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* AlliterativeTitle: '''''G'''ood '''G'''rief''.
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* ShoutOut: "Skulls" has the singer compare himself to Franchise/IndianaJones exploring a tomb at one point.

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* TheAlcoholic: The main character of "Icarus".
-->''"Look who's digging their own grave,"\\
That is what they all say\\
"You'll drink yourself to death"''

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* TheAlcoholic: The main character of "Icarus".
-->''"Look who's digging their own grave,"\\
That is what they all say\\
"Icarus" has a drinking problem, with others commenting that "You'll drink yourself to death"''death".



* BilingualBonus: the chant of "e-eheu, eheu" in the background of "Pompeii". The Latin "eheu" (pronounced '' '''e'''-hoo'' or '' '''e'''-hyoo'', more or less as it is in the background of the song) translates as "alas" or "oh no", making the chant "oh, oh no, oh no". Fitting for a reference to the fall of Pompeii.

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* BilingualBonus: the The chant of "e-eheu, eheu" in the background of "Pompeii". The Latin "eheu" (pronounced '' '''e'''-hoo'' or '' '''e'''-hyoo'', more or less as it is in the background of the song) translates as "alas" or "oh no", making the chant "oh, oh no, oh no". Fitting for a reference to the fall of Pompeii.



* CoverVersion: "Of the Night" is a cover ''mashup'', where the band puts Snap!'s "Rhythm is a Dancer" and Corona's "Rhythm of the Night" together into one huge cover song.

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* CoverVersion: CoverVersion:
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"Of the Night" is a cover ''mashup'', where the band puts Snap!'s "Rhythm is a Dancer" and Corona's "Rhythm of the Night" together into one huge cover song.



* GrowOldWithMe: "Laughter Lines" is about a couple vowing to stay together until they're both old; it's pretty heartwarming.
-->''"Cross my heart and hope to die\\
I'll see you with your laughter lines"''
* IntercourseWithYou: "Oil On Water".

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* GrowOldWithMe: "Laughter Lines" is about a couple vowing to stay together until they're both old; it's pretty heartwarming.
-->''"Cross my heart
old and hope to die\\
I'll see you
wrinkled with your the titular laughter lines"''
* IntercourseWithYou: "Oil On Water".
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* MeetTheNewBoss[=/=]FullCircleRevolution: From "Daniel In the Den"
-->''And for every king that died\\
Oh they would crown another''

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* MeetTheNewBoss[=/=]FullCircleRevolution: From In "Daniel In the Den"
-->''And for every
Den", the death of the king that died\\
Oh they would crown another''
and the crowning of a new one is viewed as a continuation of what came before with no real change.



* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer", "Poet", "Sleepsong", "Good Grief".

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* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer", "Poet", "Sleepsong", and "Good Grief".Grief" have titles that never appear in the songs themselves.



* TogetherInDeath: "Skulls".

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* TogetherInDeath: "Skulls"."Skulls" is about the singer wanting to be buried with the person he's in love with, saying that they'll go to the afterlife together.
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* GreenEyedMonster: "Send Them Off!" parallels jealousy to a demonic possession. According to the band itself, the song could be best described as "''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' meets ''Film/TheExorcist''".


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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Pompeii" is about the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, with the narrator trying to find cover from the impending disaster.
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* ConceptVideo: "Of the Night"'s video details a homicide detective visiting several bloody crime scenes.
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* CoverVersion: Music/MileyCyrus' "We Can't Stop" and City High's "What Would You Do?"

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* CoverVersion: "Of the Night" is a cover ''mashup'', where the band puts Snap!'s "Rhythm is a Dancer" and Corona's "Rhythm of the Night" together into one huge cover song.
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Music/MileyCyrus' "We Can't Stop" and City High's "What Would You Do?"
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* IntercourseWithYou: "Oil On Water".
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Their first album, ''Bad Blood'', was released in 2013, though they had gotten considerable attention before that for their EP ''Laura Palmer''.

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Their first album, ''Bad Blood'', was released in 2013, though they had gotten considerable attention before that for their EP ''Laura Palmer''.
Palmer''. Their sophomore album, ''Wild World'', was released in 2016.
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'''Bastille''' ([[LuckyCharmsTitle sometimes spelled with a triangle]]) is an indie rock band, currently consisting of Dan Smith (vocals), Kyle Simmons (keyboard), Will Farquarson (bass), and Chris "Woody" Wood (drums). It was formed by Smith as a solo project in 2010, in London.

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'''Bastille''' Bastille ([[LuckyCharmsTitle sometimes spelled with a triangle]]) is an indie rock band, currently consisting of Dan Smith (vocals), Kyle Simmons (keyboard), Will Farquarson (bass), and Chris "Woody" Wood (drums). It was formed by Smith as a solo project in 2010, in London.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Most people would agree that this is trope that fits to all members of the band, especially leadsinger Dan Smith.



* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The music video for "Pompeii"

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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The music video for "Pompeii""Pompeii", which ends with the main character becoming one of the zombie-beings he'd spent the whole video fleeing from.



* BlackEyesOfEvil: In the music video for "Pompeii", the zombies' eyes are pure black; this is the only thing that distinguishes them from humans.



* FalseFriend

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* FalseFriendFalseFriend: From "Daniel In the Den"



* MeetTheNewBoss[=/=]FullCircleRevolution

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* MeetTheNewBoss[=/=]FullCircleRevolutionMeetTheNewBoss[=/=]FullCircleRevolution: From "Daniel In the Den"



* NoSympathyForGrudgeholders:

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* NoSympathyForGrudgeholders:NoSympathyForGrudgeholders: From "Bad Blood"
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* LyricalDissonance: "Good Grief", which is an upbeat song about a guy mourning a friend's death.

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* LyricalDissonance: "Good Grief", which is an upbeat song about a guy mourning a friend's loved one's death.
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* CoverVersion: Music/MileyCyrus' "We Can't Stop"

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* CoverVersion: Music/MileyCyrus' "We Can't Stop"Stop" and City High's "What Would You Do?"



* LyricalDissonance

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* LyricalDissonanceLyricalDissonance: "Good Grief", which is an upbeat song about a guy mourning a friend's death.



* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer", "Poet", "Sleepsong".

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* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer", "Poet", "Sleepsong"."Sleepsong", "Good Grief".



* TheSacredDarkness: "Tuning Out...", which is about the night of Jesus's birth.

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* TheSacredDarkness: "Tuning Out...", which is about the night of Jesus's Jesus' birth.
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* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer", "Poet", "Sleepsong"

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* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer", "Poet", "Sleepsong""Sleepsong".



* SurrealMusicVideo: "Pompeii", "Torn Apart", "Of the Night"
* TogetherInDeath: "Skulls"

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* SurrealMusicVideo: "Pompeii", "Torn Apart", "Of the Night"
Night", "Good Grief".
* TogetherInDeath: "Skulls""Skulls".

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* TheAlcoholic: The main character of "Icarus".
-->''"Look who's digging their own grave,"\\
That is what they all say\\
"You'll drink yourself to death"''



* DestructiveRomance: "Flaws" and "Get Home".
* FalseFriend
-->''And felled in the night\\
By the ones you think you love''
* GrowOldWithMe: "Laughter Lines" is about a couple vowing to stay together until they're both old; it's pretty heartwarming.
-->''"Cross my heart and hope to die\\
I'll see you with your laughter lines"''
* IronicName: "Overjoyed", which is about watching a friend struggling with depression and being unable to do anything but try to talk to them.



* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer", "Poet"
* SurrealMusicVideo: "Pompeii", "Torn Apart", "Of the Night"

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* MeetTheNewBoss[=/=]FullCircleRevolution
-->''And for every king that died\\
Oh they would crown another''
* MultiPartEpisode: Well, multi-part ''song'': "The Weight Of Living", Parts 1 and 2.
* NoSympathyForGrudgeholders:
-->''All this bad blood here\\
Won't you let it lie?\\
It's been cold for years\\
Won't you let it dry?''
* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer", "Poet"
"Poet", "Sleepsong"
* ObsessionSong: "Poet" is a downplayed one; while it mentions that obsession "eats me whole", the singer is content to merely write about their love and devotion rather than act on their feelings or try to force the subject to requite them.
* TheSacredDarkness: "Tuning Out...", which is about the night of Jesus's birth.
* SurrealMusicVideo: "Pompeii", "Torn Apart", "Of the Night"Night"
* TogetherInDeath: "Skulls"
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* {{Adorkable}}: Most people would agree that this is trope that fits to all members of the band, especially leadsinger Dan Smith.
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** Most of the songs in the "Other People's Heartache" mix tapes are covers of other songs, some of them remixed to also feature parts of Bastille's own songs.
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* SurrealMusicVideo: "Pompeii", "Torn Apart"

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* SurrealMusicVideo: "Pompeii", "Torn Apart"Apart", "Of the Night"

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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: the music video for "Pompeii"

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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: the The music video for "Pompeii"


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* CoverVersion: Music/MileyCyrus' "We Can't Stop"
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* BilingualBonus: the chant of "e-eheu, eheu" in the background of "Pompeii". The Latin "eheu" (pronounced more or less as it is in the background of the song) translates as "alas" or "oh no", making the chant "oh, oh no, oh no". Fitting for a reference to the fall of Pompeii.

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* BilingualBonus: the chant of "e-eheu, eheu" in the background of "Pompeii". The Latin "eheu" (pronounced '' '''e'''-hoo'' or '' '''e'''-hyoo'', more or less as it is in the background of the song) translates as "alas" or "oh no", making the chant "oh, oh no, oh no". Fitting for a reference to the fall of Pompeii.
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* BilingualBonus: the chant of "e-eheu, eheu" in the background of "Pompeii". The Latin "eheu" translates as "alas" or "oh no", making the chant "oh, oh no, oh no". Fitting for a reference to the fall of Pompeii.

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* BilingualBonus: the chant of "e-eheu, eheu" in the background of "Pompeii". The Latin "eheu" (pronounced more or less as it is in the background of the song) translates as "alas" or "oh no", making the chant "oh, oh no, oh no". Fitting for a reference to the fall of Pompeii.
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* BilingualBonus: the chant of "e-eheu, eheu" in the background of "Pompeii". The Latin "eheu" translates as "alas" or "oh no", making the chant "oh, oh no, oh no". Fitting for a reference to the fall of Pompeii.
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* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer"

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* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer"Palmer", "Poet"
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* AndThenJohnWasaZombie: the music video for "Pompeii"

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* AndThenJohnWasaZombie: AndThenJohnWasAZombie: the music video for "Pompeii"
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* AndThenJohnWasaZombie: the music video for "Pompeii"
* LyricalDissonance
* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer"
* SurrealMusicVideo: "Pompeii", "Torn Apart"
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'''Bastille''' ([[LuckyCharmsTitle sometimes spelled with a triangle]]), is an indie rock band, currently consisting of Dan Smith (vocals), Kyle Simmons (keyboard), Will Farquarson (bass), and Chris "Woody" Wood (drums). It was formed by Smith as a solo project in 2010, in London.


Their first album, ''Bad Blood'', was released in 2012, though they had gotten considerable attention before that for their EP ''Laura Palmer''.

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'''Bastille''' ([[LuckyCharmsTitle sometimes spelled with a triangle]]), triangle]]) is an indie rock band, currently consisting of Dan Smith (vocals), Kyle Simmons (keyboard), Will Farquarson (bass), and Chris "Woody" Wood (drums). It was formed by Smith as a solo project in 2010, in London. \n\n\n

Their first album, ''Bad Blood'', was released in 2012, 2013, though they had gotten considerable attention before that for their EP ''Laura Palmer''.
Palmer''.
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Their first album, ''Bad Blood'', was released in 2012, though they had gotten considerable attention before that for their EP ''Laura Palmer''. (The title track was recorded in [[SpeakingSimlish Simlish]]. Yeah, [[TheSims3 THAT]] simlish.

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Their first album, ''Bad Blood'', was released in 2012, though they had gotten considerable attention before that for their EP ''Laura Palmer''. (The title track was recorded in [[SpeakingSimlish Simlish]]. Yeah, [[TheSims3 THAT]] simlish.\n
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'''Bastille''' ([[LuckyCharmsTitle sometimes spelled with a triangle]]), is an indie rock band, currently consisting of Dan Smith (vocals), Kyle Simmons (keyboard), Will Farquarson (bass), and Chris "Woody" Wood (drums). It was formed by Smith as a solo project in 2010, in London.


Their first album, ''Bad Blood'', was released in 2012, though they had gotten considerable attention before that for their EP ''Laura Palmer''. (The title track was recorded in [[SpeakingSimlish Simlish]]. Yeah, [[TheSims3 THAT]] simlish.

!!Tropes associated with Bastille include:

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