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* {{Anaphora}}: "You Make Me" has several lines that begin with the title:

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* {{Anaphora}}: Most of the lines in "You Make Me" has several lines that begin with the song's title:
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* PosthumousNarration: "Melanie".

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* PosthumousNarration: "Melanie"."Melanie" ends with the singer revealing that he jumped to his death after Melanie rejected him, but isn't going to let a little thing like being deceased keep him from continuing to stalk his object of affection.

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* LyricalDissonance: "Good Old Days", a Music/JamesTaylor-esque folk ballad about childhood. However, this particular childhood involved torturing rats with hacksaws, burning down a corner store and brutally beating the shop owner, and taking a girl from highschool to a dance, and then abducting her, shaving her bald, and abandoning her in the desert tied to a chair. Al has said the song was an attempt to write a collaboration between Taylor and UsefulNotes/CharlesManson.

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"Good Old Days", a Music/JamesTaylor-esque folk ballad about childhood. However, this particular childhood involved torturing rats with hacksaws, burning down a corner store and brutally beating the shop owner, and taking a girl from highschool to a dance, and then abducting her, shaving her bald, and abandoning her in the desert tied to a chair. Al has said the song was an attempt to write a collaboration between Taylor and UsefulNotes/CharlesManson.
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** "Stuck In The Closet With Vanna White" - Music/VanHalen and Music/Aerosmith

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** "Stuck In The Closet With Vanna White" - Music/VanHalen and Music/AerosmithMusic/{{Aerosmith}}
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** "Stuck In The Closet With Vanna White" - Music/VanHalen

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** "Stuck In The Closet With Vanna White" - Music/VanHalenMusic/VanHalen and Music/Aerosmith
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I know I could find a good rhyme here'' [[note]] Probably a rip on the parodied song rhyming the word "it" with ..."it."[[/note]]

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I know I could find a good rhyme here'' [[note]] Probably [[note]]Probably a rip on the parodied song rhyming the word "it" with ..."it."[[/note]]
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per TRS; ZCE


* CloningBlues: The subject of "I Think I'm A Clone Now".
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* LyricalDissonance: "Good Old Days", a Music/JamesTaylor-esque folk ballad about childhood. However, this particular childhood involved torturing rats with hacksaws, burning down a corner store and brutally beating the shop owner, and taking a girl from highschool to a dance, and then shaving her bald and abandoning her in the desert tied to a chair. Al has said the song was an attempt to write a collaboration between Taylor and UsefulNotes/CharlesManson.

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* LyricalDissonance: "Good Old Days", a Music/JamesTaylor-esque folk ballad about childhood. However, this particular childhood involved torturing rats with hacksaws, burning down a corner store and brutally beating the shop owner, and taking a girl from highschool to a dance, and then abducting her, shaving her bald bald, and abandoning her in the desert tied to a chair. Al has said the song was an attempt to write a collaboration between Taylor and UsefulNotes/CharlesManson.
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''Even Worse'' is the fifth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 1988 through Rock 'n' Roll Records in North America and Scotti Bros. Records in Europe. It is notably Weird Al's best selling album to date. The album was seen as a return to form for Al, both critically and commercially, after ''Music/PolkaParty'' had put his career in a bit of a slump.

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''Even Worse'' is the fifth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 1988 through Rock 'n' Roll Records in North America and Scotti Bros. Records in Europe. It is notably Weird Al's best selling best-selling album to date. The album date, and was seen as a return to form for Al, him both critically and commercially, commercially after ''Music/PolkaParty'' his previous album, ''Music/PolkaParty'', had put his career in a bit of a slump.
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[[caption-width-right:348:Think you're Music/{{Bad}}, Music/{{Michael|Jackson}}?]]

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[[caption-width-right:348:Think you're Music/{{Bad}}, Music/{{bad}}, Music/{{Michael|Jackson}}?]]
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* ShoutOut: According to "Fat", Al's shadow weighs 42 pounds, a possible reference to ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.

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* ShoutOut: According to "Fat", Al's shadow weighs 42 pounds, a possible reference to ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. He also eats twenty-thirds when others are having seconds, another possible reference to ''Literature/TheIlluminatusTrilogy''.
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* BigEater: "Fat" is sung from the perspective of one.

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* BigEater: "Fat" is sung from the perspective of one. One lyric mentions, "When you're only having seconds, I'm having 23rds."
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* FatComicRelief: Considering the nature of Al's parodies, ''everyone'' in the music video is this.

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* FatComicRelief: Considering the nature of Al's parodies, ''everyone'' in the music video for "Fat" is this.

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** FatComicRelief: Considering the nature of Al's parodies, ''everyone'' in the music video is this.

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** * FatComicRelief: Considering the nature of Al's parodies, ''everyone'' in the music video is this.


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* HowIWroteThisArticleArticle: "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" is about this, with Music/WeirdAlYankovic spouting verse about how he can't think of any lyrics, so he'll just repeat old ones.
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''Even Worse'' is the fifth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 1988. It is notably Weird Al's best selling album to date. The album was seen as a return to form for Al, both critically and commercially, after ''Music/PolkaParty'' had put his career in a bit of a slump.

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''Even Worse'' is the fifth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 1988.1988 through Rock 'n' Roll Records in North America and Scotti Bros. Records in Europe. It is notably Weird Al's best selling album to date. The album was seen as a return to form for Al, both critically and commercially, after ''Music/PolkaParty'' had put his career in a bit of a slump.
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''Even Worse'' is the fifth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 1988. It is notably Weird Al's best selling album to date. The album was seen as a return to form for Al, both critically and commercially, after ''Polka Party!'' had put his career in a bit of a slump.

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''Even Worse'' is the fifth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 1988. It is notably Weird Al's best selling album to date. The album was seen as a return to form for Al, both critically and commercially, after ''Polka Party!'' ''Music/PolkaParty'' had put his career in a bit of a slump.
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** "Melanie" is about stalking a woman he barely knows, ending with him killing himself

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** "Melanie" is about stalking a woman he barely knows, ending with him killing himselfhimself.



** "Melanie", a mellow pop rock song about a stalker who peeps at the titular woman through her bathroom window and does multiple creepy things like sifting through her garbage, giving her cat a mohawk, and tattooing her name across her forehead before finally [[DrivenToSuicide jumping off the floor of his apartment's sixteen-story window after she rejects him.]]

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** "Melanie", a mellow pop rock song about a stalker who peeps at the titular woman through her bathroom window and does multiple creepy things like sifting through her garbage, giving her cat a mohawk, and tattooing her name across her his forehead before finally [[DrivenToSuicide jumping off the floor of his apartment's sixteen-story window after she rejects him.]]
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** "Melanie", a mellow pop rock song about a stalker who peeps at the titular woman through her bathroom window and does multiple creepy things like sifting through her garbage, giving her cat a mohawk, and tattooing her name across her forehead before finally [[DrivenToSuicide jumping off the floor of his apartment's sixteen-story window.]]

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** "Melanie", a mellow pop rock song about a stalker who peeps at the titular woman through her bathroom window and does multiple creepy things like sifting through her garbage, giving her cat a mohawk, and tattooing her name across her forehead before finally [[DrivenToSuicide jumping off the floor of his apartment's sixteen-story window.window after she rejects him.]]
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** "Melanie", a mellow pop rock song about a stalker who peeps at the titular woman through her bathroom window and does multiple creepy things like sifting through her garbage, giving her cat a mohawk, and tattooing her name across her forehead before finally [[DrivenToSuicide jumping off the floor of his apartment's sixteen-story window.]]
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-->'''You make me''' wanna slam my head against the wall
-->'''You make me''' do the limbo
-->'''You make me''' wanna buy a slurpee at the mall
-->'''You make me''' watch ''Series/TheGongShow''

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-->'''You make me''' wanna slam my head against the wall
-->'''You
wall\\
'''You
make me''' do the limbo
-->'''You
limbo\\
'''You
make me''' wanna buy a slurpee at the mall
-->'''You
mall\\
'''You
make me''' watch ''Series/TheGongShow''



** “Good Old Days” is a sentimental reminiscence from the POV of a literal psychopath.
** “Melanie” is about stalking a woman he barely knows, ending with him killing himself

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** “Good "Good Old Days” Days" is a sentimental reminiscence from the POV of a literal psychopath.
** “Melanie” "Melanie" is about stalking a woman he barely knows, ending with him killing himself



* ComedicSociopathy: “Good Old Days”.

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* ComedicSociopathy: “Good "Good Old Days”.Days", which has the narrator nostalgically reminiscence about his adolescence, where he tortured animals, and committed arson, assault, and kidnapping.
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* TooManyBelts: One of the parodic elements of the cover is how Al's jacket has even more belts than Michael Jackson's in ''Music/{{Bad}}''. The single for "Fat" has them popping as his BalloonBelly inflates.
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** FatComicRelief: Considering the nature of Al's parodies, ''everyone'' in the music video is this.
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* {{Anaphora}}: "You Make Me" has several lines that begin with the title:
-->'''You make me''' wanna slam my head against the wall
-->'''You make me''' do the limbo
-->'''You make me''' wanna buy a slurpee at the mall
-->'''You make me''' watch ''Series/TheGongShow''
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* MoneyDearBoy[[invoked]]: In-song reason for making "(This Song’s Just) Six Words Long", which may be [[TakeThat a shot at]] the writers of the original, "Got My Mind Set on You".
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''Even Worse'' is the fifth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 1988. It is notably Weird Al's best selling album to date.

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''Even Worse'' is the fifth studio album by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, released in 1988. It is notably Weird Al's best selling album to date.
date. The album was seen as a return to form for Al, both critically and commercially, after ''Polka Party!'' had put his career in a bit of a slump.

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