History Music / Waterparks

** With the number of rock videos mocking pop stars, you might assume that it's intended to be a slam towards boy bands. Waterparks actually likes them! Awsten was also [[https://twitter.com/waterparks/status/794958678248005632 very proud of being called "the boy band to take the place of One Direction"]]. "Funeral Grey" also has a co-writing credit for Julian Bunetta, best known for being one of One Direction's primary songwriters and producers.

** ''INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY'' would seemingly defy the naming convention, but actually [[https://www.kerrang.com/waterparks-awsten-knight-interview-intellectual-property-cover-story makes ''Greatest Hits'' a special case]]: as it's intended to be a mashup of album "eras", it counts as both the G *and* H album, with plans for it to be a two-disc release scrapped for being confusing and due to pandemic restrictions.

** For example, clean version of "Turbulent", features reworked lyrics like "and you never bad word answer" that fit the production of the original track. In contrast, the clean version of "I Miss Having Sex, But At Least I Don't Wanna Die Anymore" just features Awsten screaming "WHAT" in place of sex.

** Another nonsensical change is "Fuck About It" becoming "Love About It" in the clean version. Blackbear saying "shit" is beeped out, but the rest of the self-harm comparision lyric remains.

** Funeral Grey and Self-Sabotage tone down the "denser", being more radio-friendly relationship focused songs but retain wackier lyrical moments. (The subject of Funeral Grey's, uh, direct ways of countering Awsten's sass and Awsten's surprisingly violent methods of self-sabotage in Self-Sabotage).

* HotterAndSexier: While there were occasionally allusions and mentions OF sex in previous Waterparks songs, the singles and teased songs in the leadup to INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY are far more direct about Awsten's (largely dysfunctional) hookups with women.

* {{Sampling}}: Gladiator (Interlude) notably is comprised of a sample of a 20 minute long rant that Joel Madden from Music/GoodCharlotte did about the nature of celebrity culture. This was going to go into Greatest Hits at its original unabridged length, but thanks to Travis Riddle sending a ''very'' lengthy email proposing edits and justifying his take, Awsten caved and made it regular song length.

* LongTitle: "I Was Hiding Under Your Porch Because I Love You"
** Awsten's book, ''You'd Be Paranoid Too If Everyone Was Out To Get You.'' The title would later be used for a song on ''Greatest Hits''.
** The first Waterparks demo collection, ''1 (A COLLECTION OF UNRELEASED HOME DEMOS, THIS IS NOT G, OR EVEN AN ALBUM, SHUT UP ENJOY)''
** Awsten's [[http://www.thinktei.com/awstenknight TEI workshop]] on Warped Tour was called "AWSTEN DOING WHATEVER HE DECIDES THAT DAY PLEASE COME", and so he did, and so people came.
** "I Miss Having Sex But At Least I Don't Want To Die Anymore."

* SurpriseCreepy: For "Dream Boy", what was otherwise a goofy, nonsensical video gets suddenly dark at the end when Geoff parks the car in an alleyway while Awsten and Geoff inelegantly drag [[spoiler: a body bag]] out of it. You might be less surprised if, after the scene of Awsten and that dad yelling at each other, you had noticed [[spoiler: the brief part of Awsten strangling him]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Alternate Press "Vocal Rest" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hri38exZ1YU game video]], posted in December 2018, features Awsten wearing a sweatshirt that he drew over with text and an absurd amount of brand logos. The front of the sweatshirt featured the name of his later announced book, "You'd Be Paranoid Too If Everyone Was Out To Get You". The back of the sweatshirt, aside from the logos and lyrics from 11:11, featured initials that later corresponded to many of the tracks on the final tracklisting for what would become ''FANDOM''. The announcement of ''Friendly Reminder'''s deletion happened after Waterparks opened for One OK Rock's tour in early 2019, which also just so happened to feature Parx heavily referencing/teasing about fan speculation for ''Friendly Reminder'', Awsten singing a short part from "Never Bloom Again" before "21 Questions", and even alluding to the deletion before it happened during "Plum Island".

** The titles for ''FANDOM'' and ''1 (A COLLECTION OF UNRELEASED HOME DEMOS, THIS IS NOT G, OR EVEN AN ALBUM, SHUT UP ENJOY)'' are stylized this way.

* GenderNeutralWriting: [[https://www.nme.com/features/waterparks-interview-fandom-gender-2557375 Deliberately on ''FANDOM'' to avoid potential misogyny]] and as a nod to the fandom's concerns about such things.

* {{Gayngst}}: Some fans interpret "Pink" as being written from the perspective of [[IncompatibleOrientation unrequited love with a heterosexual man]], due to the "playing for the other team" line. This is fueled by him repeatedly saying in the past how the song is not about falling for a lesbian.

** Awsten previously made clean versions of Parx songs as a joke, but Waterparks started putting out regular clean versions after signing to Fueled By Ramen. The clean versions of "FUNERAL GREY", "SELF-SABOTAGE", and "FUCK ABOUT IT" feature replacements for sexual innuendo and cursing.

* {{Gayngst}}: The elusive meaning behind "Pink" seemingly finds Awsten falling in love with someone "playing for the other team". He's repeatedly said in the past how the song is not about falling for a lesbian, suggesting [[IncompatibleOrientation it's about an unrequited love with a heterosexual]].

* HotterAndSexier: While there were occasionally allusions and mentions OF sex in previous Waterparks songs, the singles and teased songs in the leadup to INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY are far more direct about Awsten's (largely dysfunctional) hookups.

* {{Gayngst}}: The elusive meaning behind "Pink" seemingly finds Awsten falling in love with someone "playing for the other team". He's repeatedly said in the past how the song is not about falling for a lesbian, suggesting [[IncompatibleOrientation having an unrequited love with a heterosexual]].

* [[Gayngst]]: The elusive meaning behind "Pink" seemingly finds Awsten falling in love with someone "playing for the other team". He's repeatedly said in the past how the song is not about falling for a lesbian, suggesting [[IncompatibleOrientation having an unrequited love with a heterosexual]].

* Gayngst: The elusive meaning behind "Pink" seemingly finds Awsten falling in love with someone "playing for the other team". He's repeatedly said in the past how the song is not about falling for a lesbian, suggesting [[IncompatibleOrientation having an unrequited love with a heterosexual]].

* HotterAndSexier: While there were occasionally allusions and mentions OF sex in previous Waterparks songs, the singles and teased songs in the leadup to INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY are far more direct about Awsten's (largely dysfunctional) hookups with women.
* GenderNeutralWriting: [[https://www.nme.com/features/waterparks-interview-fandom-gender-2557375 Deliberately on ''FANDOM'' to avoid potential misogyny]] and as a nod to the fandom's concerns about such things.