Line #27 Music/SalvatoreGanacci


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:'''''[[SayMyName SALVATORE GANACCI~!]]''''']]
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4	Salvatore Ganacci (born Emir Kobilić, born 29 July 1986) is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Bosnia}} Bosnian]]-[[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] DJ known for his [[SurrealHumour bizarre]] music videos, live performances, and youtube skits.
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6	Born in Sarajevo in what was then [[UsefulNotes/{{Yugoslavia}} Yugoslavia]], he moved to Sweden. The young Emir was nicknamed the [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Italian-sounding]] 'Salvatore Ganacci' for his 'Italian-style' football playing, and would later adopt it as his [[StageNames DJ name]].
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8	Salvatore first gained fame for his set at the Tomorrowland festival in 2018, which gained rave reviews from music journalists and went viral for his ridiculous dancing. After this, his equally odd performance at the same festival (he had the announcer [[OurProductSucks insult him at length and declare his career over]] while [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs announcing he was on ketamine]], then the camera cut to Salvatore, ''in the audience'', booing his own set on an empty stage, [[MindScrew before proceeding to perform with a]] [[BodyDouble twin of himself]]) and music video for his single ''Horse'' in 2019 cemented his fame as a [[CrazyIsCool crazy awesome]] avant-garde DJ.
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10	Salvatore regularly posts bizarre shorts on his [[https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCyseFvMP4mZVlU5iEEbAamA youtube channel]], none of which have anything to do with music. Their strange premises, logo design and ending [[SayMyName name]] {{Jingle}} evoke nothing else but [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain a series of really, ''really'' weird commercials, for products that don't exist]].
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12	!! Salvatore Ganacci's works provide examples of:
13	* AccidentalMurder: Salvatore accidentally crushes his dance instructor to death in ''Your Mother'' after he falls on his back while the instructor was inside his backpack.
14	* AllLowercaseLetters: The title of the skit ''f the police''.
15	* AnArmAndALeg: The enormous hand in the ''Fight Dirty'' video has bandages wrapped around its stump, suggesting it was cut away from [[OurGiantsAreBigger a giant of some kind]].
16	* AnthropomorphicFood: A [[UncannyValley creepy]] anthromorphic carrot called '[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Racist Carrot']] is the central character of the short named after him.
17	* AsHimself: Every time Salvatore's character is explicitly named, he's named 'Salvatore Ganacci' (although see the DecompositeCharacter example below for a possible exception).
18	* {{Animesque}}: The 'Fight Dirty' video is stylised like an anime, to the point of being in Japanese.
19	* BadassFingerSnap: Salvatore uses one of these to repel the giant hand in the ''Fight Dirty'' video.
20	* BadGuyBar: The apparent hangout of the Salvatore Gannaci Gang in ''Fight Dirty''.
21	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The villains of ''Horse'' have this as their only real character trait.
22	* BatterUp: The girl in the ''Fight Dirty'' uses a baseball bat as a weapon.
23	* BearsAreBadNews: One of the members of the Salvatore Ganacci Gang is an anthromorphic bear.
24	* BlackComedy: A staple of his works.
25	* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: The first part of the music video for ''Horse'' consists of hilariously over the top animal abuse.
26	* CardCarryingVillain: The Racist Carrot:
27	-->I will be equally racist tomorrow.
28	* CarCushion: Salvatore's attempt at ''Grakour'' is ended ignobly by him falling from a roof onto a car.
29	* CharacterTitle: ''Racist Carrot'', ''Wooden Salvatore'', [[NameAndName ''Salvatore & Ganacci']].
30	* CherryBlossoms: Fall around Salvatore at his shrine in the ''Fight Dirty'' video.
31	* ChildishToothGap: The protagonist of the ''Fight Dirty'' music video has one.
32	* CloudCuckooLander: Cultivates an image as one of these.
33	* CombatCueStick: Used by one of the members of the Salvatore Ganacci Gang against the giant hand in the ''Fight Dirty' music video.
34	* ComboPlatterPowers: Although it isn't really clear if the Salvatore across various videos is always supposed to be the same character, he displays such disparate abilities as [[PowerFloats levitation]], SuperStrength, and [[SpeaksFluentAnimal understanding eagle cries]].
35	* TheComicallySerious: Salvatore's [[TheStoic calm demeanor]] only makes his antics funnier.
36	* CoolMask: Salvatore wears a horse mask as he rides back from exacting vengeance on the animal abusers in the ''Horse'' video. [[CrazyIsCool In a giant shoe.]]
37	* CoolShades: Salvatore wears them as he sets out in the ''Horse'' music video, setting up the GlassesPull joke described below.
38	* CurbStompBattle: The girl and hand working together absolutely ''demolish'' the Salvatore Ganacci Gang in the ''Fight Dirty'' music video.
39	* {{Cyberpunk}}: A clear stylistic influence on the city design in the ''Fight Dirty'' video.
40	* DanceBattler: Salvatore stops during his [[MickeyMousing Mickey Moused]] fight with the animal abusers in the ''Horse'' music video to lay down some sick moves.
41	* DanceOff: The two-part video for ''Sexy Narkoman'' and ''Your Mother'' has Salvatore challenge some local bullies to a dance-off, and getting trained by a JadedWashout so he can win.
42	* DeathGlare: Salvatore delivers an understated but still menacing one to the animal abusers in the ''Horse'' video.
43	* DecompositeCharacter: ''Salvatore & Ganacci'' features 'Ganacci' (an old bearded man) and 'Salvatore' (the actual Salvatore), [[SurrealHumour riding a cabinet like a horse]]. It's implied, however, by Salvatore's apparent distaste for Ganacci, that this may not actually be true.
44	* DestinationDefenestration: One of the Salvatore Ganacci Gang {{Mooks}} is hurled through the window over the door of their BadGuyBar.
45	* DisappearedDad: Salvatore implicitly abandons his children with his American wife at the end of the ''Take Me To America'' video, returning to Bosnia.
46	* DisneyVillainDeath: Salvatore ends the ''Grakour'' video by falling to his death [[CarCushion on top of a car]].
47	* TheDon: In the ''Fight Dirty'' video, Salvatore is the apparent head of a gang named after him, who reject the girl protagonist for being too weak to join them, [[KickTheDog and beat her up]]. When she returns riding a giant hand and turns the tables on them, they are seen reporting back to him at a peaceful shrine outside the city, where he decides to seek her out and fight her before she can find him first.
48	* DramaticThunder: Heard ([[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext for some reason]]) when the eagle wakes up Salvatore in the ''Horse'' music video.
49	* DreamCrushingHandicap: The dance teacher in ''Sexy Narkoman / Your Mother'' used to be the greatest breakdancer in the world, before he lost both of his legs attempting to do "the impossible trick". Now he lives alone in a dingy run-down house.
50	* DrivenToSuicide: In the ''Wooden Salvatore'' video, upon realising that the [[ReplacementGoldfish wooden Salvatore]] can never replace the real one, the old man drives the car off a bridge, [[MurderSuicide killing everyone inside.]]
51	* EnemyMine: Originally intending to kill her, Salvatore instead spares the protagonist and allies with her at the end of the ''Fight Dirty'' music video once he realises they're surrounded by police.
52	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The basic plot of the ''Take Me To America'' video is Salvatore conducting a lengthy, years-long deception that culminates in him abandoning his American family...so he can get a better cable for his mom's television.
53	* EvilMentor: A possible interpretation of what Salvatore was to the girl in the ''Fight Dirty'' video, given that he refers to her as his 'protege' and apparently ordered his gang to throw her out and beat her up because he judged her to be weak.
54	* EvilOldFolks: The two elderly animal abusers in the ''Horse'' music video.
55	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Racist Carrot. A carrot that is racist.
56	* FamilyPortraitOfCharacterization: Used to show that the four animals being abused in the ''Horse'' video live together as a family.
57	* {{Fanfare}}: ''Fight Dirty'' makes prominent use of bombastic trumpets, matching the [[CoolVsAwesome incredible visuals]] on show.
58	* FantasyForbiddingFather: Salvatore's father in the ''Fight Dirty'' video does not approve of his manga drawing habit, and insists he [[StageMom work on his music instead]].
59	* FingerPokeOfDoom: Salvatore throws back the giant hand in the ''Fight Dirty'' video by [[BadassFingerSnap snapping his fingers]] against it.
60	* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Salvatore does this to a cup of ''tea'' in the ''Step-Grandma'' music video.
61	* FlatWhat: Salvatore delivers an almost inaudible one of these in the ''Horse'' music video when his eagle informs him of what's been going on.
62	* FlashStep: Salvatore uses this against the girl in the ''Fight Dirty'' music video.
63	* FoodAsBribe: Salvatore convinces the dance teacher in ''Sexy Narkoman'' to teach him by giving him a 2 litre of Pepsi.
64	* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the members of the Salvatore Ganacci gang is seen cowering next to graffiti reading 'A storm is coming' in the ''Fight Dirty'' video; this sets up the climatic fight with Salvatore later.
65	* GiantHandsOfDoom: The ''Fight Dirty'' video revolves around a girl living in a {{Cyberpunk}}-styled city befriending a giant, disembodied crawling hand that she uses to fight.
66	* GlassesPull: Parodied in the music video for ''Horse''; Salvatore pulls off his sunglasses once he arrives, and gives a DeathGlare to the animal abusers; then he [[SurrealHumour inexplicably]] pulls them off ''again'', and repeats his death glare before [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge starting his work]].
67	* GlowingEyes: Salvatore in his OneWingedAngel form in the ''Fight Dirty'' video.
68	* GoodWearsWhite: Salvatore dons an all-white outfit for his ''Horse'' music video, where he plays a defender of animals.
69	* GravityIsOnlyATheory: Salvatore is able to fly in the 'f the police' skit because 'there are no cops around', suggesting gravity is a law in the ''legal'' sense, not the ''physical'' sense, [[RealityWarper at least to him]].
70	* GrievousBottleyHarm: Attempted by a member of the Salvatore Ganacci Gang against the giant hand in the ''Fight Dirty'' video. It doesn't work.
71	* GrinOfAudacity: The girl in the ''Fight Dirty'' video before the giant hand she's just befriended smashes into the Salvatore Ganacci Gang; and then again, in response to Salvatore's PsychoticSmirk, before fighting the police at the end.
72	* HerCodenameWasMarySue: What it turns out the ''Fight Dirty'' video was; a pathetic version of Salvatore creating a manga portraying him as a cool anime character, much to his [[FantasyForbiddingFather father's disapproval]].
73	* HorseofADifferentColour: Salvatore & Ganacci ride a printer cabinet around a carpark like a horse in the eponymous skit.
74	* HomoeroticSubtext: Ganacci sniffs an unwilling Salvatore's hair while hugging him from behind like tandem horse riders, and declares 'we do everything together'.
75	* HulkingOut: After being sufficiently impressed by the girl's performance, Salvatore explosively transforms into a hugely muscular version of himself with glowing eyes.
76	* InexplicablyAwesome: In most of the skits and music videos, Salvatore has [[ComboPlatterPowers various superpowers]] of unclear origin.
77	* {{Jingle}} At the end of every skit he makes, his name.
78	* KickTheDog:
79	** The music video for ''Horse'' begins with a group of people [[BlackComedy comedically abusing]] animals [[MickeyMousing in tune to the beat]]; a woman hitting a sheep's head in a car trunk; an old man slamming a horse's head in a door; a man repeatedly crushing a panda between his car and a tree; an old woman punching a lion. [[LaserGuidedKarma they get their comeuppance in the end]].
80	** The Salvatore Ganacci Gang in the ''Fight Dirty'' beat up the [[WouldHurtAChild young girl]] protagonist and throw her out on the street for trying to join them, dismissing her as 'weak'.
81	** Salvatore himself does this in the ''Step-Grandma'' video, taking advantage of an old woman and driving away her grandchildren [[EvilIsPetty in order to steal food]].
82	* TheKlan: The rival dance group in ''Your Mother'' arrive in white hoods and are called the Kool Kids Klub. Naturally, this isn't mentioned by anyone in-universe. Also, one of the kids is black.
83	* LaserGuidedKarma:
84	** Salvatore afflicts the exact same punishments on the group of animal abusers as they were performing at the start of the ''Horse'' video.
85	** After beating up the protagonist at the start of ''Fight Dirty'', the Salvatore Ganacci gang get exactly what they dished out back from her, with the help of her new giant hand companion.
86	** Salvatore throws a punch at the racist carrot, startling it, before slowly moving in to apparently attack it as it screams.
87	* LeParkour: Salvatore's goal in ''Grakour'' is to create a version of this which fuses it with graffiti tagging. He succeeds; [[DisneyVillainDeath at first.]]
88	* LongGame: In the ''Take Me To America'' music video, Salvatore moves to the US, studies English, marries an American woman, and has children...all so he can steal a power cable and bring it back to Bosnia to power his mother's TV.
89	* MadScientist: Salvatore in ''Grakour''.
90	* MalevolentMaskedMen: The bodyguards flanking Salvatore's shrine in the ''Fight Dirty'' music video.
91	* ManekiNeko: A building in the ''Fight Dirty' music video is stylised after one of these; it first appears in the background as the girl is [[{{Roofhopping}} running over the rooftops]], and is then the [[RooftopConfrontation arena for her fight with Salvatore]], [[SceneryGorn being destroyed in their battle.]]
92	* MickeyMousing: All of the blows in the ''Horse'' music video synch to the beat.
93	* MindScrew: '''Everything he has ever done.''' He is the [[Creator/AndyKaufman Andy Kaufman]] of EDM.
94	* {{Mooks}}: The Salvatore Ganacci Gang.
95	* MolotovCocktail: [[BlackComedy Salvatore uses one to drive away the old lady's real grandchildren in the ''Step-Grandma'' video.]]
96	* MurderSuicide: The conclusion of the 'Wooden Salvatore' skit.
97	* NestedStoryReveal: The {{Animesque}} portions of the ''Fight Dirty'' video turns out to just be a [[HerCodenameWasMarySue fantasy]] of a manga-drawing loser version of Salvatore.
98	* NeverMessWithGranny: Although the old lady in ''Step-Grandma'' initially seems helpless, she pulls a gun on Salvatore when she realises who he really is... [[DoubleSubversion only for him to flip over her couch, defeating her easily]].
99	* NobleBirdOfPrey: Salvatore has an eagle in the ''Horse'' video that reports to him on the animal abusers; it appears again at his shrine in the ''Fight Dirty'' video.
100	* NoNameGiven: To any of the characters in Salvatore's music videos or shorts other than himself (assuming [[AsHimself he's always playing himself]]).
101	* NonHumanSidekick: Salvatore's eagle in the ''Horse'' and ''Fight Dirty'' music videos; his squirrel in the ''Step-Grandma'' music video.
102	* NonSequitur: Salvatore's response to being told the girl in the ''Fight Dirty'' video who used a giant hand to beat up his entire gang is coming for him, too?
103	--> Sometimes I cry when I'm alone.
104	** Even his ''[[NobleBirdOfPrey eagle]]'' is confused.
105	* NoSenseOfDirection: PlayedForLaughs in the ''Horse'' video; Salvatore gets lost while [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext driving his shoe]] to the animal abusers.
106	* OneWingedAngel: Using his [[TransformationTrinkets bracelets]], Salvatore transforms with a huge shockwave into an enormously muscular version of himself with VolcanicVeins and GlowingEyes in the ''Fight Dirty'' video.
107	* PerpetualFrowner: Salvatore in his music videos and skits almost never smiles, and usually looks pretty much exactly like he does in the above photo.
108	* PowerFloats: In the ''Balloon'' skit, Salvatore is able to make a balloon carriage fly without any actual balloon attached to it.
109	* PowerGlows: Salvatore's transformation into his stronger form in the ''Fight Dirty'' video is accompanied by a huge beam of light; his eyes and [[VolcanicVeins lines across his body]] then glow.
110	* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: The opening shot of ''Fight Dirty'' is the girl being punched so hard by a member of the Salvatore Ganacci gang that she's thrown several feet out into the road.
111	* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Salvatore is the leader of the gang named after him, and he's an incredibly powerful fighter who's able to hold his own against a protagonist who effortlessly curbstomped all his men.
112	* RealityWarper: Salvatore can ride a shoe like a car, pull two trees apart to widen a gap, and cause a balloon carriage to float on its own.
113	* RidingIntoTheSunset: It's dusk as Salvatore rides away in his shoe at the end of the ''Horse'' video.
114	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Salvatore in the ''Horse'' music video, on behalf of four badly abused animals.
115	* RoofHopping: The girl and hand in the ''Fight Dirty'' music video, which leads to:
116	* RooftopConfrontation: Salvatore and the girl's battle takes place on top of a building stylised after a ManekiNeko.
117	* ReplacementGoldfish: In the 'Wooden Salvatore' short, a group of people in a car - a man driving, a woman, and an old woman - have replaced Salvatore, who's either dead or absent somehow, with a wooden copy. The driver initially tries to insist that 'Wooden Salvatore' 'is just as good as the real one'; he eventually realises it's not, and [[MurderSuicide kills himself and everyone in the car by driving them off the bridge]].
118	* RunningGag: The exact pronunciation of the nonexistent Italian name 'Salvatore' [[YouSayTomato changes from video to video]], [[MindScrew apparently just to add to the weirdness]].
119	* {{Sampling}}: 'Take Me to America' is built around a sample of the lyric 'I'm from Bosnia, [[TitleDrop take me to America]]' from the song ''U.S.A.'' by Dubioza Kolektiv.
120	* SayMyName: '''''SALVATORE GANACCI~!''''' at the end of every one of his skits.
121	** The girl in the ''Fight Dirty'' video also yells 'SALVATORE!' when she first sees him.
122	* ScaryShinyGlasses: The only speaking member of the Salvatore Ganacci Gang in the ''Fight Dirty'' video has these.
123	* ScatterBrainedSenior: The old woman in ''Step-Grandma'' has to use photographs of her grandchildren to remember what they look like. Salvatore is able to convince her that he is her grandson by replacing them with photographs of him.
124	* SceneryPorn: The city in the ''Fight Dirty'' video is beautifully animated; we get a lengthy segment showing the girl and the hand [[{{Roofhopping}} running joyously over the rooftops]] to show it off.
125	* SceneryGorn: We then get to see numerous buildings being destroyed by the girl and Salvatore as they fight.
126	* SciFiBobHaircut: The girl from ''Fight Dirty'' has a particularly messy example of this.
127	* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The racist carrot when Salvatore threatens it.
128	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Salvatore runs away at the end of the ''Step-Grandma''music video once his scheme collapses.
129	* SistineSteal: The girl in ''Fight Dirty'' touches her hand to one of the giant hand's fingers in a moment of understanding that mimics this painting.
130	* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Salvatore is able to understand his eagle's screeching in the ''Horse'' video.
131	* StageMom: Salvatore's (fictional) father in the ''Fight Dirty'' video.
132	* AStormIsComing: This exact phrase appears on graffiti early in the ''Fight Dirty'' video, presumably foreshadowing the arrival of [[RankScalesWithAsskicking Salvatore]].
133	* StringTheory: Salvatore assembles a pinboard like this while researching how to invent the titular extreme sport in ''Grakour'', with a note saying 'How?' at the centre.
134	* SurrealHumour: His entire brand.
135	* TaeKwonDoor: The old man animal abuser repeatedly slams a horse's head in a door; later, Salvatore [[LaserGuidedKarma does the same to him]].
136	* TakeOurWordForIt: The 'Racist Carrot' never actually does anything racist on camera, people just comment on how racist he was.
137	* TakeThat: "One shoe can change your life" ends with Salvatore driving his shoe into a parking spot reserved for Music/ChrisBrown and running the sign over.
138	* TeaIsClassy: Salvatore is seen pouring tea when his gang comes to report to him in the ''Fight Dirty'' video; he suddenly stops pouring when they inform him that she's coming for him, too, in a gesture similar to a DramaticDrop.
139	* TechnicolorScience: 'Grakour' takes the form of some kind of blue potion in a flask.
140	* TheyCalledMeMad: In the eponymous skit, Salvatore's friend insists that Grakour is not only [[SeriousBusiness morally wrong]], but also impossible. Salvatore proves him wrong.
141	* ThereWasADoor: The old lady animal abuser locks her door so Salvatore can't find her, to no avail; he [[CrazyIsCool dance-smashes]] through her wall and [[WouldHarmASenior attacks her]].
142	* TitleDrop: ''Take Me to America' is named after the sample that forms the main hook of the song.
143	* TookALevelInBadass: The girl in the ''Fight Dirty'' video becomes a much more capable fighter after gaining access to the use of a [[GiantHandsOfDoom giant hand as a fighting companion.]]
144	* TransformationTrinket: Salvatore's bracelets in the ''Fight Dirty'' video.
145	* {{Troperrific}}: The ''Fight Dirty'' video gleefully uses as many shonen anime tropes as physically possible to cram into a barely 3 minute animation.
146	* UnderestimatingBadassery: Salvatore admits as much as in the ''Fight Dirty'' video:
147	--> '''Salvatore''': Ah, my young protege. Perhaps I misjudged you.
148	-->'''Girl''': Perhaps you did, old man. Perhaps you did!
149	* UndignifiedDeath: Salvatore falls to his death in the ''Grakour'' video trying to do graffiti and parkour at the same time.
150	* VolcanicVeins: Salvatore in his more powerful form in the ''Fight Dirty'' video.
151	* VomitIndiscretionShot: The 'wooden Salvatore' in the eponymous skit randomly throws up water at one point.
152	* VillainRespect: Salvatore to the girl in ''Fight Dirty'':
153	--> I must say, I'm impressed. [[PreMortemOneLiner But this ends now.]]
154	* WickedCultured: In the ''Fight Dirty'' video, Salvatore is the head of a gang of thugs who nonetheless takes time to participate in an ornate tea ceremony at a base stylised after a Shinto shrine.
155	* WouldHarmASenior: Salvatore in the ''Horse'' and ''Step-Grandma'' music videos; at least the former [[PayEvilUntoEvil had it coming]].
156	* WouldHurtAChild: The Salvatore Ganacci Gang in the ''Fight Dirty'' video happily beat up the young protagonist.
157	* WouldHitAGirl: Said protagonist is also a girl.
158	* WordSaladHumour: The short promo clip for the ''Step-Grandma'' music video is titled 'your friend is laying like this would you and from work to her sister with like this. Wyd?'
159	* WorldOfChaos: Most of his skits and music videos give off this vibe.

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