History Main / TeenageDeathSongs

* "Pumped Up Kicks" by Music/FosterThePeople (2010) is about a teenage boy who finds his father's revolver and fantasizes about shooting up his school, though it's left ambiguous if he actually goes through with it. While it's not explicitly about Columbine, the band does have a personal connection to the shooting, their bassist Cubbie Fink's cousin having survived it.

** "Pumped Up Kicks" by Music/FosterThePeople (2010) is about a teenage boy who finds his father's revolver and fantasizes about shooting up his school, though it's left ambiguous if he actually goes through with it. The band has a personal connection to Columbine, their bassist Cubbie Fink's cousin having survived the shooting.

** Music/NicoleDollanganger's ''Columbine'' EP (2013), featuring covers of "Pumped Up Kicks" and two Music/MarilynManson songs ("The Nobodies" and "The Reflecting God"). Her song "Rampage" off of her 2014 album ''Observatory Mansions'' also samples Eric Harris' home movies and the documentary ''Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High'' while telling a story about a girl whose boyfriend is shooting up their school, and uses Harris and Dylan Klebold's {{Monster Fangirl}}s as a metaphor for people trapped in [[DomesticAbuse abusive relationships]], thinking that their abusers can be redeemed through ThePowerOfLove.

* Dar Williams's "Alleluia" (1995), about a high-school delinquent who winds up in heaven due to some sort of [[IncrediblyLamePun clerical error]].

Teenage Death Songs are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin songs about dead or dying teenagers]]. Also called "death rock" (not to be confused with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathrock music genre of the same name]]) or "teen tragedy" songs, these were a staple of pop music in TheFifties and early [[TheSixties Sixties]], when RockAndRoll was very much a teenage phenonemon, but they are still written occasionally today.

* "Suzy and Jeffrey" by Music/{{Blondie}} (1980) Another car crash.

** Music/MarilynManson's ''Music/HolyWoodInTheShadowOfTheValleyOfDeath'' (2000) was a ConceptAlbum heavily inspired by the shooting and what Manson saw as the forces that produced it. Manson had been widely MisBlamed for the shooting, and so ''Holy Wood'' was his response to those claiming that [[MurderSimulators his music had turned Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold into murderers]]. A key theme of the album is that modern (circa 1999-2000) society was too degraded by celebrity worship, gun culture, [[IfItBleedsItLeads media sensationalism]], and hypocritical MoralGuardians to allow for the kind of idealism that powered [[NewAgeRetroHippie the hippie and protest movements]] of TheSixties, hence why the "youth rebellion" of the time was teenage outcasts shooting up their schools because [[DespairEventHorizon they thought they had no future]].