History Music / ElectricSix

* GirlsLove: "We Were Witchy Witchy White Women" talks of two lesbian witches.

** The Flashy Man: The UsefulNotes/XBox to your Creator/{{Atari}}. Several years before Music/CeeLoGreen made the same analogy.

** Flashy Man, who Dick says is "the UsefulNotes/XBox to your Creator/{{Atari}}".

** "Steal Your Bones" from ''KILL''.

** "Creator/AdamLevine", which is not only an insult at Adam Levine, it's also one at pop idols in general. The chorus literally tells him to rot/burn in Hell.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In-universe: The artist in "Bleed for the Artist" seems to specialise in this.

* ''[[LongTitle I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master]]'' (2007)

* [[SpotTheImpostor Spot The Impos]]'''[[LargeHam TOR]]''': "Pleasing Interlude I" is a bizarre skit wherein Dick accuses the cashier at his local GreasySpoon of being "THE IMPOS'''TOR'''" for not remembering his order.
** I... woke up on the MainPage again... and I needed something to write about. So I went down to the {{fora}}. "What'll it be?" Said @/FastEddie, sporting a wry grin. "Just give me the usual, Eddie," I said. @/FastEddie scratched his head. "What was that again?" The usual was a heaping of TVTropesWillRuinYourLife, with SugarWiki/SugarWiki fritters AndADietCoke. @/FastEddie knew that! I had been editing here every day for the past four years! Then I began to realize... The troper standing behind the server was '''the IMPOST-''''''''OR.'''''

* WhipItGood: The cover of ''Human Zoo'' has a man using a leather belt in this fashion... on some rug pelts.

* AntiLoveSong: Examples include "Lenny Kravitz", which is a rather curt lyrical dismissal of a one-night stand, "Infected Girls", which is extolling the singer's desire to mate with STD-infected women due to being infected himself, and "Kukuxumushu", which is about how much the singer got dumped repeatedly, was stalked by different women and pleads with his girlfriend to NOT make him write her a damn love song, they're only fuck buddies.

* [[ExcitedShowTitle Excited Song Title!]]: "Danger! High Voltage", "Rip It!", "Randy's Hot Tonight!", "Clusterfuck!", "I am a Song!", "Gridlock!", "Hello! I See You!", "Roulette!"...

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Discussed and ultimately subverted in "Vibrator"-- the narrator's sexual prowess is so great that his baby don't need no vibrator.

* TheConspiracy[=/=]EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: "Formula 409" features the band, circa the lineup of ''Flashy'', being abducted by men wearing suits and T. rex masks and brainwashed with psychotropics into literally cleaning up Detroit with spray cleaner and rags.

%% * [[SpotTheImpostor Spot The Impos]]'''[[LargeHam TOR]]''': "Pleasing Interlude I".

* UnEntendre: Not uncommon for the band. A prime example would be this line from I'm The Bomb - "Hey, girl... when I'm fuckin' you... it's like nothin' else matters. Maybe we'll reach down, between my legs... '''AND EASE THE SEAT BACK!'''"
** That also doubles as a Music/VanHalen ShoutOut.
** "Formula 409" is either about a government conspiracy and/or what disinfectant you should use to clean your kitchen, or more sex. Possibly both.

** The "pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty girl" line from "Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor)" references Music/TheRollingStones' "Beast of Burden".
** The cover for ''Bride of the Devil'' is a reference to ''[[{{Film/DawnOfTheDead1978}} Dawn of the Dead]].''

** Taken UpToEleven in "Riding On a White Train", where he repeatedly announces the solo ''while it's playing''.

* TeensAreMonsters: Parodied in "Kids Are Evil", a song where paranoia about the youth gets turned UpToEleven and some [[DisproportionateRetribution rather extreme]] [[GroinAttack retaliation]] is proposed as the solution.

Their music is often described with words such as [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly "disco," "metal," "new wave," "dance," "punk", "rock"]] and "fairly ridiculous" with influences ranging from Music/{{KISS}} to Music/{{Devo}} to Music/TheDoors to Music/CaptainBeefheart. While practically unknown to the general public in their home country, they [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff were well received in the UK]], which is rather ironic for a band that could be described as remarkably ''American'' and aware of it: their lyrics routinely reference US politics and have {{Shout Out}}s to their home town of Detroit. The singer and head songwriter, Dick Valentine, is noted for his [[LargeHam unique and emphatic vocal delivery]] and his extensive lyrical use of both SoBadItsGood sexual innuendo and humorous pop culture references.

Electric Six are a UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} sextet that formed in 1996. The band began in earnest as "The Wildbunch" until a similarly-named group from Bristol found out and complained. They're best known for their single [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4gyJsY0mc "Danger! High Voltage!,"]] a dance-friendly duet with [[Music/TheWhiteStripes a mechanic who won a contest to sing with the band because he was the only person to enter]], and its associated video which involves the lead singer making out with a middle-aged woman on [[RefugeInAudacity a stuffed moose, and all of them have glowing crotches.]] The video for their single [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTN6Du3MCgI "Gay Bar"]] also received viral-type attention on the internet for its [[CampGay very unique take]] on the White House cabinet of US president UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. Members of the band are also involved in such listen-worthy side projects as [[http://www.myspace.com/evilcowards Evil Cowards]] and the dairy promotion campaign [[http://joliesimons.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/white-gold-detroits-electric-six-sexes-up-the-magic-of-dairy/ White Gold.]]

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: They technically hover within the 3-5 range, but through sheer moxie manage to rock harder than many bands higher on the scale.

* [[SpotTheImpostor Spot The Impos]]'''[[LargeHam TOR]]''': "Pleasing Interlude I".
** I... woke up on the MainPage again... and I needed something to write about. So I went down to the {{fora}}. "What'll it be?" Said @/FastEddie, sporting a wry grin. "Just give me the usual, Eddie," I said. @/FastEddie scratched his head. "What was that again?" The usual was a heaping of TVTropesWillRuinYourLife, with SugarWiki/SugarWiki fritters AndADietCoke. @/FastEddie knew that! I had been editing here every day for the past four years! Then I began to realize... The troper standing behind the server was '''the IMPOST-''''''''OR.'''''
** ...
*** '''DANCE EPIDEMIC TONIGHT!!'''

** "Daddy's Boy" is one towards Donald Trump, and was written during his presidency.

** "Rock And Roll Evacuation" from ''Señor Smoke'' was recorded in the middle of president George W. Bush's second term, hence the line "Mr. President, make a little money sending people you don't know to Iraq. \ Mr. President, I don't like you, you don't know how to ''rock''."

** For another surprisingly serious final song, "White Eyes" caps off ''Kill'' with a song about the narrator being haunted by a white-eyed ghost [[spoiler:who makes him go blind]]. Or it's from the perspective of [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness a hallucinating drug addict]].

** For another surprisingly serious final song, "White Eyes" caps off ''Kill'' with a song about the narrator being haunted by a white-eyed ghost [[spoiler:who makes him go blind]]..

** "White Eyes" caps off ''Kill'' with a surprisingly serious song the narrator being haunted by a white-eyed ghost [[spoiler:who makes him go blind]].