History Music / ThisYearsModel

** "You Belong to Me" sounds a great deal like Music/TheRollingStones around the time of ''Music/{{Aftermath}}''. Also, the melody bears more than a passing resemblance to the Stones' "The Last Time".
** In the liner notes to the 2002 reissue, Elvis states that "This Year's Girl" was meant to be a less venomous rewrite of the Stones' "Stupid Girl", also from ''Music/{{Aftermath}}''.

[[caption-width-right:350:The original British cover, featuring a [[StylisticSuck deliberate printing mistake]]. This "mistake" was fixed on most subsequent pressings, but was restored on a 2006 Japanese CD and a 2015 vinyl reissue.]]

* StylisticSuck: Early British pressings included a deliberately mispressed cover, in which the cover image is positioned so off-center that the first letters in "Elvis" and "This" are out-of-view while the color blocks[[note]]used in factories to test for ink deficiencies; most people recognize them as those weird colorful circles on food packaging[[/note]] are ''in''-view. Reissues "corrected" this error before it was restored in 2015; apparently no one got the memo that it was ''supposed'' to look like the printer fucked up.

* TitledAfterTheSong: ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has a Faith-centric episode called "This Year's Girl".

-->''I wanna bite the hand that feeds me.''\\
''I wanna bite that hand so badly.''\\
''I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.''

-->''On the beat, on the beat.\\

Though you never enjoy, such a pleasure to employ."''

You better listen to the radio ...''

Knowing you're with him is driving me crazy.\\

* VariantCover: The British/European, American, and Scandinavian covers all have variations on three of the four cover/innersleeve photos. The front always has Elvis at the camera, the back always has Elvis and the Attractions posing in a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity hotel room, and one side of the innersleeve always has a gloved hand holding a mini-TV whose screen shows an image from the group's ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' appearance; however, all three images are slightly different on each release. Only the other innersleeve photo (mannequin body parts in front of a row of washing machines) is the same on each version.
* VisualPun: The front cover, which has Costello as a photographer, and the viewer as, well, this year's model.

* ShoutOut: he album is on both sides of this trope.

* VariantCover: The British/European, American, and Scandinavian covers all have variations on three of the four cover/innersleeve photos. The front always has Elvis at the camera, the back always has Elvis and the Attractions posing in a UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity hotel room, and one side of the innersleeve always has a gloved hand holding a mini-TV whose screen shows an image from the group's ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' appearance; however, all three images are slightly different on each release. Only the other innersleeve photo (a photo of mannequin body parts in front of a row of washing machines) is the same on each version.

--> ''On the beat, on the beat.''\\
''Till a man comes along and he says,''\\
''"Have you been a good boy, never played with your toy?''\\
''Though you never enjoy, such a pleasure to employ."''

-->''I don't like those other guys looking at your curves''\\
''I don't like you walking 'round with physical jerks''\\
''Everything they say and do is getting on my nerves''\\
''Soon they will be lucky to be picking up the perks.''

Sometimes I phone you when I know you're not lonely,''\\
''But I always disconnect it in time.''

-->''Lip service is all you'll ever get from me [3x]''\\
''But if you change your mind, you can send it in a letter to me''

* ShoutOut:

-->''No, don't ask me to apologize''\\
''I won't ask you to forgive me''\\
''If I'm gonna go down, you're gonna come with me.''

** ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has a Faith-centric episode called "This Year's Girl".

* TitledAfterTheSong: Besides the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' example above, ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' has an episode titled "This Year's Model".

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: From "The Beat": "I'd do anything to con-FUSE the enemy".

The original US release dropped "Chelsea" and "Night Rally" because Columbia Records, thought their lyrics were "too British". They were replaced by "Radio Radio", a song already (in)famous for getting Costello banned from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. Most CD releases include both songs, either on the primary disc or a bonus disc.

''This Year's Model'' is Music/ElvisCostello's second studio album. It is also his first with the Attractions, the crack backing band he'd recruited to tour with his previous album, ''Music/MyAimIsTrue''. It was originally released in March 1978 on Creator/RadarRecords in England and Creator/ColumbiaRecords in America. One of the towering documents of the early NewWaveMusic, ''TYM'' has been ranked at #98 in ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"]].

''This Year's Model''is Music/ElvisCostello's second studio album. It is also his first with the Attractions, the crack backing band he'd recruited to tour with his previous album, ''Music/MyAimIsTrue''. It was originally released in March 1978 on Creator/RadarRecords in England and Creator/ColumbiaRecords in America. One of the towering documents of the early NewWaveMusic, ''TYM'' has been ranked at #98 in ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"]].

->''"You say you're sorry for the things that you have done\\

Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being"''

''This Year's Model'', released in March 1978, is Music/ElvisCostello's second studio album. It is also his first with the Attractions, the crack backing band he'd recruited to tour with his previous album, ''Music/MyAimIsTrue''. One of the towering documents of the early NewWaveMusic, it's been ranked at #98 in ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"]].

The original US release dropped "Chelsea" and "Night Rally" because Costello's American label, Creator/ColumbiaRecords, thought their lyrics were "too British". They were replaced by "Radio Radio", a song already (in)famous for getting Costello banned from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. Most CD releases include both songs, either on the primary disc or a bonus disc.

-->''And I think about the way things used to be,''\\
''Knowing you're with him is driving me crazy.''\\
''Sometimes I phone you when I know you're not lonely,''\\

[[caption-width-right:350:The original British cover, featuring a [[StylisticSuck deliberate printing mistake]]. This "mistake" was fixed on all subsequent pressings until it was finally restored on a 2015 reissue.]]

-->''I don't wanna kiss you, I don't wanna touch''

-->Radio is a sound salvation\\
''Radio is cleaning up the nation\\

You better listen to the radio ...\\
I wanna bite the hand that feeds me\\
I wanna bite that hand so badly\\
I wanna make them wish they'd never seen me''

''Soon the will be lucky to be picking up the perks.''

* PunBasedTitle: The album was the next album after [[Music/MyAimIsTure the one released the previous year]], making it that year's model.

* StylisticSuck: Early British pressings included a deliberately mispressed cover, in which the cover image is positioned so off-center that the first letters in "Elvis" and "This" are out-of-view while the color blocks[[note]]used in factories to test for ink deficiencies; most people recognize them as those weird colorful circles on food packaging[[/note]] are ''in''-view. Reissues corrected this error before it was restored in 2015; apparently no one got the memo that it was ''supposed'' to look like the printer fucked up.

''Knowing you with him is driving me crazy.''\\

-->''"No, don't ask me to apologize''\\

''If I'm gonna go down, you're gonna come with me."''

** "The Beat" starts with the line "We're all going on a summer holiday", a possible reference to the Music/CliffRichard song and movie.

Radio is cleaning up the nation\\

I wanna make them wish they'd never seen me

* StylisticSuck: Early British pressings included a deliberately mispressed cover.

* InTheStyleOf: "You Belong to Me" sounds a great deal like Music/TheRollingStones around the time of ''Music/{{Aftermath}}''. Also, the melody bears more than a passing resemblance to the Stones' "The Last Time".

''This Year's Model'', released in March 1978, is Music/ElvisCostello's second studio album. It is also his first with the Attractions, the crack backing band he'd recruited to tour with his previous album, ''Music/MyAimIsTrue''. One of the towering documents of the early NewWave, it's been ranked at #98 in ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine's [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"]].