Basic Trope: A song doesn't feature the title in its lyrics.
- Straight: Alice records a song titled "Pizza Boar". While the song is clearly about a wild pig that likes an Italian dish consisting of bread, tomato sauce, and mozarella cheese, the words "pizza" and "boar" do not appear in the lyrics.
- Exaggerated: Not only do the words "pizza" and "boar" not appear in the lyrics to "Pizza Boar", the song has nothing to do with pizza or boars.
- Downplayed: "Pizza" and "boar" are mentioned in the lyrics, but only once each and not together.
- Justified:
- The title was set in stone before Alice wrote the song, but she couldn't work the title into the lyrics.
- The producer of Alice's album changes the title of the song to "Pizza Boar" without seeing if it's in the lyrics.
- Pizza Boar's lyrics are Cantonese.
- Inverted: The lyrics to "Pizza Boar" are nothing but the words "pizza boar" repeated ad nauseum.
- Subverted: Halfway through the song comes a line that doesn't sound like it will include the title due to its context, but Alice outright says "pizza boar".
- Double Subverted: But the context of the rest of the line establishes that she actually says "Pete's a bore." The rest of the song goes by without her saying "pizza boar".
- Parodied: Alice teasingly sings various other combinations of Italian foods and wild pigs ("lasagna razorback", "calzone warthog") when she should be singing "pizza boar".
- Zig-Zagged: Alice repeatedly sings the words "pizza" and "boar" throughout "Pizza Boar", but not together. Every time she teases the title appearing in the lyrics, there's a Last-Second Word Swap.
- Averted: Alice sings the words "pizza boar" at regular intervals.
- Enforced: The issues of Alice not featuring the title of "Pizza Boar" in the lyrics were based on the real life songwriter having trouble with working the title into the lyrics.
- Lampshaded: The bridge:But he's not giving up that pepperoni and cheese.
There's a better chance of the title being sung by me. - Invoked: Alice originally had the words "pizza boar" in the song, but later thought it sounded silly and removed them.
- Exploited: Bob records an unauthorized cover of "Pizza Boar", but titles it "He's The Wildest" after a line heard frequently enough to be mistaken for the title. He gets away with it for a while because the different title misleads people into thinking it's a different song.
- Defied: Alice originally omitted the words "pizza boar" from the lyrics, but then realized that might make the song hard to identify, so she added a part where she does sing the title.
- Discussed: "I hear Alice is coming out with a follow-up to 'Pizza Boar'. I wonder if the title will actually appear in this one."
- Conversed: "I find it curious when a song omits the title from the lyrics. Some of them are pretty good like "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Pizza Boar". Is that an artistic thing?"
Back to the main page.
