Are You Suicidal?

Now guys, I already know just how much you hate listening to those songs about love, which involves pain and bitterness, which ultimately ends up with, yes folks, SUICIDE. Now, not that I am actually one of those suicidal freaks out there. My older cousin (who is currently in a "suicidish" situation) showed me, or lets say, made me listen to this certain song. Entitled Gloomy Sunday, its a song notorious for its puzzling effect on its listeners.

"Gloomy Sunday" (from Hungarian "Szomorú vasárnap") is a song written in 1933 by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress, in which the singer mourns the untimely death of a lover and contemplates suicide.
Though recorded and performed by many singers, "Gloomy Sunday" is closely associated with Billie Holiday, who scored a hit version of the song in 1941. Due to unsubstantiated urban lgends about its inspiring hundreds of suicides, "Gloomy Sunday" was dubbed the "Hungarian suicide song" in the U.S. Seress did commit suicide in 1968, but most other rumors of the song being banned from radio, or sparking suicides, are unsubstantiated, and were partly propagated as a deliberate marketing campaign (Wikipedia)

The main buzz about this song is the fact that it supposedly spurred a series of suicide waves. Wherein even the composer Seres was one of them. Authorities disclosed today that Mr. Seres jumped from a window of his small apartment here last Sunday, shortly after his 69th birthday.

Well, you can listen to a version of this song. I am listening to it right now using Youtube *must love Youtube*. And honestly, aside from the oh-so-cliche title. There really is nothing to it. If we do remember it right, we heard this song (or a rip-off of it) in on of those old cartoon shows. So much for suicide.

Well, you be the judge. Try listening to it. And in a matter of days, we will know if the song really causes suicidal tendencies to heighten.