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Of Monsters and Men (Music)

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34 feature instances
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Of Monsters and Men (Music)	comment	Of Monsters and Men is an Icelandic (but English-language) folk-pop band, formed in 2010 after Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir decided to add to her solo project Songbird, changing name after co-vocalist/guitarist Ragnar Þórhallsson came up with it. Their big break started with a winning the annual music competition Músíktilraunir in 2010 after just a week of working together, and subsequently they went viral after Seattle radio station KEXP recorded them performing in Raggi's living room.Definitely not to be confused with Of Mice and Men.Members Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir - vocals, guitar Ragnar "Raggi" Þórhallsson - vocals, guitar Brynjar Leifsson - guitar Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson - drums Kristján Páll Kristjánsson - bassDiscography My Head Is an Animal (Studio album, 2011 in Iceland, 2012 elsewhere) Into the Woods (EP, 2011) Live from Vatnagarðar (Live album, 2013) Beneath the Skin (Studio album, 2015) Fever Dream (Studio album, 2019) Tíu (EP, 2022)
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_2973a4d6	type	Turtle Island
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_2973a4d6	comment	Turtle Island: The lyric video for the song “From Finner” features a gigantic whale-like creature with a city built on its back, swimming through a stormy gray sea.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_3096c919	type	BolÃ©ro Effect
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_3096c919	comment	Boléro Effect: "Slow and Steady", "From Finner", "Your Bones", and more traditional examples in "Yellow Light", "Thousand Eyes", and "Lonely Weather". All of these songs have very repetitive endings that grow more and more intense over time.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_326fdb01	type	Lyric Video
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_326fdb01	comment	Lyric Video: In addition to their concept videos, the band has released lyric videos for each of their songs (excluding remixes).
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_361d0d58	type	Concept Video
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_361d0d58	comment	Concept Video: Most of their music videos thus far have been highly experimental, and frequently have little to do with the song lyrics. "Little Talks" and "King and Lionheart" are both done in a Nordic art style, blend CGI and live action, and tell stories set in fantastic lands. "Crystals" is a somewhat bizarre video featuring the band members as workers in a crystalline forge, creating an Artificial Human. "Empire" is a black-and-white homage to Harold and Maude.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: In the music video for "King and Lionheart", the airships and war machines don't seem too out of place in the fantasy setting, but the stone temple that launches into the air like a spacecraft comes as a surprise.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: "I of the Storm".
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_43c4002a	type	Call-and-Response Song
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_43c4002a	comment	Call-and-Response Song: Since the band has two lead singers there are quite a number of these, such as "Little Talks".
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: The two lead characters in the music video for "Empire".
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: "Yellow Light" and the hidden track "Sinking Man" seem to be about a person meeting their cold, watery demise.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_5a22609e	comment	Creator Thumbprint: Stormy seas and wild animals are their most common motifs.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: "Little Talks" is about a young woman having a conversation with her dead husband.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: An all-male band fronted by a woman.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_5fe1360d	type	Audience Participation Song
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_5fe1360d	comment	Audience Participation Song: "Little Talks", "From Finner", "Dirty Paws", "Slow Life", "Black Water". They sure like to shout "hey" or "whoa" a lot, don't they?
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_67784113	type	Non-Appearing Title
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_67784113	comment	Non-Appearing Title: "Sloom", "Six Weeks", "Sinking Man", "Alligator", "Vulture, Vulture", "Soothsayer". Partial cases with "From Finner", "Lakehouse", "I of the Storm", "Organs".
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Hinted at in "Little Talks".
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The music video for "King and Lionheart" ends with the two siblings still separated, and the elder sister running from her captors.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_813e694d	type	Continuity Cavalcade
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_813e694d	comment	Continuity Cavalcade: The video for "Phantom" is a tribute to My Head Is an Animal's 10th anniversary, and features several of the black-and-white landscapes from that album's lyric videos.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Between a minotaur and a sea serpent in the video for "Love, Love, Love". Based on the lyrics, it's likely one sided.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_89838bc2	type	Land, Sea, Sky
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_89838bc2	comment	Land, Sea, Sky: The creatures that menace the protagonists of the "Little Talks" video — first a giant two-headed bird (Sky), next a huge bison (Land) and finally a tentacled sea monster (Sea).
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_a754c510	type	Monstrous Scenery
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_a754c510	comment	Monstrous Scenery: This is a prevealent motif in many of the band's Concept Videos, as there's frequently a large beast either in the background or the actual setting of the action of the video. In "Numb Bears," the anteater that's seen walking throughout the video is actually walking atop a large, hairy beast which looks like a hill. In "Lakehouse" the mountain that the camera is panning over is actually a large monster with many eyes. In "Six Weeks," humanoid giants can be seen walking through the woods, but they don't seem to notice the traveller the song focuses upon. In "Yellow Light," many dinosaur-like bipedals can be seen traversing a desert landscape with their riders.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_a78753d5	type	Lady and Knight
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_a78753d5	comment	Lady and Knight: The narrator of "King and Lionheart" identifies the dynamic between the two main characters as Lord and Knight, probably in a metaphorical sense.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_b0218885	type	Mickey Mousing
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_b0218885	comment	Mickey Mousing: In the "Little Talks" video, many of the "Hey!"s are matched up to a significant moment of action. Also, the protagonists' walking, their arm movements when climbing the rope, and the ice cracking before the encounter with the sea monster all happen in time with the drumbeat.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_bbb3a5a0	type	Splash of Color
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_bbb3a5a0	comment	Splash of Color: In the music video for "Little Talks" everything is in black-and-white - except for the colorful girl and, as the ending reveals, the creatures from her country. The video for "Phantom" has a colorful spirit traversing the various black-and-white realms from My Head Is an Animal's lyric videos.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: While the band's songs are usually mellow lyric-wise, "Under A Dome" stands out for containing a couple prominent "fuck"s. For that one song alone, Fever Dream is their first album to have both a normal and a censored version.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_bef696dd	comment	"Crystals" is a somewhat bizarre video featuring the band members as workers in a crystalline forge, creating an Artificial Human.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The band's name is a play on the book Of Mice and Men
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The music videos for "Little Talks", "King and Lionheart", and "Empire".
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_dab6a3a8	type	Sugar Apocalypse
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_dab6a3a8	comment	Sugar Apocalypse: "Dirty Paws" tells a story of birds and bees going to war. It becomes surprisingly dark, while maintaining a cheery melody throughout.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_dbc664dd	type	Album Title Drop
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_dbc664dd	comment	Album Title Drop: "Six Weeks": "Dirty Paws": "Human": "Alligator":
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: Very common: "Little Talks" is about losing a significant other and dealing with the grief caused by it, yet you probably wouldn’t realize it because of how lively it is. "Mountain Sound" seems to be about running away from the problems you’ve caused, but the instrumentation remains extremely cheerful throughout the entire song. "Dirty Paws" could be interpreted as a retelling of World War II with forest animals.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_f0f4b47	type	Vocal Tag Team
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_f0f4b47	comment	Vocal Tag Team: Nanna and Raggi tend to trade lead vocals back and forth every other song, and sometimes during the same song.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The war between The Birds and The Bees in "Dirty Paws" was not a pleasant experience for anyone involved. Although the tyrannical Bees were eventually defeated, the once green forest was "colored black" in the process.
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Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_f1dcdabc	type	Hidden Track
Of Monsters and Men (Music) / int_f1dcdabc	comment	Hidden Track: "Sinking Man" follows "Yellow Light" after a few minutes of silence on the original version of My Head Is an Animal.
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