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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* The Homicidal, Suicidal, Genocidal, Death-Defying GarbageWrestler Wrestling/{{Sabu}}'s theme in Impact Championship Wrestling? Madonna's ''Like A Virgin.''
* Wrestling/TheYoungBucks, because nothing says "{{arrogant kung fu guy}}" than a slow, soothing tune accompanied by a woman {{scatting}} in the happiest manner possible and also singing about being nice. (Doesn't apply to their Wrestling/RingOfHonor or Wrestling/BulletClub themes however)
* Wrestling/SantinoMarella's Wrestling/{{WWE}} theme is loud, boastful, even regal. Santino Marella is a clown that makes up for what he lacks in makeup with a unibrow.
* Wrestling/{{T|aryn Terrell}}iffany's [[InNameOnly WW]]Wrestling/{{ECW}} theme, opened with the lyrics "I'm insatiable, I can't get enough! I need to find a boy!" The thing was, she was the show's general manager, the boss. And that's exactly how she acted, with no hint that she was a love crazy maniac.
** The WWE Divas in general seem to suffer from this, due to having much more techno-styled songs than their male counterparts. Wrestling/AJLee had her "Let's Light It Up!" theme song long after she was a HollywoodNerd, and became a PsychoExGirlfriend.
* Wrestling/KevinSteen's theme "Unsettling Differences" is seemingly about how professional wrestling is a rough sport, a rougher business, how he wants to make the best of it and will be a decent guy so long as you don't cross him but will mess you up if you do. Steen is of course, an irrationally hateful brute who attacks people have done nothing to him just to spite people he has perceived gripes against.
* Wrestling/SamiZayn had a punk rock theme, "Lower the Boom" that didn't suit his pure NiceGuy babyface character at all. Although, the theme did reflect [[AuthorAppeal Zayn's love for punk rock music.]]
* Brittany's Wrestling/{{TNA}} theme, is instantly recognizable, powerful and appropriately dramatic for a champion. Thing is, Brittany's just a manager who has [[{{jobber}} done the job]] all but one of the times she actually wrestled, and that victory was thanks to Wrestling/LeiDTapa's mistake.
* The trope was used on purpose by [[Wrestling/TripleH The]] [[Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon Authority]], when live on RAW they announced the firing of Wrestling/DolphZiggler, {{Ryback}} and [[TheWyattFamily Rowan Harper]] and tell them to thank Wrestling/JohnCena for losing their job... while "Stars and Stripes Forever" plays along a rain of confetti and baloons. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmaMlAHDwo It has to be seen to be believed.]] [[/folder]]

* The Young Bucks, because nothing says "{{arrogant kung fu guy}}" than a slow, soothing tune accompanied by a woman {{scatting}} in the happiest manner possible and also singing about being nice. (Doesn't apply to their Wrestling/RingOfHonor or Wrestling/BulletClub themes however)

->''For there was light music. An orchestra of "young and pretty girls all dressed in white blouses and navy-blue skirts"...had been formed from among the inmates. While the selections was being made for the gas chambers this unique ensemble played gay tunes from ''The Merry Widow'' and ''Tales of Hoffmann''. Nothing solemn and somber from [[LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]. [[CrapsaccharineWorld The death-marches at Auschwitz were sprightly and merry tunes, straight out Viennese and Parisian operetta.]]''

* The trope was used on porpuse by [[TripleH The]] [[StephanieMcMahon Authority]], when live on RAW they announced the firing of DolphZiggler, {{Ryback}} and [[TheWyattFamily Rowan Harper]] and tell them to thank JohnCena for losing their job... while "Stars and Stripes Forever" plays along a rain of confetti and baloons. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmaMlAHDwo It has to be seen to be believed.]] [[/folder]]

-->--'''William L. Shirer''', ''The Rise and Fall of [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Third Reich]]''

* The Young Bucks, because nothing says "{{arrogant kung fu guy}}" than a slow, soothing tune accompanied by a woman {{scatting}} in the happiest manner possible and also singing about being nice.

-->--'''William L. Shirer''', ''The Rise and Fall of [[NaziGermany the Third Reich]]''

The ''Ode To Joy'' choral in the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is especially cursed to suffer from Soundtrack Dissonance due to its notorious use in [[NaziGermany Third Reich]] propaganda, hence modern usage is just as often due to this association (or to the most well-known work to use it for SoundtrackDissonance, ''Film/AClockworkOrange'') as it is its original intent.[[labelnote:More]]Probably much less so in Europe itself, since the tune (without lyrics) is as close to being [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_of_Europe European anthem]] as it could get.[[/labelnote]] To be absolutely clear, Friedrich von Schiller's original lyrics were about the equality of all humankind in the eyes of God: ''Joy, the bright spark of the gods/the daughter of Elysium ... All men now are brothers/beneath your gentle wing''. The tune also has lyrics written as the hymn "Joyful, joyful": ''Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee/God of Glory, Lord of Love''.

A subtrope of MoodDissonance. Compare LyricalDissonance. Contrast SuspiciouslyAproposMusic.

The ''Ode To Joy'' choral in the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is especially cursed to suffer from Soundtrack Dissonance due to its notorious use in [[NaziGermany Third Reich]] propaganda, hence modern usage is just as often due to this association (or to the most well-known work to use it for SoundtrackDissonance, ''Film/AClockworkOrange'') as it is its original intent.[[labelnote:More]]Probably much less so in Europe itself, since the tune (without lyrics) is as close closest to being [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_of_Europe European anthem]] as it could get.[[/labelnote]] To be absolutely clear, Friedrich von Schiller's original lyrics were about the equality of all humankind in the eyes of God: ''Joy, the bright spark of the gods/the daughter of Elysium ... All men now are brothers/beneath your gentle wing''. The tune also has lyrics written as the hymn "Joyful, joyful": ''Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee/God of Glory, Lord of Love''.

The ''Ode To Joy'' choral in the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is especially cursed to suffer from Soundtrack Dissonance due to its notorious use in [[NaziGermany Third Reich]] propaganda, hence modern usage is just as often due to this association (or to the most well-known work to use it for SoundtrackDissonance, ''Film/AClockworkOrange'') as it is its original intent.[[labelnote:More]]Probably much less so in Europe itself, since the tune (without lyrics) the closest to being [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_of_Europe European anthem]] as it could get.[[/labelnote]] To be absolutely clear, Friedrich von Schiller's original lyrics were about the equality of all humankind in the eyes of God: ''Joy, the bright spark of the gods/the daughter of Elysium ... All men now are brothers/beneath your gentle wing''. The tune also has lyrics written as the hymn "Joyful, joyful": ''Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee/God of Glory, Lord of Love''.

The ''Ode To Joy'' choral in the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is especially cursed to suffer from Soundtrack Dissonance due to its notorious use in [[NaziGermany Third Reich]] propaganda, hence modern usage is just as often due to this association (or to the most well-known work to use it for SoundtrackDissonance, ''Film/AClockworkOrange'') as it is its original intent. To be absolutely clear, Friedrich von Schiller's original lyrics were about the equality of all humankind in the eyes of God: ''Joy, the bright spark of the gods/the daughter of Elysium ... All men now are brothers/beneath your gentle wing''. The tune also has lyrics written as the hymn "Joyful, joyful": ''Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee/God of Glory, Lord of Love''.

* The trope was used on porpuse by [[TripleH The]] [[StephanieMcMahon Authority]], when live on RAW they announce the firing of DolphZiggler, {{Ryback}} and [[TheWyattFamily Rowan Harper]] and tell them to thanks JohnCena for losing their job... while "Stars and Stripes Forever" plays along a rain of confetti and baloons. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmaMlAHDwo It has to be seen to be believed.]] [[/folder]]

* The trope was used on porpuse by [[TripleH The]] [[StephanieMacMahon Authority]], when live on RAW they announce the firing of DolphZiggler, {{Ryback}} and [[TheWyattFamily Rowan Harper]] and tell them to thanks JohnCena for losing their job... while "Stars and Stripes Forever" plays along a rain of confetti and baloons. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOmaMlAHDwo It has to be seen to be believed.]] [[/folder]]

* Brittany's Wrestling/{{TNA}} theme, is instantly recognizable, powerful and appropriately dramatic for a champion. Thing is, Brittany's just a manager who has [[{{jobber}} done the job]] all but one of the times she actually wrestled, and that victory was thanks to Wrestling/LeiDTapa's mistake.[[/folder]]

* The Homicidal, Suicidal, Genocidal GarbageWrestler Wrestling/{{Sabu}}'s theme in Impact Championship Wrestling? Madonna's ''Like A Virgin.''

* The Homicidal, Suicidal, Genocidal GarbageWrestler Wrestling/{{Sabu}}'s theme in Impact Championship Wrestling? Madonna's ''Like A Virgin.''[[/folder]]

So you're a big-time Hollywood director. Congrats on that, by the way. You've got a dynamite action movie you're about to start shooting. It won't win you an Oscar, but hey, you've got two of those, and any way, your mortgage payments are becoming somewhat uncomfortable. There's just one problem: the movie is supposed to end with a bloody firefight, and your stupid conscience is acting up again. You went to the NYU film school, dammit, you can't just have 13 minutes of blood and bullets.

->''Yes! Sweeping romantic music over one of the worst human rights violations in American history! [[SarcasmMode This is a good idea!]]''
-->--'''[[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle Kallgren,]]''' discussing his [[OldShame middle-school]] [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/oancitizen/miscellany-and-hodge-podge/34148-the-dork-ages-my-8th-grade-history-project history project.]]

Of course, it can work both ways as well. Inappropriate music can be often played for laughs; a sombre, portentious and important-sounding piece of music played over something utterly trivial happening on screen can increase the laughter. Similarly, a light and cheery pop song or sweet love ballad playing over an otherwise tense scene can be played for laughter, especially if the tension comes from something absurd that the characters are otherwise treating entirely seriously. But if you use "SoundtrackDissonance/YaketySax", be warned...

The ''Ode To Joy'' choral in the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is especially cursed to suffer from Soundtrack Dissonance due to its notorious use in [[NaziGermany Third Reich]] propaganda, hence modern usage is just as often due to this association (or to the most well-known work to use it for SoundtrackDissonance, ''Film/AClockworkOrange'') as it is its original intent. To be absolutely clear, Friedrich von Schiller's original lyrics were about the equality of all humankind in the eyes of God: ''Joy, the bright spark of the gods/the daughter of Elysium ... All men now are brothers/beneath your gentle wing''. The tune also has lyrics written as the hymm "Joyful, joyful": ''Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee/God of Glory, Lord of Love''.
[[labelnote:More:Leonard Bernstein specifically conducted the entire symphony in Berlin shortly after the FallOfTheBerlinWall as a celebration, changing the word "freude" to "freheit" ("joy" to "freedom").[[/labelnote]]

[[hottip:more:Leonard Bernstein specifically conducted the entire symphony in Berlin shortly after the FallOfTheBerlinWall as a celebration, changing the word "freude" to "freheit" ("joy" to "freedom").]]

-->--'''[[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle Kallgren,]]''' discussing his [[OldShame middle-school history project.]]

The ''Ode To Joy'' choral in the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is especially cursed to suffer from Soundtrack Dissonance due to its notorious use in [[NaziGermany Third Reich]] propaganda, hence modern usage is just as often due to this association (or to the most well-known work to use it for SoundtrackDissonance, ''Film/AClockworkOrange'') as it is its original intent. (To be absolutely clear, Friedrich von Schiller's original lyrics were about the equality of all humankind in the eyes of God;the tune is also in most hymnals as "Joyful, joyful we adore Thee/God of Glory, God of Love. . .".[[hottip:Further:Leonard Bernstein specifically conducted the entire symphony in Berlin shortly after the FallOfTheBerlinWall as a celebration.]])

-->--'''[[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle Kallgren,]]''' ''discussing his [[OldShame middle-school history project.]]''