History Music / AgainstMe

* NWordPrivileges: Again, "Transgender Dysphoria Blues":
-->You want them to notice\\

* SomethingBlues: The song "Transgender Dysphoria Blues"

-->You want them to notice
-->The ragged ends of your summer dress
-->You want them to see you
-->Like they see every other girl
-->They just see a faggot
-->They'll hold their breath not to catch the sick

--->I'm drinking with the jocks
--->I'm laughing at the faggots
--->Just like one of the boys
--->Swinging my dick in my hand

* AudienceParticipationSong: ''We Laugh at Danger (And Break All the Rules)''

* CoverVersion: Several - Music/TheClash's ''Janie Jones'', the folk song ''Wagon Wheel'', Cocksparrer's ''Because You're Young'', the Music/DeadKennedys' ''Moon Over Marin'', and Music/TheReplacements' ''Bastards of Young''. The band also covered The Replacements' ''Androgynous'' alongside Music/JoanJett.

** The song ''Searching For a Former Clarity'' is a second-person narration of a person dying of AIDS.
* DrunkenSong: ''We Laugh at Danger...'', per the album liner notes.

* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: Against Me! is Reinventing Axl Rose, ...as the Eternal Cowboy, and Crime! as Forgiven by Against Me! There are also two self-titled EP's.

* LyricalDissonance: Very common in many of their songs. examples include, "Thrash Unreal", "Pints Of Guinness Make You Strong", "Transgender Dysphoria Blues", "Unconditional Love", "Crash", "Haunting Haunted Haunts.

* ProtestSong: ''White People for Peace''. ''Anna Is A Stool Pigeon'' off of Grace's ''Heart Burns''.

** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "I Was A Teenage Anarchist"]] reminisces about Laura's real-life teenage years as a punky rebel, and elaborates on why it's so easy to become disillusioned with the whole thing.

* SiameseTwinSongs: Sort of. ''Searching For a Former Clarity'' has a song end with a drum beat that leads into the next song.

* SopranoAndGravel: Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart, with [[Music/TeganAndSara Tegan Quin]].

* StopAndGo: ''We Laugh at Danger (And Break All The Rules)'', ''Don't Lose Touch''
* TheUnreveal: ''The Ocean'' was Grace outing herself as transgender, but nobody realized it was literal. Grace also claimed to the band and producers that she was high when writing the lyrics, so that they wouldn't take it literally.

* VocalEvolution: The singing style changed from release to release from up through As the Eternal Cowboy. Also a {{subverted}} trope with Grace's transition - she's stated that she likes her singing the way it is and doesn't intend to change it.

Against Me! is a PunkRock band from Gainesville, Florida. Started as a solo acoustic/folk punk project by seventeen-year-old Laura Jane Grace, Against Me! has been a full group since 2001. The lineup has changed over time, with Laura Jane Grace and lead guitarist James Bowman as the only consistent members. The band has released seven studio albums, most recently, ''Shape Shift With Me'' in September 2016. They've also released several [=EPs=], two live albums, several demo tapes, and in 2004 a movie of their tour. [[FaceOfTheBand Grace]] also released a solo album called ''Heart Burns'' and has written a book, ''Tranny'', which was released in November of 2016.

* LongTitle: [[OncePerEpisode At least once an album]]. Notable examples include ''We Laugh at Danger (And Break All the Rules)'', ''Unsubstantiated Rumors Are Good Enough For Me (To Base My Life Upon)'', and ''Even At Our Worst We're Still Better than Most (The Roller)''.

* SingingVoiceDissonance: Laura's speaking voice in interviews is noticeably higher than her usual singing voice in most songs.

* ConceptAlbum: Played with ''Transgender Dysphoria Blues''. Laura has described the album about being of a transgender prostitute. However, once she came out as a transgender woman, it became clear it was about ''her'' and her struggles of growing up with gender dysphoria, the struggles of transitioning and the divorce of her now ex-wife and the death of her friend Pope.

* WordSaladLyrics
* LyricalDissonance: Very common in many of their songs. examples include, "Thrash Unreal", "Pints Of Guinness Make You Strong", "Transgender Dysphoria Blues", "Unconditional Love", "Crash", "Haunting Haunted Haunts",

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Generally hovers around a four or five. AM! has plenty of acoustic songs or versions of songs, but there's a definite angry passion to most of their sound.

** The song ''Searching For a Former Clarity'' is a second-person narration of a person dying of [[WordOfGod AIDS]].

* BrokenBird: Laura, as seen under DarkAndTroubledPast. And even ''after'' garnering her happy ending, it slips here and there considering the amount of hell she struggled with due to her gender dysphoria.

* DarkAndTroubledPast[=/=]EarnYourHappyEnding: Grace's parents divorced and she took the brunt of the anger from it, she was bullied throughout school and experienced gender dysphoria from a young age, and eventually dropped out of high school. Add on drug addiction, a failed first marriage, and several run-ins with law enforcement, and you get a pretty tough adolescence. Despite that, Grace is now a successful musician and she's open about her gender dysphoria, currently living as a woman.
* DownerEnding: ''Transgender Dysphoria Blues'' - the last four tracks are some of their most depressing, lyrically.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Laura and James, who've been best friends since high school. Helps James has been the most consistent member of the AM! line-up too.
** If you wanna go more deeper as well: Laura and Kevin but ''especially'' Laura and Pope, the man who inspired the track "Dead Friend".

* MeaningfulName: As mentioned under DarkAndTroubledPast, the band's name reflected Grace's feeling about her life up to that point: "The whole world is against me!"
** Laura's chosen name as well. Laura stated her first name was a dedication to her mother who would have named her "Laura" (as eluded to in "The Ocean") and her last name "Grace" was a dedication to her grandmother Grace.

* TrueCompanions: Grace and Bowman, friends since the band's inception.
** And much further during the times of ''White Crosses'', Laura and Pope. [[TearJerker It didn't end well]].

* WhamEpisode: While she confirmed it in 2012, 2014's ''Transgender Dysphoria Blues'' is this. It dropped the ball that Laura was coming out as a transgender woman. Much to a lot of people's surprise, the punk scene was ''very'' supportive of Laura as she transitioned.

* ConceptAlbum: Played with ''Transgender Dysphoria Blues''. Laura has described the album about being of a transgender prostitute. However, once she came out as a transgender, it became clear it was about ''her'' and her struggles of growing up with gender dysphoria, the struggles of transitioning and the divorce of her now ex-wife and the death of her friend Pope.

** And much further during the times of ''White Crosses'', Laura and Pope. [[It didn't TearJerker end well]].

** And much further during the times of ''White Crosses'', Laura and Pope. [[TearJerker It didn't end well].

* WhamEpisode: While she confirmed it in 2011, 2014's ''Transgender Dysphoria Blues'' is this. It dropped the ball that Laura was coming out as a transgender woman. Much to a lot of people's surprise, the punk scene was ''very'' supportive of Laura as she transitioned.

* ConceptAlbum: Played with ''Transgender Dysphoria Blues''. Laura has described the album about being of a transgender prostitute. However, once she came out as a transgender, it became clear it was about ''her'' and her struggles of growing up with gender dysphoria, the struggles of transitioning and the divorce of her now ex-wife and the death of a friend Pope.

* HeterosexualLifePartnersL Laura and James, who've been best friends since high school. Helps James has been the most consistent member of the AM! line-up too.

* ConceptAlbum: ''Transgender Dysphoria Blues''. Laura has described the album about being of a transgender prostitute, although most people see it as a concept album about ''her'' and her struggles of growing up with gender dysphoria, the struggles of transitioning and the divorce of her now ex-wife and the death of a friend.

** Andrew Seward (bass/vocals) 2002-13

** Inge Johansson (bass/vocals) 2013-present

* WhamEpisode: ''Transgender Dysphoria Blues'', which dropped the ball that Laura was coming out as a transgender woman. Much to a lot of people's surprise, the punk scene was ''very'' supportive of Laura as she transitioned.

Against Me! is a PunkRock band from Gainesville, Florida. Started as a solo acoustic/folk punk project by seventeen-year-old Laura Jane Grace, Against Me! has been a full group since 2001. The lineup has changed over time, with Laura Jane Grace and lead guitarist James Bowman as the only consistent members. The band has released seven studio albums, most recently, ''Shape Shift With Me'' in September 2016. They've also released several EPs, two live albums, several demo tapes, and in 2004 a movie of their tour. [[FaceOfTheBand Grace]] also released a solo album called ''Heart Burns'' and has written a book, ''Tranny'', which was released in November of 2016.