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openSinging the music? Music
I don't know if this is common enough to be trope-worthy, but. .
Singing the music in a song as if it was part of the lyrics. For example:
Reaching out/ Touching me / Touching you.. / Sweet Caroline (BA BA BA)
Edited by MenaceofMysterioopen"Time Flies" Song Music
A song, typically a sad one, about how time passes quickly. May also come with a "life is short" message. Do we have this?
EDIT: Also, do we have any tropes for a general "time flies, life is short" message? I checked the Time folder on Stock Aesops, but the only trope there is Like You Were Dying, which is related, but not quite what I'm looking for.
Edited by DrNoPumaopentrope for songs with lyrics that contrast with the music itself? Music
"knife" and "two weeks" by grizzly bear are big examples of this although they're about lying straight to peoples' faces and the breakdown of a relationship respectively they still sound "romantic"
openAverage American Accent in the Arts Music
Is there a trope for the phenomenon in music that everybody has an American accent when singing? Dutch, Finnish, British, French, plenty of singers have an accent (thick or otherwise) when speaking that completely disappears in performance. I've mostly noticed this with the Finnish bands (predominantly Nightwish) I listen to, but I feel like it happens everywhere.
openRepetitive and frenetic moments. Music
Mostly happens on high BPM songs, such as hardstyle or techno. Basically, it revolves around one part of the song suddenly becoming frenetic with some instruments being repeated over and over to cause a sense of fast-paced action-like soundtrack.
Examples: -Extravaganza by Banya, where they literally sampled Daft Punk's "Burnin'", sped it up, and added sound effects in the background. 0:25 and 1:25.
-"SIN -THE LAST SCENE-" Harmonic opera-like singing suddenly replaced with high-speed beats and sound effects around 1:40-1:50.
Edited by DazuiopenHip hop skits? Music
Is there a trope about "skits" being used in Hip-Hop music? Many albums in the Hip-Hop genre intersperse their songs with little "skits," which are (usually) spoken-word and fit in with the theme of whatever album they are on. 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul, Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A., and The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem are among the albums that use them. Do we have a trope for that?
openBut/Butt Music
It’s usually a lyric trope but it can show up elsewhere too. The melody places the word “but” in a position where it sounds like “butt.”
For example, the Bob Seeger classic “I do respect her but... I love to watch her strut.” The novelty song, “She’s got freckles on her BUT she’s nice.”
And by weird coincidence I’m currently watching an old Match Game rerun, and even while I was typing this, Charles Nelson Reilly just did it. He was asked to complete “Pain ___.” He responded, “Well, I was going to say pain in the but I changed it to pain pills.”
What is this trope?
Edited by BradyLadyopenSinging the instrumental parts of a song Music
Do we have a trope for when people sing not only the "voice parts" aka the lyrics, but also the instrumental parts of a song?
EXAMPLES: Think a load of Neil Diamond fans singing along at one of his concerts:
"Sweet Caroline, Ba ba baa, Good times never seemed so good..."
Or a load of Welsh rugby fans on a high after Wales has won the match:
"I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window, La la-la laa la-la, I saw the flickering shadows of love on her blind"... through to: "My my my Delilah, (insert correct number of la's and laa's here) Why why why Delilah"...
Edited by wossnimopenTechnical limitations turn into staple of genre or a classic Music
I'm not sure this is going to have a trope, but let's try:
During the 80s, we've got the explosion of synthesisers and MIDI format. For various reasons, music that got present in late 80s/early 90s video games heavily utilised MIDI, because there was literally all they could use with given file sizes and memory capacity, rather than the intention being to make it like that. The notes for each piece can be easily put on any given instrument, or even orchiestrated. Years later, audience consider the original MIDI formatting to be some sort of staple or desired intention of how the music was "supposed" to sound, rather than the technical limitation.
Any trope to cover this? Yes, I know Fan Dumb exists, but that's not what I'm asking, plus that's a flame bait trope.
open Dramatic incremental musical parts Music
What I'm thinking about is when a song builds tension, usually at the beginning or the end, by having the individual instruments come in one at a time to layer parts. Examples are the intros of The Smashing Pumpkins' "Cherub Rock" and Ghost's "Spirit" (at around the 0:33 mark), and the outro of Nine Inch Nails' "Came Back Haunted" (pick it up around 3:40).
Edited by WillbyropenA Kind of music Music
What is the name of the kind of music that use different sfx to make a song?
Like those videos : Among Us Song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5LS4kqJjKo Why is the Rum gone : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JImcvtJzIK8
openHot Girl Bassist Music
The stereotype, most prevalent in the 80's and 90's, that the Token Girl in a rock band is always the bassist. Goes along with Nobody Loves the Bassist, as there's often the assumption that the girl bassist is purely there for sex appeal, as the bass is supposedly easier and less essential than other instruments.
openCreator reuses material from another project they were co-creator on (or vice-versa) Music
E.g. "Down In It" by Nine Inch Nails contains some reshuffled, pitch-shifted material from "Mechanical Movements" by Keith LeBlanc (released earlier in the same year), who was a producer on Down In It and its associated album.
Thinking mostly music but this could be for any medium - Robby the Robot would probably count.
Edited by iwantedtoaddsomethingopenCan't Be With You Song Music
Songs like Jessie's Girl, about being in love with someone who's taken or otherwise unavailable.
openInversion of Self-Titled Album Music
Self-Titled Album is about music albums named after the musician(s) who created them. So I'm wondering about cases where the musicians took their name from one of their own albums.
Usually this happens when a group collaborates on an album that's supposed to be a one-time thing, so they don't bother to come up with a band name. Then for whatever reason the same group does make a followup, and find they do actually need a band name after all. So to establish continuity, they use the previous album title as the name of the band.
All the examples I can think of are from the extended Zorniverse:
- John Zorn recorded an exotica/surf album with a bunch of his musical friends and titled it The Gift, then did a followup with the same musicians titled The Dreamers. Both of those albums were big hits, so Zorn named that ensemble The Dreamers, and they released a few more albums under that name.
- Cyro Baptista did this twice. He put out the album Beat the Donkey in 2002, and his extended ensemble from that album played a bunch of live shows as "Cyro Baptista & Beat the Donkey". Then Cyro put out Banquet of the Spirits in 2008, where he stripped his ensemble down to a quartet. That quartet took Banquet of the Spirits as their own name, and released several more albums.
- Guitarist Jon Madof recorded an Afro Beat-inspired album and titled it Zion80 (as a nod to Fela Kuti's backing band, Egypt80). That ensemble put out a few followup albums, credited to the band Zion80 rather than to Madof specifically.
...but there have to be some others I'm not aware of.
I'm wondering if this should be a new sub-folder under Self-Titled Album, or if some other page is a better fit, or if it's worth making a new trope page.
openFully clothed in the bathtub Music
A lot of Music videos feature people/the singer singing in a bathtub while fully clothed, to the point where it feels like a convention like Fight Fur Your Right to Party. Example. Do we have this and is it common enough to trope?
openOne-hit-duet-with-famous- musician wonder? Music
The idea is basically that the musician in question is mostly (or only) known for recording a duet with a much better known musician - sometimes even being the sole recorded piece of music by the lesser known musician. Do we have this trope on the site? I expecte to find it as a subtrope of OHW, but there seems to be nothing there...
openLate Bloomer Trope? Music
Do we have a Late Bloomer trope? For anyone unfamiliar with the phrase it's someone who achieves success in a field later in life than would be considered normal. For example Sheryl Crow had her first big hit at the age of 29 - not old per se, but considering most musicians who "make it" tend to have their first hit in their late teens or early 20s it's older than normal (possibly because musicians who reach their late 20s without breaking through often transition into regular careers out of necessity). Another example is Billy Bob Thornton who didn't have an acting credit till he was past 40.
You're listening to an album/soundtrack of mostly upbeat or at least generally positive sounding songs and the next track suddenly takes a turn for the darker side.
To put it bluntly musical version of something between Mood Whiplash and Cerebus Syndrome. Surprise Creepy is optional.
I already went over some tropes but none of them match what I'm looking for. I went over: Dark Reprise Descent into Darkness Song Last Note Nightmare Soundtrack Dissonance
Edited by sohibil