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Contrast [[Left the Background Music On]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Sayuri's recital in ''[[The Place Promised in Our Early Days]]'' starts off as just her playing in the classroom, but shifts to the full version of her theme tune after the first verse.
* ''[[5 Centimeters Per Second]]'' has the famous J-ballad "One More Time, One More Chance" playing first muffled through tinny speakers in a convenience store and then at full clarity volume through the ending montage.
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* Occurs in the ''[[The Hangover]]'' with the song "Who Let The Dogs Out".
* ''Evil Aliens'' has one of the characters climbing into a combine harvester, and putting on a tape of "Motivational Farming Music", leading to a slightly distorted rendition of The Wurzels. Once the song hits the chorus, it goes from being just on the tape to being the scene's background music as well. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6mCUoRYN3Y It doesn't end well] (very much NSFW).
* The seventh ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' movie, ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows - Part 1]]'', does this rather well, actually. {{spoiler|While Harry and Hermione dance, the radio music in-scene slowly drifts into background music.}}
* In ''[[Top Gun]]'', Goose is playing and singing "Great Balls of Fire" and then the scene cuts to Maverick and Charlie riding a motorcycle while the Jerry Lee Lewis version plays as nondiegetic music.
* Done in [[Sahara]] during the boat trip along the niger river. The music goes from soundtrack, to the moored boat's radio. Later, after the heroes launch the boat again, the different tune on the radio shifts into soundtrack once more as the boat speeds away along the river.
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* "Hold On I'm Coming" by Sam & Dave in the pilot episode of ''[[White Collar]]''. It starts out playing on a cassette in the truck the protagonist steals after escaping from prison, then gets taken up by the soundtrack after the camera cuts to an exterior shot of the truck.
* ''[[Bones]]'': in "The Goop on the Girl", Angela turns up the radio to get an annoying intern to shut up. The song playing, "Snowfall" by Ingrid Michaelson, then becomes the soundtrack for the montage of Angela sculpting the likeness of a suspect.
* The episode "Someone to Watch Over Me" of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' used this trope quite a bit, when a pianist's music would suddenly be heard underscoring other scenes.
* Inverted in ''[[Porridge|Going Straight]]''. As Fletcher finally steels himself to start an honest job for the first time in his life, the suitably dramatic overture to [[Gilbert and Sullivan|The Yeomen of the Guard]] accompanies his determined walk to his new workplace. Cut to the workplace in question, where the radio is playing the same piece.
* In "[[Chuck]] vs. the Best Friend", Jeff and Lester ("Jeffster") are performing a [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]] cover of Toto's "Africa." We then see an important moment between two other characters, and suddenly instead of hearing Lester we're hearing Toto, being played as background music.
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== Music Videos ==
* The video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c1Y34vgrI8 Sunset Strippers' - "Falling Stars"] starts with a guy listening to the song on his [[MP3]] player, before switching to non-diegetic form.
* The video for "19-2000" by [[Gorillaz]] begins with this.
* The video for "Queen of Hearts" by Fucked Up has this, played on a boombox before switching.
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* ''[[Persona 3]]'' plays with it a bit. The background theme in the opening cutscene (called "Burn My Dread") is first heard from Main Character's headphones, then it switches to being a full-fledged BGM for a minute, and then heard again from headphones.
* In the ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' series, a player character may turn on a jukebox. Doing this attracts a horde of zombies, but instead of the typical horde background music playing, the music from the jukebox will be heard instead, even if it's out of the practical range of the jukebox.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', Saria's Song is first heard diegetically, directing your path through the Lost Woods maze. After you learn the song on the Ocarina, it becomes permanent background music there.
* The intro to ''Borderlands'' seems to invert this; the music starts off very distant and once the bus enters the scene, the music is at full volume from the inside of the bus.
* The background music from one of the final missions of ''[[Ace Combat 5 The Unsung War]]'' is Captain Andersen playing the [[Award Bait Song]] "The Journey Begins" over his aircraft carrier's loudspeaker, and as such it actually ''sounds'' like it's coming through a loudspeaker - though after about a minute, it fades into a non-diegetic version of the song.
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== Web Original ==
* SubvertedPlayed with in ''[[RWBY]]''. In the opening scenes of the very first episode (Volume 1 Episode 1), Ruby's clearly listening to [[Theme Song]] "This Will Be The Day" until she decides to interrupt the robbery of the Dust shop. After she follows one of the Mooks through the shop window, the music switches from a tinny, "heard over headphones" version to a high-quality version—untilversion — [[Left the Background Music On|until we hear the "click" of Ruby turning off her player and the music stops.]]
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* During the [[Sad Times Montage]] which opens Season 2 of ''[[The Venture Bros]].'', the music which backs the entire montage is eventually revealed to be the techno track which is playing at the rave where Brock tracks down Doctor Venture.
* In ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011 series)]]|the 2011 reboot of ''ThunderCats'']]:
** This is often employed with Wilykit as a provider of flute music, only for a more orchestral version of her piece to begin immediately after she finishes or the camera cuts away.
** In "Song of the Petalars" the [[Ethereal Choir]] is in[[In-universeUniverse]] singing by the Petalars that flows into a more expansive theme after they finish singing.
 
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