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* '''Downplayed''': Sandra's original song was about a girl's love for her family. Weird Alicia's cover is about a girl's love for her pets.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Sandra's original song was about a girl's love for her family. Weird Alicia's cover is about a girl's love for her pets.pets.
** The original was an apologizing breakup song, the cover is a grieving remembrance song.
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The trope is being renamed, as discussed in this TRS thread.


* '''Played For Laughs''': Weird Alicia's covers make fun of the original songs. They [[WeirdAlEffect may]] or [[FirstAndForemost may not]] become more popular.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Weird Alicia's covers make fun of the original songs. They [[WeirdAlEffect [[ParodyDisplacement may]] or [[FirstAndForemost may not]] become more popular.
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I wonder what Weird Alicia could possibly be a reference to.


* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???Greedy record executives use Alicia's version to generate more publicity for Sandra.



* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Conversed''': ???"Other people do covers and completely change the lyrics, but not me."
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Weird Alicia's covers make fun of the original songs.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Weird Alicia's covers make fun of the original songs. They [[WeirdAlEffect may]] or [[FirstAndForemost may not]] become more popular.
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** TastesLikeDiabetes becomes RefugeInAudacity (or the other way round).
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** A happy love song becomes a song about violence, murder, torture, rape, bestiality, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking speeding]].

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** A happy love song becomes a song about [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil piracy]], violence, murder, torture, rape, bestiality, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking speeding]].
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Changed the bottom line to something original.


** A love song becomes a song about a girl that hates school and decides to escape. This is the Weird Alicia cover that's closest to the original song.
** A love song becomes a song about violence, murder, torture, rape, bestiality, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking speeding]].

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** A happy love song becomes a song about a girl that hates school and decides to escape. This is the Weird Alicia cover that's closest to the original song.
** A happy love song becomes a song about violence, murder, torture, rape, bestiality, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking speeding]].



* '''Subverted''': "I love video games, I could play them all day, (...) But there's nothing I love more than him."

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* '''Subverted''': "I love video games, I could play them all day, (...) But there's it's worth nothing when I love more than him.don't have him by my side."



Polka your way to the unabridged version [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning HERE]].

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Polka your way to Read the unabridged [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic White & Nerdy]] version [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning HERE]].
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** TastesLikeDiabetes becomes RefugeInAudacity

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** TastesLikeDiabetes becomes RefugeInAudacityRefugeInAudacity (or the other way round).
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* '''Straight''': Singing Sandra's hit is a typical love song. When Weird Alicia covers the song, she makes it about the fun of playing video games.

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* '''Straight''': Singing Sandra's hit is a typical tragic love song. When Weird Alicia covers the song, she makes it about the fun of playing video games.
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'''Basic Trope''': A cover of the song which has a different meaning than the original song.
* '''Straight''': Singing Sandra's hit is a typical love song. When Weird Alicia covers the song, she makes it about the fun of playing video games.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** A love song becomes a song about a girl that hates school and decides to escape. This is the Weird Alicia cover that's closest to the original song.
** A love song becomes a song about violence, murder, torture, rape, bestiality, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking speeding]].
** TastesLikeDiabetes becomes RefugeInAudacity
* '''Downplayed''': Sandra's original song was about a girl's love for her family. Weird Alicia's cover is about a girl's love for her pets.
* '''Justified''': Alicia wants that her songs stand out from the originals.
* '''Inverted''': Weird Alicia's lyrics are changed completely, but the meaning of the song is exactly the same.
* '''Subverted''': "I love video games, I could play them all day, (...) But there's nothing I love more than him."
* '''Double Subverted''': "I'm just kidding. I don't need a lover or a life as long as I have video games."
* '''Parodied''': When Weird Alicia rewrites the lyrics of a song, she always makes WordSaladLyrics.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Weird Alicia's covers may or may not change the meaning of the songs.
* '''Averted''': Weird Alicia writes her own songs.
* '''Enforced''': See Justified.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Does Weird Alicia ever make a cover whose meaning is close to the original song?"
* '''Invoked''': Someone suggests that Weird Alicia rewrite the lyrics of the songs she covers to make them different from the originals.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Weird Alicia's covers keep the original lyrics because she fears that rewriting the lyrics would cause a backlash.
* '''Discussed''': "So Weird Alicia does covers. It won't surprise me if the meaning of the songs is completely different from the original."
* '''Conversed''': ???
%%* '''Implied''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': People think Weird Alicia's covers are disrespectful to the original songs.
%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
* '''Played For Laughs''': Weird Alicia's covers make fun of the original songs.
* '''Played For Drama''': Weird Alicia makes light-hearted covers of songs about serious issues. There's intense debate whether Alicia is just a girl who wants to write fun and happy songs or an insensitive JerkAss that makes fun of tragedies.
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Polka your way to the unabridged version [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning HERE]].
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