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* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Interestingly inverted. When the band first came to prominence, Haines was known for wearing skinny short skirts and frantic, hip-shaking dancing (which was a staple of their early music videos). As time progressed, however, she dropped the dancing and settled on more conventional attire.

* [[New Sound Album]]: ''Live It Out'' dialed back the synthesizers and focused on heavy bass and guitar work, partially splintering the group's fanbase. ''Fantasies'' returned to the fusion of synthesizer-guitar that was prevalent on ''Old World Underground''.

* [[No Hit Wonder]]: Despite their career stretching back ten years, a massive popularity bump with their tie-in single released on the ''Eclipse'' soundtrack and massive critical acclaim in their home country, their biggest album barely cracked the top ten.

* [[No-Hit Wonder]]: Despite their career stretching back ten years, a massive popularity bump with their tie-in single released on the ''Eclipse'' soundtrack and massive critical acclaim in their home country, their biggest album barely cracked the top ten.

* [[Obligatory Bondage Song]]: "Torture Me". The video for "Poster of a Girl" also invokes bondage imagery, with Haines wrapping her hands in white strips of fabric and simulating being tied up.

* [[Obsession Song]]: "Poster of a Girl", which depending on your interpretation, is either Haines obsessing over random sexual encounters or her reaction to someone who's infatuated with her.

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* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: ''Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?'' is one long rant at the U.S. government's occupation of Iraq in 2002-2003. Several of the music videos (Combat Baby, Succexy) invoke anti-war imagery, and several of the songs (I.O.U. and others) reference child soldiers and anti-war sentiments.

* [[Sanity Slippage Song]]: "Monster Hospital" and the accompanying music video.

* [[Shout Out]]: "The List" features the lyric "Broken accidental stars," a reference to [[Broken Social Scene]], KC Accidental and Stars (three Canadian indie bands Haines has performed with).

* [[Shout-Out]]: "The List" features the lyric "Broken accidental stars," a reference to [[Broken Social Scene]], KC Accidental and Stars (three Canadian indie bands Haines has performed with).

* [[Song of Song Titles]]: "Gimme Sympathy" invokes [[The Rolling Stones]]' "Gimme Shelter" and "Sympathy For The Devil", and the lyrics reference "Here Comes The Sun" by [[The Beatles]].

* [[Surreal Music Video]]: "Dead Disco" has the band playing in a studio with psychadelic imagery overlaid in the background - and Haines' [[Fan Service|gyrating hips]].