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Obsession Song
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The Obsession Song is like a love song written by a Stalker with a Crush or a Yandere. Most examples simply involve obsessive love with heavy overtones of stalking and possessiveness, but some take it to such extreme lengths that it sounds like the singer is planning on raping you, killing you, and keeping your corpse under their bed. The Obsession Song falls into two basic varieties, although many have elements of both: Passive - "I belong to you. My entire life revolves around you even if you don't know that I exist and I would do absolutely anything to make you happy even if you treat me like dirt. Please notice me, or I'll probably kill myself." Aggressive - "You belong to me. You will be mine, whether you like it or not. And I'll kill anybody who so much as looks at you, or you if you so much as look at anyone else." Particularly pathetic Unrequited Love songs often fall into the passive category, while the aggressive variety sometimes overlaps with the Murder Ballad or Villain Love Song. Many Obsession Songs are mistaken for love songs, especially when they have Lyrical Dissonance, and sometimes even end up being played at weddings. Conversely, some love songs with nothing but innocent intentions can unintentionally end up as Obsession Songs. Needless to say, this trope can be a potent source of Paranoia Fuel. |
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Dream Theater's 1994 album Awake closes with "Space Dye Vest", a song about a deranged man who, rejected by numerous women, becomes obsessed with fashion catalog models to the exclusion of actual human relationshipsnote Given that Kevin Moore wrote the entire song and was extremely depressed around the time that he left, it's quite possible that the narrator was actually him at the time.: | |
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In Crysania's song "Playing with Fire", from the Russian musical The Last Trial, she expresses her desire to prove her faith by redeeming the soul of a dark mage, even if she dies in the attempt. | |
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"GoldenEye" by Tina Turner, for the eponymous James Bond movie. Another example from the James Bond franchise is Gladys Night's "License To Kill". |
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"Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell" from Raw Power | |
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Those two lines were, however, taken word for word from the Elvis Presley song "Baby Let's Play House" from The Sun Sessions. | |
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"Nothing Without Me" by Markus Schulz. It's a case of Real Life Writes the Plot, as Schulz stated that it was written as a "dedication" of sorts to a stalker fangirl he had a couple brushes with. | |
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River City Girls: "The Hunt" which seems to be about hunting someone: | |
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Ozzy Osbourne - "Shot In The Dark" is about an obsessed stalker who's creeping up on their target unseen. | |
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A sort of passive/aggressive mix and a disturbing one at that (though considering that the song is from the perspective of The Joker, it's understandable), in Coheed and Cambria's "Deranged" off the Batman: Arkham City album. | |
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"Creep" from Pablo Honey. According to Thom Yorke, it's about a drunk guy following around a woman he's attracted to, lacking the self-confidence to actually approach her. However, many listeners think it's a straightforward unrequited-love song from the perspective of a guy with self-esteem issues... which is perfectly reasonable from the lyrics themselves, except that it provides no explanation for the line "she's running out the door", making it a bit of a Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick. In fairness, that's the least intelligible part of the song, so a lot of people probably didn't even know that's what he was saying. Going by the "unrequited love song from the POV of a guy with self-esteem issues" interpretation, "she's running out the door" could mean that the guy attempted to admit his feelings but only succeeded in scaring her or that he simply made a move far too late to do anything. | |
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"I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" by The Supremes very easily could turn into a creepy stalker song even though it was trying to be romantic. | |
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"Bloodbath & Beyond" by Ice Nine Kills, from the POV of Dracula craving the body and blood of his next victim. | |
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"Senpai Love Me", a Christmas parody of "Santa Baby" for Yandere Simulator, is all about Yandere-chan's obsession with Senpai, and all the horrendous things she wants to do to her rivals to win his love. | |
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"All I Need" from In Rainbows. | |
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Neil Sedaka's song "Betty Grable", about the actress, although it is very innocent and benign. | |
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Chauvelin gets "Marguerite" in the musical adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel, where's he Promoted to Love Interest. Ironically, his obsession in the original novel is even stronger... it's just for the Scarlet Pimpernel. | |
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"Your Silver Garden" From Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion HAS to qualify. | |
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"Every Breath You Take" from Synchronicity is one of the most famous Obsession Songs, if not the most famous. Probably the most famous one you'll ever dance to at homecoming. | |
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She also did Rid of Me, which is...passive-aggressive? | |
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"Meant to Be Yours" from Heathers manages to be both aggressive AND passive. It starts out with JD explaining how he built a bomb and tricked all the students of Westerberg High into writing a suicide note. It's terrifyingly up-tempo and the way it's delivered is bone-chilling. Then it gets slower and waltz-like, as he explains how he and Veronica were meant to be the only ones for each other. It switches back and forth a lot but then gets INCREDIBLY aggressive as he begs her to open the door to the closet where she's hiding. ...And then threatens to kill her if she doesn't. And then it returns to passive as he sees Veronica, having faked her own suicide, dangling from a noose. It's basically the Obsession Song to end all Obsession Songs. |
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Death from Elisabeth has three songs of this type. Act one has the short version of "Die Schatten werden länger", in which he tells Sisi that she needs him and warns her against dragging Franz Joseph into her tragedies. He actually gets physically aggressive with Sisi during "Der letzte Tanz" and "Wenn ich tanzen will": dancing violently, throwing her around, kneeling between her legs and leaning in very close to her face, grabbing her by the wrists, hands, and then the back of the head... All of this is done while he reiterates that no one loves/understands her as he does, she is free only through him, and she will want him/be his eventually. |
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"It's a Dangerous Game" from Jekyll & Hyde almost sounds like a romantic duet, except that it's about a psychotic killer stalking a prostitute who's too terrified of/fascinated by him to make a run for it. | |
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Marianas Trench's "Toy Soldiers." Ends with If I Can't Have You…. | |
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"Under The Willow Tree" has Madeline Harper Guest watching an Obsession Song unfold from the sidelines. All she wants is to be with her lover again, but she doubts that'll ever happen. | |
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Another example from the James Bond franchise is Gladys Night's "License To Kill". | |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has "Johanna", which in the film version of the play comes off as quite stalkerish — Anthony is singing it after having just taken one hell of a beating at the hands of the Beadle, and the look on his bloody face as he sings is quite creepy: But it's nothing compared to the "Johanna" sung by Judge Turpin, which makes Anthony look positively heroic by comparison. Which may be the intention. |
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Éponine's song from Les Misérables, "On My Own", is all about how she clings to daydreams of Marius loving her but knows he never will. A more passive example than most — she doesn't do much in the way of stalking in the musical; her book counterpart fits the trope better, but obviously doesn't sing the song. | |
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Several comedy bands have variations on this including "Stalker Song" by Tripod and the reversed trope "Stalker Girl" by The Arrogant Worms. | |
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Elvis Costello's "I Want You" from Blood & Chocolate, which contains heavy doses of both passive and aggressive. | |
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Bastille's "Poet" is a downplayed one; while it mentions that obsession "eats me whole", the singer is content to merely write about their love and devotion rather than act on their feelings in any way. | |
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"Can't Stand Losing You" from Outlandos d'Amour is another. A classic case of Lyrical Dissonance. | |
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In Oklahoma!, Jud Frye's song "Lonely Room" starts off as a self-pitying reflection of how empty and meaningless his life is, but turns into an angry obsession song by the end as he decides he is going to leave his room and take what he believes is his by rights, i.e. Laurie. And murder Curly into the bargain. | |
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Madds Buckley's "The Red Means I Love You" is inspired by Himiko Toga. It's as obsessive as that would imply. | |
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Lovers & Liars: "Head" is about how the protagonist can't get over an exe and how they're jealous of their new boyfriend. | |
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In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Fan", Gumball and Darwin are shocked after watching a video from their obsessive classmate Sarah where she sings a song about how she's been stalking them for a while and expects one of them to be her eventual husband. | |
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ELYSION's "The Promise" is a passive example which consists of begging their lover not to ever leave them. | |
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Sonata Arctica has a few. "The End of This Chapter" and "Don't Say a Word" are possibly the most obvious of them. | |
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Hurt's "Got Jealous" flips from one to the other over the course of the song. | |
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Vermilion by Slipknot could be either. Part 1 is a standard, if slower, Slipknot song (aggressive). Part 2 is an acoustic ballad, that's, blatantly from a stalker's POV( passive). | |
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The song "You'll Be Back" from Hamilton is every bit this, sung sweetly by King George III to the colonies. He nonchalantly mentions that if America won’t take him back, he will kill her friends and family… to remind her of his love. '(Da da da da da…)' | |
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Peterpan's "Khayalan Tingkat Tinggi" (High-Level Imagination) describes the singer's fantasies with a person he's obsessed with. | |
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Blondie- "One Way Or Another", "Accidents Never Happen", "Hangin' On the Telephone". Debbie Harry wrote the former because of a quite insane stalker. She stated that adding a bubble gum pop added some lightness and was therapeutic for her. | |
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"Bill Watterson" by Lemon Demon is about a narrator who's fanatically devoted to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes and has an erotomania delusion, wherein a person believes that someone else is in love with them, usually a celebrity; in this case, it manifests in him thinking that Bill Watterson is communicating with him through the comics. | |
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"Never Ever Getting Rid of Me" from Waitress is a cute, bouncy song about how Ogie will wear Dawn down until she decides to give in and be with him. | |
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"Play With Fire" from Out of Our Heads by The Rolling Stones is an aggressive Obsession Song. | |
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The Velvet Underground's "The Gift" from White Light/White Heat could also be considered an example, although it's debatable whether it falls into the passive or the aggressive category. And Berlin could pretty much be considered an entire obsession album. In case it wasn't obvious, Reed considers jealousy "a destructive, horrible emotion". | |
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"I Want Someone To Love" from Sailor Moon is a more lighthearted example, made a little less lighthearted when you hear how much it sounds like Peek-a-Boo by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Here are links to both: Want Someone To Love and Peek-a-Boo | |
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Spike's solo "Rest In Peace" from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Musical Episode qualifies. Although certain (pre-ensouling) Spike/Buffy shippers seem to not quite get this. | |
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Children of the Monkey Machine and Dani took the Final Fantasy VIII love song Eyes On Me and remixed it into Obsession. | |
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"The Worst Hyena We Know" from The Lion Guard is Janja angrily ranting about how the "friendly and kind" hyena Jasiri, who's "like nothing that you seen" and a "fearless" and unbeatable fighter, "drives me out of my mind!" And her "cute little smile." And how much he hates her friendship with Kion... | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): Daniel Hart's "Come to Me" with Sam Reid as the vocalist contains a few verses which reflect how besotted Lestat de Lioncourt is with Louis de Pointe du Lac. The Title Drop occurs ten times in the lyrics, and it's a Call-Back to the pilot where Lestat (who was in full-blown Stalker with a Crush mode) psychically called out to Louis "Come to me/Viens à moi" repeatedly, paying no heed to the latter's insistence that he be left alone. | |
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Messed around with in the movie Say Anything..., where the character Corey has written 65 songs about her ex-boyfriend. | |
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Speaking of Sondheim, there's also "Unworthy of Your Love" from Assassins, sung by John Hinckley Jr. and Squeaky Fromme to Jodie Foster and Charles Manson, respectively. Though that one almost sounds sweet out of context. | |
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Cradle of Filth - "Nymphetamine." | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: Does it count as an Obsession Song if it's not about a person? In any case... | |
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