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* AspectRatioSwitch: Played with in the music video for "RUNAWAY". Because the walls slowly close in throughout, the video begins in standard 16:9 but becomes something similar to 2:3 by the end.


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* DoubleDoubleTitle: "ok ok?"
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* LovingAShadow: "Did I Make You Up?" is all about Josh realizing that the idea of the person he'd been in love with didn't exactly match up with reality.
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* AllCaps: "BREAKFAST" and "RUNAWAY" from ''Now, Not Yet'' and "TIME 2".


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* CapsLock: "BREAKFAST" and "RUNAWAY" from ''Now, Not Yet'' and "TIME 2".

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* ''At Fingerprints (Acoustic)'' (2024)



* AirGuitar: Prominent in the choreography for "Subliminal".



** A couple embraces for the final time and feels a lifetime's worth of memories in an instant, including the unconscious factors that both bring them together and pull them apart.

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** "Subliminal": A couple embraces for the final time and feels a lifetime's worth of memories in an instant, including the unconscious factors that both bring them together and pull them apart.



* {{Irony}}: They wrote the FadeOut to "still feel" to be as long as possible so it'd be unplayable on the radio. [[SpringtimeForHitler Guess what happened.]]

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* {{Irony}}: They wrote the FadeOut to "still feel" feel." to be as long as possible so it'd be unplayable on the radio. [[SpringtimeForHitler Guess what happened.]]



* LiveAlbum: ''LIVE FROM CHICAGO'' features four songs from the ''Conditions of a Punk'' tour.

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* LiveAlbum: LiveAlbum:
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''LIVE FROM CHICAGO'' features four songs from the ''Conditions of a Punk'' tour.tour.
** ''At Fingerprints (Acoustic)'' features another four songs from an intimate event at Fingerprints Music in Long Beach, California.



* NewhartPhoneCall: Josh Tyler was planning on scripting and recording a fictional Newhart Phone Call as a brief non-musical interlude on the ''Now, Not Yet,'' album. This was because "Maybe" ended with a synthesizer trill that resembled a telephone ring. Then their choreographer Jordan Johnson played a voicemail where model Liz Ord expressed her surprise at [[spoiler: the band being young Christians touring in an increasingly nonreligious UK]], requesting that it be sampled in a song at some point. Tyler realized the voicemail was better than anything he could have written, and it became "The Notion."

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* NewhartPhoneCall: Josh Tyler Taylor was planning on scripting and recording a fictional Newhart Phone Call as a brief non-musical interlude on the ''Now, Not Yet,'' album.Yet''. This was because "Maybe" ended with a synthesizer trill that resembled a telephone ring. Then their choreographer Jordan Johnson played a voicemail where model Liz Ord expressed her surprise at [[spoiler: the band being young Christians touring in an increasingly nonreligious UK]], requesting that it be sampled in a song at some point. Tyler Taylor realized the voicemail was better than anything he could have written, and it became "The Notion."


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* TroubledFetalPosition: Invoked in the music video "arrow" as Josh becomes overwhelmed with the future.

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* {{Irony}}: They wrote the FadeOut to "still feel" to be as long as possible so it'd be unplayable on the radio. [[FailureGambit Guess what happened.]]

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* {{Irony}}: They wrote the FadeOut to "still feel" to be as long as possible so it'd be unplayable on the radio. [[FailureGambit [[SpringtimeForHitler Guess what happened.]]


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* SpringtimeForHitler: Their attempt to make "still feel." as unplayable by radio stations as possible by extending the FadeOut backfired ''spectacularly.''
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* {{Irony}}: They wrote the FadeOut to "still feel" to be as long as possible so it'd be unplayable on the radio. [[FailureGambit Guess what happened.]]
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* FadeOut: How "still feel." ends; the band explicitly wrote the track in a way that was unplayable for radio by choosing to end with one, but this ends up backfiring spectacularly due to its popularity.

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* FadeOut: How "still feel." ends; the band explicitly wrote the track in a way that was unplayable for radio by choosing to end with one, but this ends ended up backfiring spectacularly due to its popularity.
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* TheDeterminator: the narrator of "still feel." Especially in the final chorus:
-->''I still feel alive''
-->''It is hopeless (It ain't hopeless)''
-->''I start to notice (I start to notice)''
-->''That I still feel alive''
** Before the first chorus:
-->''I am not a slave, can't be contained''
-->''So pick me from the dark and pull me from the grave 'cause''
-->''I still feel alive''
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* NewhartPhoneCall: Josh Tyler was planning on scripting and recording a fictional Newhart Phone Call as a brief non-musical interlude on the ''Now, Not Yet,'' album. This was because "Maybe" ended with a synthesizer trill that resembled a telephone ring. Then their choreographer Jordan Johnson played a voicemail where model Liz Ord expressed her surprise at [[spoiler: the band being young Christians touring in an increasingly nonreligious UK]], requesting that it be sampled in a song at some point. Tyler realized the voicemail was better than anything he could have written, and it became "The Notion."
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* ShapedLikeItself: Liz Ord comes back with a vengeance for the very end of "creature," and by extension ''Now, Not Yet:''
--> I mean, that amount of glory goes seem reasonably glorious.
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** The music video for "Subliminal" begins and ends with the same black-and-white shot of the couple embracing.


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** A couple embraces for the final time and feels a lifetime's worth of memories in an instant, including the unconscious factors that both bring them together and pull them apart.

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Hey you, what you been up to?" in "Never Been Better". The innocuous question intended for catching up hits a bit harder than it should, prompting Josh to confess to the listener that he's not doing so hot.



* LyricalColdOpen: "Maybe", "What's Wrong", "High Up", and "Bad Thoughts".

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* LyricalColdOpen: "Maybe", "What's Wrong", "High Up", and "Bad Thoughts".Thoughts", and "Subliminal".


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* PeoplePuppets: The music video for "Subliminal" features Josh and his girlfriend's movements being controlled by backup dancers, with the latter requiring them to perform the choreography for her at one point.
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--> ''I see the walls that are torn and bent''
--> ''The tug of war in the now, not yet''

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--> ''I -->''I see the walls that are torn and bent''
--> ''The
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tug of war in the now, not yet''



** Music/HallAndOates's "You Make My Dreams Come True"
** Music/PhilCollins's [[SofterAndSlowerCover "Strangers Like Me"]]

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** Music/HallAndOates's Music/HallAndOates' "You Make My Dreams Come True"
** Music/PhilCollins's Music/PhilCollins' [[SofterAndSlowerCover "Strangers Like Me"]]

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