History BlackComedy / Music

* Virginia O'Brien's "Say That We're Sweethearts Again", (given a notable rendition by ComicBook/HarleyQuinn on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'') a song about domestic abuse, is as hilarious as it is brutal. There is even a brief spoken-word portion of the song where the viewpoint character mentions incidents where her abuser set her on fire and attempted her to drown her as if such actions are sweet moments between couples to reminisce.

* The song "ND WazaBat" by Music/KeithSecola is an upbeat song about [[Television/TheAndyGriffithShow Andy Griffith]] being a vampire bat and draining the blood of Helen Crump, Barney Fife, and Otis the Drunk.

* The song "Girlfriend in a Coma" by Music/TheSmiths, in which it's implied that the reason said girlfriend is in a coma is because the narrator tried to murder him, and he's now trying to finish the job while claiming that he would ''hate'' for anything to happen to her.

-->''When you come to our house\\
We'll have some fun\\

* "Benny the Bouncer" by Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer, which is about a bouncer named Benny who is cut into pieces and brutally killed by Savage Sid. In contrast, the piece is sung by Lake in a ridiculous, heavy accent, while accompanied by Emerson on a honky-tonk piano, giving an impression of being upbeat and silly. Often considered as a filler track.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD-NkUSiW-s Liebe ist für alle da]]", which goes on about how "love is for everyone", while clearly being about a rapist.

And we'll put you in the oven until you're done''

* Virginia O'Brien's "Say That We're Sweethearts Again", (given a notable rendition by ComicBook/HarleyQuinn on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'') a song about domestic abuse, is as hilarious as it is brutal. There is even a brief spoken-word portion of the song where the viewpoint character mentions incidents where her abuser set her on fire and attempted her to drown her as if such actions between couples are normal.

* Virginia O'Brien's "Say That We're Sweethearts Again", (given a notable rendition by ComicBook/HarleyQuinn on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'') a song about domestic abuse, is as hilarious as it is brutal.

* Music/InsaneClownPosse has quite a lot of songs making light of very dark subject matter, such as "Toy Box" (which is about a kid who gets back at his classmates for picking on him by slaughtering them all with a collection of [[MyLittlePanzer dangerous toys]] he brings to show and tell) and many songs about [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]] (e.g. "Cemetery Girl", "Dead Body Man" and "In My Room").

%%* Music/InsaneClownPosse.

* Virginia O'Brien's "Say We'll Be Sweethearts Again", a song about domestic abuse, is as hilarious as it is brutal.

-->''I'm bringing home my baby bumblebee\\
Won't my mommy be so proud of me\\
I'm bringing home my baby bumblebee-\\
OUCH!! It stung me!!''
-->''I'm squishin' up my baby bumblebee\\
Won't my mommy be so proud of me\\
I'm squishin' up my baby bumblebee-\\
EW!! What a mess!!''

** "Mr. Bad Example" is basically a gloating VillainSong, wherein the titular subject gleefully revels in all the numerous crimes and other misdeeds he has committed throughout his life, and [[KarmaHoudini how he has always managed to get away scot-free with it all]].

I'd like to meet his tailor''

--->''What's that hangin' from the neighbor's tree?\\

-OUCH!! It stung me!!''

-EW!! What a mess!!''

--> ''I'm bringing home my baby bumblebee\\
Won't my Mommy be so proud of me\\

--> ''I'm squishin' up my baby bumblebee\\
Won't my Mommy be so proud of me\\

** In at least one Dublin incarnation, the end result is licking the bee... gunk... from your arms, puking it up then sweeping it away, "like a good Brownie should".
* A lot of Music/RandyNewman's early songs are black-humored. For example, "Sail Away" is a Copland-esque ballad describing America as the promised land that is being used by a slave-trader to entice an African boy onto a ship and into bondage.

* The Frogs' infamous ''It's Only Right And Natural'', where every song is written from the point of view of over-the-top sex-obsessed gay men [[note]]and, on "Dykes are We", gay ''women'', though in that case the joke seems to just be the LarynxDissonance of the two clearly male singers not bothering to change their voices [[/note]] -- possibly the song that really CrossesTheLineTwice is "Baby Greaser George", in which the narrator sees a three month old baby dressed as a leather man, puts his "thing" in the child's mouth, and gets his left testicle bitten off. Dark comedy isn't ''all'' they do, but it's what they're most well-known for due to song titles like "Grandma Sitting In The Corner With A Penis In Her Hand Going 'No No No'".

* The Frogs' infamous ''It's Only Right And Natural'', where every song is written from the point of view of over-the-top sex-obsessed gay men -- possibly the song that really CrossesTheLineTwice is "Baby Greaser George", in which the narrator sees a three month old baby dressed as a leather man, puts his "thing" in the child's mouth, and gets his left testicle bitten off. Dark comedy isn't ''all'' they do, but it's what they're most well-known for due to song titles like "Grandma Sitting In The Corner With A Penis In Her Hand Going 'No No No'".

* The kids' song "Baby Bumblebee", sung to the tune of "Arkansas Traveller", that got featured on ''[[Film/WeeSing Wee Sing Silly Songs]]'' as well as other silly song compilations. It starts off tame... but gradually gets more and more disgusting as the song goes on.
--> "I'm bringing home my baby bumblebee Won't my Mommy be so proud of me I'm bringing home my baby bumblebee -OUCH!! It stung me!!"
--> "I'm squishin' up my baby bumblebee Won't my Mommy be so proud of me I'm squishin' up my baby bumblebee -EW!! What a mess!!"
** In at least one Dublin incarnation, the end result is licking the bee... gunk... from your arms, puking it up then sweeping it away, "Like a good Brownie should".

* The kids' song "Baby Bumblebee", sung to the tune of "Arkansas Traveller", that got featured on "Wee Sing Silly Songs" as well as other silly song compilations. It starts off tame... but gradually gets more and more disgusting as the song goes on.

* Music/JonLajoie does this often in a lot of his videos. Probably the most obvious one is MC Extremely Inappropriate Rhymes in "WTF Collective 2":
-->''I shake things up like [Michael] J. Fox when I get on the mic\\
And I drop my enemies like Christopher Reeves' horse''

** BlackComedyRape is a theme used for his songs "Paperboy" and "Jimmy Savile and the Sexy Kids", the former being about the singer molesting a paperboy because he reminds him of a girl he had a crush on when he was younger while the latter is a fictionalized account of Kunt being haunted by the ghost of Jimmy Savile and being persuaded to write a song defending the posthumously disgraced TV personality by Jimmy rationalizing his sex crimes on the basis of his victims being "[[BlamingTheVictim sexy kids]]".
* More than half of Music/TomLehrer's songs fits. "I Got It From Agnes" is an unintentional example, since started out as one of his more lighthearted songs (similar to "The Elements" and such) on an enigmatic subject, since, as Lehrer has stated, it was written long before anyone had heard of [= AIDS. STDs =] were thought about far less commonly at the time, although the dark interpretation -- inescapable today -- just happens to conveniently fit among Lehrer's usual themes, so nowadays he's just [[AscendedFanon gone with that interpretation]]. That said, the song is pretty damn dark even without taking AIDS into account; one character gets an STD [[ParentalIncest from her father]], "who gives her everything", and another gives it [[BestialityIsDepraved to his dog]].

** "I Hold Your Hand in Mine" might sound innocent, at least until [[ALoveToDismember the twist that the singer has killed his object of affection and is holding her severed hand]].

-->What's that hanging' from the neighbor's tree?\\
Why, it looks like colored folks to me.