History Literature / AudreyWait

* AccidentalHero: Sort of. While inspiring a catchy song is hardly ''heroic'', the media still plays it up for all it’s worth.

* FaceOfTheBand: {{Invoked}} in universe - It's implied that Evan (being the singer) is the face associated with their name. Plus, Simon (singer of The Lolitas) is the one that gets Audrey tangled in her second media scandal.

* InherentlyFunnyWords: The Slogan for Audrey's job. Just try saying "Scooper Dooper" without cracking a dumb grin.
* {{Jerkass}}: Simon. [[spoiler: He was only interested in Audrey at first because kissing her would increase his own publicity... even though he admits he did kinda like her later on.]] He's still portrayed as a villain despite this.

* LetsJustBeFriends: Only took the author 3 pages to bring it up for Evan and Audrey.
* LifeOfTheParty: In The Lolitas back stage after party, it's Audrey that gets everybody dancing when she puts on a playlist. This also contributes to Simon's interest in her.
* LoveEpiphany: "love" might be a bit strong, but James has his during Audrey’s first shift at work after he tells her it’s against the rules to change the radio station, but she goes ahead and does it anyway (and sings along with ''every song'' for hours). Audrey has hers when he helps her out of her meltdown after hearing "Audrey, Wait!" on said radio later on.

--> "Hey," I said casually. "Bendomolena's on fire."
--> "Cool. So yeah, Jon wants to do a drum solo and we were like, 'Dude, ''no''!'"

* TestingTheLoveInterest: James claims that he doesn’t want to pick the movies because he always feels like the girls are testing him when they ask him to do this.

* EarWorm: "[[TitleDrop Audrey, Wait!]]" is noted repeatedly to have become a worldwide sensation.

* WhenItAllBegan: When Evan performed ''The Song.''

* CelebrityIsOverrated: Pretty much the entire point of the novel (though to be fair, Audrey feels she didn’t do anything to deserve the fame).

* RealityEnsues: Pretty much the entire book is made of this trope. Inspiring a song is cool... until you realize the media will never leave you alone. Meeting celebrities and being in magazines is be fun... until the media catches you in a compromising position and paints you as a slut. Also, people in a bathroom stall who overhear something they shouldn't have will freeze in place and sit there, ''not'' confront the wrongdoers.

* {{Adorkable}}: James, full stop. Even Audrey, to an extent.
* AfraidOfBlood: Audrey's mom.

[[caption-width-right:198:It's the [[EarWorm song everyone's singing]].]]

[[caption-width-right:198:It's the [[EarWorm song everyone's singing]]]]

--> '''Audrey''': If there is any justice in the world, the first major meteorite to ever strike the Earth will score a direct hit on the Scooper Dooper.

It gets worse when Audrey gets a chance to go back stage at a concert with a favourite band of hers, where a short fling with a famous singer ends badly. Now the media is twisting the events to paint her as the next Britney Spears, and her phone/personal email flood with nasty accusations from the general public. Things continue to snowball from there as Audrey grapples to hold on to her friends and finally get the tabloid writers away from her and her family.

* [[AccidentalHero Accidental Heroine]]: Sort of. While inspiring a catchy song is hardly ''heroic'', the media still plays it up for all it’s worth.

* {{Ahem}}: The secretary does this a few times when Audrey’s [[spoiler: isolated from the rest of the school to minimise fame-related interruptions.]] Audrey tries to stretch out her bathroom visits and chats-through-the-window with friends as long as she can.
* AllFirstPersonNarratorsWriteLikeNovelists: {{Lampshaded}} throughout the book, usually by pointing out “PSAT words”. The lampshading even snuck into some dialogue:

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Averted. Neither James nor Evan are particularly “bad”, and the one bad boy [[spoiler: Simon]] only caught her attention because she thought he was nice at first.

* ApologeticAttacker: Audrey describes her experience with Taekwondo as ending poorly both because she gets giggle fits when she has to be serious (which happens a lot in martial arts) and because her mom was always apologising to the attack dummies.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Audrey's reasons for breaking up with Evan can be summarised as "He smokes too much pot, he's always 'practicing' or 'gigging, and he says 'gigging'".

* BathroomStallGraffiti: Stick figures labelled “Audrey” and “Simon” depicted in sexual positions along with the phrase “Audry sucks dik” (no, those aren’t typos).

* BeYourself: Amy’s advice just before Audrey goes on live, national TV is to “be herself”, even though she’s handing Audrey some cue cards that rehash words of hers that were already twisted by somebody else. [[BewareTheHonestOnes Audrey takes the advice to heart.]]

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* CannotTalkToWomen: James, at first, who comments that the store needs “more butter pecan” when Audrey first tried to make conversation with him.

** When Audrey asks James “What took him so long [to ask her out]?” James says Audrey was intimidating, and this was probably exasperated by her sudden ascension to fame.

* FifteenMinutesOfFame: This could safely be renamed “15 Minutes of Fame: The Novel”. It's hinted that Evan, the songwriter of "Audrey, Wait!" may not actually stick at 15 minutes since he's genuinely passionate about performing, but Audrey herself definitely embodies this trope (especially considering she didn't ''do'' anything).

* TheFriendNobodyLikes / CloudCuckooLander: Tizzy. Subverted in that ''Tizzy'' is the one to comfort Audrey when she's feeling completely alone by giving her a late Christmas gift, [[spoiler: but [[ZigZaggingTrope zig zagged]] when the gift turns out to be a shirt that says "I liked you better before you sold out" causing Audrey to burst into tears.]] Anyone's guess as to whether Tizzy intended for that or not.

* LoveEpiphany: “Love” might be a bit strong, but James has his during Audrey’s first shift at work after he tells her it’s against the rules to change the radio station, but she goes ahead and does it anyway (and sings along with ''every song'' for hours). Audrey has hers when he helps her out of her meltdown after hearing “Audrey, Wait!” on said radio later on.

* OhCrap: The scene where Victoria realises Evan's going to perform the at-the-time-unknown BreakupSong. It gets worse when the school, the local town and eventually half the known world ''loves it.''

* PoorCommunicationKills: If Evan had been more insistent on getting Audrey to wait by saying something other than “Audrey, Wait!” the whole story never would have happened.

* RealityEnsues: Oh, you think inspiring a song would be cool? Wrong, now the media will never leave you alone! Think meeting celebrities and being in magazines would be fun? Wrong, now everyone thinks you're a slut! Think book characters who overheard something they shouldn't have in that bathroom stall should've done something instead of freezing up? Let's see you try it!

* ThinkNothingOfIt: Audrey tries from the very beginning to play down her supposed “contribution” to ‘’The Song.’’