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Addiction Song
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Sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. This trope is about that second one.note Though one can get addicted to sex. And there probably is some way to be addicted to rock n' roll. Of the many possible topics a song can be about,one popular choice is addiction. This isn't too surprising since recreational drug use is fairly common in certain musical circles, and therefore addiction tends to follow and have an impact, in some form, on a lot of song writer's lives. This trope covers songs about addiction. Whether that means the negative effects of addiction, the story of someone who is addicted, or just about how it feels to be addicted, this trope applies. Compare Ode to Intoxication, which is about celebrating being under the influence (even if it's being sarcastic) and Ode to Sobriety, which is about the joys of being sober. Keep in mind that, while this article mostly discusses drug addiction, there are many other forms of addiction, like alcohol, sex, and more, that are all equally valid candidates for this trope. Compare Love Is a Drug, which uses addiction as a metaphor for love, mostly in songs. Drowning My Sorrows may also appear in these songs. Examples |
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"How Low" by Against Me! deals with alcohol and cocaine addiction. | |
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The entire point of Metallica's "Master of Puppets" is that drugs turn you into a slave and both rule and ruin your life. The majority of the song is from the P.O.V. of the drug itself as it taunts and mocks you, making it very clear who's in charge. | |
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"White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five is all over the disparity in sentencing between wealthy white people who get busted with cocaine and working-class or poor Black people convicted of the same (or lesser) crimes, and the ravages the drug does to the user's sanity, bank account, and health. Duran Duran covered it after the band sobered up from their own awful struggles with cocaine as it was the biggest "fuck you" song about it they could find. | |
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"Can't Feel My Face" by The Weeknd, which compares cocaine addiction to a destructive relationship with a woman. The title refers to the facial numbness experienced after snorting the drug. | |
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"Drink" by The Happy Fits, which is about alcoholism. | |
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"A Little Chunk of Hope" by Jack Stauber. The video is packed to the brim with pills and bottles, and the meaning is clear. | |
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Lit: The band's singer has stated that, if Miserable is not interpreted as an anti-love song, it could also be about addiction. The fact that the "woman" (who, in the music video is represented by Pamela Anderson/Vallery Irons) is described as using up his friends and plans, yet she still "means everything (to him)", and the fact that in the end of the video she devours him support this alternative interpretation. | |
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"Monkey" by George Michael is his metaphor of drug addiction being like "a monkey on your back". | |
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"Mother's Little Helper" by The Rolling Stones is about overworked, underappreciated housewives abusing valium, Nembutal, and other prescription drugs. | |
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Despite being commonly mistaken for this trope, "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd is not about drug addiction, rather being based on an incident where Roger Waters was given tranquilizers to stave off severe stomach pains before a show and spent the whole subsequent two-hour performance hardly able to lift his arm to play the bass. Worth noting however is that keyboardist Richard Wright was badly addicted to cocaine during the album's production, and a number of potshots are taken at his expense (e.g. the "got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains" line in "Nobody Home"). In the storyline, Pink is given a dose of drugs to get him ready for a show, which messes up the progress he's been making, resulting in the metastasis of his negative emotions into their absolute darkest form. | |
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"Hand of Doom" by Black Sabbath is a song about a soldier spiraling into drug addiction to cope with PTSD from The Vietnam War, then eventually dying of an overdose. | |
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Afroman's "Because I Got High" is a humorous take on it, but still details all the things the singer meant to do but didn't because he was too high on pot. | |
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"Amazing" by Aerosmith was written by Steven Tyler about his struggles with cocaine addiction. | |
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"Chandelier" by Sia is sung from the perspective of a "party girl" describing her drunken antics (including swinging from the chandelier). She also admits she's "just holding on". | |
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"Rush" by Depeche Mode was based on lead vocalist Dave Gahan's heroin addiction, which was one of several factors influencing the album's unusually Darker and Edgier content (even by the famously dour band's standards). | |
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"Just to Get High" by Nickelback talks about watching someone's downward spiral into drug addiction. | |
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