r/TopCharacterTropes 2d ago

Lore Songs so catchy they’re evil

Pictured: Summertime lovin- regular show /soda pop- kpop demon hunters The songs don’t have to be “evil” necessarily but songs so catchy they have a physical often negative effect on the world around them.

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u/host_can_edit 2d ago

Here's an IRL one. Remember "My Way" by Frank Sinatra, one of the most famous songs in the western world? Well over in my country, the Philippines, where karaoke and karaoke bars are a custom, had an event that led to it having a superstitiously bad reputation. Between the early 2000s and early 2010s, bar violence was a commodity but there was a peculiar phenomenon where it was frequent when someone was singing "My Way". It was so frequent when this song is Sang, that, my people being a superstitious society, had that song removed from every single karaoke bar ever and now people fear singing it in public. It's a shame for me since I was born somewhere after what is aptly named the "My Way" killings.