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In the song Roses, not by Outkast, but by Nik Kershaw, tells what of happens later after a wasteful society turns the world into this trope later on.
Battery City and The Zones, the setting of My Chemical Romance's post-apocalyptic concept record Danger Days: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys. "The Zones" are basically the dry, scorching hot, desert wasteland California becomes after the tragic events of 2012
Hunger City, the setting of the David BowieConcept AlbumDiamond Dogs (a work that rose from the ashes of an unrealized musical version of 1984) — after an undescribed catastrophe, what's left of humanity here splits up into decadent, scavenging tribes, bringing on The Apunkalypse.
The entire setting of the concept album Deltron 3030 but specifically Turbulence, a song describing the setting in detail.
Weird Al's Happy Birthday is a song about how you should enjoy the crappy party for the fleeting moments it offers as a distraction to the fact that the world is going straight to hell.
Mad World by Tears of Fear.
Many Bruce Springsteen songs, such as Youngstown or Born in the USA deal with this theme.
This trope is the overlying theme of his 1982 album Nebraska.
The lyrics to Linkin Park's Forgotten seem to describe this.
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