Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of songs about or referencing killers. The songs are divided into groups by the last name of the killer the song is about or mentions. This is a dynamic list of songs and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
I Thought About Killing You; I Will Always Love You; I Will Follow You into the Dark; I Would Die 4 U; I'd Be Better Off (In a Pine Box) I've Gotta Get a Message to You; If I Die Young; Il carrozzone; In My Time of Dying; In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (song) Invaders Must Die (song) Ironic (song) It's Quiet Uptown
Inspired by the aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a car crash in France in 1997. [6] "Killer Cars" Radiohead: 1995: B-side from the album The Bends. "Kiss Them for Me" Siouxsie and the Banshees: 1991: From the album Superstition. Inspired by the death of Jayne Mansfield in a car crash in 1967. "Last Kiss"
The song was inspired by the videotaped confession to police that Robert Chambers made the morning after the death of Jennifer Levin. [3] It is a part of the Killers' alleged "Murder Trilogy", three songs detailing the murder of a girl named Jenny, [4] the other two being "Midnight Show" and "Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf".
A teenage tragedy song is a style of sentimental ballad in popular music that peaked in popularity in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Lamenting teenage death scenarios in melodramatic fashion, these songs were variously sung from the viewpoint of the dead person's romantic interest, another witness to the tragedy, or the dead or dying person.
Several historical murder ballads became hit pop songs in the 1950s and 1960s, including the Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley" (as mentioned above), which was a #1 Billboard hit in 1958, Lloyd Price's version of "Stagger Lee", which reached the top of the chart in 1959, and Lefty Frizzell's "Long Black Veil", which was a hit for a number of artists ...
Billboard ranked the song as the 222nd best pop song of all time in October 2023, [136] as well as the 4th best breakup song of all time in February 2024. [137] On their 2023 listicle, the magazine wrote that "Kill Bill" marked SZA's "official crossover from subversive R&B tastemaker to bona fide pop star".
Murder ballads (134 P) Pages in category "Songs inspired by deaths" ... Someone You Loved; Soundtrack 2 My Life; The Story (Conan Gray song)