Sanity Slippage Song: Difference between revisions

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Note that if the singer is mentally ill but the song is about something else, it doesn't count.

When these songs aren't part of a musical, listeners may ask [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs]]?

When these songs aren't part of a musical, listeners may ask [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?]]?

A [[Sub Trope]] of [[Sanity Slippage]].

Compare [[BSOD Song]], [[Disney Acid Sequence]].

== [[Anime]] ==

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** For that matter, pretty much anything by Chiasm.

* "Undone (The Sweater Song)" by Weezer.

* Oddly enough, [[Elvis Presley|Elvis]] had one in the [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs|rather]] [[Disney Acid Sequence|trippy]] "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZBG5AY8AUQ Edge of Reality]" from ''Live a Little, Love a Little''.

* Oddly enough, [[Elvis Presley|Elvis]] had one in the [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|rather]] [[Disney Acid Sequence|trippy]] "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZBG5AY8AUQ Edge of Reality]" from ''Live a Little, Love a Little''.

{{quote| I can hear strange voices echo <br />

Laughing with mockery <br />

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* "Disturbance" and "Cherry Blossom Clinic" by The Move. The former more or less describing an individual's growing psychosis as he grows older; the latter having another person describing various hallucinations he sees as he goes mad in the mental hospital.

* "Institutionalized" by Suicidal Tendencies subverts this trope, because while other characters in the song think the protagonist is going insane, the protagonist doesn't.

** Though the structure of the song strongly indicates that their accusations [[Self Fulfilling Prophecy|actually cause him to gradually go insane]].

** Though the structure of the song strongly indicates that their accusations [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|actually cause him to gradually go insane]].

* Many, ''many'' songs by [[Van Der Graaf Generator|Van der Graaf Generator]] and its frontman [[Face of the Band|Peter Hammill]] qualify as this, but the finest example is the [[Epic Rocking|twenty-three minute epic]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNAO7uDH0M8 "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers."] It [[Mind Screw|seems]] to be about a lighthouse keeper who inadvertantly allows a ship to crash, then slowly drives himself mad with guilt, grief, and loneliness.

* Sweating Bullets by "Megadeth". The video further proves the fact.

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== Web Original ==

* "Slipping"(!) from ''[[Doctor ~~Horribles~~ Sing Along Blog (Web Video)|Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]''. "My Eyes" conveys an increasingly depressed, cynical mindset, but "Slipping" is flat-out out mad.

* "Slipping"(!) from ''[[Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Web Video)|Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]''. "My Eyes" conveys an increasingly depressed, cynical mindset, but "Slipping" is flat-out out mad.

** I contend that "Brand New Day" and "Everything You Ever" are the two Sanity Slippage Songs of ''[[Doctor ~~Horribles~~ Sing Along Blog (Web Video)|Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]''

** I contend that "Brand New Day" and "Everything You Ever" are the two Sanity Slippage Songs of ''[[Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Web Video)|Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]''

*** Really, the whole damn ''musical'' is a sanity slippage song. Everything from "My Eyes" onwards is a slow downward spiral. Who knows how the planned sequel can possibly make things worse for him **shudders**

**** It's a [[Joss Whedon]] production. He'll find a way.

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