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openOn the Beat Music
There's a specific use of counting that turns up a lot in music: one member of the band starts out by calling the beat they're going to use, so that the whole band are in time when they start playing/singing. One example is the version of "At the Hop" used in American Graffiti. It starts with one band member calling "One-two-three-four, one-two-three-four", and all the band members start playing and then singing in perfect sync.
Something similar turns up in "learning to dance" scenes, such as "Shall We Dance?" in The King and I, in which Anna uses a count of steps to teach the King a basic polka.
Are these variants of On Three, or do they belong under some other trope?
openno title Music
there are several tropes im looking for:
1. bandwagon hating / making opinions based on other people's opinions 2. a famous singer who also works as an actor (like rihanna beyoncé lady gaga) 3. celebrity with a famous relative (not exactly Nepotism) 4. bestfriends who are seen as rivals by other people (eg. two famous athletes who usually compete against each other but they are actually bestfriends) 5. a controversy comes out right before an important release (like a movie, song, album, etc) 6. a more general political incorrectness... not necessarily a Politically Incorrect Villain, since im trying to find a trope that would be applied to a real person 7. underpaid employee/worker jokingly complains about being underpaid 8. a friend group consisting of multiple famous celebrities
openChoir at the end of the song Music
Do we have this trope where the last third of a pop/adult contemporary song is joined with a choir be it a child choir or a gospel choir to make the song sound more epic and/or uplifting?
Songs examples:
- Pat Benatar's "We Belong Together"
- Madonna's "Like a Prayer"
- R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly"
- Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten"
- Paramore's "Ain't It Fun"
openMeaningful Movie Soundtrack Music
Does anyone know of a specific trope where movies have certain scenes, openings, and/or endings that feature meaningful songs within the sequence, whether if it's the lyrics or genres?
Examples include The Matrix (1999) with Rage Against The Machine's 'Wake Up', Stealth (2005) with Institute's 'Bullet-Proof Skin', Driven (2001) with Filter's 'The Best Things', and so on.
Edited by Rapidkirby3kopenPeople who used to diss you, but want to be friends when you're famous Music
There's a Biz Markie song called "Vapors" about people who used to diss Biz and his friends, but then tried to become suck-ups once they hit the big time. I know there's a trope about this, but it's not Gold Digger, and not Fair-Weather Friend either. Can y'all help me?
openLove makes you weightless Music
Or very light. I see this so often it kind of has to exist, but I can't find the trope page, so I assume it has some obscure reference for a title. What is it?
openThe fill-in Music
The situation is one where a long-standing, often a founder member, of a band leaves and is replaced. For a variety of reasons, the replacement is not acknowledged as a fully-fledged member of the band, but is more than just an anonymous sessions musician filling in for the departed member.
An example might be Mick Taylor or Ronnie Wood; Taylor took over in the Rolling Stones after the death of Brian Jones, was effectively a member of the band, but it still took two years for him to be fully acknowledged as a Stone. Until then he was in a sort of limbo as "hired help". The same happened to Wood a few years later - it took a long ime for him to become a full band member.
Is there a trope for somebody in this situation?
openStandard Song Structure Music
Most songs tend to follow the structure of verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus, always with two verses and three choruses total (except when the chorus is also sung before the first verse, or is repeated twice and a row during the third chorus part). This is such an Omnipresent Trope, but do we have it on here?
openBritish Musicians Getting Into "America" Music
It's when English (or Irish) musicians get all into "America" — U2 is a great example with all their MLK/Joshua Tree/Elvis stuff. Lots of Rolling Stones examples, but in "Miss You" where Mick Jagger starts feeling like a real New Yorker and talking about "Puerto Rican girls that are just dying to MEET CHOO." Duran Duran and the Rio album, especially "My Own Way" where Simon Le Bon starts scatting about "7up between Sixth and Broadway." And so forth.
open Song about religious guilt Music
This is for Ghost:
- The song "Spillways" points an accusatory finger at the deep-seated guilt complex that fuels the endless sin/repentance loop, calling it "the cruel beast that you feed" with "your burning, yearning need to bleed / Through the spillways of your soul" (i.e. crying from shame).
Do we have a guilt- or religion-based trope that would cover this?
openIs it Official Fan-Submitted Content if the submission was unsolicited? Music
I recently read that the composition of one of the tracks of one of my favorite albums was fan-submitted. However, the submission was not solicited by anyone; the fan in question handed their composition to the singer after a show, and after discussion with the producers the song was officially accepted into the album. Does it still count as Official Fan-Submitted Content?
Edited by SamCurtopenName's the Same subtrope? Music
Names The Same has been turned into an index due to multiple issues. Before that happened, I submitted this to Trivia.Bush:
- Names The Same: There was also a Canadian band called Bush. In defense of Rossdale and company, the Canadian Bush only put out one album then called it quits without making much of an impact. Because of the other Bush, the British band had to tour in Canada as "Bush X" until they made a donation to a couple of charities.
Is this a subtrope of Names The Same or is it nothing?
openLyrics in a song can be interpreted a bunch of different ways Music
What would this be? Ambiguous Situation?
Edited by Bootlebatopen(Solved) Digital Destruction or Re-Cut? Music
I was going to try taking this to the "Is This an Example?" thread on Trope Talk, but found an inquiry of a similar format that was considered more applicable for here. With that in mind...
Let's say that an artist puts out a double-LP album that's slightly too long to fit on one CD. When it gets reissued on CD, the label decides to edit down or remove tracks to fit the album on one disc. Would this be Digital Destruction or a Re-Cut? I ask because I've seen instances of this practice (which was common in The '80s) listed under both tropes. Edited by bowserbros
openloud, melodic "screaming" Music
what trope would be used to describe this very loud, almost distorted singing found in stuff like "Burning In The Undertow of God" by The Angelic Process at around 5:08
song is here for those wanting an easier link
openLive-Only Song Music
A song that a band performs during concerts, but hasn't been officially released as a single, or on any albums or EPs.
Edited by GrotadmorvopenAlbum Cover Girl Music
A (usually fictional) girl who appears on the cover of a song. Usually irrelevant to the song itself. Similar to Fanservice Cover and Lady Not-Appearing-in-This-Game, but less Fanservice-y.
Edited by Liechtraum
It's suppose to be a sub trope to Bottle Episode. Could be called "Recording Studio Music Video" where a music video is filmed only inside the recording studio like Eddie Murphy's Party all the time.