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* [[Anti Love Song]]: Take your pick:
* [[Anti-Love Song]]: Take your pick:
** "Blinding", "Kiss With a Fist", "Leave My Body" are three examples
** "Blinding", "Kiss With a Fist", "Leave My Body" are three examples
** "Heavy In Your Arms".
** "Heavy In Your Arms".
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** Drowning turns up in "Drumming Song", "Swimming", "Heavy In Your Arms", "What the Water Gave Me", "Never Let Me Go", and "Heartlines", along with being alluded in the music video for "Rabbit Heart". It's implied in "Hurricane Drunk".
** Drowning turns up in "Drumming Song", "Swimming", "Heavy In Your Arms", "What the Water Gave Me", "Never Let Me Go", and "Heartlines", along with being alluded in the music video for "Rabbit Heart". It's implied in "Hurricane Drunk".
* [[Audience Participation Song]]: "You've Got the Love", "Never Let Me Go", "Dog Days Are Over", "Rabbit Heart", "Shake It Out", "No Light, No Light",
* [[Audience Participation Song]]: "You've Got the Love", "Never Let Me Go", "Dog Days Are Over", "Rabbit Heart", "Shake It Out", "No Light, No Light",
* [[Blonde Brunette Redhead]]: The music video for "Drumming Song" features two blonde and two brunette backup dancers. As for the redhead...does it have to be said?
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: The music video for "Drumming Song" features two blonde and two brunette backup dancers. As for the redhead...does it have to be said?
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Florence displays a random streak in interviews.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Florence displays a random streak in interviews.
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: ''Lungs'' and ''Ceremonials'' have come from Florence breaking up with the same guy twice.
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: ''Lungs'' and ''Ceremonials'' have come from Florence breaking up with the same guy twice.
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** Subverted with "Leave My Body" which is about her wanting to lose her mind in her own singing and music in general.
** Subverted with "Leave My Body" which is about her wanting to lose her mind in her own singing and music in general.
* [[Say My Name]]: Spectrum; [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Say My Name]]: Spectrum; [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Self Backing Vocalist]]:
* [[Self-Backing Vocalist]]:
** On many of the tracks on her albums, Welch is one of the backing vocalists. In a few cases, she is the only backing vocalist and her voice has been overdubbed to create a chorus of one....eg "Leave My Body".
** On many of the tracks on her albums, Welch is one of the backing vocalists. In a few cases, she is the only backing vocalist and her voice has been overdubbed to create a chorus of one....eg "Leave My Body".
** An earlier case is in "Rabbit Heart". [[Word of God]] claims that the person who mixed the chorus had a nervous breakdown.
** An earlier case is in "Rabbit Heart". [[Word of God]] claims that the person who mixed the chorus had a nervous breakdown.
* [[Signature Song]]: "Dog Days are Over" and "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)"
* [[Signature Song]]: "Dog Days are Over" and "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)"
* [[She's Got Legs]]: [http://www.last.fm/music/Florence%2B%252B%2Bthe%2BMachine/_/Drumming+Song/+videos/+3-GBUV70903501 as evidenced by the video for "Drumming Song"].
* [[She's Got Legs]]: [http://www.last.fm/music/Florence%2B%252B%2Bthe%2BMachine/_/Drumming+Song/+videos/+3-GBUV70903501 as evidenced by the video for "Drumming Song"].
* [[Shout Out]]:
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** In 'Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)' she uses a line that was originally in a Gang Gang Dance song-
** In 'Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)' she uses a line that was originally in a Gang Gang Dance song-
{{quote| How quickly the glamour fades}}
{{quote| How quickly the glamour fades}}
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** Also considering that the melody is similar to the aforementioned song it also counts as [[Sampled Up]].
** Also considering that the melody is similar to the aforementioned song it also counts as [[Sampled Up]].
** "Howl" includes a couple of lines from the 1941 [[Wolf Man]] movie. It works really, really well thematically.
** "Howl" includes a couple of lines from the 1941 [[Wolf Man]] movie. It works really, really well thematically.
** "Kiss with a Fist" has several references to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burning_Bed setting a man's bed on fire in retaliation for violence.]
** "Kiss with a Fist" has several references to [[wikipedia:The Burning Bed|setting a man's bed on fire in retaliation for violence.]]
** "What the Water Gave Me" refers to the painting by the same name made by Frida Kahlo. It also alludes to Atlas and Virginia Woolf's suicide:
** "What the Water Gave Me" refers to the painting by the same name made by Frida Kahlo. It also alludes to Atlas and Virginia Woolf's suicide:
{{quote| "Pockets full of stones."}}
{{quote| "Pockets full of stones."}}