Line #9 YMMV/LemonDemon


1	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
2	** The dad from "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MHwFrt6IIo As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It]]." Is he a genuinely awful parent behaving in a childish way and blaming his child for things they didn't even do? Or is he a normal parent as viewed by a rebellious teenager vastly exaggerating how nagging he is?
3	** The narrator of Aurora Borealis. Are they in some kind of time loop, reliving the same world-ending Christmas Eve over and over? Or are they just deeply in denial, ignoring the end of the world and lying that they’ve been in nights like this “tons of times”?
4	* CrackPairing: For a brief period of time, the ship known as "Game Theory" was quite popular, which was a ship between the conspiracy theorist narrator of Touch Tone Telephone, and the titular Cabinet Man. The latter, by the way, is an arcade cabinet stuffed full of human organs. [[{{Squick}} Yeah...]]
5	* {{Fanon}}:
6	** A popular interpretation of Touch-Tone Telephone (especially in fanmade music videos or animation memes) is that the main character also had a crush on the radio host they kept trying to contact.
7	** Although not mentioned explicitly in the song, it's very common for fan designs of Cabinet Man to have "arms" made of wires, likely to explain how he can do things like hurt cheaters and eat maintenance men. The final chorus is also frequently interpreted as Cabinet Man pulling a TakingYouWithMe on the teenagers that vandalised and assaulted him.
8	%% * FoeYayShipping: It seems to be going on in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfsb5HUFMQ0 "Ben Bernanke,"]] from what can be [[MindScrew understood of the song]].
9	* GrowingTheBeard: ''Spirit Phone'' was a large step forward in songwriting and scope compared to Lemon Demon's more novelty-driven early output. In turn, it was the band's first LP to be positively noticed by music fans and professional critics as a full album, breaking it from its "meme two-hit wonder" status into a legitimately respected synthpop project.
10	* HarsherInHindsight: "Lifetime Achievement Award" certainly feels...''different'' in the era of using AI generated voice filters to make songs/covers "sung" by dead artists.
11	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: ''Your Imaginary Friend'' is about your imaginary friend [[TheMagicComesBack coming back after disappearing for a long time.]]
12	-->Every word that you've learned\
13	Every wish that you've burned\
14	Every single strand of hair in your head\
15	Every book that you've read:\
16	We love you this much
17	* JerkassWoobie: The father character in "As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It" initially seems like a harsh, AbusiveDad, but "I Earn My Life" reveals him to be a stressed father who is afraid of dying without accomplishing anything.
18	* MemeticMutation:
19	** "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" is probably the most well-known Lemon Demon song due to the popular flash animation based upon it, and "BRODYQUEST" also gained notoriety to the point of receiving multiple remixes and being noticed by the actual Adrien Brody. Two Trucks has also somewhat reached this status.
20	** Audio bites from ''Spirit Phone'' (and occasionally other albums) are popular to [[ManipulativeEditing remix]] in POV videos, often [[MemeticPsychopath depicting Neil]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWKAmQ-k-VQ threatening]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Sy4Yrl9_A the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRxz4rGS6Hc viewer]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na2DbSmA_nU in]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkeFh1j9xZ0 some]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x18WKBYqSoI way]].
21	* NightmareFuel:
22	** "When He Died," off ''Spirit Phone'' might be one of the scariest songs Neil's written due to the SurrealHorror of the lyrics contrasting with the bright and happy instrumentals.
23	** "You're at the Party," a bonus track, which ([[AmbiguousSituation possibly]]) deals with the listener ''dying''. Neil has since clarified that the song's actually about someone having a fever dream about their neighbor's noisy house party, but that doesn't do much to dull just how confronting the lyrics are.
24	** "Cabinet Man," about a man who converted himself into a bizarre human/arcade cabinet hybrid that looks like a perfectly ordinary arcade cabinet. [[ImAHumanitarian He survives on a diet of maintenance men]].
25	** "Nightmare Fuel," [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin of course.]]
26	* SignatureSong: "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" for Lemon Demon as a whole. If we're just talking the songs on ''Spirit Phone'', then "Touch-Tone Telephone" is this by a long shot, followed closely by "Cabinet Man."
27	* TearJerker:
28	** Depending on how much you relate, [[MeaningfulName SAD]], a song about Seasonal Affective Disorder, can be this.
29	** "Indie Cindy and the Lo-Fi Lullabies" ends with Cindy giving up on making music because she thought nobody cared.
30	** Early in "Your Imaginary Friend", the titular Imaginary Friend implies that they disappeared when the child who imagined them [[GrowingUpSucks grew up]] and that they missed them terribly before the time came that they could reunite.
31	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids:
32	** Lemon Demon does have mild cursing and violence in his other works, but is usually pretty family-friendly. But it is surprising when the "Nature Tapes" EP only has 2 non-explicit songs.
33	** Spirit Phone also falls under this category, due to how graphic and confronting songs like "Cabinet Man", "When He Died", "Spiral of Ants" and "You're At The Party" can get.
34	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: While the latter half of "Spirit Phone" is pretty evidently about [[CapitalismIsBad the evils of capitalism]], one can make a pretty solid case for several of the songs in the first half having a similar message ("Lifetime Achievement Award" can just as easily be read as a metaphor for a failed CareerResurrection or [[ExecutiveMeddling money-motivated comeback]] as it is about literally bringing a rockstar back from the dead, and "Sweet Bod", while largely PlayedForLaughs, is still about a con man [[DesecratingTheDead defiling a corpse]] in order to wring money out of desperate people).
35	* TheWoobie: Poor Indie Cindy. She makes music but never lets anyone else listen to it, due to lack of confidence. The song ends with her canning her music project before trashing her basement studio.

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