History Music / MaydayParade

* LongTitle: They have quite a few relatively long titles, but "You Be The Anchor That Keeps My Feet On The Ground, I'll Be The Wings That Keep Your Heart In The Clouds" and "It's Hard To Be Religious When Certain People Are Never Incinerated By Bolts of Lightning" are clear winners.

* ShoutOut: ''The Silence'' is a big shout-out to the Literature/{{Twilight}} series.

* CoverVersion: They covered ''In My Head'' by JasonDerulo, ''When I Grow Up'' by Music/ThePussycatDolls, and ''Somebody That I Used to Know'' by Music/{{Gotye}} for different volumes of Punk Goes Pop.

* CoveredUp: A rather strange example of this trope is that "Jamie All Over" is technically a cover. It was originally written by and recorded by Kid Named Chicago, of whom most members joined Mayday Parade, with the lead vocalist and writer on the original Jason Lancaster doing only backing vocals, but almost no one knows of the original or that this song had any other recordings.

* GriefSong: Several. "Miserable At Best" is the most well known - others include "Black Cat", "Walk on Water or Drown", "Everything's an Illusion", and "One Man Drinking Games", "Is Nowhere", among others.

* GriefSong: Several. "Miserable At Best" is the most well known - others include "Black Cat", "Walk on Water or Drown", "Everything's an Illusion", and "One Man Drinking Games", among others.

* ''Monsters in the Closet:'' (LP) (2013)

* LongTitle: They have quite a few relatively long titles, but "You Be The Anchor That Keeps My Feet On The Ground, I'll Be The Wings That Keep Your Heart In The Clouds" is the clear winner.

* PrecisionFStrike: Mayday Parade is known for having pretty much no profanity in their music aside from one (very clear) instance in their song ''When I Get Home You're So Dead''.
-->'''Jason:''' I hope he's leavin' you empty baby, this is just a fix.
-->'''Derek and Jason:''' For such a simple little ''whore.''

* OneOfUs: Derek could be considered this. He is known to read many books
** Averted in that he read {{Twilight}} and ''liked'' it so much that he made a song based on it - "The Silence".

* OneOfUs: Derek could be considered this. He is known to read many books, including {{Twilight}} and ''liked'' it so much that he made a song based on it - ''The Silence''.

* CoverVersion: They covered ''In My Head'' by JasonDerulo, ''When I Grow Up'' by ThePussycatDolls, and ''Somebody That I Used to Know'' by Music/{{Gotye}} for different volumes of Punk Goes Pop.

* CoverVersion: They covered ''In My Head'' by JasonDerulo, ''When I Grow Up'' by ThePussycatDolls, and ''Somebody That I Used to Know'' by {{Gotye}} for different volumes of Punk Goes Pop.

* MusicVideoOvershadowing: Played straight in ''Jamie All Over'', completely. The song is about a boy begging his girlfriend not to leave him when the music video is about the band going to California and partying senselessly - which turns out to be a dream. See also the music video of ''Kids In Love''.

* BreakupSong: ''When I Get Home, You're So Dead'', completely.

* DrunkenSong: Not actually what ''One Man Drinking Games'' is about.

** Their song ''Anywhere But Here'' refers to someone having another girlfriend to keep his mind of his real girlfriend, but a few have also taken the song to refer to a drug of some sort.

* GenreSavvy: Their songs ''Last Something That Meant Anything'' and ''If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?'' have lyrics involving the writing of songs.
* GriefSong: Several. ''Miserable At Best'' is the most well known.

* RereleaseTheSong: ''Jamie All Over'' and ''When I Get Home You're So Dead''.

* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth

* SelfTitledAlbum: Their third album.
* SignatureSong: Arguably, Jamie All Over despite actually being a ''Kid Named Chicago'' song.
* SopranoAndGravel: Their first two albums pretty much run on Mayday's dual-vocals
** Soprano: Derek, definitely. Despite that Jason can reach higher notes than him.
** Gravel: Undeniably Jason. Until he left, that is.

* NonAppearingTitle: The vast majority of their songs have NonAppearing titles. It's easier to list the exceptions: "Your Song", "Jamie All Over", "Jersey", "Miserable at Best", "Kids in Love", "Anywhere But Here", "The Silence", "Still Breathing", "Bruised and Scarred", "Save Your Heart", "Get Up", "I Swear This Time I Mean It", "Amber Lynn", "Terrible Things", "Oh Well, Oh Well", "When You See My Friends", "Priceless" and "Stay" are their only songs where the title appears in the lyrics at all. It may be worth noting that most of these- from "Kids in Love" to "I Swear This Time I Mean It" is from the album "Anywhere but Here".
* OneOfUs: Derek could be considered this. He is known to read many books, including Twilight and ''liked'' it so much that he made a song based on it - ''The Silence''.

* LoudnessWar: Many of their songs are fairly quiet with dynamic peaks, the intro to ''If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?" is especially loud.