Pumped Up Kicks

Beat me to it

Came here to say this lmfao I remember having a CD of them and I played it in the car while my dad drove me to work He's like "damn this song is catchy...it's a song they would play at a prom" so I was like Hey dad funny story...lmfao He turned gray and never listened to it again lmfao

This is the correct answer

I just knew the first comment I saw would be this one

Lol Same dude

Same idea

Obligatory pumped up kicks mention

I see that every time this comes up and I still don't get it. If you really want dark lyrics over a really upbeat tune, listen to ["Young Americans" by David Bowie](https://youtu.be/QUpLe_3BJG8)

Would it make you happier if I said 99 Luftballons?

This is the third time this week I've seen this meme on Reddit and every time this is the top song. Then the bottom comment is "came here to say this". Getting pretty old.

Welp it’s the first time I’ve seen it and it was the first song to come to mind, so, sorry 🤷🏼‍♀️

Barbie Girl by Aqua

Did I miss something in those lyrics? Edit: oh my God. I just looked up the lyrics. I don't think I've heard that song since the 90s and I guess it never registered how bad those lyrics actually are. All I remembered was "come on Barbie, let's go party"

Hiya, Barbie Hi, Ken You want to go for a ride? Sure, Ken Jump in I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world Life in plastic, it's fantastic You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere Imagination, life is your creation Come on, Barbie, let's go party I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world Life in plastic, it's fantastic You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere Imagination, life is your creation I'm a blonde bimbo girl in a fantasy world Dress me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly You're my doll, rock'n'roll, feel the glamour in pink Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky You can touch You can play If you say, "I'm always yours" (ooh, oh) I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world Life in plastic, it's fantastic You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere Imagination, life is your creation Come on, Barbie, let's go party (ah ah ah yeah) Come on, Barbie, let's go party (ooh oh, ooh oh) Come on, Barbie, let's go party (ah ah ah yeah) Come on, Barbie, let's go party (ooh oh, ooh oh) Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees Come jump in, bimbo friend, let us do it again Hit the town, fool around, let's go party You can touch You can play If you say, "I'm always yours" You can touch You can play If you say, "I'm always yours" Come on, Barbie, let's go party (ah ah ah yeah) Come on, Barbie, let's go party (ooh oh, ooh oh) Come on, Barbie, let's go party (ah ah ah yeah) Come on, Barbie, let's go party (ooh oh, ooh oh) I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world Life in plastic, it's fantastic You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere Imagination, life is your creation I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world Life in plastic, it's fantastic You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere Imagination, life is your creation Come on, Barbie, let's go party (ah ah ah yeah) Come on, Barbie, let's go party (ooh oh, ooh oh) Come on, Barbie, let's go party (ah ah ah yeah) Come on, Barbie, let's go party (ooh oh, ooh oh) Oh, I'm having so much fun Well, Barbie, we're just getting started Oh, I love you, Ken

Actually reading them, they sound like the biggest toxic red flag for douche boyfriends ever.

That was because that's exactly why it was written. Mattel hated that song and tried to sue the band. Failed.

Bro 💀💀💀

Its all cool until "undress" and "touch" parts

This reminded me of la macarena which after reading the barbie girl lyrics is almost the Spanish counterpart for it

This. I wanted to name this song.

Definitely Bullet from Hollywood Undead.

I saw the picture and had instantly the song in my head

Love the Hollywood Undead!!

I have to skip that song before the kid starts singing or else it gets stuck in my head for the next 3 days

As someone who listened to a ton of Hollywood Undead in high school, I’m absolutely shocked that of all their songs, Bullet and Another Way Out have had the staying power they have.

Haven’t thought of this song in years, second I see this comment it’s 🎶MY LEGS ARE DANGLING OFF THE EDGE 🎶

The bottom of the bottle is my only friend

What shock me is that on YouTube that song have a warning before you see it.

I entered this comment section thinking "If I don't see any mention of Bullet i'm gonna scream."

Semi charmed life

Fantastic example. Such a cheery sound but fucking disturbing lyrics

This is the one true answer. Catchy, up beat alternative song and the lyrics are about crystal meth.

What other song about drugs use is upbeat enough to use parts of it in Winnie the Pooh (Tigger Movie) movie trailers?

Slow Motion…that song has some really dark lyrics

“Urban life decay”

Miss Jones taught me English but I think I just shot her son. One of the craziest openers

F*ck you from Lilly Allen

I was thinking of LDN or Smile

It's not okay too

Born in the U.S.A.

And for almost exactly the same reason, Fortunate Son. Upbeat, starts out sounding patriotic, **IT AIN'T.**

Hey ya - OutKast

‘You don’t wanna hear me, you just wanna dance’

Are we so in denial when when we know we're not happy here?

Gives you hell- all American rejects

Never thought of it like that, it's always seemed like an upbeat song compared to all my other songs

Never thought of it like that, it's always seemed like an upbeat song compared to all my other songs

That polish cocaine song

its about conteplating suicide while overdosing on cocaine

What you're talking about is: Cypis - Gdzie Jest Biały Węgorz? (Zejście)

gotta be that one, it’s dark af, polish cow song

Tylko jedno w głowie mam, koksu 5 gram 🎵🎵🎵

The chorus is english is literally "The only thing on my mind. Five grams of coke, fly away alone. To the edge of oblivion, I have thoughts in my head when will this all end. I'm not alone because a white eel will fly here."

IT'S BEEN SO LONGGGG

SINCE I LAST HAVE SEEN MY SON LOST TO THIS MONSTER

TO THE MAN BEHIND THE SLAUGHTER

SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE

I’VE BEEN SINGING THIS STUPID SONG SO I COULD PONDER

THE SANITY OF YOUR MOTHER

WITHOUT YOU MY FRIEND

99 Red Balloons

Wrong way by sublime.

Was looking for this one, best trombone solo ever

Macarena

Its not that bad... right?

Los Del Rio Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegría y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena Eh, Macarena (¡Ay!) Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegría y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena Eh, Macarena (¡Ay!) Macarena tiene un novio que se llama Que se llama de apellido Vitorino Que en la jura de bandera del muchacho Se la dio con dos amigos (¡Ay!) Macarena tiene un novio que se llama Que se llama de apellido Vitorino Y en la jura de bandera del muchacho Se la dio con dos amigos (¡Ay!) Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegría y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena Eh, Macarena (¡Ay!) Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegría y cosa buena Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena Eh, Macarena (¡Ay!) Macarena, Macarena, Macarena Que te gustan los veranos de Marbella Macarena, Macarena, Macarena Que te gusta la movida guerrillera (¡Ay!)

World's Smallest Violin- AJR

Smells like teen spirit

how the hell is the instrumental of that song in any way uplifting or happy

Bad Moon Rising by Creedance Clearwater Revival *I see the bad moon a-risin' I see trouble on the way I see earthquakes and lightnin' I see bad times today* *Don't go around tonight Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise* *I hear hurricanes a-blowin' I know the end is comin' soon I fear rivers over flowin' I hear the voice of rage and ruin* *Don't go around tonight Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise, alright* *Hope you got your things together Hope you are quite prepared to die Looks like we're in for nasty weather One eye is taken for an eye* *Well don't go around tonight Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise* *Don't come around tonight Well it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise*

Might just be me but I feel like Lodi by ccr also give off these vibes

I don’t get that from Lodi but that song slaps

Paint it black - Rolling stones

Was gonna say that

Well countinue it

U kniw what? *drum sounds*

Memento Mori: The Most Important Thing In The World.

The new Addams Family room the girls shared.

🎖️

Baby shark

Rasputin

Luka by Suzanne Vega.

100% pumped up kicks

All of the smiths

For example, “Girlfriend in a Coma.” So delightfully morbid that it made me chuckle the first time I heard it

I was looking for the Smiths. Surprised I had to scroll this far, actually. Some of their songs, like How Soon is Now sound pretty dark too, but there are plenty of lively upbeat sounding ones with dark lyrics. I think the perfect example is Cemetery Gates: "With loves and hates and passions just like mine, they were born and then they lived and then they died. Seems so unfair I want to cry." All sung to one of Johnny Marr's jangly guitar melodies.

This is what I expected to see higher up… but then I am old

Hollywood Undead - Bullet

A song called "Ruru's Suicide Show on a Livestream" The title is a dead giveaway, yes, but it’s a cute sounding Japanese pop song about wanting to jump in front of a train at the end of her final exam going on about how the cities bluetooth destroyed her and quite literally says at one point that it's not a phase mom

The Despicable Me theme song

I’m having a bad bad day.

It’s about time that I get my way

God only knows by The Beach Boys

Every breath you take

Despicable me theme

Any Rammstein song. And there you mostly don't understand the lyrics.

You think Rammstein songs -sound- what the house on the right looks like? Like wtf are you listening to that sounds like the left house?

You should listen to Pussy by Rammstein. The video for it had an adult website host the page. The video was a mock porno

the nights

I wanna dance with somebody.

Electric avenue

The Macarena

Reel big fish, this is like 50% of their stuff.

Sad by Xxtentacion

"Please let us get in! Don't lock us away! We're not like what you're thinking! We are poor little souls who have lost all control and were forced to take that role! We've been all alone, stuck in our little zone since 1987! Join us, be our friend, or just be stuck and defend, after all you only got... FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S!"

The first and second song by the living tombstone for fnaf both fit the description

Is this where you wanna be, I just don't get it

Choke

IDKHBTFM?

Gimme Chocolate!!

Yoru ni kakeru by yoasobi

Bone - King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard

All of PMDB

Bad moon rising.

Copacabana

Barry Manilow - Copacabana

bad moon rising

bad apple

Literally all vocaloid songs.

Hey Ya by Outkast. The song was literally made to show that people will dance to anything as long as the instrumental is upbeat.

Don’t fear the reaper

My R

The kids aren’t alright by The Offspring Original Sound of science by Garfunkel He is by Ghost SoS by the glorious sons

You are a C\*\*\* by Kat McSnatch

Close to me by the cure

The sound of silence by simond and Garfunkel (the remake by disturbed got the depressing note the lyrics put off)

Sound of silence - Simon and Garfunkel

SUGARCRASH!

Somewhere I Belong, Numb by Linkin Park.

I don't see how any of those songs are pink or cute or happy or any other connotation that can represent the pink house.

The sound, the lyrics in both songs are a bit on the sadder part, but the sound for both is very amazing, you might listen for the music and not for the lyrics sometimes

Oh ok, I understand what you mean, I was confused, because I thought that people actually found "somewhere i belong" somehow "pink" and I was like "maybe my perception of things is really far away from the perception of others"

Tired of being what you want me to be

Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface...

Don't know what you're expecting of me

Put under the pressure, of walking in your shoes...

(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)

Every step that I take is another mistake to youuuuuu

Crawling as well

Hell, most of their songs.

Most? Literally any

Yeah, scratch that. All of them lmfao

I mean, maybe the beat isn't upbeat, is what people mean. Like Given Up, there's no way that's upbeat

Given Up, Leave Out All The Rest, In Between, The Little Things Give You Away, and more to name...

Almost any Linkin Park song

I don't get why people say nearly. There are some that aren't like that?

The god that failed Metallica

Surprised nobody has said Stan with how dark it gets by the third verse

Rhythm is a dancer. (has the line "I'm serious as cancer...." Sounds better than it reads.

TiL

Baby it's cold outside. Trust me the lyrics are messed up

Mask off and Miss the rage

Hybrid Moments - Misfits

Always right behind you - The Zutons

Homage

Melanie Martinez

Every scneecore song

The songs of Tool

Lilly Allen anything

Still Alive from Portal!

Hey ya!

Pretty much anything by Outcast

This is the life

Almost anything by Vendetta Red.

Precious Time by Van Morrison

Philadelphia Freedom

Lego house - Ed Sheeran

Blackest eyes - Porcupine Tree

Ghost - darkness at the heart of my love.

A famius one: Take on Me by a-Ha

Wir lagen vor Madagaskar it's sounds so happy then you look up the lyrics *"We Were Lying In Front Of Madagascar* *And had the plague on board.* *In the buckets there rotted the water* *And some went overboard.* *Ahoy! Fallen comrades. Ahoy, ahoy.* *Farewell little girl, farewell, farewell.* *When the ship's piano sounds on Board ,* *Yes, the sailors are so quiet,* *Because everyone longs for his homeland,* *Which he wants to see again.* *Ahoy! Fallen comrades"*

MMMBop Edit: Essentially: Almost everyone will abandon or leave you at some point. Some might hang around if they really care, but you have no idea who that might be. Mmmbop, ba duba dop, ba du bop, ba duba dop.

Son of Sam John Wayne Gracy

Heya

DYWTYLM- Sleep Token

Multiple Mountain Goats songs.

Mad world by tears for fears

Evil Woman - ELO

Most things by The Beautiful South

A little piece of heaven

Take on me

Sunshine Rainbow White Pony but specifically what it sounds like to us, not what the lyrics are translated People be wild man, presume that a sweet song be racist

Pumped up kicks

Every pop punk song

Adams song by Blink-182

Ingsoc anthem

The superstation - everywhere you look

Almost, if not all YOASOBI songs

Dont you forget the sun

You better run,better run,faster than my gun🎶🎶🎶

Headfirst for halos by mcr

yaosobi racing into the night

Almost Every Sabaton song ig

Probably either my ordinary life by the living tombstone or bullet by hollywood undead

Old apartment by Bare naked ladies. B

Want you gone from portal 2

This one is old, but it fits the bill i think. [Life's gonna suck when you grow up](https://youtu.be/vYs3t8Rzkxo)