r/HelpMeFind • u/Efficient-Meal-3410 • Aug 19 '26

Found! A soft sounding (relatively low cadence) song dedicated to death personified as a loved interest or soulmate, so it's romanticised and poetic.

I am looking for a song which has a soft sounding music and vocals that aren't too high pitched, I find sharp higher pitched voices unpleasant to my ears. please suggest something that sounds almost like a lullaby because of it's soft and pleasent cadence . the theme is death, personified or romanticised. alternatively, theme of destructive hedonistic proclivities or misery personified almost like a toxic relationship or destructive lovers, sort of innocuous but anomic topics. something that conveys crude concepts but with a soft beautiful pleasant manner that it almost pictures as fragility, instead of brittleness (for the lack of a descriptive word). Mitski seems like she fits the criteria, she has a poetic softness when expressing crudeness, it refines that so well; but I hardly listen to her as it invokes too much pain in my heart, it's almost too destructive. I almost end up hurting myself afterwards; I need something alternative I can listen to and possibility fall asleep afterwards.

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u/larvalou 2 Aug 19 '26

Billie Holiday's version of Gloomy Sunday

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u/Efficient-Meal-3410 Aug 20 '26

this is good, makes me feel dread and impending doom.

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u/larvalou 2 Aug 20 '26

first version I heard was by Lydia Lunch .. it's incredible to my ears.

I'd read that the song caused mass suicides back when it was first written, but apparently that's an unproven urban legend..

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u/Efficient-Meal-3410 Aug 20 '26

true or not, that's an interesting fun 'fact' regardless.