YMMV / Vampire Weekend

• Memetic Mutation: This◊ image of Ezra has become a popular reaction image to show confusion.
• Funny Moments: The video for "Giving Up the Gun" features an increasingly weird tennis tournament where RZA is the umpire, Lil Jon is the protagonist's coach and she faces, amongst others, Joe Jonas, Jake Gyllenhaal and her own doppelgänger. The band seem blissfully unaware of all this.
• Signature Song: "A-Punk". To a lesser extent, "Horchata" and "Diane Young".
• Spiritual Successor: With the band's geeky, "preppy" image and afrobeat influences, they could be the second coming of Talking Heads.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "This Life" has a guitar riff that sounds like The Smiths' "This Charming Man".
• Tear Jerker:
  • "I Think Ur A Contra" is a slow, sober, almost ghostly sounding song that is made even more sad because it's such a contrast to the rest of it's parent album Contra, which mostly features bouncy, upbeat songs.
  • "Obvious Bicycle" is about someone who has lost hope in life, feeling that they are insignificant and that they should just retreat from society.
    "You ought to spare your face the razor, because no-one is going to spare their time for you."
  • Modern Vampires of the City is one as a whole, being comprised largely of songs about loss of faith in various forms (be it in a religious context, through one’s relationships falling apart, or despair from the inevitability of death). It says a lot that the most cheery sounding song on the record, “Diane Young,” is explicitly about meeting an early demise. “Unbelievers” in particular is a hauntingly beautiful take on the album’s themes summed up in one song, while “Hannah Hunt” and the aforementioned “Obvious Bicycle” both touch on the slow effects of their respective events.
    • “Finger Back” sounds cheerful, but the final verse has the lyrics “I don’t wanna live like this, but I don’t wanna die”.
    • On the same album there’s “Don’t Lie”, another lighthearted-sounding song whose lyrics invoke themes of anxiety surrounding mortality and one’s future, suicide, and, once again, dying young.
  • My Mistake. One interpretation was that it’s about an immigrant escaping their country only to not be accepted in their new one. It seems to be about feeling as if the world disappointed you in general.
    "Quick in the night as the storm took its shape
    Caught at the border as I made my escape
    It was cold, it was dark
    You were cruel, you were fake
    Hoping for kindness was my greatest mistake”