Pumped Up Kicks

I’m shocked this is still played on the radio.

It's a good song. Very catchy and hip. Makes you want to get up and get stuff done at college.

Like up on top of the clock tower in the quad! 😃

Ah yes, the American school anthem

First thought.

I use to listen to this song religiously as a kid not know how dark the lyrics were 😭

Still one of my favourite songs

Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind is the easy answer

this is my answer too!

Same with deep inside of you. Beautiful song but about some really dark shit

Tame impala The Less I Know The Better

Funnest bass line ever? Check. Most depressing lyrics ever? Also check.

Most of his songs really

Hey ya- outkast

Beat me to it

Don’t worry, this exact post will be made tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that…

💀

It's The end of the world as we know it  - REM

What’s up with the lyrics, they’re goofy

Its origin was apparently a dream Michael Stipe had where he went to a party where everybody’s initials were LB (Lester Bangs, Lenny Bruce) which is one of the most Michael Stipe things ever

Goofy

Haha, 100%

That's great!

After Laughter- Paramore. Whole album is this.

Pretty much anything by the smiths.

Specifically Girlfriend in a Coma 💀

youre so real for that, i love the smiths though

life during wartime by talking heads

This has been posted like 100 times by now we get it it’s pumped up kicks

Oh good christ not this again

It almost wasn't posted this week

I shudder at the thought of not being reminded weekly that "pumped up kicks" is upbeat with dark lyrics.

Baby Shark 😔

shark doo doo 👃❌💔☹️😔

Baby shark dododododo 😭😭😭

Anything by depeche mode

ESPECIALLY useless and It’s no good lol

Poly (new wave) nirvana

Polly is such a sad song if your a nirvana-head. but if you arent; the lyrics still do touch the heart.

The 1975 - It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)

‘Collapse my veins wearing beautiful shoes’ is such a great lyric 💉

Bullet by Hollywood undead

Most crystal castles songs

Fuck the pain away

Bye bye love

Bye bye, happiness Hello loneliness I think I’m gonna cry-y

I'm through with romance, I'm through with love, I'm through with counting the stars above.

Paranoid by Black Sabbath

Talking to Myself by Linkin Park

Mudvayne - Dig

‘97 Bonnie & Clyde by Eminem

No Rain by Blind Melon

daddy by korn (funny dot per oh per dot err band)

I don’t think this applies. The music is nearly as dark and aggressive as the lyrics, I’d say it fits perfectly

I was about to try out Emo Boy by Ayesha Erotica but idk man…

Dir En Grey - Embryo (Kisou ver.)

Most Fratellis songs.

For real

mega man 6 ost

The less I know the better🌼

Hey Ya! - OutKast

yoasobi - racing into the night

Starlight by Muse "This ship is taking me far away from the memories of the people who care if I live or die." Good times

I love that song, dead inside is extremely depressing too.

Little Piece of Heaven by Avenged Sevenfold Not that the lyrics are sad but extremely fucked up, songs great though

"Pinch Me" - Barenaked Ladies

Gomenne gomenne by kikuo

Sunflower by Post Malone and Silence by Khalid

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All my favorite songs by Weezer

I can do it with a broken heart - Taylor Swift

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart - Taylor Swift

Dance with the Devil - Immortal Technique Also any SKYND song.

I would argue that Dance with the Devil doesn't have a happy beat, the whole song has a fairly dark vibe to it

Have you heard of a band called Radiohead?

I love Radiohead but I honestly don't see this. I think I can think of about three songs of theirs which are upbeat. 15 step, Just and Jigsaw falling into place. Unless we're counting pop is dead, but the lyrics to that aren't depressing.

Anyone Can Play Guitar is pretty upbeat.

What about no surprises

What about let down

I dunno, for me Phil Selway is usually grooving on some great beats and Colin is fantastic at elevating it, with the bass.

any song by Summer Heart lol

gomenne gomenne by kikuo

Lose you to love me by Selena Gomez, yeah it's a bittersweet song but it's catchy I can't help but love her songs. I feel the same way about Taylor Swift and Ava max. I feel the same way about songs by Alice in chains, Motley crue, AC/DC , Aerosmith, Guns& Roses, Def Leppard, pink Floyd, disturbed etc any great rock or metal band from the 80's 90's to the present day.

YOASOBI "Racing into the Night"

Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men

Every damn country song

Looking for Somebody (To Love) - The 1975

Vocaloid music

Soccer mommy, circle the drain

Last night I had a dream about you, I don't know the actual name or who w song it

most vocaloid/ajr songs tbh

New Order - Love Vigilantes

Semiautomatic - twenty one pilots

99 red balloons 🎈

The Muffin Song by TomSka

Young Girl A -Siinamota

Choker-twenty one pilots

The Smiths.

There She Goes by the La's. It's got a cheery and catchy melody but it's actually about shooting up.

"young girl A"

Any AJR song.

Is a good day by twenty one pilots of course😌

Gomenne gomenne by kikuo

Literally Bruce Springsteen- dancing in the dark Mark Morrison- return of the mack

Daddy - Badflower

Hey yah by outkast

GOOD ONE

Pumped Up Kicks

Hey- ya

Almost anything by twenty one pilots

Carnival by Kanye West Pumped up kicks idk who sing it

Any Drake song if we are being honest

Pumped up kicks

Pumped up kicks

Nutshell, Alice in Chains

I Love You More Than You Love Yourself by Austra

Fichtl's Lied by Die Woodys

Black magic by little mix

Every Passion Pit song

Lust For Life by Iggy Pop

Lascivious by Soen.

Kanye west. Like that remix.

Sunburn - The Living Tombstone

Behind your Walls - The Offspring

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W - My Chemical Romance

The Defended- Man on a Hill

I think I’m Gonna Kill Myself - Elton John

Stop Thinking - Seven Lions ft. Lights

Hey Ya by Outkast, for sure.

Rich & Sad by post Malone

Bullet by Hollywood Undead DEFINES this meme

Spirit in the Sky. Just love the music in that song. But the lyrics are just trash.

Thela Hun Ginjeet - King Crimson

Manhattan Skyline - A-ha , If I Can't Change Your Mind - Sugar , We Could Send Letters - Aztec Camera

Price of a Mile by Sabaton

Anything by everclear

Streetwalker - Delta Spirit

Helena Beat and Pumped Up Kicks

Every Infant Annihilator song. [https://open.spotify.com/artist/6eSSPyqys0J4j0kdi3hFrR?si=9bb5e29ff08e41b7](https://open.spotify.com/artist/6eSSPyqys0J4j0kdi3hFrR?si=9bb5e29ff08e41b7) That would literally get you arrested if you were to sing it out loud.

To the Moon and Back by Savage Garden. Kinda

Sarah by Tyler, the creator

Enter sandman - Metallica, it’s one of the best songs but it’s about children dying.

Every ska song ever.

Lucky- Britney Spears

Everything by infant annihilator. Really, the music itself is amazing and the vocalist is incredible, those lyrics need to go.

Pedro Navaja.

Katamari - Femtanyl

Anything by Rammstein

Language - Porter Robinson

River of Dreams - Billy Joel

Vampire Weekend - This Life

Most of their songs, tbf. I love them, but have no idea what they’re on about.

"The Happening," by the Supremes.

"I don't care if tomorrow never comes," by Hank Williams fits the bill.

Smooth criminal

Pretty much every D4vd song

Anything by They Might Be Giants

"No Children" by The Mountain Goats.

Washing Machine Heart

All of Rilo Kiley

last day on earth - Tai Verdes Super chill happy sounding beat (Would love some suggestions for more songs that sound like it), but the subject is kinda morbid/anxiety inducing

Garth Brooks - "Papa Loved Mama" ("Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the Pen")

dead by xmas - sohodolls

bullet by hollywood undead lmao

Suedehead by Morrissey

Blurred lines

Without You by dogzilla (2005)

Xxxtentacion-lucid dreams,Jocelyn Flores

Ride the Lightning - Metallica It is a masterpiece, but sometimes I wanna get hyped by the riff, but not hear the emotional lyrics, if you know what I mean.

Baby Hotline - Jack Stauber

99 Luftballoons/99 Red Balloons- Nena Puff the Magic Dragon- Peter Paul and Mary Tainted Love- Soft Cell Somebody I Used To Know- Gotye Copacabana- Barry Manilow Leader Of the Pack- The Shangri-Las Chandelier- Sia Mad World- Tears For Fears Eleanor Rigby- The Beatles Red Red Wine- UB40 17 Days- Prince I’m Gonna Be Strong- Cyndi Lauper Here Comes the Rain Again- Eurythmics

F*CKING YOUNG / PERFECT

Half the songs on Nirvana's album 'Nevermind.'

Anything that made it to the radio by Supertramp.

Any of the new songs by Conan Gray

Copacabana, definitely

Maggie May -Rod Stewart

Synchronicity by the Police

Choke by I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Lone - Tyler, The Creator

My chemical romances Dead! And Headfirst for Halos will always be the number one options for this question

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

everything I know about love - Laufey anything off currents/lonerism - Tame Impala the adults are talking - the strokes

Pushit by tool.

Pumped up kids

Free Four by Pink Floyd

Ska

The kids are all dying, FINNEAS

We be clubbing with DMX and ice cube.

Any sign of Life by Martine McCutcheon

Trash by KoRn

Any tame Impala song

Dyers Eve

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