Bones - TeenWitch (A full concept album about Columbine, with songs written from the perspectives of E&D, a witness, a victim, and the parent of a victim, as well as multiple from Bones' own perspective that still heavily reference E&D and CHS.)
Driveby Truckers - Guns of Umpqua (About the Umpqua Community College shooting, albeit in an abstract sense; most of the song is about the joys of life and contrasting them with "being shot in a classroom in Oregon.")
Eminem - Darkness (This song's gimmick is that it's written in a way that could apply both to Eminem preparing for one of his own concerts, and to Stephen Paddock preparing to shoot up the Route 91 festival; however, it does head away from the gimmick and become more explicitly about Paddock only during the third and last verse.)
Ill Bill - The Anatomy of a School Shooting (A rap song about E&D and Columbine. Takes a more aggressive horrorcore approach instead of the sad, melodic one that TeenWitch takes.)
Kelly Rowland - Stole (Like Youth of the Nation, only the first part of this song is about a shooter, while the rest delves into other issues facing teenagers. Despite its subject matter, it was a hit song in other Anglosphere nations, peaking at
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Kinky Friedman - The Ballad of Charles Whitman (Do I need to say who this is about?)
PiGPEN - KEKEKE [The Ballad of Cho Seung-hui] (An amateur rap song from Cho's perspective, written for the V-Tech Rampage game. It's not very good from an unironic standpoint, but it does fit the tone of the game quite well and features more explicit references to the shooting than most other songs on this list. The followup game, The Slaying of Sandy Hook, also had a song created for it, Kukishi's TSO.SHE.OST, but only its first verse is explicitly about Lanza, with the rest of the song going off on a pro-gun control tangent, including outright blaming anti-gun control members of congress for the shooting and saying they killed 'them' just as much as Lanza did. Considering TSoSH was created with a pro-gun control message in mind, while V-Tech Rampage was just created as an edgy joke game, it makes sense. But I still prefer KEKEKE because it stays on the topic of the shooting itself.)
The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays (About Brenda Spencer. Has the rare honour of being praised by an actual shooter; Lanza said he preferred it, as well as 'The Omaha Shopping Mall Blues' [a song about Robert Hawkins that, from what I can tell, is now lost media] over Pumped Up Kicks.)
Weezer - Lullaby for Wayne (Believed to be about Wayne Lo, as it is about a man named Wayne, who is a member of the 'class of 1988' [the year Lo started college] and is repeatedly told to 'put them guns away.' However, this has never been explicitly confirmed by the band, and a lot of Weezer fans seem to deny that meaning of the song and think 'Wayne' is just a made up character.)
Yellowcard - April 20th (A song vaguely about Columbine. It features a sample of a news broadcast at the start of the song, and references it in the title, but otherwise, comes off as a generic edgy high school rebellion song.)
Subject: What are any songs that you know of that reference mass murder? 
Sat Feb 05, 2022 2:00 pm
