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** 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 (Music)|Slayer]] recorded the song "Disciple", featured on ''God Hates Us All'', contains heartwarming lines such as these:
{{quote| "Pessimist, terrorist targeting the next mark<br />
Global chaos feeding on hysteria"<br />
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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 (Music)|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 changed -- but some copies with the original artwork were sold.
* [[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.
* Most of the stuff surrounding [[Michael Jackson (Music)|Michael Jackson]] becomes this by way of either his issues with [[Paedo Hunt|pedophilia]] or his [[Author Existence Failure|death]].
** The line "I'm not like ''other'' boys..." in the prologue of the "[[Michael Jackson|Thriller]]" video.
** The video for ''[[The Dead Can Dance|Thriller]]'', knowing that [[Michael Jackson]] has left us.
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I am the dead<br />
I am the agony inside a dying head. }}
** This even managed to affect other groups' music. The first two lines of [[U 2U2]]'s "The Playboy Mansion", punning off of MJ's greatest hits album title:
{{quote| ''"If Coke is a mystery<br />
And Michael Jackson, HIStory"'' }}
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{{quote| Everybody loves you when you're six feet in the ground}}
* 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 (Music)|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]] 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:
** "When The Levee Breaks", by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie, later versioned by [[Led Zeppelin (Music)|Led Zeppelin]]. The song refers to one of the [[wikipedia:Great Mississippi Flood of 1927|most destructive river floods in United States history]], though New Orleans was largely spared. It becomes harsher post-Hurricane Katrina. While levees did break before that, it was never ''quite'' on that scale.
** The blues song "New Orleans":
{{quote| "where the magnolia blossoms fill the air<br />
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** He also once said that when he died, he wanted to "be there" (as he put it) and experience it, "not die in [his] sleep or of an OD or something". Knowing he felt this way makes his manner of death doubly sad.
** Also, one of the lines in the Doors song "Roadhouse Blues" is "The future's uncertain and the end is always near." The song was released in 1970 and for Morrison, who died the following year, the end actually was near.
* A [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeyh/224044065/in/set-1133006/ well-known photograph] depicts [[Music/Blind Melon|Blind Melon]] singer Shannon Hoon gleefully kissing [[Alice in Chains (Music)|Alice in Chains]] singer Layne Staley. Both singers had severe drug problems and died from fatal overdoses.
** The last song [[Alice in Chains (Music)|Alice in Chains]] recorded with Layne before his overdose was called "Died".
** [[Alice in Chains (Music)|Alice in Chains]] had a song titled "We Die Young". And well... Layne did.
** 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.<br />
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{{quote| "Father, father, we don't need to escalate<br />
You see, war is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate". }}
* In the little known [[ACDC (Music)|AC/DC]] song "Carry Me Home", Bon Scott sings about getting so drunk he can't move and is pretending to be drunk while singing. Also the last lines:
{{quote| "I'm dead drunk and heaving hanging upside down<br />
And you're getting up and leaving, you think I'm gonna drown." }}
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** On the other hand, the song works even better as an allegory for a real event that had already occurred, in 1998: [[Bill Clinton]], in the midst of controversy over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, ordered an airstrike on Iraq, which has been seen as a desperate attempt to distract the country from the affair and subsequent perjury trial and, like the invasion in 2003, has been viewed as unprovoked by the critics of the President that ordered it. History repeats itself mighty fast these days.
* Snot's only album features the song "Joyride," an energetic song about driving irresponsibly that ends with the sound of a car crash. Snot's singer Lynn Strait (along with his beloved dog and band mascot Dobbs) died in a car crash one year after the album's release.
* "[[wikipedia:Short Ride in a Fast Machine|Short Ride in a Fast Machine]]" by John Adams was scheduled to be performed at the Last Night of the Proms in 1997, but was removed because of the death of Princess Diana in a car crash. It was on the schedule again in 2001, but was removed once more because the [[The War Onon Terror|September 11th attacks]] had occurred just a few days before the Last Night.
* The early [[The Beach Boys|Beach Boys]] song, "I'm Bugged At My Ol' Man" is the lament of a teenager who has been grounded by his father for staying out too late, with the specifics of his punishment exaggerated and [[Played for Laughs]]. At least, we hope they were exaggerated. It would later come out that Murry Wilson, father of three members of the band, including the song's vocalist and songwriter Brian Wilson, had a history of physically and emotionally abusing his sons. This makes lines like "I wish I could see outside/ but he tacked up boards on my window" seem less humorous than they were originally meant to be.
** A comedy sketch on a Beach Boys album, "'Cassius' Love Vs. 'Sonny' Wilson", has Mike Love and Brian Wilson engaged in a mock-insult war in the studio. Later on, Mike would sue Brian for publishing royalties and song credits over songs with lyrics Mike wrote, after Brian got control of his '60's publihing company back.
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* When asked in an interview what he'd say to his teenage self if he could go back in time and meet him, Malice Mizer's drummer Kami answered "Just hurry up and die." A few years later he did, aged just 26.
* 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 (Music)|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 To The Monkey House'' featured the line "When Michael Jackson dies, we're covering 'Blackbird'", which was just meant as a flippant joke about [[Michael Jackson]] controlling the publishing rights of [[The Beatles]]. Shortly after Jackson's death, they did announce on their website that they were in fact planning to cover "Blackbird" when they got the chance, and they put a version out as a standalone single later that year.
* 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...
* [[Metallica (Music)|Metallica]] recorded "Trapped Under Ice" in 1984. Two years later, bassist Cliff Burton died in Sweden - crushed instead of frozen, but the lyrics are still unsettling ("Freezing, can't move at all, screaming, can't hear my call, I am dying to live").
** During an early interview, when the band was asked who out of them was likely to die first, Cliff jokingly said he would die first.
** The lyrics credited to Burton on the song "To Live is To Die." Most of those "lyrics" are actually cribbed from the film ''[[Excalibur (Filmfilm)|Excalibur]]''; Burton's original contribution read:
{{quote| "All this I cannot witness any longer/ Cannot the kingdom of Heaven/ Call me home?"}}
* [[Frank Zappa]] wrote a decidedly tongue-in-cheek song called "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee", then years later died of prostate cancer.
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* 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.
* With the death of Patrick Swayze, the line "And I'm [[Ghost (Filmfilm)|Ghost]] like Swayze" in [[The Lonely Island]]'s ''Lazy Sunday'' takes a whole other meaning.
** And so does [[Mistah Fab]]'s''Ghost Ride It'', with the verse "Who's that driving? Patrick Swayze!"
* [[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.
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** 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 mocking -- the narrator is reminiscing about the good old days in northern Michigan, "singing 'Sweet Home Alabama' all summer long."
** "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 (Music)|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.
* Released in 2001, "Apology Song" by The Decemberists features the line "Guess we'll never see poor Madeleine again." It's the name of his friend's bicycle that the narrator was looking after while said friend was on holiday and was stolen because he left it unlocked while he ran into a shop. The meaning of it has changed somewhat since 2007 and Madeleine McCann's disappearance...
* [[Johnny Cash]] and June Carter sang a duet about dying & meeting in heaven, called "Far Side Banks of Jordan". Johnny sings the first verse, then June sings, "If it proves to be His will that I am first to go/And somehow I've a feeling it will be". June died four months before Johnny.
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* The eponymous album by The Moldy Peaches was released on September 11, 2001 and features a song titled [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:acfexql0ldke "NYC's Like A Graveyard"]
* [[The Smiths]]' "Paint a Vulgar Picture" gets less amusing and more depressing with every best-of album. It'll hit rock bottom when Morrissey becomes the dead star himself.
* [[Avenged Sevenfold (Music)|Avenged Sevenfold]]'s song "Brompton Cocktail" has the back-up vocalist/drummer say something about meeting his maker, which takes on a WHOLE new meaning now that he's dead.
** Their song, "Unbound (The Wild Ride)," also deals with death (in a less direct way). It has a section where a girl sings "There's nothing here to take for granted with each breath that we take, the hands of time strip youth from our bodies and we fade. Memories remain as time goes on" which was eerie sounding before The Rev died but has now moved up to freaky.
** They also have ''Afterlife'', which is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]] and has several backing lines (again, sang by their now dead drummer) about death.
** And their song ''A Little Piece of Heaven", where The Rev sings "Everybody's gotta die sometime". As well as the original name of the last song he wrote, "Death". The song (now called "Fiction") is all about someone dying and apologizing to the ones they love. He gave the demo to the band's singer on Christmas 2009. ''Three days before he died''.
{{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." }}
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* [[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".
{{quote| While a song with the lyrical content of that one is somewhat susceptible to this, and I'm sure people named Robert have died in car crashes, I was actually coming here to write about this too.}}
** There's also "Christmas at Ground Zero," which is actually more about nuclear war than 9/11, but...
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* 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.
* Once upon a time, in a magical land called Lollapalooza, [[Pearl Jam (Music)|Eddie Vedder]] sang a song encouraging the audience to boycott [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFSM_lkk22Q a particular gas company, BP]. It plays differently after the Texas City's chemical leak and Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
* In the 1970s, Gary Glitter was one of the most popular acts around and a star of the glam rock scene. Now, after his prosecutions for child pornography and soliciting children for sexual purposes in Thailand, not to mention the revelation that when he was in his mid 50s he dated a VERY young Denise van Outen (who was one of his backup dancers at the time and all of 17 when this happened)? "Do You Wanna Touch Me" is, in spite of its catchiness, not quite a jolly song to listen to....
* 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.
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* The Aquabats are primarily known for being silly; their shtick is that they're really superheroes from the land of Aquabania, and [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)|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.
* [[Slipknot]] songs with titles such as "The Virus of Life", "Everything Ends" and "No Life" becomes this after the death of bassist Paul Gray.
* The debut single off [[Shania Twain (Music)|Shania Twain]]'s breakthrough album ''The Woman in Me'', "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under", a song about a cheating lover (which she co-wrote with her husband/producer Mutt Lange). 15 years later, Twain and Lange were divorced.
** "You're Still The One", "I Ain't No Quitter" or "Forever and For Always", or any of her songs at ''all'' for that matter, seeing as she and Lange wrote all those songs together back when they were [[Happily Married]].
** And then there's the Cledus T. Judd parody written back in 1996:
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{{quote| In the year 2005, stopwatch futures took a dive<br />
Leaving us with nothing more than cents and dimes. }}
** Another describes how "In the year 2008, [[Don La FontaineLaFontaine]] sealed our fate". 2008 was the year La Fontaine ''died''.
* Laurie Anderson recorded a live album in New York one week after 9/11. "O Superman", written 19 years earlier, suddenly went from being oddly creepy to full-on [[Tear Jerker]] without changing a word:
{{quote| This is the hand, the hand that takes.<br />
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Smoking or non-smoking?<br />
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. }}
* [[Primus (Music)|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<br />
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* [[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 (Music)|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.
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* The first two lines of the Soviet National Anthem were "An unbreakable union of free republics/Great [[wikipedia:Rus chr(28)regionchr(29)|Rus']] joined together forever". Then came the USSR break-up.
* [[Lady Gaga]]'s single "The Edge of Glory" features a saxophone solo from Clarence Clemons from the E Street Band. The music video premiered on June 16, 2011 and featured Clemons. The combination of the premiere, the fact that the song is about the last few moments of life before death, and the fact that Clemons died on June 18, two days after the video was released...
* The inside gatefold photo of [[Chicago (Musicband)|Chicago]]'s eleventh album, released in late 1977, depicts the band being chased by a group of policemen in another car, some of whom are firing guns. One policeman's gun appears directly aimed at the head of guitarist Terry Kath, who is driving the band's car. In January 1978, Kath would accidentally kill himself by a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
* [[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 [[Kesha (Music)|Kesha]]'s "Tik Tok" opened with the line "Wake up in the morning feeling like [[Amy Winehouse|Winehouse]]... not so funny anymore.
* [[Space (Music)|Space]] had a song called 'Drop Dead' on their first album, sung from the point of view of a [[Stalker Withwith 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 is ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vOD7PawjlU El Noa Noa]'', a song about a night club in Ciudad Juarez where he began his career. Now that the Noa Noa club is closed and Ciudad Juarez has become a [[Wretched Hive]]... eeeeeeeep.
** It's get better: the song describes the titular night-club as a "Lugar de ambiente", which maybe at the time meant "the It place" but in many Spanish-speaking places is slang for "[[Where Everybody Knows Your Flame|Gay Bar]]". Juan Gabriel act is [[Camp|Campier]] than Liberace's, and the popular perception of him is that of a [[Camp Gay]], but he denies every accusation of being gay himself, either by deflecting the question or claiming that he just doesn't want his and his partner/mother of his kids' private lives exposed to the tabloids.
* Rapper Poetic performed as a member of [[Gravediggaz (Music)|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]].
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