History Creator / NeilCicierega

** "The Starting Line" is a compilation of opening lines from several songs (more specifically, songs where the vocals start before the music), repeating constantly for the ''entire'' duration of the song.

* LyricalDissonance: Embraced to absurd degrees in his mashup songs, either with silly sounding instrumentals with serious lyrics ("Rollercloser", "Crocodile Chop", "Floor Corn", and "The End"), or serious sounding instrumentals with silly lyrics ("Love Psych", "Like Tears in Chocolate Rain", "T.I.M.E."). [[UpToEleven Or both]] ("Mullet with Butterfly Wings", "Spongerock").

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The protagonist of "Just a Baby" is a baby who smokes cigars and shoots people with guns.

In 2014, he gained some media buzz for two albums of mashups entitled ''Mouth Sounds'' and ''Mouth Silence'', comprised of many disoriented and epic mashups of popular songs (primarily from TheNineties and TurnOfTheMillennium), mostly "All Star" by Music/SmashMouth. A third album, entitled ''Mouth Moods'', came out in 2017, and a fourth album, ''Mouth Dreams'', released in late 2020.

** "The Outsiders" from ''Mouth Dreams'' lists the characters of the [[Literature/TheOutsiders titular story]] from the movie trailer, [[spoiler: along with [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking Dad, Inspector Gadget, Kid Cuisine, and other non-Outsider members,]] all in the voice of renowned trailer VA Creator/DonLafontaine]].

** "The Starting Line" is a compilation of opening lines from several songs, repeating constantly for the ''entire'' duration of the song.

* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: Several of his remixes edit the vocal tracks enough to wildly change the subject of the song. He turns the ''Ghostbusters'' theme into a celebration of [[UnusualEuphemism "bustin'"]] on a "freaky ghost bed"; turns "The Eye of the Tiger" into a song about a number of literal tigers; juxtaposes a news segment about furries to make "Foxey Lady" about Music/JimiHendrix being a furry lusting after a literal fox lady; edits both "Men in Black" and "Wild Wild West" to give Will Smith a weird obsession with bees, his "Wild Wild West" remix in particular changing from a rap song of braggadocious masculinity to one of blatant homoeroticism (''"Who that is?! [[BigBad Loveless]], bad for ya health! [[invoked]] [[HoYay Lookin' damn good though, if I could say it myself!]] Told me Loveless is a good man, but I don't feel that, [[FoeYay he got his behind lookin' damn good though!]]"''); and twists "Fly Away" until Lenny Kravitz transforms into a dragonfly and has sex with a candy bar.

* MeaningfulName: "The Starting Line" from ''Mouth Moods'' consists entirely of lyrics that are [[JustForPun the starting line]] of their respective tracks, including, of course, "The Distance" by {{Music/Cake}}, which starts with the line "''Reluctantly crouched at the starting line...''"

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: In "Superkiller", the psycho killer now '''''HATES PEOPLE WHEN THEIR''''' ''bed's on fire...'' despite mentioning several times how [[HypocriticalHumor his own bed is on fire]].

** ''Mouth Silence'' begins and ends with a [[Music/ThirdEyeBlind Semi-Charmed Life]] mashup.

** "No Credit Card" from ''Mouth Sounds'' takes this UpToEleven; the first two-and-a-half minutes are almost entirely composed of variations on "Don't need no credit card to ride this train", which then simply cuts it down to "Ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri..." with a background of "Feel the power of love" for the next two minutes.

Neil Cicierega (pronounced ''siss-ə-REE-gə''; born August 23rd, 1986) is an "online semi-celebrity" based in Boston, Massachusetts. His body of work is very varied and as a result it is somewhat hard to quantify. He has described himself at varying times and degrees of seriousity as a comedian, actor, filmmaker, musician, and animator, while Wiki/TheOtherWiki labels him an "Internet artist". It is probably safe to say that his creative output is quite diverse and spans across more than a few media.

* ArcWords: The word "Mouth" comes up a lot in Neil's mashup albums, both in the album titles and the titles of songs mashing [[Music/SmashMouth "All Star"]] with something else.

* OverlyLongGag: "Alanis" ends with the VanityPlate jingles of Lorimar-Telepictures and Warner Bros. Television, the producers of [[spoiler:''Full House'']]... then Columbia Pictures Television, Castle Rock Television, Buena Vista Television, Touchstone Television, Gracie Films, 20th Century Fox Television, and then finally Klasky-Csupo.
** In the same vein as "Alanis", "Cannibals" in ''Mouth Dreams'' basically has the listener ask, "Neil can't possibly mash up an entire song for four and half minutes using only the THX Deep Note as the main instrumental source, can he?" '''''He does.'''''

* EasterEgg: ''Mouth Silence'' is full of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAJQQymhn9o carefully hidden "All Star" references]], including an album cover, backwards messages, and even some text in [=ID3=] tags. Really though, the whole ''Mouth'' trilogy has an encyclopedia full of its own lore and inside jokes.

** "10,000 Spoons" takes Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" and sentence-mixes its lyrics into oblivion, replacing the ends of multiple lines with "...on your wedding day", etc. It also chpps off the second halves of a few lines, creating non-sequiturs like "It's a Death Row pardon, in your chardonnay.".

** "10,000 Spoons" takes Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" and sentence-mixes its lyrics into oblivion, replacing the ends of multiple lines with "...on your wedding day", etc. It also chpps off the second halves of a few lines, creating non-sequiturs like "It's like 10,000 spoons...".

* ImmediateSelfContradiction: In "[[Music/RickJames Super]][[Music/TalkingHeads killer]]" from ''Mouth Dreams'', the singer asks "Say something once, why say it again?"... twice in a row.

* RemixAlbum: ''Mouth Sounds'', ''Mouth Silence'', ''Mouth Moods'' and ''Mouth Dreams'' all consist of remixes and mashups of popular songs from the late '80s to early '00s.

* ImmediateSelfContradiction: In [[Music/RickJames Super]][[Music/TalkingHeads killer]] from ''Mouth Dreams'', the singer asks "Say something once, why say it again?"... twice in a row.

* ImmediateSelfContradiction: In [[Music/RickJames Super]][[Music/TalkingHeads killer]], the singer asks "Say something once, why say it again?"... twice in a row.

* ''Mouth Silence'' begins and ends with a [[Music/ThirdEyeBlind Semi-Charmed Life]] mashup.
* ''Mouth Dreams'', whose title on the album cover spells out "NICE MODEMS" if you only look at the letters with sparkles (similar to the "Super Mario Galaxy" / "U R MR GAY" meme), begins and ends with internet-related sounds (the Yahoo! jingle and modem dial-up sounds, respectively).

* UrbanLegends: Invoked in "Ribs"—a mashup including Chili's "Baby Back ''Ribs''" and [[Music/MarilynManson Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People"]], subtly referencing [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/getting-waisted/ an enduring one about Manson]].