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{{quote|''"Then...[[The Messiah|I was inspired]]...now...I'm sad, and tired...[[Tear Jerker|after all, I've tried for three years...seems like thirty...why then am I scared to finish what I started?]] What You started...[[Messianic Archetype|I]] [[You Can't Fight Fate|didn't start it..."]]''|'''Jesus''', [[Jesus Christ Superstar|from the same musical]].}}
The number in a musical where a character undergoes a Blue Screen Of Death of [[Heroic BSOD|some]] [[Villainous BSOD|sort]]. Usually involves less singing and more speaking/shouting. Compare [[Sanity Slippage Song]].
[[Do Not Confuse With]] [[Obligatory Bondage Song|BDSM Song]].
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== Musical Theatre ==
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nXfdx5X8t4 Coalhouse's Soliloquy]" from ''[[Ragtime]]'' for [[Exactly What It Says
* In ''[[Once On This Island]]'', when Daniel reveals at the ball that {{spoiler|he and Andrea are engaged}}, Ti Moune recaps a few lines from "Forever Yours", which goes right into "Promises".
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtFOgfpZIyU Epiphany]" from ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (
* ''[[Les Misérables (
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtSTd28FRAY Javert's]
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJnjcX8skXk Empty Chairs At Empty Tables]," where Marius {{spoiler|mourns the death of all of his friends, and of his dreams for revolution and change}}. The next song, "Every Day," is Cosette softly urging him back to believing in life and in love.
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1xL6vtLM9U Judas' Death]" from ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'' (as quoted). Jesus also gets one with "Gethsemane".
* Frank N Furter gets "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Xn-DWHuuM Going Home]" toward the end of the ''[[Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''. The song illustrates just how off his rocker he is at that point. He even hallucinates an adoring, sympathetic audience is hanging on his every note.
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH0XlEehE-k Let the Monster Rise]" from ''[[Repo!
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egTsisFYato Betrayed]" from [[The Producers]].
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCxs2s-CG4 Everything you Ever]" from ''[[Dr.
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPKQRgA4TMI Neil's Turn]" from ''[[Commentary!
*** Funnily enough, both songs take place at roughly the same moment.
** There's also "Horribleturn" from the fan prequel ''[[Horrible Turn]]''.
* [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''Mass'' has "Things Get Broken," a nervous breakdown in 14 minutes.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I8pneJkxBY No Good Deed] from ''[[Wicked (
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35agM_gtcvg Catch Me I'm Falling]" from ''[[Next to Normal]]'' is a multiple-BSOD song.
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv1p1Vea0iY Rose's Turn]" from ''[[Gypsy]]'' is only partly an example, because of its [[World of Cardboard Speech|confident conclusion]]. That said, many actresses have played up the nervous breakdown more than Ethel Merman did.
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* "Tsubasa wo Daite" from ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' is a less raging-scream-filled version of this, especially near the end. (The raging screams come after he's done singing.)
* ''Bat Boy'', the off-Broadway musical based on the tabloid stories, has ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZrN86lIHuA Apology to a Cow]'' after Edgar makes some {{spoiler|[[Brother-Sister Incest|uncomfortable discoveries]]}}.
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* "All of My Life" from ''Do Re Mi''.
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjrA93_O6Dw Being Alive]" from ''[[Company]]'' is a possible example.
** Don't forget the end of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTm1m9CjEnQ The Ladies Who Lunch]", {{spoiler|when Joanne realizes her whole life has been wasted making snarky comments about other people instead of actually doing something herself}}.
* "What Am I Doin'?" from ''Closer Than Ever'', a vignette about a man who has one after being dumped.
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* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jb3oXqWjdw Everybody Dies]" from
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7UJR1aF6Gw Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer]" from ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'' for the Phantom, after Christine rips off his mask onstage, exposing his disfigurement to the packed opera house.
* "The last moments of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7vv6hymDGs The Phantom Confronts Christine]" and the song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbwMmJ4-Rc Mother, Did You Watch?]" from Love Never Dies are BSOD songs for {{spoiler|Madame Giry and Meg Giry, respectively}}
* ''[[Notre Dame
** Quasimodo's "Danse mon Esmeralda" (doubles as [[Grief Song]]), right after Esmeralda's death. He's witnessed the death of the woman he loves and killed his adoptive father. He's resolved to die holding Esmeralda's dead body, because "dying for you is not dying". Yeah, he's pretty broken.
** Frollo has a [[Villainous Breakdown|BSOD]] in the middle of "Mon maitre, mon sauveur (My Master My Saviour)" just a couple songs before, complete with [[Insane Laugh]].
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* "[[Into the Woods]] has "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMwIBI3TrcU No More]", sung by {{spoiler|The Baker after his wife dies}}.
* Pippin's final song in ''[[Pippin]]'', which is titled "Magic Shows and Miracles" when considered separate from the finale.
* ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'' has "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TmTidy77qI Missing You]", in which Harry and Quirrel sing about their [[Heroic BSOD]]'s over {{spoiler|Dumbledore's death and Voldemort's betrayal}}, respectively.
* "Murder" from the movie musical
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOKnqq6oXpk Kathy's solo reprise] of "An Organized Life" in ''Vanities: The Musical'': "And if/That's how you organize your existence/You have an organized nervous breakdown/You get strung out and neurotic/Messed in the head."
*
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''Man, it blows my mind.''
''[[Blatant Lies|I don't do sadness, so been there.]]''
''[[Heroic BSOD|Don't do sadness]]--[[Tear Jerker|just don't care...]]'' }}
* In [[Its Always Fair Weather]], the song "Situation-Wise".
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== Opera ==
* Edgar's final aria in ''Lucia di Lammermoor''. Ends with suicide.
* [[Peter Grimes]]'s so-called "mad scene".
* ANY mad scene in any opera... best known example might be ''Lucia di Lammermoor''. But Donizetti was in love with this trope.
* Baba's aria "Afraid, am I afraid?" from ''[[The Medium]].''
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** in ''Parsifal'', Amfortas, who does this EVERY time he sings. He also wangsts.
* Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene.
* Parodied in ''The Magic Flute'' when Papageno wants to hang himself because he can't get a wife. Thankfully, he's talked out of it and then of course he gets his girl too. Pamina also needs to be stopped. These Magic Flute people really need a psychiatrist sometimes.
* King Philip's big monologue in ''Don Carlo'', mostly about how lonely he is, and how better it would be in his grave.
* Fiesco's opening aria in ''Simon Boccanegra'' is also sort of this.
* Rigoletto's "''Cortigiani, vil razza dannata''" aria.
* Vere's "I accept their verdict" aria in ''Billy Budd'', just after the court-martial.
* Eboli's "''O don fatale''" in ''Don Carlo''.
* Amneris, during the judgement scene in ''Aida''.
* Otello's "''Dio mi potevi''". Also, his final monologue.
* ''Don Giovanni'' has a BSOD ''sextet''. When the cast finds out Leporello was disguised as the Don, everyone gets like: WTF?, and they sing about it for long minutes before continuing to bully poor Leporello.
** Although Don Giovanni manages to avoid any kind of realisation even when a statue breaks down his door.
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== Other ==
* [[Bon Iver]]'s "Re:Stacks," which is about losing all your money gambling and ending up drunk and depressed.
* [[Green Day]]'s ''[[American Idiot]]'' has the truly [[Epic Rocking|epic]] "Homecoming", which chronicles the main character's life after his girlfriend leaves him and his best
* "Ghost Love Score" and "The Poet and the Pendulum" by [[
* "Still Alive" From ''[[Portal (
** Possibly a literal [[Incredibly Lame Pun|BSOD song]] too, considering the singer is an AI.
** Also probably a [[Shout
* "Psychotic Reaction" by The Count Five might...um...count. The verses are fairly sedate, but they go into manic instrumental breaks.
* "Down Came the Rain" by Mr. Murray is a comic example. The singer is crooning a romantic ballad, but in the choruses where he sings about how the rain ruined his courtship, he goes into a totally bizarre vocal delivery.
* [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''[[The Wall]]'' is practically an entire album of BSOD, but "Another Brick in the Wall Part III" and maybe "Stop" fit the best.
* "Can't Stand Losing You" by The Police.
* [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Poor Jack]]
** [[
** The original song also subverts this halfway though, with Jack deciding that, yes, he screwed up, but it was a MAGNIFICENT screw-up and he had fun doing it (though he still intend to set things right).
* "Art of Life" by [[X Japan]]: it is an autobiographical song of [[Yoshiki Hayashi|Yoshiki]]'s early 1990s collapse from "neurocirculatory asthenia." "Drain" could also fall here as it is arguably the last song hide would write for [[X Japan]] and possibly somewhat reflective of his mental state at the time.
** "Art of Life" is a somewhat more [[Heroic BSOD|literal example]], when [[X Japan]] used a [[Hologram]] to give the impression that [[Heterosexual Life Partners|beloved]] guitarist [[Hideto Matsumoto|hide]] was still with them. Yoshiki has stated that it was seeing hide's hologram (seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zagJafZd40 here] at about the 5:42 mark) that caused him to break down.
* Non-singing example: "You're Not Alone!" from [[Final Fantasy IX]]. Also [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].
* Harry Chapin's 'Sniper'. 'I'll never forgive you of your blindness ... I HATE YOU!' One performance of the song had his voice noticeably rougher from that point until halfway into the next song.
* Arguable 'Scissors', the last track from [[Slipknot]]'s self titled debut, which was written as a reaction to death threats against Corey Taylor. Notable because he sounds on the verge of a real-life BSOD towards the end.
* Yuki from ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' has a song called "SELECT". Here are a few lines of the song...
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* "I'm Alive" by [[
* The "See Me/Feel Me" reprise at the end of "We're Not Gonna Take It" in ''[[Tommy]]''.
* About half of the songs in [[
* "Mind Over Matter" by ''[[
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* "The Idol" from [[
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One [[Fallen Hero]] with a face just like me?
And if I scream, would anybody hear me?
If I smash the silence, you'll see what fame has done to me! }}
* "Can't See (Useless)" by [[Oingo Boingo]]. At the time, the band was on its last legs, and lead singer [[Danny Elfman]] had just broken up with his girlfriend Caroline Thompson (who wrote ''[[Edward Scissorhands]]'') ''and'' gotten into a fight with his friend [[Tim Burton]].
* "Hurt", both the original Nine Inch Nails version and the cover by Johnny Cash - the former given that Trent Reznor was going through a personal BSOD when he wrote it, and the latter when you consider that Cash recorded it at the age of 71, in the grip of serious health problems, months before he died.
* "Everything In Its Right Place", from the [[Radiohead]] album ''Kid A'', was written about a breakdown Thom Yorke had during the OK Computer tour, during which he was [[Dumb Struck]]. "How to Disappear Completely" sounds a hell of a lot like a
* [[Van
* "Komm Süsser Tod", the dreaded song that plays during [[The End of the World
* The dark reprise of "Turnabout Love/Does She Know, Does She Care?" in [[My Little Town]]
* [[Savatage]]'s ''[[Streets:
** Also, "Epiphany" from Trans-Siberian Orchestra's ''Night Castle'' album. It's Tran-Do's [[Villainous BSOD]] after Cozier dies of infection while Tran-Do was too busy waffling over whether his side were [[Well-Intentioned Extremist
* [[High School Musical|"I want my own dream/So bad I'm gonna SCREAM!'']]
* [[Demons and Wizards]] has "Winter of Souls", about [[Bastard Bastard|Mordred]] on the eve of the final battle with his father [[King Arthur]]. He realizes that he's in the wrong and has used his legitimate grievances against Arthur as an excuse for his cruel ambitions, but it's too late to turn back and the fates of him and Arthur are sealed.
* [[
* ''I Will Go Sailing No More'' from [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] has Buzz gripping with the realization that he's a toy.
* [[Muse (
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