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* TheVerse: Somewhat, as characters from certain music videos will show up in others.others.
* VisualPun: The salespersons get turned into wolves that attack and eat each other in the "Milk and Honey" video. In other words, corporate offices are a dog-eat-dog world.

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Oh good lord, Uncle Graham from "Hullabaloo." He overworks, guilts, and drugs his employees into being subservient to him, and then morphs into some sort of eldritch creature and eats his own employees. It's gotten to the point where his own security is afraid of him.

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Uncle Graham from "Hullabaloo." He overworks, guilts, and drugs his employees into being subservient to him, and then morphs into some sort of eldritch creature and eats his own employees. It's gotten to the point where his own security is afraid of him.him.
** The blond CEO in the first act of ''Searching for Strawberries'' berates and overworks his employees while he lies in the lap of luxury, and shows blatant favoritism. It turns out he also gives his favorites wolf masks that [[{{Animorphism}} turn them into actual wolves]] in order to make them into more aggressive competitors.
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* TheDeadCanDance: Brittle Bones Nicky, after death, is not only a SharpDressedMan (well, skeleton), but also pulls off some funky moves during the instrumental interludes.
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* TakeThat: In the video for "Money!" (the first song in ''Searching for Strawberries''), caricatures of Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos appear, representing the ideal of super-wealth that drives the common person to enter the rat race. Musk is also seen landing on Mars and planting a flag saying "MINE" on it (after [[EverymanHero Jongo Bongo]] is fried by the flame from the billionaires' rockets).

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* TakeThat: In the video for "Money!" (the first song in ''Searching for Strawberries''), caricatures of Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos appear, representing the ideal of super-wealth that drives the common person to enter the rat race. Musk is also seen landing on Mars and planting a flag saying "MINE" on it (after [[EverymanHero protagonist Jongo Bongo]] Bongo is fried by the flame from the billionaires' rockets).
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* TakeThat: In the video for "Money!" (the first song in ''Searching for Strawberries''), caricatures of Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos appear, representing the ideal of super-wealth that drives the common person to enter the rat race. Musk is also seen landing on Mars and planting a flag saying "MINE" on it (after [[EverymanHero Jongo Bongo]] is fried by the flame from the billionaires' rockets).
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''Rare Americans'' is a Punk Rock band from Canada. The lineup currently consists of the Canadain Priestner brothers and the Slovakian Lubo. They're particularly notable for how their songs are promoted. They chose to promote their songs as ads on [=YouTube=] as full music videos. Their website can be found [[http://rareamericans.com/ here,]] and their [=YouTube=] account can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzCTW3k3_ItdqxdVaeXn2IA here.]]

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''Rare Americans'' is a Punk Rock band from Canada. The lineup currently consists of the Canadain Canadian Priestner brothers and the Slovakian Lubo. They're particularly notable for how their songs are promoted. They chose to promote their songs as ads on [=YouTube=] as full music videos. Their website can be found [[http://rareamericans.com/ here,]] and their [=YouTube=] account can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzCTW3k3_ItdqxdVaeXn2IA here.]]
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* TomTheDarkLord: The CorruptCorporateExecutive in "Hullabaloo" runs his prison-like company with an iron fist and is actually an EldritchAbomination who [[ImAHumanitarian eats]] his employees. His name is ''Uncle Graham''.
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* AnimatedMusicVideo: A lot of their music has an animated music video to go with it.

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* AnimatedMusicVideo: A lot of their music has an animated music video to go with it. ''Searching for Strawberries'' is an entire rock opera where every song has one, making it an animated musical.

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* [[SelfTitledAlbum Rare Americans]] (2018)

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* [[SelfTitledAlbum Rare Americans]] Americans (2018)




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* Rare Americans 3: Jamesy Boy & The Screw Loose Zoo (2021)


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* SelfTitledAlbum: All their albums follow this pattern, albeit 3 has a subtitle to it.
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''Rare Americans'' is a Punk Rock band from Canada. The lineup currently consists of the Canadain Priestner brothers and the Slovakian Lubo. They're particularly notable for how their songs are promoted. They chose to promote their songs as ads on [=YouTube=] as full music videos. They currently plan an Album to be released on August 10th. Their website can be found [[http://rareamericans.com/ here,]] and their [=YouTube=] account can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzCTW3k3_ItdqxdVaeXn2IA here.]]

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''Rare Americans'' is a Punk Rock band from Canada. The lineup currently consists of the Canadain Priestner brothers and the Slovakian Lubo. They're particularly notable for how their songs are promoted. They chose to promote their songs as ads on [=YouTube=] as full music videos. They currently plan an Album to be released on August 10th. Their website can be found [[http://rareamericans.com/ here,]] and their [=YouTube=] account can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzCTW3k3_ItdqxdVaeXn2IA here.]]




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* Rare Americans 2 (2021)

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* AnimatedMusicVideo:
** Cats, Dogs, & Rats.
** Brittle Bones Nicky and it's sequel
** Milkman.
** Ryan & Dave
** Hullabaloo.
** Berlin
** Gas Mask
** The Moneyz
** Knives, Guns, and Bed

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* AnimatedMusicVideo:
** Cats, Dogs, & Rats.
** Brittle Bones Nicky and it's sequel
** Milkman.
** Ryan & Dave
** Hullabaloo.
** Berlin
** Gas Mask
** The Moneyz
** Knives, Guns, and Bed
AnimatedMusicVideo: A lot of their music has an animated music video to go with it.
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*DemBones: Brittle Bones Nicky.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette:Nicky when he is human.

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* TheTrickster: "Brittle Bones Nicky was crafty and tricky, and that son of a bitch was gold."

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* StableTimeLoop: Brittle Bones Nicky pushes [[spoiler:himself]] down into Hell so he can become the skeletal trickster from his first video.
* TheTrickster: "Brittle Bones Nicky was crafty and tricky, and that son of a bitch was gold.""
* TheVerse: Somewhat, as characters from certain music videos will show up in others.
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* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: Of a sort, in "Brittle Bones Nicky 2". At first, God is merely presented as the kind of guy who laughs at people who assume they go to Heaven before tossing them over to The Devil. Later, however it's revealed that The Devil ''is'' God; he just wears either title based on his mood.
-->"Surprised? Most of 'em are.\\
I'm Mufasa ''and'' I'm Scar.\\
[[GoodIsBoring Lily white shit gets old and trite]]\\
Now tell me why you’re in my sight."

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** Brittle Bones Nicky.

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** Brittle Bones Nicky. Nicky and it's sequel



* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Subverted in that Brittle Bones Nicky [[ByronicHero isn't a bad person,]] but he's aggressive, crafty, and tricky. That said, even though she died when he was very young, he still loved his mom very much and a large reason why he sold his soul to Satan is to protect his mother.



* RuleOfSymbolism: A lot of Rare American Music Videos run on symbolism while also telling a story.

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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: The Panda brought a knife to fight against the Eagle's gun, in the song titled "Knives Guns and Bed."
* RuleOfSymbolism: A lot of Rare American Music Videos run on symbolism while also telling a story.story.
* TheTrickster: "Brittle Bones Nicky was crafty and tricky, and that son of a bitch was gold."

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''Rare Americans'' is an Punk Rock band from Canada. The lineup currently consists of the Canadain Priestner brothers and the Slovakian Lubo. They're particularly notable for how their songs are promoted. They chose to promote their songs as ads on [=YouTube=] as full music videos. They currently plan an Album to be released on August 10th. Their website can be found [[http://rareamericans.com/ here,]] and their [=YouTube=] account can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzCTW3k3_ItdqxdVaeXn2IA here.]]

!Singles
* Cats, Dogs, & Rats
* Moss Park
* Balmoral Hotel
* I vs I

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''Rare Americans'' is an a Punk Rock band from Canada. The lineup currently consists of the Canadain Priestner brothers and the Slovakian Lubo. They're particularly notable for how their songs are promoted. They chose to promote their songs as ads on [=YouTube=] as full music videos. They currently plan an Album to be released on August 10th. Their website can be found [[http://rareamericans.com/ here,]] and their [=YouTube=] account can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzCTW3k3_ItdqxdVaeXn2IA here.]]

!Singles
!Discography
* Cats, Dogs, & Rats
* Moss Park
* Balmoral Hotel
* I vs I
[[SelfTitledAlbum Rare Americans]] (2018)
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** Knives, Guns, and Bed


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* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: The Panda and the Eagle in "Knives, Guns, and Bed" fight with each other while aggressively making out.
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** ByronicHero: Crosses into this because Nicky does show a soft side to his girlfriend and his prison buddy. Later on in Gas Mask, Nicky can be seen helping the boxer through his drug addiction, having gone through similar struggles himself.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Ryan and Dave. Despite the very different lives they lead, Dave isn't willing to give up on Ryan, and helps him go through rehab.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The music video for Moss Park.

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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The music video for Moss Park.Park.
* RuleOfSymbolism: A lot of Rare American Music Videos run on symbolism while also telling a story.
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** The Moneyz
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Oh good lord, Uncle Graham from "Hullabaloo." He overworks, guilts, and drugs his employees into being subservient to him, and then morphs into some sort of eldritch creature and eats his own employees. It's gotten to the point where his own security is afraid of him.
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* BrokenBird: Nicky from "Brittle Bones Nicky."

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* BrokenBird: Nicky from "Brittle Bones Nicky."Nicky", wearing a bitter expression and having suffered abuse from his father. [[TheDogBitesBack He fights back]] and throughout the video, continues to fight until he dies of old age.

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* AnimatedMusicVideo: Cats, Dogs, & Rats.

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* AnimatedMusicVideo: AnimatedMusicVideo:
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Cats, Dogs, & Rats.


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* BrokenBird: Nicky from "Brittle Bones Nicky."
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** Gas Mask
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** Berlin

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* AnimatedMusicVideo: Cats, Dogs, & Rats. Brittle Bones Nicky. Milkman. Ryan & Dave

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* AnimatedMusicVideo: Cats, Dogs, & Rats.
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Brittle Bones Nicky. Milkman. Nicky.
** Milkman.
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Ryan & DaveDave
** Hullabaloo.
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* AnimatedMusicVideo: Cats, Dogs, & Rats.

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* AnimatedMusicVideo: Cats, Dogs, & Rats. Brittle Bones Nicky. Milkman. Ryan & Dave
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''Rare Americans'' is an Alt-Rock band from Canada. The lineup currently consists of the Canadain Priestner brothers and the Slovakian Lubo. They're particularly notable for how their songs are promoted. They chose to promote their songs as ads on [=YouTube=] as full music videos. They currently plan an Album to be released on August 10th. Their website can be found [[http://rareamericans.com/ here,]] and their [=YouTube=] account can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzCTW3k3_ItdqxdVaeXn2IA here.]]

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''Rare Americans'' is an Alt-Rock Punk Rock band from Canada. The lineup currently consists of the Canadain Priestner brothers and the Slovakian Lubo. They're particularly notable for how their songs are promoted. They chose to promote their songs as ads on [=YouTube=] as full music videos. They currently plan an Album to be released on August 10th. Their website can be found [[http://rareamericans.com/ here,]] and their [=YouTube=] account can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzCTW3k3_ItdqxdVaeXn2IA here.]]
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Adding a page for them. PLEASE add more tropes. It's like 3:30 AM and I'm kind of tired.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The Priestner brothers, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Lubo.]]]]

''Rare Americans'' is an Alt-Rock band from Canada. The lineup currently consists of the Canadain Priestner brothers and the Slovakian Lubo. They're particularly notable for how their songs are promoted. They chose to promote their songs as ads on [=YouTube=] as full music videos. They currently plan an Album to be released on August 10th. Their website can be found [[http://rareamericans.com/ here,]] and their [=YouTube=] account can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzCTW3k3_ItdqxdVaeXn2IA here.]]

!Singles
* Cats, Dogs, & Rats
* Moss Park
* Balmoral Hotel
* I vs I

!Tropes
* AnimatedMusicVideo: Cats, Dogs, & Rats.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The music video for Moss Park.

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