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Teenage Death Songs
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Teenage Death Songs are songs about dead or dying teenagers. Also called "death rock" (not to be confused with the music genre of the same name) or "teen tragedy" songs, these were a staple of pop music in The '50s and early Sixties, when Rock & Roll was very much a teenage phenonemon, but they are still written occasionally today. Often a romantic tragedy written from the point-of-view of the dead teen's girlfriend or boyfriend, but sometimes written as if the dying (or even dead) teen is singing himself. A more bittersweet variation might end with a pair of teen lovers Together in Death. Often, but not always, there are also parents who are sorry they weren't more understanding. Usually a Morality Ballad, and if homicide is involved a Murder Ballad as well. A type of fictionalized Grief Song, though some are based on real people. Expect spoken word bridges (recited through an echo chamber), sound effects (crashing cars, swishing waves), and some of the most attractively orchestrated arrangements in early rock recordings. Many, though not all, of them are inexplicably upbeat if you don't pay too much attention to the lyrics. Sometimes also classified as a "Tear Jerker", especially if the age isn't quite right but the trope otherwise fits. The name is taken from one of the chapter titles used in Stephen King's Christine. This website is dedicated to Teenage Death Songs. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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Parodied in Heathers with the novelty song "Teenage Suicide (Don't Do It)" by Big Fun, whose lyrics become resonant for the students at Westerburg High School after Heather Chandler's "suicide". | |
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"Castles Made of Sand" from Are You Experienced by Jimi Hendrix (1967). Three verses - homicide, war and suicide. | |
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"Rocky" by Austin Roberts (1975-and unrelated to the movie) tells the story of young lovers who get married, have an infant daughter, and then the wife unexpectedly dies to an unmentioned disease. The lyrics go "Rocky, I never had to die before. Don't know if I can do it." In the last verse she suggests she will always be around and help him in spirit whenever he and their daughter would be in need. | |
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"1916", by Motörhead, is about a group of underage boys who join the army during a war (implied to be World War I), then meeting a messy and anonymous death in battle. | |
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The musical Ride the Cyclone is chock full of Teenage Death Songs, being about a high school choir that finds themselves in limbo after the faulty rollercoaster they were riding derailed at the apex of the loop-de-loop. Special mention goes to "The Uranium Suite" at the top of the show, which is sung by the choir as their rollercoaster car hurtles through the air in slow motion, propelling the kids towards an untimely death: | |
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On the '70s variety series The Captain & Tennille Show, the "Sweathogs" of Welcome Back, Kotter fame sang a parody called "Pizza Death." The verse, sung by John Travolta in character as Vinne Barbarino, told of how the teenaged pizza deliveryman died in a crash, but, though his body grew cold, the mourning crowd was able to eat the still hot pizzas in the van. The refrain ran: | |
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"The Ballad of Billy Brown" (1961), by future trash-TV host Morton Downey Jr., never specifies what caused the eponymous teen's death. | |
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The subject of "My Trousseau Just Lies On the Shelf," from The Lucy Show. It was performed by Lucille Ball and Mel Tormé, calling themselves the Tear Ducts on a televised talent contest. In an episode written as a sendup to this trope, the song appears to be a parody. In-universe, however, it was well received and instantly earned the Tear Ducts a record deal. | |
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"(All I Have Left Is) My Johnny's Hubcap", in one of MAD magazine's vintage parody albums. | |
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"Inside The Fire" by Disturbed was written to cope with a traumatic memory vocalist David Draiman had from his own teenage years of finding his girlfriend's body. The lyrics are about the devil tempting Draiman to kill himself so he can reunite with her in Hell, and the (original version of the) music video depicts the horror of the situation very clearly. The song as a whole is intended as a strong anti-suicide Aesop, complete with including the number for a suicide prevention hotline in the Content Warnings of the music video. | |
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The National Lampoon stage show Lemmings parodied all sorts of rock music, including a '50s teen death song, where at one point, the girl says the boy in the accident looks like one of the many pizzas they'd shared. | |
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Ditto "James Dean" by the Eagles (1974). He was too fast to live, too young to die, bye-bye. | |
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"Flight 505" by The Rolling Stones (1966) ends with the titular flight going down into the sea. | |
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Nicole Dollanganger's Columbine EP (2013), featuring covers of "Pumped Up Kicks" and two Marilyn Manson songs ("The Nobodies" and "The Reflecting God"). The album cover is a crime scene photo of the killers' dead bodies. Her song "Rampage" off of her 2014 album Observatory Mansions also samples Eric Harris' home movies and the documentary Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High while telling a story about a girl whose boyfriend is shooting up their school, and uses Harris and Dylan Klebold's Monster Fangirls as a metaphor for people trapped in abusive relationships, thinking that their abusers can be redeemed through The Power of Love. | |
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Not so forgotten these days since Glee did a rendition of it. | |
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"Goodbye, Eddie, Goodbye" from the movie Phantom of the Paradise is a sendup where the title character kills himself because Dead Artists Are Better. | |
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Parodied on Mystery Science Theater 3000 with the song "Where, Oh Werewolf," inspired by a sequence in Werewolf (1996) where a security guard in mid-transformation crashes his car and dies. | |
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"Glow Girl" by The Who (1967), which at least ends on a happy note of reincarnation. | |
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"Let Him Dangle" by Elvis Costello (1989). Story of the wrongful execution of Derek Bentley, who was 19 when he was hanged in 1953 in UK. | |
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The recurring Dead Boy in Nightwish songs apparently died of growing up. His sister, the Girl in White, is implied to have died when Tarja left the band. | |
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"Tonight" from Lust for Life by Iggy Pop (1977) deals with a drug overdose; the dying girl's lover stays by her side as she slips away. Co-writer/producer David Bowie, who also contributed backing vocals, recorded a Cover Version of this for an album of the same title in 1984, but dropped the opening verse that establishes the girl is dying. Thus, it became a straightforward love ditty (and duet with Tina Turner). | |
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"Suzy and Jeffrey" by Blondie (1980) Another car crash. | |
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"Green Green Grass of Home" by Porter Wagoner (1965), a country staple also covered by Tom Jones. The protagonist is on Death Row and is about to be executed. | |
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Twisted Sister actually did a P.O.V. Sequel that counts too. | |
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"Janie's Got a Gun" by Aerosmith (1989). Girl gets violent revenge after years of Parental Incest. Technically averted, as the song ends with Janie alive and on the run. | |
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Most of SKYND's songs are based on True Crime, and their 2020 song "Columbine" is no different. It's about the shooting from the killers' point of view, portraying them as fame-seeking glory hounds who see their murder spree as a game, while the music video follows a student at Columbine surviving the shooting. | |
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From “Paschendale� by Iron Maiden | |
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"Running Bear" by Johnny Preston (1959). Written by The Big Bopper, it's a re-telling of Romeo and Juliet in which young Native American lovers defy their families, their warring tribes and a rough river to be together. The river gets them, but the last line says they'll meet in the next life. | |
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"Love You to Death" by Kamelot has the girl die of unspecified Victorian Novel Disease. | |
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In "Last December" by Iced Earth (1995), teenage lovers commit suicide together, saying it's their "only way out". "Mother, you have forced us here... Father, now we'll disappear." | |
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"Blasphemous Rumours" by Depeche Mode (1984) is about a 16-year-old girl who fails a suicide attempt only to die a sickly ironic death in an automobile accident at 18. | |
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"Three Stars" by Eddie Cochran (1959), commemorating the deaths of Ritchie Valens (who was 17 at the time), Buddy Holly and J.P. Richardson a.k.a The Big Bopper in an airplane accident. The pilot, Roger Peterson, was hardly 20 himself. This song eerily foreshadows Eddie Cochran's own death 1960 in an automobile accident while on tour in UK. He was 21 at his own death. Likewise, "American Pie" by Don McLean (1971), which deals with the same aviation accident. |
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"Pigs" by Tyler, the Creator (2013), a song from the perspective of the killers as they get revenge on the bullies who tormented them. | |
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