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--> "My first instinct was super, super emo: really really kinda maudlin and depressing, that's where my brain goes first, so."
* {{Troll}}: Just once, says she put ''The Atheist Christmas Carol'' at the end of an album (''Warm Strangers'') containing some VERY spiritually-tinged songwriting to "keep people uncertain about what [her] beliefs are".

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--> "My first instinct was super, super emo: really really kinda maudlin and depressing, that's where my brain goes first, so."
* {{Troll}}: Just once, says she put ''The Atheist Christmas Carol'' at the end of an album (''Warm Strangers'') containing some VERY spiritually-tinged songwriting to "keep people uncertain about what [her] beliefs are".
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* {{Troll}}: Just once, says she put ''The Atheist Christmas Carol'' at the end of an album (''Warm Strangers'') containing some VERY spiritually-tinged songwriting to "keep people uncertain about what [her] beliefs are".
* TrueArtIsAngsty: ''My Medea'' was written specifically because Vienna felt that to be a great artist, one has to be at least a little bit [[MadArtist messed up.]]

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* {{Troll}}: Just once, says she put ''The Atheist Christmas Carol'' at the end of an album (''Warm Strangers'') containing some VERY spiritually-tinged songwriting to "keep people uncertain about what [her] beliefs are".
* TrueArtIsAngsty: ''My Medea'' was written specifically because Vienna felt that to be a great artist, one has to be at least a little bit [[MadArtist messed up.]]
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* EarWorm: Despite its serious subject matter, ''Shasta'' is incredibly catchy.
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One Of Us is now Just For Fun per this TRS thread. Also not a YMMV trope.


* OneOfUs: One of her [[http://viennateng.com/scrapbook/2010/11/who-is-your-celebrity-crush/ celebrity crushes]] is Randall Munroe of Webcomic/{{xkcd}}.
** She's also said that ''Enough to Go By'' is set in a sci-fi world after the apocalypse.
** Is known to play VideoGame/{{Portal}}.

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* [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Crowning Music of Heartwarming]] ''Lullaby for a Stormy Night''. Also, ''City Hall''. *sniff sniff*
** ''Shasta'' has one of these as well.
** ''Anna Rose'' too.
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* [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Crowning Music of Heartwarming]] ''Lullaby for a Stormy Night''. Also, ''City Hall''. *sniff sniff*
** ''Shasta'' has one of these as well.
** ''Anna Rose'' too.
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* [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Crowning Music of Heartwarming]] ''Lullaby for a Stormy Night''. Also, ''City Hall''. *sniff sniff*
** ''Shasta'' has one of these as well.
** ''Anna Rose'' too.



* SweetDreamsFuel: "The Breaking Light", "Oh Mama No", "Goodnight New York", "Lullaby for a Stormy Night".

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"The Breaking Light", "Oh Mama No", "Goodnight New York", "Lullaby for a Stormy Night".
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* SugarWiki/SweetDreemsFuel: "The Breaking Light", "Oh Mama No", "Goodnight New York", "Lullaby for a Stormy Night".

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* SugarWiki/SweetDreemsFuel: SweetDreamsFuel: "The Breaking Light", "Oh Mama No", "Goodnight New York", "Lullaby for a Stormy Night".
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* SweetDreemsFuel: "The Breaking Light", "Oh Mama No", "Goodnight New York", "Lullaby for a Stormy Night".

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* SweetDreemsFuel: SugarWiki/SweetDreemsFuel: "The Breaking Light", "Oh Mama No", "Goodnight New York", "Lullaby for a Stormy Night".
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* SweetDreemsFuel: "The Breaking Light", "Oh Mama No", "Goodnight New York", "Lullaby for a Stormy Night".
** "The Hymn of Acxiom" ''would'' fall into this category if it weren't for the [[ParanoiaFuel lyrics]].
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** ''Hymn of Axciom'' - an AI/database engine singing about all that it can do - search, gather, extrapolate all of your personal information for advertising/marketing. And then is utterly confused as to why you're creeped out by it.
---> Is that wrong?
---> Isn’t this what you want?
---> Amen.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ''Stray Italian Greyhound''. Bonus points because it's inspired by [[RealLife Real]] [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Life]].

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''Stray Italian Greyhound''. Bonus points because it's inspired by [[RealLife Real]] [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Life]].


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** ''City Hall''
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* EarWorm: Despite its serious subject matter, ''Shasta'' is incredibly catchy.

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* EarWorm: Despite its serious subject matter, ''Shasta'' is incredibly catchy.



* HarsherInHindsight: City Hall, which was inspired by San Francisco's legalisation of gay marriage, has the line ''"And if they take it away again some day, this beautiful thing won't change"''. Bittersweet when when first released (in 2006), now after prop 8 it's hauntingly predictive.

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* HarsherInHindsight: City Hall, which was inspired by San Francisco's legalisation of gay marriage, has the line ''"And if they take it away again some day, this beautiful thing won't change"''. Bittersweet when when first released (in 2006), now after prop 8 it's hauntingly predictive.



* NightmareFuel: ''Pontchartrain'' is a song about the devastation after Hurricane Katrina. "Darling, Lake Pontchartrain is haunted,/Bones without names, photographs framed in reeds" is fairly typical of the song's lyrics, all set to a fairly disturbing melody.

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* NightmareFuel: ''Pontchartrain'' is a song about the devastation after Hurricane Katrina. "Darling, Lake Pontchartrain is haunted,/Bones haunted, / Bones without names, photographs framed in reeds" is fairly typical of the song's lyrics, all set to a fairly disturbing melody.



** Is known to play VideoGame/{{Portal}}.

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** Is known to play VideoGame/{{Portal}}.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ''Stray Italian Greyhound''. Bonus points because it's inspired by [[RealLife Real]] [[BarackObama Life]].

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ''Stray Italian Greyhound''. Bonus points because it's inspired by [[RealLife Real]] [[BarackObama [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Life]].
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* ParanoiaFuel: "The Hymn of Acxiom" is written from the point of view of a database, which exists in real life, that collects way more personal information than the average person would expect anyone to know about them, for advertising purposes. The increasingly computerized vocal effects fall somewhere in between comforting and creepy.



* TrueArtIsAngsty: ''My Medea'' was written specifically because Vienna felt that to be a great artist, one has to be at least a little bit [[MadArtist messed up.]]

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* TrueArtIsAngsty: ''My Medea'' was written specifically because Vienna felt that to be a great artist, one has to be at least a little bit [[MadArtist messed up.]]
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** Is known to play {{Portal}}.

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** Is known to play {{Portal}}.VideoGame/{{Portal}}.

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** She's also said that ''Enough to Go By'' is set in a sci-fi world after the apocalypse.

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** She's also said that ''Enough to Go By'' is set in a sci-fi world after the apocalypse.apocalypse.
** Is known to play {{Portal}}.
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* OneOfUs: One of her [[http://viennateng.com/scrapbook/2010/11/who-is-your-celebrity-crush/ celebrity crushes]] is Randall Munroe of {{xkcd}}.

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* OneOfUs: One of her [[http://viennateng.com/scrapbook/2010/11/who-is-your-celebrity-crush/ celebrity crushes]] is Randall Munroe of {{xkcd}}.Webcomic/{{xkcd}}.
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* NightmareFuelUnleaded: ''Pontchartrain'' is a song about the devastation after Hurricane Katrina. "Darling, Lake Pontchartrain is haunted,/Bones without names, photographs framed in reeds" is fairly typical of the song's lyrics, all set to a fairly disturbing melody.

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* NightmareFuelUnleaded: NightmareFuel: ''Pontchartrain'' is a song about the devastation after Hurricane Katrina. "Darling, Lake Pontchartrain is haunted,/Bones without names, photographs framed in reeds" is fairly typical of the song's lyrics, all set to a fairly disturbing melody.
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game, not a trope.


* BetterThanItSounds: "No Gringo" is about illegal American immigrants trying to sneak into Mexico for jobs because it's a future where America's economy has collapsed. It's not heavy-handed at all, but just try explaining the premise in a way that makes it sound good.
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*{{Troll}}: Just once, says she put ''The Atheist Christmas Carol'' at the end of an album (''Warm Strangers'') containing some VERY spiritually-tinged songwriting to "keep people uncertain about what [her] beliefs are".
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* BetterThanItSounds: "No Gringo" is about illegal American immigrants trying to sneak into Mexico for jobs because it's a future where America's economy has collapsed. It's not heavy-handed at all, but just try explaining the premise in a way that makes it sound good.
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game, not a trope.


* BetterThanItSounds: Just try describing the premise of ''No Gringo'' to someone without making it sound completely {{Anvilicious}}.
** "City Hall" as well, for the same reason.
** ''Atheist Christmas Carol'' is not an AuthorTract.
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* BetterThanItSounds: Just try describing the premise of ''No Gringo'' to someone without making it sound completely {{Anvilicious}}.
** "City Hall" as well, for the same reason.
** ''Atheist Christmas Carol'' is not an AuthorTract.
* [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Crowning Music of Heartwarming]] ''Lullaby for a Stormy Night''. Also, ''City Hall''. *sniff sniff*
** ''Shasta'' has one of these as well.
** ''Anna Rose'' too.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ''Stray Italian Greyhound''. Bonus points because it's inspired by [[RealLife Real]] [[BarackObama Life]].
** ''Antebellum''.
** [[http://vimeo.com/2945345 This]] is what happens when you give Vienna a song title and one hour with which to write.



* NightmareFuelUnleaded: ''Pontchartrain'' is a song about the devastation after Hurricane Katrina. "Darling, Lake Pontchartrain is haunted,/Bones without names, photographs framed in reeds" is fairly typical of the song's lyrics, all set to a fairly disturbing melody.
** The first line of the ''a capella'' song ''Passage'' is "I died in a car crash", sung against the background noise of a highway overpass.
** ''Radio'', about an imagined suicide bombing of San Francisco. If you listen closely to the background noise, you can hear whispers going on behind most of the music, understandable only just after the bridge as Triage codes and [[ShownTheirWork real casualty numbers]] being whispered by a breathless first responder.
*** Hell, ''all'' the lyrics. I mean, "backpack of shrapnel and wire"? Not to mention the way it's so [[LyricalDissonance calm sounding]].



--> "My first instinct was super, super emo: really really kinda maudlin and depressing, that's where my brain goes first, so."

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--> "My first instinct was super, super emo: really really kinda maudlin and depressing, that's where my brain goes first, so.""
* TrueArtIsAngsty: ''My Medea'' was written specifically because Vienna felt that to be a great artist, one has to be at least a little bit [[MadArtist messed up.]]

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