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** "Quarter Past Midnight" mentions singing [[Music/JoyDivision "Love Will Tear Us Apart"]].
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* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Laura Palmer", "Poet", "Sleepsong", and "Good Grief" have titles that never appear in the songs themselves.

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* NonAppearingTitle: "Pompeii", "Daniel in the Den", "Laura Palmer", "Poet", "Sleepsong", and "Good Grief" have titles that never appear in the songs themselves.
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* RelationshipLabelingProblems: "Another Place" is about a hookup where the two parties go back and forth over whether or not there is or could be more to their relationship. Regardless, the two are clearly in some sort of situationship, as Dan notes in the opening line that the tie that binds them together can't be broken.

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* TakeThat: In the video for "Bad Decisions", Dan dresses as British prime minister Boris Johnson and gets shot in the head.

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* TakeThat: In the video for "Bad Decisions", Dan dresses as British prime minister Boris Johnson UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson and gets shot in the head.



Let's stay up all night!''

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Let's stay up all night!''night!''
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!! Discography
* ''Bad Blood'' (2013)
* ''Wild World'' (2016)
* ''Doom Days'' (2019)
* ''Give Me the Future'' (2022)
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* ExcitedShowTitle: "Send Them Off!"
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** "Good Lesson" has the singer address his lover as [[Literature/SamsonAndDelilah Delilah] and repeatedly says she was "always stronger than [he] was".

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** "Good Lesson" has the singer address his lover as [[Literature/SamsonAndDelilah Delilah] Delilah]] and repeatedly says she was "always stronger than [he] was".

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-->''Oh I trusted you\\
I looked up to you\\
I guess that's what you do''
* GreenEyedMonster: "Send Them Off!" parallels jealousy to a demonic possession. According to the band itself, the song could be best described as "''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' meets ''Film/TheExorcist''".

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-->''Oh I trusted you\\
I
-->''I looked up to you\\
Oh I guess trusted you\\
I put faith in you\\
Guess
that's what you do''
* GreenEyedMonster: "Send Them Off!" parallels jealousy to a demonic possession.DemonicPossession. According to the band itself, the song could be best described as "''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' meets ''Film/TheExorcist''".



** "Pompeii" is a very upbeat and danceable song with punchy drums and a catchy synth-line ... that also happens to be about two charred corpses having a conversation and reflecting about the destruction of a city from a volcanic eruption.

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** "Pompeii" is a very upbeat and danceable song with punchy drums and a catchy synth-line ... that also happens to be about two charred corpses having a conversation and reflecting about the destruction of a city from by a volcanic eruption.



* {{Sampling}}: "Good Grief" contains snippets of dialogue from the film {{Film/Weird Science}}.

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* {{Sampling}}: Used several times in ''Wild World'' and ''Doom Days.''
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"Good Grief" contains snippets of dialogue from the film {{Film/Weird Science}}.Science}}.
** "Four Walls" ends and "Fake It" begins with bits of dialogue from the 1971 film ''Changing''.
** "Warmth" begins with and "Way Beyond" contains a couple of sentences from a US Department of Justice video about "The News Media’s Coverage of Crime and Victimization." "Comfort of Strangers" also samples from the video, but isolated words are stitched together instead of full sentences.



* SignificantHaircut: Dan Smith cuts his hair at the beginning of the video for "Quarter Past Midnight", and kept it that way for over a year afterward. It appears to symbolize the stylistic change between ''Wild World'' and ''Doom Days''.

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** "Good Lesson" has the singer address his lover as [[Literature/SamsonAndDelilah Delilah] and repeatedly says she was "always stronger than [he] was".
* SignificantHaircut: Dan Smith cuts gets his hair cut at the beginning of the video for "Quarter Past Midnight", Midnight" and kept it that way for over a year afterward. It appears to symbolize the stylistic change between ''Wild World'' and ''Doom Days''.



** "Good Grief" features, among other things, a woman winning the lottery and shooting people randomly, angry roller skate girls, a giant teddy bear, and graphic nudity.

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** "Good Grief" features, among other things, a woman winning the lottery a game show and shooting people randomly, angry roller skate roller-skating girls, a giant teddy bear, and graphic nudity.



* TakeThat: In the video for "Bad Decisions", Dan dresses British prime minister Boris Johnson and gets shot in the head.

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* TakeThat: In the video for "Bad Decisions", Dan dresses as British prime minister Boris Johnson and gets shot in the head.

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