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* EpicRocking: "Mandy Goes to Med School" has been known to become this in concert.

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* EpicRocking: "Mandy Goes to Med School" has been known to become this in concert. It's a song about a pair of backstreet abortionists, yeah.
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* CountryMatters: "So we hide from the cunts/On a night reconnaissance" from Night Reconnaissance.
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* MadnessMantra: "I'm not the killing type, I'm not the killing type, I'm not, I'm not..."
** To elaborate, in "The Killing Type" she lists her profound frustration with a significant other, all while insisting that [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial she's not the killing type]]. The whole thing steadily turns more and more violent and eventually devolves into her simply yelling '''"Die! Die! Die! Die!"''', and finishes by meekly repeating once more: "[[BlatantLies I'm not the killing type]]..."
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* {{Feminism}}: Palmer is a feminist, and occasionally blogs about it. However, a few of her acts onstage have [[OvershadowedByControversy attracted much ire and disapproval]] amongst some more radical feminists - including her notorious "I Kissed A Girl" performance. This ire has also reflected onto NeilGaiman as well, for marrying her.
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*** This entire song could stand as an example, title included. Depending on which parts you take literally and which you take as metaphors, the song is either about a person considering gender reassignment surgery (a sex change), or someone who has taken up self-abuse to deal with the shame of losing their virginity (having learned that sex changes people).

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*** This entire song could stand as an example, title included. Depending on which parts you take literally and which you take as metaphors, the song is either about a person considering gender reassignment surgery [[spoiler: (a sex change), change)]], or someone who has taken up self-abuse to deal with the shame of losing their virginity (having learned that sex changes people).to someone who didn't actually love them [[spoiler: (sex changed the their relationship)]].
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*** This entire song could stand as an example, title included. Depending on which parts you take literally and which you take as metaphors, the song is either about a person considering gender reassignment surgery (a sex change), or someone who has taken up self-abuse to deal with the shame of losing their virginity (having learned that sex changes people).
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* BrokenAce: "The Perfect Fit" is a very good Broken Ace anthem.

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'''Amanda [=MacKinnon=] [[NeilGaiman Gaiman]] Palmer''' (also known as "Amanda [[MetaphorIsMyMiddleName Fucking]] Palmer") is a singer, song-writer, pianist, former LivingStatue, and ukulele player. She is best known for being half of the "[[Creator/BertoltBrecht Brechtian]] punk cabaret" [[hottip:*:(a term originally coined by her friends TheTigerLillies)]] band The DresdenDolls, along with drummer Brian Viglione. The band went on hiatus in 2008, the same year she released her solo album ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer''. Most recently, she released an album with her newest band Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra called Theatre is Evil. Palmer used the website Kickstarter to raise funds to produce this album, and raised more money than any other musical kickstarter up until that time.

Before her music career, Palmer worked for years as a living statue called "The Eight Foot Bride". She married NeilGaiman in January 2011, and released her second solo album, ''Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under'' later in the same month, with the first single, "Map of Tasmania", gaining much controversy. (It's a happy little song about pubes.)

Her songs vary wildly in style and topics. Most of them are chock full of nice puns, and there's a strong running theme of children's songs in a new grownup context. Amanda's also known for performing covers of whatever she feels like - ranging from {{Radiohead}}, to classic musicals, to Music/BlackSabbath, to BritneySpears.

Along with JasonWebley and Sxip Shirey, she's spent much of 2010 on tour with the EvelynEvelyn project.

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'''Amanda [=MacKinnon=] [[NeilGaiman Gaiman]] Palmer''' (also known as "Amanda [[MetaphorIsMyMiddleName Fucking]] Palmer") is a singer, song-writer, pianist, former LivingStatue, and ukulele player. Before her music career, Palmer worked for years as a living statue called "The Eight Foot Bride". She is best known for being half of then co-founded the "[[Creator/BertoltBrecht Brechtian]] punk cabaret" [[hottip:*:(a term originally coined by her friends TheTigerLillies)]] band The DresdenDolls, along with drummer Brian Viglione. The After releasing three studio albums[[hottip:*:Their self-titled debut album was followed by the releases ''Yes, Virginia'' in 2006 and ''No, Virginia'' in 2008]], the band went on hiatus in 2008, the same year she Amanda released her solo album ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer''. Most recently, she released an album with her newest band Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra called Theatre is Evil. Palmer used the website Kickstarter to raise funds to produce this album, and raised more money than any other musical kickstarter up until that time.

Before her music career, Palmer worked for years as a living statue called "The Eight Foot Bride".
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She married NeilGaiman in January 2011, and released her second solo album, ''Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under'' later in the same month, with the first single, "Map of Tasmania", gaining much controversy. (It's a happy little song about pubes.)

) The album eventually charted at number 88 on the Billboard top 100 album list.

Most recently, she released an album with her newest band Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra called Theatre is Evil. Palmer used the website Kickstarter to raise funds to produce this album, and raised more money than any other musical Kickstarter up until that time. [[http://www.amandapalmer.net/shop/pay-what-you-want/ She released the album for free through her website,]] and then debuted on the Billboard top 100 Album list at number 10 due to the immense number of Kickstarter pre-orders.

Her songs vary wildly in style and topics.topics, with many featuring some DarkHumor and subject material. Most of them are chock full of nice puns, and there's a strong running theme of children's songs in a new grownup context. Amanda's also known for performing covers of whatever she feels like - ranging from {{Radiohead}}, to classic musicals, to Music/BlackSabbath, to BritneySpears.

BritneySpears. She also once did a parody of RebeccaBlack's song Friday from the perspective of a truck-stop prostitute.

Along with JasonWebley and Sxip Shirey, she's she spent much of 2010 on tour with the EvelynEvelyn project.



** "Night Reconisannce" has one where the song starts off with the PointOfView of the song being called a satanist, among other things, and by the end of the song they've taken pride in the labels.

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** "Night Reconisannce" has one where the song starts off with the PointOfView of the song narrator being called yelled at as a satanist, satanist worshiper, among other things, labels, and by the end of the song they've taken pride in the labels.started calling themselves such with pride.


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** From "Ultima Esperanza":
--> She lost her legs in a car crash three years ago,
--> [[DarkHumor She doesn't get around much.]]

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Along with JasonWebley and SxipShirey, she's spent much of 2010 on tour with the EvelynEvelyn project.

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Along with JasonWebley and SxipShirey, Sxip Shirey, she's spent much of 2010 on tour with the EvelynEvelyn project.


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* IronicEcho: A standby.
** "Night Reconisannce" has one where the song starts off with the PointOfView of the song being called a satanist, among other things, and by the end of the song they've taken pride in the labels.
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Theatre Is Evil blurb in her bio


'''Amanda [=MacKinnon=] [[NeilGaiman Gaiman]] Palmer''' (also known as "Amanda [[MetaphorIsMyMiddleName Fucking]] Palmer") is a singer, song-writer, pianist, former LivingStatue, and ukulele player. She is best known for being half of the "[[Creator/BertoltBrecht Brechtian]] punk cabaret" [[hottip:*:(a term originally coined by her friends TheTigerLillies)]] band The DresdenDolls, along with drummer Brian Viglione. The band went on hiatus in 2008, the same year she released her solo album ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer''.

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'''Amanda [=MacKinnon=] [[NeilGaiman Gaiman]] Palmer''' (also known as "Amanda [[MetaphorIsMyMiddleName Fucking]] Palmer") is a singer, song-writer, pianist, former LivingStatue, and ukulele player. She is best known for being half of the "[[Creator/BertoltBrecht Brechtian]] punk cabaret" [[hottip:*:(a term originally coined by her friends TheTigerLillies)]] band The DresdenDolls, along with drummer Brian Viglione. The band went on hiatus in 2008, the same year she released her solo album ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer''. \n Most recently, she released an album with her newest band Amanda Palmer and The Grand Theft Orchestra called Theatre is Evil. Palmer used the website Kickstarter to raise funds to produce this album, and raised more money than any other musical kickstarter up until that time.



** To clarify, the song is about a girl getting raped at a party and then going to get an abortion, It's presented with a very upbeat tone, almost entirely in major chords. One time in concert, she tried performing the song the way critics thought the song should have sounded: much slower, and with a depressing tone, replete with lots of minor chords. Halfway through the first verse, she says, "fuck it" and goes back to playing the song as originally written.

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** To clarify, the song is about a girl getting raped at a party and then going to get an abortion, It's presented with a very upbeat tone, almost entirely in major chords. One time in concert, she tried performing the song the way critics thought the song should have sounded: much slower, and with a depressing tone, replete with lots of minor chords. Halfway through the first verse, she says, "fuck "fruity baskets of puppies it" and goes back to playing the song as originally written.
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** From "Half-Jack":
--> You'll learn to hear the difference
--> Between the halves and the half-nots.
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** "The Killing Type" references {{The Threepenny Opera}}:
--> I walk New Orleans with a knife / like Mackie hidden out of sight...
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--> I see a red jeep and I want to [[TheRollingStones paint it black!]]"

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--> I see a red jeep and I want to [[TheRollingStones [[Music/TheRollingStones paint it black!]]"
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* BodyPaint: Used to entertaining effect in her music video of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZCadqQY-Lw&feature=g-user-u "Want It Back"]].

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* BodyPaint: Used to entertaining effect in her music video of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZCadqQY-Lw&feature=g-user-u "Want It Back"]].Back"]](NSFW).
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* FieryRedhead: Not a true ginger, but her hair is a (dyed?) dark red colour, rendered more flaming on her twitter pic.


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* GreenEyes: In possession of a striking pair framed with unusual painted-on eyebrows.
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* BodyPaint: Used to entertaining effect in her music video of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZCadqQY-Lw&feature=g-user-u "Want It Back"]]. Also somewhat uses ModestyBedsheet.

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* BodyPaint: Used to entertaining effect in her music video of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZCadqQY-Lw&feature=g-user-u "Want It Back"]]. Also somewhat uses ModestyBedsheet.
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* BodyPaint: Used to entertaining effect in her music video of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZCadqQY-Lw&feature=g-user-u "Want It Back"]]

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* BodyPaint: Used to entertaining effect in her music video of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZCadqQY-Lw&feature=g-user-u "Want It Back"]]Back"]]. Also somewhat uses ModestyBedsheet.
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* BodyPaint: Used to entertaining effect in her music video of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZCadqQY-Lw&feature=g-user-u "Want It Back"]]
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And now the Dresden Dolls are back on tour! More info [[http://www.dresdendolls.com/ here]]

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And now the Dresden Dolls Amanda and her new band The Grand Theft Orchestra are back [[http://tickets.amandapalmer.net/ going on tour! More info [[http://www.dresdendolls.com/ here]]
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* FanService: Sometimes spiraling into FullFrontalAssault. What is this "modesty" you speak of?



* TheSomethingSong: "The Jeep Song"
** As well as her cover of Nick Cave's "The Ship Song"

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* TheSomethingSong: "The Jeep Song"
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Song", "The Bed Song" and her cover of Nick Cave's "The Ship Song"Song".

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sorry, she doesn\'t have raven hair!


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*** And she co-created a musical based on [[NeutralMilkHotel "In the Aeroplane over the Sea"]] called ''With the Needle That Sings in Her Heart''.

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*** And she co-created a musical based on [[NeutralMilkHotel the NeutralMilkHotel albuml "In the Aeroplane over the Sea"]] Sea" called ''With the Needle That Sings in Her Heart''.



* RavenHairIvorySkin: So very much.
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Amanda [=MacKinnon=] [[NeilGaiman Gaiman]] Palmer (also known as "Amanda [[MetaphorIsMyMiddleName Fucking]] Palmer") is a singer, song-writer, pianist, living statue, and ukulele player. She is best known for being half of the "[[Creator/BertoltBrecht Brechtian]] punk cabaret" [[hottip:*:(a term originally coined by her friends TheTigerLillies)]] band The DresdenDolls, along with drummer Brian Viglione. The band went on hiatus in 2008, the same year she released her solo album ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer''.

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Amanda '''Amanda [=MacKinnon=] [[NeilGaiman Gaiman]] Palmer Palmer''' (also known as "Amanda [[MetaphorIsMyMiddleName Fucking]] Palmer") is a singer, song-writer, pianist, living statue, former LivingStatue, and ukulele player. She is best known for being half of the "[[Creator/BertoltBrecht Brechtian]] punk cabaret" [[hottip:*:(a term originally coined by her friends TheTigerLillies)]] band The DresdenDolls, along with drummer Brian Viglione. The band went on hiatus in 2008, the same year she released her solo album ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer''.



* OneOfUs: She's married to NeilGaiman and she apparently watches ''Series/{{Doctor Who}}'', once referring to a venue as looking like "a goddamned TARDIS inside."

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* OneOfUs: She's married to NeilGaiman and she apparently watches ''Series/{{Doctor Who}}'', once referring to a venue as looking like "a goddamned TARDIS inside."" During her Dresden Dolls days and had gotten pretty well known locally by that point, they performed at the Boston sf convention Arisia.
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[[caption-width:423:There's people screaming just like they should... but you don't even know if you're good.]]

-->"I am the Girl Anachronism!"

Amanda [=MacKinnon=] [[NeilGaiman Gaiman]] Palmer (also known as "Amanda [[MetaphorIsMyMiddleName Fucking]] Palmer") is a singer, song-writer, pianist, living statue, and ukulele player. She is best known for being half of the "[[BertoltBrecht Brechtian]] punk cabaret" [[hottip:*:(a term originally coined by her friends TheTigerLillies)]] band The DresdenDolls, along with drummer Brian Viglione. The band went on hiatus in 2008, the same year she released her solo album ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer''.

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-->"I ->''"I am the Girl Anachronism!"

Anachronism!"''

Amanda [=MacKinnon=] [[NeilGaiman Gaiman]] Palmer (also known as "Amanda [[MetaphorIsMyMiddleName Fucking]] Palmer") is a singer, song-writer, pianist, living statue, and ukulele player. She is best known for being half of the "[[BertoltBrecht "[[Creator/BertoltBrecht Brechtian]] punk cabaret" [[hottip:*:(a term originally coined by her friends TheTigerLillies)]] band The DresdenDolls, along with drummer Brian Viglione. The band went on hiatus in 2008, the same year she released her solo album ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer''.
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* KurtWeill: Her Kurzweil keyboard is defaced to name-check him, in keeping with the Dresden Dolls' "Brechtian-punk-cabaret" vibe.
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* JumpTheShark: Accusations of this flew around following the release of her single, Map Of Tasmania, due to both its quirky subject matter (pubic hair), and its tone (an electro-mixed ukulele diddy), a vast change from her Dresden Dolls and solo Who Killed Amanda Palmer work. Eventually averted, given the success of her subsequent tours, once the shock subsided, the song was quickly adopted as a fan favourite.
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* JumpTheShark: Accusations of this flew around following the release of her single, Map Of Tasmania, due to both its quirky subject matter (pubic hair), and its tone (an electro-mixed ukulele diddy), a vast change from her Dresden Dolls and solo Who Killed Amanda Palmer work. Eventually averted, given the success of her subsequent tours, once the shock subsided, the song was quickly adopted as a fan favourite.
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Amanda [=MacKinnon=] [[NeilGaiman Gaiman]] Palmer (also known as "Amanda Fucking Palmer") is a singer, song-writer, pianist, living statue, and ukulele player. She is best known for being half of the "[[BertoltBrecht Brechtian]] punk cabaret" [[hottip:*:(a term originally coined by her friends TheTigerLillies)]] band The DresdenDolls, along with drummer Brian Viglione. The band went on hiatus in 2008, the same year she released her solo album ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer''.

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Amanda [=MacKinnon=] [[NeilGaiman Gaiman]] Palmer (also known as "Amanda Fucking [[MetaphorIsMyMiddleName Fucking]] Palmer") is a singer, song-writer, pianist, living statue, and ukulele player. She is best known for being half of the "[[BertoltBrecht Brechtian]] punk cabaret" [[hottip:*:(a term originally coined by her friends TheTigerLillies)]] band The DresdenDolls, along with drummer Brian Viglione. The band went on hiatus in 2008, the same year she released her solo album ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer''.
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Amanda [=MacKinnon=] [[NeilGaiman Gaiman]] Palmer (also known as "Amanda Fucking Palmer") is a singer, song-writer, pianist, living statue, and ukulele player. She is best known for being half of the "[[BertoltBrecht Brechtian]] punk cabaret" [[hottip:*:(a term originally coined by her friends TheTigerLillies)]] band The DresdenDolls, along with drummer Brian Viglione. The band went on hiatus in 2008, the same year she released her solo album "Who Killed Amanda Palmer".

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Amanda [=MacKinnon=] [[NeilGaiman Gaiman]] Palmer (also known as "Amanda Fucking Palmer") is a singer, song-writer, pianist, living statue, and ukulele player. She is best known for being half of the "[[BertoltBrecht Brechtian]] punk cabaret" [[hottip:*:(a term originally coined by her friends TheTigerLillies)]] band The DresdenDolls, along with drummer Brian Viglione. The band went on hiatus in 2008, the same year she released her solo album "Who ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer".Palmer''.



* {{Bifauxnen}}: Especially in the Leeds United music video.

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* {{Bifauxnen}}: Especially in the Leeds United "Leeds United" music video.



** And she once played the Emcee in a production of {{Cabaret}}.
*** And she co-created a musical based on [[NeutralMilkHotel "In the Aeroplane over the Sea"]] called "With the Needle That Sings in Her Heart."

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** And she once played the Emcee in a production of {{Cabaret}}.
''{{Cabaret}}''.
*** And she co-created a musical based on [[NeutralMilkHotel "In the Aeroplane over the Sea"]] called "With ''With the Needle That Sings in Her Heart."Heart''.



* OrganAutonomy: Name a body part (belly, neck, armpit hair, duodenum...) and it has a Twitter account.

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* OrganAutonomy: Name a body part (belly, neck, armpit hair, duodenum...) and it has a Twitter {{Twitter}} account.



** Guitar Hero is another one with some serious SanitySlippage...

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** Guitar Hero "Guitar Hero" is another one with some serious SanitySlippage...

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FFSA was discontinued, stealth whining removed, The Trope Song was renamed.


* FetishFuelStationAttendant: That hair and that figure and that rich, deep, androgynously sultry voice and something about the way she moves her mouth oh god. And she's [[BiTheWay bisexual]].



* HollywoodPudgy: In the video for Leeds United, famously. Which is bizarre, because in that video she looked like [[http://emwyllie.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/2818345279_329e520f60_o.jpg this.]]
** That. Fat. Bitch.
** To elaborate, on her blog, Palmer reported that her record label disapproved of the music video because "she looked fat"... yes... so fat...



* TheSomethingSong: "The Jeep Song"
** As well as her cover of Nick Cave's "The Ship Song"



* TheTropeSong: "The Jeep Song"
** As well as her cover of Nick Cave's "The Ship Song"

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* BlackAndWhiteBeauty: So very much.


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* RavenHairIvorySkin: So very much.

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