... Guess that trope (I.E. Help me with name)

So I'm sending a trope through YKTTW. Someone suggested that the name may be misleading. So I decided to bring it over here for a bit. I'm not going to tell you what the trope is about but I will say its name:

Sax Appeal.

What does that make you think of?

edited 15th Jun '11 12:54:51 PM by SalFishFin

Sexy saxophones. Or people with saxophones are sexy. Or jazz is sexy. I really hope it has something to do with sex or saxophones.

Using heavy saxophone in background music for scenes that are supposed to be sexy?

Yeah, no. You really do need a name that makes it clear it's about the player, not the instrument or the sound.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Maybe Sexophone Player? Or Sexy Sax Player?

Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.

Sexy Sax Player is the clearest. Sexophone Player still sounds like it's the instrument that's sexy, not the person playing it.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

We already have Sexophone for the use of saxes in "sexy" background music.

edited 15th Jun '11 10:31:46 PM by MetaFour

...Which a trope called Sax Appeal would be constantly mistaken for. :)

This trope isn't background music for a sex scene, it's about a character playing a saxophone being made sexy as a result of playing the saxophone.

Sax Appeal is a fine name for the trope. If compared with it's snowclone, Sex Appeal, take note that Sex Appeal is a character trait, which leads to Sax Appeal also being an aspect of the character, not of the instrument or the music my themselves.

"Get me a gun, I'm a soldier; but put me in that suit and I'm a superhero." - Gunnery Sgt Roberta "Bobbie" Draper MMC

Yes, I was just bringing it up so we can find a name for this trope to minimize future confusion between the two.

Sexaphone Enthusiast?

Fight smart, not fair.

Sound like someone who creams their pants for saxophonists.

Sexy Sax Man?

I know it doesn't have to be a guy, it just sounds better to me, plus the reference gives us an -amazing- page image. :D

edited 16th Jun '11 10:40:21 AM by savage

Want to rename a trope? Step one: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Or just go to the original Tim Capello

Sexy Sax Man works. Really well.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

The Sexy Sax Man video has a section at the beginning establishing this trope as being in full effect. A screencap of it would work amazingly as the page image.

edited 16th Jun '11 12:47:07 PM by savage

Want to rename a trope? Step one: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I just am not seeing the "ohh he's sexy" reaction from any of the other people. He clearly thinks he's sexy, but ...no.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

The moment I'm talking about is at 0:08-0:10 in the video. A single still of that is so Trope Overdosed that I think it gets the point across, even if it's clearly parody. I don't think that the image actually has to -be- sexy in order to illustrate the trope. But, that's just my $.02.

Also, the YKTTW reads a bit like 'Saxophone players are just sexier than other brass/woodwind musicians for no explained reason', which I can agree is a trope, though for god's sake let's avoid snowcloning into Saxophonists Are Just Sexier.

Anyways getting back to the discussion at hand, I do really think Sexy Sax Man would work for the trope name.

edited 16th Jun '11 1:35:44 PM by savage

Want to rename a trope? Step one: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.