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Many songs are about love (whether romantic love, platonic love, or even loving a thing) or hate (of a thing or a person), but these are songs about things the singer just doesn't care about. You may be wondering why, if they don't care, they bother to sing the song in the first place. Well, there are many potential reasons. They could be talking about how their enemy can do or say whatever they want— they wouldn't care anyway (sort of like the lyrical equivalent of the phrase "Go ahead, laugh, I don't care" when the phrase is used sincerely). These songs may also be about how the singer used to care about what the other person did or said but they no longer do. If the singer is a villain, Anti-Hero, or a regular hero facing an extremely bad villain, they might be singing about how they don't care what happens to the person they're singing to, or about how they know that what they're doing is bad/inconveniences the person being sung to, but they don't care. If society expects the person to care (for instance, a woman singing about how she doesn't care if she has kids or not), or if they're singing about how they don't care about society in general, it could be an inspirational ballad. Maybe it's about how they have a great relationship (romantic or platonic) with another person or they enjoy doing something and it has its downsides, but they couldn't care less because the person or thing is worth it. Maybe something bad has happened, but at the same time, something good has happened that is so good that the person doesn't care about the bad thing. Sometimes subverted by having a character start a song this way, only to find out in the process of singing it that they do care (common with people who think they don't miss another person, but they do). Of course, not all Odes to Apathy are that deep— maybe it's just someone singing about how they don't care about the weather, or a Lazy Bum singing about how they can't be bothered doing something. Contrast Song of Many Emotions and Fear Song. If the song leads to empowerment, it's harnessing The Power of Apathy. Could be a Bravado Song if the thing they don't care about is supposed to be scary. |
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In Fiddler on the Roof, after the town's Jewish residents face the news that they are being evicted, the song "Anatevka" downplays their feelings about their home. They begin by claiming it is nothing much and they will not miss it, but by the end they are mourning the loss of their poor little town. | |
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In "I'm Bored" by The Bonzo Dog Band, the narrator catalogs (and occasionally makes horrid puns about) all the things he's not interested in. | |
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Sesame Street: The song "That's What Friends are For" is about how Ernie and Bert sometimes do things that would ordinarily bother the other, but they don't mind because they're such good friends. The song "Born to Add" is about how an unnamed man and woman don't care that their loud addition at night is waking everyone up— they'll keep doing it anyway. |
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Jan Valentine in Hellsing Ultimate Abridged combines this with Cluster F-Bomb in a rap song he sings while stalking the hallways of the Hellsing Organization headquarters. | |
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Subverted in the song "I'm Not Afraid of Anything" from Songs for a New World. Woman 1 has no irrational fears, unlike her parents, her peers, and her boyfriend David. However, it's revealed throughout the song that Woman 1 has trouble with vulnerability and empathy because of this, and often winds up feeling isolated from those she loves. | |
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Songdrops: "The BFF Song" is about how the two friends don't care that they sometimes don't see eye-to-eye or about what other people say because their friendship is so strong. "Lazy Saturday Afternoon" is about someone who's too lazy to take care of his many pets, from a cat to an elephant. |
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Phineas and Ferb: In "I Really Don't Hate Christmas", Doofenshmirtz sings about how, despite not really liking the holiday, he doesn't hate it, either. He sums up his feelings as "ambivalence" and "an intense, burning indifference". This actually upsets him, because he's a Card-Carrying Villain who wants to hate Christmas. | |
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In Frozen (2013), the song "Let it Go" is sung by Elsa and about how she doesn't care anymore about people finding out about her powers since now they know. She also mentions not being bothered by the cold. | |
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Played with in the song "I'm Not Saying a Word" from Blood Brothers, where Eddie sings to Linda about how he'd win her heart if he were dating her, all while insisting that he's not trying to woo her, because he knows that Mickey's after her, even though Mickey Cannot Spit It Out. | |
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James Blake has "Say What You Will", a message to those who would criticize him for his life/career choices that he's content with where he's at and they can, naturally, "say what they will" without it affecting him. | |
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In Monsters - The Musical, Samantha is haunted by manifestations of her emotions, including Apathy, who sings "What's the Point?" about the futility of making plans. | |
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VeggieTales: The trope-naming song about "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything", with lyrics including "We just stay at home and lie around!" | |
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Apocalyptica's "I Don't Care" describes how the narrator tried to get through to their loved one, until he stopped caring about them. | |
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In Pink Floyd's The Wall the narrator muses that nothing is very much fun anymore during the song One Of My Turns. In universe, it's a sign of him retreating behind the mental wall he's building to avoid having to confront modern life. Interestingly, this line is spoken in response to his wife becoming colder towards him. A clearer example is slightly later, in Another Brick In The Wall Part 3, where he actively rejects everyone and everything around him. | |
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"Living Dead" from Jasper in Deadland is an upbeat, optimistic song about how great it is to have nothing worth caring about. | |
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Homestar Runner: Strong Sad's favorite band sloshy's big song is called "We don't really even care about you", which is also the Title-Only Chorus. | |
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend parodies these with "I Could If I Wanted To", a slacker rock song in which Greg insists that he could totally be successful at a variety of different things if he actaully tried, but those things are all dumb and caring about them is stupid. However, it's very clear that he's just feeling insecure about getting a bad grade at college and that his deliberately apathetic persona just makes him look like a conceited, superior jerk. | |
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The Rammstein song "Keine Lust" makes no bones that it's about being apathetic: its title translates roughly to "No Desire" or "I Don't Feel Like It." It's a sort of truth in advertising, as the song itself is about a person who's too apathetic or depressed to take care of, or even pleasure, themselves. The video takes the concept in a slightly different direction, as it shows most of the band flaunting fabulous wealth (and wearing gigantic fat suits) as a riff on the idea of bands becoming too rich and successful to really care about their art. | |
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