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This is a song by Lady GaGa titled, “So Happy I Could Die.” It made me think of the short story we read, “The Story of an Hour” and “the joy that kills.” In an interview on FUSE, she said that the song was about fear of alcohol and addiction. That statement also made me think about how Freud mentioned using intoxicating chemicals as a means of making ourselves happy in “Civilization and Its Discontents.” Returning to the idea about “the joy that kills”, she is singing about being in the club, drunk and how she is “so happy she could die.” I think the drinking/addiction makes her happy, but she realizes this happiness is risky because as a result of being drunk, she’s out of control. So the alcohol/addiction is her “joy that kills.”