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As a Jewish troper, I was surprised nobody had mentioned how very Jewish the music is since it's so blatant to me.
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** This continues with ''Father of the Bride''. Of course, as Koenig (who writes the vast majority of the band's lyrics) is [[UsefulNotes/Judaism Jewish]] and heavily draws on his personal experiences with questioning and reaffirming his faith and pride in his heritage, one could argue that it's not ''Christian'' rock, it's ''Jewish'' rock.
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* AlliterativeTitle: "Hannah Hunt", "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa".
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* AlliterativeTitle: "Hannah Hunt", "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa".Kwassa", "Harmony Hall", "Big Blue", "Spring Snow".
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* AlbumTitleDrop: "Father of the bride" are the final words on [[Music/{{Haim}} Danielle Haim]]'s verse on "Hold You Now".
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* OneWordTitle: "Step", "Giant", "Horchata", "Cousins", "Walcott", "Bryn", "Campus", "A-Punk", "Holiday", "Run", "Unbelievers", "Hudson".
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* OneWordTitle: "Step", "Giant", "Horchata", "Cousins", "Walcott", "Bryn", "Campus", "A-Punk", "Holiday", "Run", "Unbelievers", "Hudson"."Hudson", "Bambina", "Sympathy", "Sunflower", "2021", "Stranger".
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Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band currently consisting of Ezra Koenig (lead vocals/guitar), Chris Tomson (drums), and Chris Baio (bass/backing vocals). Band co-founder Rostam Batmanglij (guitar/keyboard/backing vocals) has embarked on a solo career and is no longer an official member of the band.
Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band currently consisting of Ezra Koenig (lead vocals/guitar), Chris Tomson (drums), and Chris Baio (bass/backing vocals). Band co-founder Rostam Batmanglij (guitar/keyboard/backing vocals) has embarked on a solo career and is no longer an official member of the band.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten!''[[note]]L to R: Batmanglij, Koenig, Baio, Tomson[[/note]]]]
Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band from New York City currently consisting of Ezra Koenig (lead vocals/guitar), Chris Tomson (drums), and Chris Baio (bass/backing vocals). Band co-founder Rostam Batmanglij (guitar/keyboard/backing vocals) has embarked on a solo career and is no longer an official member of the
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* NewSoundAlbum: ''Modern Vampires of the City'' was more experimental than the band's previous releases.
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* ''Father of the Bride'' (2019)
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album art for ''Modern Vampires of the City'', and the LyricVideo for "Step" off the same album.
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* LyricVideo: An official one for "Step".
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* NotChristianRock: ''Modern Vampires of the City'' contains many religious themes: the song "Ya Hey" is about the name Yahweh, and other songs bear titles such as "Worship You," "Unbelievers" and "Everlasting Arms."
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* PachelbelsCanonProgression: "Step".
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* IndecipherableLyrics: "A-Punk", most of which sounds like gibberish even if you ''do'' know the lyrics.
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* ReligionRant: "Unbelievers".
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* ReligionRant: ReligionRantSong: "Unbelievers".
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Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band consisting of Ezra Koenig (lead vocals/guitar), Rostam Batmanglij (guitar/keyboard/backing vocals), Chris Tomson (drums), and Chris Baio (bass/backing vocals). The members of the band met as students at Columbia University and took their name from a short film of Koenig's about an invasion of Cape Cod by [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin vampires on the weekend]].
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Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band currently consisting of Ezra Koenig (lead vocals/guitar), Rostam Batmanglij (guitar/keyboard/backing vocals), Chris Tomson (drums), and Chris Baio (bass/backing vocals). Band co-founder Rostam Batmanglij (guitar/keyboard/backing vocals) has embarked on a solo career and is no longer an official member of the band.
The members of the band met as students at Columbia University and took their name from a short film of Koenig's about an invasion of Cape Cod by [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin vampires on the weekend]].
The members of the band met as students at Columbia University and took their name from a short film of Koenig's about an invasion of Cape Cod by [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin vampires on the weekend]].
* AlliterativeTitle: "Hannah Hunt", "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa".
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* BadassBeard: Chris Tomson
* BreakupSong: "Campus".
* BreakupSong: "Campus".
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* BadassBeard: Chris Tomson
Tomson.
* BreakupSong: "Campus". Also a popular interpretation of "Hannah Hunt".
* BreakupSong: "Campus". Also a popular interpretation of "Hannah Hunt".
* LocationSong:
** "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa".
** "Step" namedrops numerous locations, from Dar El Salaam to Mechanicsburg.
** "Hannah Hunt" is set on a road trip "from Providence to Phoenix", and the protagonists wind up in Santa Barbara of all places.
** "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa".
** "Step" namedrops numerous locations, from Dar El Salaam to Mechanicsburg.
** "Hannah Hunt" is set on a road trip "from Providence to Phoenix", and the protagonists wind up in Santa Barbara of all places.
* OneWomanSong: "Hannah Hunt", "Diane Young".
* OneWordTitle: "Step", "Giant", "Horchata", "Cousins", "Walcott", "Bryn", "Campus", "A-Punk", "Holiday", "Run", "Unbelievers", "Hudson".
* OneWordTitle: "Step", "Giant", "Horchata", "Cousins", "Walcott", "Bryn", "Campus", "A-Punk", "Holiday", "Run", "Unbelievers", "Hudson".
* PunnyTitle: "Diane Young".
* ReligionRant: "Unbelievers".
-->I’m not excited\\
But should I be?\\
Is this the fate that half of the world has planned for me?\\
I know I love you\\
And you love the sea\\
What holy water contains a little drop, little drop for me?
* RoadTripPlot: "Hannah Hunt".
-->I’m not excited\\
But should I be?\\
Is this the fate that half of the world has planned for me?\\
I know I love you\\
And you love the sea\\
What holy water contains a little drop, little drop for me?
* RoadTripPlot: "Hannah Hunt".
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* WordSaladLyrics: "California English". Even more so, "Giant'.
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* WordSaladLyrics: "California English". Even more so, English", "Step", "Giant'.
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* NotStayingForBreakfast: The LoveInterest in "Diplomat's Son".
* QueerRomance: The narrator of "Diplomat's Son" has a crush on his best friend (the titular character); the two finally get high and sleep together, but the diplomat's son is gone come morning.
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* SelfTitledAlbum: Their debut
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* SelfTitledAlbum: Their debutdebut.
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Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band consisting of Ezra Koenig (lead vocals/guitar), Rostam Batmanglij (guitar/keyboard/backing vocals), Chris Tomson (drums), and Chris Baio (bass/backing vocals). The members of the band met as students at Columbia University and took their name from a short film of Koenig's about an invasion of Cape Code Cod by [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin vampires on the weekend]].
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* Cloudcuckoolander: Ezra, especially his Twitter.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: CloudCuckooLander: Ezra, especially his Twitter.
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* WordSaladLyrics: "California English".
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* WordSaladLyrics: "California English". Even more so, "Giant'.
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Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band consisting of Ezra Koenig (lead vocals/guitar), Rostam Batmanglij (guitar/keyboard/backing vocals), Chris Tomson (drums), and Chris Baio (bass/backing vocals).
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Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band consisting of Ezra Koenig (lead vocals/guitar), Rostam Batmanglij (guitar/keyboard/backing vocals), Chris Tomson (drums), and Chris Baio (bass/backing vocals). \n The members of the band met as students at Columbia University and took their name from a short film of Koenig's about an invasion of Cape Code by [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin vampires on the weekend]].
* AlliterativeName: The titular Hannah Hunt of "Hannah Hunt."
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* LyricalDissonance: "Diane Young". To quote Ezra, "I had a feeling that the world is not a number called "Dying Young" (= young die) because it sounded so heavy and seriously, where "Diane Young" sounded like a name of a nice person."
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* LyricalDissonance: "Diane Young". To quote Ezra, Young."
-->'''Ezra:''' "I had a feeling that the world is not a number called "Dying Young" (= young die) because it sounded so heavy and seriously, where "Diane Young" sounded like a name of a nice person."
-->'''Ezra:''' "I had a feeling that the world is not a number called "Dying Young" (= young die) because it sounded so heavy and seriously, where "Diane Young" sounded like a name of a nice person."
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* ClosetKey: "Diplomat's Son".
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* ClosetKey: "Diplomat's Son".Son," which was actually a reinterpretation of a short story Ezra had written into a love story.
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* BreakupSong: "Campus," in a sense.
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* BreakupSong: "Campus," in a sense."Campus".
* ClosetKey: "Diplomat's Son".
* Cloudcuckoolander: Ezra, especially his Twitter.
* ClosetKey: "Diplomat's Son".
* Cloudcuckoolander: Ezra, especially his Twitter.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The group began at Columbia University.
* IntercourseWithYou: "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
* HymnToMusic: One interpretation of "Step".
* LyricalDissonance: "Diane Young". To quote Ezra, "I had a feeling that the world is not a number called "Dying Young" (= young die) because it sounded so heavy and seriously, where "Diane Young" sounded like a name of a nice person."
* IntercourseWithYou: "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
* HymnToMusic: One interpretation of "Step".
* LyricalDissonance: "Diane Young". To quote Ezra, "I had a feeling that the world is not a number called "Dying Young" (= young die) because it sounded so heavy and seriously, where "Diane Young" sounded like a name of a nice person."
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* PrecisionFStrike: "Who gives a fuck about the oxford comma?" From "Oxford Comma".
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* PrecisionFStrike: "Who gives a fuck about the oxford comma?" From from "Oxford Comma".Comma".
** "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" has one in the chorus, though it's not overt.
** "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" has one in the chorus, though it's not overt.
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** "Giving Up the Gun" from Contra is a rerecording of "Giving Up Da Gun" by L'homme Run, Ezra's rap group from before the band was created.
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* {{Bishounen}}: Ezra Koenig.
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* PrettyBoy: Ezra Koenig (See {{Bishounen}} above)
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* TheOner: In "Oxford Comma" and "A-Punk".
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* TheOner: In the music videos for "Oxford Comma" and "A-Punk".
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* MagnumOpus: ''MVOTC.'' This trope should normally be on the YMMV page, but it is pretty much universally accepted that their third album is their best.
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Horchata is often an audience participation song at concerts too, with directions on when to sing provided by Rostam.
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** Horchata is often an audience participation song at concerts too, with directions on when to sing provided by Rostam.
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Additional audience participation song added, as well as \"badass beard\" for their drummer Chris Tomson
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Horchata is often an audience participation song at concerts too, with directions on when to sing provided by Rostam.
* BadassBeard: Chris Tomson
* BadassBeard: Chris Tomson
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if this is natter/breaking the rules please tell me
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* MagnumOpus: ''MVOTC.'' This trope should normally be on the YMMV page, but it is pretty much universally accepted that their third album is their best.
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* AudienceParticipationSong: "One (Blake's Got A New Face)" often has the audience sing the response of "Blakes Got A New Face" during the chorus.
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* AudienceParticipationSong: "One (Blake's Got A New Face)" often has the audience sing the response of "Blakes "Blake's Got A New Face" during the chorus.
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->''Who gives a [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] about the Oxford Comma?''
-->--'''"Oxford Comma"'''
-->--'''"Oxford Comma"'''
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->''Who gives a [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] about the Oxford Comma?''
-->--'''"Oxford Comma"'''
->''Who gives a [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] about the Oxford Comma?''
-->--'''"Oxford Comma"'''
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* AudienceParticipationSong: "One (Blakes Got A New Face)" often has the audience sing the response of "Blakes Got A New Face" during the chorus.
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* AudienceParticipationSong: "One (Blakes (Blake's Got A New Face)" often has the audience sing the response of "Blakes Got A New Face" during the chorus.
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* TitleOnlyChorus: "One (Blakes (Blake's Got A New Face".Face)".
* WordSaladLyrics: "CaliforniaEnglishEnglish".
* WordSaladLyrics: "California
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Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band consisting of Ezra Koenig (lead vocals/guitar), Rostam Batmanglij (guitar/keyboard/backing vocals), Chris Tomson (drums), and Chris Baio (bass/backing vocals).
Albums:
* ''Vampire Weekend'' (2008)
* ''Contra'' (2010)
* ''Modern Vampires of the City'' (2013)
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!!Tropes used by this band include:
* AudienceParticipationSong: "One (Blakes Got A New Face)" often has the audience sing the response of "Blakes Got A New Face" during the chorus.
* {{Bishounen}}: Ezra Koenig.
* BreakupSong: "Campus," in a sense.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Modern Vampires of the City,'' especially the album art.
* NonAppearingTitle: "White Sky" and others.
* TheOner: In "Oxford Comma" and "A-Punk".
* PrettyBoy: Ezra Koenig (See {{Bishounen}} above)
* RecycledLyrics: The lyric "This feels so unnatural/Peter Gabriel, too" appears in both "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" and "Ottoman".
* TitleDrop: “I Think Ur A Contra” from ''Contra''.
* TitleOnlyChorus: "One (Blakes Got A New Face".
* WordSaladLyrics: "California English
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Albums:
* ''Vampire Weekend'' (2008)
* ''Contra'' (2010)
* ''Modern Vampires of the City'' (2013)
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!!Tropes used by this band include:
* AudienceParticipationSong: "One (Blakes Got A New Face)" often has the audience sing the response of "Blakes Got A New Face" during the chorus.
* {{Bishounen}}: Ezra Koenig.
* BreakupSong: "Campus," in a sense.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Modern Vampires of the City,'' especially the album art.
* NonAppearingTitle: "White Sky" and others.
* TheOner: In "Oxford Comma" and "A-Punk".
* PrettyBoy: Ezra Koenig (See {{Bishounen}} above)
* RecycledLyrics: The lyric "This feels so unnatural/Peter Gabriel, too" appears in both "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" and "Ottoman".
* TitleDrop: “I Think Ur A Contra” from ''Contra''.
* TitleOnlyChorus: "One (Blakes Got A New Face".
* WordSaladLyrics: "California English
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