Markup View

Author: chihuahua0

Jan 1st 2013 at 5:25:55 PM

It's not just a pattern; it's an intentional pattern with a purpose. It's a meaningful device used by the arrangers of an album with the purpose of the work's first impression being a familiar song, or at least track designed to not be Filler and instead be the opposite.

PeopleSitOnChairs, as defined by the page, is a thing that doesn't convey any meaning, and happens normally or incidentally. The release of a single doesn't happen incidentally, and the choice to pick a single as the opening track is meaningful. The intention is to induce a reaction of familiarly to the listener.

The choice of having a single being the opening track is meaningful, therefore it can't be chairs.

I would say that this YKKTW is related to another trope that hasn't been categorized yet: when a relatively soft song is the closing track. That is also meaningful, with the intended effect of ending an album on a more subdued note, the larger-scale inverse of the LastNoteNightmare.

It's a [[MusicTropes Production Trope]] ''and'' a [[BeginningTropes Beginning Trope]].

A compromise we can do is to only count cases where a single is released before an album, because if such a single is release after the album is dropped, it instead suggests that the song became a single because it was the opening track, and that's something else entirely.