Punctuated! For! Emphasis!/Music


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Examples of Punctuated! For! Emphasis! in Music include:

  • Adam and the Ants' "Physical (You're So)": "You're! So! Phy-! Si-! Cal!"
  • All. My. Friends. Know the Lowrider. (From "Low Rider" by War).
    • The Low. Ri. Der. Is a little higher.
  • Nightwish has I! Truly! HATE! YOU! ALL! in "Slaying the Dreamer".
  • "Please give a warm, friendly hand to THEY! MIGHT! BE! GIANTS!"
    • THE ALPHABET! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF! NAAAAAAAAAAAAATIOOOOOOOOOOOONS! (From "Alphabet of Nations").
    • Make! A! Hole! With! The! Gun! Per! Pen! Dic! U...lar! To! The! Name! Of! This! Town! In a desktop... Globe! (From "Ana Ng").
    • I know! I know! I said that! I! Would! Quuuiiit! All! Right! I promise! No more! After Thiiis! (From "Thunderbird").
  • Big! Bad! VOOOOOOOO-DOOOOOOOO! DAAA-DAAYYYY!
  • Judas Priest: "HE! IS! THE! PAINKILLER! THIS! IS! THE! PAINKILLER!" (From, well, "Painkiller").
  • "I! AM! IRON MAN!" (From, of course, "Iron Man").
  • Lordi: "HARD! ROCK! HALLELUJAH!" (Yes, from "Hard Rock Hallelujah").
  • HE! BELIEVES! IN! A BEAUTY! He's Venus as a Boy." (From "Venus as a Boy").
  • Zlad: Electronik. Supersonik. Supersonik. Electronik. (From "Elektronik Supersonik").
  • Alice in Chains: IF! I! WOULD! COULD! YOU!? (From "Would?").
    • When Rock Band charted the song, every single word was counted as its own phrase/section.
  • Metallica's James Hetfield, boldly pushing back the frontiers of science, has managed to pronounce every syllable of a word as its own sentence. A word with one syllable. "YEE-EEE-EEE-AAA-AAA-YYY-AAA-UUH!"
    • In addition, "Enter Sandman":

Hetfield: Ehhhcks! Iiiit! LAH-HIGHT!
Everyone: Ehhhn! Tuuuhr! NAH-HIGHT!

    • And how about "BLOOD! WILL! FOLL-LOW! BLOOD! DY! ING! TIME! IS! HERE!" (From "Damage, Inc.").
    • Hell, he manages to make a one-syllable word into two sentences:

CREEEEEEEEPING! DEEEAAAATH-AH! (Not surprisingly, from "Creeping Death").

    • Also, the expansion of the word "empty" in "Cyanide", and "Shape-shiiii-fttttt" in "Of Wolf and Man".
      • Related: The very end of Tool's "Eulogy": "GOOD! BYYYYY....YYYY...YYYY...YYYYE!!!"
  • THIS! MEANS! WAR! ("This Means War!" by Petra), also the name of the album.
  • Megadeth: "PPEEEEAAAACCCCCE... SEEEEEELLLLS..." (From "Peace Sells").
  • Tool also has a more typical example with "Disgustipated", which also counts as Nightmare Fuel:

"THIS. IS. NECESSARY! THIS. IS NECESSARY! LIFE! FEEDS ON LIFE! FEEDS ON LIFE!..."

    • PRY-ING O-PEN MY THIRD EYE! PRY-ING O-PEN MY THIRD EYE! PRY-ING O-PEN MY THIRD EYE! (From "Third Eye").
  • The character of Me (played by James LaBrie) does it awesomely at the end of "Day Eighteen: Realization" on Ayreon's The Human Equation album. "LET! ME! OOOUUUT!!!" Rage (played by Devin Townsend) also does a similar thing at the end of "Day Sixteen: Loser". "NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!"
  • Ronnie James Dio, at the end of Rainbow's classic "Kill the King". "OH! KILL! OH! KILL! OH, OH!"
  • Stravovarius's "Freedom Call": "So you will hear! My! Freedom! Call!"
  • The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets in "Flee!": PAIN! DEATH! INSANITY! DEATH!"
  • WE BUILT! THIS! CITY! WE BUILT! THIS! CITY! ON ROCK! AND! ROLL! (From "We Built This City" by Starship).
  • Dream Theater examples: "As I Am" ("Take! Me! As! I am!"), "A Change of Seasons" ("I! WILL! LIVE ON! LIVE ON!", also the live version has James shouting "PLEASE! DON'T! GO!"), "The Test That Stumped Them All" ("Hoping to find the answers to the test that stumped! Them! All!"), "Octavarium" ("TRAPPED! INSIDE! THIS! OC-TA-VA-RI-UM!"). James LaBrie really likes doing this. Also from "The Dark Eternal Night": I! Am! The! LAST!
  • Queensrÿche, "Eyes of a Stranger": "Why am I here? And FOR! HOW LONG!?"
  • Enter Shikari: "SO! RRY! YOU'RE! NOT! A winner..." "WHAT! HAVE! YOU! GOT? To lose..." (From "Sorry, You're Not a Winner")
    • "GO! TELL! ALL! YOUR FRIENDS!" "THAT THIS IS! THE END!" (From "Mothership").
    • "YOU'RE NOT! GETTING ANY! SLEEP! TONIGHT!" (From "No Sleep Tonight").
    • "THOU! SHALL! NOT! PASS!" (From "Juggernauts").
  • Four Year Strong might as well be called FOUR! YEAR! STROOONG!
    • "CAN YOU! PROVE TO ME! THAT YOU'RE NOT DEAD! AND! GONE!" (From "Nineteen with Neck Tatz"), "RISE! OR! DIE! HERE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD!" (From "Maniac (R.O.D.)"), "SO LISTEN UP! IF YOU STILL FEEL! AND I STILL FEEL! THEN RISE UP! AND O! VER! COME!" (From "What The Hell Is a Gigawatt?" featuring Jay Pepito of Reign Supreme), "I! STILL! ALWAYS! LOOK UP TO YOU!" (From "One Step at a Time"), etc. etc.
  • Iron Maiden, "The Prisoner": "Run! Fight! To leave! It's tough!"
    • "RUN! TO! THE! HILLS! / RUN! FOR! YOUR! LI-I-IVES!" (From "Run to the Hills").
    • "TWO! MINUTES! TO MID - NIIIIIIIIIGHT!" (From "2 Minutes to Midnight").
    • "CAUGHT - SOME-WHERE - IN - TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!" (From "Caught Somewhere in Time").
    • "YOUR - TIME - WILL - COME!" (From "The Wicker Man").
  • Rhapsody of Fire, "The March of the Swordmaster": "Hail! Hail! Great swordmaster! March! March! Brave swordmaster!" And a spoken version in "The Dark Tower of Abyss": "This... Is... HELL!!!" And in Italian, from "Bloody Red Dungeons": "Luna! Rossa! Pianti! Paure! Rabbia! Ira! Urla! Torture!"
  • Scooter: "Move! Your! ASS!" (From "Move Your Ass!")
    • And "Gothic... doesn't... exist." (From "Fuck the Millennium").
    • HY-PAH HY-PAH! (From "Hyper Hyper").
    • HOW! MUCH! IS! THE! FISH?! (From "How Much Is the Fish?", strangely enough).
  • Stratovarius: "At! The! Speed! Of! Liiight...!" (From "Speed of Light") and "ZERO! THREE! ZERO! THREE! SIX! SIX!" (From "030366").
  • Sublime's "Date Rape":

That's. When. Things. Got. Out. Of. Control.
She. Didn't. Want. To. He. Had. His. Way.
She. Said. "Let's. Go."
He. Said. "No! Way!"
That's. When. Things. Got. Out. Of. Control.
The moral. Of. The. Date. Rape. Story.
It. Does not pay. To Be. Drunk. And. Horny.

  • Sum 41, "Fat Lip": "I don't wanna waste! My! Time! Become another casualty of society! I'll never fall! In! Line!"
    • "In Too Deep": "It seems that SOME! THING'S! TELLING ME!"
  • I! CAN'T! GO! ON! LI-VING! THIS! WAY! (From "Last Resort").

First growled, then screamed at the top of his mighty metal lungs!!!!!

HATE! WAR! AND TER-ROR! MUR-DER! DI-SAS-TER! RAPE! DRUGS! AND VIO-LENCE! LOST! IN! OUR! FAIL-URE!

  • Viking metallers Amon Amarth make use of this more than once, with the song Twighlight of the Thunder God providing a particularly fitting example:

"Twighlight! Of! The Thunger God! Twighlight! Of! The Thunder God!
Twighlight! Of! The Thunder God! Twighlight! Of! The Thun! Der!! God!!!"

  • Death frontman Chuck Schuldiner loved this trope. His performance in "The Philosopher" turned the word "lies" into a metalhead in-joke.
    • YOU PATHETIC! EX-CUSE! FOR A HUMAN BEING!
  • Sinergy provided us with: "Listen up everybody! Because THE BITCH! IS! BACK! "
  • Nile Uses this all the time, such as:

BLACK!! SEEDS!! OF VENGEANCE!! BLACK!!! SEEDS!!! OF VENGEANCE!!!

    • "LASHED! TO! THE SLAVE STICK!!"
    • "CAAAST!! DOOWN!! THE!!! HERETIC!!!!!"
    • However, the most spectacularly over the top (and awesome) example is "Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten:"

"AND THOSE!!!! Who slither and crawl! SHAAALL RIIIIIIISE!! Again! Once mooore!! TO INHERIT! THEEEE!!!! EEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRTH!!!!!!"

I. hate. this. city.
Fuck. my. mind.

  • Lich King are fond of this.
    • CAN! NOT STOP! THE HORDES! OF GHOULS! WORLD! GONE DEAD! SO FIRE! YOUR MISSILES AND ROCKETS AND LASERS AND RAILGUNS BUT NOTHING WILL SHORTEN HIS RULE!
    • THE ONLY WAY TO EVER BEAT IT IS JUST! TO! TAKE! THE! STAAAAAAAAIRS!
    • HUMAN HISTORY DIDN'T NEED YOU! YOU AREN'T WANTED! AND! ARE! DISMIIIIIIISED!
  • The Thrash Metal band Forbidden does an especially spectacular version in "March into Fire":
    • WE ALL! MARCH! INTO! FIIIIRRRRRRRRRREEEE!!!
  • I just listened to The Lonely Island and I JIZZED! IN! MY PANTS!
  • IT'S ALRIGHT! TO COMPLAIN! IT'S ALRIGHT! TO FEEL PAIN! IT'S ALRIGHT!
  • From Ex Deo's "Storm the Gates of Alesia": I DECLARE! GAUL! A PROVINCE OF ROME!
    • And debatably the following chant of "Veni!! Vidi!!! Vici!!" would count as well
  • D! M! X! uses this trope frequently in his raps, especially in his single "WHAT'S! MY! NAME?!".
  • A few examples off the top of my head from this one band.
    • "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! SHUUUT! UUUUUUUUUP!"[1]
    • "I'll MAAAAAKE! YOU! FAAAAAACE! THIIIIIIIS! NOOOOOOOW![2]
    • "I'VE! BECOME! SO NUMB! I CAN'T FEEL! YOU! THERE!"[3]
    • "YOOOOOOOOUUU! TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME! GO AWAY! YOU! TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME! GO AWAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"[4]
    • "PUT ME OUT OF MY MI! SER! RYYYYYYY! PUT ME OUT OF MY... PUT ME OUT OF MY FUC! KING! MI! SER! RRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"[5]
  • Rapper The Game has been known to start live performances of "How We Do" by repeatedly chanting "(Insert rapper here) can SUCK! MY! DICK!".
  1. ↑ One Step Closer
  2. ↑ Bleed it Out
  3. ↑ Numb
  4. ↑ Place for My Head
  5. ↑ Given Up
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