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** Then there's the [[Nirvana]] publicity photo exposed atop this page.
{{quote|"Look on the bright side is suicide..."}}
** He also wrote "I'd rather be dead than cool".
** Nirvana also recorded a song titled "I Hate Myself and Want to Die", which was supposed to be released as a B-side to the "Pennyroyal Tea" single. The title of the song was chosen as a rather [[Call Back|sarcastic in-joke]], at least according to an interview Cobain gave Rolling Stone in January 1994. When Kurt died, the single was immediately shelved, though it had already been released a year before on the compilation ''The [[Beavis and Butthead]] Experience''.
* The metal band [[Slayer]] recorded the song "Disciple", featured on ''God Hates Us All'', contains heartwarming lines such as these:
{{quote|"Pessimist, terrorist targeting the next mark
Global chaos feeding on hysteria"
"Man made virus infecting the world
Self-destruct human time bomb." }}
** On the ''God Hates Us All'' note, it was one of a handful of albums released on September 11, 2001.
* Progressive metal band [[Dream Theater]] originally released their live album "Live: Scenes From New York" with artwork showing the NYC skyline, including the Twin Towers, in flames. The album was released on September 11, 2001. It was quickly recalled, and the artwork was
* [[The Replacements]], in 1981, recorded a song called "Johnny's Gonna Die" about [[Music/New York Dolls|New York Dolls]] guitarist Johnny Thunders, who had a notorious drug addiction. Ten years after the song was released, Johnny Thunders did indeed die, presumably of drug-related causes. Replacements guitarist Bob Stinson died a few years afterwards, largely due to the toll years of drug and alcohol abuse took on his body.
* In the music videos for his solo songs "Misery" and "Oblaat", [[X Japan]] guitarist [[Hideto Matsumoto|hide]] posed hanging from a tower at one point in "Misery" and sticking his neck into a noose near the end of "Oblaat". In 1998, he would die in an accident involving self-inflicted asphyxiation.
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** Another example from ''Thriller'' is the song "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)." It's obviously about a young woman, but that ''title''!
** On a similar note, his concert series scheduled to start July 2009 was called ''This Is It''. It doesn't help that the very last public interview he gave was announcing the tour to his fans, in which he repeatedly said, in reference to the concert title, "this is it, this is ''really'' it! This will be my last concert ever, I mean it! This is it!"
**
{{quote|I am the damned
I am the dead
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And Michael Jackson, HIStory"'' }}
** The lyrics to Michael's song "Morphine".
** From [[The Simpsons (animation)|"Lisa, It's Your Birthday"]]
{{quote|"The training wheels come off your bike, you start to notice boys you like"}}
* A good portion of [[Paul McCartney]]'s solo album ''Driving Rain'' can cause headaches now for those who know the backstory because he included multiple love songs to Heather Mills. Songs declaring eternal love to someone you have since broken up with are by definition painful.
** This also happened to his song "Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five", presumably written for Linda, once he remarried.
{{quote|''"No one ever left alive in nineteen-hundred-and-eighty-five will ever do
''She may be right, she may be fine, she may get love, but she won't get mine, 'cause I've got you..."'' }}
** [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]' song "When I'm 64". This is [[Paul McCartney]]'s song, and its verses end, "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?" Anyway, ''one month before'' his 64th birthday, he and Heather Mills separated.
** Another McCartney album, ''Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard'', released in 2005, was recognized immediately as a [[Concept Album]] and recognized immediately as having Heather Mills as a primary subject; but they thought it was mostly an album of mere [[Silly Love Songs]] (Paul is a believer in [[Death of the Author]], usually, so his analyses aren't always helpful). The album was critically acclaimed when it was released. There was ''one'' unambiguously vicious song on the album, "Riding to Vanity Fair", but it was considered [[Mood Whiplash]], and there was much speculation towards who it was about... Then Paul and Heather separated in May 2006. Some quickly realized what "Chaos and Creation" (as an album) was really about. Others never recovered from the [[Logic Bomb]] (there ''are'' [[Silly Love Songs]] on
* [[John Lennon]] once told the press that he acted silly so that he wouldn't become a martyr. It didn't work.
** It gets worse - on the day John Lennon was murdered, he recorded an interview, in which he made a reference to "when I'm dead and buried - which I hope is a long, long time from now." In the same interview, Lennon also talked of how much hope he had for the 1980s and how he looked forward to the new decade.
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And I put my finger on your little trigger
I know that you'll never do me no harm..." }}
** An official [https://web.archive.org/web/20130929114014/http://www.last.fm/music/The+Beatles/+images/178511 picture] of [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] shows John dead and the remaining three being worried about him. What makes it worse is that George is wearing John's
** A song he wrote for Ringo is called "Life Begins at 40".
** Lennon made a cynical observation in a rare interview from 1980 found on [[YouTube]], about those who criticized him for being in seclusion for five years, not releasing any music, and not calling any of his rock star drinking buddies to party, was that when John dies, the rock community who criticized him for hiding would [[Dead Artists Are Better|say nothing but nice things about him when he's dead]], but the fact that he didn't die in L.A. from his "lost weekend" excesses in the mid-1970's meant that they were free to judge John for settling down and for not partying with his rock star friends until he became a "rock casualty".
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* In the late 1980s, George Harrison was once asked if he feared for his own safety after Lennon's murder. In a bit of [[Self-Deprecation|self-deprecating]] humor, he answered that he wasn't important enough to kill. Near the end of 1999, a crazy fan decided the exact opposite, broke into his home, and stabbed him repeatedly in the chest, nearly succeeding in killing him.
* [[Guns N' Roses]]' most famous song, "Sweet Child o' Mine", was Axl Rose's declaration of love for then-fiance Erin Everly. A few years later, Axl and Erin were involved in a bitter divorce battle where Erin accused Axl in court of hitting her.
* The [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]] song "Meridian" contains the lyric, "I'm sleeping in the Astrodome!" A year after it was written, Hurricane Katrina hit, resulting in hundreds of evacuees being bused to the Houston Astrodome, while the less fortunate ones who were trapped in New Orleans' own Superdome.
* The initial album cover for the 1977 [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] album ''Street Survivors'' depicted the band members surrounded by an outdoor fire. Unfortunately, the tragic plane crash that killed Ronnie Van Zandt and Steve Gaines occurred three days after the album was released. As a result, the album was reissued with the fire cover replaced by a solemn cover depicting the band members in a black space, illuminated by a spotlight. In 2008, when ''Street Survivors'' was reissued in a Deluxe Edition CD set, the original fire cover was chosen instead of the spotlight cover.
* Many songs were hit by hurricane Katrina, including:
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** Many of Layne's [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821655/bio#quotes quotes] such as:
{{quote|''That makes me sad for my friends who have taken their own lives, because I know that if your time is not finished here, and you end it yourself, then you gotta finish it somewhere else.
Why do people keep taking drugs? Don't they hear my music? Don't they understand the words?
I'm scared of death, especially death by my own hand. I'm scared of where I would go.'' }}
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** And then there's every line of "Highway to Hell"... especially the last one.
{{quote|"I'm on the highway to hell"}}
* In October
{{quote|"Oh, I will dance with Cinderella
I don't want to miss even one song
'Cause all too soon the clock will strike midnight
And she'll be gone..." }}
* [[Blink
* One song from [[Queen]]'s debut album, "Great King Rat," features an apparent [[Author Avatar]] who quotes several other songs on the album and "died syphilis, forty-four on his birthday." Two decades later, the writer and lead singer would be dead, at forty-five, of a venereal disease.
** An even worse moment came in their ''Live At Wembley Stadium'' concert, where Freddie Mercury told fans that "we're going to stay together until we fucking well die, I assure you." This become the saddest section of the concert and its album release.
** "I'm Going Slightly Mad" seemed like another lighthearted Queen song when it appeared on their final album, ''Innuendo''- before Freddie's illness was widely known about. When later replayed during the tribute concert, the possibility of its reference to some form of AIDS-related dementia (something which has apparently been confirmed since) was more obvious and chilling.
** Since Queen's popularity in America had been flagging in the late eighties, Freddie Mercury reportedly said to Brian May, "I'll probably have to die before we're popular there again." This turned out to be true.
** "Who Wants to Live Forever" seems a lot more awkward when you realize that, apparently, Freddie Mercury didn't want to hard enough
::Speaking of which, the song (along with other Queen's songs) was used in ''Highlander II: The Quickening'' which was given its American Release Date of November 1, 1991. Freddie died in November 24 of the same year.
** Sure, it's a Brian May song, but it's difficult not to associate the title (and, to a lesser extent, the [http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/13158/ lyrics]) of "Too Much Love Will Kill You" with Freddie's illness.
** ''Made In Heaven,'' the posthumous album, start to finish. "Let Me Live", "Made In Heaven", "My Life Has Been Saved", "Too Much Love Will Kill You", "It's A Beautiful Day", and "Mother Love".
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* The song ''Jordan's First Choice'' from folk-punk band Against Me!'s first album features "Tell me where was your head when you broke that promise to yourself?" amongst its first lines. They were very strongly committed to anarchist politics and remaining on indie labels. Needless to say, they discarded both principles and the song is now difficult to listen to.
** "Punk Rock Classic" from the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]. The song takes swipes at bands (specifically [[Guns N' Roses]]) that claim to be underground but really want to be on MTV, make videos, and release radio-friendly ballads. After "Under the Bridge" came out and the band got big, the Chilis became exactly what they had mocked. To add to that irony, GNR's Slash originally didn't like "Sweet Child O'Mine" - the riff mocked at the end of "Punk Rock Classic" - because he felt it was too poppish.
* The title track to The Dandy Warhols' 2003 album ''Welcome
* Every other song [[Tupac Shakur|2Pac]] wrote was about him dying before his time (same thing with Biggie Smalls as mentioned above). Case in point: [http://ohhla.com/anonymous/2_pac/greatest/troubl96.2pc.txt Troublesome '96].
* The Grass Roots' "Let's Live For Today". Now that people are a lot more concerned with the environment and economy...
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** Some of the songs on Zappa's "We're Only In It For The Money" are based on the absurdity of the idea of cops killing hippies. The album was released in 1968- two years before the Kent State massacre.
* Syd Barrett, founding member of [[Pink Floyd]], gave the band their first hit with a song entitled "Arnold Layne", which is about a crossdresser. Not too long afterwards, after Syd Barrett began his [[Creator Breakdown|mental decline]], he developed some similar tendencies of his own.
** Similarly, the 1965 Syd Barrett composition [http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pinkfloyd/lucyleave.html "Lucy Leave"] is a pretty run-of-the-mill song about a cruel girl who takes advantage of the narrator's love for her. Nothing creepy there. However, since the term "Lucy" is slang for LSD, which is generally thought to have either caused or exacerbated Syd's mental breakdown two years later...yeah.
* Courtney Love ([[Yoko Oh No|controversial wife]] of Kurt Cobain) was in a band called Hole, which released an album called ''Live Through This'' on April 12, 1994 - only four days after Kurt Cobain was found dead in his home. To make matters worse, one of the songs (entitled "Rock Star", a thing Kurt was never comfortable with being) has a line "Barrel of laughs to be [[Nirvana]], hope you'd rather die". Even if you're aware that the album was completed before Kurt died, it's still pretty creepy (especially if you believe that Courtney murdered Kurt). It's possibly worth noting that Hole's bassist, Kristen Pfaff, died of a heroin overdose several months later.
** The album took its title from a line of the song ''Asking For It'', which at some point was a duet between Courtney and Kurt (the recording still exists in bootleg form). The full line goes "if you live through this with me I'll die for you". Yes, they both sing it. It's damn creepy.
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* [[The Who]]'s album ''Who Are You'' has Keith Moon sitting on a chair labeled [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Who_Are_You_album_cover.JPG "Not to be taken away"]. About one month after its release, Moon passed away.
** The line "Hope I die before I get old" in "My Generation".
* [[Warren Zevon]] wrote many songs dealing with death. A line from "Life'll Kill Ya" (from the album of the same name) says "Some get the awful, awful diseases." Later in the album, he sings "Don't let us get sick, don't let us get old." The cover of his next album, ''My Ride's Here'', showed him riding in a hearse. Zevon died of mesothelioma at the age of 56.
** In his song "Play it All Night Long," Zevon mocked "country livin'." The chorus goes "'Sweet Home Alabama'/ Play that dead band's song," a jab at Lynyrd Skynyrd. Thing is, Lynyrd Skynyrd ''survived'' the deaths of most of its original members. Zevon has not outlived that band.
** Kid Rock later [[Covered Up]] "Werewolves of London" with "All Summer Long" in a song that sampled both "Werewolves" ''and'' [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'s "Sweet Home Alabama." The song was exactly what "Play It All Night Long" was
** "My Shit's Fucked Up", the song about being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
* On a cold night in February in 1959, J.P. Richardson (aka The Big Bopper), ill with the flu, asked his friend [[Buddy Holly]] if he could get a seat on his plane to their next gig. Holly's bassist [[Waylon Jennings]] gave up his seat for Richardson. Holly jokingly yelled, "I hope your bus freezes up", and Jennings shot back, "Well, I hope your damn plane crashes!" Tragically, Jennings got his wish, as the plane crashed, killing Holly, Richardson, and [[Ritchie Valens]]. It was decades before Jennings forgave himself.
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{{quote|'''Synyster Gates:''' "Yeah, he fucking planned it all, that crazy fuck. Knew he was gonna be gone before 30. He told my dad that he was fucking out. He said, "I know two things: I'm gonna be in a famous rock band, and I'm gonna die before I'm 30." He told my dad that at 15." }}
* Jello Biafra, of the seminal Hardcore Punk band [[Dead Kennedys]], penned the typically blunt DK anthem "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" as his reaction to skinheads wrecking the LA Punk scene. Years later, he was hospitalized by a pack of skinheads... supposedly for "selling out" and "not being hardcore enough".
* One of the [[Jimmy Eat World]] albums was named [https://web.archive.org/web/20110223110441/http://jandemessemaeker.net/music/albumcovers/Jimmy%20Eat%20World-Bleed%20American.jpg Bleed American] and was released on July
** For several years, copies pressed after 9/11 re-branded the album as being self-titled, and the titled track was renamed "Salt Sweet Sugar".
* [[Elton John]] songs like "White Lady, White Powder" (1980) and "Heavy Traffic" (1988) both of which denounce cocaine abuse, "Idol" (1976), which describes a fallen idol ([[Elvis Presley]], very likely) and "Social Disease" (1973), a bittersweet look at alcoholism, take on a new meaning when one realizes Elton's own debilitating cocaine and alcohol habits from the mid-seventies to 1990. Granted, Bernie Taupin, who had similar habits from the mid- to late 1970's, wrote the lyrics to both songs, but still...
** Other examples are ''Rocket Man'' ("And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then...") and ''The Bitch Is Back'' ("I get high every evening, sniffin' pots of glue")
* The [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] song "Why Does This Always Happen to Me?", becomes this after the Haitian earthquake during the first verse, which describes a man's lamenting missing ''[[The Simpsons]]'' when it is interrupted by a special report on a "Devastating earthquake".
** There's also "Christmas at Ground Zero," which is actually more about nuclear war than 9/11, but...
** His song "Traffic Jam", after his parents' deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning. The song opens with the line "Carbon monoxide making me choke."
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** Allusions to water and drowning were fairly common among Jeff Buckley's career, especially with the aptly titled "Nightmares by the Sea"
{{quote|"Stay with me under these waves tonight\''}}
* Irish band The Thrills released a single called "Whatever Happened to Corey Haim?" in 2004 referencing the 80's star's diminished profile. On March
* In the mid-1980's, comedienne Julie Brown released a novelty song called "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun," about a girl winning homecoming queen then blasting away at her classmates. The song itself is an over-the-top parody of fifties "tragedy songs" like "It's My Party," and contained lines like "An hour later, the cops arrived/by then the entire glee club had died." After Columbine, even SHE was uncomfortable with it.
* New Orleans based metal band Down had a song on their 2002 album titled "New Orleans is a Dying Whore." Oops. They play it live as of 2009, but one imagines they took it out of rotation for a year or two following Katrina.
* Thin Lizzy's closing track of their final album, entitled [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBJ_MhKa0uI Heart Attack], features the lyrics "Mama I'm dying of an ''overdose''". The group's frontman, Phil Lynott, would die of "blood poisoning", which was likely an indication of being related to heroin abuse, less than two years after its release.
* The popularity of "Fire Burning on the Dance Floor" in the Philippines kinda gets a little uncomfortable if one is old enough to remember the [[wikipedia:Ozone Disco Club fire|Ozone Disco Club Fire]] (the worst fire in Philippine history) in which 162 people burned to death, most on the dance floor, because of poor fire exit design and the number of people in the club at that time.
* In a PR stunt, the band [[Type O Negative]] started propagating a rumor in 2005 that their frontman Peter Steele died. Five years later he did for real. There's also the fact that their final two albums were entitled ''Life Is Killing Me'' and ''Dead Again''.
* Any jokes from TV appearances by former [[Hello! Project|Morning Musume]] member Iida Kaori about Motherhood or Childbirth are this as she had a son who sadly died at only 6 months old.
* [[Tenacious D]]'s song "Dio" lost a decent bit of its humor after he died of stomach cancer in 2010, as did all the jokes among metalheads about how Dio would kick the ass of some personification of cancer as befitting his [[Memetic Badass]] status.
* Telefon Tel Aviv's third and last album is called "Immolate Yourself". One day after it's release, Charles Cooper, half of the duo, went missing and was found dead a week later.
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* A song by "Vărul Săndel” starts with the line ”Oh boy, did it rain hard in Tecuci...” and is eventually played for laughs. It gets a nasty twist when in this period, Tecuci is under risk of being flooded. This risks falling well into [[Dude, Not Funny]] territory if you think the area Galați-Tecuci is often flooded because it's close to the Danube's falling into the Black Sea.
* "Mary" by the [[Scissor Sisters]] is about Jake Shears' platonic love for his friend Mary. The song itself sounds a bit mournful, though it was released in 2004. It was two years before she died of an aneurysm.
* The Aquabats are primarily known for being silly; their shtick is that they're really superheroes from the land of Aquabania, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20121018021015/http://www.metrolyrics.com/cat-with-two-heads-lyrics-aquabats.html "The Cat with Two Heads!"] is typical of their work. They have a song called "Pizza Day!" about how great government-assisted school lunches were. It ends with a bit where one of the band members pretends to read a letter from Michael Jackson, of Encino, California. Aside from "Michael Jackson is weird!" jokes not being funny anymore, the line "When he's not at his his little theme park, he's eatin' pizza with the kids!" is cringe-inducing because of the charges against Jackson a few years after the song was released.
* There's a cover of "Baby It's Cold Outside" done by Alan Cumming and Liza Minnelli. It's cute and funny, until you remember that Liza's mother who is supposedly "pacing the floor" was [[Judy Garland]]. ("Say, what's in this drink?")
* [[David Bowie]]'s "Kooks," dedicated to Zowie (aka Duncan Jones, later a [[Moon|film]] [[Source Code|director]]), seems to have been meant as a light breather between the dramatic "Life on Mars" and the existential "Quicksand," but knowing the rocky relationship he would have with his son over the next few decades makes it much less cheerful.
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So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. }}
* [[Primus]]' album ''Frizzle Fry'' came out in February 1990 and included a jokey [[Protest Song]] called "Too Many Puppies", which mentions "too many puppies in foreign lands" and needing to "protect our oil fields". Six months later, the [[Gulf War]] broke out.
* [[Britney Spears]]' songs "Lucky" and "Mona Lisa (Demo Version)" both have extra meaning after her publicized erratic behavior and meltdowns spanning from 2006 to 2008.
{{quote|She's so lucky
she's a star,
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See everyone knew her, they knew her oh so well
Now I am taking over, to release her from her spell
Don't have a break down you will hit the freaking wall
Cuz she's gone, cuz she's gone, gone'' }}
** She recorded a song called "Oops, I Did it Again".
* [[Lindsay Lohan]]'s songs "Rumors", "A Beautiful Life", "Fastlane", "Disconnected" and "Anything But Me", since everything has seemed to got worst since she recorded these songs in the ''better'' times in her career, before she went off the deep end in every way possible. It's a strange experience either way.
** "My Innocence" and "Confessions Of A Broken Heart" also are harder to listen to since she deleted her father from her life again after beating up another girlfriend/wife again.
* In an example that features a slightly less disturbing coincidence than many of the 9/11 related songs and albums, [[Rammstein]]'s music video for "Ich Will" begins with the band getting off of a prison bus going to a television awards ceremony in their honor. The rest of the video is what happened before: the band plays as a group of terrorists, and they rob and then blow up a bank. The whole video was intended as a [[Take That]] statement to the media for giving large amounts of attention to people who do bad things and then become famous. The part that makes it a Funny Aneurysm Moment is that it was a music video featuring terrorists released September 10, 2001. Osama Bin Laden, the head of Al-Qaeda and responsible of both attacks, was one of the most recognized, and hated, individuals in the world.
* During the recording of the song "Gimme Shelter" for [[The Rolling Stones]], guest vocalist Merry Clayton hit some very high notes, and even broke her voice during the bridge. She shortly after had a miscarriage, due to the stress that she put on her body during the recording. With this in mind, it probably wasn't very wise for the Stones to have named the album it is listed on as ''Let It Bleed''.
* There is a folk song called ''fire in the sky'' which refers to the space shuttle Columbia, among other things saying "see her big jets burning, see her fire in the sky." The inspiring line became more tragic after the Columbia spectacularly burned up on re-entry.
* A weird example from [[Gorillaz]] canon: in the ''MTV Cribs'' bit, a quick gag shows a signed note from [[Dennis Hopper]] that says, 'Murdoc is a nob.' Murdoc glances at it and slinks away, snarling, "I'll get him..." Not so funny since Hopper's death a few years later.
* Pre-9/11, KOMPRESSOR released a cover of [https://web.archive.org/web/20120209163656/http://www.jollylager.com/kompressor/mp3/k-tuntun.mp3 Tunak Tunak Tun], with some added lyrics:
{{quote|KOMPRESSOR crushing American people
KOMPRESSOR driving cars into stores
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* [[Amy Winehouse]]'s song "Rehab" (which centers on Amy refusing to get help for her drug addiction) is a whole lot darker now that she's dead.
** Her song "You know I'm no good" isn't easy to listen to anymore, either.
** Relatedly, the first line of [[The Midnight Beast]]'s career-making parody of [[
* [[Space]] had a song called 'Drop Dead' on their first album, sung from the point of view of a [[Stalker with a Crush|crazed stalker]]. One year later, when the band were touring America, Tommy Scott had a stalker of his own, who turned up at every gig, sent him death threats and told him he was going to hell.
* Early in his career, [[Randy Travis]] promised in "Forever And Ever, Amen" that he would love his wife forever. They divorced in 2011.
* A couple of years back, the Capitol Steps released a song online called "We Arr The World", featuring an impersonation of [[Michael Jackson]] as one of the famous personalities. He died the same week, and was quickly replaced by Cher, then Christine O'Donnell, then finally after enough time had passed, he was put back in as "back from the afterlife".
* One of the first hits by Mexican showman Juan Gabriel
** It
* Rapper Poetic performed as a member of [[Gravediggaz]] as "The Grym Reaper". And he was the one that died.
* In [[Stevie Wonder]]'s song "Master Blaster (Jammin')", he happily sings the line "Peace has come to Zimbabwe". Of course, it was true at the time: the song was first released in 1980, not long after the end of the end of the Rhodesian Bush War. Several decades later, however...
* [[Katy Perry]]'s last single from ''Teenage Dream'' was [[Break Up Song]] "The One That Got Away"... released two months before she got divorced from [[Russell Brand]].
* After The Mama's and the Papa's got back together for the first time they recorded a song called 'Creeque Alley' which included the line 'No one's getting fat except for Mama Cass' a reference to Cass Elliot, who was very well known as being an overweight woman in pop. The final refrain changes the line to 'And ''everybody's'' getting fat except for Mama Cass.' Given that Cass Elliot died in 1974, of a heart attack, allegedly due to her size, and she was the first of The Mama's and the Papa's to die...
* Back in the 80s a magazine made a speculative guess on what certain then-current stars would be like in the future. [http://x27.xanga.com/938f411164c32249527181/w197978412.jpg There one on] [[Michael Jackson]] shows him looking like an older version of his young adult self and with the line "In number, his fans will have grown tenfold by the year 2000".
* The song "The Ghost At Number One" by [[Too Good to Last]] power-pop band [[Jellyfish]] tells of an underappreciated rock star who is [[Dead Artists Are Better|only vindicated at death]] (possibly [[Roy Orbison]], who would get his only #1 single posthumously with "You Got It"). Jellyfish would break up in 1994 following low sales of their second album (which feature that song), and much of their work would be reappraised decades after their breakup.
* Sugarland's "It Happens" is a bouncy song about not wallowing in self-pity when things go wrong and instead learning to roll with the punches; that blunders, accidents, etc. are just part of life. This isn't so cheery when one considers that their attorneys' response to legal claims brought against them after high winds caused the stage to collapse before their scheduled performance at the 2011 Indiana State
* [[The Beach Boys]]' 1988 hit "Kokomo", with its references to Caribbean vacation-paradise islands, lost some of its charm when Montserrat ("...that Montserrat mystique...") was economically and geographically devastated by the Soufriere Hills volcano in the '90s.
* In the same vein, [[Jimmy Buffet]]'s "Volcano" was RECORDED on Montserrat...
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* [[Bob Dylan]]'s Subterranean Homesick Blues includes the line "I don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." While the line is iconic of the [[The Sixties|1960s]] in its own right, it gained some undesirable subtext when terrorist group The Weathermen named themselves after the line.
* The cover of Riot's 2011 album ''Immortal Soul'' features a pair of ghostly arms in a graveyard reaching toward a guitar. Just a couple of months after the album's release, founding guitarist and band leader Mark Reale lost his lifelong battle with Crohn's Disease, adding a major sense of tragedy to both the title and the cover of the album.
* "Beef" by Lil Reese fits this because it was describe as "thug music" during the [http://gawker.com/white-florida-man-said-i-hate-thug-music-before-shoo-1519304881 Michael Dunn
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