History YMMV / FosterThePeople

*** Not to mention the whole video is about supermodels getting EatenAlive by a woman who is trying to obtain their beauty. We even see one of the supermodels getting SwallowedWhole with her legs sticking out of the woman's mouth and desperately kicking as she tries (and fails) to save herself.

* HarsherInHindsight: "Pumped Up Kicks" is about a guy who acquires a gun and plans to shoot people for it. This becomes much harsher in hindsight, due to the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, and especially due to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

** Mark Foster was in high school when Columbine went down. Rest assured: There's pretty much no way he wasn't thinking of it when he wrote the song.

* PainfulRhyme: Their lyrics make use of oblique and assonant slant rhymes so often it's pretty much part of their signature style, but "Houdini" rhyming "stress" with "ability" is... [[{{Understatement}} kind of a stretch]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Despite not being as well-known to mainstream audiences as "Pumped Up Kicks", many fans consider "Houdini" to be the shining point of ''Torches''. "Pseudoligia Fantastica" and "A Beginner's Guide To Destroying The Moon" are also considered this for ''Supermodel''.

* EarWorm: Quite a few to be found on their album. Try getting the whistled hook from "Pumped Up Kicks" out of your head upon hearing it... it's not easy.

** The [[http://youtu.be/Ndzln1UEyf0 video]] for "Best Friend". Trippy visuals of the band playing, tons of BodyHorror and UncannyValley, a woman ''plunking herself'' up and it ends with her choking on a dress. Good lord, they've truly topped themselves with this one.

* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Each member of the band brings this in different flavors; Mark Foster has an {{Adorkable}} quality to him, Mark Pontius is the [[EveryoneLovesBlondes cute, blonde one]], and Cubbie Fink is the [[TallDarkAndHandsome brooding, dark haired hottie]].

* EstrogenBrigade: Each member of the band brings this in different flavors; Mark Foster has an {{Adorkable}} quality to him, Mark Pontius is the [[EveryoneLovesBlondes cute, blonde one]], and Cubbie Fink is the [[TallDarkAndHandsome brooding, dark haired hottie]].

** The [[LastNoteNightmare ending]] to "Goats in Trees."

** There's an available [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-upSHZVcQU instrumental version]] of the song. At minute 1:02, right before it gets to the chorus, you can hear a brief, distorted voice. It's hard to understand what it says. To me, it sort of sounds a bit like, "''Leave here when you die''." What's creepier is that I - nor even many of us - noticed this bit in the original! Worse, it sounded like people were shouting during the chorus... turns out it was rhythmic clapping.

* The [[LastNoteNightmare ending]] to "Goats in Trees."

** Crosses over with HarsherInHindsight when the song is taken in context with [[http://abcnews.go.com/US/chardon-high-school-shooting-gunman-identified-tj-lane/story?id=15799815#.T2JwJRGGp1E the shooting at Chardon High School.]]

* EarWorm: Quite a few to be found on their album. Try getting the whistled hook from "Pumped Up Kicks" out of your head upon hearing it… it's not easy.

* NightmareFuel: "Pumped-up Kicks," being known for its LyricalDissonance about gun violence, one can't help but be reminded of the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} High School Massacre, because many peoples' comments wondered if this is what the song's about (among other shooting attacks); due to this, I've done a lot more of research on the massacre... and now will never be able to listen to "Pumped-up Kicks" again without picturing Eric Harris' & Dylan Klebold's school shooting taking place.

* NightmareFuel: "Pumped-up Kicks," being known for its LyricalDissonance about gun violence, this troper was reminded of the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} High School Massacre, because many peoples' comments wondered if this is what the song's about (among other shooting attacks); due to this, I've done a lot more of research on the massacre... and now will never be able to listen to "Pumped-up Kicks" again without picturing Eric Harris' & Dylan Klebold's school shooting taking place.
** Mark Foster was in high school when Columbine went down. This troper (one year older) can assure you: There's pretty much no way he wasn't thinking of it when he wrote the song.

** Crosses over with {{HarsherInHindsight}} when the song is taken in context with [[http://abcnews.go.com/US/chardon-high-school-shooting-gunman-identified-tj-lane/story?id=15799815#.T2JwJRGGp1E the shooting at Chardon High School.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: "Pumped Up Kicks" might as well be called Harsher In Hindsight the song

** There's an available [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-upSHZVcQU instrumental version]] of the song. At minute 1:02, right before it gets to the chorus, you can hear a brief, distorted voice. It's hard to understand what it says. To me, it sort of sounds a bit like, "''Leave here when you die''." What's creepier is that I - nor even many of us - noticed this bit in the original!
*** [[ItGotWorse Worse]], it sounded like people were shouting during the chorus... turns out it was rhythmic clapping.

* NightmareFuel: "Pumped-up Kicks," being known for its LyricalDissonance about gun violence, this troper was reminded of the {{Columbine}} High School Massacre, because many peoples' comments wondered if this is what the song's about (among other shooting attacks); due to this, I've done a lot more of research on the massacre... and now will never be able to listen to "Pumped-up Kicks" again without picturing Eric Harris' & Dylan Klebold's school shooting taking place.

** There's an available [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-upSHZVcQU instrumental version]] of the song. At minute 1:02, right before it gets to the chorus, you can hear a brief, distorted voice. It's hard to understand what it says. To me, it sort of sounds a bit like, "''Leave here when you die''." What's creepier is that I - nor even many of us - noticed this bit in the original!

** There's an available [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-upSHZVcQU instrumental version]] of the song. At minute 1:02, right before it gets to the chorus, you can hear a brief, distorted voice. It's hard to understand what it says, but to me, it sort of sounds a bit like, "''Leave here when you die''." What's creepier is that I - nor even many of us - noticed this bit in the original!

* NightmareFuel: "Pumped-up Kicks," being known for its LyricalDissonance about gun violence, this troper was reminded of the {{Columbine}} High School Massacre, because many peoples' comments wondered if this is what the song's about (among other shooting attacks); due to this, I've done a lot of research on the massacre... and now will never be able to listen to "Pumped-up Kicks" again without picturing Eric Harris' & Dylan Klebold's school shooting taking place.

* FaceOfTheBand: Mark Foster, seeing as how the band is called [[CaptainObvious ''Foster'' The People]].