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I've wasted hours searching for this. Please... please help... (trembling hands)
Okay. So. This is going to be difficult to explain. There is a song snippet used so often in horror/supernatural/eerie/ironic situations in TV and film, it has reached almost Wilhelm-ian levels of self-reference, but I can't find it because I don't know the name, it has no words, and every time I hear it, I go "There it is again!" and then forget to make a note of where it was.
It's four notes sung by (probably) a woman, usually played while a character is staring down a dark hallway, swinging open a door, or some other scene where we need to know, yes, this is a creepy situation but nothing creepy has actually happened yet.
Playing around with an online piano, I'm almost sure that the notes go F-D-F-E, and the entire vocal snippet lasts around 4 or 5 seconds. I've been combing through the snippet, music, and horror tropes and have so far come up with nothing.
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The trope for something that everyone ostensibly hates (and has a gigantic, cross-genre hatedom) but that still sells a ton even though no one will admit to buying.
Not talking about, say, Justin Bieber or Hair Metal because those actually have proud fanbases even if they're widely despised.
More like Nickelback and similar bands in America, and Oshare Kei in Visual Kei: widely despised, but someone's driving the popularity of what is widely and openly denounced as absolute shit, So Bad Its Horrible, Genre Killer, whatever.
Kind of like Guilty Pleasure, but it's not a Guilty Pleasure in the sense that the fans driving it aren't proud even in an ironic sense. They're just... there.
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Do we have a tope about where the singer is missing the person he is singing to?
Examples would be Missin You by John Waite (A strange double subversion) and maybe Blue Christmas By Elvis Presley
I didn't find anything similar in the Music Tropes index
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What is that Standard Snippet that's used in cartoons involving someone tiptoeing around a haunted house or other spooky place? Is there any known origin for it? I've Seen It A Million Times, but the only specific example I can point to is the intro to "Strychnine" by The Sonics
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Is there a trope for songs that are about warning about fame? For example, Rihanna's "Disturbia", and Florence And The Machine "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)?
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Is there a trope entry on this wiki for the reveal music that plays when the hero discovers some secret truth, finally solves some riddle, or when the plot sort of "clicks" together? If so, what is that trope called and where can I find it?
I can give examples if you do not know what I speak of.
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Not necessarily music but I've only seen this thrice both in music, but it needs to be at least rhyming. Basically it sets up a rhyme for a swear word and subverts it by either a) putting any other word there or b) putting half of the word there.
Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TywmpMQYojs
There's the rude song in South Park where the girl sets up the line that would end with 'shit' but she goes 'shitsus make good housepets'.
The last example is from the first Shrek film with the Welcome to the city song "please stay off all the grass, wipe your shoes, clean your... face."
The first two ending with f-strikes.
I couldn't see it in the 'watch your language' index.
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Do we have something like Art Evolution, but for music?
Something like a movie and it's sequel(s), a series of videogames, etc. that shows gradual change in music.
examples would be the Pokemon battle music(first
, latest
) and route themes and the various Super Mario Bros tunes. (First
, latest
).
The songs sound similar, yet different not only in the 8-bit to orchestra sense but also from changes in the actual melodies.
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Is there a trope for this? It's not exactly Soundtrack Dissonance, but it's a song on a movie's soundtrack that seems out of place because it has nothing to do with the plot.
Like "Almost Unreal" by Roxette on the Super Mario Bros soundtrack.
And yes, I am aware it was originally supposed to be used in the film Hocus Pocus where it would have made more sense.
Edited by StevenT