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* BaitAndSwitch: The music video for "Don't Stop Believing" begins with a shot framing a vocalist and band in a set-up similar to many other PMJ videos, but just as the vocalist is about to start singing, the ''real'' vocalist walks past in front of them, and the camera turns to follow her, leaving the band and decoy vocalist behind.



* TheOner: The music video for their of Music/{{Journey|Band}}'s "Don't Stop Believin'" is shot in one take.

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* TheOner: The music video for their of Music/{{Journey|Band}}'s "Don't Stop Believin'" is shot in one take.take, with the camera following the singers through multiple rooms and musicians and dancers moving in and out of shot.
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** The video for the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' theme -- "I'll Be There For You", originally by the Rembrandts -- takes a Through the Decades approach, with a rotating roster of singers performing successive sections of the song in the style of TheRoaringTwenties through to TheNineties... with TheNineties represented by the Rembrandts themselves performing the song in its original style.

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** The video for the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' theme -- "I'll Be There For You", originally by the Rembrandts -- takes a Through the Decades approach, with a rotating roster of singers performing successive sections of the song in the style of TheRoaringTwenties TheRoaring20s through to TheNineties... The90s... with TheNineties The90s represented by the Rembrandts themselves performing the song in its original style.



** The lyrics are the same, but through their usual anachronistic arrangement and some very swanky set dressing, they make Music/{{Coolio}}'s "Gangsta's Paradise" -- a song lamenting the life of a hoodlum "gangsta" of TheNineties -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rve03u7oEvI&ab_channel=PostmodernJukebox into a song]] lamenting the life of a glitzy "gangster" of TheRoaringTwenties.

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** The lyrics are the same, but through their usual anachronistic arrangement and some very swanky set dressing, they make Music/{{Coolio}}'s "Gangsta's Paradise" -- a song lamenting the life of a hoodlum "gangsta" of TheNineties The90s -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rve03u7oEvI&ab_channel=PostmodernJukebox into a song]] lamenting the life of a glitzy "gangster" of TheRoaringTwenties.TheRoaring20s.



** Their [[Music/{{Blondie}} "Heart of Glass"]] version even warranted a DeliberatelyMonochrome [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTMoipsvGNc video reminiscent of]] FilmNoir.

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** Their [[Music/{{Blondie}} [[Music/{{Blondie|Band}} "Heart of Glass"]] version even warranted a DeliberatelyMonochrome [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTMoipsvGNc video reminiscent of]] FilmNoir.
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** The lyrics are the same, but through their usual anachronistic arrangement and some very swanky set dressing, they make Music/{{Coolio}}'s "Gangsta's Paradise" -- a song lamenting the life of a hoodlum "gangsta" of TheNineties -- into a song lamenting the life of a glitzy "gangster" of TheRoaringTwenties.
** Their '60s teen musical-styled cover of Music/OliviaRodrigo's song "happier" puts an irreverent spin on the originally sad lyrics -- instead of lamenting a breakup, the singer is over him and mocking his new relationship.

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** The lyrics are the same, but through their usual anachronistic arrangement and some very swanky set dressing, they make Music/{{Coolio}}'s "Gangsta's Paradise" -- a song lamenting the life of a hoodlum "gangsta" of TheNineties -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rve03u7oEvI&ab_channel=PostmodernJukebox into a song song]] lamenting the life of a glitzy "gangster" of TheRoaringTwenties.
** Their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUCRA3k7w2Q&pp=ygUacG9zdG1vZGVybiBqdWtlYm94IGhhcHBpZXI%3D '60s teen musical-styled cover cover]] of Music/OliviaRodrigo's song "happier" "Happier" puts an irreverent spin on the originally sad lyrics -- instead of lamenting a breakup, the singer is over him and mocking his new relationship. relationship.
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** It's to the point they have a full [[ChrsitmasEpisode holiday]] [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJZH8sevmMq4K-JEyfTCKBJskAzi3wTjm album]], with their takes on most of the classic staples.

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** It's to the point they have a full [[ChrsitmasEpisode [[ChristmasEpisode holiday]] [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJZH8sevmMq4K-JEyfTCKBJskAzi3wTjm album]], with their takes on most of the classic staples.

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* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Zig-Zagged. Some covers ("Jealous," "Take Me to Church") ''do'' swap the gender, but others ("Poison," "Timber", "Welcome To The Black Parade") don't.

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** It's to the point they have a full [[ChrsitmasEpisode holiday]] [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJZH8sevmMq4K-JEyfTCKBJskAzi3wTjm album]], with their takes on most of the classic staples.
* TheCoverChangesTheGender: Zig-Zagged. Some covers ("Jealous," "Take Me to Church") ''do'' swap the gender, but others ("Poison," "Timber", "Welcome To The Black Parade") Parade", "Uptown Girl") don't.

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** The video for the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' theme -- "I'll Be There For You", originally by the Rembrandts -- takes a Through the Decades approach, with a rotating roster of singers performing successive sections of the song in the style of TheThirties through to TheNineties... with TheNineties represented by the Rembrandts themselves performing the song in its original style.

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** The video for the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' theme -- "I'll Be There For You", originally by the Rembrandts -- takes a Through the Decades approach, with a rotating roster of singers performing successive sections of the song in the style of TheThirties TheRoaringTwenties through to TheNineties... with TheNineties represented by the Rembrandts themselves performing the song in its original style.



* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: The lyrics are the same, but through their usual anachronistic arrangement and some very swanky set dressing, they make Music/{{Coolio}}'s "Gangsta's Paradise" -- a song lamenting the life of a hoodlum "gangsta" of TheNineties -- into a song lamenting the life of a glitzy "gangster" of TheRoaringTwenties.

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* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: TheCoverChangesTheMeaning:
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The lyrics are the same, but through their usual anachronistic arrangement and some very swanky set dressing, they make Music/{{Coolio}}'s "Gangsta's Paradise" -- a song lamenting the life of a hoodlum "gangsta" of TheNineties -- into a song lamenting the life of a glitzy "gangster" of TheRoaringTwenties.TheRoaringTwenties.
** Their '60s teen musical-styled cover of Music/OliviaRodrigo's song "happier" puts an irreverent spin on the originally sad lyrics -- instead of lamenting a breakup, the singer is over him and mocking his new relationship.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: A frequent CharacterTic of female singers is to appear shoeless. Notably, Joey Cook is shoeless in every video she's done.


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* PrefersGoingBarefoot: A frequent CharacterTic of female singers is to appear shoeless. Notably, Joey Cook is shoeless in every video she's done.
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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: GratuitousSpanish is used in the band's Latin style cover of “Summer” by Calvin Harris and their Mariachi cover of Music/{{Avicii}}'s "Wake Me Up." GratuitousFrench shows up in the "Sweater Weather" cover.

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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: GratuitousSpanish is used in the band's Latin style cover of “Summer” by Calvin Harris Music/CalvinHarris and their Mariachi cover of Music/{{Avicii}}'s "Wake Me Up." GratuitousFrench shows up in the "Sweater Weather" cover.
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* NamesTheSame: Invoked, as both songs named "Closer" (Chainsmokers and Music/NineInchNails) are sung by Kenton Chen.
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* TheAce: Swedish jazz musician Gunhild Carling, who featured in the group’s videos on a number of occasions, is an ''insanely'' talented multi-instrumentalist.

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* TheAce: Swedish jazz musician Gunhild Carling, who featured in the group’s videos on a number of occasions, is an ''insanely'' talented multi-instrumentalist. PMJ brought her out into the limelight but she was known for decades prior in the European jazz world as part of the musical Carling Family.
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* TheAce: Swedish jazz musician Gunhild Carling, who featured in the group’s videos on a number of occasions, is an ''insanely'' talented multi-instrumentalist.
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* RadioFriendliness: Even though PMJ doesn't broadcast on radio, many of the group's covers remove profanity from the original songs, as such they could be called Radio Edits.

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* TheFlapper: Many of their female vocalists have dressed like this when the group does covers in the style of '20s Jazz.



* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: At times it's billed Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox.



* NamesTheSame: Invoked, as both songs named "Closer" (Chainsmokers and Music/NineInchNails) are sung by Kenton Chen.



* TheFlapper: Many of their female vocalists have dressed like this when the group does covers in the style of '20s Jazz.
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* TheOner: The music video for their of Music/{{Journey}}'s "Don't Stop Believin'" is shot in one take.

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* TheOner: The music video for their of Music/{{Journey}}'s Music/{{Journey|Band}}'s "Don't Stop Believin'" is shot in one take.

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