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[[The Magnetic Fields]] is an indie pop band fronted by Stephin Merritt. Their best known work is the 1999 triple [[Concept Album]] ''69 Love Songs.'' Merritt's lyrics are often [[Deadpan Snarker|sarcastic, bitter, and humorous]].
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* [[Anchored Ship]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in the song "The One You Really Love":
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''But their beauty is not for me
''You're thinking of someone who's gone
''You're dreaming of the one you really love
''You're dreaming of...the corpse you really love!'' }}
* [[Anti-Love Song]]: Over two-thirds of ''69 Love Songs'' falls into this trope, with titles like "How Fucking Romantic," "Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits," "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off," and "The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be." And that's just the first disc!
** Hell, most of Merritt's entire discography falls into this.
** Also occasionally subverted into actual love songs, as with "Papa Was A Rodeo."
** Their debut single, "100,000 Fireflies" is a weird kind of subversion of this trope, being at once an earnest expression of love and something much darker:
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''But give me one more chance.
''You won't be happy anyway.'' }}
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Merritt seems to be fond of this. Such characters appear in ''Yeah! Oh Yeah'', ''Your Girlfriend's Face'' and ''California Girls'' (the latter with an actual ax).
* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: The entire point of the song "Andrew In Drag".
* [[Busby Berkeley Number]]: "Busby Berkeley Dreams"
* [[Concept Album]]: ''69 Love Songs'' is [[Exactly What It Says
** ''Distortion'' is, well, [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Hooooooo boy.
* [[Drunken Song]]: "Too Drunk to Dream"
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* [[I Love the Dead]]: ''Zombie Boy''
* [[Instructional Title]]: ''How to Say Goodbye''
* [[Intercourse
* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: Two from "Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long": "you scare me out of my wits when you do that shiht-zu" and "I don't care what you fock-shounds do."
* [[Love Is a Drug]]: The entirety of the lyrics of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OrCxAIm-Bw "Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin"].
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* [[Rhetorical Question Blunder]]: "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!"
* [[Shout-Out]]: "Suddenly There Is A Tidal Wave" says, "We must have been the butt of all the jokes in the world/For trying to live like [[Pippi Longstocking]]."
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* [[Triang Relations]]: Love triangles are a common feature, but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwvMUy_0-Sk I'd Go Anywhere With Hugh] is a rare type two song.
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