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True Art Is Incomprehensible is now an in-universe trope as per TRS.


* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible:
** "[[SanitySlippageSong The Sound Of The Atom Splitting]]", and ''It Couldn't Happen Here'' (the movie).
** Many fans didn't like the sound shift from their characteristic electronic-pop style to a more rock, guitar based sound in their album ''Release''. While the "Home and dry" music video amounted to camera footage of rodents on the London Underground, which didn't help the success of ''Release'' much.

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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible:
** "[[SanitySlippageSong The Sound Of The Atom Splitting]]", and ''It Couldn't Happen Here'' (the movie).
** Many fans didn't like the sound shift from their characteristic electronic-pop style to a more rock, guitar based sound in their album ''Release''. While the "Home and dry" music video amounted to camera footage of rodents on the London Underground, which didn't help the success of ''Release'' much.

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* QuestionableCasting: One of the decisions that, for better or worse, really set ''Release'' apart from the rest of their catalogue was the inclusion of Music/JohnnyMarr (of Music/TheSmiths) as a session musician for most of the tracks.



* WTHCastingAgency: One of the decisions that, for better or worse, really set ''Release'' apart from the rest of their catalogue was the inclusion of Music/JohnnyMarr (of Music/TheSmiths) as a session musician for most of the tracks.
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** In the liner notes for ''Alternative,'' Neil Tennant says of his guitar solo on "Decadence": "I guess Pet Shop Boys are not allowed to rock." Jon Savage concurs. Seven years later came Pet Shop Boys' pop-rock GenreAdultery ''Release''. While not an outright failure, it is their least successful album to date--critics are still split on its quality.

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** In the liner notes for ''Alternative,'' Neil Tennant says of his guitar solo on "Decadence": "I guess Pet Shop Boys are not allowed to rock." Jon Savage concurs. Seven years later came Pet Shop Boys' pop-rock GenreAdultery album ''Release''. While not an outright failure, it is their least successful album to date--critics are still split on its quality.
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Face Of The Band disambig'd per TRS. Don't link it anywhere.


* FaceOfTheBand: Neil Tennant. This is intentional, because Chris is rather shy.
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** Hence the ShoutOut to said superhero in "Building a Wall."
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** The video for Kings Cross (the ''It Couldn't Happen Here'' clip [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kRfIpuZIXE]], not the Darek Jarman projection) shows a man on fire, whereas the song itself talks about the (presumably figurative) "dead and wounded on either side" all around Kings Cross station. Two months later, a fire kills 31 at the Kings Cross tube station.

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** The video for Kings Cross (the ''It Couldn't Happen Here'' clip [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kRfIpuZIXE]], not the Darek Derek Jarman projection) shows a man on fire, whereas the song itself talks about the (presumably figurative) "dead and wounded on either side" all around Kings Cross station. Two months later, a fire kills 31 at the Kings Cross tube station.station.
** Similarly with "Dreaming of the Queen," which features a dream image of Princess Diana saying "there are no more lovers left alive": it was released four years before she died with her lover in a car crash. (Of course the song was plenty harsh enough, being about AIDS and resulting bereavement.)
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** The music video for "Yesterday I Was Mad" is SurrealHorror at its finest. There's too much strange and creepy imagery to list at once but special mention has to go to the [[DerangedAnimation creepy, deformed CGI heads of Chris and Neil]] which go rocketing straight into the UnintentionalUncannyValley.

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** The music video for "Yesterday "Yesterday, When I Was Mad" is SurrealHorror at its finest. There's too much strange and creepy imagery to list at once but special mention has to go to the [[DerangedAnimation creepy, deformed CGI heads of Chris and Neil]] which go rocketing straight into the UnintentionalUncannyValley.
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* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: Some fans interpret "I Want a Dog" in this way, which would make it a coded admission that the singer is gay.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Before the band achieved stardom, Neil Tennant worked for Creator/MarvelComics as editor for the Creator/MarvelUK line, including the launch of their first British superhero, ComicBook/CaptainBritain. His name turns up a lot in the credits for those books.
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* RefrainFromAssuming: "Opportunities" is often referred to by its subtitle, "Let's Make Lots Of Money".
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* FriendlyFandoms: With Music/NewOrder, due to their similar style as well as both bands working with producer Stephen Hague. Neil Tennant has professed a love of Music/JoyDivision and New Order in interviews, as well as contributing vocals to Music/{{Electronic}}'s "Getting Away with It" . The bands were even set to tour together before being interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Also with Music/{{Erasure}} for both also working with Hague and being SynthPop duos with openly gay frontmen.

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* FriendlyFandoms: With Music/NewOrder, due to their similar style as well as both bands working with producer Stephen Hague. Neil Tennant has professed a love of Music/JoyDivision and New Order in interviews, as well as contributing vocals to Music/{{Electronic}}'s "Getting Away with It" .It", "The Patience of a Saint", and "Disappointed". The bands were even set to tour together before being interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Also with Music/{{Erasure}} for both also working with Hague and being SynthPop duos with openly gay frontmen.
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* LGBTFanbase: The group has a large gay fanbase due to the gay content in a lot of their music.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process


** The original video for "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)" starts off pretty standard, with Chris walking around an empty parking garage and Neil 'in character' as the narrator of the song standing in a hole in front of a car with its headlights on. However as Neil gets to the chorus some fog covers the screen and as it fades away it reveals Neil looks [[UncannyValley ...off]], with sickly greenish skin and glasses tinted so you can't see his eyes. Not helping matters is the stilted, awkward way he lip syncs, his constant twitching or the fact that ''his neck inflates like a frog'' every so often. Neil switches between looking normal and looking like this throughout the video until the very end, when he ''melts''. It's downright unsettling from a band not normally known for being creepy.
** The music video for "Yesterday I Was Mad" is SurrealHorror at its finest. There's too much strange and creepy imagery to list at once but special mention has to go to the [[DerangedAnimation creepy, deformed CGI heads of Chris and Neil]] which go rocketing straight into the UncannyValley.

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** The original video for "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)" starts off pretty standard, with Chris walking around an empty parking garage and Neil 'in character' as the narrator of the song standing in a hole in front of a car with its headlights on. However as Neil gets to the chorus some fog covers the screen and as it fades away it reveals Neil looks [[UncannyValley ...off]], looks ...off, with sickly greenish skin and glasses tinted so you can't see his eyes. Not helping matters is the stilted, awkward way he lip syncs, his constant twitching or the fact that ''his neck inflates like a frog'' every so often. Neil switches between looking normal and looking like this throughout the video until the very end, when he ''melts''. It's downright unsettling from a band not normally known for being creepy.
** The music video for "Yesterday I Was Mad" is SurrealHorror at its finest. There's too much strange and creepy imagery to list at once but special mention has to go to the [[DerangedAnimation creepy, deformed CGI heads of Chris and Neil]] which go rocketing straight into the UncannyValley.UnintentionalUncannyValley.
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