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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 on the Tin|Coalhouse]]. And the last verse of "Success" for Tateh. And "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGOEx_X3YLM Your Daddy's Son]" for Sarah. And "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP4IJodNYQ8 Til We Reach That Day]" for Coalhouse. AND "Justice" for, yes, Coalhouse. Bring tissues, it's that kind of show.

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtFOgfpZIyU Epiphany]" from ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' could fit into this. Also, towards the end of the play, Todd gets a BSOD moment after he {{spoiler|realizes that the Beggar Woman he has just killed was his beloved wife who he had killed the Judge and the Beadle to avenge}}. The short reprise of 'The Barber and His Wife' could also count as a BSOD Song.

* ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Misérables]]'':

** "[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".

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egTsisFYato Betrayed]" from [[The Producers]].

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCxs2s-CG4 Everything you Ever]" from ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]''.

*** Funnily enough, both songs take place at roughly the same moment.

* [[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 (theatre)|Wicked]]'', sung by The Wizard of Oz's 'Wicked Witch of the West' after she accidentally turns her love interest {{spoiler|into the Scarecrow you know from the books and movie}} while trying to use her magic to save him from being tortured to death in the beginning of the song. Also counts as a [[Sanity Slippage Song]].

* "What Am I Doin'?" from ''Closer Than Ever'', a vignette about a man who has one after being dumped.

{{quote|"Then she suddenly said I can't see her, and the thought of it drove me insane. So I climbed up a tree, I am creeping, to the roof over where she is sleeping, and I sit there all night in the rain."}}

* "[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}}

* 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.

* [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."

{{quote|''Hey, [[Foreshadowing|I've done my time, looking back on it all]]--''

''Man, it blows my mind.''

== Other ==

* [[Bon Iver]]'s "Re:Stacks," which is about losing all your money gambling and ending up drunk and depressed.

* "Ghost Love Score" and "The Poet and the Pendulum" by [[Nightwish]] are two totally BSOD songs. A lot of Nightwish songs are, these are just the most outstanding ones.

** Possibly a literal [[Incredibly Lame Pun|BSOD song]] too, considering the singer is an AI.

* "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.

* "Can't Stand Losing You" by The Police.

* [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Poor Jack]]

* 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.

{{quote|Yuki: "Memories that do remain are changed to code and stored away/I know what's how it should be but there is now a [DISK ERROR]/[DISK ERROR]/[DISK ERROR]/[DISK ERROR]/[DISK ERROR]/[YES]"}}

* "I'm Alive" by [[Disturbed]] has elements of this, though it's much more of a "I'll hold my own beliefs and nobody can convince me otherwise" sort of song.

* About half of the songs in [[CosMo]]'s series ''The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku''. Some literally, much like the ''Haruhi'' example above.

* "Mind Over Matter" by ''[[Iron Savior]]'' is another fairly literal example, as the storyline's eponymous behemoth questions its own existence, realizing that despite having been artifically created, some power has brought it to consciousness.

* "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 BSOD Song, but is actually a description of a [[Survival Mantra]].

* [[Van der Graaf Generator]] are quite fond of these. "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" is probably the best example.

* The dark reprise of "Turnabout Love/Does She Know, Does She Care?" in [[My Little Town]]

* [[Savatage]]'s ''[[Streets: A Rock Opera]]'' has the song "Agony and Ecstasy", which is also part [[Villain Song]]. The BSOD portion represents the part of DT that's willing to give into despair and return to drugs for comfort.