Basic Trope: A song mocking/criticizing dead-end jobs and exploitative systems.
- Straight: "Class Warfare" by Alice and Bob is a folksy song with lyrics that appeal to working class individuals, lines that talk about how the lower class have to work twice as hard for less while their rich bosses become richer off of their labor.
- Exaggerated:
- "Class Warfare" has lyrics that openly advocates for Revolution against the Bourgeois elites!
- "Class Warfare" has lyrics that openly call out specific people in the music industry that helped make the song popular because of how explotiative they are.
- Downplayed:
- "Class Warfare" is a song about how much better working at corporate's office is over working factory or agricultural jobs.
- "Class Warfare" is about an employee sitting down and having a calm, reasonable discussion about all the little things that makes his job so hard (lots of overtime, Karens harassing him at the register, the broken ice-cream machine) and the boss actually hears him out and negotiates how to make things a little better.
- Justified: Alice and Bob have worked over a dozen of jobs to scrape by, they all sucked and they write "Class Warfare" as a way to vent their frustrations about it.
- Inverted: "Class Warfare" is a Job Song about Happiness in Minimum Wage and mocking people who expect more from their full-time job.
- Subverted: "Class Warfare" is about a laborer who becomes disillusioned with their low-paying job and poor working conditions... only to reveal that he was just a Jerkass whining about having to work at all.
- Double Subverted: "Class Warfare" is about a bunch of lazy, entitled millennials who think that the wealthy should give them free money... only it's a Villain Song from the perspective of an Idle Rich asshole that overworks and underpays his employees, treating their genuine plight as them "lacking work ethic."
- Parodied: "Class Warfare" was originally written by Karl Marx during his teen-angst phase.
- Zig Zagged: "Class Warfare" talks about the plights of working class people and their low pay, long hours and bad healthcare, interchanged with the kind of stress being the wealthy boss of a wealthy business in the kind of House-of-Cards economy that produced such levels of poverty in the first place.
- Averted: "Class Warfare" is a song about cliques in High School and has nothing to do with economics.
- Enforced: As any wealthy capitalist selling Che Guevara t-shirts and V-masks would tell you, anti-establishment can be very profitable.
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- Defied: "I'm not allowed to write songs complaining about my boss. Its on the gag-order in my contract. Maybe I should have read this thing first..."
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- Deconstructed: "Class Warfare" was a song deliberately created as an attack on MegaCorp for their Robber-Baron esq. practices, literally enslaving their overworked, underpaid workers with exclusivity contracts. When "Class Warfare" becomes a hit, MegaCorp uses their connects to try and strong-arm music outlets from selling their album and tries to sue Alice and Bob for libel, having rigged the Justice System so hard that calling it a Kangaroo Court would be generous. Meanwhile, the News paints the song as Communist propaganda and hating the song has become more mainstream, people who ever bother actually listening to the song being branded as angsty teenagers who "don't know how the world works."
- Reconstructed: Mega-Corps' tries to write a Cover Version of "Class Warfare" in order to co-opt its influence, but their version is so bad (since they completely overlooked why the song was so popular in the first place), that the PR stunt it was meant to be had the opposite effect. Workers left en masse (their fascistic security deciding that it wasn't worth it), news outlets publicize the terrible working conditions, thousands of people boycott them and their stock plummets.
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