Basic Trope: A song about the end of a relationship and all the emotions that come with it.
- Straight: Alice breaks up with her boyfriend of 5 years, Bob, and channels her feelings into a song.
- Exaggerated:
- Replace "song" with whole album.
- The song is particularly dark, such as a Murder Ballad.
- Alice writes a breakup song about a relationship that lasted all of five hours.
- Downplayed:
- Alice writes an Anti-Love Song not too long after the breakup with Bob.
- Alice and Bob were only friends, but she writes a song about the end of their friendship anyway.
- Justified: Music is an emotional catharsis, and breakups (particularly of long-term relationships and marriages) are usually pretty painful to some degree.
- Inverted: Alice gets together with Bob and writes a Silly Love Song.
- Subverted: Alice writes a song about the end of a relationship, but is still with Bob.
- Double Subverted:
- According to Alice, the song is about her breakup with Charles, the guy she was engaged to some years ago before he left her and she ended up dating Bob.
- Her relationship with Bob was kind of rocky when she wrote the song, and she and Bob wind up ending the relationship not too long after.
- Parodied: The entirety of Alice's repertoire is composed of break-up songs. For added comedy and tragedy, EACH song is based on a different person! (Yeah, her experience with romance has been THAT bad!)
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Alice writes only Silly Love Songs.
- Alice composes only instrumental music or Electronic Music.
- Alice is not a singer or songwriter.
- Enforced:
- Creator Breakdown
- "We want you to write something that caters to those who like their music on the Darker and Edgier side...you know, those Angsty Emo Teens."
- Lampshaded: "This Is a Song/ About breaking up with Bob/ Unlike our relationship/ It's pretty long..."
- Invoked:
- Alice breaks up with her boyfriend of 5 years, Bob, and is feeling very sad and angry about it.
- Alice breaks up with Bob for something to write a song about.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Since Alice's image as a Teen Idol is anything but Angsty, she doesn't write any songs about it.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Reconstructed: The song helps Alice through her grief over the end of the relationship, and she is eventually able to move on.
- Played For Laughs: The song includes a lot of Black Comedy.
- Played For Drama: The song works as a form of minor insight into Alice's psyche, and it's evident that she's emotionally devastated and on the verge of a Creator Breakdown... Or even worse.
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