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This trope refers to songs that have lyrics or music that change significantly depending on who is in the group or if the singer goes solo. They may do their own version of songs they originally performed with the band but keep the same tune and probably the same lyrics.
They may also be a song about a particular event in the writer's life; the lyrics may change if the situation changes.
Groups may also decide to change the lyrics or arrangement of a song even if there hasn't been a change, just to keep it fresh or if they decide to go in a new direction artistically.
If a TV show is a [[Long Runner]] this may happen to the opening theme between series, though generally these only affect the music, and any lyrics will be unchanged.
Theatrical productions may also change some elements depending on the country it is being performed in: for instance, if a lyric refers to someone who is well known in the show's home country but is an unknown in other parts of the world. Equally, if a show has a modern setting and refers to current events, then lyrics and lines may change once those events are no longer in the news.
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Compare [[Evolving Credits]].
''Note: The TV example does not apply if a show has totally new music for a new season like [[Bleach]]; only if it's a new version of the same music.''
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Angel Beats!]]'' applies this trope to its opening theme in episode 4. ''Theme of SSS'' also got an epic rock arrangement which is used in tenser situations.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' used different versions of ''In Other Words'' better known as ''Fly Me To The Moon'' as its ending theme.
* ''[[Fresh Pretty Cure]]'' and ''[[Suite Pretty Cure]]'' both remixed their theme songs after their respective [[Sixth Ranger|Sixth Rangers]]' debuts.
** In addition, the opening theme of ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart]]'' is a remix of the original ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' theme.
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* The original recording of ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s theme tune went under subtle changes from 1963 to 1980 before being done from scratch in later years. All Doctors apart from the Fifth have had a new piece of music arranged for them.
* ''[[Eastenders]]''
* The ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' shows all have the same [[Theme Tune]] with different tweaks to the arrangement so viewers can tell the main show from ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|SVU]]'', ''[[Law & Order: Trial by Jury|Trial By Jury]]'', or ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent|Criminal Intent]]''.
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''. [[media:mst3ktreeuc4.gif|Here]] is a handy flowchart tracking all the permutations of the theme music.
* ''[[The OC]]'''s theme song got longer after the first few episodes, as some actors who were originally just guest stars got contracts and had to be added to the credits.
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' had its theme music remixed for the fifth and final season.
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** Dramatic example: "Coming Up" from ''McCartney II'' (with "The Plastic Macs") vs. the live vs. of "Coming Up" on ''Wingspan,'' vs. modern live vs. (which include ''long'' drum solos).
** Some of the songs on the [[Give My Regards to Broad Street]] soundtrack fall under this. For instance, "Ballroom Dancing" has an entire extra verse from its original "Tug of War" vs.
* The Butthole Surfers' "Some Dispute Over T-Shirt Sales" is essentially Ministry's "Jesus Built My Hotrod" (which their vocalist Gibby Haynes provided lead vocals for) with a different guitar riff: It uses the same melody and [[Singing Simlish]] lyrics.
* [[Eric Clapton]] did this with "Layla." First he performed it with Derek & the Dominos. Then, when he did a solo unplugged performance for MTV, he did a much slower and soulful rendition of it.
* Counting Crows have changed some of the lyrics to their song "Mr Jones" -- the song was written before they had their first hit, and has lyrics about wanting to be big stars; the new lyrics are about looking back after having been big stars and realising that it's not all it's cracked up to be. They also perform the song in a quieter and less rocking tone.
* Dennis Culp wrote a song about rhubarb pie for [[Five Iron Frenzy]], but the band ended up using that music for some completely different lyrics that Reese Roper wrote, "Ugly Day". "Rhubarb Pie" was released later on their B-sides album.
* Every song ever performed by [[Bob Dylan]].
* E from [[Eels]] seems to relish dramatically different live arrangements for older songs - for instance, the ''Daisies Of The Galaxy'' version of "I Like Birds" is laid-back and based around acoustic guitar, but at some point they started doing a much faster, noisier electric version live, and have kept playing it that way every since. During the Eels With Strings tours even songs that were originally fast paced rock or upbeat pop were played slower and more stripped down (and of course, with a string quartet).
* Several songs from [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]:
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* [[Kylie Minogue]] is very fond of this. Many of her live shows after her 1998 Intimate And Live Tour. She has changed her song 'I Should Be So Lucky' to both a ballad and an electronica song. She also turned her song 'I Believe In You' into a ballad and 'The Locomotion' into a jazz song.
* Mogwai's signature song, Mogwai Fear Satan, has changed drastically between its spot on their current live set.
* Morning Musume's "Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari" has several versions due to the song's verses being about the people in the group but the groups has a tradition of regularly adding and shedding members meaning the [[Evolving Music|lyrics have to keep evolving]].
** "Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari" was also given a [[Cover Version]] by [[Hello! Project]] Elder Club but that also had two versions as the two tours had different members in attendance. In 2011 Dream Morning Musume formed and their first song is yet another version of JKM.
* Muse have recently revamped "Cave" from their 1999 debut album, ''Showbiz'', giving it a new piano arrangement when playing it live on their Resistance Tour.
* [[Oingo Boingo]] also did this a lot: many of their songs were written when they were still a circus band instead of a rock band, and some of them were brought back later with rock arrangements. (Lead singer [[Danny Elfman]] also re-used one of the band's old circus songs as the theme song for the Dilbert cartoon.)
* [[Amanda Palmer]] also changed all of her Dresden Dolls song arrangements and some of her lyrics after going solo.
** She changed her arrangements anyways; since she didn't know how to read sheet music, she completely played by the ear. Naturally, [[Crowning Music of Awesome|it was amazing.]]
* The [[Pet Shop Boys]] do this with "Being Boring" in live shows since the [[Turn of the Millennium]]: the lyric eulogizing friends that died of AIDS changes from "All the people I was kissing/Some are here, and some are missing in the 1990s" to the less dated "All the people I was kissing/Some are here, and some '''were''' missing '''by''' the 1990s".
* The Tiger Lillies do this a lot. Their lyrics, arrangements and stage antics are constantly changing, and it's interesting to see how much their songs evolve and grow over time.
* It happened over a relatively short period of time, but [[Weezer]]'s "Burndt Jamb" went from having [[Singing Simlish]] lyrics in one publicly released demo, to a full set of lyrics in another demo, to a completely new set of lyrics by the time it was officially released on ''Maladroit''. There's also "Private Message", which had its lyrics substantially rewritten and became "Hand To Hold" by Brian Bell's side project The Relationship, and "Thought I Knew", which conversely went from being a slow minor key Relationship song to a faster, major key Weezer song.
* [[Frank Zappa]]'s entire career was marked by this, something he referred to as "Conceptual Continuity." Pieces of lyrics and melody, and sometimes entire songs, would pop up in different contexts and arrangements on various albums. As an example, he released no less than three versions of "Peaches en Regalia", each sounding quite different.
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* [[Yellow Magic Orchestra]] has recorded several live and studio versions of the songs from their first album, with "Behind the Mask" being played with its original lyrics and the ones [[Michael Jackson]] wrote for the song when he chose to cover it.
* [[Orbital]] have done this a lot, but their track "Haclyon" has been a particularly striking example - the 1994 "+On + On" version familiar to most listeners is itself a development of the 1993 original, but soon after its release, they started incorporating a sample from Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" into their live performances. Some time after that, they also threw in bits of "You Give Love A Bad Name" by Bon Jovi. Since then, the track has mutated even more, its original darkness morphing into a euphoric unofficial remix of "Heaven Is A Place On Earth". It's still a highlight of their live shows, but liable to come as rather a shock to anyone who just knows the studio version.
* Dutch national treasures The Nits have made evolving music into something of a trademark, with some songs undergoing radical rearrangement for every tour. Sometimes songs are rearranged because of line-up changes, but mostly it's done just because they can.
* [[Five Man Electrical Band]] has two versions of ''I'm A Stranger Here'' and ''Signs'', though all that's really different is one line taken out in the former and the intro shortened in the latter.
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* [[Bawdy Song|The Hedgehog Song]] from ''[[Discworld]]'' novels. See, only the hedgehog... is immune to certain kind of abuse, but there are too much of other animals to list, so the singer usually just picks any that springs to the mind.
* The protagonist of ''[[Forgotten Realms|Finder's Bane]]'' sang "The Toasting Song", where all couplets have in common only the meter and "We toast..." in the first line. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when one joking couplet he made up {{spoiler|falls closer to the situation at hand than he suspected}}.
* In-universe example in ''[[Holes]]'' -- the lyrics to the pig song get changed from the original Latvian when sung in English so that they still rhyme and preserve much of the original meaning.
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** The London production used to have the line above, but it has since changed to "Gordon Brown is only for now", as of writing Gordon Brown had just resigned as PM so expect yet another change in the near future.
** Various regional performances will have different changes to that line.
** Depending on what production, Christmas Eve might say "Chinese Restaurant" instead of "Korean Deli" during It Sucks To Be Me.
** More recent productions tend to change 'Mix Tape' to say 'Mix CD' or 'CD' as often as possible given the change in syllables or meaning.
* ''[[Spamalot]]'' changed the lyrics of ''A Divas Lament'' - in which the female lead mentions not having won any awards - after the show did quite well at the Tony awards.
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