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Trope Namers: Music
You're likely to find a lot of tropes on this website that get their names from popular songs, even if
the songs themselves don't use them .
Anonymous
The 13th Floor Elevators Psychedelic Rock * while the Holy Modal Rounders were the first to use the word "psychedelic" in a song, the Elevators were arguably the first to coin the exact phrase "psychedelic rock"
50 Cent
Aerosmith
Anita Baker
Band Aid
Beastie Boys
The Beatles
The Bee Gees
Blue Öyster Cult
Garth Brooks
James Brown
Buckner & Garcia
Johnny Cash
Chamillionaire
Harry Chapin
Cherrelle
The Clash
Sam Cooke
Alice Cooper
Jonathan Coulton
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cutting Crew
The Dandy Warhols
Taylor Dayne
Dead Kennedys
Chris DeBurgh
Devo
Dire Straits
Carl Douglas
Ian Dury
Bob Dylan
Electric Light Orchestra
Everly Brothers
Falco
Fatboy Slim
Five Man Electrical Band
Stephen Foster
The Four Lads
Fountains of Wayne
The Gershwins
The Geto Boys
Guns N' Roses
Woody Guthrie
The Happy Mondays
Corey Hart
Yoshiki Hayashi Visual Kei (from the X Japan band concept of "Crime of Visual Shock," he was also the first to define the style he had a large position in originating as "Visual Kei .")
Janet Jackson Antônio Carlos Jobim
Billy Joel
Elton John
Judas Priest
R. Kelly
King Missile
L7
Led Zeppelin
Tom Lehrer
Lemon Demon
Linkin Park
Lordi
Marilyn Manson
Bob Marley
Paul McCartney
Meatloaf
Metallica
Harry S. Miller
The Monkees
Alanis Morissette
Mötley Crüe
Muse
National Anthems
Nelly
Randy Newman
Newsboys
Nine Days
Nine Inch Nails
The Offspring
Yoko Ono
Tom Petty
Pink Floyd
Elvis Presley
Prince
Queen
Rammstein
Red Hot Chili Peppers
R.E.M.
Kenny Rogers
The Rolling Stones
Gil Scott-Heron
Nancy Sinatra
Johnny Smith
Soul Asylum
Britney Spears
The Statler Brothers
Sweet
The Temptations
They Might Be Giants
George Thorogood
Toto
The Turtles
Shania Twain
Bonnie Tyler
U2
Van Halen
Venom
The Weather Girls
"Weird Al" Yankovic
The Who
Hank Williams
Wu-Tang Clan
ZZ Top
