"Sing a song about life."
—A recurring set of Arc Words throughout CUTIEMARKS (Initially a sample recorded in 2012).
Zelda Trixie Lulamoon is a Portland Brony musician, active since 2012 who began making a breed of Dubstep and Electronic popular around the time, but has since branched over the years and many, many releases to curate her own style. Unlike a lot of Brony musicians, her (Their/Its/Pony/Sea) songs tend to use the show and its characters as a means to deliver more nuanced and personal messages about life, identity, sexuality, and general optimism. This leads to a lot of Alternate Character Interpretation of certain characters.
On top of My Little Pony, sea occasionally write songs about Zootopia, Undertale, Minecraft, random things they find amusing, or the names of directors in the credits of Toy Story. A few of their albums, such as Horse Friends or Starship Ponyville, try to carry storylines, and they have a few recurring characters across songs, as well as her own OC who serves as her main mascot.
Discography:
- Twilight (2014)
- Horse Friends (2014)
- Super Pony World (2016)
- Tales from Equestria (2017)
- Starship Ponyville: Mystic Acoustics (2017)
- Glitter (2018)
- Aloe and Lotus (2018)
- Starship Ponyville: Homeward (2019)
- Queen of Misfits (2019)
- Super Pony World: Fairytails (2020)
- CUTIEMARKS (And the Things That Bind Us) (2021)
- can opener's notebook: fish wisperer (2022)
- Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow, and its Life as an Afterthought) (2023)
- I Was The Loner of Paradise Valley (2023)
Vylet Pony provides examples of:
- Action Girl: Helps when nearly all of your songs are about female characters. Satyrn in particular takes the cake.
- Adaptational Villainy:
- In "SYNDICATE", Rarity is rewritten as a prolific mob boss without much concern in killing competitors.
- "NON-EXISTENT MEET CUTE" also interprets Rarity as an abuser (and maybe even groomer) to Spike.
- Album Intro Track: "Sometimes I Think About Her" and "THE THINGS THAT BIND US", to name a few.
- Album Title Drop: "Queen of Misfits" doubles as Title Drop. CUTIEMARKS splits its title across two songs.
- All Caps: Every song in CUTIEMARKS.
- all lowercase letters: Quite a few, but most notably the songs of can opener's notebook: fish whisperer.
- Alternate Universe Fic: A good amount of her songs and albums appear to take place in a version of the MLP universe where computers, smartphones, the internet, and social media exist. For example, Canni in fish whisperer creates music using digital sampling.
- Anthropomorphic Shift: Sort of. Quite a lot of the quadrupedal MLP characters are portrayed anthropomorphically.
- The Atoner: Trixie in "IMITATION GAME" seems to think herself this.Is this what I deserve for the mistakes that I've made
Maybe it's true and I'm sorry - Author Avatar: Canni / Can Opener in fish whisperer is based on Vylet's first-ever OC and represents Vylet's struggles with wanting to be seen as a "real" musician.
- Arc Words: "Sing a song about life" in CUTIEMARKS.
- Badass Boast: "Magic Bitch", for Twilight and Trixie.Imma magic bitch
You can't kill me
Imma magic bitch
You can't kill my vibe - Bad Girl Song: "Everything Glimmer", and quite a lot of Queen of Misfits.
- Big Bad: Satellite, the King of Statera, in "Mystic Acoustics".
- Cute Bruiser: Io Adore, one of Vylet's OCs, is an assassin. And a sex worker. And a Big Beautiful Woman.She is chubbly. This is rather important and mandatory >:0
- Concept Album: A lot. CUTIEMARKS is about rejecting destiny, Queen of Misfits is about pretending to be someone you're not, Aloe and Lotus is about love against expectations. Others, like Starship Ponyville, fish whisperer and Carousel have a plot across every song.
- Conlang: Vylet created one for the Homeward album, and the first few verses of the title track are sung in it.
- Creator Cameo: Vylet's OC appears on the covers of a lot of her songs, and is a character in Homeward.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Vylet has been making music for a very long time, but it took a while for her to find her artistic voice and her signature style. For example, Horse Friends, an album primary consisting of "festival EDM" and Skrillex-style tracks, can be incredibly jarring to listen to if you're used to her later work.
- Epic Rocking: Vylet, being a fan of Progressive Rock, loves this trope.
- "Medley of Visions," a 20-minute-long epic, is probably the best example.
- "Penumbra" is effectively an electronic prog rock epic that is also important to the plot of the album it's from.
- "αστέρι", which crosses from a grandiose spaceship-blasting off theme to a quiet harmonica across ten minutes.
- Fanservice Cover: "Everything Glimmer" and "Mad This Time" could be counted. The former features Starlight looking sultrily at the camera, splayed out across a bed, while the latter shows a topless anthro Trixie poorly censored by marker scrawl.
- Gag Censor: Trixie's bare chest in the music video for "Mad This Time" is covered with a poorly scrawled-on censor bar and the title.
- Genre Mashup: "Danger Close" from Homeward goes through at least 4 genres in the span of a few minutes.
- Genre Roulette: Very common in her albums. CUTIEMARKS alone lapses through styles such as Dubstep, Indie Rock, Trance, RAndB, Emo-Pop, Hyperpop, Folk Music, and even occasionally Progressive Rock. Some of these shifts can even happen within a song.
- Genre Shift: Her early work was very Dubstep-heavy, but they quickly branched out into a more eclectic electropop style as sea worked on albums. Individually, they still shift around a bit, but the style is much more consistent starting with Love Letters.
- Instrumental: Sometimes entire albums full of them.
- Improbably Female Cast: Given the show, it makes sense. Most of Vylets OCs are also (at least partially) female.
- Leitmotif: A few lyrical ones, such as in CUTIEMARKS, where 'Sing a song about life' is repeated frequently.
- Lighter and Softer: "LESBIAN PONIES WITH WEAPONS" is probably the only song on CUTIEMARKS without a melancholy undertone or overtone, being a genuinely cheerful song about anarchy. Sort of.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Subverted. Half of "Ralph Egg" is spent making fun of his name, while the other half is lamenting the fact that he went to prison for armed robbery.note
- Novelization: Of the two Starship Ponyville albums, explaining the plots in more detail, which can be found on Vylet's Fimfiction.
- One-Steve Limit: In a meta way, given how often Zelda Trixie Lulamoon sings about Trixie Lulamoon.
- One-Woman Wail: "HOW TO KILL A MONSTER".
- Painting the Medium: Super Pony World opens with a videogame-esque chiptune before slowly morphing into the instrumental style the rest continues.
- Aloe and Lotus' first song is the loading of a cassette into a player.
- Precision F-Strike: Tends to happen at least once an album. For example, in "Hush!",Harvest moon’s coming down tonight
Reap what you sow, MOTHERFUCKEEEEEEER! - "The Reason You Suck" Speech: "NON-EXISTENT MEET CUTE" is basically an extended one given to Rarity by Spike.
- The beginning of "Hush!" is a long, very harsh one given to Vylet by Creekflow.
- Rhyming with Itself: "Different Kind of Magic", which rhymes 'Who we are' with itself in the same stanza.And every day is a search for who we are
When will we catch a break, and be happy with who we are? - Self-Empowerment Anthem: "ANTONYMPH" is about indulging in and following what brings you joy, community, and meaning, even if some people find it weird, childish, or "cringy."
- Sequel Song: "THE KID WHO KEPT RUNNING" not only finishes CUTIEMARKS, but seems to be a continuation of "THE THINGS THAT BIND US" and "CUTIEMARKS", being about the same character and the same struggle.
- Stylistic Suck: "Mine Nice 2 Me", a shameless Minecraft parody.
- Textless Album Cover: Nearly all of them.
- Tone Shift: CUTIEMARKS features a lot of transitions from loud to quiet, happy to sad.
- This happens in the second half of Carousel. While the first half is more danceable and upbeat, the second half is dark, often harsh, and influenced by experimental electronic music and Heavy Metal.
- Villain Song: "Daybreaker", obviously given the namesake.
- Word Salad Lyrics: "Arcades" at parts, wherein one of the singers admits that they're running out of lyrics and makes an aside to sing about Goldfish.
