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What is that Standard Snippet that's used in cartoons involving someone tiptoeing around a haunted house or other spooky place? Is there any known origin for it? I've Seen It A Million Times, but the only specific example I can point to is the intro to "Strychnine" by The Sonics.
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Is there a trope entry on this wiki for the reveal music that plays when the hero discovers some secret truth, finally solves some riddle, or when the plot sort of "clicks" together? If so, what is that trope called and where can I find it?
I can give examples if you do not know what I speak of.
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Not necessarily music but I've only seen this thrice both in music, but it needs to be at least rhyming. Basically it sets up a rhyme for a swear word and subverts it by either a) putting any other word there or b) putting half of the word there.
Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TywmpMQYojs There's the rude song in South Park where the girl sets up the line that would end with 'shit' but she goes 'shitsus make good housepets'. The last example is from the first Shrek film with the Welcome to the city song "please stay off all the grass, wipe your shoes, clean your... face." The first two ending with f-strikes.
I couldn't see it in the 'watch your language' index.
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Do we have something like Art Evolution, but for music?
Something like a movie and it's sequel(s), a series of videogames, etc. that shows gradual change in music.
examples would be the Pokemon battle music(first, latest) and route themes and the various Super Mario Bros tunes. (First, latest).
The songs sound similar, yet different not only in the 8-bit to orchestra sense but also from changes in the actual melodies.
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I'd like to know if there's a trope for this (or if one is needed). In some songs there is what I might call (for lack of a better term) a 'rap interlude' - a part of the song which switches into rap form for a single verse, then returns to normal.
This interlude is often cut for radio versions, but is usually on the album version.
Songs which include this are 'waterfalls' by TLC, and 'California gurls' by Katie Perry (featuring Snoop Dogg doing the interlude)
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What's the trope for a Long Runner band becoming markedly worse over time albeit with slight improvements here and there? And by "markedly worse," I don't mean YMMV stuff like a stylistic change (even one made to accomodate a known problem) or even a member being replaced with one with equivalent talent in an objective sense.
I mean, something like a God Tier member that is one of the actual founders dies/leaves/gets kicked out and gets replaced, so to speak, with a Baby Tier member, the singer blows out his voice and can't immediately acknowledge it and/or recover or step aside for someone better, though he eventually adapts to his new torn-up/blander/etc voice, and the Baby Tier member scratches his way up to Proper and sits there. In other words, the free fall into a Dethroning Moment Of Suck or being Ruined Forever has been averted... but the aversion of that doesn't bring them anywhere back to where they were before the fall began.
Make sense? Is there a trope for that? Something like "fell halfway off the cliff and stayed there" in that they didn't hit Rock Bottom (no pun intended) but It Got Worse for a long while, and it's only going to get slightly better if at all.
The example I'm thinking of is Loudness which admittedly couldn't help that Munetaka Higuchi died or that Minoru Niihara has not aged very well at all physically or vocally - and which is not *awful* by any means and is still above and beyond a lot of bands out there - but which is never going to be what it was in 1982-1989 or 1992-94 precisely *because* the new drummer, *no* drummer aside from someone active in his own band using a different drumming style, could be equal to Munetaka, and because Niihara is 50, his voice has changed permanently, and he's likely still grieving in his own way.
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Someone writes a song in 2001 that pretty much describes the unfolding of the decade from 2001-2010, when seen in retrospect.
Is the applicable trope Harsher in Hindsight, Fridge Horror, or something else entirely?
(is working on the Loudness page and wants to make note of the song "Bloody Doom" from Pandemonium.)
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Is there a trope for pieces of generally unrelated (or rather VERY loosely related) music that sound similar? I'm talking specifically about Super Mario Galaxy's Comet Observatory theme sounding similar to the theme from Clu Clu Land, another Nintendo game (albeit, an obscure one that isn't very good).
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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.
Do we have a tope about where the singer is missing the person he is singing to?
Examples would be Missin You by John Waite (A strange double subversion) and maybe Blue Christmas By Elvis Presley
I didn't find anything similar in the Music Tropes index