A reader writes:

This contest is tough because sometimes you don't disagree with a message but rather the smug and condescending way the artist frames it. With that in mind, I nominate Billy Joel's anti-teen suicide ditty "You're Only Human (Second Wind)".

Whoever decided to make that jaunty little ditty about teen suicide is either truly dark or truly a genius. It wins a nomination because it's just so weird.

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