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* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: The young boy in the "Ways to Go" video is pretty clearly meant to be a young [[UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea Kim Jong-un]].



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* RefrainFromAssuming: You could be forgiven for thinking that "Tongue Tied" is actually titled "Take Me to Your Best Friend's House".

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* GenreMashup: Their music style is a mix of AlternativeRock and indietronica/AlternativeDance.



* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Their music style is a mix of AlternativeRock and indietronica/AlternativeDance.
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'''Grouplove''' is an indie rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band was formed in 2009 after the five band members met at an artist residency in Crete and, despite their varying backgrounds, found themselves becoming close friends. A year later, the five met up at Ryan Rabin's recording studio to record their first EP and they've been together making music ever since.

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'''Grouplove''' Grouplove is an indie rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band was formed in 2009 after the five band members met at an artist residency in Crete and, despite their varying backgrounds, found themselves becoming close friends. A year later, the five met up at Ryan Rabin's recording studio to record their first EP and they've been together making music ever since.
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* DrivenToSuicide: From "Colours":
-->''Mistress mistress have you been up to the roof?''
-->''He shot himself-self''
-->''There's blood on the wall''
-->''Cause he couldn't face the truth''
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Grouplove is an indie rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band was formed in 2009 after the five band members met at an artist residency in Crete and, despite their varying backgrounds, found themselves becoming close friends. A year later, the five met up at Ryan Rabin's recording studio to record their first EP and they've been together making music ever since.

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Grouplove '''Grouplove''' is an indie rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band was formed in 2009 after the five band members met at an artist residency in Crete and, despite their varying backgrounds, found themselves becoming close friends. A year later, the five met up at Ryan Rabin's recording studio to record their first EP and they've been together making music ever since.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Christian's blue hair in the "Ways to Go" video.
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* CompanionCube: The "Itchin' On a Photograph" video shows three couples entering a hotel room: a pair of teenagers, a middle-aged couple, and... a man with a garden gnome.



* OutOfGenreExperience: "Hippy Hill" starts out with acoustic guitar and synth, but abruptly turns into {{dubstep}} about halfway through before going back to its former style.



-->Ah ah ah ah, oh oh oh oh, I'm with you, you

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-->Ah ah ah ah, oh oh oh oh, I'm with you, youyou
* WordSaladLyrics: "Beans on Pizza", without a doubt.
-->Why you putting beans on my pizza?
-->Why you putting beans on my pizza, yeah
-->Why you spray tan inside the watermelon?
-->Why you spray tan inside the watermelon, yeah
-->We were there, you were there, we were everywhere, whoo oooo
-->You were there, we were there, you were everywhere, whoo oooo
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* OdeToIntoxication: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Everyone's Gonna Get High"]]. The song also has some elements of a "Deconstructed OdeToIntoxication" OdeToSobriety, since it discusses using drugs as a way to get through hard times instead of just for fun.
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* CarefulWithThatAxe: "Close Your Eyes and Count to Ten" features Christian Zucconi singing "Don't swallow any seaweed, or if you do you're starting agaaaaiiaaaiiaaaiiAAAEEAEAAAAAAH!"


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* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Andrew Wessen steps up to the mic in "Spun", and Sean Gadd does this for "Getaway Car" and "Chloe".
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* LyricSwap: The first verse in "Shark Attack" is repeated during the bridge, but with some lyrics swapped. The original goes "I left my body in a sea of people / And that's just how I leave it / I met somebody in a sea of people / And that's just what I believe in". The second time around, the "left my body" and "met somebody" are switched.


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* OneWomanSong: "Chloe"
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* BackToFront: The video for "Tongue Tied" shows the events of a wild party in reverse.
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* AnimatedMusicVideo: The video for "Borderlines and Aliens" is made entirely of animation based on artwork done by the band's own Hannah Hooper.


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* CoverDrop: The hippie with rainbow glasses on the ''Spreading Rumours'' album cover appears at the end of the "Borderlines and Aliens" music video.
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Grouplove is an indie rock band from Los Angeles, CA. The band was formed in 2009 after the five band members met at an artist residency in Crete and, despite their varying backgrounds, found themselves becoming close friends. A year later, the five met up at Ryan Rabin's recording studio to record their first EP and they've been together making music ever since.

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Grouplove is an indie rock band from Los Angeles, CA.California. The band was formed in 2009 after the five band members met at an artist residency in Crete and, despite their varying backgrounds, found themselves becoming close friends. A year later, the five met up at Ryan Rabin's recording studio to record their first EP and they've been together making music ever since.
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Grouplove is an indie rock band from Los Angeles, CA. The band was formed in 2009 after the five band members met at an artist residency in Crete and, despite their varying backgrounds, found themselves becoming close friends. A year later, the five met up at Ryan Rabin's recording studio to record their first EP and they've been together making music ever since.

The band's five members are:
* Christian Zucconi (vocals, guitar)
* Hannah Hooper (vocals, keyboard)
* Andrew Wessen (guitar, vocals)
* Ryan Rabin (drums)
* Sean Gadd (bass, vocals)

Discography:
* ''Grouplove EP'' (2010)
* ''Never Trust A Happy Song'' (2011)
* ''Spreading Rumours'' (2013)

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!!Grouplove contains examples of:
* BreakupSong: "Didn't Have To Go"
* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "I'm With You" has an intro lasting for two minutes, starting off with a piano solo then fading into more electronic music.
* LoveNostalgiaSong: "Schoolboy" is about the speaker remembering a girl he loved when he was young and wishing he could tell her how much she meant to him.
-->She was just a schoolgirl, she thought she'd met a dream
-->Or so it seemed, so it seemed
-->I spent some summer nights wrapped up in her backyard
-->Oh, I was so in love and then I fell apart.
* MelismaticVocals: Happens a lot on some of the longer notes. Especially in the chorus of "Save the Party": "Daddy came down this evening, he came dowowowowowown..."
* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Their music style is a mix of AlternativeRock and indietronica/AlternativeDance.
* NonAppearingTitle: "Shark Attack" is their only example of this so far.
* RefrainFromAssuming: You could be forgiven for thinking that "Tongue Tied" is actually titled "Take Me to Your Best Friend's House".
* TitleDrop: "Gold Coast", "Naked Kids", "Betty's a Bombshell", and "Hippy Hill" each have only one title drop.
* TitleOnlyChorus: The chorus of "Didn't Have to Go" repeats the line "you didn't have to go".
** "I'm With You" also does this, unless you count "ah" and "oh" as words.
-->Ah ah ah ah, oh oh oh oh, I'm with you, you
-->Ah ah ah ah, oh oh oh oh, I'm with you, you

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