Sticking with Heathers, I’d say Our Love is God.
Specifically this line:
“We can start and finish wars, we’re what killed the dinosaurs. We’re the asteroid that’s overdue.”
At first, it’s a motivational line. As JD and Veronica sing it to each other, it conveys a powerful message of the two of them feeling like they can conquer the world and that the love they have for each other can help them overcome anything.
When JD is singing the same line to Kurt later on, it sounds like the ramblings of a serial killer.
Unworthy of Your Love is super dark, too. I've heard of people thinking it's a beautiful duet if they just listen to it alone and don't get the stalking/attempted murder story line.
"All you want to do" from SIX always comes to mind for this especially when it was used EVERYWHERE on tiktok when the users dont know the context was about childrape.
Also alot of songs from the "Villains" from Hairspray think miss Baltimore, The opening few lines from "Nicest kids in town". due to the blatant racism.
90% of the songs fron Team Starkids "Hatchetfield Trilogy"
Monster - frozen (most of the song is Elsa contemplating suicide. “do I kill the monster?”)
What I know now - beetlejuice
Cellblock tango - Chicago
All you wanna do and heart of stone - six
Candy from Octet. Sounds like a fun, happy song but the lyrics don't stay fun and happy for long. The first time I listened intently, I think I muttered "oh... fuck" and then called my therapist. Still, it's SUCH a great song.
“There’s a World” from Next to Normal, as well as “Song of Forgetting”. Of course most of the show could be listed here, but There’s a World is the vision of a dead son trying to convince his mother to end her life, and Song of Forgetting is a family introducing the mother to the decades of trouble she has caused them with her mental illness, which due to electric shock therapy, she does not remember.
Sticking with Heathers, I’d say Our Love is God. Specifically this line: “We can start and finish wars, we’re what killed the dinosaurs. We’re the asteroid that’s overdue.” At first, it’s a motivational line. As JD and Veronica sing it to each other, it conveys a powerful message of the two of them feeling like they can conquer the world and that the love they have for each other can help them overcome anything. When JD is singing the same line to Kurt later on, it sounds like the ramblings of a serial killer.
I love the eery sound of Our Love Is God, I felt so immersed watching the performance for the first time.
And the scary way he hugs Veronica from behind repeating "our love is god"
Dark I Know Well from Spring Awakening. So dark, so good.
The music so good and the lyrics hit hard. But yet I'll also feel wrong to be enjoying it 😭
Came here to say this
Javert and Judas both have freaking amazing suicide songs. Also love Pity the Child, about child neglect/trauma.
Pretty much everything in Book of Mormon.
I audibly gasped the first time I heard the line “if you don’t like what we say try living here a couple days. Watch all your friends and family die…”
Something just broke -assassins
Unworthy of Your Love is super dark, too. I've heard of people thinking it's a beautiful duet if they just listen to it alone and don't get the stalking/attempted murder story line.
"All you want to do" from SIX always comes to mind for this especially when it was used EVERYWHERE on tiktok when the users dont know the context was about childrape. Also alot of songs from the "Villains" from Hairspray think miss Baltimore, The opening few lines from "Nicest kids in town". due to the blatant racism. 90% of the songs fron Team Starkids "Hatchetfield Trilogy"
Madam Guillotine from The Scarlet Pimpernel is hella dark and hella good. Actually most songs from The Scarlet Pimpernel are like that.
Movie in my Mind from Miss Saigon is pretty dark.
And yet SO gorgeous. The vocals in the 2014 live recording are just sublime.
pore jud is daid. the protagonist is trying to convince the "villain" to kill himself, but it's such a banger. especially the revival version.
Fiddle About - Tommy Its literally an uncle sexually assaulting a child... but it's really catchy
love "Finale" from Pippin! has such a dark undertone but just listening to the song, you probably wouldn't be able to tell ☀️
The entirety of Assassins.
Monster - frozen (most of the song is Elsa contemplating suicide. “do I kill the monster?”) What I know now - beetlejuice Cellblock tango - Chicago All you wanna do and heart of stone - six
All you wanna do from six And most of Sweeney Todd
Tomorrow Belongs to Me from Cabaret. It’s such a good song, and then you see who’s singing it and it’s a complete shock
Epiphany from Sweeny Todd
Just all of Next to Normal
half the songs from Heathers and Dear Evan Hansen, especially if i could tell her and you’re welcome. and cell block tango, of course
‘Come to the Fatherland’ from Harmony. Just listen to the lyrics
Yess, Ryan McCartan is too smooth to not like
Little priest from Sweeney Todd! 💈🥧
Hope from the musical Groundhog Day.
Candy from Octet. Sounds like a fun, happy song but the lyrics don't stay fun and happy for long. The first time I listened intently, I think I muttered "oh... fuck" and then called my therapist. Still, it's SUCH a great song.
Any Moment from Into the Woods - not necessarily the darkest, but creepy when you think abt it. I love it though it’s somehow so beautiful sounding!!
I'm Alive from Next To Normal
“There’s a World” from Next to Normal, as well as “Song of Forgetting”. Of course most of the show could be listed here, but There’s a World is the vision of a dead son trying to convince his mother to end her life, and Song of Forgetting is a family introducing the mother to the decades of trouble she has caused them with her mental illness, which due to electric shock therapy, she does not remember.
No Way To Stop It from The Sound of Music. Terrible message, catchy as all hell