Fake-Out Fade-Out: Difference between revisions

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Not to be confused with [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]. Compare [[Stop and Go]], where the music just suddenly stops for a second or two without bothering to pretend that the song's ending.

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* ''[[The Comic Strip Presents]]: Consuela''. Happy ending, credits roll, needle zip, more stuff, sad ending, credits roll.

* Not the same scene, but [[Lost]]'s second season finale seemingly ends with a fade out of Claire and Charlie...and then it fades back in somewhere in the Arctic, where two people {{spoiler|discover the Island}}.

 

== [[Music]] ==

* [[The Beatles]]' "Helter Skelter" fades out and then fades in again twice.

** "Happiness is a Warm Gun" has a slight variation of this: in the end, it goes like:

** "Strawberry Fields Forever" does this because the band went out of time before the final mellotron section, so George Martin added the fadeout and -in to cover up the bad bit.

** "I'm Only Sleeping". The Beatles love this trope.

** "Rain" sort of combines this with [[Stop and Go]], after the line "Can you hear me?" Rather than a fadeout, everything comes to a crashing halt...then resumes for a proper fade after a [[Beat]].

* [[Brooks and Dunn]]'s song "Indian Summer" provides a jarring example. It's a slow, wistful song about a schoolgirl who was impressed by a football player's skillful performance at a hometown game, and ended up sleeping with him, only to have her life ruined when he bragged about it to his friends afterwards. This is, of course, fatal to one's reputation in a small town, and she ended up having to drop out and move across the country to start over. At the end, the singer regretfully admits that he was the [[Jerk Jock]] and now, looking back on it, he wonders if things might have been different had he acted differently. Fade out... a perfect place to end. And then it jumps back in with a strong guitar slide and one last exultant rehash of the chorus, about how cool the whole experience was.

* The ''[[Homestar Runner|Taranchula]]'' song "Moving Very Slowly."

* [[Brad Paisley]]'s "Me Neither": A guy at a bar keeps trying to pick up this girl, and she keeps turning him down, so he [[Like a Weasel|pretends that he didn't really want to either and he was just testing her.]] In the end, he's finally ready to give up.

* big long instrumental to finish up* }}

* [[Queens of the Stone Age]] loves this, as well as "false endings" in general.

* [[Terry Jones]]'s [[Monty Python]] song "I'm So Worried" does this twice.

* [[Green Day]]'s music video for "21 Guns" does this.

* Ditto "We Know Who Our Enemies Are" by mewithoutYou.

* "I Never" by [[Rilo Kiley]] seems to end at an appropriate spot...but then just dives right back in.

* [[Flaming Lips]]' "Scratching The Door" turns this into an [[Overly Long Gag]], fading out then fading back in about 4 times over the course of it's final two minutes, before finally settling on sort of a [[Last-Note Nightmare]] instead (Michael Coyne shrieking "LET ME IN!")

* Probably the [[Ur Example]]: "Do You Love Me" by The Contours from 1962.

* Lisa Ono's version of Saliane had this at the near-end. The song ends abruptly (not fading, though) and then continued again.

* Freaky Chakra's "Blacklight Fantasy", the final track on the titular album.

* "Smooth" by The Kentucky Headhunters does this. It starts to fade out during a solo but then fades back in.

* Nickel Creek's "Can't Complain" appears to be fading out with the same peaceful string dirge it faded in with, until Chris Thile startles the listener with a sudden, raspy shout of "NO, SHE CAN'T COMPLAIN!"

* Can’s “Bel Air” fades out, fades back in and continues for two more minutes before finally fading for good.

* [[Supertramp]]’s “Lover Boy” fades out before coming in, at [[Scare Chord|full volume]], with one final verse.

* [[Radiohead]]'s "I Might Be Wrong" fades out near the end before returning with a subdued instrumental section.

* "She Said" by Barclay James Harvest.

* "Animal" by [[Def Leppard]]. Nice power-chord-laden chorus and then a sudden stop, right where you think it should end. There's a pause just ''barely'' long enough for the reverb to dissipate, and then...FULL-FLEDGED CHORUS REPRISE. Joe Elliot, the lead singer, chuckles slightly at the end, possibly [[Lampshaded Trope|lampshading]] this.

* "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry seems to end when the car noises come...and then the song starts up again, repeating the first three verses.

* [[The Bangles]]' "Waiting For You" fades out, fades in for a 30 second instrumental, then fades out again.

* [[My Chemical Romance]]'s "Kids From Yesterday" fades out completely, and then two secs later, it comes again with a similar, if not exactly, sound like on the beginning.

* [[Midnight Oil]]'s "Read About it" doesn't ''fade'' so much as it appears to end. Then, following a pause, returns with a reprise of the first verse.

** "Rope" does it twice, one at 2:45, and the other at 4:00.

* Hüsker Dü's "Ice Cold Ice" fades out and after a couple seconds of silence, there's a final loud guitar chord.

* Buckner & Garcia's "Do The Donkey Kong" from their ''Pac-Man Fever'' album.

* MGMT's "Kids" fades out almost completely before a sudden reprise of the chorus. Amusing when it fakes out people dancing in clubs.

* [[Kiss]]'s "I Love It Loud"

* [[Arctic Monkeys]]' "Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But..."

* Les Baxter's hit '50s instrumental "The Poor People of Paris" has one of these.

* [[Alabama]]'s "Jukebox in My Mind" comes to its natural conclusion...then a second later, we hear the sound of a coin inserted in a jukebox, then a needle on an LP, and then the song starts up again.

** Former lead singer ZP Theart used to do this live, holding the last note of "Heroes of Our Time" for absurd lengths of time.

* Most of [[Deep Purple]]'s songs have more or less a full repeat, not counting the coda but often including the intro.

* The [[Modest Mouse]] song "Ocean Breathes Salty" stops for a second after a climactic noise at 2:40, and then restarts to finish about a minute later.

* Italian band [[I Nomadi]] (literally "The Nomads") did this with their song, ''"Là dove stanno gli dei"'' (literally, again, "There, where the gods are"): at a certain point (around the 4:00 mark) the music stops abruptly... only to start again with a quick fade-in. Not As Annoying As It Sounds.

* [[The Ramones]]' "53rd & 3rd" does this, though without a literal fade-out.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiHIyqgAteI "Rock is Sponge"] by Joujouka, famously featured in the fourth stage of ''[[Rez]]'', does this during the mid-track breakbeat. The version heard in-game omits this section.

* The original extended mix of Binary Finary's "1998" does this at the point where the radio edit ends.

* "Pasadena" by The New Temperance Seven seems to end after a long instrumental break, then comes in again with a slightly shorter instrumental break, stops again and finally ends with a short riff.

* "Long Agos and Worlds Apart" by The Small Faces.

* "Summergirl" by The Mayfield Four stops quite abruptly, then just as you're about to turn off the stereo it comes back in again, and after a brief instrumental interlude treats you to a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] from singer Myles Kennedy (later of [[Alter Bridge]]): a soaring wail so high and held so long (F#5 and 22 seconds, to be precise) it sounds positively superhuman.

* Textbook example by Electric Six in "Waste of Time and Money", where it fades out at the end...only for another blast of music to come in afterwards, then it ends for real.

* [[Joe Walsh]], "Second Hand Store" from ''But Seriously, Folks''.

 

* In ''[[Ray Crisis]]'', "Son Dessein" starts to fade out at one point, then [[Last-Note Nightmare|cuts to the next section]] with a [[Scare Chord]], at least on the OST.

* The credits start rolling in ''[[Resident Evil Outbreak]]'' shortly before the [[True Final Boss]] fight.

* The end of the single player campaign in [[Modern Warfare 2]], right before the credits.

* In ''[[Call of Duty]]'' 3, at the end of the first level, the battle seems to come to an end, the squad is in a house having a break, the screen starts fading out... {{spoiler|just before a tank shell bursts the wall of the house open}}.

** Inverted at the beginning of {{spoiler|Figure Fighter 2}}, where gameplay begins before the visuals even fade ''in''.

 

* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Put My Head On Your Shoulders" ends with a heart-shaped [[Iris Out]] on Bender claiming that the events on the episode [[I Meant to Do That|were just as he planned]]. Suddenly, Leela calls him out and the scene irises in again. The episode then ends on another heart iris... on Bender's exploding butt.

* Done while [[Beavis and Butthead]] watched the Godley & Creme video "Cry".

'''Beavis''': AAAAH! STOP IT! }}

** Found the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM3s2k1BvQ4 clip].

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