The two I can think of are:

  • It’s Not Unusual
  • Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
  • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
    21·
    6 days ago

    90% of ska/ska punk music is like this. A few examples:

    “The Science of Selling Yourself Short” - Less Than Jake

    “Beer” - Reel Big Fish

    “Struggler” and “I Don’t Love You Anymore” - Bomb the Music Industry!

    “The Last Bell I Will Ever Hear”, “1-800-ALARM-ME” and “Last on my List” - The Arrogant Sons of Bitches

    “Ska Dream” and “Checkerboard Ashtray” - Jeff Rosenstock

    “A Better Place, a Better Time” and “As the Footsteps Die Out Forever” - Streetlight Manifesto

    • Tehhund@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Nearly Everything by Reel Big Fish. It’s all fun ska and mostly about social anxiety, broken hearts, and substance abuse. I love them.

      • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
        2·
        5 days ago

        I’ll have to listen to that one! “I Know You Too Well to Like You Anymore” fits the bill as well. A very ugly fight between a couple who hate each other but can’t live without one another.

  • Masktchi@feddit.frEnglish
    15·
    7 days ago

    Every Stromae’s songs.
    It’s always funny to see non-french-speaking people being so hyped by Stromae’s songs, like they think it’s joyful af and all… While his songs lyrics are litterally about :

    • a man who drinks and dances a lot in order to forget his shitty life ( Alors on danse )
    • a song about his father who was killed during Rwanda’s genocide ( Papaoutai )
    • other songs about suicide, cancer, breakups, addictions, depression etc… But always with an upbeat melody !
    • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 days ago

      I don’t speak a lick of French (I know enough Spanish to recognize some words if they are slightly similar, but that’s it) but still enjoy Stromae, although I’ve never found his music to be upbeat. I think, especially in Papaoutai, you can hear the struggle and sadness in the tone of the song and in his voice.

  • SinkingLotus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago
  • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    Jonathan Coulton has a bunch of these. “I Feel Fantastic” “Betty and Me” “Blue Sunny Day” “Shop Vac” “Chiron Beta Prime” “Future Soon” off the top of my head. “Skullcrusher Mountain” and “Re: Your Brains” to a lesser degree.

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 days ago

    You are my sunshine

    The other night dear As I lay sleeping I dreamed I held you in my arms But when I woke up I was mistaken so I held my head and I cried You are my sunshine My ONLY sunshine

    It doesn’t get any better from there

    Edit: I will never understand how to format things the way I want them to sorry

  • GoddessGundy@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 days ago

    My boyfriend said he thought about me when we listen to Saturday Night by the Misfits. I’m like… do you want to murder me?..

    The lyrics always sounded very murdery to me. I think they did an amazing job of making it sound romantic but bf read through the lyrics after that and hugged me when I got home and said he definitely didn’t want to murder me.

    Edit: Ok this one is purely personal but I just got done with work and it came out on the playlist, Achilles Come Down by Gangs of Youth.

    I learned this song from my daughter. I let her control the music when we’d drive to school and back but I immediately loved this song because unlike me, she has an amazing voice. This is one I only ever heard underneath her crystalline soprano while she sang along.

    It was always so beautiful that I didn’t focus on the song so much as her. She made a haunting, sad song a beautiful, pleasant memory for me because now she’s had her license for a while, she’s doing her thing being an ambitious senior. I don’t get to listen to her sing anymore between my work and her school/social schedule.

    I miss the days when I stayed up after a 12 hour shift to take her to school because I miss listening to her sing. I brain was fuzzy and that morning sun seared my eyeballs but I cherish every morning now because I don’t have many left. I acutally miss everything about my kids needing me now that one has been independent for quite a few years and the other two are almost independent. I’m listening right now and all I can hear is her voice.

    Fuck that shit hits hard. Im going to be an empty nester soon. Fucking FUCK. Fuck does it hit hard. I should be proud. I am! Jesus am I. I don’t know how I was blessed with these people, bio and adopted, that’s how vlessed I am, but I don’t want to look the gift horse in the mouth. Fucking wow, am I proud. But really I’m sad, too.

    /soliloquy

  • potoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    Rock-a-bye, baby

    On the tree top

    When the wind blows

    The cradle will rock

    When the bough breaks

    The cradle will fall

    And down will come baby

    Cradle and all

    We sing that shit to literal babies, what the fuck is wrong with us?

  • unicornBro@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    6 days ago

    Happier - by Bastille and Marshmello. It might depend on the listener tho.

    Aint it fun - Paramore

    Honestly, i don’t like that a lot of radio music is so sad. I have to look to real oldies to find a happy song.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    My Worst Enemy - Lit

    Man, who is probably an alcoholic, wakes up the next day from a bender to find his girlfriend has left him.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      So I listened to some of Lit’s new stuff, they went full religious man. Bummed me out.

      Stroke 9 on the other hand are fucking amazing and I love nearly all their tracks, their latest two albums are sick, Lake got me back into them, then went back to all their stuff I missed. Here’s a screenshot of my ratings :)

  • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 days ago

    Vamos a la playa - super catchy totally 80s pop song that was everywhere in amusement parks … and it’s about nuclear hellscape.