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Andrew Bird (Music)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and whistler originally from Chicago. Bird's career started off when he joined swing revival band the Squirrel Nut Zippers, then later led his own jazz/folk band, Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, before becoming a solo artist. His 2005 release The Mysterious Production of Eggs firmly entrenched him in the indie-sphere.Nowadays, Bird is mostly known for his violin, his cryptic and witty lyrics filled with scientific references and wordplay, and his whistling. He's very prolific, having released 13 studio albums as well as plenty more EPs, instrumental projects, and live albums. He has collaborated with Fiona Apple, Matt Berninger, and St. Vincent, among many others.He made his acting debut in season four of Fargo.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: His first three solo albums are not only darker than his entire Bowl of Fire output, but ramp up in darkness from one to the next (mostly lyrically). | |
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Protest Song | |
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Protest Song: While Bird's lyrics are usually oblique, he has described My Finest Work Yet as his first overtly political album. Topics discussed include apathy, morality ("Sisyphus"), war ("Bloodless"), climate change ("Manifest"), and the 2016 presidential election ("Fallorun"). An earlier example is "Sic of Elephants," which was angrily written on the night of the 2004 election. | |
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The Wild West | |
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The Wild West: "Way Out West" is an all-out pastiche of this era and style. | |
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Baroque Pop | |
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Baroque Pop: Somewhere between here and Indie Folk. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: The Swimming Hour, a particularly experimental album with a Genre Roulette, followed the more straightforward swing-revival albums Thrills and Oh! The Grandeur. Weather Systems, which came directly after, was the first album to establish his now-usual style of songwriting, with copious whistling and violin-heavy chamber-folk-pop arrangements. 2016's Are You Serious is the poppiest and most concise album he's released thus far, with guitar just as common as violin and far more straightforward, sincerely autobiographical lyrics focusing on marriage and becoming a father. | |
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Art Imitates Art | |
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Art Imitates Art: My Finest Work Yet's album cover is a recreation of Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat, with Bird himself as Marat. | |
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List Song | |
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List Song: "Dora Goes to Town," written about Bird's childhood babysitter, is a rather nonsensical list of things (mostly food-related) that Dora has or does. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: “Tables and Chairs” is set here. Bird promises there will be tables, chairs, pony rides, dancing bears, a band, and best of all, snacks. | |
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Open Mouth, Insert Foot | |
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Open Mouth, Insert Foot: "Feetlips" concerns this type of character. | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: In this case, a Concept EP - 2013's I Want to See Pulaski at Night contains six ambient instrumental tracks written to accompany the album's centerpiece and the only song with vocals, "Pulaski at Night." Bird compared the album to the soundtrack of a film. | |
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Gratuitous French | |
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Gratuitous French: A couple times. "Danse Caribe" translates to "Caribbean dance," while "Masterfade" includes the word "papillon" (butterfly) in an otherwise entirely English verse and “Souverian” stems from the French word “souverain.” | |
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Gratuitous German | |
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Gratuitous German: Used in a few of his early swing-inspired Bowl of Fire tracks, such as "Ides of Swing" and "50 Pieces." | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: "Anonanimal" and "Don the Struggle" feature breakdowns in 7/8. | |
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Song Style Shift | |
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Song Style Shift: "Armchairs" twists and turns in quite a few ways throughout its 7-minute run time, while "Anonanimal" and "Don the Struggle" become way faster midway through. | |
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Incredibly Long Note | |
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Incredibly Long Note: Some of his faster songs end with one of these, such as the "I'm gonna take a little STROOOOOOOOOOLL" in "Way Out West." | |
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Genre Roulette | |
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The Swimming Hour, a particularly experimental album with a Genre Roulette, followed the more straightforward swing-revival albums Thrills and Oh! The Grandeur. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early Installment Weirdness: His Retraux Bowl of Fire albums are slightly jarring compared to his more folky, baroque works starting with Weather Systems. | |
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Creepy Jazz Music | |
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Creepy Jazz Music: Many Bowl of Fire tracks fall under here; the arrangements are sometimes uncharacteristically creepy by his standards. For instance, "Minor Stab" is essentially a homage to "Minnie the Moocher." | |
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Let's Duet | |
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Let's Duet: With Fiona Apple on "Left Handed Kisses" and St. Vincent on "Lusitania." He and St. Vincent have performed multiple concerts together as well. In 2021, he released a collaboration album with the Squirrel Nut Zippers' Jimbo Mathus. | |
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Sequel Song | |
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Sequel Song: His most explicit case of this is the instrumental "The Return of Yawny" from Echolocations: Canyon, serving as a sequel to "Yawny at the Apocalypse" from Armchair Apocrypha. He's also written spiritual sequels, in a sense, such as "Lazy Projector" to "Armchairs" (see Call-Back above). | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: Wordplay, scientific terms used casually, references to nature, history, and mythology, and lots of whistling. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: The subjects of "MX Missiles," specifically some of Bird's old high school classmates. | |
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Location Song | |
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Location Song: "Pulaski at Night." | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: He tends to have one extremely long song per album, often as the closer. Special mention goes to "Beyond the Valley of the Three White Horses" for being nearly ten minutes. | |
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Singer Namedrop | |
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Singer Namedrop: Played with toward the end of "Spare-Ohs": | |
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Song of Song Titles | |
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Song of Song Titles: "Sovay" is named after a traditional English folk song and quotes it in the chorus, then later references Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." | |
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BreakUpSong | |
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Break Up Song: Many of his songs could be viewed through this lens, though most of them (i.e. "Armchairs” and "Masterfade”) are shrouded in metaphors. "Lazy Projector" plays it straight with the lyric "I can’t see the sense in us breaking up at all." | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent? | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent?: Many of the songs in Bird's first two albums with the Bowl of Fire find him adopting a strange, baritone, French-German-Slavic-sounding accent. | |
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Capitalism Is Bad | |
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Capitalism Is Bad: Subtext of this nature can be found in certain songs of his, such as "Banking on a Myth," about some shadowy entity who's trying to commodify and take control of intellectual property. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: "Roma Fade" is about the fine line between romance and this, drawn on Bird's personal experience of how he met his wife. | |
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Retraux | |
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Retraux: His work in the Bowl of Fire days is jazz/swing-based, in the vein of Squirrel Nut Zippers. | |
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The Something Song | |
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The Something Song: "The Happy Birthday Song." | |
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Questioning Title? | |
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Questioning Title?: "Why?" | |
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Lyrical Cold Open | |
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Lyrical Cold Open: "Tables and Chairs" starts with just his voice and an acoustic guitar. | |
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Long Title | |
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Long Title: Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs, as well as its third track "A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left." | |
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Silly Love Songs | |
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Silly Love Songs: Often subverted, as many of his songs that seem to concern romance have different, sometimes darker meanings - for instance, "Masterfade" appears to be one with its parade of Kewpie dolls and kittens and papillons, but it's closer to a Break Up Song. "Left Handed Kisses" with Fiona Apple is an interesting take on one of these: | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The last verse of "Fake Palindromes": | |
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Scatting | |
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Scatting: Shows up toward the end of "Dora Goes to Town," right before the lyric "Don't let it show that you wanted some." | |
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Cartoon Creature | |
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Cartoon Creature: Whatever that thing on Eggs's cover (initially referred to as "Beastie," later given the name "Nervous Tim") is. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Shines through in his lyrics, album titles, and interviews. A promo for his newest album My Finest Work Yet includes him quoting himself saying "My Finest Work Yet is my finest work yet." | |
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Rearrange the Song | |
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Rearrange the Song: "Imitosis" is a faster version of "I" from two albums before, "Orpheo" is a slower version of "Orpheo Looks Back" from the album directly before, “Don’t Be Scared” appears as two different arrangements on two different albums. "Danse Caribe," "Skin Is, My," and "Archipelago," among others, first showed up as instrumentals before being reworked and given lyrics. "The Privateers" is a reimagined version of "The Confession" from Oh! The Grandeur. So on and so forth... | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal | |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: Frequently, one example being "spears and scepters and squirming sacks" from "Cataracts." | |
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Cover Album | |
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Cover Album: Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of... is a collection of covers of The Handsome Family, a Chicago-based Americana duo whom Bird has a close relationship with. | |
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Perfectly Cromulent Word | |
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Perfectly Cromulent Word: They're all over the place in his works, usually puns of some sort. Some examples in song titles are "Nuthinduan Waltz," "Fallorun," "Anonanimal," and "Souverian," and there's plenty more in his lyrics. | |
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Fun with Palindromes | |
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Fun with Palindromes: Sort of. "Fake Palindromes" features quite a few phrases that may seem like palindromes at first but aren't, such as "dewy-eyed." | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: In addition to the aforementioned album, he's covered "Distant Stations" by The Mountain Goats and "The Fake Headlines" by The New Pornographers, as well as numerous folk songs, holiday songs, and jazz standards. | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: Although they're often the titles of completely different albums. For instance, Eggs has "Banking on a Myth" which name-drops 2003's Weather Systems and "Measuring Cups" which mentions 2012's Hands of Glory. Occasionally played straight, however, such as "Eyeoneye" from Break It Yourself which contains exactly those words. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Many, if not most, of Bird's songs are rather gentle-sounding folk tunes that nonetheless contain disturbing or depressing lyrics. | |
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Obligatory Bondage Song | |
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Obligatory Bondage Song: "Fake Palindromes," with a healthy dose of trepanation. | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: His songwriting can get pretty cryptic. Many songs from his first few albums and Noble Beast border on nonsensical. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: Birds, naturally - both in song titles ("Spare-Ohs," "Lazuli Bunting") and album artwork (Armchair Apocrypha). | |
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Recycled Lyrics | |
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Recycled Lyrics: All the time, considering his love of callbacks. For instance, the lyric "sure fatal doses of malcontent through osmosis" first showed up in "Eugene" before reappearing in "Imitosis" a decade later. | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: One of Bird's trademarks. From "Imitosis": | |
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Soprano and Gravel | |
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Soprano and Gravel: "Left Handed Kisses," his duet with Fiona Apple, plays with this dynamic by swapping the usual roles. | |
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Textless Album Cover | |
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Textless Album Cover: Are You Serious, My Finest Work Yet, and his Echolocations EPs. | |
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RaisedCatholic | |
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Raised Catholic: Religious themes recur in his music (such as "Saints Preservus" and "The New Saint Jude," back-to-back tracks on Are You Serious) even if he seems to have stepped away from Catholicism as of late. | |
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