1 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/FalcoDM_9264.jpg]] |
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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