Basic Trope: A work has a soundtrack whose style is from before or after the work's setting.
- Straight: Troperville, which is set in The '50s, has a hip hop soundtrack.
- Exaggerated: The work is set in the Stone Age yet has a soundtrack consisting of Electronic Dance Music.
- Downplayed: The work is set in The '50s, yet has a soundtrack from The '60s.
- Justified:
- Alice, who is a big fan of hip hop, has time travelled from the present day to The '50s and is thus spreading the word about this genre.
- The '60s soundtrack comes from the Framing Device of twentysomething Alice reminiscing about her high-school days.
- Inverted: Troperville is set in the present day yet features music from The '50s.
- Subverted: One of the songs has a hip hop beat but then changes style to a song from that era.
- Double Subverted: The song immediately becomes a hip hop song after that segment.
- Parodied: Elvis Presley appears on stage to rap in one scene.
- Zig-Zagged: The soundtrack has both music from the era and music from the present day.
- Averted: The music is all from that period.
- Enforced:
- Executive Meddling forces the producers to add a soundtrack of modern music.
- Most of the compositions of six-year-old Mozart are unknown to us, so the producers replaced them with some of his later works to keep him recognizable.
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