Line #16 Music/VampireWeekend


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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)
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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	* SuddenlyShouting:
70	-->"'''IF I CAN'T TRUST YOU, THEN DAMN IT, HANNAH!'''"
71	* TitleDrop: “I Think Ur A Contra” from ''Contra''.
72	* TitleOnlyChorus: "One (Blake's Got A New Face)".
73	* WordSaladLyrics: "California English", "Step", "Giant'.

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