History Main / InUniverseSoundtrack

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* [[LivingLegend Orson Gregory]] in ''Literature/TheDreamsideRoad'' has a theme song, “The Wayfarer March”, an in-universe piece of music, composed for a failed film adaptation of one of his earlier adventures. It is performed for the first time as the [[SignatureTeamTransport Aesir]] is leaving [[RidingIntoTheSunset Nimauk]].
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* [[LivingLegend Orson Gregory]] in ''Literature/TheDreamsideRoad'' has “The Wayfarer March”, an in-universe piece of music, composed for a failed film adaptation of one of his earlier adventures. It is performed for the first time as the [[SignatureTeamTransport Aesir]] is leaving [[RidingIntoTheSunset Nimauk]].

A subtrope of SourceMusic and RealityHasNoSoundtrack. For works with theme tunes, it will almost certainly overlap with ThemeTuneCameo. It may also be related to CelebrityParadox insofar as real music, and thus the performers, exist in a fictional work -- it can overlap with this if some of the performers on the soundtrack also play fictional characters in the work.

* ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'': Most of the actual soundtrack songs are coming from the world of the film, like Judy playing the Gazelle song to give a city montage, the short car chase radio, and the final scene being a concert.

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* ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'': Most of the actual soundtrack songs are coming from the world of the film, like Judy playing the Gazelle song to give a city montage, the short car chase radio, and the final scene being a concert.
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Note: works with real-song soundtracks, and works in which real songs are simply played by/for the characters, are NotAnExample. To be an example, the work must both have a majority of its soundtrack be pieces of music which are diegetic (playing from within the work's universe) and have these pieces of music function as a soundtrack (play in the {{background|music}} and underscore the scene).

* ''VisualNovel/LastWindow'' has a jukebox in the café that the player can interact with, which plays different songs from the game's soundtrack.

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* ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'': Most of the actual soundtrack songs are coming from the world of the film, like Judy playing the Gazelle song to give a city montage, the short car chase radio, and the final scene being a concert.

These songs are known to the characters, and may exist on some personal music device of one of the main characters. This may be an object of incredible personal value, and the songs on it reflect the personality and character of whoever owns it -- the character will choose songs to accompany current circumstances of the plot, and [[AwesomeMusic a particularly memorable song choice]] nearly always contributes to the awesomeness of a SignatureScene.

Works where only one (or very few) of the soundtrack pieces are played in-universe are most likely to be an [[PlayingWithTropes invoked and discussed]] version of AwesomeMusic (e.g. a character switching on cool music for a certain fight, only once) but may also be an example of {{Leitmotif}} or, because of the lack of being established as diegetic, examples of LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn.

* ''Film/BabyDriver'': Baby listens to songs on an iPod almost constantly to help combat the tinnitus that he otherwise experiences. Of course, that's some incredible {{Understatement}}, as the film blends music into its action in such an incredibly ''epic'' fashion that it's difficult to describe with just words. Highlights include "Bellbottoms" by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and "Brighton Rock" by Music/Queen.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': Most of the actual soundtrack songs are coming from the world of the film, like Judy playing the Gazelle song to give a city montage, the short car chase radio, and the final scene being a concert.

* {{Zootopia}}: Most of the actual soundtrack songs are coming from the world of the film, like Judy playing the Gazelle song to give a city montage, the short car chase radio, and the final scene being a concert.

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Most or all songs featured in a work's soundtrack are played from inside the work's universe.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' sometimes does this, with songs played in-universe then continuing to play over the end credits.
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