00:00You got a baby Benz, you got some bad friends, high school pigs, you was even bad then,
00:05you ain't stressing off no lover in the past tense.
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at pieces of music released from 2010 to 2019
00:13that in light of dark events that occurred after their release, now induce chills.
00:18Out of respect for those involved, all entries to follow are unranked,
00:22and listed in chronological order of album release date.
00:25Who cares if one more light goes out in the sky of a million stars?
00:35TikTok, Kesha
00:36Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy
00:40Grab my glasses, I'm out the door, I'm gonna hit this city
00:44Wake up in the morning feeling like, wait, who?
00:48Long before we were made aware of Sean Diddy Combs' literal dozens of assault charges,
00:52he was a freewheeling, seemingly ubiquitous hip-hop mogul.
00:56Music, movies, brand deals, you name it, Diddy was everywhere.
01:00It made sense then that emerging pop singer Kesha name-dropped the rapper-producer in the opening line of her breakthrough hit.
01:06Don't stop, make it pop DJ blow my speakers up
01:10Tonight, I'ma fight till we see the sudden light
01:14After Combs was arrested on racketeering and sex trafficking charges in 2024,
01:20TikTok threatened to disappear from the public consciousness entirely due to its association with the performer.
01:25Thankfully, Kesha had already changed the song's lyrics to denounce Combs in live performances,
01:30with plans for a full studio re-recording in the works.
01:34You build me up, you break me down, my heart if pounds, yeah you got me
01:41Pumped Up Kicks, Foster the People
01:44This seemingly breezy indie pop tune was inescapable in the early 2010s,
01:56playing at every mall food court, dentist's office, and children's birthday party.
02:00What we all failed to consider at the time, though, was the song's pitch-dark lyrics,
02:05which detail the inner life of a fictional mass shooter.
02:16Lead singer-songwriter Mark Foster has said that the song stemmed from his desire to raise awareness for gun control,
02:22expressing his feeling that, quote,
02:24mental illness among youth had skyrocketed in the last decade.
02:28With such violence and epidemic that has continued to plague the United States,
02:32Pumped Up Kicks remains an unfortunately timely anthem over a decade after its initial release.
02:37Blurred Lines
02:46Robin Thicke featuring Pharrell and T.I.
02:57Admittedly, Blurred Lines felt uncomfortable right from the start.
03:01Critics praised its funky, danceable sound, courtesy of featured artist Pharrell Williams,
03:05but they condemned the song for its ambiguous stance on the necessity of consent in intimate encounters.
03:11Despite being pop veteran Thicke's mainstream breakthrough and reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100,
03:16the song faced significant backlash.
03:18The true turning point wasn't the lawsuit by Marvin Gaye's estate,
03:31which successfully argued that Thicke and Williams had plagiarized Gaye's Gotta Give It Up.
03:35Rather, it was model and actor Emily Ratajkowski's 2021 revelation
03:39that Thicke had groped her on the set of the Blurred Lines music video.
03:43Do What You Want
03:49Lady Gaga featuring R. Kelly
03:51In what seemed like an inherently questionable decision,
04:02Gaga recruited the already disgraced R&B mainstay R. Kelly because, as she explained,
04:07This is a real R&B song, and I have to call the king of R&B for his blessing.
04:12At the time, Kelly was already embroiled in legal troubles,
04:16and was later convicted of sex trafficking charges in 2019.
04:27It's more than a little cringeworthy to hear him singing about doing whatever he wants with someone's body.
04:32After the release of Surviving R. Kelly, Gaga publicly apologized for collaborating with him
04:38and replaced his version of the song on streaming services with a remix featuring Christina Aguilera.
04:49I Took a Pill in Ibiza
04:51Mike Posner featuring Sieb
04:53On the face of it, there doesn't seem to be anything particularly disturbing about the cooler-than-me hitmaker's tropical housebanger.
05:05However, like Pumped Up Kicks, listen a little closer to the song's vulnerable lyrics,
05:10and you'll find a raw, heartbreaking indictment of fame.
05:13Posner laments the hollow nature of what it means to be a celebrity,
05:17and just how false and fleeting Hollywood success can be.
05:20That's what I Took a Pill in Ibiza is about.
05:22I say, I'm just a singer who already blew his shot.
05:25I get along with old-timers because my name's a reminder of a pop song people forgot.
05:30Somehow, that is not even the most disturbing part.
05:34That would be the fact that name-dropped Avicii would take his own life in 2018.
05:39Knowing that turns a dance floor anthem into an uneasy tribute to the Swedish DJ,
05:43who had reportedly struggled with mental illness and substance use disorder for years.
05:48Point being, he never cared, unlike almost everybody in the music industry,
05:54he never cared if I was number one or number a million.
05:58Black Star, David Bowie.
05:59Something happened on the day he died.
06:04Spirit rose a meter.
06:07Leave it to David Bowie to do everything with a tantalizing dash of mystery, even his own death.
06:13Bowie released the Black Star album on January 8th, 2016,
06:17preceded by its title track and Lazarus as singles.
06:21Little did the public know about his valiant battle with liver cancer,
06:24which would claim his life on January 10th, nearly two days after the album's debut.
06:29How many times does an angel fall?
06:33Little by little, devastated Bowie fans realized that the song,
06:38its music video, and accompanying album contained hints and Easter eggs
06:42that seemed to allude to his impending death.
06:44Pay close attention to Black Star's cryptic, morbid lyrics if you don't believe us.
06:48I'm a Black Star, I'm a Black Star, I'm gonna get you.
06:55One More Light, Linkin Park.
06:57Should have stayed, were the signs I ignored.
07:06It's unlikely that fans of new metal stalwarts Linkin Park were at all surprised to hear them
07:11experimenting with new genres of music on their One More Light album.
07:14That said, one song that might have caught them off guard was the record's title track,
07:19an uncharacteristically mellow, affecting ballad that finds frontman Chester Bennington
07:23expressing solidarity with those suffering privately.
07:25Who cares if one more light goes out
07:29In the sky of a million stars
07:34The song turned into a moving tribute after Bennington took his own life in 2017.
07:39It is the last single Linkin Park released with Bennington as their lead singer,
07:43nearly three months after his July 20th passing.
07:46Who cares when someone's time runs out
07:50If a moment is all we are
07:54Legends, Juice WRLD
07:56Almost everything about this emo rap classic could send a chill down your spine.
08:08Juice WRLD, born Jared Higgins, was just 21 at the time of his death,
08:12the result of a December 2019 oxycodone and codeine overdose.
08:16Looking back, it's clear that the Chicago native had a certain preoccupation with death and dying.
08:21In some ways, the concept permeated nearly every song the rapper wrote.
08:26All legends fall in the making
08:28This is perhaps no more apparent than on Legends,
08:36in which Higgins accurately predicts his own death,
08:39down to the age he'd be when it would happen.
08:42Even creepier,
08:43Higgins recorded the song as a tribute to already deceased rappers
08:47Lil Peep and XXXTentacion.
08:49I usually have an answer to the question,
08:52but this time I'm gonna be quiet.
08:54Nice for what?
08:55Drake
08:56I don't show you and she doesn't want no slow song
08:58Had a man last year, life goes on
09:01Haven't let that thing lose, girl, it's so long
09:03Canadian rapper Aubrey Drake Graham has consistently maintained a reputation
09:07as hip-hop's resident lover boy,
09:09incorporating once unconventional themes into his music.
09:13These included highly vulnerable accounts of his experiences with women.
09:16It was this reputation, though, that served as fodder
09:19for his fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar,
09:21who engaged in a widely publicized beef with Drake in early 2024.
09:31Most damningly of all,
09:33Lamar accused Graham of inappropriate conduct with underage girls.
09:37This charge causes a particular line in Nice for What
09:40to take on an entirely new context.
09:42She was bad even then?
09:46Bad friends, high school pics, you was even bad then?
09:50You ain't stressing off no lover in the past tense, you...
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10:08Murder on My Mind
10:09YNW Mellie
10:11On its own,
10:19Murder on My Mind serves as a catchy,
10:21if painfully dark meditation on inner-city gang violence.
10:25Mellie spins a descriptive first-person tale about what it means to take a life.
10:29While this was mere fiction at the time of its writing in 2016,
10:32Murder on My Mind was subject to renewed attention
10:35when its performer was charged with double homicide in February 2019.
10:39And everybody acting suspicious
10:41Might probably say that I'm tripping
10:43When I'm all alone in my jail cell
10:46Like to negate my business
10:47Posting to his official Instagram account shortly after turning himself in,
10:52Mellie reassured fans that,
10:53The Florida native,
11:01whose first trial ended with a deadlocked jury,
11:03is set to be tried again in September 2025.
11:14Which 2010 song is hard for you to listen to nowadays?
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