Music Controversies That Predict Bad Events!

 Today We Are Showing Some Music Controversies! 

• Kelly Clarkson
  • The song "My Life Would Suck Without You" is basically about ups and downs in a relationship, which becomes somewhat Awkward after her split from Brandon Blackstock in June 2020.

One of Britney Spears's early singles, "Lucky" talks about an actress who has fame, beauty, awards...and soul-crushing loneliness. Given the singer's later breakdowns, the song takes on a different meaning of foretelling.

Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks" is eerie enough in a post-Columbine world, Even worse yet, this song came out before the Sandy Hook shooting. Just try to listen to it now...

• In 1994, Weezer released the song "Mykel and Carli", a cute, bittersweet tribute to two girls who ran the Weezer fan club. Actually, it's something of a tuckerization as the Mykel and Carli in the song are a pair of friends in high school, who the narrator still misses. The song, which was released as a B-side to "Undone (The Sweater Song)" from Weezer (The Blue Album), takes a more poignant tone when you learn that, a few years after the song was released, both Mykel and Carli died in a tragic car accident on their way to a Weezer show. Perhaps the most "harsher in hindsight" lyric in this context is "Till the school bus came / and took my friends away". The song can be found on the Deluxe Edition of the Blue Album.

MCA's entire first verse on "Too Many Rappers" from Hot Sauce Committee, Part 2 — the last album recorded before his cancer diagnosis — has become this, in light of his untimely death at 47

 

ABBA had a song "I'm a Marionette", which is about a singer's Creator Breakdown. Just a few years later, ABBA collapsed due to collective Creator Breakdown.

• The name of the band "Katrina and the Waves" was chosen in 1982; it is best known for its 1985 hit "Walking on Sunshine". In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, giving the band's name some rather unfortunate associations and inspiring many tasteless jokes.
• In 2001, Polish vocalist Monika Kuszyńska had a hit single "Maj" ("May"), in which she sang about a May that changed her entire life. In May 2006, she was seriously wounded in a car crash, which left her permanently paralyzed from the waist down
• In the music video for "Paparazzi", Lady Gaga is shown in a wheelchair and then with crutches after being thrown off a balcony. In February 2013, she suffered a hip injury that resulted in the cancellation of the rest of the Born This Way Ball's tours.
• The Boy Band parody music video for "All the Small Things" was one of the funniest of its time. But the opening shot of drummer Travis Barker nonchalantly walking off a plane is kind of painful to see, considering he was severely burned by a jet crash
• Miranda Lambert's nostalgic 2014 hit "Automatic" contains the line "Staying married was the only way to work your problems out." A year after the song's released, she divorced her husband
• Prince:
  • His 1984 hit song "Let's Go Crazy" included the lyrics "Are we gonna let the elevator bring us down?" seems pretty sad now, considering that Prince was found unconscious in an elevator at Paisley Park on April 21, 2016. It also makes the surrounding lyrics about the afterlife and mortality stand out more.
  • Christina Grimmie's very popular cover of Sia's "Titanium”, is very difficult to listen to since she was Found Dead at a fan meet and greet via a shot to the head.
  • Ariana Grande's song "One Last Time", which contains lyrics of Ariana finally saying goodbye to her lover after admitting to being unfaithful, takes a heartbreaking and depressing perspective.
  • Jesus Christ Superstar: "This Jesus Must Die" has the lyric "So like John before him, this Jesus must die!" It refers to John the Baptist, who was infamously executed at the instigation of Salome.
  • Katy Brand's parody of the pop group Sugababes. One year later, Keisha Buchanan left the band, leaving none of the original members in the group
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic:
  • 1985's "Christmas at Ground Zero" is actually about nuclear war, but unfortunately uses a phrase that became the name for the remains of the World Trade Center site.
  • His song "Traffic Jam" opens with the line "Carbon monoxide making me choke." In 2004, both of his parents died from carbon monoxide poisoning
  • “Buckingham Blues" after the death of Princess Diana. The song also is a satirical take on what a hard life two rich extremely privileged people must have, which became a lot less funny as their marriage started to break up.
  • The Aquabats! are primarily known for being silly; their shtick is that they're really superheroes from the land of Aquabania, and "The Cat with Two Heads!" is typical of their work. "Pizza Day!", which was released in 2000, is about how great government-assisted school lunches were
  • The Lemon Demon song "Behold, the Future!", written in 2003, contains a list of tongue-in-cheek predictions for the years 2004-2013. Two in particular are rather sad in hindsight:
    • One seems prescient of the 2008 recession...
    In the year 2005, stopwatch futures took a dive 
    Leaving us with nothing more than cents and dimes.
    
    
     
    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
    
    
    • The first line of The Midnight Beast's career-making parody of Kesha's "Tik Tok" opened with the line "Wake up in the morning feeling like Winehouse"... not so funny after she passed away…
    • Katy Perry's last single from Teenage Dream was Break-Up Song "The One That Got Away"... released two months before she got divorced 
    • Once upon a time, in a magical land called Lollapalooza, Eddie Vedder sang a song encouraging the audience to boycott a particular gas company, BP. It plays differently after the Texas City's chemical leak and Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
    • Any jokes from TV appearances by former Morning Musume member Iida Kaori about Motherhood or Childbirth are this as she had a boy who sadly died at only 6 months old.
    • 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..
    • Beyoncé's single "Love On Top" for 2012 is now not as funny as it once was considering the song has been associated with causing dancefloor brawls in North-West England (mainly Manchester and Liverpool).
    • American Eurodance and pop singer Melanie Thornton died in a plane crash a few months after releasing her solo album "Ready To Fly".
    • In the bridge for Rucka Rucka Ali's "Zayn Did 9/11", he predicted that the song would get backlash from angry One Direction fans. Considering that it's by far his most controversial song to date, he sure was right.
    • Christina Aguilera's 2006 album Back To Basics, as many of the songs on the album ("Ain't No Other Man", "The Right Man", "Save Me From Myself" and others) were about her husband. But then became this big time when the two filed for divorce in 2010.
      • Her 2010 album Bionic also had its moments. Notably the interlude "My Heart" which was just her then husband and their son and the song "Vanity" which has the lyric "Nevermind screw him, cause I found someone better" as shortly after filing for divorce, she started dating another guy.
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