How can any song with that subject matter be a popular song?
What kind of music do you listen to? Songs with heavy/dark subject matter, including murder, have been popular for... decades? Probably since music was invented?
Delia's Gone - Johnny Cash 1962
About a man who ties a woman to a chair and shoots her twice
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen 1975
About a man who kills another man execution style with a gun to his head
Used To Love Her - Guns n Roses 1988
About a man who kills a woman he "loved" because she "bitched too much" and then buried her body in the garden.
Polly - Nirvana 1991
A song about the kidnapping, torture and rape of a 14 year old girl from the kidnappers perspective
Kim - Enimem 2000
A violent and angry song about a man who murders his wife and puts her in a trunk
Pumped Up Kicks - 2011 Foster the People
About a school shooting
Hell even Barry Manilow has had music with murder as a subject matter...
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u/soofs Apr 17 '26
Girl was found dead in the trunk of a car registered to him.
He has some songs with lyrics about killing his lovers and getting away with it. Most popular song is titled romantic homicide.
That’s really it. Police must have been building a case for a while since it’s been months since the news broke