History Music / LilBeethoven

* SequelSong: "I Married Myself" is lyrically a follow-up to ''Music/KimonoMyHouse'''s "Falling In Love With Myself Again". "My Baby's Taking Me Home" could also be described as an answer to "How are You Getting Home?" from ''Indiscreet''.

* SequelSong: "I Married Myself" is lyrically a follow-up to ''Music/KimonoMyHouse'''s "Falling In Love With Myself Again".

[[caption-width-right:300:I am the rhythm thief. Auf wiedersehen to the beat.]]

* MediumAwareness: "The Rhythm Thief" is a song about the fact the song has no drums.

The album was widely seen as both a return to form and a radical change of direction for the Mael brothers, who after two decades of delivering witty yet [[DorkAge mostly underwhelming]] SynthPop, [[NewSoundAlbum had dropped the style in favour of a fresh sound]] dominated by piano, [[SelfBackingVocalist multi-tracked vocals]] in place of dance beats (hence the cries of "oh no, where did the groove go?" in the opening track), and - living up to the title's classical pretensions - layers upon layers of orchestration created using synthesizers.

# "How Do I Get to Carnegie Hall" - 3:51
# "What Are All These Bands So Angry About" - 3:33

# "Your Call's Very Important to Us" - 4:12

---> "Oh no, where did the groove go? Where did the groove go?"

* ListSong: "Ride 'Em Cowboy", of various stock phrases and cliches placed against their opposites:
--> ''I swam, I sank''\\

---> ''All of this I did for you''\\

--> ''I say "yo dawg" to my pool-cleaning guy''

* TakeThat: "What are All These Bands So Angry About?" is one towards angsty rock bands whose complaints tend to be rather trivial in nature, and compares them to musicians from the past (such as Music/BillieHoliday and Music/HowlinWolf) who genuinely had something to be upset about.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The album has a predominantly classical, Chamber Pop feel. "Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls" is HeavyMetal.