Line #17 PlayingWith/BreakupSong


1	'''Basic Trope''': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A song about the end of a relationship]] and all the emotions that come with it.
2	* '''Straight''': [[TeenIdol Alice]] breaks up with her boyfriend of 5 years, Bob, and [[CreatorBreakdown channels her]] [[WriteWhatYouKnow feelings]] into a song.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Replace "song" with [[Music/{{Rumours}} whole album]].
5	** The song is particularly dark, such as a MurderBallad.
6	** Alice writes a breakup song about a relationship that lasted all of five ''hours''.
7	* '''Downplayed''':
8	** Alice writes an AntiLoveSong not too long after the breakup with Bob.
9	** Alice and Bob were only friends, but she writes a song about the end of their friendship anyway.
10	* '''Justified''': Music is an emotional catharsis, and breakups (particularly of long-term relationships and marriages) are usually pretty painful to some degree.
11	* '''Inverted''': Alice gets together with Bob and writes a {{Silly Love Song\|s}}.
12	* '''Subverted''': Alice writes a song about the end of a relationship, but is still with Bob.
13	* '''Double Subverted''':
14	** [[WordOfGod According to Alice]], the song is about her breakup with [[RomanticFalseLead Charles]], the guy she was engaged to some years ago before he left her and she ended up dating Bob.
15	** Her relationship with Bob was kind of rocky when she wrote the song, and she and Bob wind up ending the relationship [[HarsherInHindsight not too long after]].
16	* '''Parodied''': The entirety of Alice's repertoire is composed of break-up songs. For added comedy and tragedy, EACH song is based on [[SerialRomeo a different person!]] (Yeah, [[LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces her experience with romance has been THAT bad!]])
17	* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
18	* '''Averted''':
19	** Alice writes only SillyLoveSongs.
20	** Alice composes only instrumental music or ElectronicMusic.
21	** Alice is not a singer or songwriter.
22	* '''Enforced''':
23	** CreatorBreakdown
24	** "[[ExecutiveMeddling We want you]] [[MusicIsPolitics to write something that caters to]] those who like their music on the DarkerAndEdgier side...you know, those {{Angst}}y {{Emo Teen}}s."
25	* '''Lampshaded''': "ThisIsASong/ About breaking up with Bob/ Unlike our relationship/ It's pretty long..."
26	* '''Invoked''':
27	** Alice breaks up with her boyfriend of 5 years, Bob, and is feeling very sad and angry about it.
28	** Alice breaks up with Bob [[MuseAbuse for something to write a song about]].
29	* '''Exploited''': ???
30	* '''Defied''': Since Alice's image as a TeenIdol is anything but {{Angst}}y, she doesn't write any songs about it.
31	* '''Discussed''': ???
32	* '''Conversed''': ???
33	* '''Reconstructed''': The song [[CatharsisFactor helps Alice through her grief]] over the end of the relationship, and she is eventually able to move on.
34	* '''Played For Laughs''': The song includes a lot of BlackComedy.
35	* '''Played For Drama''': The song works as a form of minor insight into Alice's psyche, and it's evident that she's emotionally devastated and on the verge of a CreatorBreakdown... [[DrivenToSuicide Or even worse]].
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41	%%* '''Implied''': ???
42	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???

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