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The band began generating buzz through supporting[=/=]touring with other rock bands like Music/TheStrokes, Music/TheWhiteStripes and Music/JonSpencerBluesExplosion; around this time, they released their debut [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]] EP. Their status elevated further with the critical and commercial success of their first three albums (''Fever to Tell'', ''Show Your Bones'', and ''It's Blitz!''), released in the 2000s. Hit singles from this time included "Maps", "Gold Lion", "Heads Will Roll", and "Zero".

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The band began generating buzz through supporting[=/=]touring with other rock bands like Music/TheStrokes, Music/TheWhiteStripes Music/TheStrokes and Music/JonSpencerBluesExplosion; Music/TheWhiteStripes; around this time, they released their debut [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]] EP. Their status elevated further with the critical and commercial success of their first three albums (''Fever to Tell'', ''Show Your Bones'', and ''It's Blitz!''), released in the 2000s. Hit singles from this time included "Maps", "Gold Lion", "Heads Will Roll", and "Zero".

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A DancePunk/[[GenreBusting Art Punk/Everything]] band from [[BigApplesauce New York]], Yeah Yeah Yeahs formed back in 2000, and consists of singer Karen O, guitarist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. While remaining fairly unknown for a long time, they started gaining popularity around the late 2000s to early 2010s (like other bands, having a song in ''VideoGame/RockBand'' tends to [[SongAssociation send a few sales your way]]).

The band itself has an odd RockTrio setup, with each member's stage persona fitting a different stereotype. This has been commented on by the band themselves a few times. In particular Karen O is said to be much more subdued than her stage persona, to the surprise of many fans.

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A DancePunk/[[GenreBusting Art Punk/Everything]] band from [[BigApplesauce New York]],
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are an American rock band formed back in New York City in 2000, and consists consisting of singer Karen O, guitarist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. While remaining fairly unknown for Their sound [[GenreMashup combines influences]] from genres including {{indie rock}} and various styles of {{punk|Rock}} (art, garage, dance, etc). According to a long time, they started gaining popularity around 2004 interview, the late 2000s to early 2010s (like other bands, having a song in ''VideoGame/RockBand'' tends to [[SongAssociation send a few sales your way]]).

band's name was taken from modern NYC vernacular.

The band itself has an odd RockTrio setup, with each member's stage persona fitting a different stereotype. This has been commented on by the band themselves a few times. In particular particular, Karen O is said to be much more subdued than her stage persona, to the surprise of many fans.

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Karen O and Chase met as students at Oberlin College in the late 1990s; Karen later met Zinner in a bar after transferring to New York University. Karen and Zinner initially formed an acoustic duo, but decided to reconfigure into a band inspired by the avant-punk art scene Karen was exposed to at Oberlin. Chase joined their band after their originally recruited drummer left.

The band began generating buzz through supporting[=/=]touring with other rock bands like Music/TheStrokes, Music/TheWhiteStripes and Music/JonSpencerBluesExplosion; around this time, they released their debut [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]] EP. Their status elevated further with the critical and commercial success of their first three albums (''Fever to Tell'', ''Show Your Bones'', and ''It's Blitz!''), released in the 2000s. Hit singles from this time included "Maps", "Gold Lion", "Heads Will Roll", and "Zero".

After the spring 2013 release of their fourth album, ''Mosquito'', Yeah Yeah Yeahs went on hiatus from December 2014 to June 2017. They released a deluxe remaster of ''Fever to Tell'' in October of the latter year, and released their fifth album, ''Cool It Down'', in September 2022, marking their first album in nine years.

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* LongTitle: "Spitting Off the Edge of the World".
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A DancePunk/[[GenreBusting Art Punk/Everything]] band from [[BigApplesauce New York]], Yeah Yeah Yeahs formed back in 2000, and consists of singer Karen O, guitarist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. While remaining fairly unknown for a long time, they started gaining popularity (like other bands, having a song in ''VideoGame/RockBand'' tends to [[SongAssociation send a few sales your way]]).

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A DancePunk/[[GenreBusting Art Punk/Everything]] band from [[BigApplesauce New York]], Yeah Yeah Yeahs formed back in 2000, and consists of singer Karen O, guitarist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. While remaining fairly unknown for a long time, they started gaining popularity around the late 2000s to early 2010s (like other bands, having a song in ''VideoGame/RockBand'' tends to [[SongAssociation send a few sales your way]]).
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Zinner, O, Chase.]]

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* LongTitle: "Spitting Off the Edge of the World".
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* RefrainFromAssuming: Many people think their biggest hit, "Maps", is called "They Don't Love You Like I Love You".
** Also applies to "Heads Will Roll", which many think is called "Dance Til Your Dead".
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** [[{{Nerd}} The Nerd]]: Brian Chase
** [[{{Goth}} The Goth]]: Nick Zinner

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* ''Cool It Down'' (2022)
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* ContemptibleCover: ''Mosquito'''s album cover earned a fair amount of scorn due to its bizarre imagery (a giant mosquito carrying a crying baby).
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* CostumeTropes: Karen O alone covers a fair few:
** ImpossiblyCoolClothes
** PimpedOutDress
** RummageSaleReject
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* AliceAllusion: "Heads Will Roll", which is sung from the perspective of the Queen of Hearts (See OffWithHisHead below).


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* OffWithHisHead: "Heads Will Roll", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin duh]]. Even the first line of the song is literally naming the trope! The end of the music video also alludes this, with the whole band ending up dismembered, and Karen O beheaded.


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** Also applies to "Heads Will Roll", which many think is called "Dance Til Your Dead".
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A DancePunk/[[GenreBusting Art Punk/Everything]] band from [[BigApplesauce New York]], Yeah Yeah Yeahs formed back in 2000, and consists of singer Karen O, guitarist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. While remaining fairly unknown for a long time, they started gaining popularity (like other bands, having a song in ''VideoGame/RockBand'' tends to [[GrandTheftAutoEffect send a few sales your way]]).

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A DancePunk/[[GenreBusting Art Punk/Everything]] band from [[BigApplesauce New York]], Yeah Yeah Yeahs formed back in 2000, and consists of singer Karen O, guitarist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. While remaining fairly unknown for a long time, they started gaining popularity (like other bands, having a song in ''VideoGame/RockBand'' tends to [[GrandTheftAutoEffect [[SongAssociation send a few sales your way]]).
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The band itself has an odd PowerTrio setup, with each member's stage persona fitting a different stereotype. This has been commented on by the band themselves a few times. In particular Karen O is said to be much more subdued than her stage persona, to the surprise of many fans.

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The band itself has an odd PowerTrio RockTrio setup, with each member's stage persona fitting a different stereotype. This has been commented on by the band themselves a few times. In particular Karen O is said to be much more subdued than her stage persona, to the surprise of many fans.



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