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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:''Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten!''[[note]]L to R: Batmanglij, Koenig, Baio, Tomson[[/note]]]] |
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4 | Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band from New York City currently consisting of Ezra Koenig (lead vocals/guitar), Chris Tomson (drums), and Chris Baio (bass/backing vocals). Band co-founder Rostam Batmanglij (guitar/keyboard/backing vocals) has embarked on a solo career and is no longer an official member of the band. |
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6 | The members of the band met as students at Columbia University and took their name from a short film of Koenig's about an invasion of Cape Cod by [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin vampires on the weekend]]. |
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9 | !! Discography: |
10 | * ''Vampire Weekend'' (2008) |
11 | * ''Contra'' (2010) |
12 | * ''Modern Vampires of the City'' (2013) |
13 | * ''Father of the Bride'' (2019) |
14 | * ''Only God Was Above Us'' (2024) |
15 | ---- |
16 | !! Look outside at the redtropes coming and say "Oh.": |
17 | * AlbumTitleDrop: "Father of the bride" are the final words of [[Music/{{Haim}} Danielle Haim]]'s first verse on "Hold You Now". |
18 | * AlliterativeName: The titular Hannah Hunt of "Hannah Hunt." |
19 | * AlliterativeTitle: "Hannah Hunt", "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa", "Harmony Hall", "Big Blue", "Spring Snow". |
20 | * AudienceParticipationSong: "One (Blake's Got A New Face)" often has the audience sing the response of "Blake's Got A New Face" during the chorus. |
21 | ** "Horchata" is often an audience participation song at concerts too, with directions on when to sing provided by Rostam. |
22 | * BreakupSong: "Campus". Also a popular interpretation of "Hannah Hunt". |
23 | * ClosetKey: "Diplomat's Son," which was actually a reinterpretation of a short story Ezra had written into a love story. |
24 | * CloudCuckooLander: Ezra, especially on his Twitter. |
25 | * DarkerAndEdgier: ''Modern Vampires of the City,'' especially the album art. |
26 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: The album art for ''Modern Vampires of the City'', and the LyricVideo for "Step" off the same album. |
27 | * EpicRocking: "Diplomat's Son" and "Hope". |
28 | * EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The group began at Columbia University. |
29 | * IndecipherableLyrics: "A-Punk", most of which sounds like gibberish even if you ''do'' know the lyrics. |
30 | * IntercourseWithYou: "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" |
31 | * HymnToMusic: One interpretation of "Step". |
32 | * LastChorusSlowdown: "Sunflower". |
33 | * LocationSong: |
34 | ** "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa". |
35 | ** "Step" namedrops numerous locations, from Dar El Salaam to Mechanicsburg. |
36 | ** "Hannah Hunt" is set on a road trip "from Providence to Phoenix", and the protagonists wind up in Santa Barbara of all places. |
37 | ** "Jerusalem, New York, Berlin". |
38 | * LyricalDissonance: "Diane Young." |
39 | -->'''Ezra:''' "I had a feeling that the world is not a number called "Dying Young" (= young die) because it sounded so heavy and seriously, where "Diane Young" sounded like a name of a nice person." |
40 | * LyricVideo: An official one for "Step". |
41 | * NewSoundAlbum: ''Modern Vampires of the City'' was more experimental than the band's previous releases. |
42 | * NonAppearingTitle: "White Sky" and others. |
43 | * NotStayingForBreakfast: The LoveInterest in "Diplomat's Son". |
44 | * TheOner: In the music videos for "Oxford Comma" and "A-Punk". |
45 | * OneWomanSong: "Hannah Hunt", "Diane Young". |
46 | * OneWordTitle: "Step", "Giant", “Ottoman”, "Horchata", "Cousins", "Walcott", "Bryn", "Campus", "A-Punk", "Holiday", "Run", "Unbelievers", "Hudson", "Bambina", "Sympathy", "Sunflower", "2021", "Stranger". |
47 | * PachelbelsCanonProgression: "Step". |
48 | * PrecisionFStrike: "Who gives a fuck about an oxford comma?" from "Oxford Comma". |
49 | ** "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" has one in the first chorus, though it's not overt. |
50 | ** Two in the last verse of "Walcott". |
51 | ** Two in "Ice Cream Piano", which earned ''Only God Was Above Us'' a Parental Advisory label. |
52 | * PunnyTitle: "Diane Young". |
53 | * QueerRomance: The narrator of "Diplomat's Son" has a crush on his best friend (the titular character); the two finally get high and sleep together, but the diplomat's son is gone come morning. |
54 | * RecycledLyrics: The lyric "This feels so unnatural/Peter Gabriel, too" appears in both "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" and "Ottoman". |
55 | ** "Giving Up the Gun" from Contra is a rerecording of "Giving Up Da Gun" by L'homme Run, Ezra's rap group from before the band was created. |
56 | ** "I don't wanna live like this/But I don't wanna die" shows up in both the outtro of "Finger Back" and the chorus of "Harmony Hall". |
57 | * ReligionRantSong: "Unbelievers". |
58 | -->I’m not excited\ |
59 | But should I be?\ |
60 | Is this the fate that half of the world has planned for me?\ |
61 | I know I love you\ |
62 | And you love the sea\ |
63 | What holy water contains a little drop, little drop for me? |
64 | * RoadTripPlot: "Hannah Hunt". |
65 | * SelfTitledAlbum: Their debut. |
66 | * ShoutOut: |
67 | ** In "A-Punk," the line, "One half of the ring lies here with me/But the other half lies at the bottom of the sea," is taken from the traditional folk song, "Dark-Eyed Sailor". |
68 | ** "We Belong Together" name-drops "[[Creator/JohnKeats Keats]] and [[Creator/WilliamButlerYeats Yeats]]," which itself is a reference to Music/TheSmiths' [[Music/TheQueenIsDead "Cemetry Gates"]]. |
69 | * SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: Almost all of "Worship You". |
70 | * SuddenlyShouting: |
71 | -->"'''IF I CAN'T TRUST YOU, THEN DAMN IT, HANNAH!'''" |
72 | * TitleDrop: “I Think Ur A Contra” from ''Contra''. |
73 | * TitleOnlyChorus: "One (Blake's Got A New Face)". |
74 | * WordSaladLyrics: "California English", "Step", "Giant'. |
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