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openAndiMan keeps changing the picture for Music/MeganTheeStallion Music
I'm in favor of this picture

openImage for Music/MeganTheeStallion Music
Andiman keeps changing the Image for the page without a given reason. Said image he changes it to is too big for the page and it’s a selfie. I tried making a thread but nothing has been done about it.
openSignature Line - Music Music
I noticed that Signature Line doesn't have a Music folder. Why is that? I can think of a few examples. For example, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." from Neil Young's "My My, Hey Hey".
openFormatting question Music
Album pages typically include the tracklist, but there seems to be disagreement over how to introduce it. When I make an album page, I put "Tracklist:" in bold to distinguish it from the Examples header, but some other editors seem to prefer the !! markup.
For example, someone has changed the headers on all the Taylor Swift album pages from
Tracklist:
to
Tracklist:
So which is correct?
Edited by joanofdirtopenGrammar changes Music
Auspicious She-wolf
has been making unusual grammar related edits to the One-Hit Wonder page. Things like changing one adjective to another ("fairly" to "incredibly", "major" to "significant", "very hard" to "extremely challenging"), spelling out numbers, or changing dashes in a word (For instance, they change "one-hit wonder" to "one-hit-wonder"; Most instances of the term only use one dash, not two). I don't think any of those changes were especially necessary, least of all without any edit reason for why. I reverted their "one-hit wonder" to "one-hit-wonder" edit a few days ago, and they've just added it back along with these other grammar changes.
No edit reasons were left on either of their edits to this page. Any ideas what to do next? Are changes like this an issue?
EDIT: Looking through their edit history, they have a lot of similar edits.
Edited by thelivingtoadopenNon-Video Game examples for Regional Bonus Music
Can we start adding Non-video game examples for the Regional Bonus trope? Music albums in particular often have bonus content released exclusively for certain regions.
openThe Folder on YMMV/AOA Music
For some reason, this page has an entire folder dedicated to entries about a very big controversy regarding one member of the group accusing another of bullying her. IIRC, YMMV entries for musical artists and groups have to be about the music and content, not the artists themselves or their controversies, so it's bad form to have any entries about this controversy, let alone an entire folder.
Edited by Psychedelicateopen"Singing" the instrumental parts of a song Music
Do we have a trope for when people "sing" not only the actual lyrics, but also the instrumental parts of a song?
EXAMPLES: Think a load of Neil Diamond fans singing along at one of his concerts: "Sweet Caroline, Ba ba baa, Good times never seemed so good..."
Or a load of Welsh rugby fans on a high after Wales has won the match: "I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window, La la-la laa la-la la, I saw the flickering shadows of love on her blind"... through to: "My my my Delilah, (insert correct number of la's and laa's here) Why why why Delilah"...
openWhich folder? Music
I was looking over Driving Song and I noticed that David Morgan's "Drive" (the theme song to Hardcastle and McCormick) wasn't listed. I considered adding it, but I'm not sure whether to put it under its actual musical genre or live-action television (due to being a theme song). How do I do this?
open Avoiding an Edit War on Clipping - Genre Shift and Ax Crazy Music
On clipping., the latest two albums are horror-inspired and take on a slasher track for the most part (John Carpenter movies, zombie flicks, et cetera).
The last track from their latest album is Cosmic Horror inspired and a big shift tonally from the slasher-inspired noise-rap of both albums - instead of slasher horror with industrial influences, it's a soundcloud-style rap with Existential Horror and Cosmic Horror, even name-dropping a Lovecraft God.
I added Genre Shift to reflect this, but In The Gallbladder removed it. I do want to make additional edits to the removed trope to clarify, but I don't want to get into an Edit War.
They also removed Ax-Crazy about a song that depicts three dead cops - I argue there's a protagonist killing them (the song mentions "he knew it was time to kill" and implies the last cop was trying to reach for a gun to shoot his attacker), but they say it's three different scenes.
Edited by FishiousRendopenMusic.BlackstarAlbum gushing Music
I landed on ★ on a whim and I discovered a bit of gushing on the description and the tropes page, mostly related to how much praise it's gotten over years. I'm betting this is due to David Bowie kicking the bucket shortly after its release.
While I did find the description toned down now due to the post I made on the gushing cleanup thread, there's some tropes on the page that still stick out to me, mainly due to troping him as a person rather than the album.
- Bittersweet Ending: "I Can't Give Everything Away" is this to the album as well as David Bowie's career as a whole. He was eaten away by liver cancer, not knowing what his fate would be while recording ★, and died of the disease shortly after the album's release, but was still able to end things off with one hell of a bang.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: Bowie recorded ★ while battling a terminal case of cancer, which took his life two days after this album's official release.
- Face Death with Dignity: The album is essentially Bowie doing this, taking his impending death from cancer and turning it into a work of art.
Bittersweet Ending is NRLEP, but Dying Moment of Awesome and Face Death with Dignity might need to be looked over in the RL matinence thread for being gushy about people dying.
Edited by PlasmaPoweropenHadestown namespace Music
Hadestown is currently put under Theatre.Hadestown, but it started life as a concept album, which would fall under Music, like how Music.Jesus Christ Superstar was an album before becoming a film/stage play and has redirects to both namespaces. With that in mind, what namespace should Hadestown fall under?
Edited by lalalei2001openDifference between two tropes Music
I wanted to add an example to YMMV.Hadestown about how Orpheus's original cocky, street-smart personality made the tragic ending come out of left field, which was noted by reviewers and audiences and led to his character changing in later productions. I wasn't sure if it would belong to Ass Pull or Shocking Swerve, though, and I'm unsure what the distinction between the two is. (If another trope would fit that, maybe in Trivia, that's cool too!)
openDuplicate entries Music
So, there's a page for a band or a singer, and there are pages for some of their albums. Am I right that the tropes found in a specific song from an album that has its own page should be on the album's page? And then, what about tropes that appear throughout the singer's discography?
Specifically, I'd like to clean up Disturbed: it has a huge, cumbersome folder for lyrics tropes, and recently, another troper created pages for a couple of their albums. But I'm not sure how to go about, for example, Sanity Slippage Songs. They are kind of the band's shtick, appearing on pretty much every album, so it seems reasonable to mention this on the band's page; at the same time, The Sickness page probably needs to have an entry about "Down with the Sickness." Careful with That Axe is even worse: there's only a handful of Disturbed's songs in which this trope is not used. So, should duplicate entries be deleted from the band's page?
And while I'm at it, should tropes related to music videos be moved to album's pages, too, or should they stay on the band's page?
openMohs Scale Pokemon Music
This might be a weird and hard-to-answer question, but on what level on the Mohs Scale Of Rock And Metal Hardness are the battle themes of Team Yell(including those of Marnie and Piers) from Pokémon Sword and Shield considered to be? I've imagined the standard one to be around a 7 or 8 due to the somewhat abrasive multilayered electronic guitar, heavy and fast drums, and soft but bearing background bass. Marnie's is slower and has only one layer of guitar, so I'm thinking a 6 or low 7, but I'm not sure about Piers? Any decoders here?
openDo Tony Awards count as an AudienceReaction? Music
Over on Hadestown, there used to be a short sentence about how it won a bunch of Tonys and was one of only 4 productions to do so with the same person writing the book, lyrics, and music. This was deleted because an Audience Reaction is a no-no in the description, but the entry wasn't overly gushy about how it was so popular or anything like that. What do you guys think?
This was the original sentence: "The production won the Tony Award for Best Musical, becoming one of exactly four shows to win that had music, book and lyrics by a single person (the others being Drood, RENT and Hamilton)."
Edited by lalalei2001openFridge.Music Cleanup Music
After a few recent visits to Fridge.Music, I thought is was overdue for cleanup. So, I made an attempt at that over the last week or two, alphabetizing the entries by artist (where available), rewording some entries to remove This Troper, removing Natter, turning artists' names into links (some of which came out red), and also commenting out a couple of entries that came across as Zero Context Examples.
However, I think I might need some help with what's left. If you'd like to see the extent of what I've done so far, the link's above and the alphabetical order starts with 3OH!3.
First off, I've seen a lot of entries for songs from movies and musicals. Should those be moved to pages about those movies and musicals?
Edited by BKelly95openIs this troper with agenda? Music
- Men Are the Expendable Gender: The ending of the video seems to take a great amount of glee showing the giant Pam/Vallery eating the all-male band. With lots of shots of each terrified man begging for his life before showing Pam/Val eat him entirely on screen with no cutting away or Gory Discretion Shot for any of them. And by the end, not only is every single man dead, but the Giant Woman gets off scott free, suffering no repercussions for what she did. It's hard to imagine an all-female band getting eaten one by one would ever end with all of them killed off, or be portrayed in such a cavalier way.
Uhhhh…what? Am I getting agenda vibes here? For describing a silly fetish-y music video involving a giantess.

I've noticed that some filk song artists (such as Miracle of Sound) are in two difference folders for some tropes such as Villain Song is in both fan works and web originals.
So my question is where should filk artists go music (because that is the form of content they make), Web Original (Often where their content is released) or somewhere between.
Edited by Jester_Punslinger