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* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "The Best Country In The World"World" is a scathing attack on the austerity, profiteering, corruption and pollution of post-Brexit Britain.
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* MuseAbuse: "No Woman Ever Wants To Be A Muse" is a song about how artists write about the women in their lives and the experience is "to be dragged over hot coals, to be slandered, to be used".
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** "Galway"
"Galway" is a song about a show in Galway with a tiny audience, a reminder that success is fragile.
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->''"And if I spend my life on the losing side \\
You can lay me down \\
Knowing that I tried"''
-->--'''"The Losing Side"'''
Grace Petrie is a British musician, a folk singer-songwriter from Leicester. Petrie is a feminist, a lesbian and strongly left-wing, and the her music often includes related themes.
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!!Grace Petrie's music contains examples of the following tropes:
* ACappella: "Galway" is an a Cappella SelfDeprecation song about her first show in Galway, with a tiny, if enthusiastic, audience.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Pointedly subverted in the video for "Black Tie", where Grace suffers through a makeover to give her a traditional feminine look while the lyrics talk about how people won't be trapped by a "narrow view of gender".
* CardSharp: "The House Always Wins" uses a crooked casino as a metaphor for the British politicians behind Brexit. The video shows Grace across the table from a gleefully sinister dealer who's using sleight of hand and card tricks to cheat.
-->'Cos the dice is always loaded \\
The coins all wear two grins \\
The devil pays the dealer for his multitude of sins \\
But whichever way the roulette wheel spins \\
The house always wins.
* FlippingTheTable: Near the end of the video for "The House Always Wins", Grace finally loses patience with the CardSharp she's facing and angrily overturns the table they're sitting at.
* IncompatibleOrientation: "The Last Man on Earth" centres around the singer's friendship with a straight woman, and the acknowledgment that however compatible they may seem, her friend will keep dating men until she marries the "least-worst option".
-->I will be the the best I can \\
But you won't choose me \\
Over the last man on Earth
* TheLostLenore: The narrator of "This House" lives in the house they shared with a man who's passed away, surrounded by memories and his carefully tended possessions, mourning the things they never said. Despite protestations that "it's not love / Oh, this thing I'm dying of", they still focus on "the ways that he was mine". Petrie's stated that the narrator is male and the song was inspired by two men who lived together, not quite a couple, and never quite resolved what they were to each other before one passed away.
* MouthingTheProfanity: In the video for "The House Always Wins" Grace mouths "What the fuck?" to camera as the CardSharp's tricks grow more obvious.
* MuseAbuse: "No Woman Ever Wants To Be A Muse" is a song about how artists write about "to be dragged over hot coals, to be slandered, to be used".
-->'Cos history's written by the winners \\
Yeah, and art is made to last \\
And I dread the day I'll have to answer \\
For the songs of breakups past
* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "The Best Country In The World"
-->Striking doctors, striking teachers \\
And no railway lines to reach us \\
We would fight them on the beaches \\
But the beach is full of shit.
* SelfDeprecation:
** "Coldwaterproofjacket" opens with a statement that she was "born too late to make a claim to any half-decent band names", and that it was "too much to hope there'd be any good tunes left".
** "Galway"
** "Nobody Knows That I'm A Fraud" is a whole song in this vein.
* ShoutOut: "The Last Man on Earth", a song about unrequited love and IncompatibleOrientation, throws in a reference to ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'''s lead characters ("and you can be my Santiago if I can't be your Perralta").
* SubduedSection: The last minute of "The Losing Side" repeats the chorus with more voices in the background, building up the energy -- and then drops back to ACappella as Grace sings alone for the last ten seconds or so.
* TakeThat:
** ''There's No Such Thing as a Protest Singer'' ends with the TitleDrop song, "I Wish The Guardian Believed That I Exist". The EP cover is created in the style of a Guardian front page and the lyrics lament that the left-wing newspaper believes protest songs ended when the mines closed, decades ago. There's a final swipe at the NME as well.
** "Black Tie" rails against transphobia and the "bigotry and fear / that's uniting [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan Piers Morgan]] and [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer Germaine Greer]]".
* UnrequitedLoveLastsForever:
** The singer of "Coldwaterproofjacket" is clear that she's given her heart away and will "wait forever", even if her beloved never returns her affection.
--->Well, I know you're locked up like a fortress \\
I'd wait forever at your doors \\
And even if they never open \\
You don't need to be mine, but I'll be yours
** The singer of "The Last Man on Earth" is conscious that she'll always be there as her female friend's fallback for company and emotional support ("darling, don't you know you'll never lose me"), and will even be there to plan the hen night and support her wedding to the "least worst" male option, but IncompatibleOrientation means it will always be unrequited.
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->''"And if I spend my life on the losing side \\
You can lay me down \\
Knowing that I tried"''
-->--'''"The Losing Side"'''
Grace Petrie is a British musician, a folk singer-songwriter from Leicester. Petrie is a feminist, a lesbian and strongly left-wing, and the her music often includes related themes.
----
!!Grace Petrie's music contains examples of the following tropes:
* ACappella: "Galway" is an a Cappella SelfDeprecation song about her first show in Galway, with a tiny, if enthusiastic, audience.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Pointedly subverted in the video for "Black Tie", where Grace suffers through a makeover to give her a traditional feminine look while the lyrics talk about how people won't be trapped by a "narrow view of gender".
* CardSharp: "The House Always Wins" uses a crooked casino as a metaphor for the British politicians behind Brexit. The video shows Grace across the table from a gleefully sinister dealer who's using sleight of hand and card tricks to cheat.
-->'Cos the dice is always loaded \\
The coins all wear two grins \\
The devil pays the dealer for his multitude of sins \\
But whichever way the roulette wheel spins \\
The house always wins.
* FlippingTheTable: Near the end of the video for "The House Always Wins", Grace finally loses patience with the CardSharp she's facing and angrily overturns the table they're sitting at.
* IncompatibleOrientation: "The Last Man on Earth" centres around the singer's friendship with a straight woman, and the acknowledgment that however compatible they may seem, her friend will keep dating men until she marries the "least-worst option".
-->I will be the the best I can \\
But you won't choose me \\
Over the last man on Earth
* TheLostLenore: The narrator of "This House" lives in the house they shared with a man who's passed away, surrounded by memories and his carefully tended possessions, mourning the things they never said. Despite protestations that "it's not love / Oh, this thing I'm dying of", they still focus on "the ways that he was mine". Petrie's stated that the narrator is male and the song was inspired by two men who lived together, not quite a couple, and never quite resolved what they were to each other before one passed away.
* MouthingTheProfanity: In the video for "The House Always Wins" Grace mouths "What the fuck?" to camera as the CardSharp's tricks grow more obvious.
* MuseAbuse: "No Woman Ever Wants To Be A Muse" is a song about how artists write about "to be dragged over hot coals, to be slandered, to be used".
-->'Cos history's written by the winners \\
Yeah, and art is made to last \\
And I dread the day I'll have to answer \\
For the songs of breakups past
* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "The Best Country In The World"
-->Striking doctors, striking teachers \\
And no railway lines to reach us \\
We would fight them on the beaches \\
But the beach is full of shit.
* SelfDeprecation:
** "Coldwaterproofjacket" opens with a statement that she was "born too late to make a claim to any half-decent band names", and that it was "too much to hope there'd be any good tunes left".
** "Galway"
** "Nobody Knows That I'm A Fraud" is a whole song in this vein.
* ShoutOut: "The Last Man on Earth", a song about unrequited love and IncompatibleOrientation, throws in a reference to ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'''s lead characters ("and you can be my Santiago if I can't be your Perralta").
* SubduedSection: The last minute of "The Losing Side" repeats the chorus with more voices in the background, building up the energy -- and then drops back to ACappella as Grace sings alone for the last ten seconds or so.
* TakeThat:
** ''There's No Such Thing as a Protest Singer'' ends with the TitleDrop song, "I Wish The Guardian Believed That I Exist". The EP cover is created in the style of a Guardian front page and the lyrics lament that the left-wing newspaper believes protest songs ended when the mines closed, decades ago. There's a final swipe at the NME as well.
** "Black Tie" rails against transphobia and the "bigotry and fear / that's uniting [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan Piers Morgan]] and [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer Germaine Greer]]".
* UnrequitedLoveLastsForever:
** The singer of "Coldwaterproofjacket" is clear that she's given her heart away and will "wait forever", even if her beloved never returns her affection.
--->Well, I know you're locked up like a fortress \\
I'd wait forever at your doors \\
And even if they never open \\
You don't need to be mine, but I'll be yours
** The singer of "The Last Man on Earth" is conscious that she'll always be there as her female friend's fallback for company and emotional support ("darling, don't you know you'll never lose me"), and will even be there to plan the hen night and support her wedding to the "least worst" male option, but IncompatibleOrientation means it will always be unrequited.
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