Basic Trope: Songs used to pad out an album.
- Straight: The debut album of Alice and Bob has 4 hit singles on it, then the rest is filler.
- Exaggerated: Only 1 song is a hit.
- Downplayed:
- The album has mostly hits, with a couple filler tracks here and there.
- The album doesn't really have any hits in general.
- Justified: It's a concept album.
- Inverted: The filler becomes hits, while the intended hit singles never chart.
- Subverted: A filler song becomes the biggest hit on the album.
- Double Subverted:...That is quickly forgot about, as the other hits from the album are the ones that are remembered.
- Parodied:
- The album has one actual song in it. The other six tracks consist entirely of white noise (static).
- The other songs on the album are called "Filler #1," "Filler #2," "Filler #3," etc.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- All the songs are hits.
- The album is a Concept Album with a throughline that makes all the songs equally important.
- Enforced: "Singles and LPs aren't as profitable as albums. Find me five more songs by next week so this will seem like a better value."
- Lampshaded: "Why can I never find a good song after the first 4 tracks?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- ALL of the songs are filler.
- There's some filler, but the filler is quite pretty good.
- There's no filler at all, so the album is very short or it took a long time to make.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Word of mouth goes out about the abundance of filler, and the album sells poorly.
- Reconstructed: The filler gets seen as better over time, and the album is soon seen as a classic.
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