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What's this kind of drumming called?
hear it in Lu Bu's theme
, powerpuff girls
... and Pepsiman
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Artists giving art to each specific track on an album, in addition to the album itself. I'm using myself as an example on my album Reprieve, but there are many other artists doing this. A good example is The Offspring's album Americana, and I believe Gorillaz did it on one of their albums, but I'm not sure which one.
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When a song is autobiographical to the point that the singer/band namecheck themselves. Not a song that could be about a real life event experienced by the author but is open to interpretation until they confirm the meaning in an interview etc, but if for example Katy Perry had a song that went "I looked in the mirror and said "Katy, get a grip of yourself".
Examples: Go by Blink 182: "Mom get in the car and let's drive away, she said "I'm sorry Mark but there's nowhere to stay" Seventy Times Seven by Brand New "Ignore the sun covers over my head, I wrote a message on my pillow that says "Jesse stay asleep in bed"
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Do we have anything for a song that's used as a means of setting the scene in a musical, opera, or similar work? The opening to the third scene of Tchaikovsky's opera adaptation of Eugene Onegin ("Девицы, красавицы") comes to mind. A better-known example, albeit one that segues into plot-relevant territory rather than serving purely as a means of setting the scene, would probably be "Look Down" from Les Misérables.
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A song consisting of a single phrase or word repeated various times. There's Broken Record, yet that sound more like when a whole audio snippet is stuck in a loop (and not just in "music"). I'm thinking on a more general case where the songs have an actual melody (and where they may even count as instrumentals if it wasn't for the lyrics).
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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?

I'm pretty sure there was a trop for when a singer piles up parallel voice tracks, but I can't remember the name… Like here
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