Line #20 YMMV/XiuXiu


1	* FriendlyFandoms: With friends Music/ParentheticalGirls and Music/{{Swans}}. The latter also shared Thor Harris as a percussionist and Chris Pravdica as a live bassist.
2	* {{Narm}}: Given how emotive and over-the-top Jamie Stewart's vocal delivery tends to be, it's natural that they sometimes slip into this. Sometimes, as in songs like "I Broke Up", [[BlackComedy the effect is completely intentional]].
3	* NarmCharm: Often it loops back around- when combined with [[CarefulWithThatAxe vocals that sound like Stewart is being tortured to death while singing]], the ridiculousness makes it even ''more'' disturbing.
4	* NightmareFuel: ''In spades.'' Whether it comes from the bizarre production, Stewart's manic vocals, the harrowing lyrics or some combination of the three, many of Xiu Xiu's songs are just plain unnerving.
5	** "Black Drum Machine." ''"THERE MUST BE SOME THINGS FOR WHICH OUR GOD CANNOT BE ACCUSED."''
6	** The end of "Cynthia's Unisex." ''[[MadnessMantra "I hate everyone but you... I hate everyone but you..."]]''
7	** "El Naco." ''"I SEE IT AND I HAVE NO RIGHT TO SEE IT... I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS..."''
8	** "I Luv Abortion" is about a friend of Jamie's who cut herself while she was a pregnant teenager (even mailing them the knife she used), due to massive doubting of her parenting abilities. ''"I look at my thighs and I see death, [[SarcasmMode it's great, I love abortion...]]"''
9	** "The Silver Platter." ''"God made us and now he wants us to die..."''
10	** "Support Our Troops OH!" Stewart's spoken-word monologue is creepy enough, but the dissonant sound effects really push it over the edge.
11	** "Mary Turner Mary Turner", a song describing the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1918_lynchings true story]] of the utterly horrific murder of a pregnant black woman by a white lynch mob in Georgia. The word "lynching" doesn't even ''begin'' to describe what happened to her.
12	* RefugeInAudacity: ''"Black dick! Black dick! Black dick! Black dick!"''
13	* SignatureSong: "I Luv the Valley OH!"
14	* TearJerker: A very large chunk of their back catalogue is made up of relentlessly depressing and/or unsettling songs about extremely personal and often bleak subject matter.
15	** "Botanica de Los Angeles", which seems to be about Stewart witnessing the suicide of a sexual assault victim and being unable to do anything.
16	** "Dangerous You Shouldn't Be Here", about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. ''"There is no way to light an altar for you, everything is too wet."''
17	** "Luber", apparently about a student of Jamie's with neglectful parents. The impassioned delivery just makes it even more devastating.
18	** "Suha". "I hate my body / I hate the desert / I'm gonna hang myself / when will I be going home?"
19	** "Blacks". "I have had enough of this life."
20	** "Petite", a song about child prostitutes. The sheer despair on display is utterly haunting, and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB8pb8KKpZg video]] is almost entirely composed of headshots of underaged girls that Jamie found on Backpage.

Context YMMV / XiuXiu