Line #20 Music/Flyleaf


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3	Flyleaf is a PostGrunge[=/=]AlternativeMetal band from Texas formed by Lacey Sturm ([[TheMaidenNameDebate formerly Mosley]]), lead guitarist Sameer Bhattacharya, rhythm guitarist Jared Hartmann, bassist Pat Seals, and drummer James Culpepper. They are notable for their Christian faith, although their music is not explicitly labeled Christian.
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5	The band has released four albums so far:
6	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Flyleaf]]'': The platinum selling, eponymously named debut album, released in 2005.
7	* ''Memento Mori'': Their second album, released in 2009.
8	* ''New Horizons'': Their third album, released in October of 2012. One week prior to its release, the band issued a statement saying that Lacey was leaving the band to focus on her motherhood. The split appears to have been amicable.
9	* ''Between the Stars'': Their fourth and most recent album, released in September of 2014. It is the only album to feature Kristen May and be funded through the online direct-to-fan platform PledgeMusic.
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11	The band went on a long hiatus between Kristen May leaving in 2016 and Lacey returning in 2022.
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15	!Some tropes embodied by the band and their work are:
16	%%* BadassAdorable: Lacey, of course.
17	* TheBandMinusTheFace:
18	** It remains to be seen whether Flyleaf becomes this after the [[http://www.noisecreep.com/2012/10/22/flyleaf-singer-lacey-sturm-leaves-band/ announcement]] that Lacey is leaving the band and will be replaced by Kristen May of the band Vedera.
19	** For most of Kristen's run, she shared the spotlight more evenly with the rest of the band.
20	%%* BigNo
21	* BigYes: The EP version of the song "Cassie" opens with an emphatic "I... will... say YES!" It's moved to the bridge on the album version.
22	* CarefulWithThatAxe: "I'm So Sick". "I will '''BREAK!!'''"
23	%%** "Green Heart" also does this.
24	* ConceptAlbum: Memento Mori. Each song is, according to the liner notes, based off of letters written by the fictional commander of an army that is at war with "The Dread Army". The war is an allegorical conflict based off of the general struggle between good and evil from a Christian point of view.
25	* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: "[[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas What's This?]]" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C26KKL8uMu0 used to be so... happy.]]
26	* FluffyCloudHeaven: "Set Apart This Dream" seems to describe one of these.
27	* LighterAndSofter:
28	** "Justice and Mercy" is one of the heaviest songs the band's ever written. "Justice and Mercy [Violent Love Version]" is not.
29	** The Remember To Live EP, released in late 2010, is a collection of B-sides and alternate takes of several songs. The entire EP is this trope.
30	** In fact, ''Between the Stars'' is this in sound compared to their previous albums, featuring a more straight AlternativeRock and Pop Rock sound, as opposed to the Alternative Metal and Post-Grunge of those albums.
31	* MetalScream: Most famously on "I'm So Sick", but also on their songs Cassie (see BigYes above), Sorrow, and Justice and Mercy. The screams are almost entirely absent from their second album, though. The screams are more prominent again on ''New Horizons'', their third album.
32	** In ''Memento Mori'' there is a certain amount of screaming, but these are usually two recordings played at the same time. One has Lacey singing, the other is screaming, with the screaming in the background. Listen to the end of "The Kind" (I'm sorry FATHER, I'm sorry SISTER, I'm sorry BROTHER...). It's easier to hear in "In the Dark" (Fill this space IDLE WORDS!!!) and (By the dark, DAMN THE DARK!!!!!), or "Swept Away" (So get this hell out get this hell OUTOUTOUT OF MY WAY!)
33	%%* OminousMusicBoxTune: "Swept Away" and "Melting (Interlude)".
34	%%* TheOphelia: Lacey.
35	* PopPunk: ''Between the Stars'' has moments of this. Songs like "Magnetic" and "Sober Serenade" wouldn't sound out of place on Music/{{Paramore}}'s ''Riot'' or ''Brand New Eyes''.
36	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Swept Away" to one of the leaders of the Dread Army, "Call You Out" to an unidentified person who is apparently an inveterate liar and needs to "shut up, get out".
37	%%* SanitySlippageSong: "I'm So Sick"
38	* ShoutOut:
39	** In "Cage on the Ground": "[[Music/PinkFloyd Welcome to]] [[Music/WishYouWereHere1975 the Machine]], it's a currency generator, and then it's a guillotine..."
40	** In "Fire Fire", which doubles as a TakeThat towards Music/{{Kesha}}: "We can't die because we're young, at least that's what we heard in a song."
41	%%* TheSomethingSong
42	* TakeThat: "Cage on the Ground" sounds an awful lot like a TakeThat at the tendency of the music industry to force musicians who once had artistic integrity to produce soulless hits. It particularly seems to target mainstream talent competitions like ''Series/AmericanIdol''.

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