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** We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions, uplifting and empowering to almost everybody
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Brian was worried that Freddie might be too sick to do justice to "The Show Must Go On." Freddie nailed it in one take.
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** To a lesser extent ''Made in Heaven'' though this is more related to ''Innuendo'''s status as a DyingMomentOfAwesome than anything else.
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** But, of course, see VindicatedByHistory below.
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* HoYay: Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor: best friends, metrosexuals, exceptionally good with high falsetto vocals, party animals, heavy smokers (at least at some point) and drinkers.
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* EpicRiff: Lots, from ''Keep Yourself Alive'' to ''White Man'' to ''Another One Bites The Dust'', an epic bass riff.
** "We Will Rock You". Off the top of your head, how many ''drum'' riffs can you name?
** "We Will Rock You". Off the top of your head, how many ''drum'' riffs can you name?
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** "I Want It All" when told what it's about.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiuD6i8dN1g&feature=related "Radio Gaga,"]] full stop. Might possibly double as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, as it's basically one big ode to radio.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiuD6i8dN1g&feature=related "Radio Gaga,"]] Ga Ga,"]] full stop. Might possibly double as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, as it's basically one big ode to radio.radio.
*** Big YMMV on "Radio Ga Ga", this troper considers it one of Queen's more dull songs.
*** Big YMMV on "Radio Ga Ga", this troper considers it one of Queen's more dull songs.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: "White Man", "Put Out the Fire".Fire" & "Tie Your Mother Down".
* CriticalDissonance: Their popularity with the music press was inversely proportionate to their popularity with their audiences. By the onset of the 1980s, they could have legitimately claimed to be the biggest band in the world, but at the same time ''Rolling Stone'' was denouncing them as "the world's first fascist rock band".
* CriticalDissonance: Their popularity with the music press was inversely proportionate to their popularity with their audiences. By the onset of the 1980s, they could have legitimately claimed to be the biggest band in the world, but at the same time ''Rolling Stone'' was denouncing them as "the world's first fascist rock band".
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*** On top of that, it was written by Brian May.
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The cover art for their ''News of the World'' album, drawn by Frank Kelly Freas, shows the band's lifeless bodies tumbling from the hand of a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds wide-eyed giant robot]] that does not seem to understand why its new playthings have stopped moving.
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The cover art for their ''News of the World'' album, drawn by Frank Kelly Freas, shows the band's lifeless bodies tumbling from the hand of a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds wide-eyed giant robot]] that does not seem to understand why its new playthings have stopped moving.
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* NeverLiveItDown: For a while, it was their decision to perform at Sun City. Mostly that's forgotten, but it caused a massive uproar at the time.
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** When their [[TheEighties 1980s]] music and {{Camp}} image (and a payola scandal on EMI, their second label) alienated much of their American fanbase, they concentrated on England, Europe, Japan and South America both as touring stops and music markets. A large amount of Queen's music became hits overseas, but largely ignored in the States, to the point that much of the 1992 ''Classic Queen'' GreatestHitsAlbum was filled with unfamilar material.
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** Freddie ate fried chicken for lunch he day they recorded the lead vocal, hence the joke.
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** And Google's tribute to Freddie's [=65th=] birhtday on 2011, via putting up a flash with nice Freddie images to the tune of "Dont' stop me now". [[http://youtu.be/KX2BQM0D01M See it on Youtube]].
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** And Google's tribute to Freddie's [=65th=] birhtday birthday on 2011, via putting up a flash with nice Freddie images to the tune of "Dont' stop me now"."Don't Stop Me Now". [[http://youtu.be/KX2BQM0D01M See it on Youtube]].
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiuD6i8dN1g&feature=related "Radio Gaga,"]] full stop. Might possibly double as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, as it's basically one big ode to radio.
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** Save Me combines this with HeroicBSOD. "I'm naked and I'm far from home".
** Jealousy is certainly a TearJerker. Also a MoodWhiplash as it is placed in between ''Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Bicycle Race" on the ''Jazz'' album.
** Jealousy is certainly a TearJerker. Also a MoodWhiplash as it is placed in between ''Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Bicycle Race" on the ''Jazz'' album.
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* StuckInTheirShadow: While John Deacon is considered one of the best bassists in rock music, his personality was too reserved to make him as memorable as the more dynamic band members ([[FleetwoodMac like some]] [[TheWho other nonetheless talented]] [[DreamTheater bass guitarists]] [[LedZeppelin called John]].)
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* StuckInTheirShadow: While John Deacon is considered one of the best bassists in rock music, his personality was too reserved to make him as memorable as the more dynamic band members ([[FleetwoodMac like some]] [[TheWho other nonetheless talented]] [[DreamTheater [[Music/DreamTheater bass guitarists]] [[LedZeppelin called John]].)
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Queen is very popular in Iran, partly due to the fact that Freddie Mercury was of Iranian descent.
** When Queen fell out of favor in the United States, they developed massive followings in Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East while restoring their position at the top of the rock pantheon in their native UK (having concentrated pretty heavily on America between ''News Of The World'' and ''Hot Space''). In fact, they were BigInJapan years before America took to them, which they acknowledged by writing "Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together)" for ''A Day At The Races'' as a tribute to their Japanese following.
** When Queen fell out of favor in the United States, they developed massive followings in Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East while restoring their position at the top of the rock pantheon in their native UK (having concentrated pretty heavily on America between ''News Of The World'' and ''Hot Space''). In fact, they were BigInJapan years before America took to them, which they acknowledged by writing "Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together)" for ''A Day At The Races'' as a tribute to their Japanese following.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Queen is very popular in Iran, partly due to the fact that Freddie Mercury was of Iranian descent. \n They were also pretty popular in Japan, which was acknowledged with the Japanese lyrics of "Teo Torriatte".
**When According to Brian May, Queen fell out of favor in the United States, they developed massive followings in Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East while restoring their position at the top of the rock pantheon in was worried for a time that they'd neglected their native UK (having concentrated pretty heavily on America between ''News Of The World'' and ''Hot Space''). In fact, they were BigInJapan years before America took to them, which they acknowledged by writing "Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together)" for ''A Day At The Races'' as a tribute to Britain during the seventies (in spite of their Japanese following.considerable success at home) in favour of making it in America, but the massive success of their free concert in Hyde Park in 1977 allayed their fears.
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** I'm astounded at the number of people who think '''39'' is about World War II. Did they ever really listen to the lyrics?! "In the days when lands were few" "In the year of '39 ... the volunteers came home ... and they bring good news of a world so newly born". Do they really want to go ''[[SpringtimeForHitler there]]''?!
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** I'm astounded at the number of people who think '''39'' is about World War II. Did they ever really listen to the lyrics?! "In the days when lands were few" "In the year of '39 ... the volunteers came home ... and they bring good news of a world so newly born". Do they really want to go ''[[SpringtimeForHitler there]]''?!
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* FridgeHorror: Depending on how you read the line about Fanny the naughty nanny in "Fat Bottomed Girls" it's not hard to interpret that line as meaning that Fanny was a ''sexual abuser'' of a child.
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* FridgeHorror: Depending on how you read the line about being left alone with Fanny the naughty nanny in "Fat Bottomed Girls" it's not hard to interpret that line as meaning that Fanny was a ''sexual abuser'' of a child.
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* FridgeHorror: Depending on how you read the line about Fanny the naughty nanny in "Fat Bottomed Girls" it's not hard to interpret that line as meaning that Fanny was a ''sexual abuser'' of a child.
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** The March of the Black Queen manages to exceed even Bohemian Rhapsody in awesomeness and [[BuffySpeak crowningness.]]
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* FaceOfTheBand: Freddie Mercury. Overlaps in the public mind with IAmTheBand, as even the fans who ''don't'' regard new singers as [[ReplacementScrappy replacement Scrappies]] will tend to agree that there is no Queen without Freddie.
** To be honest, there wouldn't be a Queen without Brian May either; his distinctive guitar style is just as important to Queen's trademark sound as Freddie's vocals.
*** According to Freddie himself (Circus mag, 1977), if ANY of the four left, it'd be the end of Queen.
** This trope could slightly apply as the band's career went on, with the gradual reduction in the amount of songs with lead vocals by the other members.
** To be honest, there wouldn't be a Queen without Brian May either; his distinctive guitar style is just as important to Queen's trademark sound as Freddie's vocals.
*** According to Freddie himself (Circus mag, 1977), if ANY of the four left, it'd be the end of Queen.
** This trope could slightly apply as the band's career went on, with the gradual reduction in the amount of songs with lead vocals by the other members.
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** And their Live Aid set.
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** Hammer To Fall really sounds as if it was written after Freddie was diagnosed with AIDS, the lyrics are eerily apt, but it was actually written a couple of years before he knew he had AIDS.
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** AIDS didn't kill him, epic power just engulfed his body.
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* FanonDisContinuity: Narrowly averted with ''Hot Space'' ([[YourMileageMayVary for some]]), because of the presence of DavidBowie on ''Under Pressure'', the one track that everyone enjoys.
** The Paul Rodgers album might be a better example. Many fans feel that the lack of Freddie makes it not a Queen album. Even non-fans have commented that it ''sounds'' more like a Paul Rodgers album than Queen.
** The Paul Rodgers album might be a better example. Many fans feel that the lack of Freddie makes it not a Queen album. Even non-fans have commented that it ''sounds'' more like a Paul Rodgers album than Queen.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: "White Man", "Put Out the Fire".
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome : How many rock singers have performed in sold-out stadiums? Some. How many have performed (in this case, pre-recorded the performance) a song for '''the Olympic Games?''' "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTcNlcefAQ0 One.]]"
** Their one true CrowningMomentOfAwesome, though, is their appearance at Wembley Arena during Live Aid, in 1985. Freddie Mercury took a hundred thousand people into the palm of his hand and led them to heaven. Their set during the Live Aid event was recently voted the Greatest Live Gig By Any Band '''''EVER''''', and there have been very few dissenters from this opinion. ( [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LncAQR47eZo They obviously haven't seen Freddie in action.]])
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T36Ez1pq3E8&NR=1 Then he came back the next year]].
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The final verse of "One Vision". Just as you think it's certainly a song about union of the people, Freddie tacks in "just gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme ''fried chicken!''" It was originally intended for the Live Aid concert but wasn't finished in time; the last line was the suggestion of Freddie's boyfriend, Jim Hutton, who encouraged Freddie to ThrowItIn, suggesting that he was "big enough" to get away with it.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Basically all of it, but "Bohemian Rhapsody" is certainly the most evocative.
** "Bohemian Rhapsody" was Queen's younger CMOA. Their older one was definitely "The Show Must Go On."
*** [[CountdownToFinalCrisis That latter one can destroy planets.]]
** Tolga Kashif wrote a symphony based on Queen's music. It is a solid hour (well, 58 minutes) of sheer auditory awesome.
** "'''[[{{Highlander}} HEEERE WE ARE! BORN TO BE KINGS! WE'RE THE PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE]]'''!"
* EarWorm: Many.
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: What exactly are their songs about again? According to the band themselves whatever you want.
** Most of the dissections and analyses of Bohemian Rhapsody tend to veer off into this category.
* FanDumb: Unavoidable in a band with a fanbase as large as the Queen one. For example, there are the homophobic Queen fans who believe Freddie Mercury was a straight man assassinated by a gay conspiracy led by EltonJohn (that's an actual theory. There was a published book about it).
* FanNickname: 'Bo Rhap' for 'Bohemian Rhapsody' (acknowledge by Freddie in some concerts and interviews), 'Deacy' (pronounced, and sometimes spelt, 'Deaky') for 'John Deacon' (used often by Brian May - Roger and Freddie always called him 'John', though), 'Maylor' for Brian May + Roger Taylor, 'Dr May' for Brian May (recently a certified PhD, which makes it accurate).
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Freddie's statement that "we're going to stay together until we fucking well die, I assure you." Ouch.
** That line is followed by "[[HarsherInHindsight I keep wanting to leave... but they won't let me!]]".
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Queen is very popular in Iran, partly due to the fact that Freddie Mercury was of Iranian descent.
** When Queen fell out of favor in the United States, they developed massive followings in Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East while restoring their position at the top of the rock pantheon in their native UK (having concentrated pretty heavily on America between ''News Of The World'' and ''Hot Space''). In fact, they were BigInJapan years before America took to them, which they acknowledged by writing "Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together)" for ''A Day At The Races'' as a tribute to their Japanese following.
* GrowingTheBeard: ''Sheer Heart Attack'' is regarded as the band's first great album. ''Hot Space'' is generally the point where fans agree that they shaved off the beard.
** Said beard was grown back, depending on one's point of view, either at Live Aid in 1985, with the release of ''A Kind of Magic'' and its accompanying tour in 1986 or even as late as 1991, when the band released ''Innuendo.''
** The early and late (i.e. no-synth and synth) periods of the band (the former as an art/progressive-rock album band, the latter as a mainstream pop group) are reflected in their long/short hair periods as well as Freddie's moustache.
* HarsherInHindsight: Some of the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody, especially the ones relating the impending death of Freddie's character.
* MemeticBadass: Freddie. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvg6ZP-HTCA 'Nuff said.]]
** AIDS didn't kill him, epic power just engulfed his body.
* ReplacementScrappy: Paul Rodgers. His tours with the band and the addition of BadCompany and Free songs to the set were actually fairly popular with fans, but the less said about the original album they recorded the better.
* StuckInTheirShadow: While John Deacon is considered one of the best bassists in rock music, his personality was too reserved to make him as memorable as the more dynamic band members ([[FleetwoodMac like some]] [[TheWho other nonetheless talented]] [[DreamTheater bass guitarists]] [[LedZeppelin called John]].)
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome : How many rock singers have performed in sold-out stadiums? Some. How many have performed (in this case, pre-recorded the performance) a song for '''the Olympic Games?''' "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTcNlcefAQ0 One.]]"
** Their one true CrowningMomentOfAwesome, though, is their appearance at Wembley Arena during Live Aid, in 1985. Freddie Mercury took a hundred thousand people into the palm of his hand and led them to heaven. Their set during the Live Aid event was recently voted the Greatest Live Gig By Any Band '''''EVER''''', and there have been very few dissenters from this opinion. ( [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LncAQR47eZo They obviously haven't seen Freddie in action.]])
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T36Ez1pq3E8&NR=1 Then he came back the next year]].
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The final verse of "One Vision". Just as you think it's certainly a song about union of the people, Freddie tacks in "just gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme ''fried chicken!''" It was originally intended for the Live Aid concert but wasn't finished in time; the last line was the suggestion of Freddie's boyfriend, Jim Hutton, who encouraged Freddie to ThrowItIn, suggesting that he was "big enough" to get away with it.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Basically all of it, but "Bohemian Rhapsody" is certainly the most evocative.
** "Bohemian Rhapsody" was Queen's younger CMOA. Their older one was definitely "The Show Must Go On."
*** [[CountdownToFinalCrisis That latter one can destroy planets.]]
** Tolga Kashif wrote a symphony based on Queen's music. It is a solid hour (well, 58 minutes) of sheer auditory awesome.
** "'''[[{{Highlander}} HEEERE WE ARE! BORN TO BE KINGS! WE'RE THE PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE]]'''!"
* EarWorm: Many.
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: What exactly are their songs about again? According to the band themselves whatever you want.
** Most of the dissections and analyses of Bohemian Rhapsody tend to veer off into this category.
* FanDumb: Unavoidable in a band with a fanbase as large as the Queen one. For example, there are the homophobic Queen fans who believe Freddie Mercury was a straight man assassinated by a gay conspiracy led by EltonJohn (that's an actual theory. There was a published book about it).
* FanNickname: 'Bo Rhap' for 'Bohemian Rhapsody' (acknowledge by Freddie in some concerts and interviews), 'Deacy' (pronounced, and sometimes spelt, 'Deaky') for 'John Deacon' (used often by Brian May - Roger and Freddie always called him 'John', though), 'Maylor' for Brian May + Roger Taylor, 'Dr May' for Brian May (recently a certified PhD, which makes it accurate).
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Freddie's statement that "we're going to stay together until we fucking well die, I assure you." Ouch.
** That line is followed by "[[HarsherInHindsight I keep wanting to leave... but they won't let me!]]".
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Queen is very popular in Iran, partly due to the fact that Freddie Mercury was of Iranian descent.
** When Queen fell out of favor in the United States, they developed massive followings in Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East while restoring their position at the top of the rock pantheon in their native UK (having concentrated pretty heavily on America between ''News Of The World'' and ''Hot Space''). In fact, they were BigInJapan years before America took to them, which they acknowledged by writing "Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together)" for ''A Day At The Races'' as a tribute to their Japanese following.
* GrowingTheBeard: ''Sheer Heart Attack'' is regarded as the band's first great album. ''Hot Space'' is generally the point where fans agree that they shaved off the beard.
** Said beard was grown back, depending on one's point of view, either at Live Aid in 1985, with the release of ''A Kind of Magic'' and its accompanying tour in 1986 or even as late as 1991, when the band released ''Innuendo.''
** The early and late (i.e. no-synth and synth) periods of the band (the former as an art/progressive-rock album band, the latter as a mainstream pop group) are reflected in their long/short hair periods as well as Freddie's moustache.
* HarsherInHindsight: Some of the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody, especially the ones relating the impending death of Freddie's character.
* MemeticBadass: Freddie. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvg6ZP-HTCA 'Nuff said.]]
** AIDS didn't kill him, epic power just engulfed his body.
* ReplacementScrappy: Paul Rodgers. His tours with the band and the addition of BadCompany and Free songs to the set were actually fairly popular with fans, but the less said about the original album they recorded the better.
* StuckInTheirShadow: While John Deacon is considered one of the best bassists in rock music, his personality was too reserved to make him as memorable as the more dynamic band members ([[FleetwoodMac like some]] [[TheWho other nonetheless talented]] [[DreamTheater bass guitarists]] [[LedZeppelin called John]].)
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* UnfortunateImplications: It's hard to listen to "One Vision" without being reminded of the motto of NaziGermany: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer".
* VindicatedByHistory: Brian May has said that, in retrospect, he thinks that ''Queen II'' was probably the strongest album the band ever recorded. Similarly, some critics have reconsidered the first album and judged it to be a perfectly good hard rock debut.
** Also Freddie himself: while alive, he was regarded by many tabloids as a conceited gay showman with some (but not too much) talent and more often than not Brian was shown as the musical anchor (although his personal life was heavily criticised especially in the 80's). Recently, the press tends to refer to Freddie as a great late musical genius without whom Brian and Roger are nothing.
** Hot Space has become much more appreciated in recent years, what with the revival of funk and disco music by modern artists, especially those in the electropop genre.
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* UnfortunateImplications: It's hard to listen to "One Vision" without being reminded of the motto of NaziGermany: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer".
* VindicatedByHistory: Brian May has said that, in retrospect, he thinks that ''Queen II'' was probably the strongest album the band ever recorded. Similarly, some critics have reconsidered the first album and judged it to be a perfectly good hard rock debut.
** Also Freddie himself: while alive, he was regarded by many tabloids as a conceited gay showman with some (but not too much) talent and more often than not Brian was shown as the musical anchor (although his personal life was heavily criticised especially in the 80's). Recently, the press tends to refer to Freddie as a great late musical genius without whom Brian and Roger are nothing.
** Hot Space has become much more appreciated in recent years, what with the revival of funk and disco music by modern artists, especially those in the electropop genre.
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