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Songs that cause people to commit suicide.

Cainkane1

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The music that gets the reputation for causing the most suicides is Country Music. The lyrics about losing your girlfriend or your wife or boyfriend dumping you and getting drunk have been known to cause depression. However the song "Alone Again naturally" is really and truly depressing and about a man about to jump off of a Tower. Its not a Country and Western song. His fiance jilted him at the altar by not showing up and his father died and his mother died later on. Alone Again Naturally is not a song I'd like to hear if I was lonely and perhaps drunk.
 
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I heard a song on the radio today in which someone kept repeating: "We at the Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn"

I can see how this song would cause someone to commit suicide if they were to listen to it in its entirety.
 
4 words:

We

Are

The

World.

You will puke until you die.
 
Suicide by Mob: The act of ending one's own life by first claiming to a suicide victim's friends and relatives that the suicide victim was solely responsible for his or her own death, backing up that claim with reason and evidence, and then offering no resistance when the enraged mob tears you to pieces.
 
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I've found that any song in the key of D minor can induce suicide. After all, D minor is the saddest of all keys. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why.
 
Cainkane1 said:
The music that gets the reputation for causing the most suicides is Country Music.
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See Stack S, Gundlach J: The Effect of Country Music on Suicide Social Forces, September 1992 71(1):211-218:

The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty, and gun availability.
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Cainkane1 said:
The music that gets the reputation for causing the most suicides is Country Music. The lyrics about losing your girlfriend or your wife or boyfriend dumping you and getting drunk have been known to cause depression.
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Thats why you play it backwards...You get all those things back..lol
 
I've heard that "It's a small world after all" can induce suicide.

On topic: I think it's the other way around. Sad/depressed people listen to sad/depressing music. I've been listening to Black Sabbath, Metallica, Slayer for a good portion of my life. I'm still alive. Hmmm... :)
 
kuroyume0161 said:
I've heard that "It's a small world after all" can induce suicide.
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If you have ever been on that DisneyLand ride as an adult, you wouldn't question this.

On topic: I think it's the other way around. Sad/depressed people listen to sad/depressing music. I've been listening to Black Sabbath, Metallica, Slayer for a good portion of my life. I'm still alive. Hmmm... :)
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Right.. there is a causal question here.

However, I think "Don't Fear the Reaper" usually gets at least an honorable mention for recruiting effort.
 
Mojo said:
See Stack S, Gundlach J: The Effect of Country Music on Suicide Social Forces, September 1992 71(1):211-218:
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The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty, and gun availability.
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Duh. The greater the airtime devoted to country music, the more whites there are.
 
Not to mention that having few alternatives to hearing country music would drive even a sane person to the brink...I am a music lover; therefore, I hate country "music". In response to the OP, if I were forced to listen to "Alone again, naturally" several times in a row I'd consider slitting my wrists just to force someone to call an ambulance where that droning caterwaul of nonsense was NOT playing!

On the list of dark music I would dis-recommend for someone who is having a bad time, though, I'd definitely put Evanescence's album, "Fallen". Especially, "Tourniquet" but almost all of the album focusses on the allure of madness and young death.

Many classic operas end in the death of one or more of the leads, too, so I think it's just that depressed people seek out music that echoes their worldview.
 
I nominate Nickleback for a lifetime achievement award in this category.
 
Miss_Kitt said:
Not to mention that having few alternatives to hearing country music would drive even a sane person to the brink...I am a music lover; therefore, I hate country "music". In response to the OP, if I were forced to listen to "Alone again, naturally" several times in a row I'd consider slitting my wrists just to force someone to call an ambulance where that droning caterwaul of nonsense was NOT playing!

On the list of dark music I would dis-recommend for someone who is having a bad time, though, I'd definitely put Evanescence's album, "Fallen". Especially, "Tourniquet" but almost all of the album focusses on the allure of madness and young death.

Many classic operas end in the death of one or more of the leads, too, so I think it's just that depressed people seek out music that echoes their worldview.
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All country and western isn't bad. Don't you like El Paso? Do you not like Johnny Cash? Some of it is horrible I admit.
 
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