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2	'''Vance Joy''' (Real Name: James Keogh) is a singer from Melbourne, Usefulnotes/{{Australia}}.
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4	He originally played Australian Football for Club Coburg before pursuing a singing career.
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6	He was true indie for awhile, with only one EP to his name, and risking a life of obscurity. Everything changed when his song "Riptide" came from left field to win Creator/TripleJ's Hottest 100 in 2013, the largest musical democracy in '''the world'''. This immediately gave him international renown and a deal with Creator/AtlanticRecords.
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8	His debut record, ''Dream Your Life Away'', was released in September 2014. The follow-up ''Nation of Two'' was released in 2018. Features the song "Saturday Sun", which could be just as catchy as "Riptide". His third album "In Our Own Sweet Time" was released in 2022.
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10	!!Discography
11	* ''Dream Your Life Away'' (2014)
12	* ''Nation of Two'' (2018)
13	* ''In Our Own Sweet Time'' (2022)
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15	!!Trope Your Life Away:
16	* AllJustADream: The end of the "Play With Fire" video.
17	%%* BreakupSong: "Mess is Mine" and "First Time".
18	* CoverVersion: Has covered "[[Music/{{INXS}} Don't Change]]", "[[Music/{{Radiohead}} Fake Plastic Trees]]" and "[[Music/{{Sia}} Elastic Heart]]"
19	* DarkHorseVictory: Joy's debut single "Riptide" was voted by over a billion people worldwide as the biggest song of 2013, over global radio stalwarts "Get Lucky" and "Royals".
20	* GagSub: Used in the "Riptide" music video.
21	* LiteralMusicVideo: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_1HMAGb4k Riptide]]" is one made by the artist himself, and it basically films all of the WordSaladLyrics as is, resulting in a nonsensical series of events.
22	* {{Reggae}}: Perhaps the best label for him.
23	* ShoutOut: In "Riptide" to ''Film/MidnightCowboy'':
24	--> "There's this movie that I think you'll like/this guy decides to quit his job and head to New York City/This Cowboy's running from himself/And she's been living on the highest shelf."
25	* StageNames: On how he got his unusual stage name:
26	--> "I was going through a Creator/PeterCarey phase and reading a lot of his books. There's a book called ''Bliss''. The main character's name is Harry Joy and his grandfather is '''Vance Joy'''. He's the storyteller and a crazy old man. Plus, I thought it was a cool name."
27	%%* StalkerWithACrush: "From Afar"
28	* WordSaladLyrics: A staple of his work. "Riptide" in particular is notable for this.
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