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Removing because there are no reference to the track numbers within the track titles - misunderstanding of trope.


*** "ME!" has the divisive cut [[note]]It has since been reclaimed as a fan chant, and can still be heard on the live album[[/note]] line "Hey kids, spelling is fun!". "How Did It End?" has "My beloved ghost and me, sitting in a tree, D-Y-I-N-G"."



* MoodWhiplash: Avert this for the main album, but the ''Anthology'' version has "How Did It End" - a slow, devastating piano ballad about how the narrator has to explain the reason of her break up to a large audience despite her finally exclaimed that she ''doesn't'' know how it ends, follows by "So High School" - a SillyLoveSong about a new relationship that made the narrator feel young and in high school again.

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* MoodWhiplash: Avert this for the main album, but the ''Anthology'' version The Anthology has "How Did It End" - a slow, devastating piano ballad about how the public demand that the narrator has to explain the reason of for her break up to a large audience despite not because they care about her finally exclaimed that she ''doesn't'' know how it ends, follows but because they need fuel for their gossip. It's immediately followed by "So High School" - a SillyLoveSong about a new relationship that made the narrator feel young and in high school again.



* SelfReferentialTrackPlacement:
** "The Prophecy" and [[TheCassandra "Cassandra"]] are next to each other in the track order.
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** "So Long, London" has the line "I stopped CPR, after all, it's no use". The song titles named after a single person - "Cassandra", "Peter", and "Robin" spell out [=CPR=]. All of them are off the main album and in the tail end of the Anthology, signifying that the [=CPR=] was over and done with.



** "But Daddy I Love Him" is one of Ariel's lines from ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 The Little Mermaid]]''.
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** "The Black Dog" mostly has a wistful longing singing tone, until the end of the chorus, which later repeat of the chorus subverted this trope by the narrator getting quieter and quieter, signifying her going hoarse from yelling so much:

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** "The Black Dog" mostly has starts with a wistful longing singing tone, until the end of the chorus, which later repeat of the penultimate chorus subverted this trope by and final bridge, which has her volume increase to reflect the narrator getting quieter and quieter, signifying her going hoarse from yelling so much:lyrics.

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* SuddenlyShouting: Most of the bridge of "Down Bad" is sung in a lower register until the instrumental builds up to the final line which is practically shouted:

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Most of the bridge of "Down Bad" is sung in a lower register until the instrumental builds up to the final line which is practically shouted:


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** "The Black Dog" mostly has a wistful longing singing tone, until the end of the chorus, which later repeat of the chorus subverted this trope by the narrator getting quieter and quieter, signifying her going hoarse from yelling so much:
--> Old habits die... SCREAAAAAAAMING.

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