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// Story: Just Girls Talking 
// by MythrilMoth 
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"Ugh, the Turquoise Album? Seriously?"

"What?"

"Hello! It sucks and it's a joke and it's gay?"

"Dude, are you loco? The Turquoise Album kicks! Don't be a hater!"

"I'm just sayin', it's a total no-effort. They've gone platinum how many times and they're putting out a wedding band album? A really boring one made up of songs our folks liked when they were kids? I mean, what the hell?"

"Man, whatever. The Orange Album is coming out next month. Two albums in one year and you're bitching about it why?"

"One album and a joke, you mean."

Twilight Sparkle shook her head in confusion and pushed her way into the music room where her friends were getting ready for practice. "Girls? What's the 'Turquoise Album' and why are so many people fighting about it?"

Rainbow Dash looked up from tuning her guitar. "Oh, you mean that Kopher album that came out a couple weeks ago?" She shrugged. "It's Kopher, people are gonna bitch about anything they do."

"Wait, I'm confused," Fluttershy said. "I thought Kopher's next album was the Orange Album, I hadn't heard of a Turquoise Album."

"Yeah, it wasn't promoted or even announced," Rainbow said. "They just dropped it outta nowhere. It's a cover album."

Fluttershy blinked. "Kopher did a cover album?"

"Yeah." Rainbow adjusted her guitar. "It's a'ight. Some pretty good covers actually. But a lot of people are pissed because it's an Internet meme that got taken too far, or acting like Kopher is just making a blatant cash grab off a lazy album any wedding band could've put out."

"Well it is kind of a lazy album," Sunset Shimmer said. "It's not bad, but it's a little...no effort?" She shrugged. "Not that I'm complaining. They're good songs, Kopher does good covers of them, and it's cheap." She played a riff. "And the Orange Album is still coming out next month, so it's not like the Turquoise Album is doing anybody any harm...it's not worth all the drama."

"Eh, you know Kopher fans," Pinkie Pie said. "So many out there who say if it isn't the Pale Heliotrope Album, it sucks."

Twilight clutched her head, shaking it vigorously and squeezing her eyes shut. "Turquoise Album, Orange Album, Pale Heliotrope Album...just...what? I don't understand any of this!"

Sunset played a slide on her guitar and bit her lip in thought. "Okay, do you at least know who Kopher is?" Twilight shook her head. "Okay, well, they're a rock band that's been around for about...I think twenty-five years now? They blew up with that song about the sweater, I think."

"They have a crazy habit of releasing self-titled albums with different color covers," Pinkie explained. "So that the fans identify their albums by color."

"It's a joke kinda thing," Applejack picked up. "Seein' as a lotta bands do it for serious-like, though most'a th' bands that do that are riffin' off th' first band what did it."

"The Staggs and their famous Beige Album," Rarity put in.

"Okay now them I've heard of," Twilight said.

"Right, well, the Beige Album was their what, sixth or seventh album? Something like that," Rarity continued. "For whatever reason, they decided to forego any title or cover art on that one album and simply name it 'The Staggs', with a plain beige cover."

"It became one of their best-selling albums ever," Rainbow said. "A legendary album that changed music for the next decade! But the cover and the lack of a title made people start calling it 'The Beige Album', and it stuck."

"Then a couple of decades later, a heavy metal band that already had a few albums out decided to do the same thing, only with a brown album cover," Fluttershy said. "Naturally, everybody started calling that 'The Brown Album'."

"And that opened the floodgates," Rainbow said. "It started becoming the 'in' thing to do to have a no-title album that people called by its color."

"Enter Kopher," Sunset said. "Their first album was self-titled, which is normal for most bands, but it had a plain purple cover."

"Nobody thought anything of it at first," Rainbow said. "Their second album was pretty normal for titles and album art. But then the third album came out." She played a brief riff. "The Pale Heliotrope Album."

"Then they put out two regular albums," Fluttershy said, "and then just so nobody forgot they liked making fun of things like that, they put out the Magenta Album."

"It's turned into their thing," Rarity said with an eyeroll. "Every third Kopher album is another color album. Only this year they're doing two apparently, because the Turquoise Album literally came out of nowhere."

"This is making me dizzy," Twilight complained, plopping onto a stool.

"Anyway, yeah, a lot of people are butthurt over the Turquoise Album," Rainbow said with a roll of her eyes. "Especially stuck-up music critics. They're taking it way too seriously, I've seen some of the reviews and they're so retarded."

"Well it's to be expected when a nearly thirty year old multi-platinum internationally famous band suddenly puts out a cover album," Rarity noted.

"It doesn't help that the whole thing is because of a Twitter meme," Sunset added.

Twilight blinked. "Wait, what?"

"Oh yeah," Rainbow said, chuckling. "Some dude on Twitter poked the band and challenged them to cover some sleepy old song from the 80s, and then they went and did it and put it on EweTube. Then people started asking for more covers, and Kopher just decided to go ahead and do it."

"And now people are complaining about it?"

"Yep."

Twilight shook her head. "I'll never understand people..."

Sunset laughed. "Welcome to my world."