Ode to Sobriety: Difference between revisions

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.

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.

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 -- anduse—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.

== Deconstructed [[Ode to Intoxication]] [[Ode to Sobriety]] ==

* [http://youtu.be/ohf52vAPszM "I Want To Be Straight"] by Ian Dury And The Blockheads -- couldBlockheads—could be this, could be parody.

* [http://youtu.be/F8UYGQeavRw "Kickstart My Heart"] by [[Motley Crue]]. Also a classic example of [[Lyrical Dissonance]] -- it—it's about Nikki Sixx's near-death via OD.

== [[Drugs Are Bad]] [[Ode to Sobriety]] ==

== Glad To Be Sober [[Ode to Sobriety]] ==