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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39 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
40 | %% |
41 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
42 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
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