History Music / ThePipettes

The Pipettes were a London-based indie PopRevival GirlGroup who had a rather chaotic history in which they produced one well-regarded album and a follow-up which ... wasn't so well received.

* OverlyLongTitle: The early song "The Burning Ambition of the Early Diuretics." Also a NonAppearingTitle, obviously.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: To a large extent the band's image, especially on the first album. The track "ABC" is the song of a girl who clearly wishes to be the manic pixie dream for a book-smart but introverted {{nerd}}.

* BiTheWay: Discovering this is the entire plot of the song "I Like A Boy In Uniform (School Uniform)". She crushes on a boy, [[IncompatibleOrientation he turns out to be gay]], she realises she likes girls just as much as boys. [[GoodLookingPrivates It's the uniform that really does it for her]].

The band's most successful lineup of Rebecca [="RiotBecki"=] Stephens, Rose Elinor Dougall, and Gwenno Saunders was the second. Saunders replaced Julia Laird-Clowes, who left to become the singer and keyboardist for the indie band The Indelicates. After the release of their 2006 debut ''We Are the Pipettes'', Stephens and Dougall left the band, with Dougall going onto a critically acclaimed solo career. Saunders and Monster Bobby (the group's co-creator and leader of their backing band) continued the group, recruiting replacements who also departed soon afterwards. The group's second album, ''Earth vs. the Pipettes,'' featured only Saunders and her sister Ani in the lineup, and tanked in both sales and critical reception.

* BreakupSong: "It Hurts to See You Dance So Well" and "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me".

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The first album lineup of RiotBecki, Rosay, and Gwenno, respectively.

* BreakupSong: "It Hurts to See You Dance So Well"

* NonAppearingTitle: "Feminist Complaints", "The Burning Ambition of the Early Diuretics", "Guess Who Ran Off with the Milkman", and "Sex". [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness All but "Sex" are one their pre-We Are The Pipettes EPs.]]

* AllWomenArePrudes: Despite most of their music being firmly in the AllWomenAreLustful camp, "Sex" is about a girl who'd rather chat than sleep with her boyfriend, and is so bored by their sex life that she lies there having "conversations in her head" to pass the time.

* BiTheWay: Discovering this is the entire plot of the song "I Like A Boy In Uniform (School Uniform)". She crushes on a boy, [[IncompatibleOrientation he turns out to be gay]], she realises she likes girls just as much as boys. [[GoodLookingPrivates It's the uniform that really does it for her]].

* BadassBoast: Self-introduction ThemeTune song "We Are The Pipettes" pulls an attitude:

* {{Retraux}}: The band aimed to recreate the style of '60s {{girl group}}s, especially on the first album. The video for "Pull Shapes", which is a ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'' parody/homage, also reflects that style.

The Pipettes were a London-based indie PopRevival girl group who had a rather chaotic history in which they produced one well-regarded album and a follow-up which ... wasn't so well received.

* {{Retraux}}: The band aimed to recreate the style of '60s girl groups, especially on the first album. The video for "Pull Shapes", which is a ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'' parody/homage, also reflects that style.

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* IntercourseWithYou: The band's songs tend to be quite upfront about female desire. They have tracks called "Dirty Mind", "One Night Stand", and "Sex", after all.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: To a large extent the band's image, especially on the first album. The track "ABC" is the song of a girl who clearly wishes to be the manic pixie dream for a book-smart but introverted nerd.

The band's most successful lineup of Rebecca "RiotBecki" Stephens, Rose Elinor Dougall and Gwenno Saunders was the second. Saunders replaced Julia Laird-Clowes, who left to become the singer and keyboardist for the indie band The Indelicates. After the release of their 2006 debut ''We Are the Pipettes'', Stephens and Dougall left the band, with Dougall going onto a critically acclaimed solo career. Saunders and Monster Bobby (the group's co-creator and leader of their backing band) continued the group, recruiting replacements who also departed soon afterwards. The group's second album, ''Earth vs. the Pipettes,'' featured only Saunders and her sister Ani in the lineup, and tanked in both sales and critical reception.