1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/600px_i_like_fun.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[TitleDrop I like fun]]/and so do you.]] |
3 | |
4 | ->''And when you wake up you can feel your hair grow\ |
5 | Crawl out of your cave and you can watch your shadow\ |
6 | Creep across the ground until the day is done\ |
7 | All the while the planet circles 'round the sun\ |
8 | Everybody knows how this goes so let's get over it\ |
9 | And let's get this over with'' |
10 | -->--'''Let's Get This Over With''' |
11 | |
12 | ''I Like Fun'' is the twentieth studio album by Music/TheyMightBeGiants, released in 2018 by Idlewild Recordings. Noted for being DarkerAndEdgier than much of their recent work, it was nearly named ''My Murdered Remains'' after a line from the song "Mrs. Bluebeard", but they saved the name for a follow-up companion album released later that year. |
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14 | !! Tracklist |
15 | # "Let's Get This Over With" (3:07) |
16 | # "I Left My Body" (2:36) |
17 | # "All Time What" (2:29) |
18 | # "By The Time You Get This" (2:17) |
19 | # "An Insult To The Fact Checkers" (2:34) |
20 | # "Mrs. Bluebeard" (2:43) |
21 | # "I Like Fun" (3:00) |
22 | # "Push Back The Hands" (3:01) |
23 | # "This Microphone" (2:36) |
24 | # "The Bright Side" (2:29) |
25 | # "When The Lights Come On" (3:17) |
26 | # "Lake Monsters" (2:56) |
27 | # "Mc Cafferty's Bib" (2:35) |
28 | # "The Greatest" (1:48) |
29 | # "Last Wave" (3:24) |
30 | |
31 | !! By The Time You Read These Tropes, We'll No Longer Be Alive: |
32 | |
33 | * ApocalypticLog: "By The Time You Get This" is an uncharacteristically cheery one that reassures the listener that whatever horrific thing happened to the long-dead generation was for a good cause. |
34 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The narrator of "Mrs. Bluebeard" reflects on the things that should have tipped her off that her husband was a SerialKiller. |
35 | -->''Nervous tics that I pretended not to see...''\ |
36 | ''Warning signs, death metal albums''\ |
37 | '''Hang In There, Baby' poster'' |
38 | * CallBack: "[=McCafferty=]'s Bib" references the same performance piece that inspired the group to make William Allen White their unofficial mascot in their early years. |
39 | * CoolOldGuy: Verse 2 of "I Like Fun":[[note]]John Flansburgh has clarified that he did not write the song about 58-year-old bandmember John Linnell; he only chose 58 because it was easier to sing than 57, and he'll "be 58 soon enough anyways". Even if Linnell would like you to think he's a master of parkour.[[/note]] |
40 | -->''My excellence at [[LeParkour parkour]] might be unexpected''\ |
41 | ''At the age of fifty-eight'' |
42 | * DescentIntoAddiction: (possibly) the main theme of "Mc Cafferty's Bib" and also the title track, “I Like Fun”. |
43 | * DomesticAbuse: Arguably the theme of "Mrs. Bluebeard", in which a woman is murdered by her husband; it's heavily implied that she willfully ignored numerous red flags. |
44 | * GagDub: "Last Wave" was originally written to sync up with the music video to "Walk This Way" by Music/RunDMC and {{Music/Aerosmith}} - on the tour supporting ''I Like Fun'', the band's second set always started with the "Walk This Way" video being projected on a screen, synced to a recording of the original demo. They reworked it musically for the album but kept the WordSaladLyrics, some of which originally made more sense in the context of a gag dub: For instance, the lyric "now you gotta buy me some antlers" synced up to a scene where Steven Tyler was holding his hands over his head like antlers. |
45 | * IronicNickname: "The Greatest" |
46 | -->''They call me the greatest\ |
47 | 'Cause I'm not very good\ |
48 | And they're being sarcastic\ |
49 | They're being sarcastic'' |
50 | * IsThisThingStillOn: The refrain of "This Microphone" uses it as a metaphor for trying (and failing) to keep one's feelings to themselves. |
51 | -->''Hey, this microphone was turned on all along'' |
52 | * LongestSongGoesLast: "Last Wave" marks the first time they've done this in their career, but it's still [[MinisculeRocking only 3:24]]. |
53 | * LyricalDissonance: All over the damn place, somehow ''more'' than They Might Be Giants' usual. |
54 | ** "When The Lights Come On" is an upbeat song about surviving some horrible, possibly-apocalyptic disaster. |
55 | ** The title track "I Like Fun" is a goofy-sounding, jaunty tune about prescription drug abuse. |
56 | ** "Push Back the Hands" is an up-tempo song about regret and having to face your mistakes, however much you might wish you could "push back the hands of time". |
57 | ** "All Time What" is a fun power pop tune with a lot of horns. Lyrically, though, it's a fairly straightforward and sad breakup song. |
58 | ** And the album closer "Last Wave" has these lyrics for its upbeat chorus: |
59 | --->We die alone\ |
60 | We die afraid\ |
61 | We live in terror\ |
62 | We're naked and alone\ |
63 | And the grave is the loneliest place |
64 | * MoodWhiplash: "Last Wave", lyrically. Probably because it began as an extremely dark GagDub (see above). |
65 | * NonAppearingTitle: "Mrs. Bluebeard.” |
66 | * PosthumousCollaboration: Music/{{Cream}}'s Jack Bruce, who died in 2014, is credited with guest vocals on the title track. This is because the song's wordless hook is taken from a series of vocal samples Bruce recorded for use on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron Mellotron]]. |
67 | * SelfDeprecation: Naming the first track on an album "Let's Get This Over With" shows a willingness to get a laugh at their own expense. |
68 | * ShoutOut: |
69 | ** "Mrs Bluebeard" as a modern retelling of ''Literature/{{Bluebeard}}'' from the dead wife's perspective |
70 | ** "[=McCafferty's=] Bib" mentions crowds waving signs of Creator/BobHope, inspired by a real piece of performance art by Brazilian artist Öyvind Fahlström. |
71 | ** "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here" in "Let's Get This Over With" is an old phrase, but is most-famously remembered as the key line in Semisonic's 1998 hit "Closing Time". |
72 | ** At one point in the video for "Push Back The Hands", the Time Traveler runs into one of the Morlocks from ''Film/TheTimeMachine1960''. |
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