Results: When Life Imitates Art -- Or Even Foreshadows It
Published on 08/04/2018
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Demi Lovato's ballad 'Sober' has re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart as fans rush to stream the song following the singer's hospitalisation. After being admitted on July 24, Lovato remains recovering in hospital following a suspected overdose. The personal lyrics in 'Sober' appear to reveal that the former Disney Channel star had relapsed after six years of sobriety. It contains the lyrics: "And I'm sorry for the fans I lost "Who watched me fall again "I wanna be a role model "But I'm only human" This sounds like a personal revelation of what she has been going through, perhaps her most personal song ever. And this is from a singer who lays her life out in song. Are you familiar with any of these highly personal songs by Lovato?
Warrior -- song about her battle with depression and suicidal thoughts, and how she has gone through it
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For the Love of a Daughter -- about her relationship with her estranged birth father, who she rarely saw after her parents divorced when she was two years old, and her pleading with him to stop drinking, and his refusal, which she felt told her she wasn't worth enough to stop drinking
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Skyscraper -- deals with the difficulties she had been through and overcoming the obstacles she faced. Reception
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Shouldn't Come Back -- about her father again, who left her, her mom and sister at a young age, and how he keeps disappointing them
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World of Chances -- about her suicide attempt, and being bullied
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Father -- written as a letter to that same father who deserted her and kept on letting her down, after his death, where she comes to term with her feelings
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Sober -- the song mentioned in this question
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Oscar Wilde said, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". This certainly seems to be the case with Lovato, and many other singers, who gave us songs, foreshadowing their deaths. How many of these are you familiar with?
Before exploding onto the international music scene two years later, Jimi Hendrix recorded the song "The Ballad of Jimi" in 1965. "Dedicated to the memory of…Jimi," the tune has haunted fans due to the fact that he appears to lay out his own tragic demise. "Many things he would try/For he knew soon he'd die" he sang. "Now Jimi's gone, he's not alone/His memory still lives on/Five years, this he said/He's not gone, he's just dead." Five years later on September 18th 1970, Hendrix died of asphyxia related to drug overdose.
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Former Beatle John Lennon took a break from the music industry in 1975 to care for his newborn son, but returned in 1980 to begin work on his album, Double Fantasy. One of the first songs he recorded was "Borrowed Time," a title that proved prophetic. The lyrics showcased his "here and now" philosophy when he sang, "Living on borrowed time, without a thought for tomorrow." The song would go unreleased until after his death on December 8th of that year, when he was shot in front of his apartment at Manhattan's famous Dakota building by Mark David Chapman.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd's Street Survivors 1977 LP album cover depicted the band happily smiling while being engulfed by flames. "Say you'll be alright come tomorrow, but tomorrow might not be here for you/Angel of darkness upon you," the band sing in "That Smell," one of the album's most popular songs. "The smell of death surrounds you." On October 20th 1977, three days after the release of the album, the band's plane crashed and killed frontman Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and others.
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Jeff Buckley eerily foreshadowed his death in the song "Dream Brother" in which he sang, "That dark angel he is shuffling in/Watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled/Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over/Dream brother, dream brother, dream, dream." "Dream asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over." On May 29th, 1997 Buckley drowned under cloudy circumstances. He was fully dressed when he went in the water, which has caused some fans to speculate whether it was a suicide.
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In Tupac Shakur's verse on Richie Rich's "N-ggas Done Changed," he raps, "I been shot and murdered, can tell you how it happened word for word." In an unaired interview with Entertainment Weekly, when asked where he sees himself in ten years, he responds, "Best case, in a cemetery. Not in a cemetery. Sprinkled in ashes smoked by my homies. I mean, that's the worse case." Tupac was shot multiple times in a drive-by in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996, and died from his wounds six days later. True to his wishes, members of Tupac's hip hop group Outlawz claim to have smoked his ashes.
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The Notorious B.I.G.'s debut album Ready to Die also proved to be the last he issued while alive. The disc featured a song called 'Suicidal Thoughts,' in which Biggie raps, "I swear to God I feel like death is f—ing calling me." Although he didn't commit suicide, he was killed in an L.A. drive-by shooting just after midnight on March 9th 1997. His second album was released two weeks later, with the title Life After Death taking on a scary significance.
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Here are some more singers who eerily predicted their own deaths. Which of these did you hear about?
As the opening night for Michael Jackson's This Is It 50-date concert series approached, the King of Pop was increasingly uneasy and supposedly kept trying to reschedule the dates. According to Ian Halperin's book Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, the singer told a close confidante, "It's not working out" and "I'm better off dead. I don't have anywhere left to turn. I'm done." This same member of MJ's entourage also claims that just two hours before he died on June 25th 2009, Jackson was saying that he was "tired of living."
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Jim Morrison was out with his friends at the L. A. watering hole Barney's Beanery in October 1970, mourning the recent death of fellow musician and friend, Janis Joplin. Jimi Hendrix had died just a few weeks before, and the morbid vibe hit the group hard -especially Morrison. "You're drinking with number three," his friends remember him saying, in reference to the recent deaths. "That's right, number three." On July 3rd 1971 he died under murky circumstances in Paris, becoming the third of his group to die in less than a year.
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Ex-Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh took the bold step of predicting his death over Twitter. In October 2011 he tweeted: "Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today. Correction – the weekend after next." Also, when posting the price of an art piece he was selling on Facebook, he offered the caveat, "If I am still alive at time of purchase. Price to increase exponentially if I expire prematurely." He died due to a drug overdose in his Chicago hotel room exactly two weeks later on the exact day that the dream warned.
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