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openPrevious Installment Title Drop Music
Essentially the love child of Title Drop and Call-Back, a song, film or game actively calls out the title(s) of previous parts of the series or by the artist. Possible examples would be "Bonfire (A Rest)" by Aviators ("Let There Be Fire") and "The Dark Moor" by Dark Moor ("Shadowland", "The Hall of [the] Olden Dreams" AND "Gates of Oblivion"). I feel, if this doesn't exist yet, it could be a subtrope with a few examples more, but the Launch Pad feels scary for a casual.
openChildish nursery rhyme / tongue twister as song chorus. Music
Recently I heard this song (don't remember the name), which has the woodchuck tongue twister as chorus, quite a lot. And I have a strange feeling that I've heard other popular songs with similarily silly choruses. Do you think this could be tropable?
openLove song about a place Music
Is there a trope for a love song that's about a place rather than a person? For example: "Under The Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers seems to be this about Los Angeles.
Edited by BootlebatopenStock kid's songs Music
Is there a trope for stock kid's songs in general? For example: "If you're happy and you know it" or "Row, Row, Row, your boat."
openFinal stroke/note as a full stop Music
Some music scores end in a peculiar way by making a slight pause and having one final stroke of certain instrument - usually a piano or a brass.
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openSplashing water based Performance Music
When the performers splash, spin, dance, and kick the water on for spectacular performance on a flood stage or video.
openPulled by something invisible Music
Is there a trope for when one is dragged against their will, but what is doing the dragging is invisible?
The Monolith in this music video is the instigator of The Corruption in the "heroine" of this story, and it seems to compel her towards itself, making it look like she's being dragged. Any trope like what I'm describing or what this scene looks like?
Edited by BlackFaithStarresolved Same scene and elements in 2 juxtaposed perspectives Music
I'm unsure which trope would fit for this music video as it's not entirely clear what's happening (as if which of the perspectives are real) but here goes.
- Twin Tribes: In "Monolith"'s music video, a woman in a white dress is corrupted by Ominous Obsidian Ooze, tainting the room she's in. A contrasting view reintroduces the same room and lady in white as untainted, with pink lighting and petals on the floor, and she looks much happier. The scene alternates between the inky lady thrashing in agony and her smiling counterpart dancing gracefully, with the musical duo and the titular monolith appearing in either view as clean and smiling (in the brighter view) or tainted with ink (in the darker view).
The closest thing I think would fit is Once More, with Clarity but, again, I'm not sure. So I'd appreciate the help, thanks.
Edited by BlackFaithStaropenWater dancing in music Music
What is it called when performers splash kick, spin, jump, skid, walk and run on water? All wet, and splashing a great performance on a water filled stage? For example, they fill a stage with water and then a performer comes and then starts dance while while splashing on the waters surface. For example:
Edited by KappaJB09openwould clk be considered word salad lyrics or phrase salad lyrics Music
but uh yeah. i'm a bit conflicted to call coin locker kid's songwriting Word Salad Lyrics or Phrase Salad Lyrics, so i thought i'd ask here.
lyric pages for some of his songs (one from all of the albums of his that i've listened to):
(warning these lyrics sometimes mention disturbing stuff, might not wanna read if you're easily sensitive)
Id quixotic. Walden falls. Boy toy, pts. 1 & 2. Glass splinters. Exactly where we want to be. Floodscape. Is this the fall?
Edited by nebul-scattersopenReal Life Getting the Band Back Together? Music
Is there a real world equivalent to Putting the Band Back Together? Like a real music group reuniting after breaking up?
Edited by BigBadShadow25openDisconnected song intro Music
I don’t even know if it’s common enough to be considered a trope, but some songs have a rather long intro that has a completely different tone from the rest and barely transitions into the main song…
Examples: MC Solaar’s Dieu ait son âme or Gojira’s Flying Whales…
openAdmirer song Music
Is there a trope for a song about praising someone else and singing about how great that person is?
openSongs where the music stops when the Singer says "stop" Music
As this Todd in the Shadows supercut (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I1OaNrphk0) shows, where the singer will sing "stop" and then the music will stop for a beat or two before it resumes.
Given the number of the songs that used this technique, has there been a trope posted here that describes when these occurrences?
Edited by darkchiefyopenUnidentified 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.
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.
openMarching 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
openArc 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.
Hey, do we have a trope for when a song is sort of like a little audio play about the characters singing the song? This is especially common in children's music, and especially when it's based on pre-existing franchises.
Like, the characters aren't just singing, they're also saying stuff like "Okay, now it's your turn to sing, Bob!"
Remember how, in "The Chipmunk Song", it starts with Dave telling the chipmunks it's time to sing, and yells at Alvin for being inattentive? And only after that does the song actually start?
(The Pokémon song "Christmas Medley" is the best modern example.)
Is that a trope?
Edited by MisterMusic