History YMMV / Flyleaf

* NeverLiveItDown / OvershadowedByControversy: Lacey has a lot less fans among younger people, due to her comments on her past relationship with a woman and how turning to religion "[[CureYourGays cured her of the sin of homosexuality]]".

** Also, most of the fanbase's reaction to Lacey's departure and replacement.

* FaceOfTheBand: As with any female-fronted band, Lacey.

* NightmareFuel: The video to "All Around Me", mainly due to the way the walls bleed...

* [[NightmareFuel/MusicVideos Nightmare Fuel: Music Videos]]: The video to "All Around Me", with its blood splattered everywhere. It's ''supposed'' to be religious but can also be creepy.

** Also, most of the fanbase's reaction to Lacey's departure and replacement.
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%%** "Tiny Heart"

* ReplacementScrappy: Kristen never got past this despite arguably being a technically better singer. One thing in particular being fans complaining about her not screaming at first, despite them only performing 2 songs where Lacey screamed, and then complaining again when she tried, because she [[HarshVocals growled]] instead of Lacey's [[MetalScream high screams]].

* TearJerker: [[{{TearJerker/Flyleaf}} Here]]

** "Tiny Heart"

* TheWoobie: When she was younger, Lacey had a broken home life, was addicted to drugs as early as ten years old, and had a mental breakdown in which she [[ImportantHaircut cut off all of her hair]] and contemplated suicide before being urged by her grandmother to start attending church. How can you not be endeared to her after such a hellish life?

* [[TearJerker/{{Music}} Tear Jerker]]: Flyleaf has a few tearjerkers:
** "Cassie"s about a school shooting where, according to many statements, a girl (Cassie) was asked if she believed in God. Replying yes, she was shot, dead, right then and there. Unfortunately, the actual event didn't happen, and is simply a garbled conflation of two separate events during the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} high school massacre: Cassie Bernall was shot dead by Eric Harris, but he merely said "peek-a-boo" before doing so. Another student, Valeen Schnurr, was the one who cried out "Oh God help me!" upon being severely injured, during a lull in the rampage. Dylan Klebold then approached her and asked if she believed in God, to which she replied first "no" and then "yes", and when Klebold further asked why, she answered that it was because that's what her family believed. Klebold responded by taunting her and walking away, and she ultimately survived. Somehow the popular narrative of the massacre ended up smoshing together Bernall's death and Schnurr's exchange with Klebold. But hey, it's still a sad story with a sad song to go with it, at least in the acoustic version.
** "Fully Alive" is about Layla Palmer, a woman who has some form of debilitating disease, to the point that she rarely wakes up without being in agony. Listening to the acoustic version of this is especially recommended, since it is much more about Lacey's vocals.
** Also "Supernatural" - it starts out about a woman who is in constant severe pain from some kind of unmentioned disease, then about her son, after her death.
*** "He is teaching me what love really means."
** "Much Like Falling" is really sad if you know Lacey's testimony.
** [[Music/{{U2}} "Stay (Faraway, So Close)"]]:
--->Three in the morning, it's quiet, and there's no one around [...] Just a bang, and a clatter, as [[DrivenToSuicide an angel hits the ground...]]

* ReplacementScrappy: Kristen never got past this despite arguably being a technically better singer. One thing in particular being fans complaining about her not screaming at first, despite them only performing 2 songs where Lacey screamed, and then [[UnpleasableFanbase complaining again when she tried]], because she [[HarshVocals growled]] instead of Lacey's [[MetalScream high screams]].

* MisattributedSong
* [[NightmareFuel/MusicVideos Nightmare Fuel: Music Videos]]

* SignatureSong: "I'm So Sick", though "Cassie" is quite popular too.
** "All Around Me" can also count.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: "Tiny Heart"

** "Fully Alive" is about Layla Palmer, a woman who has some form of crippling disease, to the point that she rarely wakes up without being in agony. Listening to the acoustic version of this is especially recommended, since it is much more about Lacey's vocals.
** Also "Supernatural" - it starts out about a woman who is in constant, crippling pain from some kind of unmentioned disease, then about her son, after her death.

** Their whole second album is this due to the Christian theme. FridgeLogic occurs when you notice that the first album was just as Christian, having songs that could easily relate to the religion and even referencing Jesus.

** "Cassie"s about a school shooting where, according to many statements, a girl (Cassie) was asked if she believed in God. Replying yes, she was shot, dead, right then and there. Unfortunately, the actual event didn't happen, and is simply a garbled conflation of two separate events during the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} high school massacre: Cassie Bernall was shot dead by Eric Harris, but he merely said "peek-a-boo" before doing so. Another student, Valeen Schnurr, was the one who cried out "Oh God help me!" upon being severely injured, during a lull in the rampage. Dylan Klebold then approached her and asked if she believed in God, to which she replied first "no" and then "yes", and when Klebold further asked why, she answered that it was because that's what her family believed. Klebold responded by taunting her and walking away, and somehow the popular narrative of the massacre ended up garbling and combining Bernall's death and Schnurr's exchange with Klebold. But hey, it's still a sad story with a sad song to go with it, at least in the acoustic version.

** "Cassie"s about a school shooting where, according to many statements, a girl (Cassie) was asked if she believed in God. Replying yes, she was shot, dead, right then and there. Unfortunately, it's basically a fact that the actual event didn't happen, but hey, it's still a sad story with a sad song to go with it, at least in the acoustic version.
** Actually, that did happen, but the girl in question was named Rachel.
** It's about Columbine. Cassie Bernall, age 17.

He is teaching me what love really means.

* [[TearJerker/{{Music}} Tear Jerker]]

* [[NightmareFuel/MusicVideos High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Music Videos]]

* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/MusicVideos High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Music Videos]]

* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: {{YMMV}}, but Lacey's voice is absolutely beautiful. Her range isn't anything to shrug at.