History BlackSheepHit / Music

** Rather typical of her later style; she and Neil Geraldo seem to indicate that their earlier style was more the result of ExecutiveMeddling, and that a change in record label produced songs like "Love Is a Battlefield" and "We Belong" that are more in line with their preferred style.

* '''Music/{{Covenant}}''', one of the TropeCodifiers of the Futurepop subgenre of {{Industrial}}, shattered the mold with "Lightbringer", an AutoTune-heavy, borderline HipHop joint venture with fellow Swedish duo Necro Facility, [[BreakupBreakout one member of which, Oscar Holter, would go on to be a prominent pop music producer alongside Max Martin]].

* '''Everything but the Girl'''[='=]s greatest hit was Todd Terry's dance remix of "Missing", which influenced them to undergo a GenreShift from their prior SophistiPop, though [[OneHitWonder they never achieved any further US pop hits]].

* '''Music/BeastieBoys'''[='=] ''Music/LicensedToIll'' spawned one in the form of "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)". Not only was it different for being a PunkRap tune, but most people [[MisaimedFandom didn't understand the irony of the lyrics]]. The band hates the song and hasn't played it live for over 20 years.

* '''Music/{{Sum 41}}''' is a skate punk / PopPunk, but their biggest hit "Fat Lip" is one of their only songs to feature [[PunkRap rapping]].

* '''Music/ThreeEleven''' - "Amber", a slow reggae-ish song compared to their ska-punk rap-rock signature sound.

* 90s emo band '''Far''', as with many other bands who came from that scene, had no hits before they disbanded in 1999. When they reunited in 2008, they released a joke cover of Ginuwine's R&B hit "Pony" as a reunion single. That cover, which is heavier than their usual fare, became their first and only entry on the ''Billboard'' Alternative chart.

* The band '''Far''' are widely considered to be one of the first emo bands, but like many early groups in the genre, they had no hits before they disbanded in 1999. When they reunited in 2008, they released a joke cover of Ginuwine's R&B hit "Pony" as a reunion single. That cover, which is heavier than their usual fare, became their first and only entry on the ''Billboard'' Alternative chart.
** The band's frontman Jonah Matranga scored a Top 10 pop hit in 2006 with his guest appearance on Music/FortMinor's "Where'd You Go", a song that is stylistically a million miles away from Far's mid-90s work.

* '''Music/FrontLineAssembly''', best known for their serious, angsty {{Industrial}} and sometimes IndustrialMetal material, collaborated with Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence's Jimmy Urine on an over-the-top cover of Music/{{Falco}}'s synthpop hit "Rock Me Amadeus", starkly contrasting with the rest of their discography.

* '''Manufacture'''[='=]s "As the End Draws Near", which features a pre-fame Music/SarahMcLachlan on vocals, is much LighterAndSofter and more mainstream-accessible than the rest of their catalogue, which is chiefly aggressive {{industrial}} that ranks high on the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness.

* '''The Rascals''' scored three #1 hits in the 1960's, the last being "People Got to Be Free". Holding the top spot for five consecutive weeks in the summer of 1968 – longer than both "Good Lovin'" and "Groovin'", for which people ''still'' remember them — that song was much DarkerAndEdgier than its two predecessors, coming out, by pure coincidence, in the wake of the assassinations of UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJ. and UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy.

** "Under the Bridge", while being a SurprisinglyGentleSong, nevertheless treats a fairly dark topic — Anthony Kiedis's reflections on everything and ''everyone'' he's thrown away in his life because of drugs, and the city/spirit of Los Angeles as the only entity that will support him unconditionally.

* '''Music/TheMoodyBlues''' were best known for their psychedelic and prog-rock songs in the 60's and 70's like "Nights in White Satin" and "The Story in Your Eyes". In The80s, however, they scored their second and last Top 10 entry with 1986's "Your Wildest Dreams", a synth-pop song.

* British band '''A''' ([[OneLetterName yes, that's their name]]) is somewhat of a downplaying of this trope. Their first two albums were mostly pop-centric alternative rock, then they released "Nothing", their [[SignatureSong Signature Song]] and the lead-off to their third album (''Hi-Fi Serious''), which is an arena rock-styled [[NuMetal Nu Metal]] song. The rest of ''Hi-Fi Serious'' mostly saw a pop punk edge added to their existing alternative rock sound, however several songs experimented with a [[PostGrunge Post-grunge]]-adjacent style. Their fourth (and to date final) album, ''Teen Dance Ordinance'' saw a continuation of their pop punk/alternative rock sound, but with several radio metal songs as well (though no songs that directly sounded like the Nu Metal of "Nothing").

* '''Bryson Tiller''' is often known for being a modern-day R&B singer, whose work mixes in elements of hip hop and trap. After a few years of no hits, Bryson hit it big in early-2024 with "Whatever She Wants", a song that's almost purely trap and rap song with very little singing.

* British band '''A''' ([[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer yes, that's their name]]) is somewhat of a downplaying of this trope. Their first two albums were mostly pop-centric alternative rock, then they released "Nothing", their [[SignatureSong Signature Song]] and the lead-off to their third album (''Hi-Fi Serious''), which is an arena rock-styled [[NuMetal Nu Metal]] song. The rest of ''Hi-Fi Serious'' mostly saw a pop punk edge added to their existing alternative rock sound, however several songs experimented with a [[PostGrunge Post-grunge]]-adjacent style. Their fourth (and to date final) album, ''Teen Dance Ordinance'' saw a continuation of their pop punk/alternative rock sound, but with several radio metal songs as well (though no songs that directly sounded like the Nu Metal of "Nothing").

* Music/{{Ween}}'s biggest hit was "Push Th' Little Daisies", a cheerful, upbeat pop-rock song that is remarkably different from the rest of the band's work. Their penultimate album ''quebec'' was also the most critically well-received of their career, despite it being tonally extremely different from the remainder of their work (being an extremely downbeat ProgressiveRock album for the most part).

** "Beverly Hills" is a better example. It's their biggest hit, and it sounds nothing like the rest of the album (Mostly soft ballads).