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* FunnyMoments: "Only Happy When It Rains" is a hilarious StealthParody of depressive {{Grunge}} culture of the time, if you're in on the joke.
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* EarWorm: Let's see... from the singles alone we have: "Queer", "Vow", "Stupid Girl", "Milk", "Only Happy When It Rains", "#1 Crush", "Subhuman", "[[VideoGame/GranTurismo I Think I'm Paranoid]]", "Push It", "Dumb", "When I Grow Up", "You Look So Fine", the theme for ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', "Androgyny", "Cherry Lips", "Why Do You Love Me", "Bleed Like Me", "Sex Is Not The Enemy", "Automatic Systematic Habit", "Blood For Poppies," "Battle in Me", "Big Bright World", "I Hate Love", etc.
** Appropriately, ''Absolute Garbage'' is 100% EarWorm.
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* EarWorm: Let's see... from the singles alone we have: "Queer", "Vow", "Stupid Girl", "Milk", "Only Happy When It Rains", "#1 Crush", "Subhuman", "I Think I'm Paranoid", "Push It", "Dumb", "When I Grow Up", "You Look So Fine", the theme for ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', "Androgyny", "Cherry Lips", "Why Do You Love Me", "Bleed Like Me", "Sex Is Not The Enemy", "Automatic Systematic Habit", "Blood For Poppies," "Battle in Me", "Big Bright World", "I Hate Love", etc.

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* EarWorm: Let's see... from the singles alone we have: "Queer", "Vow", "Stupid Girl", "Milk", "Only Happy When It Rains", "#1 Crush", "Subhuman", "I "[[VideoGame/GranTurismo I Think I'm Paranoid", Paranoid]]", "Push It", "Dumb", "When I Grow Up", "You Look So Fine", the theme for ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', "Androgyny", "Cherry Lips", "Why Do You Love Me", "Bleed Like Me", "Sex Is Not The Enemy", "Automatic Systematic Habit", "Blood For Poppies," "Battle in Me", "Big Bright World", "I Hate Love", etc.

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* [[HoYay Les Yay]]:
** Early into their 2013 tour, Shirley [[https://twitter.com/garbage/status/317029503278911488 tweeted]] "I have a heavy girl crush on Ioanna from [opening act] IO Echo."
** Then there was [[http://cdn1.fuse.tv/image/50660cc1b3c99e0114005e08/620/500/image.jpg this cuddle moment]] with Music/AmandaPalmer and Marissa from Music/ScreamingFemales...
** And there's the joint cover of "Because the Night" with Screaming Females. Having two female vocalists share the lyrics of that song is automatic Les Yay. (Also, Marissa actually is lesbian.)
** Shirley randomly kisses Brody Dalle in the video for Girls Talk.

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* [[HoYay Les Yay]]:
** Early into their 2013 tour, Shirley [[https://twitter.com/garbage/status/317029503278911488 tweeted]] "I have a heavy girl crush on Ioanna from [opening act] IO Echo."
** Then there was [[http://cdn1.fuse.tv/image/50660cc1b3c99e0114005e08/620/500/image.jpg this cuddle moment]] with Music/AmandaPalmer and Marissa from Music/ScreamingFemales...
** And there's
Yay]]: There's the joint cover of "Because the Night" with Screaming Females. Having two female vocalists share the lyrics of that song is automatic Les Yay. (Also, Marissa actually is lesbian.)
** Shirley randomly kisses Brody Dalle in the video for Girls Talk.
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Aside from the fact that The Woobie doesn't allow Real Life examples (at the moment), Shirley Manson is not a fictional character. This is also the wrong page to be writing such an example, and The Woobie was just cleaned a few months back to make the crtieria for entry more stringent.


* TheWoobie: Shirley Manson had a really bad childhood (including sexual abuse) which has resulted in her having crippling depression as an adult, among other things.

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* TheWoobie: Shirley Manson had a really bad childhood (including sexual abuse) which has resulted in her having crippling depression as an adult, among other things.----
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* SignatureSong: Hard to pick just one, though "Only Happy When It Rains" and "Stupid Girl" are both strong candidates.

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* SignatureSong: Hard to pick just one, though "Only Happy When It Rains" and "Stupid Girl" are both strong candidates.candidates.
* TheWoobie: Shirley Manson had a really bad childhood (including sexual abuse) which has resulted in her having crippling depression as an adult, among other things.
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* FairForItsDay: The lyrics of "Cherry Lips" describe a either a trans woman or a cross dresser. If it's the former it might be considered to use some language not considered OK by today's standards, but at the time it was pretty progressive.
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* PanderingToTheBase: More critical reviews of NYKOP suggesed that the album was aimed entirely at long time fans of the band.

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* PanderingToTheBase: More critical reviews of NYKOP suggesed that the album was aimed entirely at long time fans of the band.band.
* SignatureSong: Hard to pick just one, though "Only Happy When It Rains" and "Stupid Girl" are both strong candidates.
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** Shirley's blonde pixie look in the beautifulgarbage era didn't really last long or gain any popularity with fans, but a few years later it basically became Music/{{Pink}}'s iconic look.
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** Shirley randomly kisses Brody Dalle in the video for Girls Talk.
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* FlipFlopOfGod: The meaning behind "Queer"

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The first two albums. ''Not Your Kind of People'' is also seen this way compared to the albums before it. There's an absolute genius somewhere that realized "Not Your Kind of People" hit all the same underlying themes as ''Franchise/MetalGear'', and used it in the trailer for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''. [[spoiler: One particular lyric about speaking a different language unintentionally foreshadows a major story element in the game.]]

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The first two albums. ''Not Your Kind of People'' is also seen this way compared to the albums before it. There's
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* FanonDiscontinuity: A handful of fans will [[IncrediblyLamePun vow]] that the band's catalogue consists only of ''Garbage'', ''Version 2.0'' and ''Not Your Kind of People''.

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* FanonDiscontinuity: A handful of fans will [[IncrediblyLamePun vow]] that the band's catalogue consists only of ''Garbage'', ''Version 2.0'' and 0'', ''Not Your Kind of People''.People'' and ''Strange Little Birds''.

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* HilariousInHindsight: The video for "The World Is Not Enough" features an android that looks exactly like Shirley Manson killing the real Shirley before taking her place and blowing up a concert hall. Then Shirley [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles started playing a Terminator]]...

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* HilariousInHindsight: HilariousInHindsight:
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The video for "The World Is Not Enough" features an android that looks exactly like Shirley Manson killing the real Shirley before taking her place and blowing up a concert hall. Then Shirley [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles started playing a Terminator]]...Terminator]] who is strongly implied to have murdered and replaced a human woman (briefly played in a flashback by Shirley as well).

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* [[HoYay Les Yay]]: Early into their 2013 tour, Shirley [[https://twitter.com/garbage/status/317029503278911488 tweeted]] "I have a heavy girl crush on Ioanna from [opening act] IO Echo."

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* [[HoYay Les Yay]]: Yay]]:
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Early into their 2013 tour, Shirley [[https://twitter.com/garbage/status/317029503278911488 tweeted]] "I have a heavy girl crush on Ioanna from [opening act] IO Echo."


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** And there's the joint cover of "Because the Night" with Screaming Females. Having two female vocalists share the lyrics of that song is automatic Les Yay. (Also, Marissa actually is lesbian.)
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** Then there was [[http://cdn1.fuse.tv/image/50660cc1b3c99e0114005e08/620/500/image.jpg this cuddle moment]] with AmandaPalmer and Marissa from Music/ScreamingFemales...

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** Then there was [[http://cdn1.fuse.tv/image/50660cc1b3c99e0114005e08/620/500/image.jpg this cuddle moment]] with AmandaPalmer Music/AmandaPalmer and Marissa from Music/ScreamingFemales...

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The first two albums. ''Not Your Kind of People'' is also seen this way compared to the albums before it.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The first two albums. ''Not Your Kind of People'' is also seen this way compared to the albums before it. There's an absolute genius somewhere that realized "Not Your Kind of People" hit all the same underlying themes as ''Franchise/MetalGear'', and used it in the trailer for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''. [[spoiler: One particular lyric about speaking a different language unintentionally foreshadows a major story element in the game.]]



* CreatorBreakdown: ''beautifulgarbage'' (Shirley got divorced) and ''Bleed Like Me'' (whose TroubledProduction had plenty of intra-band conflict) have many shades of this in the lyrics.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Shirley Manson's scolding message for Kanye West after he tried his infamous stunt a second time.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The band halts their concert for a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0SULMU7kaU wedding proposal]] to take place.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: There's an absolute genius somewhere that realized "Not Your Kind of People" hit all the same underlying themes as ''Franchise/MetalGear'', and used it in the trailer for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''. [[spoiler: One particular lyric about speaking a different language unintentionally foreshadows a major story element in the game.]]



* EpicRiff: The Music/MyBloodyValentine-[[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute sounding]] "Supervixen" and the singles, for starters.

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* EpicRiff: The Music/MyBloodyValentine-[[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute sounding]] Music/MyBloodyValentine-{{s|uspiciouslySimilarSubstitute}}ounding "Supervixen" and the singles, for starters.



* HilariousInHindsight: The video for "The World Is Not Enough" features an android that looks exactly like Shirley Manson killing the real Shirley before taking her place and blowing up a concert hall. Then Shirley [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles started playing a Terminator...]]
** During [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1bctgI4t0s a performance at the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards]], Shirley had a WardrobeMalfunction, and commented on the occasion with [[http://www.garbage.net/garbage/articles/@feb97-2.htm "When did a nipple do any harm?"]] 8 years later JanetJackson suffers a malfunction, and Shirley gets so mad at seeing it three days in a row on the cover of ''USA Today'' she writes a song complaining, "Sex Is Not The Enemy".
* LesYay: Early into their 2013 tour, Shirley [[https://twitter.com/garbage/status/317029503278911488 tweeted]] "I have a heavy girl crush on Ioanna from [opening act] IO Echo."

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* SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}: The band halts their concert for a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0SULMU7kaU wedding proposal]] to take place.
* HilariousInHindsight: The video for "The World Is Not Enough" features an android that looks exactly like Shirley Manson killing the real Shirley before taking her place and blowing up a concert hall. Then Shirley [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles started playing a Terminator...]]
Terminator]]...
** During [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1bctgI4t0s a performance at the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards]], Shirley had a WardrobeMalfunction, and commented on the occasion with [[http://www.garbage.net/garbage/articles/@feb97-2.htm "When did a nipple do any harm?"]] 8 years later JanetJackson Music/JanetJackson suffers a malfunction, and Shirley gets so mad at seeing it three days in a row on the cover of ''USA Today'' she writes a song complaining, "Sex Is Not The Enemy".
** Similarly, the title track from "Not Your Kind of People" [[spoiler:foreshadows the entire plot of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'']].
* LesYay: [[HoYay Les Yay]]: Early into their 2013 tour, Shirley [[https://twitter.com/garbage/status/317029503278911488 tweeted]] "I have a heavy girl crush on Ioanna from [opening act] IO Echo."


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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Shirley Manson's scolding message for Kanye West after he tried his infamous stunt a second time.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The video for "The World Is Not Enough" features an android that looks exactly like Shirley Manson killing the real Shirley before taking her place and blowing up a concert hall. Then Shirley [[TheSarahConnorChronicles started playing a Terminator...]]

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* HilariousInHindsight: The video for "The World Is Not Enough" features an android that looks exactly like Shirley Manson killing the real Shirley before taking her place and blowing up a concert hall. Then Shirley [[TheSarahConnorChronicles [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles started playing a Terminator...]]
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: There's an absolute genius somewhere that realized "Not Your Kind of People" hit all the same underlying themes as ''Franchise/MetalGear'', and used it in the trailer for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''. [[spoiler: One particular lyric about speaking a different language unintentionally forshadows a major story element in the game.]]

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: There's an absolute genius somewhere that realized "Not Your Kind of People" hit all the same underlying themes as ''Franchise/MetalGear'', and used it in the trailer for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''. [[spoiler: One particular lyric about speaking a different language unintentionally forshadows foreshadows a major story element in the game.]]
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: There's an absolute genius somewhere that realized "Not Your Kind of People" hit all the same underlying themes as ''Franchise/MetalGear'', and used it in the trailer for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: There's an absolute genius somewhere that realized "Not Your Kind of People" hit all the same underlying themes as ''Franchise/MetalGear'', and used it in the trailer for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''. [[spoiler: One particular lyric about speaking a different language unintentionally forshadows a major story element in the game.]]
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The band halts their concert for a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0SULMU7kaU wedding proposal]] to take place.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Shirley Manson's scolding message for Kanye West after he tried his infamous stunt a second time.
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* CreatorBreakdown: ''beautifulgarbage'' (Shirley got divorced) and ''Bleed Like Me'' (whose TroubledProduction had plenty of intra-band conflict) have many shades of this in the lyrics.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: There's an absolute genius somewhere that realized "Not Your Kind of People" hit all the same underlying themes as ''Franchise/MetalGear'', and used it in the trailer for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid5''.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: There's an absolute genius somewhere that realized "Not Your Kind of People" hit all the same underlying themes as ''Franchise/MetalGear'', and used it in the trailer for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid5''.''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''.
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* FaceOfTheBand: Shirley Manson. At Butch Vig is well-known as a producer.

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* FaceOfTheBand: Shirley Manson. At And Butch Vig is well-known as a producer.
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* LesYay: Early into their 2013 tour, Shirley [[https://twitter.com/garbage/status/317029503278911488 tweeted]] "I have a heavy girl crush on Ioanna from [opening act IO Echo]."

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* LesYay: Early into their 2013 tour, Shirley [[https://twitter.com/garbage/status/317029503278911488 tweeted]] "I have a heavy girl crush on Ioanna from [opening act act] IO Echo].Echo."
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Your Mileage May Vary is an index, not a trope. It should not be linked from any trope or work page for any reason. In this case, this is a YMMV page anyway, so it\'s redundant.


* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Though [[YourMileageMayVary many other songs surely count]], there's an absolute genius somewhere that realized "Not Your Kind of People" hit all the same underlying themes as MetalGear, and used it in the trailer for MetalGearSolid5.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Though [[YourMileageMayVary many other songs surely count]], there's There's an absolute genius somewhere that realized "Not Your Kind of People" hit all the same underlying themes as MetalGear, ''Franchise/MetalGear'', and used it in the trailer for MetalGearSolid5.''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid5''.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Though [[YourMileageMayVary many other songs surely count]], there's an absolute genius somewhere that realized "Not Your Kind of People" hit all the same underlying themes as MetalGear, and used it in the trailer for MetalGearSolid5.
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* HoYay: Early into their 2013 tour, Shirley [[https://twitter.com/garbage/status/317029503278911488 tweeted]] "I have a heavy girl crush on Ioanna from [opening act IO Echo]."

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* HoYay: LesYay: Early into their 2013 tour, Shirley [[https://twitter.com/garbage/status/317029503278911488 tweeted]] "I have a heavy girl crush on Ioanna from [opening act IO Echo]."
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** Then there was [[http://cdn1.fuse.tv/image/50660cc1b3c99e0114005e08/620/500/image.jpg this cuddle moment]] with Creator/AmandaPalmer and Marissa from Music/ScreamingFemales...

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** Then there was [[http://cdn1.fuse.tv/image/50660cc1b3c99e0114005e08/620/500/image.jpg this cuddle moment]] with Creator/AmandaPalmer AmandaPalmer and Marissa from Music/ScreamingFemales...

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