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The Music Freaks (Web Animation)

The Music Freaks is a Web Series made with assets from Gacha Life and Gacha Club. It was created by RosyClozy and published on YouTube.

Jake is a high school student who, along with his friends, bullies the Music Club. However, Jake has a big skeleton in his closet, as he himself is incredibly passionate about singing. One day, his crush, Daisy, overhears him singing and convinces him to join the music club. The series focuses on Jake and the rest of the music club’s friendships, romances and drama leading up to the competition.

All episodes can be viewed here.

The Music Freaks contains examples of:

  • Armor-Piercing Question: Delivered by Zander in episode 2. Zander is suspicious of Jake's motives for joining the music club, and Jake is arguing with him, insisting that he really does have a passion for music. Zander asks “then why have you talked down on us for so long?”, which shuts him up.
  • Art Evolution: From episode 5 and onwards, the characters go through a redesign and are animated more fluidly. This is due to the release of Gacha Club.
  • The Atoner: Downplayed with Jake. He used to be part of a Gang of Bullies who were mean to Zander and Hailey, but after joining the Music club, he tries to make it up to them, even getting them support from the entire school.
  • Ambiguously Bi:
    • This short animation shows Liam flirting with Henry and almost “kissing”. Whether this is a canon event or not has yet to be confirmed.
    • Drew’s implied to have a crush on Jake, by both context clues and other characters. Henry teased him on this during episode 5 in which a blushing Drew dismisses the comment.

      Henry: Don't look so blue, Drew. I know it must be sad to see your boy running off to the music freaks, instead of into your arms!
      Drew: Ugh, does he have to leave me with you idiots?

  • Be Yourself: The entire story is about Jake deciding to pursue his passion for music, instead of appeasing his bully friends.
  • Blackmail: Jake blackmailed Zoey with revealing her cheating to Drew so that she wouldn’t leak Milly’s diary, and later on Zoey would also attempt to blackmail Jake with audio of him badmouthing the music club as Revenge. Her attempt fails, however, because Lia leaks it to the club first.
  • Bully Magnet:
    • Jake was bullied all the time in Middle School due to his love of singing, to the point where he bullied The Music Club with The Dromies, because he didn't want to be bullied again.
    • The Music Club as a whole could count as this trope as they were bullied all the time by Drew, Henry, Liam, and (formerly) Jake.
    • Deconstructed with Milly as Zoey bullied her so much that Milly became physically violent towards her.
  • Childhood Friend Romance: Luke and Zander have been friends since childhood, and have had feelings for each other for almost as long. However, Zander is worried about Luke finding out for fear of ruining their friendship, which makes Luke feel like he's pushing him away. Despite this, they get together in Episode 5, with Luke confessing that he’s always loved Zander.
  • Cool Big Bro: Zander and Hailey’s younger sister, Bethany, idolizes Sean.
  • Crush Blush: Milly blushes in the scene she has with Elliot, Jake regularly Blushes around Daisy, Sean blushes when he first meets Daisy, Zander and Luke occasionally blush around each other and Stacy blushed quite a lot whenever she was near Luke in episode 5.
  • Curtains Match the Windows: Zander has dark purple hair and lavender eyes, Milly has pink hair and pink eyes. Downplayed with Sean who has black hair and matching eye color.
  • Delicious Daydream: Henry fantasizes about eating lettuce in episode 5.

    Henry: Just thinking about its crunchy leaves makes my mouth drool...!

  • Dream Sue: In Jake’s first song he day-dreams that he’s invincible.
  • Early Installment Character-Design Difference: The characters had different clothing designs in the fifth episode and onwards, due to the creator switching games to use to create their designs.
  • Everytown, America: Rosemeadow City, the setting of the series. Has a high school exactly named after the city, where almost all the characters go to.
  • Everyone Can See It: Zander and Luke. All the other members of the music club seem to think it’s obvious they both like each other but we find out in “Love-Sick Luke” and “A Drummer’s Confession” that neither Luke nor Zander are sure if the other likes him back.

Milly: It’s practically impossible for him to hate you. He’s so obviously in love with you.

Zander: Don’t be ridiculous.

  • False Friend: While it’s generally downplayed, It’s implied that Jake only began hanging around Drew, Henry and Liam so that he wouldn’t get bullied. Despite this, he seems to care for them on some level, since he defends them to the music club.
  • Fighting Back Is Wrong: In 'The Pink Haired Devil', Milly gets into a fight with Zoey after she steals a page from Milly’s diary. Milly is nearly kicked out of the competition, while Zoey seems to get off scot-free. However, she does get some karmic justice when Jake blackmails her to get the page back later.
  • Height Insult: When Henry asks out Lia in episode 1, she responds that she doesn’t date dwarves.
  • I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Zander’s excuse for not confessing his feelings to Luke throughout all of episode 5.
  • Infernal Background: In the episode "KARMA", flames appear behind Zoey after she finds out that Lia leaked the audio of Jake bad-mouthing the music club behind their backs, ruining her plans to Blackmail Jake.
  • Interrupted Declaration of Love: In episode 5, Luke almost tells Zander how he feels, but he’s cut off by the bell.
  • It's All My Fault: Zander blames himself when his and Luke’s relationship becomes strained due to Unresolved Sexual Tension.

    Zander: I’m such an awful friend. Luke is so kind, he never puts himself first, he’s always looking out for others. I just end up pushing him away.

  • Kid-anova: Jake's twelve-year-old brother Milo has apparently "had more girlfriends since kindergarten than you ever will!"
  • Let Me at Him!: Luke has to hold Milly back to keep her from attacking Zoey when Milly confronts her for stealing a page from her diary.
  • Mysterious Past: Most characters, especially the minor and side characters, have either revealed only a tiny part of their backstories or have never mentioned their past at all. For example: Sadie. There is 0 information of her past, whenever its when she met Daisy, or why she's even the creepy girl she is known for.
  • Non-Answer: Zander is sitting out during gym class, and Hailey walks up to him.

    Hailey: Hey, dork. Whatcha readin’?

    Zander: A book.

  • Offscreen Breakup: Drew and Zoey break up by episode 10, due to Jake revealing that she was cheating on him, but we never see it happening. We only see what happened to both characters after said breakup.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Luke is normally cheery and completely willing to give Jake the benefit of the doubt, so it’s terrifying when he blatantly threatens Jake that if he hurts Zander, he’ll be dealing with him (Luke) after.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Milly is the smallest and youngest of the club but if you mess with her, she’ll kick your ass.
  • Relative Error: Jake initially mistakes Zander and Hailey for being in a relationship, casually referring to him as her “boyfriend”. In fact, not only are they step-siblings, but Zander is also gay.

    Jake: He’s your boyfriend, so you know him best!
    (Awkward Silence)
    Milly: Oh my God! You thought-! That Zander- and Hailey?!
    Hailey: You think I’m dating my step-brother…?

  • Revenge: it’s revealed that Lia sent the music club an audio of Jake bad-mouthing them as revenge for not paying attention to her. Zoey later posts the audio online because Jake told Drew that she was cheating on him.
  • Rose-Haired Sweetie: Elliot has coral-coloured hair and he is kind and happy, treating Milly with respect when he appears in the series.
  • Stacy's Mom: Played for laughs. In the first episode Liam states that he finds Stacy’s mom hot.
  • Two Girls to a Team: Milly and Hailey are the only two female members of The Music Club.
  • Ship Tease:
    • Jake's Canon crush on Daisy aside, he has more then a few moments with Hailey, both constantly getting flustered around each other.
    • Luke and Zander were teased a bit, with Zander slightly blushing when Luke got close to him in the first episode. Episodes 4 and 5 throw the tease part out altogether, when it's confirmed that they liked each other since childhood, and they become an Official Couple.
    • Sean and Daisy have a Meet Cute in Episode 3, and Sean seems visibly disappointed when he finds out Jake has a crush on her. That's not even mentioning Episode 7, where Sean comforts a distressed Daisy, and asks for her number.
  • World of Technicolor Hair: Most of the main character and many background characters have unnatural hair-colors.
  • Those Two Guys: Henry and Liam are always together, even if they’re not in the same frame they’re sitting right next to each other.