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[Dagnabit! I keep posting You Know That Shows here in Lost And Found! Moving.]
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We have "Somewhere" Song for songs about wanting to be in a fantastical place. Do we have a trope for songs about real places? Songs like "New York, New York", "California Songs", "Country Road", "Sweet Home Alabama."
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I know we have a trope for Dig Your Own Grave, but is there one for just seeing your gravestone? It probably brings a sense of foreboding.
Specific examples: Four minutes in here
, and arguably the end of the nightmare scene from Fiddler On The Roof.
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There was an index of tropes named after song titles or lyrics, but I can't seem to find it now. I know Let's Wait a While and Caught Up in the Rapture were listed, but don't show that index now.
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Listed under Music as, technically it is music, but it's actually "played" more from places like You Tube.
This is where you have an already existing song, usually from a soundtrack, esp. VideoGames, though it could be any song, replacing the instruments with vocal / sound samples from other works. Common sources for these samples include That Guy With The Glasses, Team Fortress 2, other sources of YouTube Poop, and recently My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic.
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So Florence + the Machine. One of their popular songs is called Drumming Song
, which is a non-appearing but very descriptive title. On the set they did live on KEXP radio, they performed Drumming Song
— without a drum set.
The closest I can find is Unplugged Version — is it that, or is there a better trope?
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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.
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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

Frankly, I'm not even sure if this is a trope...
Anyway, when an artist sings a song, (usually) their voice is hitting notes and playing out a melody based in the pitch of their voice. What's it called when there's a version of the song with no vocals, and instead an actual instrument is inserted to play the notes that the singer would normally hit? I know there's such a thing as an instrumental version of a song, but it seems like that could cover both what I'm looking for and versions where the voice track is just absent (like in karaoke).