History Creator / ThornBrain

** ''The Forgotten Ones 2'' includes all of the above covers plus old, rare and/or unreleased covers of [[Music/{{Melt}} "Intruder" and "Games Without Frontiers"]] by Music/PeterGabriel (the former heavily based on Music/{{Primus}}'s 1992 cover), "The Machman" by Music/GaryNuman + Tubeway Army in two separate mixes, "[[Music/TalkingHeads77 Psycho Killer]]" by Music/TalkingHeads, and "Totally Wired" by Music/TheFall.

*** The title of "Room for One More" quotes the ArcWords from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E53TwentyTwo Twenty-Two]]." It was also originally going to sample the line before Thorn decided not to anger Viacom.

** "A More Traditional Love Song" is in the style of Music/TheDamned, Damned guitarist Captain Sensible's solo work, and Music/{{Motorhead}}.

** ''Quaero'' includes covers of "[[Music/{{Psychocandy}} My Little Underground]]" by Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain and "Lively Arts" by Music/TheDamned.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly:
** Her then-label boss didn't know what genre to use to describe "Count All the Flies in My House", so Mikaela called it "Avant Dance".
** ''Nobody Cares Unless You're Pretty or Dying'' and ''Spider'' are self-categorized as "Hardcore Pop" because they mix so many random Punk and Alternative subgenres together, and as a play on "PowerPop".
** She describes the album ''Buried Secrets & Old Lies'' as a "Post-Punk/Alternative subgenre blender", combining even more disparate subgenres than ''Nobody Cares''.
** She describes some of ''Worldbuilder'', namely "Micronova" and "Electricity", as Dream Rock to differentiate their harder sound from their softer {{Shoegazing}}, ProgressiveRock and NoisePop influences. This carries over to ''Rise in Love'', which also has more pronounced {{Krautrock}} influences.

Mikaela Thorn, also know as [=ThornBrain=], is a writer, video editor, musician, humorist, [[LetsPlay Let's Player]], and voice actor. She is the head of the Let's Play channel LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO and their comedy/parody channel Creator/TheMidnightFrogs, host of the music podcast ''Podcast/SophomoreSlumps'', and is the writer of ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfZeldaBookOfTheTraitor''.

Mikaela Thorn Scholl, better known on the internet as [=ThornBrain=], is a writer, video editor, musician, humorist, [[LetsPlay Let's Player]], and voice actor. She is the head of the Let's Play channel LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO and their comedy/parody channel Creator/TheMidnightFrogs, host of the music podcast ''Podcast/SophomoreSlumps'', and is the writer of ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfZeldaBookOfTheTraitor''.

*** Music/DavidBowie's death in January 2016 is "ground zero" for the events that inspired the album, so the lead character in "Bloodstar" is named after him, a line from his song "[[Music/{{Blackstar}} Blackstar]]" is paraphrased in "The Singer Died Today", and Sue in "Afraid of Music" is named after his song "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" from the same album.

*** Along with [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess the Twilight Realm]], "A Different Place in the Twilight" makes another cheeky reference to ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone'', and the title was also inspired by "[[Music/Yearzero In This Twilight]]" by Music/NineInchNails.

** ''Quaero'' includes covers of "[[Music/{{Psychocandy}} My Little Underground]]" by Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain'' and "Lively Arts" by Music/TheDamned.

** "My Parents Died and Everyone Loves Me" is this to {{Mary Sue}}s in fanfiction. [[invoked]]

** ''Spider'' includes covers of "Requiem" by Music/KillingJoke, "Ex Lion Tamer" by Music/{{Wire}}, and "Blackout" by Music/{{Lush}}.
** ''Quaero'' includes covers of "My Little Underground" by Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain'' and "Lively Arts" by Music/TheDamned.
** Thorn also contributed covers of "Revenge" by Music/{{Ministry}} and "Mr. Clarinet" by Music/TheBirthdayParty to charity compilations run by friends in the New England area.

* CallBack: "Rainborne" from ''Rise in Love'' makes reference to Thorn's previous works - "For Not 206" ("the boy with the thorn in his brain") from ''Buried Secrets & Old Lies'', ''The Right Way to do Everything'' EP, and ''Worldbuilder'' - as a way to put her coming out as trans into a wider context in her life.

* BoxedSet: Though ''The Forgotten Ones 2'' is a digital-only release, it is treated as this with the 75 tracks separated into 12 conceptual "discs". Tracks that are part of the same album or EP are considered part of the same disc, E.G.: "Disc 1" is the ''[=BlackholeWhitespace=]'' album, "Disc 2" is its companion EP ''[=BlackspaceWorkinprogress=]'', etc.

* MinisculeRocking: Many of the tracks from ''Nobody Cares Unless You're Pretty or Dying'' were under two minutes long, being heavily influenced by miniscule rockers Music/{{Wire}} and Music/BadReligion, with "My Parents Died and Everyone Loves Me" and "All the Wrong Friends" both being only 30 seconds. ''Buried Secrets & Old Lies'' was significant for it being the first album were she consciously [[AvertedTrope averted]] this, making an effort to have every track be two minutes-long at minimum.

** ''Rise in Love'': "Afraid of Music" is 8 minutes, and a bonus track combines the three separate parts of the title song into a single 12:48-long track.