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* [[New Sound Album]]: ''The Chase'' (and later work) is very different from her first album ''The Audition,'' which had a more conventional R&B/pop sound.
* [[New Sound Album]]: ''The Chase'' (and later work) is very different from her first album ''The Audition,'' which had a more conventional R&B/pop sound.
* [[Nice Hat]]: She wears a white hat from time to time. The "Many Moons" video features her in equestrian helmets and top hats. And let's not get started on the one she wears in the [http://i.imgur.com/1VSFS.jpg ArchAndroid cover].
* [[Nice Hat]]: She wears a white hat from time to time. The "Many Moons" video features her in equestrian helmets and top hats. And let's not get started on the one she wears in the [http://i.imgur.com/1VSFS.jpg ArchAndroid cover].
* [[Non Appearing Title]]: Several examples. Notably, "Many Moons" plays it straight as a standalone song, but the page quote provides a [[Title Drop]] in the music video.
* [[Non-Appearing Title]]: Several examples. Notably, "Many Moons" plays it straight as a standalone song, but the page quote provides a [[Title Drop]] in the music video.
* [[Performance Video]]: "Many Moons", although it still fits into the ''Metropolis'' concept.
* [[Performance Video]]: "Many Moons", although it still fits into the ''Metropolis'' concept.
* [[Protest Song]]: "Mr. President", which is mainly about putting education over warfare.
* [[Protest Song]]: "Mr. President", which is mainly about putting education over warfare.
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** "Metropolis" mentions searching for [[Paradise Lost|paradise found]].
** "Metropolis" mentions searching for [[Paradise Lost|paradise found]].
** The music video for "Tightrope" features two cloaked figures with flat mirrors as masks. These same figures appeared in Maya Deren's classic 1940 avant garde film "Meshes of the Afternoon."
** The music video for "Tightrope" features two cloaked figures with flat mirrors as masks. These same figures appeared in Maya Deren's classic 1940 avant garde film "Meshes of the Afternoon."
* [[Spell My Name With an S]]: Is it Cindi or Cindy? Official sources lean heavily toward the former.
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Is it Cindi or Cindy? Official sources lean heavily toward the former.
* [[Star Crossed Lovers]]: Cindi and Anthony; in Metropolis, an android who falls in love with a human faces the death penalty, whether they act on their feelings or not. It's implied that Anthony is being hunted down as well. This trope is lampshaded in "March of the Wolfmasters", where Cindi is introduced as "a new star-crossed winner in our Heartbreak Sweepstakes."
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Cindi and Anthony; in Metropolis, an android who falls in love with a human faces the death penalty, whether they act on their feelings or not. It's implied that Anthony is being hunted down as well. This trope is lampshaded in "March of the Wolfmasters", where Cindi is introduced as "a new star-crossed winner in our Heartbreak Sweepstakes."
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Averted, which is uncommon for R&B singers. She has yet to even show cleavage.
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Averted, which is uncommon for R&B singers. She has yet to even show cleavage.
{{quote| ''[[Lampshade Hanging|T-t-t-talkin' bout, "Why don't she change her clothes?"]] Well, they ain't seem to mind the last THREE times I posed in Vogue!!''}}
{{quote| ''[[Lampshade Hanging|T-t-t-talkin' bout, "Why don't she change her clothes?"]] Well, they ain't seem to mind the last THREE times I posed in Vogue!!''}}
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