History Music / PartiesAreForLosers

''Parties Are for Losers'' is an English Music/{{VOCALOID}} series created by Music/{{Ferry}}, who is also being responsible for making the art and videos. The first song (for which the series was named), "Parties Are for Losers", was released in January of 2019, with two more songs in the series being released in the following months and several more planned for the future. Ferry also provides a lot of the lore behind the series and [[AllThereInTheManual background information]] about the characters on their [[https://nopanamaman.tumblr.com/tagged/deepest-lore tumblr blog]].

* CrapsackWorld: As expressed by Anya in "Punch It, Punk!", the town near the Zone isn't the most comfortable place to live in. Ferry themselves described the setting of PAFL as a kick to the face.

* IdiotHair: Sanya has a prominent cowlick on the top of her head, but she's far from an idiot.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: In "Punch It, Punk!", Dmitry randomly jumps to Anya's defense and swiftly gets the crap beaten out of him. In "Comfort Zone", it's revealed that [[spoiler:he was weak due to overexertion of his powers, and jumped to save Anya out of guilt for ditching KT and mistaking her for his fellow mutant since she was, in Ferry's words, "the closest KT-shaped thing".]]

* RescueRomance: Anya falls for Dmitry immediately when he leaps to protect her from some thugs (although he ends up getting the crap beaten out of him.)
* RunawayHideaway: Ferry explained on their blog that during the two weeks KT knew Yura and Sanya, they set up a little hideout for her to stay and hang out in that becomes more comfortable as the gang brings more stuff to it, since it wouldn't be feasible for her to live with either of them.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Sanya's albinism is treated realistically: she can't be out in the sun for long, her eyesight is weak, and she's homeschooled by Sergei as a result.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Strike 3 in its entirety is about Sergei lashing out at Yura [[spoiler:for shooting a Zone border guard and causing Olga to take the heat for him, potentially getting her into difficult legal trouble.]]

* YouAllShareMyStory: All of the characters' stories revolve around KT and the facility, meeting in the aptly named Convergence.

* "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjUe0rgI9Bs&ab 100 Epitaphs]]" - A song from Sanya's perspective showing her trying to connect more with Dmitry after the events of Convergence.

* "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjUe0rgI9Bs&ab 100 Epitaphs]]" - A song from Sanya's perspective showing her trying to connect more with Dmitry after the events of Convergence.

''Parties Are For Losers'' is an English Music/{{VOCALOID}} series created by Music/{{Ferry}}, who is also being responsible for making the art and videos. The first song (for which the series was named,) ''Parties Are For Losers'', was released in January of 2019, with two more songs in the series being released in the following months and several more planned for the future. Ferry also provides a lot of the lore behind the series and [[AllThereInTheManual background information]] about the characters on their [[https://nopanamaman.tumblr.com/tagged/deepest-lore tumblr blog]].

"Parties Are For Losers" introduces a group of troubled teens living in this city: Yura, his friend Sanya, her older brother Sergei, and Katya (or KT,) a young girl who allegedly ran away from home and meets Yura and Sanya at a party one night. Yura and Sanya quickly bond with KT over the next two weeks, only for their friendship to be cut short when it's revealed that she's a runaway mutant. The subsequent videos both continue the story and further develop the main cast while also introducing new characters into the mix, like Yura's little sister Anya and her new "runaway" friend Dmitry...

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txRCM_YHmH8 Parties Are For Losers]] - The first video establishing the main cast as Sanya and Yura meet Katya and then are separated from her.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjBsRfmdYaM False Disposition]] - A mostly flashback video depicting Sanya and Yura's past with each other and introducing Sanya's hatred of Sergei.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_lGrcOtzck Punch It, Punk!]] - A video taking place over the same time as PAFL, focusing on Yura's sister Anya and Sergei's enigmatic girlfriend Olya, who discover another child who claims to have run away from home, Dmitry.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICdRa5ZiWxY KT's Official Guide to Coolness]] - A song depicting PAFL from Katya's perspective.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80sl53M0L6s The Mill]] - A song continuing on from where the end of False Disposition left off, while providing cryptic flashbacks for some of the characters.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nluo1sJkHHs Strike 3]] - A song from Sergei's perspective about the events immediately following The Mill.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-4AQqjxj7g Occam's Razor]] - A song from Yura's perspective following the events of Strike 3, wherein he discovers what may be a new lead to saving Katya.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFd-OuXGwJE message lost]] - A song from Nikita's perspective about his past relationship and regrets.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TAKbzUbo_g COMFORT ZONE]] - A song from Dmitry's perspective, a flashback on his time in the laboratories, leading up to the events of "Punch It, Punk!"
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5QjHq9g0oA&ab_channel=Ferry LIKE A DOG]] - A song from Dr. Temnova's perspective, dropping several hints about both her and the Zone's origins and true nature.
* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2GfF12YTAyg Convergence]] - A song from Anya's and later Yura's perspective, detailing his conversation with her and Dmitry to get help saving KT from the facility.

** At the climax of "KT's Official Guide to Coolness", as Katya is being captured, the lyrics go "This isn't okay" as the video pans over Yura, where the chorus of "Parties Are For Losers" had "it's okay, it's okay".

* CrapsackWorld: As expressed by Anya in "Punch it, Punk!", the town near the Zone isn't the most comfortable place to live in. Ferry themselves described the setting of PAFL as a kick to the face.

* {{Foil}}: In "Parties are for Losers" and "Punch It, Punk!" respectively, Katya and Dmitry's stories are intentionally played off each other to demonstrate the differences between them, and the differences between their respective friend groups:

* OnceMoreWithClarity: In "Punch it, Punk!", Dmitry randomly jumps to Anya's defense and swiftly gets the crap beaten out of him. In "Comfort Zone", it's revealed that [[spoiler:he was weak due to overexertion of his powers, and jumped to save Anya out of guilt for ditching KT and mistaking her for his fellow mutant since she was, in Ferry's words, "the closest KT-shaped thing".]]

** To Manga/{{Akira}} in the first song, as KT's powers manifest in a very similar way to Tetsuo's SuperpowerMeltdown (i.e. spawning a bunch of excess flesh.)

** A segment in "Comfort Zone" briefly shows Dmitry arguing with two other mutants using some of the defense and prosecutor character animations from VideoGame/AceAttorney. Later lines in the song call back to this with the lines "[[CatchPhrase objection]]" and "overrule".

* PeekaBangs: Olya's cover half her face [[spoiler: since she lost an eye to the same grinder accident that killed Nikita's brother.]]

* DramaticIrony: "KT's Official Guide to Coolness" reveals that Yura knew that Katya was a mutant all along. He tells Katya that he won't tell anyone, and then suggests that they could get Sergei to help her if he "eased him into it". Unfortunately Sergei ends up being the opposite of helpful, as viewers already know.