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Episode: Unresearched W/ Steve & Saul Discuss the Urban Legend of Hungarian Suicide Song made Famous by Billy Holiday!
Description: There is a recurring urban legend which claims that many people have committed suicide while listening to this song, Gloomy Sunday...so much so, it was banned from being played on the radio for over 80 yrs!!
but why?
does this song really hit some sort of emotional chord that mkes someone feel so hopeless that it drives them to do the most drastic act one can commit?
or was the trauma already there, and the song was just a passive synchronicity that led to its notoriety?
we discuss t...