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* '''Justified''': The singers are so drunk at the time of recording that their speech is slurred.
* '''Inverted''': The lyrics are sung in perfect, clear pronunciation.

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The singers are so drunk at the time of recording that their speech is slurred.
** The singers sang competently,but their recording equipment had issues that could not be fixed in post.
** The singer made the lyrics up on the fly.
* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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The lyrics are sung in perfect, clear pronunciation.pronunciation.
** The lyrics are performed competently, but the drums are out of sync and each instrument is playing in a different key, making the instrumentals an incoherent mess.



* '''Parodied''': Those are the actual lyrics.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Only some part of the lyrics is unintelligible.

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* '''Parodied''': Those are the actual lyrics.
lyrics. "Troperia"'s section in the lyrics booklet just says: "Who the hell knows what we said?"
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Only some part of the lyrics is are unintelligible.



* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Discussed''': ???
Part of the lyrics include "if I could hear myself a minute ago, I would ask: 'what?'"
* '''Conversed''': ???"Hold on, what did he just sing? Lady Mondegreen? Ladle pondering?" "Yeah, that's weird. At least it's followed by a sick guitar solo."



* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': "Troperia" is the ending track of a concept album depicting a man's [[SanitySlippage slow downward spiral into insanity]], and the lyrics get harder and harder to parse as the man's condition worsens.
* '''Played for Horror''': The song is about supernatural beings, and it is implied that some lyrics are indecipherable because YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm of said beings.



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** Concealing lyrics or their meaning for the purpose of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

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** Concealing lyrics or their meaning for the purpose of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.to evade censorship.

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* '''Straight''': The lyrics of the song Troperia is very difficult to understand.

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* '''Straight''': The lyrics of the song Troperia is "Troperia" are very difficult to understand.



** The lyrics were actually recorded backward.
** The lyrics consist entirely of made-up-words.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...which is still incomprehensible in that foreign language...

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** The lyrics were actually recorded backward.
** The lyrics consist entirely of made-up-words.
made-up words.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...Subverted''':
** ...
which is still incomprehensible in that foreign language...language...
** ...and the lyrics still don't string together.
** The made-up words mean nothing.



* '''Zig Zagged''': Only some part of the lyrics is unintelligible.
* '''Averted''':

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* '''Zig Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''': Only some part of the lyrics is unintelligible.
* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':



* '''Lampshaded''': The band releases a statement saying that it doesn't matter what the song's about since no-one will be able to understand any of it anyway.

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* '''Lampshaded''': The band releases a statement saying that it doesn't matter what the song's about since no-one nobody will be able to understand any of it anyway.



* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???The producers and/or engineers don't let the band into the studio when they come in to record "Troperia" intoxicated.



* '''Deconstructed''': The listeners get frustrated over the attempt to make out the lyrics and stop buying the song Troperia.

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* '''Deconstructed''': The listeners get frustrated over the attempt to make out the lyrics and stop buying the song Troperia."Troperia."



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%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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%%* '''Played For for Laughs''': ???
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'''Basic Trope''': The lyrics in a song is impossible to understand.

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'''Basic Trope''': The lyrics in a song is are impossible to understand.



* '''Exaggerated''': The entire lyrics of the song Troperia sounds like "gargargargargargarhhhhhhgargh."

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* '''Exaggerated''': The entire lyrics of the song Troperia sounds like "gargargargargargarhhhhhhgargh."soundtrack has nonsense lyrics.



* '''Inverted''': The lyrics is sung in perfect, clear pronunciation.

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* '''Inverted''': The lyrics is are sung in perfect, clear pronunciation.



** The lyrics turn out to be written in foreign language.
** The lyrics were actually recorded backwards.

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** The lyrics turn out to be written in a foreign language.
** The lyrics were actually recorded backwards.backward.



* '''Lampshaded''': The band release a statement saying that it doesn't matter what the song's about since no-one will be able to understand any of it anyway.

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* '''Lampshaded''': The band release releases a statement saying that it doesn't matter what the song's about since no-one will be able to understand any of it anyway.



* '''Exploited''': In an early video game the soundcard is incapable of reproducing clear speech so instead of going without or using instrumental they use genres that have it as the norm.

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* '''Exploited''': In an early video game game, the soundcard is incapable of reproducing clear speech so instead of going without or using instrumental they use genres that have it as the norm.

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** The song wasn't in their native language.



* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???
The band deliberately had it edited to be indistinct as they felt it blended better.
* '''Exploited''': ???In an early video game the soundcard is incapable of reproducing clear speech so instead of going without or using instrumental they use genres that have it as the norm.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???WordSaladLyrics

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* '''Straight''': The lyrics of the song Troperia is very difficult to understand.

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* '''Straight''': The lyrics of the song Troperia is very difficult to understand.



* '''Downplayed''': ???



* '''Subverted''': The lyrics turn out to be written in foreign language.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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The lyrics turn out to be written in foreign language.



* '''Deconstructed''': The listeners get frustrated over the attempt to make out the lyrics and stop buying the song Troperia.
* '''Reconstructed''': The listeners start to enjoy trying to comprehend the lyrics.



* '''Averted''': The lyric is intelligible.

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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The lyric is intelligible.



* '''Enforced''': Concealing lyrics or their meaning for the purpose of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
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Concealing lyrics or their meaning for the purpose of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.



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* '''Defied''':
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* '''Conversed''':

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'''Invoked''': ???
* '''Defied''':
'''Exploited''': ???
* '''Discussed''':
'''Defied''': ???
* '''Conversed''':
'''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': The listeners get frustrated over the attempt to make out the lyrics and stop buying the song Troperia.
* '''Reconstructed''': The listeners start to enjoy trying to comprehend the lyrics.


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* '''Lampshaded''':

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* '''Lampshaded''': The band release a statement saying that it doesn't matter what the song's about since no-one will be able to understand any of it anyway.

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* '''Enforced''':

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* '''Enforced''': Concealing lyrics or their meaning for the purpose of GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
** The band is a BlackMetal band.
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** The lyrics consist entirely of made-up-words.


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** The song is an instrumental, and ''has'' no lyrics.
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** The lyrics were actually recorded backwards.
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* '''Parodied''':

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* '''Parodied''': Those are the actual lyrics.
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