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A song that averts [[Ode to Intoxication]], sometimes softly, sometimes far more harshly. These usually come in one of three forms: |
A song that averts [[Ode to Intoxication]], sometimes softly, sometimes far more harshly. These usually come in one of three forms: |
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The Deconstructed [[Ode to Intoxication]] |
The Deconstructed [[Ode to Intoxication]] '''Ode to Sobriety''' would be an [[Ode to Intoxication]] except the song is about the singer's (or writer's) near-death from an OD, an addiction he or she actually wants to escape or has gone into treatment for, about someone's suicide from alcohol and/or drugs, or about anything else that is about the less fun side of intoxication. |
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The [[Drugs Are Bad]] |
The [[Drugs Are Bad]] '''Ode to Sobriety''' is usually engaged in by [[Straight Edge]] bands or artists, though others can occasionally do it (a common instance with non [[Straight Edge]] artists is generally focused on a specific substance). As opposed to the ambivalent, bitter reflections of the Deconstructed [[Ode to Intoxication]], it is simply [[Drugs Are Bad]] as a song. It's a condemnation/callout of a specific substance and/or its users, and/or of alcohol or drug use in general. |
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The Glad To Be Sober |
The Glad To Be Sober '''Ode to Sobriety''' results from an artist successfully overcoming an addiction or quitting an abusive pattern of alcohol or drug use—and writing a song about how good being sober and free of said addiction is. It differs from the bitter Deconstructed [[Ode to Intoxication]] in that it's a [[Lighter and Softer]] topic (e.g. happiness about a drug-free life) as opposed to a [[Grimdark]] one (e.g. about almost dying from an OD) and from the [[Drugs Are Bad]] song in that it's not a rant about how bad drugs are. |
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== Deconstructed [[Ode to Intoxication]] |
== Deconstructed [[Ode to Intoxication]] Ode to Sobriety == |
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* [http://youtu.be/ohf52vAPszM "I Want To Be Straight"] by Ian Dury And The |
* [http://youtu.be/ohf52vAPszM "I Want To Be Straight"] by Ian Dury And The Blockheads—could be this, could be parody. |
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* [http://youtu.be/GpEOmZTYA4A "The High Cost Of Living"] by Jamey Johnson. |
* [http://youtu.be/GpEOmZTYA4A "The High Cost Of Living"] by Jamey Johnson. |
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* [http://youtu.be/HBWFJ85n_w0 "Sunday Morning Coming Down"] by Kris Kristofferson and [[Johnny Cash]]. |
* [http://youtu.be/HBWFJ85n_w0 "Sunday Morning Coming Down"] by Kris Kristofferson and [[Johnny Cash]]. |
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* [http://youtu.be/F8UYGQeavRw "Kickstart My Heart"] by [[Motley Crue]]. Also a classic example of [[Lyrical Dissonance]] |
* [http://youtu.be/F8UYGQeavRw "Kickstart My Heart"] by [[Motley Crue]]. Also a classic example of [[Lyrical Dissonance]]—it's about Nikki Sixx's near-death via OD. |
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** Speaking of Nikki Sixx, just about every song in the album Heroin Diaries from his side project SIXX: AM is this. To be expected, however, because it is all about his heroine addiction and recovery during the 80's. |
** Speaking of Nikki Sixx, just about every song in the album Heroin Diaries from his side project SIXX: AM is this. To be expected, however, because it is all about his heroine addiction and recovery during the 80's. |
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* [http://youtu.be/nJ3ZM8FDBlg "Sober"] by [[Pink]]. |
* [http://youtu.be/nJ3ZM8FDBlg "Sober"] by [[Pink]]. |
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kAJOSCyTB0 "Alcohol"] by [[Barenaked Ladies]]. It similarly starts sounding like an [[Ode to Intoxication]], until the POV character's intense self-loathing takes the forefront. |
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kAJOSCyTB0 "Alcohol"] by [[Barenaked Ladies]]. It similarly starts sounding like an [[Ode to Intoxication]], until the POV character's intense self-loathing takes the forefront. |
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== [[Drugs Are Bad]] |
== [[Drugs Are Bad]] Ode to Sobriety == |
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* [http://youtu.be/aAuWETNkVkA "Impact is Imminent"] and [http://youtu.be/9PneWfe0jy4 "Dethamphetamine"] by Exodus. |
* [http://youtu.be/aAuWETNkVkA "Impact is Imminent"] and [http://youtu.be/9PneWfe0jy4 "Dethamphetamine"] by Exodus. |
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* [http://youtu.be/Aq344ks1ieg "Cocaine Blues"] by [[Johnny Cash]]. |
* [http://youtu.be/Aq344ks1ieg "Cocaine Blues"] by [[Johnny Cash]]. |
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* [http://youtu.be/sHnXOSxka1Q "Bad"] and [http://youtu.be/kioyUGaABjA "Running to Stand Still"] by [[U2]]. |
* [http://youtu.be/sHnXOSxka1Q "Bad"] and [http://youtu.be/kioyUGaABjA "Running to Stand Still"] by [[U2]]. |
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== Glad To Be Sober |
== Glad To Be Sober Ode to Sobriety == |
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* [http://youtu.be/me7GYlaliRE "Sober"] by [[Kelly Clarkson]]. |
* [http://youtu.be/me7GYlaliRE "Sober"] by [[Kelly Clarkson]]. |
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuFI5KSPAt4 "Snow"] by the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU9vToZ8ti4 "Knock Me Down"] might also count (they wrote it after guitarist Hillel Slovak OD'd and died). |
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuFI5KSPAt4 "Snow"] by the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU9vToZ8ti4 "Knock Me Down"] might also count (they wrote it after guitarist Hillel Slovak OD'd and died). |