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Outlandos d'Amour (Music)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Outlandos D'Amour is the debut studio album by English-American Post-Punk/New Wave Music trio The Police. It was released through A&M Records on 2 November 1978.Recorded intermittently over a six-month period during their studio's free time, the album marked the band's shift away from the straight Punk Rock of their debut single in favor of a reggae fusion direction that would bring the band to fame. The shift came at the behest at their manager (and drummer Stewart Copeland's brother), Miles Copeland, who was harshly negative towards the early punk angle but instantly fell in love with the throwaway track "Roxanne", pushing A&M Records to release it as a single. While it failed to chart, A&M were nevertheless confident enough to commission a follow-up single: the result, "Can't Stand Losing You", performed much better, reaching No. 42 on the UK Singles chart and becoming the band's first technical "hit" (even if it didn't crack the top 40), leading A&M to approve the rest of the album, which by then was already finished, for a release.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Despite the promise that the band's second single showed, Outlandos d'Amour ended up flopping upon its initial release, selling poorly in the band's native UK. However, the band's fortunes would be heavily improved in the United States, where "Roxanne" became an immediate Top 40 hit, if only just barely (peaking at No. 32 on the Hot 100), with the album itself reaching No. 23 on the Billboard 200. The American success of the album motivated A&M to reissue "Roxanne" in the UK in the spring of 1979, where it peaked at No. 12 this time; its other two singles would see further success, with "Can't Stand Losing You" and "So Lonely" respectively reaching No. 2 and No. 6. The album itself would also peak at No. 6 on the UK Albums chart off of this more successful second push, selling enough to be certified platinum by the BPI that November. Over time, the album would also go platinum in the US, Canada, France, and the Netherlands, as well as gold in Australia and Germany.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Outlandos d'Amour was supported by three singles: "Roxanne", "Can't Stand Losing You", and "So Lonely". | |
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Gratuitous Spanish: Subverted. "Outlandos" sounds Spanish, but it isn't. It's actually a portmanteau of "outlaws" and "commandos". | |
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Spurned into Suicide | |
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Spurned into Suicide: "Can't Stand Losing You" has the protagonist at least contemplating/threatening it. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: A group shot of the band. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: "Can't Stand Losing You", which sounds like a love song, but is more an Obsession Song that ends in ridiculousness. | |
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Companion Cube | |
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Companion Cube: "Be My Girl" is about the sexual/romantic variant, i.e. inflatable girlfriends. | |
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Suicide as Comedy | |
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Suicide as Comedy: "Can't Stand Losing You" ends with the protagonist contemplating suicide, but it's done in a tongue in cheek way, exemplified by the cover photo of the musical single on which Stewart Copeland stands on a block of ice with a noose around his neck, waiting for the ice to melt. | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: Tying in with the mock-foreign "Outlaws of Love" title, the album centers mostly around themes of romantic strain. | |
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Gratuitous French | |
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Gratuitous French: "Outlandos d' Amour" makes use of the French word "amour" (love). | |
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Cradle of Loneliness | |
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Cradle of Loneliness: "So Lonely", "Can't Stand Losing You", "Hole In My Life" all lament over feeling lonely. | |
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Obsession Song | |
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Obsession Song and Sanity Slippage Song: "Can't Stand Losing You" depicts someone who goes insane from the thought of being lonely and starts whining about it. | |
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Instrumentals | |
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Instrumentals: "Masoko Tanga" | |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold | |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold: "Roxanne", where the protagonist loves a prostitute and wants to help her escape her life and live with him. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: "Roxanne" was inspired by Sting visiting a red-light district in Paris. | |
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BreakUpSong | |
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Break Up Song: "Can't Stand Losing You" parodies this genre. The protagonist feels so bad about being rejected that he starts bickering and whining about it. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Sting's repeated line "I Feel So Lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely" in "So Lonely" borders to narm dimensions. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: Outlandos d'Amour ends with "Masoko Tanga", which is... a combination of an intricate funky bass-line, Andy reggae-skanking away on rhythm guitar, Stewart pounding away at a complicated groove and Sting singing Africanesque nonsense lyrics on top, with an ending that spontaneously combusts. | |
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TheFifties | |
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The '50s: "Born In The '50s" starts in this decade and continues through The '60s, acting as a look into the lives and cultural experiences of the maturing Baby Boomer generation. | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
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Spoken Word in Music: "Be My Girl" has a strange spoken monologue halfway the song. | |
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Careful with That Axe | |
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Careful with That Axe: "Be My Girl" ends in silly high pitched shrieks echoing through the room, implied to be the sound of Sally deflating, as a segue into "Masoko Tanga". | |
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Loudness War | |
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Loudness War: Semi-averted with the 2003 remaster, which is noticeably less dynamic than the other four remastered albums (as well as, inevitably, the original 1978 LP), but still offers noticeably more headroom than most other remasters at around that time, averaging at DR9. | |
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Foreign Language Title | |
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Foreign Language Title: Subverted. The title sounds like Spanish, but is actually more an example of As Long as It Sounds Foreign. | |
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One-Woman Song | |
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One-Woman Song: "Roxanne". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Reportedly, Sting got the title for "Roxanne" from a poster of Cyrano de Bergerac he saw in a hotel in Paris. "Born In The '50s" references the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the arrival of The Beatles, not to mention the youth years of the band members. | |
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One-Word Title: "Peanuts". | |
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Title-Only Chorus | |
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Title-Only Chorus: "So Lonely", "Roxanne", and "Can't Stand Losing You". | |
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Last Chorus Slow-Down | |
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Last Chorus Slow-Down: "Hole In My Life" slows down to its conclusion near the end, while other songs fade out. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Half of the songs on this album appear to be love songs, but most of them are more a tongue in cheek Obsession Song. | |
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Broken Record | |
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Broken Record: Quite some songs end in one line repeated ad infinitum. | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: "Masoko Tanga". The album title Outlandos d'Amour, for that matter, borders on this due to its mish-mash of English portmanteaus (outlaws + commandos) and incorrect French. | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The album title. The scat singing in "Masoko Tanga" too. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: The shrieks at the end of "Be My Girl — Sally" act as a segue into the start of "Masoko Tanga". | |
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Franchise Codifier | |
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Franchise Codifier: After the Early-Installment Weirdness of "Fall Out"/"Nothing Achieving", the single release of "Roxanne" immediately established the reggae-driven style of the Police's new direction, one that would be further explored throughout this album and that would form the base of their studio discography's style (with further alterations emerging along the way). When listening to the album in order, an abridged version of this experience can be felt with the switch from the more Punk Rock-leaning opening track "Next to You" to the reggae-based "So Lonely". And sure enough, "Roxanne" is the track right after that. | |
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Alternate Album Cover | |
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Alternate Album Cover: Most later releases of the album across formats remove the tunnel backdrop, leaving a solid black background, change the band logo from blue to red, and replace the cursive album title with a typewritten variant. | |
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