Basic Trope: The music a person likes connects to their personality.
- Straight:
- You can tell Grant is intelligent and studious because he only listens to Mozart and Bach.
- Andrea The Fundamentalist only listens to religious music, regardless of genre (from Power Metal to Reggaeton).
- Yoji the Lovable Sex Maniac has a playlist of 500 hours of songs regarding Intercourse with You, Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks, and romance standards like "Moon River" which are only there to make girls "ease into" consenting to the sex.
- Exaggerated: Everyone's intelligence on the show connects to how much they like classical music. Similarly, every nice character likes bubblegum pop and every rude or abrasive character likes rock.
- Downplayed: Grant likes a lot of different types of music, but he listens to classical when he's studying.
- Justified: Grant is incredibly smart and likes music theory, so he finds classical music interesting to listen to and study.
- Inverted:
- Grant is meek down to his core, intelligent and studious and listens to death metal.
- Grant does not listens to music and does not lets other people hear music either. It is eventually revealed he has a Trauma Button of music, his Super-Senses make listening to music painful, or he is just a hard-core killjoy.
- Subverted: It turns out that Grant really doesn't like Mozart and Bach. He was just pretending because people expected him to.
- Double Subverted:
- But then he hears Chopin and gets really into that.
- He is, however, a very huge fan of Walter Murphy's disco arrangement of Beethoven's Fifth.
- Parodied:
- Classical music will play out of nowhere as Grant walks into the room.
- Grant's playlist is all over the place musically and set on "shuffle". His personality goes all over the place as well depending on what song on that playlist is playing.
- Zig-Zagged: Flash likes abrasive punk rock (and even plays guitar whenever he has the chance) and Damien likes thrash metal. But you wouldn't expect Flash's girlfriend Alicia and Damien's brother Sunny to like them, too.
- Averted: Grant's personality cannot be determined by the music he listens to.
- Enforced: Author Appeal: the writer is a fan of a certain band, so they write a character whose personality aligns with the type of music they play and use the band's songs in the show.
- Lampshaded: "Ah, classical music. Perfect for intellectuals like myself."
- Invoked: Grant tunes the radio to a classical music station when others are around.
- Exploited: Grant thinks that people will think he's smarter for liking classical music.
- Defied:
- Grant listens to whatever music he wants, regardless of whether he thinks it fits him or not.
- Grant very pointedly refuses to listen to music, either by himself or other people's. If he ever listens to music, he gives the audience a Death Glare and makes sure they can't listen.
- Discussed: "So you say he was listening to Mozart and stuff? This guy's not a genius or something, is he?"
- Conversed: "You can tell who's a genius on a TV show by how much Mozart they listen to."
- Played for Laughs:
- The music Grant likes is unexpected and funny.
- Bob's music taste is Damned By a Fool's Praise.
- Grant's favorite song is revealed through an Embarrassing Ringtone.
- Played for Drama:
- Grant is a Broken Bird who only listens to depressing music.
- There are a thousand reasons Grant is bullied 24/7 and being the only guy in Antintellect County, Georgia who likes to listen to Mozart is on the top five on a good day.
- Played for Horror:
- Grant is a Blood Knight who only listens to songs about war and destruction.
- Grant is Affably Evil (with a spectacular emphasis on the "evil") and the music he likes tends to cause Soundtrack Dissonance.
- Grant tortures others with his music. Literally. And quite often to the death, although "driven to insanity" is an acceptable option.
- Grant listens to songs about murder, mayhem and demonic worship as he harvests ingredients for his black mass in his torture dungeon.
- Grant's murderous Berserk Button is people who don't like Neil Diamond. Way too many murders occur to the tune of "Sweet Caroline" (guess what happens on the "pom-pom-pom").
HEY! Turn the station back to Punk Rock, or don't even THINK about goin' back to AM/FM Characterization!
