Let's remember the Destroyer drinking game (C&P'd from elsewhere)

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Mention of a previous album or song title;

Recycling or referring to lyrics of another Destroyer song; drink twice if it’s a song on the same album; also drink twice if they’re from pre-official releases We’ll Build Them a Golden Bridge or Ideas for Songs;

Reference to or appropriation of lyrics from a song by someone else;

Mention of another band or musician;

Mention of Destroyer/destroy/destruction – drink twice;

Reference to music in general;

Reference to/attack on the music scene or music industry;

“Meta” lyrics that refer to the song in progress or elements thereof – drink twice;

Swearing;

Mention of geographical location – drink twice for mentions of Vancouver, the West Coast, or particular places there;

Section of song consisting of “la la la” or “la-da-dee-da” etc. (warning: applies to all but four songs on Destroyer’s Rubies)

Guitar solo that mirrors la-la-la’s;

Mention of a season or month of the year;

Mention of a specific year or century;

Line in the imperative form, giving advice or an order – drink twice for advice or order that is cryptically figurative, like “don’t ride the silver rocket”;

Line that reverses, contradicts or severely qualifies previous line;

Character(s) in song quoted (eg. “She tasted of the Christmas wines and said, ‘So many things have run through me…’ “) – drink twice if the character is specified to be singing the quotation;

Invocation of a cliche or idiom, however dismantled;

Use of a woman’s name;

Character assassination – drink twice if of a woman;

Characterization (hostile or not) of men/boys or women/girls in general;

Conspicuously long pause (line break?) in the middle of a phrase;

Falsetto or attempted falsetto;

Sudden crescendo and/or acceleration;

Use of archaic or ostentatiously formal or foreign-language term;

Direct address to an audience by name or collective noun eg. “kids…” or “Contessa…” (“you” doesn’t count);

Reference to visual art or artist(s);

Literary reference or mention of reading;

General statement about art/aesthetics;

Reference to family relationship, eg. brother, mother, husband, bride – drink twice for “sister,” or for any plural family reference, eg. “fathers”, or for incestuous overtones;

Reference to United States or Americanness;

Medieval or swords-and-sorcery-style reference;

Reference to royalty or feudal hierarchy – drink twice for reference to disillusionment with royalty;

Reference to legal or political system;

Reference to religion;

Reference to a small group or secret society;

Reference to conspiracy or corruption;

Reference to honesty (or lack thereof);

Reference to freedom or imprisonment;

Reference to drinking;

Reference to insanity;

Reference to death or murder;

Reference to the way a woman moves;

Reference to bells;

Reference to the sea or matters nautical;

Reference to a garden or the woods;

Reference to the weather, meteorological phenomena, sun or snow;

Reference to fire or other disaster – drink twice for apocalyptic reference;

Sudden shift into unexpectedly sweet, tender tone, musically or rhetorically.