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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.
Marching as percussion? Music
Do we have a trope where the primary percussion of a song is made up of marching sounds? Something like Bruise's Theme from Shadows over Loathing, or "Voss' Conquering Fleet" from Sentinels of the Multiverse
Arc Words in Word Salad Lyrics? That doesn't make sense. Music
I've been editing music pages a bit lately and I've been wondering about a lyrical phenomenon I sometimes notice that I'm unsure how to describe. Basically, it's the tendency of some singers to return to the same word or phrase in multiple songs throughout their career. More specifically, it's when these musicians also tend to work in really abstract or Phrase/Word Salad Lyrics. In that sort of context it's very... debatable that those are Arc Words because their meaning isn't entirely clear and for all anybody knows it might not really mean anything.
The best example I've seen is the page for Beck. A lot of his lyrics are just nonsense, jokes, or mental images that fit the mood but someone noted that he has quite a few words he uses unusually often, like "plastic", "cyanide" and "whiskey" and put this in the page as an example of Arc Words.
The main page for Arc Words defines them as appearing throughout an arc, used as a motif and clarifies that they are "not... a phrase that ends up popping up a lot due to being used a lot in the plot". So it's pretty clear to me that this is the wrong trope to put that example under. But what is this trope? I'm sure it's not new but I don't know exactly what it is.
It's not a Lyrical Tic because it's not a filler word or sound. Is it Author Vocabulary Calendar? The music examples for that one seem to fit really well.
Also: this could probably be a whole forum topic or discussion but is there any sort of style guide or anything for pages about popular music? If it has lyrics it's (usually) a form of narrative art but it's pretty different from a lot of the other stuff we see in pop culture. Meanings are often obscured, stories are vague and often left completely open to interpretation, there aren't necessarily well-defined characters and sometimes it's not even entirely clear whether the singer is singing as themselves or the 'narrator' of the song who is some sort of character.
Does Dua Lipa's Love Again Count As An Silly Love Song? Music
Oddly specific but for christ sake the song about how her heart was broken but now she found an new love I feel like that should count as an Silly Love Songs trope. Or does it have to sickeningly sappy for it to count? I know there's millions of songs about love so I'm not expecting that trope page to have every example of an love song but still I feel like it should count as example of that trope.
Is there a trope that a music video is filmed only inside the recording studio? Music
It's suppose to be a sub trope to Bottle Episode. Could be called "Recording Studio Music Video" where a music video is filmed only inside the recording studio like Eddie Murphy's Party all the time.
On the Beat Music
There's a specific use of counting that turns up a lot in music: one member of the band starts out by calling the beat they're going to use, so that the whole band are in time when they start playing/singing. One example is the version of "At the Hop" used in American Graffiti. It starts with one band member calling "One-two-three-four, one-two-three-four", and all the band members start playing and then singing in perfect sync.
Something similar turns up in "learning to dance" scenes, such as "Shall We Dance?" in The King and I, in which Anna uses a count of steps to teach the King a basic polka.
Are these variants of On Three, or do they belong under some other trope?
no title Music
there are several tropes im looking for:
1. bandwagon hating / making opinions based on other people's opinions 2. a famous singer who also works as an actor (like rihanna beyoncé lady gaga) 3. celebrity with a famous relative (not exactly Nepotism) 4. bestfriends who are seen as rivals by other people (eg. two famous athletes who usually compete against each other but they are actually bestfriends) 5. a controversy comes out right before an important release (like a movie, song, album, etc) 6. a more general political incorrectness... not necessarily a Politically Incorrect Villain, since im trying to find a trope that would be applied to a real person 7. underpaid employee/worker jokingly complains about being underpaid 8. a friend group consisting of multiple famous celebrities
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"
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 Rapidkirby3kPeople 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.
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 SamCurtName'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?
Unidentified Music Page Music
Quite a few years ago, mid 2010's or so, I was reading music tropes for music mysteries, like unidentified artists like The Network with Money Money 2020.
I'm wracking my brains now and can't remember what page this was.