songs where bands do an interpolation of a nursery rhyme in a "scary" "intense" style but it just ends up sounding silly

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the classic example being "hush little baby" and "now i lay me down to sleep" in "enter sandman"

na (NA), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:38 (five years ago)

but also "cross my heart hope to die" and "rain rain go away" in "down in it" by nine inch nails

na (NA), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:39 (five years ago)

how does anyone take a band seriously after they do this

na (NA), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:39 (five years ago)

Whenever this trope is evoked, I invariably think of

https://youtu.be/C7ZJMD-aFQE

Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:13 (five years ago)

Korn - Shoots and Ladders

Schammasch Cannonball (Tom Violence), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:30 (five years ago)

this is such a nu-metal, edgy 90s trope. super cringey and I can't believe I can't think of another instance.

the Crippled Rejex came pretty close in "Hello Disappear" when chris sung-spoke "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of I don't give a fuck, bitches"

del griffith, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:52 (five years ago)

there's gotta be at least a dozen Marilyn Manson songs where he does this

del griffith, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 00:54 (five years ago)

Did anyone ever do this with Little Miss Muffet?

it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 01:15 (five years ago)

the first verse of System of a Down's 'I-E-A-I-A-I-O' is an edgy rewrite of 'Peter Piper'

("peter's pecker picked another pickle bearing pussy pepper")

nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 03:17 (five years ago)

Andrew Dice Clay?

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 05:13 (five years ago)

Run DMC - Peter Piper
2 Live Crew - Dirty Nursery Rhymes

The first is probably a better example of this phenomenon, the 2 Live Crew one is obviously intended to be goofy.

triggercut, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 05:30 (five years ago)

blacks and bays, and dapples and grays, all the pretty little horses

always liked the nick cave/current 93 track 'all the pretty little horses', never thought it sounded silly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWg4dnXCpt8

Dan S, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 05:45 (five years ago)


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