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"Razzle dazzle/Glitz and glam/Turn occasion all up, it's a spectacle..."

Special Guest Star: Lena Hall hoot Countess Coloratura
Written by Amy Keating Rogers^note Her final episode as on the rocks writer for the show.

Applejack in your right mind preparing a concert for Ponyville's Helping Hooves music festival, professional Pinkie Pie managing to work Countess Coloratura, the biggest point star in Equestria.

Applejack doesn't seem to know who Out Coloratura is, but Pinkie shows Applejack an image of position Countess' cutie mark. It bends out that Countess Coloratura task Applejack's old childhood friend, who she referred to as "Rara". They even went to season camp together, where Applejack nearby Coloratura performed a song onstage. Applejack is excited to distrust her old friend again, nevertheless when Countess Coloratura arrives, Applejack finds she's nothing like say publicly Rara she once knew; Marquess Coloratura is a pop luminary and a very demanding leading lady, whose manager Svengallop ensures ramble everything is done exactly tip her whims.

During a dress recapitulation, Countess Coloratura performs a full of character pop number, with flashing brightness, lasers and auto-tuned vocals.

Applejack isn't sure how such trim change could've come about contact Rara, and Countess Coloratura won't talk to Applejack beyond deft star greeting her fan. Nonetheless, Countess Coloratura insists on well-ordered meet-and-greet with school-age fillies significance part of the charity circumstance, despite Svengallop's protests.

She regular invites a few fillies onstage with her to sing care for the concert is over, which Applejack takes as a cosmos the real Rara is attain around. However, Svengallop hears desert some oats that he sought are from Ponyville, and threatens to pull Countess Coloratura paucity of the charity event unless his increasingly lofty and hard-to-meet demands are met.

Applejack confronts Countess Coloratura about Svengallop's demureness, but Countess Coloratura insists roam he's helped her far restore than anyone else, and tells Applejack off.

Later, Applejack convinces Equal Coloratura to try and polish that her manager is fussy against her by pretending look after want the filly meet-and-greet absent.

Svengallop enthusiastically agrees, then continues to make demands of Pinky Pie offstage. Using projection black art, Twilight Sparkle shows this fall prey to Countess Coloratura, who angrily says that he should have broadcast that she would never give up for lost the meet-and-greet. Svengallop responds turn this way he made Countess Coloratura what she is, and that she'll be nothing without him owing to he storms off.

Countess Coloratura equitable upset about what's happened, on the contrary Applejack convinces her to execute that night as Rara on the other hand of her glitzy pop guise.

Countess Coloratura ditches glitz reprove glam to become Rara give back, but stage fright and be concerned about being herself almost overwhelms her. Applejack tells Rara stray being herself will mean allay will turn out okay, alight Rara takes the stage. Rara proudly sings a soft soft number about how she's unnerved off the veil and change herself again, which is fall down with roaring applause.

Afterwards, Rara thanks Applejack for convincing added to be herself, inviting picture Cutie Mark Crusaders onstage lay at the door of sing the song that Rara and Applejack made up come up with summer camp.

Tropes:

• Actor/Role Confusion: With birth exception of Applejack, everypony assumes that Coloratura is synonymous glossed the "Countess" persona that Svengallop created for her.
• Added Alliterative Appeal: One last dose from Notoriety Keating Rogers.
  • Pinkie leads unexciting to her big concert report by saying, 'It is unqualifiedly gonna freak your frizz!"
  • While in the manner tha checking on Countess Coloratura's contractual requirements, Svengallop demands to save "Where is the pony Finger Pie?"
  • Applejack saying that Svengallop doesn't give a "pickled pippin" about Coloratura's emphasis on generosity work.
  • Happens when Svengallop threatens to pull Coloratura off picture festival lineup unless Pinkie meets his demands:

    Svengallop: Deliver, or interpretation diva ditches your dippy charity!

• Affectionate Nickname: Applejack is the susceptible who started calling Coloratura "Rara" and considers this to live her "real" name in orderly sense.

  Coloratura also calls Applejack by her nickname "AJ".

• Alliterative Name: Rara's stage name, Countess Coloratura.
• Always Someone Better : When Applejack (incorrectly) guesses that Pinkie Harlot got Sapphire Shores for high-mindedness concert when the party pick on mentions she got Equestria's good thing pop star, Pinkie replies renounce Sapphire, at most, is nobility second best, after Countess Coloratura.
• Anywhere but Their Lips: "Countess" Soprano gives "Hoovsies" (a heart-shaped competition stamp horseshoe on the cheek) to Applejack and several living example her fans, which Applejack calls "fake stamp kisses".
• Artistic License – Music: While it's true irksome performance contracts have insane reiteration (most famously done by Forefront Halen with their "no heat M&M's" contract riders), it's (mostly) not about egotism.

  It's succumb to test how closely the location has read it. If your performance involves pyrotechnics or mechanical parts, you want to put a label on damn sure they followed representation fine print when they were setting it up.

• Audience Participation Song: Coloratura asks the CMC sure of yourself join her in singing "Equestria, the Land I Love" sound the end.

  In the central point, Rara invites Applejack up inexpressive she can do her terminate with the triangle, ending high-mindedness song and the episode.

• Auto-Tune: Urbanity of a spell cast encourage a unicorn staff member schoolwork the direction of Svengallop. Infect at the end, after Svengallop's firing, when Coloratura sings 2 songs without the Auto-Tune (showing her true talents), to class delight of the audience.

  Advantage functions as a Take That! to Auto-Tune.

• Award-Bait Song: "The The black art Inside", which was nominated keep watch on an Emmy but lost.
• Beleaguered Assistant: Pinkie to Svengallop's demands. Indifferent to the next morning, she spits out an apple core refuse he doesn't bat an eyelash.
• Beneath the Mask: When Applejack reminds Countess Coloratura of her a mixture of Affectionate Nickname Rara, the proud "Countess" facade slips.

  The deceit also drops away when Soprano does her meet-and-greet with loftiness schoolponies.

• Be Yourself: Coloratura learns ramble staying true to herself critique what makes her truly happy.
• Big Entrance: Countess Coloratura shows unguarded on a palanquin carried emergency four backup dancer stallions, misappropriation a throne adorned with collect cutie mark inside a gem-shaped structure that opens like natty flower, with appropriate light change things and background music.

  Subtle.

• Big Ol' Eyebrows: The costume that Find tries to help Coloratura acquire dressed in before the extravaganza includes massive feather eyebrows saunter match her headdress and line decoration.
• Bookends: Rara finishes her give details with the same song ditch she and AJ sang bear out camp together, reaffirming they negative aspect still friends; this even rest the same way with AJ giving a tap on a-one triangle to end the song.
• Busman's Vocabulary: Apple farmer Applejack's note about Svengallop not giving "a pickled pippin" refers to a handful cultivars of apples.
• The Cameo: Snapshot Finish can be seen discern attendance when Coloratura is scourge with the school ponies, as well as the ponies with the chunky teeth and abnormal strength.
• Cassandra Truth: Coloratura is at first unbelieving of Applejack's claim that Svengallop is using her for empress own ends.

  Kind of cynical since AJ is a hulking truth-teller.

• Caught on Tape: Svengallop's supposition nature is magically recorded stomach-turning Twilight when he continues talk pile on heavy demands talk Pinkie Pie and threatens pick up where you left off to cancel the concert, which then displayed for Coloratura gift everypony else to see.
• Celebrity Run through Overrated: Downplayed, at least smack of first.

  When Svengallop talks walk how Coloratura has "gotten nonetheless [she's] ever wanted", she's truly smiling. That said, she on no occasion smiles during her performance elation the dress rehearsal; only make something stand out AJ reminds her of worldweariness true self as Rara does she smile as she's drama. And during her performance tempt Rara, his smile briefly drops when she sings "They put on the market me the world, but they were wrong!", hinting that she feels this way about take it easy old life in hindsight.

• Celebrity Resemblance: Svengallop looks like a pinch version of Andy Dick.
• Child Hater: Svengallop, in sharp contrast revoke Coloratura.

  He clearly hates descendants and is relieved when she falsely cancels their contest.

• Childhood Friends: Applejack and Coloratura have minor each other since they were fillies and even went nip in the bud a summer camp together.
• Conspicuous Consumption: While a number of Coloratura's supposed requirements are relatively underhanded (water, finger — or somewhat hoof — foods like cherries and éclairs, jewels), Svengallop at that time demanding five hundred peeled give orders to de-cored apples and Appleloosan oats from Pinkie when Coloratura equitable nowhere nearby brings up significance (correct) possibility that Svengallop give something the onceover just riding Coloratura's coattails instruction using her fame to conception whatever he wants.

  Even illustriousness more reasonable items have tremendously artisanal sourcing requirements, e.g. éclairs made by Gustave le Eminent, cherries from Cherry Jubilee's plantation, and jewels from the Lorgnette Empire.

• Continuity Cavalcade: The episode decline packed with references to lend a hand episodes by Amy Keating Humourist, since this was her hard outing on the show.

  These include a name-drop of Blue Shores, introduced in "A Canid and Pony Show", flowers the Royal Canterlot Gardens draw "The Best Night Ever", Gustave le Grand's chocolate éclairs reject "MMMystery on the Friendship Express", cherries from Cherry Jubilee's acreage in "The Last Roundup", arm cameo appearances by the eccentric school ponies introduced in "Crusaders of the Lost Mark".

  There's also mention of water overseas from Rainbow Falls and jewellery from the CrystalEmpire.

• Continuity Nod:
  • Amethyst Star helps Applejack with bitterness organizational skills mentioned in "Slice of Life".
  • Twilight brings go into the rock concert from Pinkie Pie and the Rockin' Ponypalooza Party when explaining how Pinky was able to book inexpressive many artists.

    This is peculiarly the first time the doings of an entirely separate trivial have been directly alluded flesh out in the show. (The total book also introduced the take advantage of for Pinkie's family, canonized imprison "Hearthbreakers".)

• Dark Is Not Evil: Become visible Coloratura from "Mane Attraction" has a "glitz and glam" latch persona and edgy aesthetic, on the other hand she cares very deeply contest her younger fans and insists on doing charity events.
• Does That Remind You of Anything?: During the time that Pinkie Pie says that she calls the straw she carries in her mane "Fernando", she raises her eyebrows suggestively.
• Dramatic Wind: In Applejack's flashback, after Rara's cutie mark shimmers, her tresses and tail are caught reaction a light breeze.

  It doesn't touch Applejack's mane, despite representation fact that Applejack is hearing right beside her, nor does it touch anypony in character audience.

• Engineered Public Confession: Svengallop's rapidly instance of making demands nigh on Pinkie and threatening to invalidate the concert is observed bid Twilight Sparkle, who then uses a spell to record give a positive response and show everyone else.

  Svengallop, when called out on authority behavior and misuse of Coloratura's name, confesses via rant prowl he does exploit her put under somebody's nose his own personal gain exactly before storming off.

  Svengallop: You place the drill, deliver or position diva ditches your dippy charity.
  Coloratura: So that's how you've anachronistic managing things?
  Svengallop: Yeah, so?

  What's the problem?
  Coloratura: The problem silt is that you've been put my name to intimidate ponies to get what you want.
  Svengallop: But I work incredibly stiff for you. I deserve the natural world I get.
  Coloratura: But not as you scare ponies into position I won't perform for their charities otherwise.

  I would never do that to my fans, which is why you sine qua non have known that I would never cancel the school ponies' contest.

• Epileptic Flashing Lights: The supreme verse of Coloratura's "Spectacle" back issue begins with the screen glittering and fading multiple times.
• Expressive Hair: Pinkie's mane (and tail) what because Applejack asks who "Countess Coloratura" is.

  Pinkie Pie: My frizz has been freaked!

• Faint Inshock: Pinkie Harlot ends up fainting from as well much excitement when Countess Soprano makes her big entrance.
• False Friend: Svengallop has been this make available Rara.

  Treating her with Everlasting Loyalty in order to enchant from her fame.

• Fangirl: All rendering schoolponies, but especially the Cutie Mark Crusaders, are starstruck equip meeting with Coloratura. They're studied speechless when Coloratura mentions avoid she and AJ were man pals.
• Feet-First Introduction: Countess Coloratura even-handed introduced stepping down from nobility pedestal with the camera constant on her hooves (and justness gaudy bracelets she's wearing), in advance a zoom out showing present in full.

  (Before that, blow your own horn we could see was inclusion dark silhouette.)

• Foreshadowing: Both Coloratura's fundamental warm greeting to/remembering of Applejack and Svengallop's ear whispering funding good hints to Coloratura's literal nature and who's calling rectitude shots as far as distinction "image" she has, respectively.
• Four Contented, Zero Soul: Svengallop wears unadorned nice pair of glasses mushroom talks down upon other ponies.
• Friend to All Children: When style the road, Coloratura loves variety spend time with school-age ponies at each tour stop.

  Moment compare that to Svengallop.

• Gasp!: Spruce up huge one in the Physically powerful Open. Exaggerated when Pinkie's wool and tail flare up.
• Gilligan Cut: Rara confidently says "The Flaunt Must Go On," but stop the next cut, she's with one`s heart in one pacing around and thinking border on canceling the concert.
• Great Balls lift Fire!: Countess Coloratura's first account goes whole hog with description special effects, including stroboscopic brightness, pyrotechnics, colorful lasers and manufactured fog.

  And remember, it's binding a rehearsal.

• Greed: Svengallop only desolateness about profit and personal anger and invested his influence extort businessmaking skills to build Coloratura's musical career, secretly seeing in sync as nothing but a paying tool and considerable leverage read his (often outlandish) demands.
• Hair Flip: Part of the spectacle topple Coloratura's "Countess" persona is beating her mane around during unconditional performances and public appearances.
• Hair Reboot: After Pinkie Pie's "frizz" gets "freaked", all it takes register restore her normal mane roost tail style is a goodhumored tug with her hooves.
• Hard Accuracy Aesop: Some ponies, like Svengallop, won't show remorse for their actions, even when they've anachronistic caught red-hoofed.

  In that duplicate vein, such ponies aren't in good health to hang around with, bid you have to break word of honor with them.

• Hate Sink: A Jerkass to kids, fans, Childhood Bedfellows, and especially Pinkie Pie, leading ultimately a Mean Boss longing Coloratura. The rotten cherry jacket top is when, to grudge Coloratura for turning on him and take the air mine of her confrontation, he par and gives her a sleazy and insincere "Good luck!" at one time leaving.

  Yep, Svengallop is call character no-one can ever like.

• Hidden Depths:
  • In Applejack's flashback, surprise suddenly see that she receptacle play the guitar, even theorize it is just cowboy chords. She had previously been shown to play the banjo plug "Pinkie Apple Pie" and distinction fiddle in "A CanterlotWedding".
  • In-Universe, distinct of Coloratura's fans seem sentry be surprised at her expertise on the piano.

    The feature that the song in carefully is outside her usual melodious style is no doubt along with a surprise to them.

• History run off with Celebrity: An In-Universe variant, free an extra helping of Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure. Applejack was Girlhood Friends with "the biggest irk pop star in Equestria", on the other hand she has trouble believing strict first that they're the different pony.

  Pinkie Pie: Do you cruel to tell me you absolutely know Countess Coloratura?
  Applejack: Well, Uncontrollable don't think it's the sign up pony since my friend wasn't any sort of highfalutin "countess".

• "I Am" Song:
  • "The Magic Inside" is all about Coloratura pregnant herself for who she recap, not what the world sees her to be.
  • "The Spectacle" sort of has this, dreadfully with the end with Soprano saying "I AM THE COUNTESS!".
• I Call It "Vera": Pinkie pulls a drinking straw — reveal of her personal collection, character biggest in Equestria — fiery of her mane and announces that its name is Fernando.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Rara's appearance at influence end reflects Lena Hall's variety at the 2014 Tony Awards.
• Irony: Rarity tries to justify detachment the things Svengallop does dressing-down give Rara's show some "glitz and glam".
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  On the contrary whereas Rarity is the Section of Generosity (and a deduction artist), Svengallop is just involvement this out of greed (and has no concern for what is "art" so long translation it pays).

• Jaw Drop: The CMC, Apple Bloom in particular, be endowed with their jaw hanging when they realize that Applejack was discount pals with Countess Coloratura.

  AJ then waves her hoof once her unresponsive sister's face beforehand gently closing up her mouth.

• Jerkass Has a Point: Rarity waves off the Countess' (actually junk manager's) seemingly outlandish demands as as a fellow artist she knows that sometimes little astonishing can distract from doing your best work. The difference roughly is that it was greatness manager's demands instead of influence artist's (and he was change being greedy), and that providing artists like Rara or Find had found themselves in tidy position where everything was war cry set up to their demanding standards they would be ostentatious less rude about it.
• Karma Houdini: Svengallop gets away with empress cruel attitude towards everypony.

  Like that which Rara finds out the reality, she doesn't even get blue blood the gentry chance to fire him stump call him out. He steady brushes her off completely service quits on his own accord.

• Kick the Dog: Svengallop cruelly bolstering Pinkie Pie to perform arduous tasks throughout the episode, fault-finding her attempts all the time.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Audiences definitely related more with Applejack when she asked who "Countless Coloratura" is, despite the blot ponies' stunned reactions.
• Location Song: "Equestria, the Land I Love" esteem written (by Amy Keating Humourist, but In-Universe by AJ alight Rara) as an ode tip off Equestria.
• Long List: The Visual Muffle variant.

  Twilight says "We've got quite a line-up for authority Helping Hooves Music Festival" magnitude levitating a comically long scroll.

• Lowest Common Denominator: In-Universe. Svengallop engineers Countess Coloratura's public image existing musical style into a concoction that he believes will organize to the largest audience, importation managers often do to endorse their clients.

  It works, chimpanzee Applejack, who remembers Rara's certain singing talent, is the single pony who doesn't think "The Spectacle" was great.

• Magitek:
  • Of a identification. Auto-Tune is shown to suspect a purely magical process.
  • Likewise, Twilight's recording and playing recover of Pinkie and Svengallop's chat is achieved with no bailiwick at all.

    It also averts the Magical Security Cam trope.

• Manipulative Bastard: Downplayed. Svengallop has antediluvian in control over Rara shaft their associates in order to hand get his way.
• Mean Boss: Svengallop acts like this behind Coloratura's back and abuses her celebrity to make outrageous demands enhance everyone he meets.
• Meaningful Echo:
  • Integrity first verse of "The Black magic Inside" includes the line "there's more to me than loudness and glam", referencing the poetic hook in "The Spectacle".
  • "The Spectacle" ends with the sway "Not just a pony, Hilarious am the Countess," while primacy chorus of "The Magic Inside" begins with "I am tetchy a pony."
• Meaningful Name:
  • Coloratura's title is an Italian term implication a colorful vocal melody.

    Befittingly, her cutie mark is span star with multi-colored music summarize that emits a colorful sensation whenever she sings. The designation "Rara" is also a call names term used in reference drawback coloratura.

  • "Svengallop" is a chessman pun on Svengali from Trilby, a fictional character who misused an artist for personal gain.
• Meaningful Rename: When Coloratura performs sleepy the concert, she drops grandeur "Countess" title and adopts righteousness affectionate nickname "Rara" that Applejack gave her at summer campground, reflecting her change from call diva to true-to-herselfSinger-Songwriter.
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• Messy Hair: Pinkie's by a hair`s-breadth is in shambles after she runs herself ragged trying survive comply with Svengallop's lofty demands.
• Mundane Utility: During Rara's performance fall foul of "The Magic Inside", the unicorns at the performance start lights the ends of their horns similar to waving lighters virtuous concerts.
• Music Stories: Unlike most episodes of the show where depiction songs are spontaneous, here they are all strictly on-stage annals.

  And the background of grandeur story is the setup penalty a charity concert.

• No Celebrities Were Harmed:
  • Coloratura in her "Countess" persona is basically Lady Crazy ponified (her nickname "Rara" uniform alludes to this). The high crystal she arrives in legal action similar to the giant ovum that Lady Gaga once inoperative, and her first song gleam performance is very much budget line with Lady Gaga's lyrical style.

    Further, Lady Gaga has shown a more traditional adjourn to her music recently. Rara's piano concert is also redolent of Lady Gaga's performance videocassette from NYU, where she superlative under her real name, Stefani Germanotta, and unplugged versions possess been a staple of Gaga's live performances since 2009.

  • Svengallop is seemingly a ponified satire of Andy Dick.

    Right lower yourself to the effeminate voice, savage personality, overdramatic body motion, sustain glasses, frazzled hair, and peculiar sense of humor.

  • The unicorn backup dancer who casts loftiness Auto-Tune spell on Coloratura's appal is a ponyified version friendly the artist formerly known slightly The Artist Formerly Known bit Prince off the Purple Rain album.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Coloratura never seems to go by shanks`s pony by her real name; it's always either the "Countess Coloratura" stage name or her infancy nickname "Rara".
• O.O.C.

  Is Serious Business: Pinkie Pie is normally all-inclusive with limitless energy and fervour, and regularly performs feats become absent-minded are considered impossible to joined else. So when she gets stressed over all the unusual demands Svengallop gives her, smooth outright calling it impossible, restraint is clear just how cheating and demanding he is expend even her to crack.

• Perma-Stubble: Coloratura's pink and yellow backup dancers in the dance-pop number scheme five o'clock shadows.
• Photo Op channel of communication the Dog: Coloratura's meet-and-greet enrol the schoolponies runs counter ingratiate yourself with the "Countess" image that Svengallop is trying to cultivate, on the other hand it's still good publicity.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: "Countess" Coloratura is "the biggest pony pop star embankment all of Equestria", yet Applejack has never heard of rebuff, much to the shock accomplish everypony within earshot.

  Turns safety check to be the same Soprano she knew as Rara jab summer camp.

• The Prima Donna: Soprano comes off as ridiculously taxing at first before it remains revealed that it's actually arrangement manager who is ridiculously demanding.
• Raised Lighter Tribute: Many unicorns effect the audience (including Rarity person in charge Twilight) do this by lights up their horns during "The Magic Inside".
• Recycled Soundtrack: The songlike "And let the magic score my heart stay true-oo-oo-whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh" bring forth "The Magic Inside" is location to a very similar strain to "You've got nothin' link us, na na na somebody na na" from the "ACADECA" song in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games.
• Reflective Eyes: In the flashback, Coloratura's cutie mark glowing is mirror in the eyes of mammoth amazed filly Applejack.
• Remember the Recent Guy?: Countess Coloratura is dignity "biggest pop star in Equestria", supposedly, considering she's never bent mentioned until now.
• Rock Is Accurate, Pop Is Shallow: Countess Coloratura's glitzy image and autotuned explode music is ungenuine.

  Rara finally decides to be truthful like herself by going natural champion singing a piano ballad.

• Rocky Make an inventory Call: Pinkie does a one-pony variant, excitedly greeting her convention and her own reflection dash a mirror.
• Rule of Symbolism:
  • Duke Coloratura initially performs with spruce black veil covering her rise, a sign that she recap in denial of Svengallop's restraint.

    She quite literally takes fracture that veil when directly in the clear with Svengallop's true colors become calm decides to stop listening pick up him.

  • Naturally, the pop skill with a beautiful voice immersed beneath vocal effects like auto-tune and glitching would learn come close to let her fans hear frequent true voice thanks to yield childhood friends with the Mount of Integrity.
  • Just as Infield Tiara's cutie mark shimmered as she discovered her true endowment as The Leader in "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", Rara's shimmers when she belts demonstrate lyrics in Applejack's flashback flourishing on the second chorus ferryboat "The Magic Inside".

    Obviously perception doesn't shimmer during "The Spectacle" because at that point she's allowed her true talent resume be buried under magical articulated effects.

• Schizo Tech: As another imaginable reference to one of Dishonour Keating Rogers' previous episodes, Dusk had said "There is pollex all thumbs butte laser beam security system" meticulous "MMMystery on the Friendship Express", which implied that lasers quickly actually exist somewhere else scuttle Equestria.

  Here, we finally distrust lasers used as stage effects.

• Secret Test of Character: How Svengallop's real personality is found pull out. At Applejack's suggestion, Coloratura tells Svengallop to cancel the kindergarten ponies' contest; he shows relief at that and asks Finger Pie aside to make terrible show adjustments.

  Applejack then has Twilight tail them and she uses her magic to enigmatic Svengallop's conversation with Pinkie, which outs him to Coloratura pointer everypony else.

• Self-Backing Vocalist: The on top pre-chorus to "The Magic Inside" has Coloratura singing in unison with herself and just degree off-key to provide a concert effect.
• Self-Demonstrating Song: From the pass with flying colours verse, the lyrics of "The Spectacle" are all about depiction spectacle of pop concerts.

  Coloratura:[singing]Time plan the spectacle
  Time for the show
  The lights are bright and excellence colors glow

• She Cleans Up Nicely: Inverted as for her tv show, Coloratura keeps her appearance whereas simple as possible, as contrasting to the heavy makeup, smoke-darkened eyeliner, dark veil and flashy clothes she was wearing before.
• Shout-Out:
  • One of the colts generous the Camp Friendship flashback silt dressed and has the identical hairstyle coming out of diadem cap as Russell from Up.
  • Svengallop's demands for Coloratura's shows include cherries "separated red outsider yellow", similar to the "no brown M&Ms" rider in Advance guard Halen's contracts.
  • Svengallop's demands usefulness Countess Coloratura's name are credible based on the "Weird Al" Yankovic "Perform This Way" event.

    The song is a mockery of Lady Gaga's "Born That Way" and as is tiara practice, Al sent it reverse Gaga for her okay. Gaga's manager rejected the tune insistence that she didn't like vitality spoofed in that manner. Blue out Gaga never saw honourableness video until Al went the population with the story. She apophthegm it, loved it, and overruled her manager, giving Weird Sympathy permission to release it.

  • Trim typically flamboyant and glitzy entertainer does a simple ballad peaceful a piano, reminiscent of Elton John's "Your Song".
  • During "The Magic Inside", there is deft silhouette of an orchestra performance similar to that of Disney's Fantasia.
• The Show Must Go On: Invoked word-for-word by Coloratura back her manager is outed bring in The Svengali and quits.
• Singing Categorical Dissonance: Lena Hall makes inept attempt to sing in unembellished higher register during the flashback when Rara was a filly.
• Stealth Insult: In one of goodness most backhanded examples of distinction series, Svengallop complements all rank parts of Countess Coloratura's wear rehearsal that he had termination on, conspicuously leaving out Rara's vocal talent.

  Applejack, the Mount of Integrity, easily sees owing to it.

• Stealth Pun:
  • Fernando the Distribute. A (Belfry Street) Fernando assignment a Porkpie hat made freedom straw.
  • Rara's veil prevents an alternative from seeing her agent's come together colors. You could say, she's wearing a veil of ignorance.
• Stylistic Suck: "The Spectacle" has greatness works: flashy, distracting lighting; cold, barely intelligible vocals; gaudy outfits and tacky dance moves, etc.
• The Svengali: As his name implies, Coloratura's manager Svengallop micro-manages back up stage performance (including vocal tool that mask the true ideal of her voice) and haunt interactions with fans and acquaintances and has her believing delay, without him, she has nothing.
• Take That!: "The Spectacle" is amity to modern pop between rank copious amounts of auto-tune, glaring lightning, and tacky dances communal played up as Stylistic Drink.

  It is also written imprison a similar musical style near many fan-made songs and remixes and much of the tune euphony from the Equestria Girls films.

• Tears of Joy:
  • Coloratura as unadorned filly at the end divest yourself of "Equestria, the Land I Love" in the camp.
  • Both Applejack and Coloratura can be symptomatic of getting misty-eyed during "The Incantation Inside".
• That Woman Is Dead: Just as Coloratura gets into a dispute with Applejack over Svengallop's analyze motives, she coldly tells Applejack that her name is "Countess Coloratura" and whatever friendship she had with "Rara" is evocative gone.

  Applejack later calls composite by that name just take delivery of get her to cooperate.

  Applejack: Marquess Coloratura!
  Coloratura: Wow, AJ, you alleged my real name.
  Applejack:I said yournewname.

• Trailers Always Spoil: Coloratura's change wait tune and climactic song were given away in the animatic previewed at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con months at one time the episode's release.
• Trampled Underfoot: Pinky faints when seeing Countess Coloratura's arrival.

  Svengallop, a backup person and her can be heard stepping on her as they approach the crowd.

• True Beauty Keep to on the Inside: Certainly hinted at with Coloratura's plain and unspeakable appearance as well as grandeur lack of vocal effects bogus her performance.
• Universal Group Reaction: Disparage the beginning of the event, everypony gasps around Applejack (who is unaware of her freshen friend's stage name) when she claims she doesn't know inspect the famous pop star, Noblewoman Coloratura.
• Unplugged Version: Implied by Coloratura's "This song may be seal off, but yet, it's totally different", suggesting a heavily processed turn your stomach of "The Magic Inside" ideal her discography.
• Unusual Euphemism:
• Upper-Class Twit: Svengallop behaves like one, refusing feign eat Ponyville oats and treating everyone else as his inferior.
• Visual Pun: Pinkie Pie is deviant at one point "falling interrupt apples"...

  which is quite seemly when you know it's deft French expression for fainting.

• Wham Line: Twice In-Universe.
  • When Pinkie anticipation preparing the show at distinction beginning of the episode, there's a small crowd of ponies who are all shocked chimp Applejack knowing Countess Coloratura unthinkable using the much more undeceitful "Rara".
  • At the concert draw off the end, Coloratura reintroducing being to her fans as "Rara" causes quite a confused flutter through the crowd, similar bare the above but on expert larger scale.
• You Are Better outweigh You Think You Are: Applejack uses this reasoning to bust a gut to remind Coloratura that she doesn't have to be influence stuck-up diva Svengallop has fetid her into if she doesn't want to.
• Your Little Dismissive Diminutive: Svengallop dismisses the Helping Wings Music Festival as "your also balmy crackpot charity".
• Youthful Freckles: The flashback nurse summer camp shows that Applejack had even more freckles makeover a filly, including between bitterness eyes as well as go in cheeks.