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Sanity Slippage Song
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Some songs are about being in love. Some songs are about angst. Some songs are about being insane. They may be incoherent, psychedelic messes or intricate folk songs, but they're about going insane. Common themes are what drove the singer crazy and what it feels like in the depths of madness. The music may rise and fall erratically or use other tricks to indicate the singer's fractured mental state, but just as often the tune sounds perfectly normal. Note that if the singer is mentally ill but the song is about something else, it doesn't count. A Sub-Trope of Sanity Slippage. Compare BSoD Song and Disney Acid Sequence. If the slippage results from being driven mad by envy or sorrow, this could overlap with Revenge Ballad. If it illustrates a Villainous Breakdown, then it doubles as a Villain Song. Might be paired with a Deranged Dance. |
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The Ice King gets one in the episode "I Remember You" of Adventure Time, with bonus Tear Jerker points as it's addressed to and sung by Marceline, who is reading the notes that her old friend Simon scribbled down trying to explain why he was slipping away just when she, a little girl, needed him most. Yikes. The episode "Simon and Marcy" has Simon (The Ice King) sing the song "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" as he fights his Sanity Slippage. Finn's song "Baby's Building A Tower Into Space", which he sings as he obsessively builds a tower to space so he can find his father and rip his arm off. |
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"Slipping"(!) from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. "My Eyes" conveys an increasingly depressed, cynical mindset, but "Slipping" is flat-out out mad. Also possible are "Brand New Day" and "Everything You Ever", But in theory the entire musical can be considered a downward spiral. Also in Commentary! The Musical, Dr. Horrible's musical commentary, "All About the Art" and to an even greater extent, "Neil's Song" are perfect examples of this trope. |
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Arguably half the songs in Next to Normal, although for a few of them this only becomes apparent later on. | |
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The "Que sera, Que sera" sequence from Mary and Max. | |
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Also in Commentary! The Musical, Dr. Horrible's musical commentary, "All About the Art" and to an even greater extent, "Neil's Song" are perfect examples of this trope. | |
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The Ghost and Molly McGee: In "Ready, Set, Snow!", Molly goes outside to have fun on a snow day even though her family and friends would rather stay inside and cozy up by the fire. While outside, Molly sings an upbeat song about having fun in the snow despite the bitter cold, slowly but surely going insane as she tries to stay positive and convince herself she's in the right. | |
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A rather interesting variation from Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage involves Aqua's Leitmotif. The main version of her theme is gentle and melancholic, but her fight with her mirror image comes with a chilling remix that perfectly represents the toll the Realm of Darkness has taken on her mind. | |
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The extremely aptly named "The Breakdown" from We Are the Tigers is about as textbook with this trope as it gets. It also overlaps heavily with a textbook Villain Song, given that this is the song that reveals who killed Chess and Farrah. | |
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"Calm" from Ordinary Days shows how the stress of grad school life in New York is driving Deb insane. Written as a patter song, the frenetic pace highlights the constant anxiety Deb is experiencing. | |
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Anna and the Apocalypse: "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" sung by the villain Mr. Savage, he goes crazy prancing around the kitchen. At one point, the song seemingly ends, only for him to abruptly sing again. | |
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The episode "Simon and Marcy" has Simon (The Ice King) sing the song "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" as he fights his Sanity Slippage. | |
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"Hellfire" in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which is when even Frollo realizes he's crossing a line. He realizes he's lusting for Esmeralda, and he plays the Never My Fault card and says he's willing to burn down Paris to find Esmeralda. The fact he tries to embrace a ghost of her doesn't help. | |
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"The Ballad of Sara Berry" from 35MM: A Musical Exhibition is about the titular character trying to become the prom queen, growing more and more obsessed with it until she ends up killing all the other candidates to win by default. | |
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The Umineko: When They Cry ending theme, "La Divina Tragedia" is something like this, maybe mixed with an Obsession Song as well. | |
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The famous "Memo From Turner" from Performance is, in context, a Sanity Slippage Song from an Imagine Spot in which Turner finds his persona and identity blurring with Chas's. | |
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"Tu vas me détruire" note French for "You'll destroy me" in the French musical Notre-Dame de Paris. | |
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"Boom Crunch", the Witch's erratic showstopper that was cut from Into the Woods, fits this trope to a T. Its replacement, "Last Midnight", is tamer. In either version, the Witch lectures the protagonists and then goes crazy and curses herself to disappear. | |
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"Duvet" from Serial Experiments Lain is this, especially the last verse. | |
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"The Destruction" in both versions of Carrie the Musical, which depicts the title character's mental breakdown after being humiliated at the prom. | |
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Linkara resorts to "Combine Harvesters" by The Wurzels during his freak-outs. | |
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Muppet Treasure Island has a big set piece number called "Cabin Fever", when the ship is becalmed and the crew go a BIT bonkers. As soon as the song ends, however, everything goes back to normal, and the only person who seems to remember the number is Clueless Morgan. | |
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Bruce has "Edges of the World" in Fun Home just before he kills himself. | |
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"Can't Keep Out The Night" from Moby-Dick! The Musical. Also known as Ahab's sleep-deprived rock-solo freakout. | |
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"A Man Could Go Quite Mad" and "Both Sides of the Coin" from Drood. | |
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"Rose's Turn" from Gypsy. | |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion, "Komm, Süßer Tod" note German for "Come, Sweet Death" manages to perfectly show the final nails being hammered into Shinji's breakdown. As well as Asuka's, Misato's, and everyone else on Earth. Any song where the lyrics are: "...so with sadness in my heart, it seems the best thing I can do is end it all and leave forever. What's done is done it feels so bad, what once was happy now is sad. I'll never love again, my world is ending." Counts merely from the lyrics, and that's before the triple whammy of Lyrical Dissonance, Soundtrack Dissonance and Mood Dissonance. | |
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Randy Orton's current entrance theme, Voices by Rev Theorynote or, if you want to be more specific, Jim Johnston featuring Rich Luzzi of Rev Theory, fits this structure. It's about finding strength in madness and nihilism. | |
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In one episode of The Muppet Show a monster (with windmill legs) invites us into his mind, where he is running and running, singing "Windmills of Your Mind"... Ten times faster than it should ever be sung... | |
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"No Good Deed" from Wicked is a song about Elphaba rocketing through the 7 stages of grief before her sanity shatters like glass around 3/4 of the way through, ending with her succumbing to the title and guise of "Wicked Witch of the West". | |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show; "Rose Tint My World" is the characters admitting that Frank has broken them and they're now just living for sexual pleasure. "I'm Going Home", Richard O'Brien says in the commentary that Frank hallucinates the audience that fades in. |
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Homestuck: There are three Flashes concerning Sanity Slippage: "[S] John: Mental Breakdown" accompanied by Hardlyquin, "[S] Karkat: Mental Breakdown" with Frustracean, and finally "[S] MSPA Reader: Mental Breakdown" accompanied by Hello Zepp from [[Film:Saw the Saw movies]]. The first two are fairly comedic, while the last... isn't. | |
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A lot of the character songs from Higurashi: When They Cry deal with this, as to be expected given the nature of the series, but Satoshi Hojo's song YellowsicKING in particular stands out in this regard. | |
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Spinel's introduction in Steven Universe: The Movie is a mixture of this and Villain Song. The electric swing is an especially nice touch and really lends it that cartoonish feel, considering many early cartoons employed jazz music in their scores. | |
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"Getting Married Today" from Company. | |
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Io Shirai's Rage Breaking Point and eventual Face–Heel Turn in 2019 was illustrated/visualized during video promos using Poppy's "Scary Mask". The song is actually about social anxiety, but the lyrics still correlates well to Io's obsession of winning the NXT Women's Title and her snapping when she failed repeatedly. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic has either the chorus of "Flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger or the "William Tell Storm" by Gioachino Rossini play whenever he loses his mind. | |
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Moritz in Spring Awakening starts to sound rather crazy in "Don't Do Sadness" as he is driven to suicide, and accuses the world around him to be a cold, uncaring one. It seems like a combination of this and a normal BSoD Song. | |
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JD in Heathers has "Meant To Be Yours". We know before this that he's not entirely sane, but there was always a little bit of hope holding out, in songs like "Seventeen". This song, with its violent outbursts, terrifying lyrics, and crazy time signature changes makes sure it's painfully obvious just how far gone JD is. | |
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In "Aiutami" from The Light in the Piazza, Fabrizio has a meltdown over what he thinks is the end of him and Clara. His father, brother, and sister-in-law get sucked into the madness, encouraged by his mother. | |
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Though best remembered for being one of musical theatre's most amazing pieces, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," from Dreamgirls, is one of these. Effie, who's singing it, has just been kicked out of the Dreams and abandoned by Curtis, the group's manager and her former lover (and the father of her unborn child). As he starts to leave, she begins to sing the song to him. Though it starts out openly defiant, Effie gradually loses her confidence—and mind—as she has a total mental breakdown from the grief and strain; a (frequently-cut) verse has her outright throwing herself at Curtis and begging him not to go. By the time she gets to the bridge of the song, Curtis isn't even on the stage any more, but Effie is still singing—and even screaming—as if he was in front of her as she goes into denial and rage. This is most apparent when the song is placed in the context of the show; most cover versions play it up as stronger and more confident by removing the heavily painful overtones. | |
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"The World Has Gone Insane" from Jekyll & Hyde. | |
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The lyrics to "The World" from .hack//SIGN might qualify given the nature of the series. They start out in 3rd person talking about loneliness and insanity, and end in a 1st person reluctant acceptance. | |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The title character's awesome Villain Song "Epiphany" is about him completely losing it after his first attempt at revenge goes wrong, and declaring a vendetta upon the entire human race. | |
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"The Private and Intimate Life of the House" from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, functions as one for Prince Bolkonsky as we see him have a meltdown when confronted with the effects of aging and mortality while searching for his glasses (which were on his head the whole time). A more subdued one for Princess Mary as well, who is suffering severely from being her father's punching bag and the social isolation that comes with having to be her father's primary caregiver. In "Sonya & Natasha", Natasha has lost any semblance of rational thought, blinded so much by her infatuation with Anatole and excitement over their supposed elopement that she willingly risks becoming a fallen woman and shuts out Sonya, her "closest friend" according to the opening number. She goes further off the deep end after her elopement is shut down by Marya D. and it is revealed to her that Anatole is a cad who was already secretly married. Shortly after the song ends, she attempts to kill herself with poison. In "Letters", Pierre rants about how Napoleon is The Antichrist and he knows he is destined to kill the French general and save his country. Arguably "The Duel" could count as well, where Pierre gets so furious at Dolokhov's obvious sexual relations with his wife that he challenges the man to a duel he knows he won't win (Dolokhov's identifier in the opening number is even that he's a "crazy good shot"). |
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"The Moon Rises", from Princess Luna's perspective in days of yore. It starts out as a calm nocturne, then her envy and resentment come more to the fore until the last verse is a Motive Rant, as she turns into Nightmare Moon. | |
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Les Misérables features Inspector Javert's stunning closer: | |
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Frollo's song in the stage show for The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Unlike the Disney version where he declares that he will have Esmeralda for himself or kill her so that no one else will, the stage Frollo goes into how deep his obsession runs. He knows as a man of God that it's forbidden for him to form a relationship with a woman. However, he feels something for Esmeralda that he never felt before and it's driving him insane. Like the title suggests ("Tu Vas Me Detruire"/"Your Love Will Kill Me"), he's worried that his feelings towards Esmeralda will be the death of him. | |
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An episode of Today's Special has a sketch featuring three people singing "I Am Slowly Going Crazy," mentioned below. | |
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Played with in the Futurama episode "The Sting" in that Leela does not sing, but she's imagining the others singing (and participating in a Disney Acid Sequence). | |
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The Nostalgia Chick plays the Barber Of Seville overture whenever she's driven to madness by Fridge Logic. | |
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Stephen Sondheim really seems to like these: "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy. "Getting Married Today" from Company. The entire "Loveland" sequence from Follies. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The title character's awesome Villain Song "Epiphany" is about him completely losing it after his first attempt at revenge goes wrong, and declaring a vendetta upon the entire human race. Franklin Shepard Inc from Merrily We Roll Along. "Boom Crunch", the Witch's erratic showstopper that was cut from Into the Woods, fits this trope to a T. Its replacement, "Last Midnight", is tamer. In either version, the Witch lectures the protagonists and then goes crazy and curses herself to disappear. |
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"Eternity" from Fly by Night is about Harold and Crabble going a little bit mad, working in an endless, tedious sandwich shop. | |
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Judas' final song in Jesus Christ Superstar. | |
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Hamilton: A downplayed version: Alexander briefly freaks out during "The World Was Wide Enough" (to be fair, dying will do that to you), repeating "rise up, rise up" over and over, but gets it back together for his final lines. It's played straight in the same song for Aaron Burr, who becomes more and more irrational with each line, until he eventually breaks down and shoots Hamilton in a rage. |
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Twisted Translations, naturally plays this for laughs with "Google Translate Sings Try Everything", which turns "Try Everything" into one of these for Gazelle. | |
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"Mr. Andrews' Vision" from Titanic: The Musical, where the ship's builder, Mr. Andrews, suffers a nervous breakdown as he realizes that the compromises he made in his design to accommodate the first class are the reason the 'Titanic' is doomed. As the ship sinks, he frantically redesigns his blueprints until he breaks off, visualizing the final moments of those who are left aboard the ship. As the song ends, he is crushed to death by a piece of heavy furniture. | |
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There are some fan remakes of Monika's song "My Reality" from Doki Doki Literature Club! which is itself a borderline example since it alludes to her existential suffering and going Yandere from the point of view of other characters undergoing sanity slippage. "Sayori's Reality" by Emirichu is about deepening depression, being a Steford Smiler, anguished love, and suicidal thoughts. "Yuri's Reality" also by Emirichu: A disturbingly sexy but very creepy — even more so when you've played the story — song about Yuri's obsession with the Player Character, and with blood and cutting, when she starts totally losing it later in the game. Ends with her going Laughing Mad and, well, that's again even more disturbing if you know what happens in the game at that point. |
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"Velveteen" from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex seems to be this, though the fact that the lyrics switch languages several times make it hard to be certain. | |
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The game Portal ends with the creepy song "Still Alive" sung by the crazy antagonist master computer GLaDOS. The song is about how the computer might have survived the ending which killed it, how it's glad it lost (not really), sung with a light-hearted catchy tune. | |
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Frankenstein (2014) has "The Grand Beginning of the History of the Creation of Life", in which the execution of Victor's dear friend Henri (who died in Victor's place) pushes him to enact the plans he's been preparing for ages, to create life — namely, to resurrect Henri. Some Deathly Dies Irae and a lot more, as the song shifts from melody to melody, reflecting Victor's grief. | |
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Tadpole Treble: The secret pause menu song starts out as a catchy ragtime tune encouraging the player to take a break before things start to descend into madness. The final boss's song has some undertones of this. |
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The Lorax (2012): "How Bad Can I Be?" in begins with The Once-ler innocently asking how growing his business is a bad thing... and ends with him shouting the lyric with a deranged grin as a challenge as he obliterates the forest. There's also the Cut Song titled "The Once-ler's Traveling Madness," which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Another cut song, "Biggering" has the Once-ler pondering his simple beginnings and escalates to him responding to the Lorax's final words of warning with a reprise of the lyrics from "How Bad Can I Be", fully acknowledging that he's killing the environment and doesn't care in a frenzied act of spite to try and distance himself. |
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With the lead being in the midst of a perpetual nervous breakdown, and a running theme among all the characters being unhealthy coping mechanisms (and unlearning them), it's no shock that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has many songs that fit this trope. A particularly notable one is "After Everything I've Done For You (That You Didn't Ask For)", an homage to another famous Sanity Slippage Song, "Rose's Turn". "(Tell Me I'm Okay) Patrick" has Rebecca pleading for a bewildered delivery guy to tell her that she is not going crazy. |
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"Let The Monster Rise," "Legal Assassin," "Night Surgeon," and "Thankless Job" from Repo! The Genetic Opera. (So almost everything Nathan Wallace or Repo Man sings.) | |
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"Ez a kez utoler" ("This Is The Hand That Will Strike") from the Hungarian version of Romeo et Juliette: De La Haine a l'Amour . While its French counterpart, "C'est le jour", appeared in Act II and served mainly to exposit on Tybalt's obsession with Juliet, the Hungarian version puts it midway through Act I, right after Tybalt has had a major epileptic fit, and the song becomes the frightening yet pity-inducing rant of a clearly unwell man. The way the actor on the DVD performance drops into just screaming is seriously terrifying. | |
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The Devil, a rock-meets-classical take on the Faust legend, has "Mad Gretchen", where Gretchen is overwhelmed by what is happening to John, and, well... | |
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