Line #11 Music/ChonnyJash


1	Chonny Jash is an Australian internet musician most well known for his covers of other artists' songs. These covers often range from just a glow up of an existing song, to near-total rewrites with only the melody in common with its original counterparts. He also has his own original songs, which are often a lot more personal message-wise.
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3	His most well known cover project is Chonny's Charming Chaos Compendium - a collection of Tally Hall (& related artists such as Miracle Musical) covers that tell a story of Chonny's experience with cognitive dissonance. Most of this album is sung through three characters: Heart, Mind, and Soul; all of whom are representations of Chonny's thoughts and mental health.
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6	!Tropes in Chonny Jash's music:
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8	* AHellOfATime: In his ''[[Music/ThatHandsomeDevil Charlie Inferno]]'' cover, hell is depicted as fairly enjoyable place for everyone but its worst sinners, somewhere between a consequence-free casino and a high class restaurant. The demon that greets the AuthorAvatar goes as far as the assure him that he wouldn't have enjoyed Heaven anyway.
9	* AdaptationDeviation: Several of his covers have no relation to their original song beyond melody. "Storm and a Spring", for example, is a much darker version of Tally Hall's much more light-hearted "Spring and a Storm". This trope is often used to make the covers more personal or to fit a story.
10	* AdaptationExpansion: He makes his own lyrics or expands the song instead of just covering it.
11	* CopeByCreating: Soul says he "wrote over tunes [he] didn't make to try to rationalize what kept [him] up at night." While this could be Chonny talking through Soul, since this seemed to be happening in "Mucka Blucka", it's also likely Soul did use music to cope.
12	* DarkerAndEdgier: Several happy Tally Hall songs with no actual meaning are used to tell the story of Soul being DrivenToSuicide by Heart and Mind's fighting. Similarly, the tone of "Hidden In The Sand" is a bit darker.
13	* DrivenToSuicide: Soul narrowly averts this trope, but was suicidal throughout the Tally Hall series.
14	* EmotionsVsStoicism: Heart and Mind's war is this.
15	* FanNickname: "Dream (Outro from Calamity)" uses Greek Mythology figures as nicknames for characters in CCCC. Artemis is Heart, Apollo is Mind, Atlas is Soul, and Harmonia is Chonny - or 'Whole', as many fans have dubbed his character.
16	* FixFic: "Banana Man" is one for Tally Hall's "Banana Man".
17	* FreudianTrio: Heart is often considered the Id, Mind the Superego, and Soul the Ego.
18	* {{Gayngst}}: Some covers and original songs are about Chonny's experiences being Pansexual. "The Lie of Black and White" is the most obvious example of this.
19	* IJustWantToBeNormal: By the end of all the fighting, Soul just wants to be able to be himself and for Heart and Mind to stop fighting.
20	* IncompatibleOrientation: This happens in Shutup You're Stupid, when Chonny flirts with another man only to find out he's straight.
21	* MonsterMash: The album "The Gothic Whore, or the Novel Lyric Hunt" seems to be a show/party with the performers/guests being [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde several]] [[Literature/DraculA characters]] [[Literature/CarmillA from]] [[Literature/FrankensteiN gothic]] [[Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher fiction]], plus [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Winston Smith]] and [[Literature/TreasureIsland Jim Hawkins]]. This wouldn't be known if it wasn't said in the final song, a cover of (take a guess) Monster Mash.
22	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Soul says "call me the Soul or call me my name" meaning he has a real name. It is implied in Dream (Outro to Cacophony) that the name is Atlas.
23	* RuderAndCruder: Music/TallyHall songs don't usually swear, but several F bombs are dropped in the Tally Hall series by Soul.
24	* SelfDeprecation: The ''[[Music/ThatHandsomeDevil Charlie Inferno]]'' depicts Chonny's AuthorAvatar as a fairly flawed character (though his sins are largely [[PokeThePoodle petty]] or at worst self-destructive), that fully expects to go to hell when he dies.
25	* SplitPersonality: Soul, Heart and Mind are this, with Soul being the host.
26	* ToTheTuneOf: Most of his uploads are covers and remixes of pre-existing songs.
27	* WaxingLyrical: A lot of covers - and even some original songs - have references to other songs. For example, "Mucka Blucka" is full of references to the album it is based on - Marvin's Marvellous Mechanical Museum.

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