Music / Stupeflip (Self-Titled Album)

Stupeflip is the debut album by French Alternative Hip Hop band Stupeflip.

This isn't the first release by the band (they previously released a Single containing "Comme les zot'" and "Et 1, et 2, et 3") but it is their first to showcase a big part of what the Crou (the band's own universe) is.

The album was promoted with an antypical campaign in which members of Stupeflip wrecked havoc on TV sets they were invited on (much to their label's displeasure).

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Tracklist

1. "Le Crou Ne Mourra Jamais (Intro)" (1:47)
2. "Stupeflip" (3:07)
3. "Présentation du Crou" (1:12)
4. "Je Fume Pu D'Shit" (3:17)
5. "J'Refume du Shit" (4:22)
6. "Explication N°1" (0:51)
7. "L'épouvantable Epouvantail" (5:02)
8. "Naissance de la Région Sud" (0:45)
9. "Les Monstres" (3:44)
10. "Crou Nostalgie" (1:48)
11. "Avertissement" (0:11)
12. "Carry On" (3:35)
13. "Comme les Zot'" (1:31)
14. "Média Terror" (0:47)
15. "L.E.C.R.O.U." (5:46)
16. "Création de la Deuxième Ere du Stup" (0:56)
17. "A Bas la Hiérarchie" (4:07)
18. "La Bavure de Pop Hip" (4:56)
19. "The Cadillac Theory" (1:16)
20. "Passe Mon Truc" (3:16)
21. "Stupeflip (Home Version)" (3:08)
22. "Annexion de la région Sud (Outro)" (7:23)

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This album contains examples of:

• Album Title Drop: Not only on the Title Track but on the opening track as well:
  the Stupeflip Crou shall never die
• Alliterative Title: "L'épouvantable Epouvantail".
• Anaphora: On "Carry On"
  Got no friend but I carry on
  Got no job but I carry on
  Lost my dreams but I carry, carry on
  I got to carry on, carry on, carry on
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: "Annexion de la région Sud (Outro)" has the narrator speaking to the listener on what sounds like a Special Thanks track.
  To people who are listening to the track, right now
  You've heard the news ? Crazy, huh ?
• Call-Back:
  • Bits of "Stupeflip" reappear throughout the album (on "Présentation du Crou", "Carry On" and "L.E.C.R.O.U.").
  • "Présentation du Crou" reappears on various tracks (and outside of this album, it also reappears on all of the band's releases).
  • A part of "Explication N°1" reappears on "Crou Nostalgie"
  • "Annexation de la Région Sud" features the lyrics: "They weren't here during the creation of the stup era" which was also rapped on "L.E.C.R.O.U.".
• Call-Forward
  • "L.E.C.R.O.U." has the lyrics "Taking little bits of things and assembling them together". Those lyrics would reappear much later on the track "La Menuiserie" from Stupeflip's third album The Hypnoflip Invasion.
  • The spoken outro of "La Bavure de Pop Hip" has an instrumental loop which is later heard in it entirety on the last track "Annexion de la Région Sud".
  • "Annexion de la Région Sud" mentions La Menuiserie, an element of the Crou which wouldn't be developed until Stupeflip's third album The Hypnoflip Invasion.
• Face on the Cover: The trio leaving an exploding planet Earth.
• Fading into the Next Song
  • The last lyrics on "Intro" serve as the introduction to the next track "Stupeflip".
  • "Je Fume Pu D'Shit" immediatly segues into its opposite-themed counterpart "J'refume du Shit".
  • "A Bas La Hiérarchie" segues into "La Bavure de Pop-Hip".
• Gratuitous French: Mangu only raps English lyrics, with one exception on "L.E.C.R.O.U.":
  Gimme a motherfucking greek sandwich with a lot of fucking onions!
  S'il vous plaît! ^note Please!
• Limited Lyrics Song:
  • "Intro":
  The Stupeflip Crou shall never die !
  • "Carry On":
  Got no friend but I carry on
  Got no job but I carry on
  Lost my dreams but I carry, carry on
  I got to carry on, carry on, carry on
  • "La Bavure de Pop Hip":
  Seven years ago, but it's yesterday
  I'm watching the sky but it's all grey
  Now I'm all alone I can feel the pain
  You're still in my mind and you're still in my brain
• Lyrical Cold Open: On "Le Crou Ne Mourra Jamais" and "L.E.C.R.O.U.".
• Mood Whiplash: "Je Fume Pu D'Shit" is directly followed by "J'Refume du Shit" which has a the opposite lyrics of its previous song sung in a much darker and depressive tone.
• One-Word Title: "Stupeflip".
• The Power Of Music: On "L.E.C.R.O.U.", King Ju sees making music as something which helps him escape.
• Rearrange the Song: "Stupeflip" later reappears on the album as the penultimate track, this time with a "Home" version.
• Rhyming with Itself
  • On "Stupeflip":
  The old lady downstairs, she doesn't like the bass
  And the old lady downstairs, she doesn't really like the bass
  • All the lyrics of "Carry On" end with the same rhyme which is the song's title.
• Self-Deprecation: The spoken passage at the end of "La Bavure de Pop Hip" refers to the live performances of Stupeflip as "a series of concerts which tries to make everybody laugh, when actually it's not funny".
• Self-Titled Album
• Shout-Out: See the dedicated page.
• Singer Name Drop: On the Title Track, "A Bas La Hiérarchie" and "L.E.C.R.O.U." (with the latter featuring each member of the trio naming himself on the chorus).
• Special Guest
  • French singer Jacno sings on "Je Fume Pu D'Shit ".
  • Rapper Mangu appears on "L.E.C.R.O.U." and "Annexion de la région Sud (Outro)".
• Spoken Word in Music: Several tracks only contain spoken passages (with interlude tracks such as "Media Terror" and "Création de la Deuxième Ere du Stup") while others mix spoken and sung passages ("Stupeflip" and "J'Refume du Shit").
• Take That!
  • "Les Monstres" compares monsters like "something badly made, like at the Foire du Trône"^note a popular fair in Paris.
  • "L.E.C.R.O.U." takes a jab at the music industry and various sides of it.
    • King Ju specifies that Stupeflip hasn't stooped low since they don't make Ibiza-style House music.
    • King Ju mentions that even Alternative bands like Noir Désir have signed to a major record label.
    • King Ju also adresses a message to people who will make negative criticism about the album:
  Well... Well... Well that's not nice!.
  • On "Annexion de la Région Sud", various people (such as people who will criticize the album) are told to get buttfucked, with the exception of people who stole Stupeflip's art style for the creation of a compilation called "I Hear Voices" and are only called out on being unoriginal.
• Title Track
• Toilet Humor: "The Cadillac Theory" features scatologic lyrics on the verses sung by Cadillac.