Errm... no, it isn't. It's just far away from first position chords.
(Plus, define normal.)
When you start learning the chords up the neck a ways you can take otherwise pedestrian progressions* and shake 'em up a bit. Lo! Suddenly you've got an arrangement. And you didn't even have to work hard for it.
Sometimes it's just as simple as using first position chords for the verses and say... second position chords for the bridge. Changes up the whole sound.
Sometimes the cheap tricks are the best tricks. Just ask Rick Neilsen.
*Ha! Say that three times fast.