History Main / SourceMusic

* One of the rules of UsefulNotes/{{Dogme 95}}, a short-lived but influential independent film movement, mandated all sound be produced in scene during shooting. Diegetic music featured [[labelnote:(mostly)]] von Trier confessed to breaking the rule at least once[[/labelnote]] in the films co-drafters Creator/LarsVonTrier and Thomas Vinterberg directed to demonstrate their manifesto.

* All the music in ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}''. There was no real musical soundtrack in the film because it was believed that, with sound being such a [[UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies recent innovation]] in films, the audience would not accept hearing music in a scene if there was no explanation for it being there (e.g., the orchestra playing off camera when Dracula meets Mina at the theatre).

* UsefulNotes/AcademyAward-winning Polish film ''Film/{{Ida}}'' has pop music playing on the radio, and a couple of scenes with a band playing in a nightclub, and one character plays records on her stereo. But the only score is a Bach piece that plays over the last scene.

* In the Season 3 finale of ''Series/TheBoys'', Kimiko plays "Maniac" by Michael Sembello from her phone while [[spoiler: killing the Vought Tower guards to protect Frenchie while he makes the Novichok.]]

See also InUniverseSoundtrack, SuspiciouslyAproposMusic, AMFMCharacterization, and LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn. Characters who may provide Source Music include ThePianoPlayer, the StreetMusician, and the WanderingMinstrel. Someone else may react with MusicalNumberAnnoyance. If Source Music becomes BackgroundMusic in mid-stream, that's a DiegeticSwitch. Also see DiegeticMusical.

See also InUniverseSoundtrack, SuspiciouslyAproposMusic, AMFMCharacterization, and LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn. Characters who may provide Source Music include ThePianoPlayer, the StreetMusician, and the WanderingMinstrel. If Source Music becomes BackgroundMusic in mid-stream, that's a DiegeticSwitch. Also see DiegeticMusical.

* Given the realistic nature of the show, all the music in ''Manga/{{Beck}}'' is either played live, on a music player, or played in an ImagineSpot.

* In the ''[[WebAnimation/AnimatorVsAnimation Animation vs Minecraft]]'' episode "[[Recap/AnimatorVsAnimationAVMShortsEpisode25TheUltimateWeapon The Ultimate Weapon]]", Orange puts a Pigstep music disc in a jukebox. The music then plays throughout a fight scene, and only ends when Orange's unconscious body is slammed into the jukebox at the end of the fight, ejecting the disc.

* And lampshaded again in ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', when Count Basie and his Orchestra show up in the middle of the desert. Apparently Mel Brooks was fond of this trope.

* Happens quite often in Franchise/HotWheels series ''[[WesternAnimation/HotWheelsWorldRace World Race]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers Accelracers]]'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/HotWheelsBattleForce5 Battle Force 5]]'', considering that both Bassline and Reverb are basically stereos with wheels, and so many scenes depict a close-up of one or more of the cars' speakers pulsing to the beat as if it's being played from said speakers. However, DiegeticSwitch ensues immediately thereafter, making the song the overall BGM.

* Most arrangements of "The Hymn of the Fayth" in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' are ostensibly source music, sung by the Fayth themselves or by unseen monks.

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': When Millie and Blitzo prepare to [[WeddingSmashers crash]] Moxxie's ArrangedMarriage to Chaz, Blitzo starts playing the appropiately named "Crashin' a Muthafuckin' Wedding" on the radio in Chaz's car, which keeps playing as Millie goes OneWomanArmy on the entire mafia.

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': When Millie and Blitzo prepare to [[WeddingSmashers crash]] Moxxie's ArrangedWedding to Chaz, Blitzo starts playing the appropiately named "Crashin' a Muthafuckin' Wedding" on the radio in Chaz's car, which keeps playing as Millie goes OneWomanArmy on the entire mafia.

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': When Millie and Blitzo prepare to [[WeddingSmashers crash Moxxie's forced wedding to Chaz]], Blitzo starts playing the appropiately named "Crashin' a Muthafuckin' Wedding" on the radio in Chaz's car, which keeps playing as Millie goes OneWomanArmy on the entire mafia.

* In the Animation vs Minecraft episode [[Recap/AnimatorVsAnimationAVMShortsEpisode25TheUltimateWeapon "The Ultimate Weapon"]], Orange puts a Pigstep music disc in a jukebox. The music then plays throughout a fight scene, and only ends when Orange's unconscious body is slammed into the jukebox at the end of the fight, ejecting the disc.

* In the Animation vs Minecraft episode [[Recap/AnimatorVsAnimationAVMShortsEpisode25TheUltimateWeapon "The Ultimate Weapon"]], Orange puts a Pigstep music disc in a jukebox. The music then plays throughout a fight scene, and only ends when Orange's unconscious body is slammed into the jukebox at the end of the fight, ejecting the disc.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ2Sh5-XuM "Going to the Store"]] features a humanoid figure walking around town to "Little Ships" by Jean Jacques Perry. Most of the shots are fairly close-up on the figure, but there is a long shot in which the music is extremely quiet by comparison, suggesting that the music is coming directly from the figure.
* In the Animation vs Minecraft episode [[Recap/AnimatorVsAnimationAVMShortsEpisode25TheUltimateWeapon "The Ultimate Weapon"]], Orange puts a Pigstep music disc in a jukebox. The music then plays throughout a fight scene, and only ends when Orange's unconscious body is slammed into the jukebox at the end of the fight, ejecting the disc.

* With the notable exception of "The Power of Love", all songs in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' are diegetic, either being performed by the film's characters ("Earth Angel", "Johnny B. Goode") or heard on the radio in-universe (everything else). Even "Back in Time", which plays over the end credits, is first heard on the clock-radio in Marty's bedroom. Averted by Alan Silvestri's score, which is non-diegetic.

* Most of the music in ''VideoGame/NappleTale'' is audible to the characters. The local ExpositionFairy explains that the music is known as "Petal Whispers," and it's produced by the spirits that inhabit living things.

** In ''Film/FinalDestination3'', whenever Wendy hears Glen Campbell's "Turn Around, Look at Me" start playing, it's a sign that Death is coming for her.

* An episode of ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'': Rock Lee and his Ninja Pals had Killer Bee as a DJ playing his music at a party.

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' has a loudspeaker as a purchasable upgrade for your support helicopter. In the PC version, you can play anything from your music library on it, [[SoundtrackDissonance no matter how silly.]] The description for the upgrade questions whether it has any appreciable purpose, but notes the [[RuleOfCool psychological value it might have.]]