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Meaningful Movie Soundtrack Music
Does anyone know of a specific trope where movies have certain scenes, openings, and/or endings that feature meaningful songs within the sequence, whether if it's the lyrics or genres?
Examples include The Matrix (1999) with Rage Against The Machine's 'Wake Up', Stealth (2005) with Institute's 'Bullet-Proof Skin', Driven (2001) with Filter's 'The Best Things', and so on.
Edited by Rapidkirby3k
People who used to diss you, but want to be friends when you're famous Music
There's a Biz Markie song called "Vapors" about people who used to diss Biz and his friends, but then tried to become suck-ups once they hit the big time. I know there's a trope about this, but it's not Gold Digger, and not Fair-Weather Friend either. Can y'all help me?
Love makes you weightless Music
Or very light. I see this so often it kind of has to exist, but I can't find the trope page, so I assume it has some obscure reference for a title. What is it?
The fill-in Music
The situation is one where a long-standing, often a founder member, of a band leaves and is replaced. For a variety of reasons, the replacement is not acknowledged as a fully-fledged member of the band, but is more than just an anonymous sessions musician filling in for the departed member.
An example might be Mick Taylor or Ronnie Wood; Taylor took over in the Rolling Stones after the death of Brian Jones, was effectively a member of the band, but it still took two years for him to be fully acknowledged as a Stone. Until then he was in a sort of limbo as "hired help". The same happened to Wood a few years later - it took a long ime for him to become a full band member.
Is there a trope for somebody in this situation?
Standard Song Structure Music
Most songs tend to follow the structure of verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus, always with two verses and three choruses total (except when the chorus is also sung before the first verse, or is repeated twice and a row during the third chorus part). This is such an Omnipresent Trope, but do we have it on here?
British Musicians Getting Into "America" Music
It's when English (or Irish) musicians get all into "America" — U2 is a great example with all their MLK/Joshua Tree/Elvis stuff. Lots of Rolling Stones examples, but in "Miss You" where Mick Jagger starts feeling like a real New Yorker and talking about "Puerto Rican girls that are just dying to MEET CHOO." Duran Duran and the Rio album, especially "My Own Way" where Simon Le Bon starts scatting about "7up between Sixth and Broadway." And so forth.
Bad Relationship Song Music
A song about a bad relationship.
Song about religious guilt Music
This is for Ghost:
- The song "Spillways" points an accusatory finger at the deep-seated guilt complex that fuels the endless sin/repentance loop, calling it "the cruel beast that you feed" with "your burning, yearning need to bleed / Through the spillways of your soul" (i.e. crying from shame).
Do we have a guilt- or religion-based trope that would cover this?
Is it Official Fan-Submitted Content if the submission was unsolicited? Music
I recently read that the composition of one of the tracks of one of my favorite albums was fan-submitted. However, the submission was not solicited by anyone; the fan in question handed their composition to the singer after a show, and after discussion with the producers the song was officially accepted into the album. Does it still count as Official Fan-Submitted Content?
Edited by SamCurt
Name's the Same subtrope? Music
Names The Same has been turned into an index due to multiple issues. Before that happened, I submitted this to Trivia.Bush:
- Names The Same: There was also a Canadian band called Bush. In defense of Rossdale and company, the Canadian Bush only put out one album then called it quits without making much of an impact. Because of the other Bush, the British band had to tour in Canada as "Bush X" until they made a donation to a couple of charities.
Is this a subtrope of Names The Same or is it nothing?
Album Cover Tracklist Music
The list of tracks in an album are incorporated into the album artwork itself, as opposed to the more common placement of them on the back.
Meteora is a particularly famous example of this. Other cases obviously exist, such as The Prize Recruit by Superheist.
Lyrics in a song can be interpreted a bunch of different ways Music
What would this be? Ambiguous Situation?
Edited by Bootlebat
(Solved) Digital Destruction or Re-Cut? Music
I was going to try taking this to the "Is This an Example?" thread on Trope Talk, but found an inquiry of a similar format that was considered more applicable for here. With that in mind...
Let's say that an artist puts out a double-LP album that's slightly too long to fit on one CD. When it gets reissued on CD, the label decides to edit down or remove tracks to fit the album on one disc. Would this be Digital Destruction or a Re-Cut? I ask because I've seen instances of this practice (which was common in The '80s) listed under both tropes. Edited by bowserbros
loud, melodic "screaming" Music
what trope would be used to describe this very loud, almost distorted singing found in stuff like "Burning In The Undertow of God" by The Angelic Process at around 5:08
song is here
for those wanting an easier link
Live-Only Song Music
A song that a band performs during concerts, but hasn't been officially released as a single, or on any albums or EPs.
Edited by Grotadmorv
Album Cover Girl Music
A (usually fictional) girl who appears on the cover of a song. Usually irrelevant to the song itself. Similar to Fanservice Cover and Lady Not-Appearing-in-This-Game, but less Fanservice-y.
Edited by Liechtraum
Depending on the Production Music
So we all know how different productions of stage shows can lead to different interpretations of the material, and thus some scenes are played differently in different productions. Is there some kind of trope for that? I suck at summarizing things generally, so for a specific example, I look to RENT. In the scene where Angel dies, Mark is the only member of the cast who the script does not specifically place in another part of the scene - basically, the couples (Collins/Angel, Maureen/Joanna, Roger/Mimi) are in their own little scenes together, while Mark is not placed anywhere. As a result, some productions have him by Collins' side as Angel dies, which creates a boatload of Alternative Character Interpretation for his actions after this - meanwhile, other productions don't do anything like that and just kick him offstage. Is there any kind of trope for that?
Edited by STARCRUSHER99
No Title Music
Reposting this due to the borking: Is there a trope for when a Music Video uses a different version of a song than what's on the album? For example, Soundgarden completely re-did "Fell on Black Days" for that video, and for Stone Temple Pilots' "Creep", the verses were re-done while the choruses were the same.
Choir at the end of the song Music
Do we have this trope where the last third of a pop/adult contemporary song is joined with a choir be it a child choir or a gospel choir to make the song sound more epic and/or uplifting?
Songs examples:
- Pat Benatar's "We Belong Together"
- Madonna's "Like a Prayer"
- R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly"
- Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten"
- Paramore's "Ain't It Fun"
Edited by alnair20aug93