Posted by Rebecca Tremblay
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Rock ‘n’ roll has never shied away from exploring dark and disturbing subjects, but it’s the songs that manage to do so using super infectious melodies that really stand out. There’s something off-putting and bizarrely brilliant about those tunes catchy enough to make listeners sing along to sick, sad or just plain creepy lyrics, oftentimes without realizing what they’re singing about. There are numerous examples, here 15 of them:
Rape me (Nirvana)
It’s not the first song Kurt Cobain wrote that’s ostensibly about the most heinous of sexual crimes — the acoustic cut ‘Polly’ off ‘Nevermind’ seems to tell a similar story of a defiant rape victim — but it is the only Nirvana song (and perhaps one of the few songs ever) to feature...