What is the most socially damaging song ever released? - By a record label

[NoReturn]

I feel like it would be something from Hamilton or a tv kids show.

I'm going to put "Something from Hamilton" as #1 in the category for "Songs that ruined Disney".
Hamilton came out in 2015.

Before Hamilton (Frozen, 2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrX1XKtShSI

After Hamilton
(Moana, 2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79DijItQXMM

"You're Welcome" was a Miranda-solo
(Wish, 2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi0J74szHPM

Wish is an especially sad case because they even changed a love song "At All Costs" to a fight song.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Everyone's already said Imagine which I think has to be the top contender, but I'll add Don't Look Back in Anger on a personal level. Hearing it always puts a pit in my stomach and a black hatred in my heart. In 2017 a muslim suicide bombed an Ariana Grande concert full of little girls in Manchester, from memory killing dozens and injuring over 100. The reaction by the state was to organise an insidious, astroturfed campaign of "togetherness" and "tolerance" called "One Love Manchester" that peaked with a performance of Don't Look Back in Anger. That's the message that the state hands you if you're a native Brit and your own little girls are blown up by the son of two extremist Libyan "refugees" on state benefits, a man who was personally brought to the country by the Royal Navy, who was given the freedom to commit the attack despite appearing suspicious because people were afraid of looking "racist" by profiling him.

Since then I've done my part by not looking back in anger. I'm looking straight forwards.

I didn’t remember any of that shit (I’m not Br*tish), so I can understand your feelings but to me it’s just a really good song. Used for something foul but not foul.

I think the closest equivalent for me was Hallelujah being blared everywhere (to my memory?) after Sandy Hook. It felt very wrong to me at the time that something mundane and local like that was being made such a big deal, but it was a feeling I couldn’t really share with anyone. And it became the real ground zero of clown world applied to gun grabbing in America.

 

[Bloom Worm Cross Field]

Actually I've thought of one that hasn't been mentioned yet: The Socialist/Communist anthem L'Internationale. There have been various English translations but the gist is always "Arise, wretched and downtrodden workers of the world, we are all one people united by class, we are going to tear down and rebuild the Earth without Kings or traditions". Written around the First communist International in 1871, so long predating the Soviet revolution and everything after that.

 

[isalaide]

Everybody Hurts, R.E.M.

I love R.E.M. until I die. Everything that song has ever been used for, every cause, every campaign, is retarded.

Bully anyone you want, blow your brains out if you like, if you're depressed take the fucking pills. Spare us all the EMOTIONS of Michael Stipe. R.E.M. died when Stipe got the idea he was some important voice of youth with something vital to communicate.

 

[Lemmingwiser]

I haven't seen it mentioned yet, so let's throw an oldie into the mix. Gloomy Sunday. First recorded in Hungary in 1935 under the original name Szomorú Vasárnap.

It's also known as "The Hungarian Suicide Song". It was banned in a number of different countries from being broadcast. The song is about a lover that contemplates suicide after the death of their lover. To take a small piece of the lyrics:

Angels have no thought
Of ever returning you,
Would they be angry
If I thought of joining you?

About 100 suicides are linked to the song. They would find someone dead with the song left in the Gramophone. That's why they banned it. To prevent more suicides. It's why suicide often gets censored from the news, because hearing about suicide does create a statistical uptick in suicide.

Billy Holliday recorded a version of the song in English. He added a verse at the end to make it less pessimistic.

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart here

There's also a German/ Hungarian co-production movie about the song:

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The story develops further by the fact that the man who wrote it also committed suicide later. The song had been very succesful. But he said before his death that the success of the song had greatly increased his unhappiness, because he knew he would never be able to write a better one.

 

[Teutonson]

L’Internationale or La Marseillaise

 

[Troon_Patrol]

Just about half the shit rage against the machine produced was just an even angrier version of pro communism propaganda, some revisionist history mixed, anti-authoritarianism without reason it and a lot of dick riding Che Guevara and other people all politics removed were not that great by anyone's standards. So.... "Killing in the Name" ?

 

[Broken Talisman]

San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) by Scott McKenzie, written by John Phillips. Putting aside the graveyards of underage runaways the song filled reeling in unaccompanied minors to San Francisco's meat grinder of a hippie scene, it helped to completely delegitimize the anti-war movement as an immature LARP propagated by dull eyed flower children who could barely tell you what day of the week it was. Let alone how much the US was spending on its ill-conceived excursion into south-east Asia. I believe that poisoning massively accelerated the American Left's spiral into the wanton permissiveness that characterizes it today. Not saying that it wouldn't have ended up there eventually anyway, but it was certainly helped along its way by hedonistic idiots who had no conception whatsoever of the consequences of the society they were trying to bring about.

 

[Yak-130 Mitten]

John Lennon's Imagine

Should have included a line "Imagine there is no .32 caliber"

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

If you want to talk about changing society when Ike Turner released Rocket '88 in 1951 he had no idea that the consequences would never be the same again. Society was over - rock'n'roll was born.
Alternatively Elvis & Heartbreak Hotel as ,although he had records before, that was the #1 record worldwide and just exposed everybody to rock'n'roll & now the white kids were listening to to this doggone nigger noise.

 

[BongoMongo]

The Stick Song from Hey Duggee.

 

[AndSothisIsChristmas]

Gonna go with “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga, for perpetuating the innocent image of gays and troons that would eventually lead to Obergefell, Pride Month, and the living hell we currently inhabit. Also “Walk On The Wild Side” for just being a list of gross degeneracy.

 

[ZsaZsaBinks]

“Rap God”

It inspired a lot of corny wannabe rappers to think fast rap is “good”.

 

[WitchfyndeGeneral]

I guess it has to be Chief Keef’s 2012 song “Don’t Like”. This song birthed drill rap which in term damaged the Western countries recently long term. UK was one of the first countries to get negatively impacted by this genre in the mid-2010s and then in late 2010s, America somehow readopted this garbage causing a deadly crime wave in early 2020s. Many high trust western societies became low trust because of the criminal culture the genre has created (which stemmed from “Don’t Like”)

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

All nigger music.

All of it.

 

[Jewthulhu]

IYKYK

 

[Joined 2024]

Having never given it much thought, finding out that John got killed pretty much mostly for this song being a commie's wet dream and all of his anti-religion remarks is very much "Fuck around and find out" has actually improved my mood considerably and has made me a little sad that the guy who did it has had parole denied 13 times.
Can only imagine what other pieces of dogshit social rot he would've created if he hadn't been killed.

"Anyone who makes a song i personally disagree with deserves to get shot"

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

Imagine was already mentioned about 100 times and yeah, it is to music what Critical Theory was to philosophy - all nationwrecking philosophies shitting up the West sprang from it.

Personally, as someone who kinda likes goth rock and whose wife loves goth rock, I'd put Killing an Arab by The Cure. Not due to the song itself, the song is obviously a reference to Albert Camus' The Stranger but due to the context of the song. Libshits are, as we all know, heckin' Media Literacy PhDs and they of course tardraged about the song because they thought it glorifies muh Islamophobia. The Cure gave in to the tardrage and now whenever they perform the song they change the lyrics to Kissing and Arab. Fucking pansies.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Madonna. Just Madonna, doesn't matter the song.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

So we all agree Imagine is number 1.
What's #2?
Or #1 for specific demographics?

So no-one told you life was gunna be this way

Or some other social faggotry fad of a tv show song that people sung trying to be cool but were just nob eds.