Dissociative Identity Disorder in Popular Culture - in Music

In Music

  • Quadrophenia by British rock band The Who is about a mod named Jimmy who embodies the personalities of the band members.
  • In the song "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" by progressive metal band Dream Theater, one of the movements, titled "Losing Time", appears to describe a Sybil-like multiple.
  • "Sweating Bullets" by American heavy metal band Megadeth is about a man in an insane asylum holding conversations with multiple versions of himself. The video features lead singer Dave Mustaine in a small and dirty room being harangued and antagonized by other versions of himself.
  • "Multiple Myselves" by Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse is about Violent J's multiple personalities that are both describing themselves to the listener while at the same time arguing with themselves.
  • "Ten-Faced", a Japanese Vocaloid song using the Vocaloid "Gumi", is about a girl, seemingly Gumi, with 10 personalities that all fall in love with the same man, who tells each identity that he can only love one of them.
  • The Genesis concept album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is about Rael's search for his brother John. At the end of the album, it's revealed that Rael and John are actually the same person.

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