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.
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.
Tropes in Chonny Jash's music:
- A Hell of a Time: In his 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 Author Avatar goes as far as the assure him that he wouldn't have enjoyed Heaven anyway.
- Adaptation Deviation: 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.
- Adaptation Expansion: He makes his own lyrics or expands the song instead of just covering it.
- Cope by Creating: 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.
- Darker and Edgier: Several happy Tally Hall songs with no actual meaning are used to tell the story of Soul being Driven to Suicide by Heart and Mind's fighting. Similarly, the tone of "Hidden In The Sand" is a bit darker.
- Driven to Suicide: Soul narrowly averts this trope, but was suicidal throughout the Tally Hall series.
- Emotions vs. Stoicism: Heart and Mind's war is this.
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Fan Nickname: "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. - Fix Fic: "Banana Man" is one for Tally Hall's "Banana Man".
- Freudian Trio: Heart is often considered the Id, Mind the Superego, and Soul the Ego.
- 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.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: By the end of all the fighting, Soul just wants to be able to be himself and for Heart and Mind to stop fighting.
- Incompatible Orientation: This happens in Shutup You're Stupid, when Chonny flirts with another man only to find out he's straight.
- Monster Mash: The album "The Gothic Whore, or the Novel Lyric Hunt" seems to be a show/party with the performers/guests being several characters from gothic fiction, plus Winston Smith and Jim Hawkins. This wouldn't be known if it wasn't said in the final song, a cover of (take a guess) Monster Mash.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: 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.
- Ruder and Cruder: Tally Hall songs don't usually swear, but several F bombs are dropped in the Tally Hall series by Soul.
- Self-Deprecation: The Charlie Inferno depicts Chonny's Author Avatar as a fairly flawed character (though his sins are largely petty or at worst self-destructive), that fully expects to go to hell when he dies.
- Split Personality: Soul, Heart and Mind are this, with Soul being the host.
- To the Tune of...: Most of his uploads are covers and remixes of pre-existing songs.
- Waxing Lyrical: 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.
