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An Album Trope.
Self-Referential Track Placement is when the title of a song alludes or corresponds to the track's placement on the album.
The most basic version of this is when a song with a Numerical Title like "8" or "Fifteen" is placed as track #8 or 15.
In subtler instances, a track with a name that suggests a certain number—through mentioning a specific month or day or alluding to a Numerological Motif—will be placed at the matching track number.
Subtrope of Visual Title Drop, Painting the Medium, Stealth Pun, and Double-Meaning Title. May overlap with Letters 2 Numbers, Trivial Title, or Arc Number. Sister trope to Chronological Album Title, when the album's name makes reference to its placement in the artist's discography. See also Numerical Theme Naming, Justified Title, Title Drop Chapter, and Unusual Chapter Numbers.
The tendency for the last song on an album to be called something like "The End" is covered by Album Closure. |
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Dream Theater's "Octavarium", from its namesake album, is the eighth track, closing the whole album and its theme of fives and eights. |
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Every song on 22, A Million by Bon Iver is a random number with no correlation to the tracklist, except for "8 (circle)" which is track #8. |
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Three of the tracks on folklore are arranged in numerological order. Track #1 is called "the 1," track #7 is called "seven," and track #8 is called "august" (August being the eighth month of the year). |
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The Sinéad O'Connor song "Three Babies" is track #3 on I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. |
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The last song of Five Finger Death Punch's album Afterlife is titled "The End." |
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Rush's album Fly by Night finishes on the track "In the End". |
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Christine and the Queens's song "5 dollars" is placed at track #5 on Chris. |
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Red: Track #13 is titled "The Lucky One," in reference to the 13 Is Unlucky trope. (13 is Swift's personal lucky number, and the track explores the idea of luck and who's really lucky in the end.) |
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The opening interlude on FKA twigs's album LP1 is titled "Preface." |
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The Twenty One Pilots song "Nico and the Niners" is the ninth track on Trench. |
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Subverted for "Farewell Transmission" by Songs: Ohia, which is the opening track on The Magnolia Electric Co.. |
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The ninth track of Aviators' album Halfwolf is titled "Number Nine". |
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Track #8 on Billie Eilish's debut album is called "8." It is sung from the perspective of her eight-year-old self.
Likewise, the album's final track is titled "goodbye". |
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Midnights: Would've, Could've, Should've" has the number motif of 19: Being the age of the singer when she was in the abusive romance with the older man; the age that ties the song to the Speak Now romance and being track #19 on the 3 am edition. |
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The final track in the standard edition of 1989 (Taylor's Version) is called "Is It Over Now?" |
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The last song on Emmerdale by The Cardigans is titled "Last Song." Additionally, the last song on Life is titled "Closing Time." |
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Jhariah:
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO FAKING YOUR DEATH has "PRESSURE BOMB 3?!?!" as the 3rd track.
The fourth track on The Great Tale Of How I Ruined It All is "These 4 Walls". |
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Charli XCX's song "Track 10" is, expectedly, track #10 on Pop 2. |
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The Slipknot song "Three Nil" is the third track on Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses). |
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The first song on Caroline Polachek's album Desire, I Want To Turn Into You is titled "Welcome To My Island." |
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The PVRIS song "Half," about Double Consciousness, is track #2. |
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The first song on Built to Spill's first album is called "The First Song". |
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On Beatles for Sale, the song "Eight Days a Week" is track #8. |
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"All Mirrors" by Angel Olsen explores duality and mirroring and is placed at track #2 on its album. |
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Hiroyuki Sawano uses this to an incredibly frustrating extent for Attack on Titan. Some tracks have naming schemes such as "進撃 gt20130218 巨人", which effectively translates to: "Attack, primary instrumentation, date of production/composition/completion, Titan." So in the example given, the theme's name is: "Attack on Titan track, primary instrumentation is acoustic guitar, dated February 18, 2013." What stage of production is listed in the track titles can only be assumed, as the dates given generally precede the first airing of the season the track is used in by a matter of months. |
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