nice twinge of dark humor to numerous head-banging ditties throughout their oeuvre. But few of their songs go as dark as "The New You," a song from their 2000 album Look What I Almost Stepped In... that details the thoughts of a jilted ex-lover as their behavior delves firmly into stalker territory. There's no feeling like bopping your head around as the words "You've made a big mistake / That's not a threat / No matter how it sounds" make you question just where the song might be going. Let me tell you, folks: There's no happy ending to this poppy punk tune. 



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The Flaming Lips have made a stellar career out of making positive and uplifting songs about upsetting things as well as depressing songs about off-beat and absurd subjects. But their song "Bad Days," which, yes, was indeed featured in Batman Forever, may take the cake when it comes to putting a happy face on unhappy concepts, as the song's rousing composition asks those who are saddened by complacency to turn to their dreams to solve their problems. What solutions may that include? If you guessed murdering your boss, you guessed right!


An incredibly catchy sleeper hit back in 2010, indie rock stars Foster the People knew they had something special on their hands when "Pumped Up Kicks" crossed over from viral success to breakout radio sensation. While most of the people familiar with the song realized there was something...off...about some of the lyrics, it wasn't long before it became apparent that "Pumped Up Kicks" is written from the perspective of a teenage homicidal maniac in an effort to "get inside the head of an isolated, psychotic kid," in the words of songwriter Mark Foster. Even so, that doesn't change the fact that "Pumped Up Kicks" is still a toe-tapper, as long as you can keep the lyrics at a safe distance from your intrusive thoughts.

Listen, I'm not gonna sit here and try to convince you that "Lazarus" is not a depressing song; it's David Bowie's swan song and a musical self-epitaph that carries an even heavier weight given how soon thereafter the iconic artist passed. But there's a bittersweet silver lining to the song, one that asks for comfort and solace in addition to mourning, as best encapsulated in the lyrics: "This way or no way / You know, I'll be free / Just like that bluebird / Now, ain't that just like me?" In this sense, Bowie is describing whatever lies after life as a potentially liberating experience and one in line with his lifelong unrestricted nature, and there's something beautiful underneath the tragedy of that sentiment.

Otherwise known as the song sampled in Eminem's perpetually relevant song "Stan," "Thank You" was a career-defining hit for British pop artist Dido, but the song appealed to the angsty Detroit rapper for a reason. Kicking off with the moody opening chords and the bleak "My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why / I got out of bed at all," "Thank You" is a shaggy dog story of a song that uses the depressing initial lyrics to accentuate the uplifting and redeeming nature of the singer's loving relationship to her significant other, which is underlined by the repeated, inflection-changing line of "It reminds me that it's not so bad / Not so bad."

Based on the gravelly wail of the chorus and the power-pop orchestration of this rock 'n' roll classic, it would be (and, frankly, has been) easy for many listeners to confuse Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." for a patriotic rally cry. But "The Boss" was more interested in shining a light on the plight of blue-collar American veterans with this 1984 single, juxtaposing lyrics about the hardships of Vietnam veterans against a rousing rock ballad. The grandest irony of "Born in the U.S.A." is that the song maybe doesn't go far enough with its biting and reflective lyrics as the track is still used to this day for political causes for which the song's meaning is completely lost.

Okay, so it's maybe not a stretch to say that The Smiths have left a legacy of some pretty sad tunes, but their unique post-punk sound has put some of their more somber sentiments in uplifting and rhythmic music. Case-in-point: "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out," a song about interpersonal anxiety and death being counteracted by the prospect of another's love. It's a song to which you can't help but sway back and forth, but the grim lyrics, especially when it dives into the serenity the singer may feel if he were to die in his unnamed companions company, will haunt you long after you've stopped dancing.

Kid Cudi took aim at his genre's most popular output with his thinly-veiled single "Pursuit of Happiness," which takes aim at a generation lost in a haze of constant substance abuse. Yet one might not immediately pick up on the lyrics given the hypnotic music and catchy hook, all of which helped shoot it to the top of the hip-hop charts. Even more common are those misinterpreting the lyrics entirely, confusing the song for an anthem for the very thing it is criticizing.

Written for the controversial Todd Solondz film of the same name, "Happiness" was initially recorded by Michael Stipe and River Phoenix before the song's original writer, Eytan Mirsky, put out his own version as the movie's soundtrack (much like the film itself) has become somewhat of a rarity. Of course, the song is its own ironic bundle of joy, with an upbeat orchestration and sing-songy nature to juxtapose the bleak-af lyrics: "Happiness, where are you? / I've searched so long for you / Happiness, where are you? / I haven't got a clue."

I don't know if "99 Luftballons" (aka "99 Red Balloons") is the most dancey and fun song about a nuclear holocaust ever written, but that's because I haven't heard every single song ever. That said, this infectious '80s Europop classic has inspired multiple generations of people to bop around and sing along to such morbid lyrics as "It's all over, and I'm standing pretty / In this dust that was a city."

The Subways' Young for Eternity is a very underrated record, having largely been lost in the alt-rock shuffle internationally despite finding success initially with the lead-in single, "Rock & Roll Queen." That said, one of the album's most memorable tracks, "Mary," is the kind of song that'll have you dancing like a child as long as you don't think too much about the lyrics, which appear to be from the perspective of a transient with not much going on in life in a dependent relationship with a friend (or possibly unrequited love).

Musical emotions, such as happiness and sadness, have been investigated using instrumental music devoid of linguistic content. However, pop and rock, the most common musical genres, utilize lyrics for conveying emotions. Using participants' self-selected musical excerpts, we studied their behavior and brain responses to elucidate how lyrics interact with musical emotion processing, as reflected by emotion recognition and activation of limbic areas involved in affective experience. We extracted samples from subjects' selections of sad and happy pieces and sorted them according to the presence of lyrics. Acoustic feature analysis showed that music with lyrics differed from music without lyrics in spectral centroid, a feature related to perceptual brightness, whereas sad music with lyrics did not diverge from happy music without lyrics, indicating the role of other factors in emotion classification. Behavioral ratings revealed that happy music without lyrics induced stronger positive emotions than happy music with lyrics. We also acquired functional magnetic resonance imaging data while subjects performed affective tasks regarding the music. First, using ecological and acoustically variable stimuli, we broadened previous findings about the brain processing of musical emotions and of songs versus instrumental music. Additionally, contrasts between sad music with versus without lyrics recruited the parahippocampal gyrus, the amygdala, the claustrum, the putamen, the precentral gyrus, the medial and inferior frontal gyri (including Broca's area), and the auditory cortex, while the reverse contrast produced no activations. Happy music without lyrics activated structures of the limbic system and the right pars opercularis of the inferior frontal gyrus, whereas auditory regions alone responded to happy music with lyrics. These findings point to the role of acoustic cues for the experience of happiness in music and to the importance of lyrics for sad musical emotions.

"Get Happy" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler. It was the first song they wrote together, and was introduced by Ruth Etting[citation needed] in The Nine-Fifteen Revue in 1930.[1] The song expresses the gospel music theme of getting happy, an expression of religious ecstasy for salvation.

Read the official lyrics to 'Happy' by NF below; HAPPY is the fifth track on NF's new album, HOPE. "Happy" was co-produced by Tommee Profitt, NF and Jeff Sojka.

The song is a sort of autobiography by Richards and with 'Before they Make me Run' the best he sings with the Stones. It starts off with his childhood, blowing his pocket money before the end of the day, not fitting in at school, as in his book 'Life'. Continues 'didn't wanna get me no trade' - his father was an electrician at a factory but Richards went to art college, played guitar and the rest is history. The last verse is his life in the present at the time the song was recorded, cocktails and LearJets, but neither do these make him happy - as he says in every chorus 'I need a love to keep me happy'. The song is about following your passion and not being bound in by society's rules - having the faith to live in the day. e24fc04721

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