Is there such thing as a serious song with a bubbly/peppy/happy track?
Is there such thing as a serious song with a bubbly/peppy/happy track?
yes
pumped up kicks
Common in hiphop these days depending on your definition of ‘serious’
This
Born in the USA
Steely Dan
Star spangled banner
>Coheed and Cambria
that was like the cherry poppin' daddies entire schtick. then there's third eye blind's semi charmed life that was famously used in the trailer for a the tigger movie
in a similar vein, outkast's 'hey yah'
Bullet by Hollywood Undead if you consider edgy as being serious.
Oh yeah i forgot about this one.
Look up the sound of silence in negative harmony. Personally when I happened across it I was amazed by how well it survived such drastic alterations to it's tone.
Bumpeperino
Pretty much everything by Coheed and Cambria, especially earlier stuff. A lot of stuff in major, pretty upbeat, yet often dark story wise.
Semi Charmed Life
Awesome radio friendly chorus and the lyrics are about doing meth and railing hookers
Silver Jews
Purple Mountains
rip David Berman
Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon
A little piece of heaven
Love fool by cardigans
Coheed is for faggots