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7	->''"Sing a song about life."''
8	-->--A recurring set of ArcWords throughout ''CUTIEMARKS'' (Initially a sample recorded in 2012).
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10	Zelda Trixie Lulamoon is a Portland [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Brony]] musician, active since 2012 who began making a breed of {{Dubstep}} and Electronic popular around the time, but has since branched over the years and many, many releases to curate her own style. Unlike a lot of Brony musicians, her (Their/Its/Pony/Sea) songs tend to use the show and its characters as a means to deliver more nuanced and personal messages about life, identity, sexuality, and general optimism. This leads to a lot of AlternateCharacterInterpretation of certain characters.
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12	On top of ''My Little Pony'', sea occasionally write songs about ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', random things they find amusing, or the names of directors in the credits of ''Franchise/ToyStory''. A few of their albums, such as ''Horse Friends'' or ''Starship Ponyville'', try to carry storylines, and they have a few recurring characters across songs, as well as her own OC who serves as her main mascot.
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14	!!Discography:
15	* ''Twilight'' (2014)
16	* ''Horse Friends'' (2014)
17	* ''Super Pony World'' (2016)
18	* ''Tales from Equestria'' (2017)
19	* ''Starship Ponyville: Mystic Acoustics'' (2017)
20	* ''Glitter'' (2018)
21	* ''Aloe and Lotus'' (2018)
22	* ''Starship Ponyville: Homeward'' (2019)
23	* ''Queen of Misfits'' (2019)
24	* ''Super Pony World: Fairytails'' (2020)
25	* ''CUTIEMARKS (And the Things That Bind Us)'' (2021)
26	* ''can opener's notebook: fish wisperer'' (2022)
27	* ''[[Music/CarouselAnExaminationOfTheShadowCreekflow Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow, and its Life as an Afterthought)]]'' (2023)
28	* ''I Was The Loner of Paradise Valley'' (2023)
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31	!!Vylet Pony provides examples of:
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33	* ActionGirl: Helps when nearly all of your songs are about female characters. Satyrn in particular takes the cake.
34	* AdaptationalVillainy:
35	** In "SYNDICATE", Rarity is rewritten as a prolific mob boss without much concern in killing competitors.
36	** "NON-EXISTENT MEET CUTE" also interprets Rarity as an abuser (and maybe even groomer) to Spike.
37	* AlbumIntroTrack: "Sometimes I Think About Her" and "THE THINGS THAT BIND US", to name a few.
38	* AlbumTitleDrop: "Queen of Misfits" doubles as Title Drop. ''CUTIEMARKS'' splits its title across two songs.
39	* AllCaps: Every song in ''CUTIEMARKS''.
40	* AllLowercaseLetters: Quite a few, but most notably the songs of ''can opener's notebook: fish whisperer''.
41	* AlternateUniverseFic: A good amount of her songs and albums appear to take place in a version of the MLP universe where computers, smartphones, the internet, and social media exist. For example, Canni in ''fish whisperer'' creates music using digital sampling.
42	* AnthropomorphicShift: Sort of. Quite a lot of the quadrupedal MLP characters are portrayed anthropomorphically.
43	* TheAtoner: Trixie in "IMITATION GAME" seems to think herself this.
44	-->''Is this what I deserve for the mistakes that I've made''\
45	''Maybe it's true and I'm sorry''
46	* AuthorAvatar: Canni / Can Opener in ''fish whisperer'' is based on Vylet's first-ever OC and represents Vylet's struggles with wanting to be seen as a "real" musician.
47	* ArcWords: "Sing a song about life" in ''CUTIEMARKS.''
48	* BadassBoast: "Magic Bitch", for Twilight and Trixie.
49	-->''Imma magic bitch''\
50	''You can't kill me''\
51	''Imma magic bitch''\
52	''You can't kill my vibe''
53	* BadGirlSong: "Everything Glimmer", and quite a lot of ''Queen of Misfits''.
54	* BigBad: Satellite, the King of Statera, in "Mystic Acoustics".
55	* CuteBruiser: Io Adore, one of Vylet's OCs, is an assassin. And a sex worker. And a BigBeautifulWoman.
56	--> She is chubbly. This is rather important and mandatory >:0
57	* ConceptAlbum: A lot. ''CUTIEMARKS'' is about rejecting destiny, ''Queen of Misfits'' is about pretending to be someone you're not, ''Aloe and Lotus'' is about love against expectations. Others, like ''Starship Ponyville'', ''fish whisperer'' and ''Carousel'' have a plot across every song.
58	* {{Conlang}}: Vylet created one for the ''Homeward'' album, and the first few verses of the title track are sung in it.
59	* CreatorCameo: Vylet's OC appears on the covers of a lot of her songs, and is a character in Homeward.
60	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Vylet has been making music for a very long time, but it took a while for her to find her artistic voice and her signature style. For example, ''Horse Friends,'' an album primary consisting of "festival EDM" and {{Music/Skrillex}}-style tracks, can be incredibly jarring to listen to if you're used to her later work.
61	* EpicRocking: Vylet, being a fan of ProgressiveRock, loves this trope.
62	** "Medley of Visions," a 20-minute-long epic, is probably the best example.
63	** "Penumbra" is effectively an electronic prog rock epic that is also important to the plot of the album it's from.
64	** "αστέρι", which crosses from a grandiose spaceship-blasting off theme to a quiet harmonica across ten minutes.
65	* FanserviceCover: "Everything Glimmer" and "Mad This Time" could be counted. The former features Starlight looking sultrily at the camera, splayed out across a bed, while the latter shows a topless anthro Trixie poorly censored by marker scrawl.
66	* GagCensor: Trixie's bare chest in the music video for "Mad This Time" is covered with a poorly scrawled-on censor bar and the title.
67	* GenreMashup: "Danger Close" from ''Homeward'' goes through at least 4 genres in the span of a few minutes.
68	* GenreRoulette: Very common in her albums. ''CUTIEMARKS'' alone lapses through styles such as Dubstep, Indie Rock, Trance, {{RAndB}}, Emo-Pop, {{Hyperpop}}, FolkMusic, and even occasionally ProgressiveRock. Some of these shifts can even happen within a song.
69	* GenreShift: Her early work was very Dubstep-heavy, but they quickly branched out into a more eclectic electropop style as sea worked on albums. Individually, they still shift around a bit, but the style is much more consistent starting with ''Love Letters''.
70	* {{Instrumental}}: Sometimes entire albums full of them.
71	* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Given the show, it makes sense. Most of Vylets OCs are also (at least partially) female.
72	* {{Leitmotif}}: A few lyrical ones, such as in ''CUTIEMARKS'', where 'Sing a song about life' is repeated frequently.
73	* LighterAndSofter: "LESBIAN PONIES WITH WEAPONS" is probably the only song on ''CUTIEMARKS'' without a melancholy undertone or overtone, being a genuinely cheerful song about anarchy. Sort of.
74	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Subverted. Half of "Ralph Egg" is spent making fun of his name, while the other half is lamenting the fact that he went to prison for armed robbery.[[note]]In the song, not in real life.[[/note]]
75	* {{Novelization}}: Of the two ''Starship Ponyville'' albums, explaining the plots in more detail, which can be found on Vylet's Platform/{{Fimfiction\|DotNet}}.
76	* OneSteveLimit: In a meta way, given how often Zelda Trixie Lulamoon sings about Trixie Lulamoon.
77	* OneWomanWail: "HOW TO KILL A MONSTER".
78	* PaintingTheMedium: ''Super Pony World'' opens with a videogame-esque chiptune before slowly morphing into the instrumental style the rest continues.
79	** ''Aloe and Lotus''' first song is the loading of a cassette into a player.
80	* PrecisionFStrike: Tends to happen at least once an album. For example, in "Hush!",
81	-->''Harvest moon’s coming down tonight''\
82	''Reap what you sow, [[MetalScream MOTHERFUCKEEEEEEER!]]''
83	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "NON-EXISTENT MEET CUTE" is basically an extended one given to Rarity by Spike.
84	** The beginning of "Hush!" is a long, very harsh one given to Vylet by Creekflow.
85	* RhymingWithItself: "Different Kind of Magic", which rhymes 'Who we are' with itself in the same stanza.
86	--> ''And every day is a search for who we are''\
87	''When will we catch a break, and be happy with who we are?''
88	* SelfEmpowermentAnthem: "ANTONYMPH" is about indulging in and following what brings you joy, community, and meaning, even if some people find it weird, childish, or "cringy."
89	* SequelSong: "THE KID WHO KEPT RUNNING" not only finishes ''CUTIEMARKS'', but seems to be a continuation of "THE THINGS THAT BIND US" and "CUTIEMARKS", being about the same character and the same struggle.
90	* StylisticSuck: "Mine Nice 2 Me", a shameless Minecraft parody.
91	* TextlessAlbumCover: Nearly all of them.
92	* ToneShift: ''CUTIEMARKS'' features a lot of transitions from loud to quiet, happy to sad.
93	** This happens in the second half of ''Carousel.'' While the first half is more danceable and upbeat, the second half is dark, often harsh, and influenced by experimental electronic music and HeavyMetal.
94	* VillainSong: "Daybreaker", obviously given the namesake.

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