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openAlbum 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.
openDoes "signature album" already exist? Music
As far as I can tell, we have the trope for Signature Song, but what about Signature Album? For some artists, their most famous and popular work is in the form of an album rather than a single song.
There's some potential overlap with Growing the Beard, Hitless Hit Album, and Creator's Favorite Episode, and First Installment Wins, but it's not necessarily synonymous.
For instance, David Bowie and Ziggy, Prince and Purple Rain, Nirvana and Nevermind, Songs In The Key Of Life and Stevie Wonder, Born To Run with Springsteen.
Edited by ForestFriendopenA song that celebrates a character’s return Music
I am trying to find a trope that fits the song “Beautiful Creatures” from the movie Rio 2 (a song that celebrates Jewel finding her tribe again after being separated from them due to illegal loggers). So I want to ask this is there a trope about about a type of song that celebrates a character’s return after being gone for so long?
Edited by Pokemon439openBand member leaves but isn't replaced Music
Is there a trope to describe when someone like Bill Wyman from The Rolling Stones departs a group but the remaining members decide not to replace that person?
Edited by civetcatcoffeeopenSinging the instrumental parts of a song Music
Do we have a trope for when people sing not only the "voice parts" aka the lyrics, but also the instrumental parts of a song?
EXAMPLES: Think a load of Neil Diamond fans singing along at one of his concerts:
"Sweet Caroline, Ba ba baa, Good times never seemed so good..."
Or a load of Welsh rugby fans on a high after Wales has won the match:
"I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window, La la-la laa la-la, I saw the flickering shadows of love on her blind"... through to: "My my my Delilah, (insert correct number of la's and laa's here) Why why why Delilah"...
Edited by wossnimopenNo Title Music
Is there a trope for a song that's sung entirely in a nonsense/non-existent language? I can only think of two definite examples and one "maybe" one: the Ending Credits track for Coraline, "Almateria" from the Tales Of Symphonia anime, and (the "maybe" one) "Life Returns" from Fire Emblem Path Of Radiance, although that one is just backwards Japanese. I'm sure there's probably more I haven't heard/am not thinking of.
openGreat American Songbook Music
The Great American Songbook. Jazz Standards. A large body of music written in the 20's-40's, by people such as Cole Porter, and Covered Up by nearly every jazz singer ever since.
Not sure if this would be a genre of music or a work.
Edited by naturalironistopenTrops in Ice Age By Serena Ryder Music
This music video is about a sad old woman listening to a song and found her youth back but I can't seem to find the right trope for it, can someone help me out?
Ice Age by Serena Ryder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NJyxUN_mM8
openChain Song Music
What is important (to me) is that the refrain gets longer and longer. Actually, "Hole in the Bucket" (cf. Chain of Deals) is no example, since it's iterative. Obviously any song based on Aarne-Thompson 550 qualifies ("Highdown Fair"). Very common in children play. Tropable?
openLast-Second Word Addition Music
Related to Last-Second Word Swap: A line seems to end meaning one thing (probably dirty), but then the next line continues the sentence and changes the meaning.
Example in MCR's "The Sharpest Lives:
openMusical Squares Music
Is there a trope for when the cover of an album has the four members of the band's faces in squares? I can't really describe it well, but here's
◊ an example from The Beatles, and I'm told Gorillaz and Talking Heads have done it too.
(P.S. credit to President Stalkeyes for this query's name.)
Edited by TropesForeveropenNot sure which Translation Trope... Music
There are a number of European songwriters, such as Max Martin
, who write pop songs in English, despite it not being their first language. The results can get weird or confusing some of the time. I'm not sure which if any of the Translation Tropes these would go under.
Examples:
Britney Spears's hit with the infamous line "Hit Me Baby One More Time" - from context, it's supposed to mean something like "hit me up one more time", not "strike me one more time".
The Ace of Base song with the line "All that she wants is another baby" is about a woman looking for a new notch in her belt, not one trying to get pregnant.
The Backstreet Boys song "I Want It That Way" is confusing and hard to find a meaning in. They were offered a version of the song with different lyrics that made more sense, but they preferred the confusing version and refused to change it.
Edited by RonfaropenMusical genres Music
Was directed here from here
, so here's a copy and paste.
. A genre of hectic, chaotic, and energetic music that feels potentially villainous or mad science-y. Examples: Nasty Habits by Oingo Boingo is the most prominent and "genre-defining" of these, I feel. Some more downplayed (at least, energy-wise? Something wise? I cannot pinpoint it) would be like The Cat With Two Heads by The Aquabats!, though the lyrics help it a lot in that case. I don't think it has the franticness as much but the vocals works in the favor of the lyrics and vibes. The B-52s's Rock Lobster wouldn't count, it doesn't have that energy and franticness except during maybe one part.
2. Whatever genre Devo is. I legitimately have no clue and I want to find more songs that sound like their's other than "Weird Al" Yankovic's Dare to be Stupid.
If anyone has the genres of these and/or songs similar to these, you would be making my day(s)!
openA trope where two instruments play the same melody at the same time Music
Or alternatively, an instrument plays the same melody that the singer sings at the same time. I think the professional term is "imitative polyphony".
openBackwards Music Music
Music played backwards, not for backmasking/speech-related, and not note-by-note (e.g. Bach's Crab Canon). I even know a few examples offhand: the beginning of "Hooligan" by the Heart Throbs; bit of the Charlatans; the Beatles used it either. Immediately spottable by the somewhat eerie sound. Tropable?
openSpoken verses, sung choruses Music
I know a song that is spoken rather than sung is called a recitation. What do you call a hybrid, where verses are spoken and choruses are sung? Charlie Daniels with "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" being one notable example.
openNot lyrical dissonance Music
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.
openRapper Interjections Music
Is there a term for when a rapper in a pop-rap song will interject into the chorus; for example, in See You Again by Wiz Khalifa, featuring Charlie Puth, the second chorus follows as:
Charlie: It's been a long day without you, my friend, and I'll tell you all about it when I see you again.
Wiz: I'll see you again.
Charlie: We've come a long way...
Wiz: Yeah, we've come a long way.
Charlie: ...from where we began.
Wiz: You know we started
Charlie: Oh, I'll tell you all about it when I see you again.
Wiz: I'll tell you.
Charlie: When I see you again.
Is there a term for what Wiz is doing?
Edited by aure_music

I've most often heard it in songs so I put it under music, but it may be elsewhere.
I'm talking things like "Big Rock Candy Mountain"; where the (presumably bum's) fantasy about a perfect land still has cops, bulldogs, and jail; but they'rd handicapped by wooden legs, rubber teeth, and one-second sentences respectively. Or the Salt Lake City song from Book of Mormon, where a poor Ugandan girl describes paradise as "The Warlords there are friendly, they help you cross the street/And there's a Red Cross on every corner with all the flower you can eat" and "the roofs are thatched with gold". The character can't comprehend a world with no warlords or thatched roofs, so she imagines nicer versions It's a darkly hilarious trope but I don't know if we have it here.