Pop music is joining the dark side, with tragic hits like “1-800-273-8255” leading the Grammy nominations.

Pop music is joining the dark side, with tragic hits like “1-800-273-8255” leading the Grammy nominations. Quartz measured the rise in songs featuring “deathly words” in the Billboard Hot 100 over the last 15 years and found a jump in recent years—even when compared to grunge rock’s reign. Nihilist rap is leading the way, but pop hits overall are catching up because “this generation is fixated on mortality”—which you can see in their choice of TV, movies, and now music. (Quartzy, The New Yorker)