History Music / GenghisKhan

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“Genghis Khan” is a 2016 song and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E video]] written, produced and performed by Swedish indie pop trio Miike Snow and distributed by Creator/AtlanticRecords. The song is a catchy pop number about jealousy and ambivalence in a romantic relationship. The [[ConceptVideo video]], however, is a four-minute homoerotic tribute to TuxedoAndMartini spy movies.

Not to be confused with Music/DschinghisKhan.
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!! Tropes:
* AffectionateParody: Of campy SpyFiction.
* AntiVillain: The supervillain protagonist, possibly. The audience never sees him actually accomplish anything evil on-screen, at least.
* BaldOfEvil: The VillainProtagonist is bald.
* {{Camp}}: The video is loaded with it.
* ConceptVideo: The video is a tribute to martini-flavored SpyFiction.
* DanceOfRomance
* DatingCatwoman: From the villain's point of view.
* FoeRomanticSubtext: Not that obvious at first but takes a flying leap towards the end.
* [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Daddies]]: The supervillain's two children are seen happily living with him and the secret agent at the end.
* LargeHam: The supervillain has a flair for the dramatic.
* LyricsVideoMismatch: The video and lyrics are both about complicated feelings around a romantic relationship, but the narrator of the song is concerned with feeling jealousy toward his female partner while not necessarily wanting a stronger commitment, while the video is about the protagonist accepting his homosexuality and beginning a relationship with his former enemy.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: A light 2.
* NoNameGiven: All the characters.
* NonIndicativeName: Neither the song lyrics nor the video have anything to do with Mongolian warlords. Genghis Khan is used as an odd metaphor for [[GreenEyedMonster obsessive jealousy]].
* ObviouslyEvil: How do we know that the protagonist is a supervillain and not a perfectly respectable government operative dealing with a troublesome saboteur? Because he's completely bald, has a metal prosthetic nose, struts around in a military-style jacket with a HighCollarOfDoom, has a lair staffed by identically dressed minions, and attempts to execute people in high-tech but inefficient ways involving lasers.
* PunchClockVillain: Literally. The supervillain has the secret agent StrappedToAnOperatingTable with a giant laser pointed at him ready to fire at the push of a button. Then the clock strikes 5:00 and he immediately drops everything and goes home for the day, leaving the secret agent there until the next morning.
* RedRightHand: The supervillain's prosthetic metal nose, in classic Bond villain tradition.
* RetiredMonster: The supervillain appears to retire from villainy after getting together with the secret agent, since his wife appears to have taken over his lair in TheStinger.
* TheStinger: The supervillain's (ex-)wife is shown in the supervillain's lair, dressed in supervillain attire of her own, jealously spying on the two lovers through a monitor.
* StraightGay: The supervillain protagonist. He can be a bit flamboyant in a LargeHam sort of way but he's not at all feminine. The secret agent as well, if he isn't bi.
* TuxedoAndMartini: The secret agent.
* VillainLoveSong
* VillainProtagonist: The supervillain is the POV character of the video.
* WomanScorned: The supervillain's wife did ''not'' take the breakup well, and becomes a supervillain herself bent on revenge against her now ex-husband.

* BaldOfEvil: The VillainProtagonist is bold.

* BaldOfEvil: The protagonist.

* IndiePop

* NonIndicativeName: Neither the song lyrics nor the video have anything to do with Mongolian warlords.

''Genghis Khan'' is a 2016 song and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E video]] by Swedish indie pop trio Miike Snow. The song is a catchy pop number about jealousy and ambivalence in a romantic relationship. The [[ConceptVideo video]], however, is a four-minute homoerotic tribute to TuxedoAndMartini spy movies.

* PunchClockVillain: Literally. The supervillain goes home to his family at five o'clock even if he's in the middle of an execution.
* RedRightHand: The supervillain's prosthetic metal nose, in classic Bond villain tradition.
* TheStinger: The supervillain's wife, who evidently didn't take the breakup well.

* VillainProtagonist: The supervillain is the POV character of the movie.
* WomanScorned: The supervillain's wife is shown at the end decked out in her own villain attire and watching the two lovers jealously.

''Genghis Khan'' is a 2016 song and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E video]] by the band Miike Snow. The song is a catchy pop number about jealousy and ambivalence in a romantic relationship. The [[ConceptVideo video]], however, is a four-minute homoerotic tribute to TuxedoAndMartini spy movies.

* HasTwoDaddies: The supervillain's two children are seen happily living with him and the secret agent at the end.

* TheStinger

* VillainProtagonist: The supervillain is the POV character of the movie.

* FoeRomanticSubtext: Not that obvious at first but hates a flying leap towards the end.

Not to be confused with Music/DschingisKhan.

* LyricsVideoMismatch: The video and lyrics are both about complicated feelings around a romantic relationship, but the narrator of the song is concerned with feeling jealousy toward his female partner while not necessarily wanting a stronger commitment, while the video is about the narrator accepting his homosexuality and beginning a relationship with his former enemy.