Line #32 Music/Shinedown


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3	Shinedown is a hard rock band originally from Jacksonville, Florida. Founded in 2001, they first made their impact with an acoustic cover of "[[Music/LynyrdSkynyrd Simple Man]]", and ballooned in popularity from there, peaking in 2009 with the massively popular hit single "Second Chance" off their ''Sound of Madness'' album. They have released six albums, the most recent being in 2018.
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5	They contributed songs to the soundtracks of ''Film/TheExpendables'', ''Film/{{Alice in Wonderland\|2010}}'', and ''Film/{{The Avengers\|2012}}''.
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8	!!Discography:
9	* ''Leave a Whisper'' (2003)
10	* ''Us and Them'' (2005)
11	* ''The Sound of Madness'' (2008)
12	* ''Amaryllis'' (2012)
13	* ''Threat to Survival'' (2015)
14	* ''Attention Attention'' (2018)
15	* ''Planet Zero'' (2022)
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17	!!Tropes of Madness:
18	* AlbumFiller: Averted to a massive extent, at least as of four albums into their career. Even their (largely hitless) sophomore album shows a genuine effort with every track.
19	* AliceAllusion: "Her Name is Alice" is a song about ''Alice in Wonderland''.
20	%%* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Just look at Barry's hair.
21	* BeYourself: "Dysfunctional You" urges the listener to stop playing someone else, despite their imperfections.
22	%%* BreakupSong: "Breaking Inside", "If You Only Knew", "Call Me", and on and on.
23	* BulliedIntoDepression: The anti-bullying song "Bully" calls out bullies who make their victims miserable and suicidal.
24	* CallBack: "Clueless and Dramatic" off ''Planet Zero'' has the line, "Like your staring down the barrel of a .45," reusing the line from "45" off ''Leave a Whisper''.
25	* CapsLock: Every track on ''Attention Attention'', as well as the album title, is stylized in all caps, with the exception of "[[AllLowerCaseLetters special]]".
26	* CharacterCheck: The album ''Attention Attention'' is supposedly designed with this arc in mind: the POV character is in a very miserable and negative emotional situation, which they try to work out of, changing themselves in the process.
27	* CoverVersion: Their first major hit was a cover of Music/LynyrdSkynyrd's "Simple Man".
28	* CreepyChildrenSinging: "Freedom, la-la-la-la, freedom, follow me!" from their 2015 hit "Cut the Cord"
29	* DespairEventHorizon: The lyrics of "45" tell of a young man crossing over this, and having to deal with the resulting pain.
30	* DrivenToSuicide: The narrator of "45" stares down the barrel of a gun with "no real reason to accept the way things have changed." Subverted in the music video, in which the protagonist decides not to go through with it.
31	* DrugsAreBad: "Save Me" is sung from the viewpoint of a drug addict begging for help.
32	* DyingAlone: The predicted karmic fate of TheBully in "Bully".
33	-->''No ones gonna cry\
34	On the very day you die''
35	* GriefSong: A specialty of the band. The most straightfoward example is probably "Crow and the Butterfly," but there are a ton of examples of the "bad breakup" variety including "If You Only Knew" and "Call Me" just to name a couple.
36	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Lead singer Brent Smith and lead guitarist Zach Myers.
37	* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Discussed in "How Did You Love":
38	-->''You can have the sound of a thousand voices calling your name\
39	You can have the light of the world blind you, bath you in grace\
40	But I don't see so easily what you hold in your hands\
41	'Cause castles crumble, kingdoms fall and turn into sand''
42	* IHateSong:
43	** "Bully" is a song against [[TheBully bullies]].
44	** "Enemies" is about someone's enemies.
45	* ImmortalityThroughMemory: The theme of the song "How Did You Love" (mainly, that the way you treated others through your life will be the way you will be remembered by), with a slice of a cautionary tale/warning for a LegacySeeker at the first verses.
46	-->''No one gets out alive, every day is do or die\
47	The one thing you leave behind is how did you love, how did you love?''
48	* IHaveYourWife: The music video for "Sound of Madness" features a kidnapped little girl, who is being held for ransom. She's later rescued by an unrelated person [[spoiler:who is implied to routinely track down and rescue kidnapped victims as a hobby/second job.]]
49	* KnightInSourArmor: One could take the POV character of the song "Diamond Eyes" as this. Considering it's the soundtrack for a BandOfBrothers mercenaries who've been through a lot such as ''Film/TheExpendables'', it fits.
50	* LaserGuidedKarma: "Bully." The bully who makes their victims feel lonely and suicidal is predicted to DieAlone.
51	* LonelyPianoPiece: Several examples, most notably "Call Me" off of ''The Sound of Madness.'' It's a particularly sad piece, even for the album it comes from, about a man who has been kicked out of his lover's life and finds himself wondering how it got that way.
52	* MetalScream: More common earlier in their career, but Brent Smith can still let out a window-pane-rattling blast when he needs to. Maybe the best examples come from "Fly From the Inside" off of ''Leave a Whisper'' or "Enemies" off of ''Amaryllis.''
53	* NewSoundAlbum: Not a huge departure, exactly, but ''Amaryllis'' has a more hopeful and bright sound than the three albums that come before it. Compare to their previous platinum-selling album, ''The Sound of Madness,'' which contained several grief and breakup songs. ''Amaryllis'' actually has a couple of love songs on it, and people have actually danced to [[PowerBallad "I'll Follow You"]] at their weddings.
54	* PainfulRhyme: "Diamond Eyes" gives us this gem:
55	-->''So wait, it's the exception to the '''rule'''\
56	Every one of us is expend'''able'''''
57	* PlayingTheHeartStrings: "Crow and the Butterfly" from ''The Sound of Madness,'' a [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] piece about a mother trying to move on after the death of her son.
58	* PowerBallad: "I'll Follow You". It is ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic glorious.]]''
59	* PrecisionFStrike: While Shinedown's music is generally devoid of swearing, each album from ''The Sound of Madness'' onwards has at least one use of profanity that warrants an explicit label.
60	** ''The Sound of Madness'': "Cyanide Sweet Tooth Suicide" and "The Energy"
61	** ''Amaryllis'': "Nowhere Kids" and "My Name (Wearing Me Out)"
62	** ''Threat to Survival'': "It All Adds Up"
63	** ''Attention Attention'': "Evolve"
64	** ''Planet Zero'': "Dysfunctional You"
65	* QuarrelingSong: "Enemies" from ''Amaryllis'' is a big intra-band argument about their odds of success now that they have a platinum album. The music video takes this to absurd lengths with the band ''beating'' the ''shit'' out of each other.
66	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Monsters" from ''Attention Attention'' is about admitting the difficulties of a personal struggle that's hurt other people.
67	* SelfEmpowermentAnthem:
68	** "Bully" is a nontraditional example, urging the bullied to band together and outnumber the bullies of the world and predicting a lonely death for the villains of the piece.
69	** "Brilliant" on ''Attention Attention.''
70	* SinkOrSwimMentor: The entire song "Sound of Madness" is sung from the point of view of one.
71	-->''You can sleep with a gun\
72	But when you gonna wake up and fight\
73	For yourself''
74	* SongsOfSolace: One of the band's specialties. Probably half of their major hits are breakup songs. A less straightforward example is "Bully" off of ''Amaryllis'' which is meant to be an anthem for those who have been victimized by bullying.
75	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: These guys are equally legendary for both their high-energy rock songs and their tender songs about grief or love. It can create some MoodWhiplash when listening to their albums straight through, going from "The Sound of Madness" right into "Second Chance", or from "My Name (Wearing Me Out)" into "Through the Ghost".
76	* TitleDrop: "Diamond Eyes" drops not only the song's title but also the movie's, "everyone of us is [[Film/TheExpendables EXPENDABLE]]."
77	* TitleTrack:
78	** "Sound of Madness" for ''The Sound of Madness'', more or less.
79	** "Amaryllis" from ''Amaryllis''. ''Leave a Whisper'' was supposed to have a song entitled "Leave a Whisper," but it was scrapped. It can be found on the deluxe edition, though.
80	** "Attention Attention" from ''Attention Attention''.
81	** "Planet Zero" from ''Planet Zero''.
82	* WarningSong: "Devil":
83	-->''It's about to get heavy\
84	It's about to be on\
85	Yeah, I'm bangin', swingin' napalm\
86	So nobody move\
87	'Cause I was sent to warn you\
88	The devil's in the next room''
89	* WellDoneSonGuy: The [[AnAesop aesop]] of "Second Chance" is to reject these and forge your own path.
90	* WordSaladLyrics: The chorus of "Begin Again":
91	-->''They burned an image from lines on my face\
92	They stole it from the pages that kept my place\
93	I stand on the outside and die to get in\
94	I'll crawl inside just to begin again''
95	* WroteTheBook: The lyric "I wrote the book on pain" from "Sound of Madness."
96	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The topic of "GET UP."
97	-->And I agree you can do much better, trust me

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