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* RefrainFromAssuming: "Greek Song" is sometimes referred to as "You Turn Me On" after the phrase repeated seven times in the first verse.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: "Going To A Town" is a very unsubtle jab at the [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush Administration]] (especially the music video for it) and at politicians in general for using homophobia for political gain, but the general consensus is that it was a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

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* {{Anvilicious}}: "Going To A Town" is a very unsubtle jab at the [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush Administration]] (especially the music video for it) and at politicians in general for using homophobia for political gain, but the general consensus is that it was a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.gain.

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* FauxSymbolism: Pretty much the entirety of the video "Going to a Town", done very intentionally.



* PeripheryDemographic - A good chunk of his fans are straight men. Rufus was actually more popular with straight guys than with gay people earlier in his career.

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* PeripheryDemographic - PeripheryDemographic: A good chunk of his fans are straight men. Rufus was actually more popular with straight guys than with gay people earlier in his career.



-->"I said I wanted to go to the park and see where this big concert was going on. I thought it was going to be a romantic walk in the park, but he raped me and robbed me afterwards and tried to strangle me."

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-->"I said I wanted to go to the park and see where this big concert was going on. I thought it was going to be a romantic walk in the park, but he raped me and robbed me afterwards and tried to strangle me."
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** "Memphis Skyline" probably won't make you cry on first listen, but the more you expose yourself to the song, the more emotional it gets. It's about JeffBuckley, who was actually friends with Rufus during the last few months of his life. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRRv38uThBI Warning: after about 3 listens you'll be crying your eyes out.]]

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** "Memphis Skyline" probably won't make you cry on first listen, but the more you expose yourself to the song, the more emotional it gets. It's about JeffBuckley, Music/JeffBuckley, who was actually friends with Rufus during the last few months of his life. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRRv38uThBI Warning: after about 3 listens you'll be crying your eyes out.]]

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* {{Anvilicious}} - "Going To A Town" is a very unsubtle jab at the [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush Administration]] (especially the music video for it) and at politicians in general for using homophobia for political gain, but the general consensus is that it was a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcuAUCNJkUc I Don't Know What It Is]]" is to date one of the most complicated songs he's done. And it's FABULOUS.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny

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* {{Anvilicious}} - {{Anvilicious}}: "Going To A Town" is a very unsubtle jab at the [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush Administration]] (especially the music video for it) and at politicians in general for using homophobia for political gain, but the general consensus is that it was a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcuAUCNJkUc I Don't Know What It Is]]" is to date one of the most complicated songs he's done. And it's FABULOUS.
* CrowningMomentOfFunnySugarWiki/FunnyMoments:



* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - "Tiergarten" is about his boyfriend Jorn, and it's a very sweet song.
** "Dinner at Eight" is an unintentional example, because Rufus wrote if after a particularly bad spat with his father intending for it to be a TakeThat, but after some time had passed he realized that it's actually about wanting to reach out and connect with him.
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* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - "Tiergarten" is about his boyfriend Jorn, and it's a very sweet song.
** "Dinner at Eight" is an unintentional example, because Rufus wrote if after a particularly bad spat with his father intending for it to be a TakeThat, but after some time had passed he realized that it's actually about wanting to reach out and connect with him.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - "Agnus Dei" starts out with a cello imitating the creak of an old rocking chair on rotting wooden floorboards, then is punctuated with a truly demented violin riff. Then comes a [[DroneOfDread rolling, quiet but thunderous piano line]] with faint PsychoStrings in the background, and over it, an anguished [[OneWomanWail One Man Wail]] courtesy of Rufus. [[OminousLatinChanting In Latin.]]

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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** "Tiergarten" is about his boyfriend Jorn, and it's a very sweet song.
** "Dinner at Eight" is an unintentional example, because Rufus wrote if after a particularly bad spat with his father intending for it to be a TakeThat, but after some time had passed he realized that it's actually about wanting to reach out and connect with him.
* NightmareFuel:
"Agnus Dei" starts out with a cello imitating the creak of an old rocking chair on rotting wooden floorboards, then is punctuated with a truly demented violin riff. Then comes a [[DroneOfDread rolling, quiet but thunderous piano line]] with faint PsychoStrings in the background, and over it, an anguished [[OneWomanWail One Man Wail]] courtesy of Rufus. [[OminousLatinChanting In Latin.]]



* TearJerker - "Memphis Skyline" probably won't make you cry on first listen, but the more you expose yourself to the song, the more emotional it gets. It's about JeffBuckley, who was actually friends with Rufus during the last few months of his life. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRRv38uThBI Warning: after about 3 listens you'll be crying your eyes out.]]
** His cover of “Hallelujah”

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* TearJerker - TearJerker:
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"Memphis Skyline" probably won't make you cry on first listen, but the more you expose yourself to the song, the more emotional it gets. It's about JeffBuckley, who was actually friends with Rufus during the last few months of his life. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRRv38uThBI Warning: after about 3 listens you'll be crying your eyes out.]]
** His cover of “Hallelujah”"Hallelujah".



* TheWoobie - Oh yes. His life has gotten better with the love of his family and his boyfriend, but for a while he had it ''rough''.
** Rufus' first sexual experience was ''being raped by an older man''. At age '''fourteen.''' And the only reason he didn't get killed was because he faked having a seizure.
--->"I said I wanted to go to the park and see where this big concert was going on. I thought it was going to be a romantic walk in the park, but he raped me and robbed me afterwards and tried to strangle me."

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* TheWoobie - TheWoobie: Oh yes. His life has gotten better with the love of his family and his boyfriend, but for a while he had it ''rough''.
** Rufus'
''rough''. His first sexual experience was ''being raped by an older man''. At age '''fourteen.''' And the only reason he didn't get killed was because he faked having a seizure.
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* {{Anvilicious}} - "Going To A Town" is a very unsubtle jab at the [[GeorgeWBush Bush Administration]] (especially the music video for it) and at politicians in general for using homophobia for political gain, but the general consensus is that it was a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

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* {{Anvilicious}} - "Going To A Town" is a very unsubtle jab at the [[GeorgeWBush [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush Administration]] (especially the music video for it) and at politicians in general for using homophobia for political gain, but the general consensus is that it was a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
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* {{Anvilicious}} - "Going To A Town" is a very unsubtle jab at the [[GeorgeWBush Bush Administration]] (especially the music video for it), but the general consensus is that it was a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

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* {{Anvilicious}} - "Going To A Town" is a very unsubtle jab at the [[GeorgeWBush Bush Administration]] (especially the music video for it), it) and at politicians in general for using homophobia for political gain, but the general consensus is that it was a case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

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