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* SlidingScaleOfComedyVersusHorror: ''Girl With Basket of Fruit'' is split between deliberate absurdist comedy and genuine horror. Showcased with the first two songs; the TitleTrack has Jamie deliriously screaming nonsensical lyrics about bizarre sexual imagery, only for "It Comes Out as a Joke" to come along and repeat several lyrics from the preceding song in a much more menacing context, recontextualizing it as being about a rape. "Mary Turner Mary Turner" is another example of this juxtaposition; the lyrics are a straightforward description of a horrific murder, but Jamie performs it like a depraved vaudeville presenter, making the song feel like a carnival act from hell.
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* SlidingScaleOfComedyVersusHorror: SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: ''Girl With Basket of Fruit'' is split between deliberate absurdist comedy and genuine horror. Showcased with the first two songs; the TitleTrack has Jamie deliriously screaming nonsensical lyrics about bizarre sexual imagery, only for "It Comes Out as a Joke" to come along and repeat several lyrics from the preceding song in a much more menacing context, recontextualizing it as being about a rape. "Mary Turner Mary Turner" is another example of this juxtaposition; the lyrics are a straightforward description of a horrific murder, but Jamie performs it like a depraved vaudeville presenter, making the song feel like a carnival act from hell.
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* SlidingScaleOfComedyVersusHorror: ''Girl With Basket of Fruit'' is split between deliberate absurdist comedy and genuine horror. Showcased with the first two songs; the TitleTrack has Jamie deliriously screaming nonsensical lyrics about bizarre sexual imagery, only for "It Comes Out as a Joke" to come along and repeat several lyrics from the preceding song in a much more menacing context, recontextualizing it as being about a rape. "Mary Turner Mary Turner" is another example of this juxtaposition; the lyrics are a straightforward description of a horrific murder, but Jamie performs it like a depraved vaudeville presenter, making the song feel like a carnival act from hell.
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* WidgetSeries: A quintessential WAT.
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* ConceptAlbum: ''FORGET'' has a lot of themes related to sex trafficking, though whether it tells a concrete story or not is debated.
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** ''FORGET'' has a lot of themes related to sex trafficking, though whether it tells a concrete story or not isdebated.debated.
** ''Girl With Basket of Fruit'' doesn't tell a story, but has a running theme of violence against women.
** ''FORGET'' has a lot of themes related to sex trafficking, though whether it tells a concrete story or not is
** ''Girl With Basket of Fruit'' doesn't tell a story, but has a running theme of violence against women.
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** "Get Up" is about an ExtremeDoormat who stays in an abusive relationship because they have so little self-worth they think they deserve it.
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* ExtremeDoormat: The narrator of "Get Up", who seems to be in an extremely abusive relationship.a relationship with someone that both physically and emotionally abuses them, but stays because they feel worthless and think it's the only thing they deserve. If it's the same narrator as the rest of the album, it's possible the person being sung to is their pimp.
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* DownerEnding: ''FORGET'' ends with the one-two punch of "Petite" and "Faith, Torn Apart", showing the protagonist crossing the DespairEventHorizon and either killing themselves or becoming an EmptyShell.
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* KissingCousins: When Caralee Mcelroy joined the band, Jamie Stewart claimed she was his longlost cousin. Which, if true, makes some of their promotional pictures during her stint [[http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200908/08/02/f0048302_12455659.jpg a bit]] [[http://www.popfrenzy.com.au/img/photos/blueghost_xiuxiu6.jpg creepy]].
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* KissingCousins: When Caralee Mcelroy joined the band, Jamie Stewart claimed she was his longlost long lost cousin. Which, if true, makes some of their promotional pictures during her stint [[http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200908/08/02/f0048302_12455659.jpg a bit]] [[http://www.popfrenzy.com.au/img/photos/blueghost_xiuxiu6.jpg creepy]].
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* LossOfIdentity: The dehumanization of sex workers into disposable objects is arguably the CentralTheme of ''FORGET''.
* MadnessMantra: Paired with AlbumTitleDrop in the TitleTrack of ''FORGET''.
--> ''"Forget who you are, don't admit who you are, forget who you are, don't admit who you are..."''
* MadnessMantra: Paired with AlbumTitleDrop in the TitleTrack of ''FORGET''.
--> ''"Forget who you are, don't admit who you are, forget who you are, don't admit who you are..."''
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* AnimatedMusicVideo: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMT6MsA3ut8 Jenny Go Go]]" mixes this with StylisticSuck for a rather unsettling experience.
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* TraumaCongaLine: Insofar as it tells a story, ''FORGET'' seems to tell of a young person's downward spiral into prostitution, culminating in a DespairEventHorizon and implied suicide in the final track.
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* WordSaladHorror: "Jenny Go Go" has a lot of nonsense rhymes and borderline baby talk interspersed with lines like "What have I done?" and "Take me instead". In the context of the album, it could arguably represent the protagonist withdrawing into a childlike state of mind to cope with the constant sexual abuse they're forced to endure.
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* BiTheWay: Jamie seems to like men and women about equally.
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* ExtremeDoormat: The narrator of "Get Up", who seems to be in an extremely abusive relationship.
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* LargeHam: Jamie can easily rival Music/ScottWalker in this department.
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** ''The Green Corridor Series #02" ends with "Fortune Teller" (20:55).
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* ContemptibleCover: ''A Promise''Promise''.
* CoverAlbum: ''Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Series/TwinPeaks'' should be pretty self-explanatory.
* CoverAlbum: ''Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Series/TwinPeaks'' should be pretty self-explanatory.
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* LongestSongGoesLast: Jamie really seems to like this.
** ''Knife Play'' ends with "Tonite and Today (What 'chu talkin' bout)" (5:23).
** ''Fabulous Muscles'' ends with "Mike" (5:14).
** ''The Green Corridor Series #02" ends with "Fortune Teller" (20:55).
** ''Nina'' ends with "Flo Me La" (6:51).
** ''Unclouded Sky'' ends with "Just As I Am" (8:19).
** ''Plays the Music of Twin Peaks'' ends with "Josie's Theme" (7:50).
** ''FORGET'' ends with "Faith, Torn Apart" (7:56).
** ''Knife Play'' ends with "Tonite and Today (What 'chu talkin' bout)" (5:23).
** ''Fabulous Muscles'' ends with "Mike" (5:14).
** ''The Green Corridor Series #02" ends with "Fortune Teller" (20:55).
** ''Nina'' ends with "Flo Me La" (6:51).
** ''Unclouded Sky'' ends with "Just As I Am" (8:19).
** ''Plays the Music of Twin Peaks'' ends with "Josie's Theme" (7:50).
** ''FORGET'' ends with "Faith, Torn Apart" (7:56).
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* HorribleHistoryMetal: Emphasis on ''horrible''. "Support Our Troops OH!" and "Mary Turner Mary Turner" are depictions of, respectively, murders of civilians by American soldiers during the Iraq War, and the utterly horrific lynching of a pregnant black woman by a white mob in Georgia in 1918.
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* WarIsHell: "Support Our Troops OH!" is a vivid description of US war crimes during the Iraq War, including a graphic description of [[spoiler: a 4 year old girl getting her head blown off by US Marines who were firing indiscriminately at the car she was riding in]].
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* WarIsHell: "Support Our Troops OH!" is a vivid description of about US war crimes during the Iraq War, including a graphic description of [[spoiler: a 4 year old girl getting her head blown off by US Marines who were firing indiscriminately at the car she was riding in]].
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* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Averted. Xiu Xiu have a habit of covering songs without changing any of the pronouns. Considering singer Jamie Stewart is quite camp (and has written many songs of his own sung to men, both from male and female perspectives), this is almost always the least troubling example of TheCoverChangesTheMeaning in their versions however.
** Their version of "Don't Cha" by the Music/PussycatDolls is a particularly notable effort. Instead of playing up on the joke of covering a dodgy pop song, he sings it entirely straight and turns it into a kind of moving - and deeply disturbing - tale of a man refusing to let his bisexual lover leave his wife for him.
** They even do it to their own songs, releasing two different versions of Helsabot, one sung plaintively by regular singer Jamie Stewart and the other by (now-former) member Caralee Mcelroy, who has quite a sweet, girlish voice. Though they don't change the lyrics, considering the song deals with the antics of a violent alcoholic robot, lines like "I did something bad, I got in a fight, about drugs, kicked him in the neck" have wildly differing contexts.
** Though "Fast Car", originally by Tracy Chapman, doesn't really gender the narrator, they still manage it. The song changes from being a blue collar couple escaping for a better life elsewhere, to a young homosexual's dream of leaving for the big city.
** Their version of "Don't Cha" by the Music/PussycatDolls is a particularly notable effort. Instead of playing up on the joke of covering a dodgy pop song, he sings it entirely straight and turns it into a kind of moving - and deeply disturbing - tale of a man refusing to let his bisexual lover leave his wife for him.
** They even do it to their own songs, releasing two different versions of Helsabot, one sung plaintively by regular singer Jamie Stewart and the other by (now-former) member Caralee Mcelroy, who has quite a sweet, girlish voice. Though they don't change the lyrics, considering the song deals with the antics of a violent alcoholic robot, lines like "I did something bad, I got in a fight, about drugs, kicked him in the neck" have wildly differing contexts.
** Though "Fast Car", originally by Tracy Chapman, doesn't really gender the narrator, they still manage it. The song changes from being a blue collar couple escaping for a better life elsewhere, to a young homosexual's dream of leaving for the big city.
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** Their version of "Don't Cha" by the Music/PussycatDolls is a particularly notable effort. Instead of playing up on the joke of covering a dodgy pop song, he sings it entirely straight and turns it into a kind of moving - and deeply disturbing - tale of a man refusing to let his bisexual lover leave his wife for him.
** They even do it to their own songs, releasing two different versions of Helsabot, one sung plaintively by regular singer Jamie Stewart and the other by (now-former) member Caralee Mcelroy, who has quite a sweet, girlish voice. Though they don't change the lyrics, considering the song deals with the antics of a violent alcoholic robot, lines like "I did something bad, I got in a fight, about drugs, kicked him in the neck" have wildly differing contexts.
** Though "Fast Car", originally by Tracy Chapman, doesn't really gender the narrator, they still manage it. The song changes from being a blue collar couple escaping for a better life elsewhere, to a young homosexual's dream of leaving for the big city.
** Their version of "Don't Cha" by the Music/PussycatDolls is a particularly notable effort. Instead of playing up on the joke of covering a dodgy pop song, he sings it entirely straight and turns it into a kind of moving - and deeply disturbing - tale of a man refusing to let his bisexual lover leave his wife for him.
** They even do it to their own songs, releasing two different versions of Helsabot, one sung plaintively by regular singer Jamie Stewart and the other by (now-former) member Caralee Mcelroy, who has quite a sweet, girlish voice. Though they don't change the lyrics, considering the song deals with the antics of a violent alcoholic robot, lines like "I did something bad, I got in a fight, about drugs, kicked him in the neck" have wildly differing contexts.
** Though "Fast Car", originally by Tracy Chapman, doesn't really gender the narrator, they still manage it. The song changes from being a blue collar couple escaping for a better life elsewhere, to a young homosexual's dream of leaving for the big city.
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* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Averted. Xiu Xiu have a habit of covering songs without changing any of the pronouns. Considering singer Jamie Stewart SociopathicSoldier: "Support Our Troops OH!" is quite camp (and has written many songs of his own sung to men, both from male and female perspectives), this is almost always the least troubling example of TheCoverChangesTheMeaning in their versions however.
** Their version of "Don't Cha" by the Music/PussycatDolls is a particularly notable effort. Instead of playing up on the joke of covering a dodgy pop song, he sings it entirely straight and turns it into a kind of moving - and deeply disturbing - tale of a man refusing to let his bisexual lover leave his wife for him.
** They even do it to their own songs, releasing two different versions of Helsabot, one sung plaintively by regular singer Jamie Stewart and the other by (now-former) member Caralee Mcelroy, who has quite a sweet, girlish voice. Though they don't change the lyrics, considering the song deals with the antics of a violent alcoholic robot, lines like "I did something bad, I got in a fight, about drugs, kicked him in the neck" have wildly differing contexts.
** Though "Fast Car", originally by Tracy Chapman, doesn't really gender the narrator, they still manage it. The song changes from being a blue collar couple escaping for a better life elsewhere, to a young homosexual's dream of leaving for the big city.directed at one.
** Their version of "Don't Cha" by the Music/PussycatDolls is a particularly notable effort. Instead of playing up on the joke of covering a dodgy pop song, he sings it entirely straight and turns it into a kind of moving - and deeply disturbing - tale of a man refusing to let his bisexual lover leave his wife for him.
** They even do it to their own songs, releasing two different versions of Helsabot, one sung plaintively by regular singer Jamie Stewart and the other by (now-former) member Caralee Mcelroy, who has quite a sweet, girlish voice. Though they don't change the lyrics, considering the song deals with the antics of a violent alcoholic robot, lines like "I did something bad, I got in a fight, about drugs, kicked him in the neck" have wildly differing contexts.
** Though "Fast Car", originally by Tracy Chapman, doesn't really gender the narrator, they still manage it. The song changes from being a blue collar couple escaping for a better life elsewhere, to a young homosexual's dream of leaving for the big city.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Support Our Troops OH!" is one of these directed at a soldier in the Iraq War, accusing them of being a sociopath who signed up just to kill people.
--> "You shot your grenade launcher into people's windows and the doors of people's houses, but you wanted to shoot it into someone just to watch them blow up. Why should I care if you get killed?"
--> "You shot your grenade launcher into people's windows and the doors of people's houses, but you wanted to shoot it into someone just to watch them blow up. Why should I care if you get killed?"
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* TranquilFury: Jamie's spoken word in "Support Our Troops OH!" is flat and monotone, but it's clear from the lyrics that he's seething with hatred at the subject of the song.
* WarIsHell: "Support Our Troops OH!" is a vivid description of US war crimes during the Iraq War, including a graphic description of [[spoiler: a 4 year old girl getting her head blown off by US Marines who were firing indiscriminately at the car she was riding in]].
* WarIsHell: "Support Our Troops OH!" is a vivid description of US war crimes during the Iraq War, including a graphic description of [[spoiler: a 4 year old girl getting her head blown off by US Marines who were firing indiscriminately at the car she was riding in]].
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'''Xiu Xiu''' is an avant-garde rock/synthpop band, the brainchild of Jamie Stewart. They were founded after the dissolution of Stewart's previous band, Ten In The Swear Jar, several of whose songs went on to become Xiu Xiu tracks. The band takes its name from a notoriously depressing Chinese art-house film, ''Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl'', about a young woman who becomes a prostitute to survive after her life is all but destroyed by poverty.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Jamie Stewart]] '''Xiu Xiu''' is an avant-garde rock/synthpop band, the brainchild of Jamie Stewart. They were founded after the dissolution of Stewart's previous band, Ten In The Swear Jar, several of whose songs went on to become Xiu Xiu tracks. The band takes its name from a notoriously depressing Chinese art-house film, ''Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl'', about a young woman who becomes a prostitute to survive after her life is all but destroyed by poverty.
[[caption-width-right:350: Jamie Stewart]] '''Xiu Xiu''' is an avant-garde rock/synthpop band, the brainchild of Jamie Stewart. They were founded after the dissolution of Stewart's previous band, Ten In The Swear Jar, several of whose songs went on to become Xiu Xiu tracks. The band takes its name from a notoriously depressing Chinese art-house film, ''Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl'', about a young woman who becomes a prostitute to survive after her life is all but destroyed by poverty.
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'''Xiu Xiu''' is an avant-garde synthpop band, the brainchild of Jamie Stewart. They were founded after the dissolution of Stewart's previous band, Ten In The Swear Jar, several of whose songs went on to become Xiu Xiu tracks. The band takes its name from a notoriously depressing Chinese art-house film, ''Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl'', about a young woman who becomes a prostitute to survive after her life is all but destroyed by poverty.
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'''Xiu Xiu''' is an avant-garde synthpop rock/synthpop band, the brainchild of Jamie Stewart. They were founded after the dissolution of Stewart's previous band, Ten In The Swear Jar, several of whose songs went on to become Xiu Xiu tracks. The band takes its name from a notoriously depressing Chinese art-house film, ''Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl'', about a young woman who becomes a prostitute to survive after her life is all but destroyed by poverty.
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* KissingCousins: When Caralee Mcelroy joined the band, Jamie Stewart claimed she was his longlost cousin. Which, if true, makes some of their promotional pictures during her stint [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/6020224/Xiu+Xiu+xiu_xiu.jpg downright]] [[http://omahype.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/xiu-xiu.jpg creepy]].
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* KissingCousins: When Caralee Mcelroy joined the band, Jamie Stewart claimed she was his longlost cousin. Which, if true, makes some of their promotional pictures during her stint [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/6020224/Xiu+Xiu+xiu_xiu.[[http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200908/08/02/f0048302_12455659.jpg downright]] [[http://omahype.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/xiu-xiu.a bit]] [[http://www.popfrenzy.com.au/img/photos/blueghost_xiuxiu6.jpg creepy]].
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** That horrific, blood-curdling shriek of "GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!" in "A Knife in the Sun."
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* CarefulWithThatAxe: "Ian Curtis Wishlist", among many others
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* CarefulWithThatAxe: "Ian Curtis Wishlist", among many othersothers.
** "Je t'aime the vallEEEEYY, je t'aime the valley- '''''OOOOOOHHH!'''''"
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''[[TheStinger I... AM... KIDDING. I'M JUST KIDDING!]]''
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The band has a ''lot'' of songs about the horror of sexual abuse.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: "El Naco."
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* YourCheatingHeart: "Adult Friends" may be one of the creepiest songs ever written on this topic.
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[[DarkerAndEdgier This]] [[CarefulWithThatAxe choice]] [[HellIsThatNoise of name is]] [[TearJerker telling.]]
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Xiu Xiu is an avant-garde synthpop band, the brainchild of Jamie Stewart. They were founded after the dissolution of Stewart's previous band, Ten In The Swear Jar, several of whose songs went on to become Xiu Xiu tracks. The band takes its name from a notoriously depressing Chinese art-house film, ''Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl'', about a young woman who becomes a prostitute to survive after her life is all but destroyed by poverty.
[[DarkerAndEdgier This]] [[CarefulWithThatAxe choice]] [[HellIsThatNoise of name is]] [[TearJerker telling.]]
[[DarkerAndEdgier This]] [[CarefulWithThatAxe choice]] [[HellIsThatNoise of name is]] [[TearJerker telling.]]
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* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Averted. Xiu Xiu have a habit of covering songs without changing any of the pronouns. Considering singer Jamie Stewart is quite camp (and has written many songs of his own sung to men, both from male and female perspectives), this is almost always the least troubling example of The Cover Changes The Meaning in their versions however.
** Their version of "Don't Cha" by the Pussycat Dolls is a particularly notable effort. Instead of playing up on the joke of covering a dodgy pop song, he sings it entirely straight and turns it into a kind of moving - and deeply disturbing - tale of a man refusing to let his bisexual lover leave his wife for him.
** Their version of "Don't Cha" by the Pussycat Dolls is a particularly notable effort. Instead of playing up on the joke of covering a dodgy pop song, he sings it entirely straight and turns it into a kind of moving - and deeply disturbing - tale of a man refusing to let his bisexual lover leave his wife for him.
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* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Averted. Xiu Xiu have a habit of covering songs without changing any of the pronouns. Considering singer Jamie Stewart is quite camp (and has written many songs of his own sung to men, both from male and female perspectives), this is almost always the least troubling example of The Cover Changes The Meaning TheCoverChangesTheMeaning in their versions however.
** Their version of "Don't Cha" by thePussycat Dolls Music/PussycatDolls is a particularly notable effort. Instead of playing up on the joke of covering a dodgy pop song, he sings it entirely straight and turns it into a kind of moving - and deeply disturbing - tale of a man refusing to let his bisexual lover leave his wife for him.
** Their version of "Don't Cha" by the
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* AntiLoveSong: A large portion of Xiu Xiu's back catalogue has made great use of this trope.
**"Jennifer Lopez" is a sort of open letter to the eponymous singer, asking if she ever gets upset about the fact that her music soundtracks so many men's broken hearts and sexual frustrations in (presumably gay) bars around the world every Friday night.
**"Sad Pony Guerrilla Girl" is surely in the running for "creepiest love song ever". Best case scenario is it's about a woman having a one sided affair with a married man, and being unhappy with the arrangement, but too in love with him to break it off. The song also alludes to him beating her up, and the line "I am your little girl" may or may not be intended literally.
**Perhaps the ultimate example is "Fabulous Muscles". It's about a young gay man with a muscle fetish who unromantically fellates a closeted jock, who then freaks out and kills him. However, the song is delivered in a tone that suggests he's relatively okay with this scenario. Sample lyrics: "Cremate me after you cum on my lips, honey boy. / Place my ashes in a vase beneath your workout bench."
* CarefulWithThatAxe: "Ian Curtis Wishlist", among many others
* ContemptibleCover: ''A Promise''
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: "I Broke Up" gives us the delightful shouted line "THIS IS THE WORST VACATION EVER!/I AM GOING TO CUT OPEN YOUR FOREHEAD WITH A ROOFING SHINGLE!" Just an idea, but perhaps lines like that are why they broke up?
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Jamie Stewart has been to known to break out a Nintendo DS or a Game Boy.
* IAmTheBand: Jamie Stewart is the sole constant member of the band.
* KissingCousins: When Caralee Mcelroy joined the band, Jamie Stewart claimed she was his longlost cousin. Which, if true, makes some of their promotional pictures during her stint [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/6020224/Xiu+Xiu+xiu_xiu.jpg downright]] [[http://omahype.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/xiu-xiu.jpg creepy]].
* SingerNamedrop: Jamie Stewart refers to an ambiguous "J.S." in a couple songs, particularly "Ian Curtis Wishlist" and "Secret Motel".
* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Averted. Xiu Xiu have a habit of covering songs without changing any of the pronouns. Considering singer Jamie Stewart is quite camp (and has written many songs of his own sung to men, both from male and female perspectives), this is almost always the least troubling example of The Cover Changes The Meaning in their versions however.
**Their version of "Don't Cha" by the Pussycat Dolls is a particularly notable effort. Instead of playing up on the joke of covering a dodgy pop song, he sings it entirely straight and turns it into a kind of moving - and deeply disturbing - tale of a man refusing to let his bisexual lover leave his wife for him.
**They even do it to their own songs, releasing two different versions of Helsabot, one sung plaintively by regular singer Jamie Stewart and the other by (now-former) member Caralee Mcelroy, who has quite a sweet, girlish voice. Though they don't change the lyrics, considering the song deals with the antics of a violent alcoholic robot, lines like "I did something bad, I got in a fight, about drugs, kicked him in the neck" have wildly differing contexts.
**Though "Fast Car", originally by Tracy Chapman, doesn't really gender the narrator, they still manage it. The song changes from being a blue collar couple escaping for a better life elsewhere, to a young homosexual's dream of leaving for the big city.
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!!Examples:
* AntiLoveSong: A large portion of Xiu Xiu's back catalogue has made great use of this trope.
**"Jennifer Lopez" is a sort of open letter to the eponymous singer, asking if she ever gets upset about the fact that her music soundtracks so many men's broken hearts and sexual frustrations in (presumably gay) bars around the world every Friday night.
**"Sad Pony Guerrilla Girl" is surely in the running for "creepiest love song ever". Best case scenario is it's about a woman having a one sided affair with a married man, and being unhappy with the arrangement, but too in love with him to break it off. The song also alludes to him beating her up, and the line "I am your little girl" may or may not be intended literally.
**Perhaps the ultimate example is "Fabulous Muscles". It's about a young gay man with a muscle fetish who unromantically fellates a closeted jock, who then freaks out and kills him. However, the song is delivered in a tone that suggests he's relatively okay with this scenario. Sample lyrics: "Cremate me after you cum on my lips, honey boy. / Place my ashes in a vase beneath your workout bench."
* CarefulWithThatAxe: "Ian Curtis Wishlist", among many others
* ContemptibleCover: ''A Promise''
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: "I Broke Up" gives us the delightful shouted line "THIS IS THE WORST VACATION EVER!/I AM GOING TO CUT OPEN YOUR FOREHEAD WITH A ROOFING SHINGLE!" Just an idea, but perhaps lines like that are why they broke up?
* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Jamie Stewart has been to known to break out a Nintendo DS or a Game Boy.
* IAmTheBand: Jamie Stewart is the sole constant member of the band.
* KissingCousins: When Caralee Mcelroy joined the band, Jamie Stewart claimed she was his longlost cousin. Which, if true, makes some of their promotional pictures during her stint [[http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/6020224/Xiu+Xiu+xiu_xiu.jpg downright]] [[http://omahype.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/xiu-xiu.jpg creepy]].
* SingerNamedrop: Jamie Stewart refers to an ambiguous "J.S." in a couple songs, particularly "Ian Curtis Wishlist" and "Secret Motel".
* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Averted. Xiu Xiu have a habit of covering songs without changing any of the pronouns. Considering singer Jamie Stewart is quite camp (and has written many songs of his own sung to men, both from male and female perspectives), this is almost always the least troubling example of The Cover Changes The Meaning in their versions however.
**Their version of "Don't Cha" by the Pussycat Dolls is a particularly notable effort. Instead of playing up on the joke of covering a dodgy pop song, he sings it entirely straight and turns it into a kind of moving - and deeply disturbing - tale of a man refusing to let his bisexual lover leave his wife for him.
**They even do it to their own songs, releasing two different versions of Helsabot, one sung plaintively by regular singer Jamie Stewart and the other by (now-former) member Caralee Mcelroy, who has quite a sweet, girlish voice. Though they don't change the lyrics, considering the song deals with the antics of a violent alcoholic robot, lines like "I did something bad, I got in a fight, about drugs, kicked him in the neck" have wildly differing contexts.
**Though "Fast Car", originally by Tracy Chapman, doesn't really gender the narrator, they still manage it. The song changes from being a blue collar couple escaping for a better life elsewhere, to a young homosexual's dream of leaving for the big city.
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