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** In his cover of Music/AllTimeLow's 'Something's Gotta Give,' his bassist Nikki references ''Film/BackToTheFuture.'' Dave also wears a flannel shirt tied around his waist like Alex Gaskarth did in every shot of the band in their music videos for their songs from ''Future Hearts.''

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** In his cover of Music/AllTimeLow's 'Something's Gotta Give,' his bassist Nikki references ''Film/BackToTheFuture.''Franchise/BackToTheFuture.'' Dave also wears a flannel shirt tied around his waist like Alex Gaskarth did in every shot of the band in their music videos for their songs from ''Future Hearts.''
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* AscendedFanboy: He's hung out with Music/{{Weezer}} and met Music/MileyCyrus.

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* {{Crossover}}: He's performed covers with Alex Goot, Music/TayZonday (who's hit song 'Chocolate Rain' was his first uploaded video to his channel), Rebecca Black, Megan Nicole, Kimmi Smiles, Jarrod Alonge, Tiffany Alvord, Chad Sugg, and others.

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* {{Crossover}}: He's performed covers with Alex Goot, Music/TayZonday (who's (whose hit song 'Chocolate Rain' was his first uploaded video to his channel), Rebecca Black, Megan Nicole, Kimmi Smiles, Jarrod Alonge, Tiffany Alvord, Chad Sugg, and others.



* IconicOutfit: In his first few years, his outfit was just a green polo shirt, a white hate, and jeans. Occasionally he'll wear them in his newer videos, but he's mostly ditched the look.

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* IconicOutfit: In his first few years, his outfit was just a green polo shirt, a white hate, hat, and jeans. Occasionally he'll wear them in his newer videos, but he's mostly ditched the look.



* MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad: The basis of his (very short) song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFWGYeu7CyY My Dad's Bigger Than Your Dad]]".



* TakeThat: His parody of Bruno Mars' 'That's What I Like' is a well-executed one towards Jake Paul, as well as other Website/YouTube vloggers and all of their tricks and stuff that they do in their videos, as they were fastly becoming the next [=YouTube=] fad at the time.
** An earlier example is his 'Fred Drives Me Crazy" song, which took a ''lot'' of shots at Fred.

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His parody of Bruno Mars' Music/BrunoMars's 'That's What I Like' is a well-executed one towards Jake Paul, as well as other Website/YouTube vloggers and all of their tricks and stuff that they do in their videos, as they were fastly becoming the next [=YouTube=] fad at the time.
** An earlier example is his 'Fred Drives Me Crazy" song, which took a ''lot'' of shots at Fred.WebVideo/{{Fred}}.
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** Another ''Back to the Future'' reference comes in in his song, 'All My Life' with the use of "Where we're going, we don't need roads."

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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/800px_dave_days_by_gage_skidmore.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350:You may know him for his obsessive crush on Miley Cyrus]]

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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/800px_dave_days_by_gage_skidmore.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350:You may know him for his obsessive crush on Miley Cyrus]]
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* FreakyFridayFlip: To celebrate the 10th anniversary of his first video obsessing over Miley Cyrus, he did a parody of 'Freaky Friday' by Lil Dicky where he and his cardboard Miley Cyrus (as Hannah Montana) standee switched bodies. At the end, she also switched bodies with his friend Chris.
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* TakeThat: His parody of Bruno Mars' 'That's What I Like' is a well-executed one towards Jake Paul, as well as other Website/YouTube vloggers and all of their tricks and stuff that they do in their videos, as they were fastly becoming the next [=YouTube=] fad at the time.

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* TakeThat: His parody of Bruno Mars' 'That's What I Like' is a well-executed one towards Jake Paul, as well as other Website/YouTube vloggers and all of their tricks and stuff that they do in their videos, as they were fastly becoming the next [=YouTube=] fad at the time.time.
** An earlier example is his 'Fred Drives Me Crazy" song, which took a ''lot'' of shots at Fred.
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* IconicOutfit: In his first few years, his outfit was just a green polo shirt, a white hate, and pants. Occasionally he'll wear them in his newer videos, but he's mostly ditched the look.

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* IconicOutfit: In his first few years, his outfit was just a green polo shirt, a white hate, and pants.jeans. Occasionally he'll wear them in his newer videos, but he's mostly ditched the look.
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He has released three EPs and several collections of his covers.

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He has released three EPs [=EPs=] and several collections of his covers.
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** In his cover of Music/AllTimeLow's 'Something's Gotta Give,' his bassist Nikki reference ''Film/BackToTheFuture.'' Dave also wears a flannel shirt tied around his waist like Alex Gaskarth did in every shot of the band in their music videos for their songs from ''Future Hearts.''

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** In his cover of Music/AllTimeLow's 'Something's Gotta Give,' his bassist Nikki reference references ''Film/BackToTheFuture.'' Dave also wears a flannel shirt tied around his waist like Alex Gaskarth did in every shot of the band in their music videos for their songs from ''Future Hearts.''
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** In his song 'Baddest,' Dave uses the line "blood's a big expense you have to pay," slightly paraphrasing a line from ''Film/TheGodfather.''
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* TakeThat: His parody of Bruno Mars' 'That's What I Like' is a well-executed one towards Jake Paul, as well as other YouTube vloggers and all of their tricks and stuff that they do in their videos, as they were fastly becoming the next YouTube fad at the time.

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* TakeThat: His parody of Bruno Mars' 'That's What I Like' is a well-executed one towards Jake Paul, as well as other YouTube Website/YouTube vloggers and all of their tricks and stuff that they do in their videos, as they were fastly becoming the next YouTube [=YouTube=] fad at the time.
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David Joseph Colditz (born August 13, 1991), better known as Dave Days, is a YouTube PopPunk artist who's also known for his comedic parody songs, first starting his career in 2007 in his home state of Pennsylvania, then moved out to LA after finishing high school to pursue music. He has both done many parodies of popular songs, straight-up covers of other songs, and his own original music. In 2011, he was a musical guest on an episode of ''Series/SoRandom'' and performed his then-recent single 'What Does it Take.'

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David Joseph Colditz (born August 13, 1991), better known as Dave Days, is a YouTube Website/YouTube PopPunk artist who's also known for his comedic parody songs, first starting his career in 2007 in his home state of Pennsylvania, then moved out to LA after finishing high school to pursue music. He has both done many parodies of popular songs, straight-up covers of other songs, and his own original music. In 2011, he was a musical guest on an episode of ''Series/SoRandom'' and performed his then-recent single 'What Does it Take.'



* CoverVersion: It's his main bread and butter, being a YouTube cover artist and all. He crosses this and {{Parody}} all the time. Even otherwise serious song covers have hilarious music videos.

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* CoverVersion: It's his main bread and butter, being a YouTube [=YouTube=] cover artist and all. He crosses this and {{Parody}} all the time. Even otherwise serious song covers have hilarious music videos.
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* MoodWhiplash: on his ''Pizza Ship'' [=EP=], he has 'Blacked Out,' then '3 A.M.', then 'Right For Me', which has a song about a relationship in peril a la Music/{{Lit}}'s 'My Own Worst Enemy', then a song about hooking up with a girl at 3 in the morning, then a song about a failed relationship that he regrets it failing. Switch those first 2 around and the [=EP=] flows a lot better as a whole.

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* MoodWhiplash: on his ''Pizza Ship'' [=EP=], he has 'Blacked Out,' then '3 A.M.', then 'Right For Me', which has a song about a relationship in peril a la Music/{{Lit}}'s 'My Own Worst Enemy', then a song about hooking up with a girl at 3 in the morning, then a song about a failed relationship that he regrets it failing. Switch those first 2 around and the [=EP=] flows a lot better as a whole.
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* MoodWhiplash: on his ''Pizza Ship'' [=EP=], he has 'Blacked Out,' then '3 A.M.', then 'Right For Me', which has a song about a relationship in peril a la Music/{{Lit}}'s 'My Own Worst Enemy', then a song about hooking up with a girl at 3 in the morning, then a song about a failed relationship that he regrets it failing. Switch those first 2 around and the [=EP=] flows a lot better as a whole.
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** He made a cover of the ''Series/That70sShow'' theme, as well as a skit parodying the show's famous scenes where the characters would sit in the basement of Eric's house, get high, and talk, complete with canned laughter and applause.

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** He made a cover of the ''Series/That70sShow'' theme, theme song and opening with a few other artists, as well as a skit parodying the show's famous scenes where the characters would sit in the basement of Eric's house, get high, and talk, complete with canned laughter and applause.applause. All for an announcement for his upcoming tour at the time too.
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* AscendedFanboy: He's hung out with Music/Weezer and met Miley Cyrus.

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* AscendedFanboy: He's hung out with Music/Weezer Music/{{Weezer}} and met Miley Cyrus.Music/MileyCyrus.



** In his video for 'Last Song', he had Music/MileyCyrus appear in it after years of making songs where he obsessed over her.

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** In his video for 'Last Song', he had Music/MileyCyrus Miley Cyrus appear in it after years of making songs where he obsessed over her.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Most likely the reason he put out a free download of his ''Pizza Shit'' EP before he put it on digital platforms.
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* ContinuityNod: His Miley Cyrus videos are pretty well connected.
** When he released 'Chelsea's Mom,' the video acts as a sequel to his 'I've Got A Crush On Hilary Clinton' song from 2008. Acknowledged in that he released the first song connected to it on iTunes.


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* DoingItForTheArt: Most likely the reason he put out a free download of his ''Pizza Shit'' EP before he put it on digital platforms.


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** His ''Pizza Ship'' EP's cover has a ship on it that resembles the ''U.S.S. Enterprise'' from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' on it.
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* PopPunk: It's his main style of music. He specifically cites Music/Blink182 as his initial inspiration with getting into learning how to play music, but you can also hear inspirations from other Pop Punk bands and even more Alternative Rock as he's gone one making music.

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* PopPunk: It's his main style of music. He specifically cites Music/Blink182 as his initial inspiration with getting into learning how to play music, but you can also hear inspirations from other Pop Punk bands and even more Alternative Rock as he's gone one on making music.
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* IconicOutfit: In his first few years, his outfit was just a green polo shirt, a white hate, and pants. Occasionally he'll wear them in his newer videos, but he's mostly ditched the look.
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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: His parody of Music/TaylorSwift's 'Look What You Made Me Do', despite being under fair use, was briefly blocked by her music label for a little bit when he uploaded the music video to YouTube, despite his previous covers of her being fine by them.
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* TakeThat: His parody of Bruno Mars' 'That's What I Like' is a well-executed one towards Jake Paul, as well as other YouTube vloggers and all of their tricks and stuff that they do in their videos.

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* TakeThat: His parody of Bruno Mars' 'That's What I Like' is a well-executed one towards Jake Paul, as well as other YouTube vloggers and all of their tricks and stuff that they do in their videos.videos, as they were fastly becoming the next YouTube fad at the time.
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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: His parody of Music/TaylorSwift's 'Look What You Made Me Do', despite being under fair use, was briefly blocked by her music label for a little bit when he uploaded the music video to YouTube, despite his previous covers of her being fine by them.



** In his cover of Music/AllTimeLow's 'Something's Gotta Give,' his bassist Nikki reference ''Film/BackToTheFuture.'' Dave also wears a flannel shirt tied around his waist like Alex Gaskarth did in every shot of the band in their music videos for their songs from ''Future Hearts.''

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** In his cover of Music/AllTimeLow's 'Something's Gotta Give,' his bassist Nikki reference ''Film/BackToTheFuture.'' Dave also wears a flannel shirt tied around his waist like Alex Gaskarth did in every shot of the band in their music videos for their songs from ''Future Hearts.''''
* TakeThat: His parody of Bruno Mars' 'That's What I Like' is a well-executed one towards Jake Paul, as well as other YouTube vloggers and all of their tricks and stuff that they do in their videos.
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* CoverVersion: It's his main bread and butter, being a YouTube cover artist and all. He crosses this and {{Parody}} all the time. Even otherwise serious song covers have hilarious music videos.



** In his cover of Music/AllTimeLow's 'Something's Gotta Give,' his bassist Nikki reference ''Film/BackToTheFuture.''

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** In his cover of Music/AllTimeLow's 'Something's Gotta Give,' his bassist Nikki reference ''Film/BackToTheFuture.'' Dave also wears a flannel shirt tied around his waist like Alex Gaskarth did in every shot of the band in their music videos for their songs from ''Future Hearts.''
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* {{Crossover}}: He's performed covers with Alex Goot, Music/TayZonday (who's hit song 'Chocolate Rain' was his first uploaded video to his channel), Rebecca Black, Megan Nicole, Kimmi Smiles, Jarrod Alonge, Tiffany Alvord, and others.

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* {{Crossover}}: He's performed covers with Alex Goot, Music/TayZonday (who's hit song 'Chocolate Rain' was his first uploaded video to his channel), Rebecca Black, Megan Nicole, Kimmi Smiles, Jarrod Alonge, Tiffany Alvord, Chad Sugg, and others.
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** He also did a video with Larry King for his 5th year anniversary video.
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David Joseph Colditz (born August 13, 1991), better known as Dave Days, is a YouTube PopPunk artist who's also known for his comedic parody songs, first starting his career in 2007 in his home state of Pennsylvania, then moved out to LA after finishing high school to pursue music. He has both done many parodies of popular songs, straight-up covers of other songs, and his own original music. In 2011, he was the musical guest on ''Series/SoRandom'' and performed his then-recent single 'What Does it Take.'

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David Joseph Colditz (born August 13, 1991), better known as Dave Days, is a YouTube PopPunk artist who's also known for his comedic parody songs, first starting his career in 2007 in his home state of Pennsylvania, then moved out to LA after finishing high school to pursue music. He has both done many parodies of popular songs, straight-up covers of other songs, and his own original music. In 2011, he was the a musical guest on an episode of ''Series/SoRandom'' and performed his then-recent single 'What Does it Take.'
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/800px_dave_days_by_gage_skidmore.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350:You may know him for his obsessive crush on Miley Cyrus]]

David Joseph Colditz (born August 13, 1991), better known as Dave Days, is a YouTube PopPunk artist who's also known for his comedic parody songs, first starting his career in 2007 in his home state of Pennsylvania, then moved out to LA after finishing high school to pursue music. He has both done many parodies of popular songs, straight-up covers of other songs, and his own original music. In 2011, he was the musical guest on ''Series/SoRandom'' and performed his then-recent single 'What Does it Take.'

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/davedays His YouTube channel can be found here]].

He has released three EPs and several collections of his covers.

!! Discography
* ''The Dave Days Show'' (2009)
* ''Imma Be Down With Fireflies Baby'' (2010) (EP)
* ''Dinner and a Movie'' (2010) (EP)
* ''We're Just Kids'' (2012) (EP)
* ''Boy You'll Forget'' (2013) (Acoustic collection of some of his older songs)
* ''The Dave Days of Christmas'' (2014)
* ''Pizza Ship'' (2015) (EP)
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* AscendedFanboy: He's hung out with Music/Weezer and met Miley Cyrus.
* {{Crossover}}: He's performed covers with Alex Goot, Music/TayZonday (who's hit song 'Chocolate Rain' was his first uploaded video to his channel), Rebecca Black, Megan Nicole, Kimmi Smiles, Jarrod Alonge, Tiffany Alvord, and others.
** In his video for 'Last Song', he had Music/MileyCyrus appear in it after years of making songs where he obsessed over her.
* PopPunk: It's his main style of music. He specifically cites Music/Blink182 as his initial inspiration with getting into learning how to play music, but you can also hear inspirations from other Pop Punk bands and even more Alternative Rock as he's gone one making music.
* ShoutOut: His first album, ''The Dave Days Show's'' cover and name are ones to Music/{{Eminem}}'s ''The Eminem Show.''
** He made a cover of the ''Series/That70sShow'' theme, as well as a skit parodying the show's famous scenes where the characters would sit in the basement of Eric's house, get high, and talk, complete with canned laughter and applause.
** In his cover of Music/AllTimeLow's 'Something's Gotta Give,' his bassist Nikki reference ''Film/BackToTheFuture.''

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