Allegedly this is a KGB agent interrogating us. "Stranger In Moscow" from HIStory: Past, Present, and Future - Book I, a slow, moody ballad, ends with a man whispering menacingly in Russian over the end.The video for the former ends with this noise, which acts as a very effective soundtrack to the video's Downer Ending. The singles "Dirty Diana" and the much more well-known "Smooth Criminal", both from Bad begin with similar noises.Here's an inversion of the trope: Michael Jackson's "Another Part of Me" from Bad begins with an Ominous Pipe Organ note, but becomes a normal MJ song after that.The end of "Hollywood" consists of a heavily synthesised, androgynous voice saying Push the button!/Don't push the button! which gradually slows down as the background music fades and becomes a contorted, almost demonic mess."WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IT'S NOT IN THE COMPUTER?!?!" (Music geeks might be interested to note that there is an opposite technique, the "Picardy third," or "Tierce de Picardie" in which when a song that has been in minor the whole time goes into major on the very last chord.) Compare HA HA HA-No and Dark Reprise. The opposite of a Last Note Nightmare is Last Note Hilarity. Last Note Nightmare can be very comparable to a Jump Scare, especially of the Screamer Prank variety. They may even have been intended as humorous, showing that the artists don't take themselves too seriously.
Musicians most likely put these kinds of stingers at the ends of their songs to make them memorable. It's surely not the ending you expected this particular song to have - and if you happen to be really unlucky, it'll burrow into your mind playing itself over and over like some self-regenerating Nightmare Fuel. Then the music fades into a series of dissonant arpeggios with a creepy mechanical voice muttering some nonsensical gibberish that sounds like Satan reciting an Edgar Allan Poe story. Then the final note of the song falls and, instead of a nice soft resolution, it's a heavily played Sting note in a minor Scare Chord.
So you're listening to a nice, pleasant song about bunnies and rainbows and running in the rain with your best lover by your side.
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