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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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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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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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I seem to recall a trope where a song's lyrics is made up of shout outs to other songs. What is that one? Nevermind, it's still in ykttw as Song Sample/Lyrics Reference.
Also is there a trope to cover the opposite - a song with music from various other songs, but a unique set of lyrics?
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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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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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Seen this a few times, wondering if there's a trope that covers it.
When a musician is performing a concert, a big screen behind them shows the music videos for the songs being performed, as if the audience needs to be reminded what the video looks like in order to enjoy the song.
- In Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant 50th anniversary concert, clips from the film Alice's Restaurant play in the background paralleling the part of the song he's at.
- As seen on Youtube, when The Monkees were touring in the 90s and 00s, as they played songs the music videos from The Monkees would play in the background.
- During a "Music from The Simpsons" concert, when Nancy Cartwright comes out to sing "Do the Bartman" live, the music video plays in the background.
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More of a theatre trope, but do characters singing the name of another character the same way every time count as a Leitmotif? eg. "Christine, Christine" in The Phantom of the Opera (it's listed as Say My Name there, which it decidedly is not) or "Angelica/Eliza" in Hamilton?
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Don't know if that is the correct place though still,
In the 'Music' tab of Awesome McCoolname, would it be viable to list the band Glory Hammer or their (fictional) character of Angus McFife XIII (yes that guy is named Angus McFife the thirtenth, how awesome does that sound?) Though I'm not entirely sure if those belong there since all other entries are for Real Life musicians and not the names of a character by them or their band.
Also on another note, does the Ending of Animation Runner Kuromi (in both the Japanese and German versions wrote and sung by the Voice actress playing Kuromi) qualify as "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune or Theme Tune Cameo? I lean towards the former but would like to be sure.
A third thing would be how the trope for a epic speech is, because the intro for the song Apocalypse 1992 is basically everything you think of as epic mangled together into one.
Here it is:
And lo, led by the valiant hero Angus McFife XIII
The forces of justice assembled their armies in the skies above Mars
In preparation for the epic battle against the demon horde
But on planet Earth, a far more sinister machination was afoot
In the dwarven caverns beneath the mighty citadel of Dundee
The evil wizard Zargothrax began to recite the dread incantation
Which would unlock the Chaos Portal to the galactic nexus
As foretold in the dark prophecy of Anstruther countless centuries ago
As he placed the goblin king's crystal key into the altar before him
Ancient runes began to glow on the surface of the portal
Soon the gateway would open and the elder god Korviliath
Of the eighteenth hell dimension would be unleashed onto the galaxy
The countdown! To universal annihilation! Had! BEGUN!
And here's the original as proof of its epicness.
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Is there a trope for when a musician changes the words in his own song? I'm not talking about Lyric Swap where it's during the course of one performance/recording, but when in performance A he uses one set of lyrics and in performance B he uses another set; similar, and it's still the same song thematically, but not the same words.
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Do we have a trope yet for singing one song to the tune of another? (For example, setting new words to familiar music for parody/appropriation/filk purposes; setting familiar words to new music in an attempt to make the words fresh again; or swapping the music and lyrics of two preexisting songs just for the fun of it.)
There are a lot of examples in the "Common Meter Tune-Swapping" section of the Common Meter page, but that list is necessarily limited to lyrics written in the titular meter. The actual act of tune-swapping seems tropeworthy, though.
(Where credit is due: the term I used to describe this phenomenon, "One Song to the Tune of Another", is the name of a round in I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.)
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See #2 & #1 on this Cracked.com list... http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-most-ill-advised-cover-songs-all-time
Rascal Flatts cover of "Born in the USA" and Duran Duran's cover of "911 is a joke" respectively. So is there a trope that covers this, and if not, is this a common enough thing that we should make it a trope?
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Is there a trope along the lines of Strange Minds Think Alike, but the minds aren't (necessarily) strange?
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What is the name of a trope where the music cuts out or fades into silence for dramatic effect/emotional emphasis?
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I have been thinking about two different versions of what I am calling "Lyrical Disconnect". The first comes from 'The Shawshank Redemption', when Red talks about how he doesn't want to know the lyrics to a Mozart aria because he feels that nothing they could be singing about could be as beautiful as the way they are singing it. Is this already a trope that I haven't found yet, or does anyone know of any other examples, enough to make it a trope?
The second comes from my own life, and it's when I love the music of a song, but hate the lyrics, or love the lyrics but hate the song. Are there any examples of this from tv, movies, etc? There is a short discussion in the forums (Disconnect - love the lyrics/song but hate the song/lyrics) from a few years ago, but that was all that I could find.
Thanks in advance.

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: