All music went ghost on iPhone after I did a backup?

okay, so this is really strange. I plugged my iphone in earlier this evening, wanting to sync an album on it from itunes. I noticed that itunes was showing my iphone as "13.55GB Over-Capacity", but when I went to check my iphone in its settings, it said I had quite a bit of space left. this is a 64gb iphone 4S running on the latest iOS and itunes 12.0.1 on Windows.
basically, when I went to upload the album to the iphone, it gave me the dotted grey circle thing beside each song as seen under the iphone's music in itunes. *eye-roll*. I did all the usual stuff to try and correct that, but nothing worked. finally, a bout of paranoia hit me and I just decided to do a back-up of my iphone. when it finished, I tried again, still nothing. then I just decided to have a look at my phone's music and when I did, I noticed that every playlist was still there, but just underneath the titles it says "no songs". after further investigation, I checked under Songs and saw that only about half of my music library was even there, and EVERY song appeared as if it were undownloaded, or in the cloud or something. I don't even use the cloud. each song is faded out and has a red circle next to it with the red square in the middle, as if I have to download each one individually. I am so confused as to how this happened and all I want to do is restore my music back to normal. I would prefer NOT trying to "restore from backup" because again, 64gb, its a lot of apps and a lot of data and I reaaaaalllyyyy don't want to see a ton of stuff go missing or go wrong. that would irritate me to no end. please help, I'm truly at a loss.
ALSO, in itunes, under my iphone music, it shows every song, every playlist with all songs and everything looks totally normal.
HELP.
and yes, I tried turning it off and turning it back on again.

Many users are suffering from the iTunes 12 music syncing problems.
1.Make sure that you don't have iTunes Match enabled in Settings > Music.
2 Plug in your iPhone, iPad or iPod running iOS 8 or higher and launch iTunes.
3 Click your device icon at the top of the iTunes window.
4 Select Music in the side navigation panel.
5 Uncheck Sync Music option in the right panel and then click Apply or Sync.
6 Once the sync is complete, recheck the box for Sync Music and hit Apply or Sync again.
7 Unplug your iPhone or iPad and see if your music is back.
Resource from:The iTunes 12 Sync Issues and Solutions

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