Line #1 Music/ImaniCoppola


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3	Imani Francesca Coppola (born April 6, 1978) is a musician from [[BigApplesauce New York City]], known for playing multiple instruments (her albums credit her for guitars, keyboards and violins) and switching between normal singing and rapping. Her style can basically be summed up as GenreMashup or GenreRoulette: a combination of HipHop, AlternativeRock, {{Pop}}, {{Funk}}[=/=]{{Soul}} and whatever else is handy, while largely falling under the umbrella of "alternative". Basically, think Music/BeastieBoys crossed with ''[[Music/TheBeatles The White Album]]''.
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5	She gained some fame thanks to her critically acclaimed 1997 debut ''Chupacabra'', which spawned the hit "Legend of a Cowgirl", giving her the status of OneHitWonder. However, ExecutiveMeddling on the part of Creator/ColumbiaRecords ensued, her second album was shelved and she was dropped. She spent a long time out of the mainstream afterwards, self-releasing various albums that can be pretty hard to get a hang of.
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7	Coppola began regaining attention in 2006 by touring with Music/MikePatton's side project Peeping Tom, who picked her up for his label Ipecac Recordings and put out ''The Black and White Album''. She's since started an R&B duo with Adam Pallin called Little Jackie, who had another hit single in 2008 with "The World Should Revolve Around Me". Let's hope this won't end up a OneHitWonder as well.
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9	She has released the following albums:
10	* ''Chupacabra'' (1997)
11	* ''Come and Get Me... What?!'' (2000)
12	* ''Little Red Fighting Mood'' (2002)
13	* ''Post Traumatic Pop Syndrome'' (2002)
14	* ''Afrodite'' (2004)
15	* ''Small Thunder'' (2005)
16	* ''The Vocal Stylings of Imani Coppola'' (2005)
17	* ''The Black and White Album'' (2007)
18	* ''The Stoop'' (2008) - Little Jackie album
19	* ''Free Spirit'' (2010)
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21	!!Tropes:
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23	* EasterEgg: "La Da Da" lasts 20:47 minutes in total. The song itself ends after about 4-5 minutes, and the final part is a hidden track called "My Day at the Ocean"
24	* FunWithAcronyms: "J.L.I.A.T.O.Y.O." means "Music/JohnLennon is a trademark of Music/YokoOno," which appears on any [[http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rock--roll-religion-launches-menswear-collection-designs-inspired-by-the-art-of-john-lennon-by-english-laundry-69645747.html licensed John Lennon merchandise]].
25	%%* GenreRoulette
26	* IntercourseWithYou: "Keys to Your Ass".
27	* LyricalDissonance: Happens sometimes ("Let It Kill You", "30th Birthday").
28	* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Dirty Pictures". Sort of.
29	* PrecisionFStrike: "Woke Up White", "One of These Days", "Black and White Jingle #1", "Black and White Jingle #2", "Dirty Pictures", "I Love Your Hair", "J.L.I.A.T.O.Y.O.". Can be a bit surprising or an outright ClusterFBomb if you know her only as the girl who sang "Legend of a Cowgirl".
30	* RecordProducer: Her most commercially successful albums ''Chupacabra'' and ''The Stoop'' had Mike Mangini as producer (no, not the Mike Mangini who played drums for Music/{{Extreme}} and Music/SteveVai, the one who produced Digable Planets).
31	* {{Sampling}}: "I'm a Tree" samples the organ riff from "Twentieth Century Fox" by Music/TheDoors, and "Legend of a Cowgirl" famously uses a sample from "Sunshine Superman" by Donovan. "I Love Your Hair" uses the famous pummeling beat of "When the Levee Breaks" by Music/LedZeppelin. Notably, Columbia wanted her to use more sampling for her second album, and she refused.
32	* XtremeKoolLetterz: She has some songs with this, like "Naked City (Love to See U Shine)" or "Keys 2 Your Ass".

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