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Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas (born February 14, 1972) is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Music/MatchboxTwenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist. Thomas earned three Grammy awards for co-writing and singing on the Music/{{Santana}} triple-platinum hit "Smooth", on the album ''Supernatural'' in 1999.
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Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas (born February 14, 1972) is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Music/MatchboxTwenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist. Thomas earned three Grammy awards for co-writing and singing on the Music/{{Santana}} triple-platinum hit "Smooth", on the album ''Supernatural'' in 1999.
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%%* IntercourseWithYou: "Words are only words, can you show me something else" in Lonely No More. "I've been sleeping around but I still aint ain't over you" in "Still Ain't Over You".
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His own hits include "Her Diamonds", "Give Me the Melt Down", "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever the Same", and "[[Disney/MeetTheRobinsons Little Wonders]]".
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His own hits include "Her Diamonds", "Give Me the Melt Down", "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever the Same", and "[[Disney/MeetTheRobinsons "[[WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons Little Wonders]]".
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* LyricalDissonance: "Her Diamonds". Very upbeat-sounding, but it's about his wife's auto-immune disease and their struggle to deal with it.
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** "Mockingbird" is a peppy, jovial song about a failing relationship and the calm resignation from both sides of a relationship that it just isn't working out between them.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The Latin/pop sound of "Lonely No More" stylistically follows "Smooth," his duet with Music/{{Santana}}, to the point that they're even in the same key. Contrary to popular belief, Carlos Santana did ''not'', in fact, co-write it.
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!!Tropes relating to this artist and his songs:
* {{Adorkable}}: Especially obvious in the ''...Something To Be'' videos.
* AntiLoveSong: "Lonely No More".
* {{Adorkable}}: Especially obvious in the ''...Something To Be'' videos.
* AntiLoveSong: "Lonely No More".
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* AdamWesting: Played a sociopathic version of himself in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''. He was Creator/{{Sinbad}}'s bitch, though [[spoiler: he was a delusion created by a severe blow to the head]].
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* %%* AntiLoveSong: "Lonely No More".
* AdamWesting: Played a sociopathic version of himself in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''. He was Creator/{{Sinbad}}'s bitch, though [[spoiler: he was a delusion created by a severe blow to the head]].
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* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Getting Late".
* AudienceParticipationSong: "Lonely No More".
* AudienceParticipationSong: "Lonely No More".
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* BeYourself: "Something to Be".
* BreakUpSong: "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Mockingbird", "Gasoline", "Natural", "Slowblind".
* CarefulWithThatAxe: In a sense on "This Is How A Heart Breaks", but when he really wants to let it all out, he does.
* BreakUpSong: "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Mockingbird", "Gasoline", "Natural", "Slowblind".
* CarefulWithThatAxe: In a sense on "This Is How A Heart Breaks", but when he really wants to let it all out, he does.
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* GriefSong: "Fallin' To Pieces", "My My My".
* HappilyMarried: To a model!
* IntercourseWithYou: "Words are only words, can you show me something else" in Lonely No More. "I've been sleeping around but I still aint over you" in "Still Ain't Over You".
* MilitaryBrat: He was born on Landstuhl Air Base in Germany.
* MoodWhiplash: "When the Heartache Ends", "Something to Be", "All That I Am".
* LoveWillLeadYouBack: "Still Ain't Over You".
* HappilyMarried: To a model!
* IntercourseWithYou: "Words are only words, can you show me something else" in Lonely No More. "I've been sleeping around but I still aint over you" in "Still Ain't Over You".
* MilitaryBrat: He was born on Landstuhl Air Base in Germany.
* MoodWhiplash: "When the Heartache Ends", "Something to Be", "All That I Am".
* LoveWillLeadYouBack: "Still Ain't Over You".
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* NiceGuy: Rob is one of the friendliest guys in the world; his cool and unpretentious demeanor comes through in his music and has arguably helped him sustain a career since the mid 90s.
* RecordProducer: Matt Serletic produces most of his stuff.
* RecordProducer: Matt Serletic produces most of his stuff.
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* NiceGuy: Rob is one LyricalTic: Is fond of the friendliest guys throwing in the world; his cool "hey man", "man" and unpretentious demeanor comes through variations on that feeling and word in his music and has arguably helped him sustain a career since the mid 90s.
* RecordProducer: Matt Serletic produces most of his stuff.songs.
* RecordProducer: Matt Serletic produces most of his stuff.
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* PrecisionFStrike: As much as with his Matchbox Twenty work.
* SanitySlippageSong: "Something To Be", "Give Me the Meltdown", "Wonderful", "I Am An Illusion".
* SillyLoveSongs: "Now Comes The Night" "Ever The Same", "Problem Girl", "All That I Am".
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Now Comes The Night", "Cradlesong", "All That I Am", "When The Heart Ache Ends".
* TakeThat[=/=]TakeThatMe: "Something to Be" features some intriguing lines about the artistic process:
* SanitySlippageSong: "Something To Be", "Give Me the Meltdown", "Wonderful", "I Am An Illusion".
* SillyLoveSongs: "Now Comes The Night" "Ever The Same", "Problem Girl", "All That I Am".
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Now Comes The Night", "Cradlesong", "All That I Am", "When The Heart Ache Ends".
* TakeThat[=/=]TakeThatMe: "Something to Be" features some intriguing lines about the artistic process:
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* ObsessionSong: "Still Ain't Over You".
* UnpluggedVersion: subverted with "Now Comes the Night" which was recorded live with him and his keyboard in a studio.
* VerbalTic[=/=]LyricalTic: Is fond of throwing in "hey man", "man" and variations on that feeling and word in his songs.
* YouAreNotAlone: "Streetcorner Symphony".
* UnpluggedVersion: subverted with "Now Comes the Night" which was recorded live with him and his keyboard in a studio.
* VerbalTic[=/=]LyricalTic: Is fond of throwing in "hey man", "man" and variations on that feeling and word in his songs.
* YouAreNotAlone: "Streetcorner Symphony".
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was originally going to be involved in the music for TheLastSong but left for unspecified reasons.
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He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as Music/TomPetty, Music/WillieNelson, MickJagger, Marc Anthony, Pat Green, Taylor Hicks, Travis Tritt and Music/{{Daughtry}}.
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He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as Music/TomPetty, Music/WillieNelson, MickJagger, Music/MickJagger, Marc Anthony, Pat Green, Taylor Hicks, Travis Tritt and Music/{{Daughtry}}.
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* ''[[NewSoundAlbum The Great Unknown]]'' (2015)
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His own hits include; "Her Diamonds", "Give Me the Melt Down", "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever the Same", and "[[Disney/MeetTheRobinsons Little Wonders]]".
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: "You just take and take and take and take and" in Give Me The Meltdown.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: "You just take and take and take and take and" in Give "Give Me The Meltdown.the Meltdown".
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* MoodWhiplash: "When The Heartache Ends", "Something to Be", "All That I Am".
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* MoodWhiplash: "When The the Heartache Ends", "Something to Be", "All That I Am".
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His own hits include; "Her Diamonds", "Give Me The Melt Down", "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever The Same", and "[[Disney/MeetTheRobinsons Little Wonders]]".
He did not create VeronicaMars
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He did not create VeronicaMars
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His own hits include; "Her Diamonds", "Give Me The the Melt Down", "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever The the Same", and "[[Disney/MeetTheRobinsons Little Wonders]]".
[[NamesTheSame Hedid is not create VeronicaMars
!Albumsthe creator of]] ''Series/VeronicaMars''.
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* AuthorAppeal: Really really loves African music and African American gospel vocalists, shown on both his albums, part of his Matchbox Twenty work and expressed in the song; "Fire On the Mountain" explicitly.
* BeYourself: "Something To Be".
* BreakUpSong: "This Is How A Heart Breaks", "Mockingbird", "Gasoline", "Natural", "Slowblind".
* BeYourself: "Something To Be".
* BreakUpSong: "This Is How A Heart Breaks", "Mockingbird", "Gasoline", "Natural", "Slowblind".
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* AuthorAppeal: Really really loves African music and African American gospel vocalists, shown on both his albums, part of his Matchbox Twenty work and expressed in the song; "Fire On on the Mountain" explicitly.
* BeYourself: "SomethingTo to Be".
* BreakUpSong: "ThisIs is How A a Heart Breaks", "Mockingbird", "Gasoline", "Natural", "Slowblind".
* BeYourself: "Something
* BreakUpSong: "This
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* GriefSong: "Fallin' To Pieces", "My My My"
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* GriefSong: "Fallin' To Pieces", "My My My"My".
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* VerbalTic / LyricalTic: Is fond of throwing in "hey man", "man" and variations on that feeling and word in his songs.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was originally going to be involved in the music for TheLastSong but left for unspecified reasons.
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* NiceGuyNiceGuy: Rob is one of the friendliest guys in the world; his cool and unpretentious demeanor comes through in his music and has arguably helped him sustain a career since the mid 90s.
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* CreatorBreakdown: Rarely leaves this trope.
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Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas (born February 14, 1972) is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Music/MatchboxTwenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist. Thomas earned three Grammy awards for co-writing and singing on the Music/{{Santana}} triple-platinum hit "Smooth", on the album ''Supernatural'' in 1999.
He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as Music/TomPetty, Music/WillieNelson, MickJagger, Marc Anthony, Pat Green, Taylor Hicks, Travis Tritt and Daughtry.
He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as Music/TomPetty, Music/WillieNelson, MickJagger, Marc Anthony, Pat Green, Taylor Hicks, Travis Tritt and Daughtry.
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His own hits include; "Her Diamonds", "Give Me The Melt Down", "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever The Same", "[[Disney/MeetTheRobinsons Little Wonders]]".
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His own hits include; "Her Diamonds", "Give Me The Melt Down", "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever The Same", and "[[Disney/MeetTheRobinsons Little Wonders]]".
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* {{Adorkable}}: Especially obvious in the ''...Something To Be'' videos
* {{Adorkable}}: Especially obvious in the ''...Something To Be'' videos
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* {{Adorkable}}: Especially obvious in the ''...Something To Be''
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* AnnualTitle: "Real World 09"
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Getting Late"
* AudienceParticipationSong: "Lonely No More"
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Getting Late"
* AudienceParticipationSong: "Lonely No More"
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* AnnualTitle: "Real World 09"
09".
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "GettingLate"
Late".
* AudienceParticipationSong: "Lonely NoMore"More".
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Getting
* AudienceParticipationSong: "Lonely No
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* BeYourself: "Something To Be" Be".
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* IntercourseWithYou: "Words are only words, can you show me something else" in Lonely No More. "I've been sleeping around but I still aint over you" in Still Ain't Over You.
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* IntercourseWithYou: "Words are only words, can you show me something else" in Lonely No More. "I've been sleeping around but I still aint over you" in Still "Still Ain't Over You. You".
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* MoodWhiplash: "When The Heartache Ends", "Something to Be", "All That I Am"
* LoveWillLeadYouBack: "Still Ain't Over You"
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* MoodWhiplash: "When The Heartache Ends", "Something to Be", "All That I Am"
Am".
* LoveWillLeadYouBack: "Still Ain't OverYou"You".
* LoveWillLeadYouBack: "Still Ain't Over
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* ProtestSong: "Fire On the Mountain", dedicated to Africa and the issues Africa faces as a continent, and other continents suffering similar problems.
* PrecisionFStrike: As much as with his Matchbox Twenty work.
* SanitySlippageSong: "Something To Be", "Give Me the Meltdown", "Wonderful", "I Am An Illusion".
* SillyLoveSongs: "Now Comes The Night" "Ever The Same", "Problem Girl", "All That I Am".
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Now Comes The Night", "Cradlesong", "All That I Am", "When The Heart Ache Ends"
* PrecisionFStrike: As much as with his Matchbox Twenty work.
* SanitySlippageSong: "Something To Be", "Give Me the Meltdown", "Wonderful", "I Am An Illusion".
* SillyLoveSongs: "Now Comes The Night" "Ever The Same", "Problem Girl", "All That I Am".
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Now Comes The Night", "Cradlesong", "All That I Am", "When The Heart Ache Ends"
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* ProtestSong: "Fire On the Mountain", dedicated to Africa and the issues Africa faces as a continent, and other continents suffering similar problems.
problems.
* PrecisionFStrike: As much as with his Matchbox Twentywork.
work.
* SanitySlippageSong: "Something To Be", "Give Me the Meltdown", "Wonderful", "I Am AnIllusion".
Illusion".
* SillyLoveSongs: "Now Comes The Night" "Ever The Same", "Problem Girl", "All That IAm".
Am".
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Now Comes The Night", "Cradlesong", "All That I Am", "When The Heart AcheEnds" Ends".
* PrecisionFStrike: As much as with his Matchbox Twenty
* SanitySlippageSong: "Something To Be", "Give Me the Meltdown", "Wonderful", "I Am An
* SillyLoveSongs: "Now Comes The Night" "Ever The Same", "Problem Girl", "All That I
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Now Comes The Night", "Cradlesong", "All That I Am", "When The Heart Ache
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* ObsessionSong: "Still Ain't Over You"
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* ObsessionSong: "Still Ain't Over You"You".
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* YouAreNotAlone: "Streetcorner Symphony"
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* YouAreNotAlone: "Streetcorner Symphony"Symphony".
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* AllTakeNoGive: "You just take and take and take and take and" in Give Me The Meltdown.
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* AllTakeNoGive: AllTakeAndNoGive: "You just take and take and take and take and" in Give Me The Meltdown.
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* GriefSong: "Fallin' To Peices", "My My My"
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His own hits include; "Her Diamonds", "Give Me The Melt Down", "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever The Same", "[[MeetTheRobinsons Little Wonders]]".
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His own hits include; "Her Diamonds", "Give Me The Melt Down", "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever The Same", "[[MeetTheRobinsons "[[Disney/MeetTheRobinsons Little Wonders]]".
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* FanService: Lonely No More features some sexual FemaleGaze cinematography and he's wearing some all black cowboy inspired outfit.
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* PrecisionFStrike: As much as with his Matchbox Twenty work.
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* IntercourseWithYou: "Words are only words, can you show me something else" in Lonely No More. "I've been sleeping around but I still aint over you" in Still Ain't Over You.
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* LyricalDissonance: "Her Diamonds". Very upbeat-sounding, but it's about his wife's auto-immune disease.
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* LyricalDissonance: "Her Diamonds". Very upbeat-sounding, but it's about his wife's auto-immune disease.
--> And she says oooh, I can't take no more \\
Her tears like diamonds on the floor \\
And her diamonds bring me down \\
'Cause I can't help her now \\
She's down in it \\
She tried her best and now she can't win it \\
Hard to see them on the ground \\
Her diamonds falling down
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Her tears like diamonds on the floor \\
And her diamonds bring me down \\
'Cause I can't help her now \\
She's down in it \\
She tried her best and now she can't win it \\
Hard to see them on the ground \\
Her diamonds falling down
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* MilitaryBrat: He was born on Landstuhl Air Base in Germany.
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He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as Tom Petty, Willie Nelson, Mick Jagger, Marc Anthony, Pat Green, Taylor Hicks, Travis Tritt and Daughtry.
He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as Tom Petty, Willie Nelson, Mick Jagger, Marc Anthony, Pat Green, Taylor Hicks, Travis Tritt and Daughtry.
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Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas (born February 14, 1972) is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Music/MatchboxTwenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist. Thomas earned three Grammy awards for co-writing and singing on the Carlos Santana Music/{{Santana}} triple-platinum hit "Smooth", on the album Supernatural ''Supernatural'' in 1999.
He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists asTom Petty, Willie Nelson, Mick Jagger, Music/TomPetty, Music/WillieNelson, MickJagger, Marc Anthony, Pat Green, Taylor Hicks, Travis Tritt and Daughtry.
He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as
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[[caption-width-right:259:Don't wanna be lonely no more]]
Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas (born February 14, 1972) is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Music/MatchboxTwenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist. Thomas earned three Grammy awards for co-writing and singing on the Carlos Santana triple-platinum hit "Smooth", on the album Supernatural in 1999.
He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as Tom Petty, Willie Nelson, Mick Jagger, Marc Anthony, Pat Green, Taylor Hicks, Travis Tritt and Daughtry.
Since 1995, his band has released a string of hit singles to radio including "Push", "3 A.M.", "Real World", "Back 2 Good", "Bent", "If You're Gone", "Mad Season", "Disease", "Unwell", "Bright Lights", and "How Far We've Come". In 2004, the Songwriters Hall of Fame awarded Thomas its first Starlight Award, recognizing young songwriters who have already had a lasting influence in the music industry.
His own hits include; "Her Diamonds", "Give Me The Melt Down", "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever The Same", "[[MeetTheRobinsons Little Wonders]]".
!Albums
* ...Something To Be (2005)
* cradlesong (2009)
!Tropes
* {{Adorkable}}: Especially obvious in the ...Something To Be videos
* AntiLoveSong: "Lonely No More".
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Getting Late"
* AudienceParticipationSong: "Lonely No More"
* AuthorAppeal: Really really loves African music and African American gospel vocalists, shown on both his albums, part of his Matchbox Twenty work and expressed in the song; "Fire On the Mountain" explicitly.
* BeYourself: "Something To Be"
* BreakUpSong: "This Is How A Heart Breaks", "Mockingbird", "Gasoline", "Natural", "Slowblind".
* CarefulWithThatAxe: In a sense on "This Is How A Heart Breaks", but when he really wants to let it all out, he does.
* CreatorBreakdown: Rarely leaves this trope
* GriefSong: "Fallin' To Peices", "My My My"
* HappilyMarried: To a model!
* MoodWhiplash: "When The Heartache Ends", "Something to Be", "All That I Am"
* LoveWillLeadYouBack: "Still Ain't Over You"
* RecordProducer: Matt Serletic produces most of his stuff
* ProtestSong: "Fire On the Mountain", dedicated to Africa and the issues Africa faces as a continent, and other continents suffering similar problems.
* SanitySlippageSong: "Something To Be", "Give Me the Meltdown", "Wonderful", "I Am An Illusion".
* SillyLoveSongs: "Now Comes The Night" "Ever The Same", "Problem Girl", "All That I Am".
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Now Comes The Night", "Cradlesong", "All That I Am", "When The Heart Ache Ends"
* TakeThat / TakeThatMe: "Something to Be" features some intriguing lines about the artistic process:
--> Play another one of those heartbreak songs
--> Tell another story how things go wrong And they never get back
--> My pain is a platinum stack/Take that shit back
* ObsessionSong: "Still Ain't Over You"
* UnpluggedVersion: subverted with "Now Comes the Night" which was recorded live with him and his keyboard in a studio.
* VerbalTic / LyricalTic: Is fond of throwing in "hey man", "man" and variations on that feeling and word in his songs.
* YouAreNotAlone: "Streetcorner Symphony"
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[[caption-width-right:259:Don't wanna be lonely no more]]
Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas (born February 14, 1972) is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Music/MatchboxTwenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist. Thomas earned three Grammy awards for co-writing and singing on the Carlos Santana triple-platinum hit "Smooth", on the album Supernatural in 1999.
He has also lent his songwriting talents to such artists as Tom Petty, Willie Nelson, Mick Jagger, Marc Anthony, Pat Green, Taylor Hicks, Travis Tritt and Daughtry.
Since 1995, his band has released a string of hit singles to radio including "Push", "3 A.M.", "Real World", "Back 2 Good", "Bent", "If You're Gone", "Mad Season", "Disease", "Unwell", "Bright Lights", and "How Far We've Come". In 2004, the Songwriters Hall of Fame awarded Thomas its first Starlight Award, recognizing young songwriters who have already had a lasting influence in the music industry.
His own hits include; "Her Diamonds", "Give Me The Melt Down", "This is How a Heart Breaks", "Ever The Same", "[[MeetTheRobinsons Little Wonders]]".
!Albums
* ...Something To Be (2005)
* cradlesong (2009)
!Tropes
* {{Adorkable}}: Especially obvious in the ...Something To Be videos
* AntiLoveSong: "Lonely No More".
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Getting Late"
* AudienceParticipationSong: "Lonely No More"
* AuthorAppeal: Really really loves African music and African American gospel vocalists, shown on both his albums, part of his Matchbox Twenty work and expressed in the song; "Fire On the Mountain" explicitly.
* BeYourself: "Something To Be"
* BreakUpSong: "This Is How A Heart Breaks", "Mockingbird", "Gasoline", "Natural", "Slowblind".
* CarefulWithThatAxe: In a sense on "This Is How A Heart Breaks", but when he really wants to let it all out, he does.
* CreatorBreakdown: Rarely leaves this trope
* GriefSong: "Fallin' To Peices", "My My My"
* HappilyMarried: To a model!
* MoodWhiplash: "When The Heartache Ends", "Something to Be", "All That I Am"
* LoveWillLeadYouBack: "Still Ain't Over You"
* RecordProducer: Matt Serletic produces most of his stuff
* ProtestSong: "Fire On the Mountain", dedicated to Africa and the issues Africa faces as a continent, and other continents suffering similar problems.
* SanitySlippageSong: "Something To Be", "Give Me the Meltdown", "Wonderful", "I Am An Illusion".
* SillyLoveSongs: "Now Comes The Night" "Ever The Same", "Problem Girl", "All That I Am".
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Now Comes The Night", "Cradlesong", "All That I Am", "When The Heart Ache Ends"
* TakeThat / TakeThatMe: "Something to Be" features some intriguing lines about the artistic process:
--> Play another one of those heartbreak songs
--> Tell another story how things go wrong And they never get back
--> My pain is a platinum stack/Take that shit back
* ObsessionSong: "Still Ain't Over You"
* UnpluggedVersion: subverted with "Now Comes the Night" which was recorded live with him and his keyboard in a studio.
* VerbalTic / LyricalTic: Is fond of throwing in "hey man", "man" and variations on that feeling and word in his songs.
* YouAreNotAlone: "Streetcorner Symphony"
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