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Murder Ballad
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A song about a murder. The murder ballad has its origins in Folk Music traditions dating back centuries, but since the 20th century has bled into blues, country, rock & roll, and rap as well. It can be told from the perspective of the killer, the victim, or (most often) a third party observer. This particular style is a rich target for genre satire as well, as the examples below show. Many of the Child Ballads, collected by Francis Child, are Murder Ballads. Many examples contain Lyrical Dissonance. Might overlap with Villain Song, particularly if the lyrics are from the killer's point of view. Often overlaps with Teenage Death Songs and may also cross over with Revenge Ballad. Some traditional murder ballads are considered to have originated from real events, making them an interesting take on the genre of True Crime. Examples |
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Metallica: "Ronnie". The song is about the titular Cloud Cuckoo Lander who snaps. "Harvester of Sorrow," which is about a bitter drunk who murders his wife and unborn child. "Whiskey In the Jar" describes a robbery and murder by an outlaw. |
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Also My Ms. Fitzgerald: To Keep My Love Alive, about a black widow. | |
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Jenny Lewis has "Jack Killed Mom" (off Acid Tongue). Jack didn't mean to kill his mother, but... | |
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"Bodies" by Drowning Pool is a strange example, coming largely through Memetic Mutation. It was originally intended as a mosh-pit anthem, but its lyrics can just as easily be read as being about a person who finally snaps after being pushed around one too many times, particularly with the chorus of "let the bodies hit the floor" evoking the image of people being shot and falling over dead. The latter interpretation became by far the more popular one after a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona in 2011 that left six people dead and thirteen (including US Representative Gabrielle Giffords) wounded, the shooter having previously uploaded a YouTube video of himself burning the American flag set to the song. Through no fault of the band (who were horrified by the association), "Bodies" came to be seen as a spree-killing anthem. | |
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35MM: A Musical Exhibition: "Leave, Luanne" becomes this halfway through, when Luanne's abusive husband murders her when she tries to escape. He gets away with it, everyone believing she committed suicide... and then, some time after her death, Luanne returns to torment him. The song ends with the husband being Dragged Off to Hell. "The Ballad of Sara Berry" is about a Alpha Bitch who cracks when someone else gets elected prom queen for the High-School Dance. She goes on a murderous rampage at the prom. |
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Assassin's Creed Syndicate: The soundtrack contains four prime examples, one each for the four main antagonists in the game. "A Tale of Twopenny", "Give Me The Cure", "Jokes, Jokes, Jokes" and "The Late Pearl Attaway". | |
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"Millie And Billie" from From the Inside is a duet about the couple murdering Millie's husband Donald to hide their extra-marital affair. | |
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"Milk And Cookies" by Melanie Martinez is the Sequel Song to "Tag You're It". The protagonist poisons the food of the man who kidnapped her in the previous song. It's deceptively peppy. | |
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Ozzy Osbourne's "Bloodbath in Paradise" is about Charles Manson and his infamous 'Family'. | |
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"Woman in the Wall" by The Beautiful South is about a drunk who kills his wife/girlfriend and hides her body inside the wall, The Black Cat-style. | |
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The Pharcyde's "On The DL" contains verses about several different subjects. One of the verses is about how the narrator killed someone. | |
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"Kill Bill"note yes, it is named after the movie by SZA is about a young woman contemplating killing her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend before finally doing the deed. | |
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"Lightning" by Eric Church is sung from the perspective of a man about face the electric chair for murdering a cashier while robbing a liquor store. | |
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Beck's "Girl", from Guero, is written from the point of view of a murderer in the planning stages. | |
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Neko Case: "Furnace Room Lullaby", in a Shout-Out to The Tell-Tale Heart, is about a woman who murders her abusive husband and burns his corpse. At night, she still hears his heart beating, and doesn't understand why. She also covered the folk murder ballad "Poor Ellen Smith." "Deep Red Bells" is about Gary Ridgeway, aka the Green River Killer, who killed a confirmed 49 girls and women in Washington State during a 20-year period. A teenaged Neko lived in the area during the murders, and she wrote the song after he was caught. It's less about Ridgeway and even the murders themselves; rather, Neko mourns the victims for having their lives cut short, and chastises the police for ignoring the murders due to the victims mostly being poor and (in many instances) sex workers. |
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"Amber and Jasper" in the Discworld novel Moving Pictures is the troll version of "Frankie and Johnny". "He was her troll, but he done her wrong". | |
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Metalocalypse: "Murmaidur" by Dethklok is, as its title implies, about mermaids. And murder. | |
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In "Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide, the title character is in a similar situation to the protagonist of Woyzeck, working long hours in a mindless factory job. He goes home and kills his baby, his wife, and then himself, and finally goes to hell. | |
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"Used To Love Her" - Guns N' Roses | |
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A Pale Horse Named Death, founded by Sal Abruscato of Type O Negative fame, has a lot of these, namely "Shallow Grave", "Killer by Night", and "Serial Killer". | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Come Wander with Me", the titular song tells the story of Floyd Burney accidentally killing Billy Rayford and being killed himself by Billy's three brothers out of revenge. Floyd believes that it is a scam devised by Mary Rachel and the Rayfords. He's wrong. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Love is Blind", the Blind Musician begins to sing a song about a man killing his wife's lover as soon as Jack Haines enters the Mustang bar. It doesn't take Jack long to realize that the song is describing exactly what he intends to do. | |
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"53rd and 3rd" by the Ramones in which a male prostitute kills one of his clients. | |
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"Now I Lay Thee Down" by Machine Head | |
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"Murder by Numbers", from Synchronicity by The Police. It's a ditty about murder as an artistic endeavor. | |
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Olivia Newton-John, of all people, Gender Flipped this. Despite her lover's pleas, she plants a knife in his chest, ending with a literal My God, What Have I Done? moment. Though it seems to be more because he'll never marry her now. | |
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I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME's amusingly upbeat number "Choke" isn't necessarily about the act itself, but dances around the prospect of gleefully watching someone die painfully. Despite the framing, however, Word of God says it's more meant to be a directed and spiteful takedown of a specific place in its entirety. | |
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"Every Heart Broken" by the Sugababes describes the murders of six different lovers. | |
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As mentioned above, The Threepenny Opera opens with "Moritat", aka "The Ballad of Meckie Messer," aka "Mack the Knife", being sung by a street singer. | |
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"Red Right Hand" from Let Love In too. | |
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Grace & Tony have "Invitation to an Autopsy", a song about 19th-century killers Burke and Hare, who sold the bodies of their victims to doctors for use in anatomy classes. | |
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The Shield did an episode where Vic Mackey and his supervisor, Captain Acaveda, end up investigating a Mexican musician whose murder ballads were based on real-life unsolved murders. In the end, it turned out that the singer was simply trying to claim credit for murders committed by Mexican drug cartel members, with his songs based off of gossip he heard in the clubs he performed in. | |
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His earlier "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol" and "The Ballad of Hollis Brown," from his album ''The Times They Are A-Changin''" are both Ripped from the Headlines examples, the first chronicling the senseless murder of a poor black maid by a white aristocrat, the second recounting the story of a man who kills his wife, children, and himself because he can't afford to feed them anymore. | |
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Disturbed: "Run" is an unhinged Badass Boast about how the narrator intends to hunt his enemy down and slaughter them, and will stop at nothing to see the task through. |
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The only time, at least in the first half which is more well known, that Butcher Pete is specifically said to 'chop' a person is clearly meant as a joke... But because many people were first exposed to "Butcher Pete" because of Fallout 3, a game where acts of murder and/or cannibalism outnumber acts of sexuality by at least 100:1, it's easy to misinterpret in that context. Chop, chop, chop that meat. | |
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Sentenced's "The Suicider" is about an immortal man who now finds his only pleasure in killing others. | |
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The Maroon Five song "Wake Up Call" describes the narrator finding his girlfriend's lover in her bed and "shoot[ing] him dead". The lyrics imply the girlfriend is pretty upset about this, but at the start of the video, she's already over it. | |
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Frank Wedekind (author of Spring Awakening and Lulu) also worked in cabaret as part of the troupe Die elf Scharfrichter ("The eleven executioners") from 1901 to 1902. One of his best-known songs from that period is Der Tantenmörder ("The Aunt-Murderer"), in which the titular character tells the court how he murdered his aunt for her money and ends with a plea: "I butchered my aunt, my aunt was old and weak, but you judges are after my blooming youth!" | |
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Felix Castor, having the power to control the dead through music, tends to play this sort of song. For example, the ghosts of three young victims of a serial killer are summoned using "Henry Martin". | |
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For the 1943 revival of their musical based on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Rodgers and Hart gave Queen Morgan le Fay the song "To Keep My Love Alive", in which she recounts avoiding divorce by the expedient of murdering her fifteen husbands, e.g. Sir Aetherton indulged in fratricide/He killed his dad and that was patricide/One night I stabbed him by my mattress-side/To keep my love alive It was evidently Lorenz Hart's final work. | |
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Ella Fitzgerald sang: Also famously recorded by Ella, "Miss Otis Regrets." The title character guns down a man in cold blood after being seduced and dumped; she is arrested and then lynched for the murder. Her final words, "Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today," form an Ironic Echo. Also My Ms. Fitzgerald: To Keep My Love Alive, about a black widow. |
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"Matty Groves" (Child #81) - Fairport Convention on their fourth album Liege & Lief. | |
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"Cell Block Tango" from Chicago, where female inmates sing about (and dance with) the men they've killed. | |
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The Tragically Hip's "Locked In The Trunk Of a Car" is sung partly from the point of view of a serial killer, and partly from the point of view of his dumpsite. | |
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Save Face: "GLITTER" sings about an unidentified person whom the singer despises, and he wants to kill them and feel their blood on his face. | |
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AURORA has "Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)", and its possible Sequel Song, "It Happened Quiet". | |
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"Hand of Fate", by The Rolling Stones from their album Black and Blue. | |
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The Jesus Lizard have a lot of songs involving violence, so it's interesting that there's only one that definitely can be said to be centered around murder: "Thumbscrews", where a disgruntled tenant plans to torture his landlord to death. | |
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"The Walrus and the Carpenter" from Alice in Wonderland, more or less—it's about the titular duo luring in a group of oysters to be mercilessly eaten. | |
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"Stagger Lee" (also known as "Stack-a-lee" and other variants) tells the story of the murder of William "Billy" Lyons by "Stag" Lee Shelton, based on true events. It's been very widely performed and recorded by Folk, Blues, Rock, Jazz, and Country artists. | |
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"Slow Motion" by Third Eye Blind, although you wouldn't know it from the original album release, which didn't contain any of the verses. | |
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Similar to 50 Cent's aforementioned semi-example, Papoose's "Cure" (featuring Erykah Badu on the hook) is rapped from the POV of cancer and later AIDS, specifically to the ones being killed and that peoples' loved ones as well. | |
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Alan Wake's "The Poet and the Muse," a folky Power Ballad by Heavy Mithril Fake Band Old Gods of Asgard, which tells a rather simplified version of the tale of in-universe characters Thomas Zane and Barbara Jagger, AKA Tom the Poet and his Muse. Tom used the magical properties of the lake he lived by to resurrect the Muse by Rewriting Reality when she drowned in its waters. When Tom discovered she Came Back Wrong, | |
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"The St. Stephen's Day Murders" — The Chieftains with Elvis Costello | |
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"The Rains of Castamere", which in A Song of Ice and Fire is not only a murder ballad but a ballad hinting that another murder is quite likely to occur. | |
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El Paso, Elsewhere: The Hip-Hop half of the soundtrack alternates between Boastful Rap and this, sometimes combining the two. Prominent examples including "Break Shit", "Blood Pressure", and "Human Sundae". | |
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The Dillards: "Pretty Polly" centers around a Villain Protagonist who plots to kill his girlfriend after getting her pregnant because he doesn't want to marry her. Unfortunately, The Bad Guy Wins. | |
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"The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" from the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street details the disservices the eponymous demon barber performed for his unfortunate customers. "My Friends", "Epiphany", and "A Little Priest" from the same musical also qualify. | |
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"L.A. County" from Lyle Lovett is about a man who shoots down a couple at the chapel on their wedding day. | |
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"Summerhouse" by Better Than Ezra is about the murder of a man so despised, not even his wife is terribly upset at his death. The song ends before the actual investigation (and identification of the killer) occurs. | |
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"Kill My Boyfriend" by Natalia Kills is a very cutesy sounding song about a woman planning to kill her boyfriend so that she can elope with another. | |
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Vince Gill: Averted in his 1991 hit "Pocket Full Of Gold," but the lyrics warn this would-be adulterer that he could soon find himself "on the wrong end of a gun" (and thus be the subject of a future murder ballad) by trying to sweet talk a woman that is already married or otherwise is committed to a significant other. | |
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As part of throwing fans a curveball, AC/DC did a blues-rock song called "Night Prowler" in the same vein as the Rolling Stones' example listed above, with the Unexpected Genre Change ominously ratcheting up the tension (using guitars tuned half a step lower than normal, and playing in 12/8 time - both odd considering AC/DC's usual high energy, head-banging pub rock fare) as the lyrics seemingly describe a Serial Killer in the the process of creeping up on his victim in the dead of night to stab them to death, basically making it at first listen a hybrid between a blues-rock murder ballad and a Slasher Movie set to electric guitar. Ultimately subverted by Word of God, as it's actually about two teenage lovers consummating a Secret Relationship, despite attempts by Moral Guardians to link the song to the infamous "Night Stalker", serial killer and rapist Richard Ramirez. | |
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Hurt's "Got Jealous", about the narrator killing a man for being with his (possibly ex-) lover. | |
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The outro song "My Gift to You" for Korn's album Follow The Leader, is about a man killing his lover after she betrayed by him through strangulation, and as noted in the song, kissed her lifeless skin afterwards. | |
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Possibly the case with "Rat In Mi Kitchen" by UB40. The song is about someone who is spreading rumors about him and otherwise trying to make his life miserable. At points, he talks about how he's going to kill them when he catches them. It could just be a threat/exaggeration though. | |
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"Iowa" by Slipknot is a 15-minute long song about a man killing a woman implied to be his girlfriend with lyrics like "Relax it's over, you can never leave, I fill your mouth with dirt" | |
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"Frankie and Johnny" — Recorded at least 256 times, though there are slightly different versions. In the Jimmie Rodgers version, a woman named Frankie murders her lover Johnny after finding him making love with another woman. She is to be executed by the electric chair though the Warden, like the bartender Frankie meet before the murder, tells her man done her wrong. | |
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Buttress: "Brutus" is about the protagonist's descent into jealousy-driven murder of her best friend; quoting her "this dead will be art". As much as it pains her, she feels justified and harbors no remorse because there's no peaceful alternative for trying to correct a systemic issue—misogyny and a patriarchal society—that has denied her everything. | |
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"Delilah" by Tom Jones, in which a man begs forgiveness from the lover he murdered even as the police are breaking down his door. | |
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The controversial Falco Power Ballad "Jeanny", sung from the POV of a Stalker with a Crush who abducts and possibly murders the title character. | |
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In the CSI episode "Snakes", Nick investigates the murder of a reporter who had been investigating a band known for writing and performing Murder Ballads. The circumstances of the murder closely mimic one of the band's ballads. | |
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"Janie's Got A Gun" by Aerosmith, about a girl who shoots her father for molesting her. | |
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The Japanese band BIGMAMA has at least two: "Koukyoukyoku 'Shinsekai'"en:Symphony to the New World, about a drowning boy who sneaks onto a ship and gets carved up with a knife for trespassing, and "#DIV/0!", which ups the ante by following eight murders and a suicide among a group of nine people driven by greed for a treasure they intended to split amongst them. | |
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The first section of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" from A Night at the Opera. "Mama, just killed a man/put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead..." This can also be interpreted figuratively, as inflicting himself with a fatal disease and expressing remorse over it. | |
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"The Hanging Tree", an Appalachian murder ballad in Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay. | |
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Sting's "I Hung my Head" qualifies, though technically it's a manslaughter ballad. It was later covered by Johnny Cash. | |
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Iron Maiden: "Sanctuary". The single cover even had mascot Eddie murdering Margaret Thatcher. Also both "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (loosely based on the Edgar Allan Poe's short story) and "Killers". |
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"Blood Red and Goin' Down" by Tanya Tucker, a 1973 ballad about a young girl made by her father to help track down his unfaithful wife. Eventually, the two find her and her new lover at a roadside hotel, and after the man sends his daughter back outside, he brutally slays both of them. Unknown to her father, the daughter witnessed the murder by watching through a window, remarking that as he came back outside, her father "left them both soakin' up the sawdust on the floor." | |
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Lingua Ignota's All Bitches Die is described as an album made up of murder ballads, all from the perspective of an abused woman. | |
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"Bad Bad Things", by AJJ, is a ballad told from the perspective of a serial killer coming back to finish the job on a woman whose family he already killed. | |
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How literal the murder in "The Carrion Child" from Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow...) by Vylet Pony is is left unclear, but the imagery is extremely strong regardless: | |
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Songs by Tom Lehrer: "The Irish Ballad" is about an Irish girl who kills her entire (immediate) family in various gory ways. She doesn't deny her crimes to the police, though, because she knows that lying is a sin. "The Irish Ballad" is, by Tom Lehrer's own statement, a satire of the Murder Ballad. In "I Hold Your Hand In Mine", the narrator sings about his difficulty letting go of the woman he loves following her death. In the final stanza, he admits that it was him who killed her. |
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"The Killing of Georgie (Parts I & II)" by Rod Stewart is about a real-life gay friend of the Faces who was killed by a street gang (presented in the song as a mugging gone wrong, but with the implication it may have actually been a Homophobic Hate Crime). | |
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"Butcher Pete" by Roy Brown. Double Entendre or no, on the literal level it's still a murder ballad. The only time, at least in the first half which is more well known, that Butcher Pete is specifically said to 'chop' a person is clearly meant as a joke... But because many people were first exposed to "Butcher Pete" because of Fallout 3, a game where acts of murder and/or cannibalism outnumber acts of sexuality by at least 100:1, it's easy to misinterpret in that context. Chop, chop, chop that meat. |
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The Key & Peele sketch "Rap Artist Confessions" is about a police detective interrogating a rapper suspected of a murder. His main piece of evidence is an album by the rapper where he openly brags about doing the deed; the artist, however, keeps insisting that he just has "a vivid imagination." | |
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From Terrence Zdunich, creator of Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil's Carnival, comes American Murder Song, a series of songs about murder, set in 1816. Of particular note is Pretty Lavinia, the true story of alleged multiple murderer Lavinia Fisher, the first woman executed in the United States. | |
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'Momma's Gonna Die Tonight' by Body Count, about a young man who bludgeons, burns and dismembers his mother. | |
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"Klavier", "Mein Teil," and "Stein um Stein" by Rammstein. Also, "Spring": The narrator is goading someone into killing himself by jumping, but when that fails he kicks him down himself. More detail, the guy was just up there to see the view when a crowd assembles to watch him jump when the narrator kicks him. |
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