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{{trope|wppage=Mere-exposure effect}}
{{quote|'''Announcer''': Call the station for a contest entry if you recognize this song: (plays song)
'''Eb Dawson''': That's (gives name of song by group, runs to telephone to call it in)
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For many players, particular songs had a tendency to stand out and become permanently ingrained. There are many songs in the game, and most of them still get played a lot in [[Real Life]]. So situations would often come up where a person hears a song on the radio and immediately thinks of the ''Grand Theft Auto'' game it was featured in. ("I Ran" is an especially common example, due to being featured in Vice City's trailer.)
Another curious effect is that the player would hear a song that they disliked or from a genre they wouldn't listen to, and it would grow on them as it's repeated. (Known in psychology as [[wikipedia:Mere
You can also get a pang of nostalgia from the stuff that some not-so-famous musicians came up with for the first two ''GTA'' games -- "Taxi Drivers Must DIEEEEEEEEEEE!" It's just that you are much less likely to run into those songs if you aren't playing those games.
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Not to be confused with the "''[[Guitar Hero]]'' effect"—a phrase meaning [[Revival by Commercialization]] <ref>even though the Grand Theft Auto Effect can occur with songs that appear in ''Guitar Hero''.</ref>
The same thing can happen when previously-composed music is used in films (live action or animated
A [[Real Song Theme Tune]] can fall victim to this effect.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Happened not once, but ''twice'' with "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9lYzWkz8Zs Rouge No Dengon]". The first time, it was used as the opening theme in ''[[Kiki's Delivery Service]]'', so everyone associates the song with that. Then it was used in ''[[Suzume (film)|Suzume]]'', and everyone immediately went "hey look, it's the ''Kiki's Delivery Service''" song. Now people know this as the song that appeared in ''Suzume'' and ''Kiki's Delivery Service''.
* "Fly Me to the Moon" was a nice song about flying to the moon. Now a bunch of people know it (and its 20 other renditions) as the ending theme of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.
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