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PapaGuhl t1_ja09zfq wrote

‘The Midnight Organ Fight’ by Scottish band Frightened Rabbit (awful name, great band) deals openly, honestly and extensively with the themes of anxiety and depression.

A song ‘Floating in the Forth’ sees the narrator eschew suicidal thoughts of jumping from a bridge into the River Forth to go on living.

However, the band’s main songwriter and singer later committed suicide in the way described in that song, aged 36.

RIP, Scott.

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Ellisrsp t1_ja09ja6 wrote

Fastball- The Way

>Fastball frontman Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading articles that described the June 1997 disappearance of an elderly married couple, Lela and Raymond Howard from Salado, Texas,[5] who left home to attend the Pioneer Day festival at nearby Temple, Texas, despite Lela's Alzheimer's and Raymond recently recovering from brain surgery. They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, hundreds of miles off their intended route.

I'm currently caring for an elderly parent in the early stages of mental decline. When I was younger, I thought this song was cool. It still is but now I can't listen to it.

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scottwmitchell t1_ja091jp wrote

I’ll tell you why! Because she blatantly ripped off Radiohead and then went to the press and cried they were going to sue her when Radiohead actually didn’t say anything at all. She created a big media thing just for attention and it worked.

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[deleted] t1_ja08hit wrote

>I don't think social media and mumble rappers of today will ever experience that same type of longevity because the talent simply isn't there.

100%.

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Also, those rappers came to prominence before labels realized they could just manufacture a super-star over night. Talent or ability does not factor into the equation, simply look and marketability

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