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Mood Whiplash: The last three songs of Warm Strangers go from heartwarming, to eerie and depressing, and back to heartwarming.Hymn of Acxiom - Vienna introduces this song by mentioning that a lot of high school color guards love using this song, making her wonder if anyone has actually listened to the lyrics.Beautiful waltz that a friend of Vienna's was planning to use at her wedding until Vienna pointed out the song's meaning. It sounds like such a cheerful, upbeat, fun song, until you realize it's about an abortion. Isn't It Ironic?: Narrowly Averted when Vienna convinced a friend not to use Between as the first dance at a wedding.Vienna noted this at a concert once after sharing with the audience that a publication reviewing her first album had described it as 'Music to get you into a woman's pants.' Green Aesop: 'Landsailor', 'Copenhagen', and 'Never Look Away'.Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Played with ambiguously in Shasta, which focuses on the narrator's personal struggle with the choice amidat pressure and the threat of ostracization from those around her, rather than on her ultimate decision.It's not that Nature hates humanity - it's just that she doesn't care. Gaia's Vengeance: Averted in Watershed.Fading into the Next Song: Shasta into Homecoming on Warm Strangers.Emotionless Girl: The narrator of above-mentioned I Don't Feel So Well.Education Grandmama: The titular narrator of Grandmother Song, as every 2nd-gen Asian immigrant kid can relate, although the song goes into detail exploring her very real reasons for putting such importance on a proper education for her children and grandchildren.Double-Meaning Title: Vienna actually built an entire song ( I Don't Feel So Well) out of the well / good grammatical nitpick.Dead Sparks: Between and Antebellum could definitely interpreted as this.Deadpan Snarker: Alex has his moments on the live album.Corrupt Corporate Executive: The man described in Whatever You Want is implied to be one of these.Hilariously, one of the string players does an instrumental impression of The Immodest Orgasm right between those two lines.

I hope they're just moving furniture around and really liking their ideas. My upstairs neighbors are making sounds that I never want to hear

Beware the Nice Ones: Whatever You Want is built entirely around this trope, telling the story of a Corrupt Corporate Executive's obedient, unappreciated secretary and wife who ultimately join forces to turn him in.

Bawdy Song: Subverted in 1BR/1BA, in that the narrator is none too happy singing about their neighbours' bawdiness.

The Breaking Light has become a subtler example of this, with the audience joining in on the background vocal part at the climax of the song.

Grandmother Song is her most recent example-Vienna lets the audience clap the beat for her, and invites them to also hoot, holler, and make other raucous interjections.

Soon Love Soon is a more successful attempt, where the audience is given the repeated title chant and chorus to sing.

Enough to Go By was supposed to be one, before Vienna realized that audiences do not have eidetic memories.

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Since going back to grad school and being inspired by an album full of songs about things like climate change and fluctuating urban populations, she's straight-up admitted to being 'dorky' when explaining her song inspirations in concert.

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Asian and Nerdy: Alludes to model minority stereotypes in Grandmother Song ('All the good boys, baby, they're in grad school.') Teng herself attended Stanford as an undergrad and worked for Cisco as a software engineer before seriously pursuing music.

Anachronic Order: Recessional is backwards.Amazing Freaking Grace: The penultimate line of Recessional is 'oh words like rain, how sweet the sound,' sung almost exactly to the familiar tune.Album Title Drop: 'Recessional' provides the title to Dreaming Through the Noise:.Alternate Universe: No Gringo, where-in Americans are trying to get across the border into Mexico because America's economy collapsed.All Drummers Are Animals: When introducing Antebellum on the live album, Vienna mentions Alex drooling over the arrangement, which Alex notes is a very clichéd thing for a drummer to do.After the End: Enough to Go By, according to Word of God.2010 - The Moment Always Vanishing (live album).

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She has taken to touring in the past few years, often accompanied by professional percussionist Alex Wong, who co-produced Inland Territory with her. A classically trained pianist, she left a job at Cisco Systems to write and record music full-time. Vienna Teng (born Cynthia Yih Shih, October 3, 1978) is a San Francisco Bay Area singer/songwriter who works in a style she likes to call chamber-folk.