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I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this, but I've run out of other options and everyone here is usually so smart, so I'm hoping this works.
What I'm looking for is a type of music that is made to match dialogue or speech. I've only seen two examples of it, but I know it's a larger thing than these two things I've seen. The composer takes a scene with no music and creates music that matches up with the dialogue - tones, note length, and all. I only have this one example (the other example I mentioned has been lost to the ages), but I hope it's good enough to understand what I'm talking about.
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I'm looking for a score / music trope for when a theme is slightly altered by the presence of a certain character. It's the same song, just with an extra little something that the character brings to it. An example would be the bongos when riding Yoshi in Super Mario World, or the level themes "Siberia" and "Climbing the Temple" in X-Men 2: Clone Wars (the music is slightly different depending on which X-Man you're playing as).
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Is there a name for this?
A celebrity name transformed with an adjective (occasionally a verb) either using rhyming or swapping out a character. Tends to be used for band/artist names.
Most famous example would probably be The Dandy Warhols.
Other examples: Rad Stewart Hustle Crowe Ill Murray Chill Cosby Wack Nicholson
Any ideas? Or other examples you've come across? Thanks in advance
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Is there there a trope for when a character is metaphorically haunted by an ex? I'm thinking "I See You" by Luke Bryan.
I can't go anywhere, I can't do anything No, I can't close my eyes without you in my dreams You won't leave me alone, even though I know you're gone I look around for someone new, but I see you
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Writer Bob is well known for Genre X music. But in his heart he really wants to write songs in Genre Y - he doesn't hate Genre X, he just doesn't want to be pigeonholed. So he writes a Genre Y song, and while playing a demo someone says "That'd be a great Genre X song!" And of course, it is. Is there a trope for that?
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Do we have something along the lines of Functional Music, i.e., music that exists or is used solely to help maintain rhythm in a task?
Examples would include:
- Any use of Sound Off (military cadences, which would be a Sub-Trope)
- Sea shanties (songs to keep rowers and other sailing-specific tasks in synchronization, as well as to take sailors' minds off the monotony of their tasks), which we don't have a page for but which are Red Linked in an example on The Drunken Sailor
- The general example of people who run or do other exercise to music that specifically matches their pace—not just people who like to work out to music (i.e., if you specifically make a playlist of songs with a certain BPM because it matches your running pace).
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The oldies, "Crying In the Rain," "I Wish It Would Rain" and "Raindrops" all feature the subject of the song using rain as a cover for crying, or wishing to do so. This comes closer to Sand in My Eyes than any other tear trope I can find, but there is no Music section under that trope. Does anyone think it fits somewhere else, or should even be a trope all to itself? Or should I create a Music folder under Sand in My Eyes?
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We have the Breakup Breakout trope - where a group breaks up and one or more of them goes on to great individual success while the others don't. Do we have an equivalent trope when a group doesn't break up but one or more of them has significant success as an individual outside the group whereas the others don't so much (either through choice or the fact that their talents aren't in demand outside the group itself).
e.g.
Kate Pierson of the B52s was much in demand as a guest vocalist (c.f. R.E.M.) in the 1990s whereas Cyndi Wilson wasn't.
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Hey, what's that trope that involves a song that is altered completely? An example is Red Hot Chili Peppers's "Purple Stain"; there's a demo on the Internet with an entirely different version of the song two years before it was released. It was then completely retooled, with some of the lyrics consistent with its previous demo version.
Also, what's that trope called where a part of the song changes on the word of an extremely famous/influential person? For example, RHCP's "Desecration Smile" was once performed two years before it was released on an album; Paul Mc Cartney was in the audience at the time, and he told their producer that he liked the song, but didn't like the chorus. The album version of the song, thus, features a completely chorus than in the live version.
Any help is appreciated!
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We have Distinct Double Album, for cases where the two albums are linked but still thematically / stylistically different. Do we have a trope about individual albums where the two halves are similarly distinct? Some examples:
- The Brian Eno and David Byrne collaborative album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. All the songs on side A are fast and funky, while the ones on side B are slower and more ambient.
- Joy Electric's album The Otherly Opus. The first five songs are commentary on modern issues, with no clear theme. The last five songs are a miniature Rock Opera about the book of Genesis up to the flood. In fact, Joy Electric initially wanted to promote it as a double-EP instead of an album, with the title The Otherly Opus / Memory of Alpha.
The closest I can think of is calling it a Halfway Plot Switch, but that seems like shoehorning to me.
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When there's a shout of "HEY!" or "LET'S GO!" usually at the beginning of a song.
The closest match I could find was "metal scream" but it doesn't quite fit, it's not really a scream or harsh vocals, more just an enthusiastic shout.
Simple Plan do it at the beginning of "Can't Keep My Hands Off You" for example.
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There isn't a page for the general category of "Children's Music" is there? Playground Song mentions that "children's songs" are a more general category, with Playground Song being a subcategory, but there's no supertrope page covering all children's music, including stuff by professional musicians (Raffi, Bill Harley, etc.)
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What trope would a 'musical callback' be? I mean, for example, there's a game, and it has a certain musical theme. And then later installments of the series have a different theme, but the old theme will be included as a sample, or just a few notes of it played at some point in the game as kind of a nostalgic shoutout. I hope you get what I mean.
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Do we have a trope for occasions where a character or artist uses a metaphor or comparison without realizing the implications of the metaphor/comparison? I'm thinking of things like, "Our love is real, just like Romeo And Juliet!"
Or, to be specific, there's a musician I really like who wrote a song I really like that includes the lyrics "Forget the truth/Until tomorrow/You'll be my Hughes/I'll be your Harlow." There are some issues with comparing your boyfriend to Howard Hughes, and those issues aren't intentional.
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Is there a trope for showing cue cards to the audience? Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" would be the Trope Maker if not Ur-Example. I think I saw it somewhere before; it may have been a ykttw rather than a trope but I didn't find it either way.
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You know how in some songs, at the very end the instruments will fade out (or cut out rather abruptly), leaving just the vocals? It usually only last a couple of words to a couple of lines, and gives a kind of melancholic feel?
Only two examples I can think of off the top of my head "Everything You Ever" from Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog and "Pretty Little Head" by Eliza Rickman.

The trope for when the cover of a song eclipses the original in popularity