Line #20 Music/Falco


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2	[[caption-width-right:250:"Ein scharf gekleideter Mann."[[note]]What the Germans call "a SharpDressedMan."[[/note]]]]
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4	->''Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?''
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6	The [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger other]] Austrian superstar of TheEighties.
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8	[[NewWaveMusic New Wave]] singer Johann "Falco" Hölzel (19 February 1957 – 6 February 1998) became a [[OneHitWonder One and a Half Hit Wonder]] with "Der Kommisar" (After The Fire's English-language cover was more popular), followed by the worldwide hit "Rock Me Amadeus." - in the US at least, for, while he was more consistently popular in German-speaking countries, follow-up songs (e.g. "Vienna Calling") were, at best, modest hits in the US.
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10	Along with Music/{{Nena}}'s "99 Luftballons," he introduced (mostly) German-language songs to an English-speaking audience; the difference was that Nena sang, while Falco rapped. He passed away in 1998 at the age of just forty after his SUV was in a serious collision with a bus on a mountain road in the Dominican Republic.
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12	This [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros ain't]] [[VideoGame/StarFox that]] Falco.
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15	!! This musician provides examples of:
16	* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: The bike gang who show up in the middle of the "Rock Me Amadeus" video.
17	* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: The "Rock Me Amadeus" video cuts between Falco performing in a Baroque concert hall to an audience in mock-18th-century clothing, while dressed in modern black tie, and Falco performing in a modern biker bar while dressed in mock-18th-century clothing.
18	* GratuitousEnglish: Most of his songs were sung in German with the odd English word or phrase wedged in (which WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows referred to as "Deushlish").
19	* HarshVocals: Austrian German isn't the smoothest language to rap in...
20	* MindScrew:
21	** The music video for "Wiener Blut". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7GSKTe59s Just watch.]]
22	** "Mutter, der Mann mit dem Koks ist da" is also big one. It plays full on two meanings of word "Koks" (cocaine and, well, coke made of coal).
23	* MurderBallad: "Jeanny", the followup to "Amadeus" and "Vienna Calling", raised moral hackles when it was accused of glorifying rape (and possibly murder). Falco himself insisted it was the [[StalkerWithACrush musings of a stalker]]. Complete with a [[BigNo NOOOOOOO!!]] of the singer when radio broadcasts Jeanny's disappearance. [[note]] (Due to extreme Narm-prone-ness, promptly got parodied by Frank Zander, who let a car being the object of lament.) [[/note]]
24	* ObsessionSong: "Jeanny"
25	* OhCrap: The narrator of "Jeanny" has this reaction in the form of a BigNo in response to a radio broadcast of Jeanny's disappearance.
26	* OneManSong: "Rock Me Amadeus" about Mozart.
27	* RockStarSong: "Rock Me Amadeus", which is all about how Mozart was the original rock star, having wild parties, hooking up with lots of ladies and being worshiped for his musical skill.
28	* RockMeAmadeus: TropeNamer, though the song is [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample actually not an example]].
29	* SequelSong: Falco followed up "Jeanny" with "Coming Home (Jeanny Part II)." In 2009, a posthumously released song, "The Spirit Never Dies," was marketed as the "final" part of the "Jeanny" trilogy, but whether that was Falco's intent is unclear.
30	* SharpDressedMan: Both played straight (the tux) and averted (the brocade, knee breeches, and fright wig) in "Rock Me Amadeus."
31	* ShoutOut: Both "The Sound of Muzik" and "Body Next To Body" lift the hook from Music/TheSugarHillGang's "Rapper's Delight."

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