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Line 1: {{trope}}{{Cleanup\|There are duplicate entries between sections, and entirely too many bare URLS that need proper pothole texts.}} ~~{{trope}}~~ [[File:Tumblr_54.jpg\|thumb\|450px\|link=Tumblr\|Yeah, [[Ke$ha\|that was]] [[Memetic Mutation\|a thing]] [[Discredited Meme\|at the time...]]]] Line 24: [[Self-Demonstrating Article\|Self-demonstration]] aside, "filk" is best described as the music of fandom, or at least, the music of the filk community. Songs about SF books or movies, fandom in-jokes, or even just related topics such as computer geeky references are all common sources for filk. And, despite what the self-demonstration says, filk doesn't have to be new words to old music - that's [[To the Tune Of]]. (Nobody would call ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' filk, but the US national anthem uses the tune of ''To Anacreon in Heaven''. The song sometimes considered the "anthem of filk," ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXteSV8rBwY Hope Eyrie]'', has its own original music.) The term is believed to ~~originate~~have originated in the 1960s in an early SF fandom 'zine, where the editor didn't do enough copy editing, and ~~typo'd~~typoed "[[Folk Music]]" as "Filk Music". The term stuck as a way to describe the peculiar style of musicianship, weird humor, and camaraderie of fandom musicians. (Some in the [[Society for Creative Anachronism]] claim it was actually ''their'' word first, and fandom got it from them; given the heavy overlap between SCAdians and fandom both then and now, it's probably a moot point.) Filk has a few general styles: humorous, serious but positive, and depressing and [[angst]]y. The humor is often, but not always, parody (here defined broadly as "new lyrics," not only the ones referencing the originals —- see [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche]]) -- some filkers are specifically parodists, some do both parody and original, and many only do original work. Some even specialize in "refilking," parodying others' original filk songs. Line 44: See also [[Heavy Mithril]], which almost by nature qualifies at least as "found filk," and [[Nerd Core]]. Note there's a related phenomenon in the Second World, called "minstrel song" in Russia. It's also a phenomenon of the fandom, but it's derived from the Soviet tradition of ''bard song'' (which is itself derived from the early XX century Russian ''urban romance'' music). Basically, [[Three Chords and the Truth]] about various fandoms, mostly fantasy (and among fantasy, mostly [[J. R. R. ~~Tolkien\|JRR~~ Tolkien]]). Oh, and it almost never recycles melodies from older music. Not to be confused with [[Suikoden\|Flik]] [[Red Baron\|of the Blue Lightning]]. Line 50: {{examples}} == Filk and Filk Artists of Note == * [~~http~~https://~~www~~web.archive.org/web/20210511033714/http://lesliefish.com/ Leslie Fish], whose name has been described as "practically synonymous with filk." She has what might be the two most famous filk songs of all time: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q50UBIWXvfc "Banned From Argo,"] an original song (and the old [[Trope Namer]] for what is now [[Persona Non Grata]]) describing what happened when the the crew of the ''U.S.S. [[Star Trek\|Enterprise]]'' went on shore leave on the planet of Argo, and the swath of destruction they left in their wake. [[Memetic Mutation\|The piece became so popular]] that Leslie [[Creator Backlash\|eventually became sick of it]], and many other filkers started to follow suit. * Worse, to Leslie's loud but (mostly) good-natured complaint, "Banned from Argo" has been refilked so much, about everything from other ''[[Star Trek]]'' series to other TV shows to SCA storytelling to just [[Hurricane of Puns\|random puns]], that there's an entire songbook, "The Bastard Children of Argo." Line 71: ** For example, Bob took one of Leslie Fish's Kipling tunes and wrote "They're Singing 'Banned From Argo,'" about how many veteran filkers have come to dislike the song from overexposure. One verse states that Leslie Fish has plugged her ears because ''she just doesn't want to hear it.'' And he got Leslie to perform it. * [[League of Legends]] is becoming quite a popular subject, thanks to Riot's [https://web.archive.org/web/20130702152120/http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/songs-summoned-contest-results Songs of the Summoned] contests. Searching "League of Legends songs" on Youtube will get you about 9,500+ hits * [[Mercedes Lackey]] sings and writes filk (or used to), often working with Leslie Fish and Heather Alexander. Recordings are available at [https://web.archive.org/web/20131204100735/http://www.firebirdarts.com/ The Firebird Arts And Music Catalog]. Frequently, Fish or Alexander would, with Lackey's explicit encouragement, take the songs that appeared in her novels and set them to music. In what can only be described as an auto-[[Shout-Out]], Lackey named one of her minor characters Leslac, after the filkish term for a '''Les'''lie Fish-Mercedes '''Lac'''key collaboration. (Naturally, the character was a bard, albeit one who...didn't always get the story right.) Line 81: * 'Helva' : 'For me and my luggage will never meet again on the bonnie bonnie floors of the Worldcon'. * 'Xenaclone' : A whole Highlander/Mikado filk cycle, several 'Firefly' filks and counting... * There's ''[[Honorverse]]'' filk. Including Honor-ified ''Banned from Argo'' and almost inevitable ''I Am the Bleekin' Model of a Treecat Telempathical''. See the results of a filk fest in [[UseNet\|alt.books.david-weber]] [http://www.warriorgoddess.org/weberfilk.html here]. There's a lot of other filk (of varying quality) scattered around Weber's own forum. ** Three known songs from Echo's Children: ''No Quarter'', ''Riding a Tiger'', ''Fair Was The Blossom'' * Echo's Children filk a lot. Aside of ''Honorverse'' songs, they have ''[[Babylon 5]]'' songs (''Annie's Luck'', ''Bested''), ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' songs (''Butterbug Blues'', ''How It Is Applied'', ''Two Falls Out Of Three'') and generally SF&F themed (spaceships, werewolves, etc). Line 97 ⟶ 100: ** David Bowie himsellf frequently did songs with sciece-fiction overtones in his early years. * Since the 1980s, ''[http://www.forbiddenbroadway.com Forbidden Broadway]'' has been parodying current Broadway musicals by using their tunes against them. * ''[[Major-General Song]]'' ("~~The~~I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General~~'s Song~~" from [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'') is practically a filk waiting to happen. Everybody from ''[[ReBoot]]'' to ''[[Animaniacs]]'' to [[Tom Lehrer]] (see below) has rewritten that one, to the point where [[Major-General Song\|riffs of the "The Modern Major-General's Song" have their own trope here]]. Even actual productions of ''Penzance'' tend to play around with the lyrics; see also "I've Got a Little List" from ''[[The Mikado]]''. Other derivatives include ''I Am the Very Model of the Heroine Barbarian'' (''[[Xena]]''), ''[//archiveofourown.org/works/38646 I Am The Very Model of a Teenage Vampire Slayer Girl]'' (''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', of course), ''[//bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=68108.0 I am the very model of a Lyran Social General]'' (''[[BattleTech]]'') and ''[//archiveofourown.org/works/793701 The Very Model of a Modern Cascade Sentinel]'' (''[[The Sentinel (TV series)\|The Sentinel]]''). ''I Am the Very Model of a Drow of Menzoberranzan'', however, does not exist as far as we know ([http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1888&whichpage=7#36566 despite repeated requests] from one [[Forgotten Realms]] author to another). ** In-fandom versions: ''I am the Very Model of a Hawkeye/Coulson Devotee'' [//archiveofourown.org/works/374325/chapters/610438 by '''dizmo''']; ''I Am The Very Model Of A Dedicated Homestuck Fan'' [//archiveofourown.org/works/518634 by '''FallacyFallacy''']; ''The Very Model of a Futuristic Pirate Crew'' (band The Mechanisms as [[Space Pirate]]s?)[//archiveofourown.org/works/1205503/chapters/2462458 by '''machiavellijr''']; ''I Am The Very Model Of A [[NaNoWriMo\|Wrimo]] Individual'' [//writersnotes.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-very-model-of-a-wrimo-individual by '''Errol Elumir''']; ''I Am the Very Model of a Steampunk Who's Victorian'' [//violethugh.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-the-very-model-of-a-steampunk-whos-victorian by '''Violet Hugh''']. * Electronic-postpunk-goth band [[ThouShaltNot]] arguably ventured into filk with their song "If I Only Were A Goth", a minor-key version of "If I Only Had A Brain" from ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)\|The Wizard of Oz]]'' with new, tongue-in-cheek lyrics. * XTC has several songs about [[DC Comics]] characters. "You're Really Super, Supergirl", "Braniac's Daughter" and "Sergeant Rock (Is Going to Help Me)" are three. Line 141 ⟶ 146: * ''It's beginning to look a lot like [[Team Fortress 2\|Dustbowl]]...'' * ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'' has, at this point, well over a dozen of these, all of which has [[Little Kuriboh]] singing in character the entire time. In addition to the songs he's sung for his other series. LK's page has the full list. * Star One. Just...Star One. A [[Progressive Rock\|progressive]] metal supergroup, assembled and fronted by [[Ayreon\|Arjen Anthony Lucassen]], existing solely as a tribute to filmed science fiction. Each song on their one studio album is about a different SF property, from ''[[Outland (film)\|Outland]]'' to ''[[Star Wars]]'' to ''[[Blake's 7]]'', plus a cover of Donovan's highly filk-circle-suitable comedy song "The Intergalactic Laxative." * Cletus T. Judd, of ''I Love Nascar'' fame, is this. * James Clerk Maxwell rewrote Robert Burns' "Comin' Through the Rye" with lyrics about physics and called it "Rigid Body Sings". He used to sing it, accompanying himself on the guitar. If it wasn't enough that he discovered that light was electromagnetic radiation entirely through the power of mathematics, it seems that he did this about 100 years before filk was invented. Line 149 ⟶ 154: * [[Frank Zappa]] wrote at least one song ("Cheepnis") about his love of horrible low-budget science fiction movies. The movie he mentions in his pre-song patter on ''Roxy and Elsewhere'' would show up on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' twenty-five years later. * A number of [[YouTube]] videos, described as "Literal Videos", feature an original song video with the lyrics reworked to describe what is on screen. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA Like this one]. * It seems that [~~http~~https://~~www~~web.archive.org/web/20211230112422/http://warp11.com/ Warp 11] would probably qualify. * There's a song called ''Aquaman's Lament'' which seems to be by a guy named Mark Aaron James... it's pretty excellent, anyway. * When Marni Nixon ("the Ghostess with the Mostest," a great singer famous for having dubbed over many [[The King and I\|great]] [[My Fair Lady\|movie]] [[West Side Story\|musicals]] and never once getting credit) performed at the Hollywood Bowl in ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'' (which itself frequently features filks), she sang a parody of "[[My Fair Lady\|I Could Have Danced All Night]]," called "[[Crowning Moment of Funny\|I Could Have Dubbed Myself]]." Line 158 ⟶ 163: * Not sure if this counts, but... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm63Gmaxlho Crank Dat Druid Boy.] * [http://www.stonefalconproductions.com/noob.htm The Ballad of the Noob], with acompanying [[Machinima]], about a Level 1 noob in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' that takes on a Level 60 character. * [http://www.oxhorn.com Oxhorn "Brand Movies"] is another WOW Machinima maker that does a lot of original music and is soon to release an album of the songs. * [[wikipedia:The Fringemunks\|The Fringemunks]], a parody of [[Alvin and The Chipmunks]] by Seattle musician David Wu, who did two full albums recapping ''[[Fringe]]'' episodes (some punny, such as "The Cure" on the tune of "[[The Cure\|Friday I'm In Love]]"). He also turned "Karma Chameleon" into "[[Lost\|Dharma Inititative]]". * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWz5h4or-yo Fresh Prince of Gotham] Line 171 ⟶ 176: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9kpmDexmEc "I Killed A Guy and I Liked It"] Kate Perry parody. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOpOKe8d9Oc "Filling Out My Death Note"] parody set to [[Eminem]]'s "Cleaning Out My Closet" Whole series spoilers and amateurishly done but the lyrics are funny as hell. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXt5Q4PCfUo Won't give the title], but it's a humorous song intended to take the edge off the events of Episode 35/the beginning of Volume 12, to the tune of the [[~~Doctor~~Dr. ~~Horribles~~Horrible's Sing -Along Blog\|Bad Horse Chorus.]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R-rrn1O2hY The Omega Kawaii L Song], based on [[Final Fantasy VII\|The Omega Kawaii Cloud Song]]. Contains spoilers for the whole series. ** [http://www.youtube.com/user/kpts4tv#p/u/1/6fu2nykadfY This song] from one of the [[Abridged Series]], a parody of Ke$ha's "Tik Tok." Immature, yes, but also quite amusing. * "Madame Butterfly" by Malcolm MacLaren is, needless to say, based on the [[Madame Butterfly\|Puccini opera of the same name]]. * Wumpscut's ''Soylent Green''; you can guess [[Soylent Green\|what this is based on]]. Uses samples from the film's German dub. * [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin\|"Sea Monster Song"]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAvE0AYajk4 a song] by two college students for a school project. It features The Loch Ness Monster, the Kraken, [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs\|dinosaurs that never died out]], [[Mix-and-Match Critters]], [[Sharktopus]], [[Fish People]], and [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks\|Shark Week.]] Warning: it's a total [[Ear Worm]]. * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vG1oVgKzkc Searching For The Golden Eye] by Motiv 8 & Kym Mazelle is based on [[GoldenEye (film)\|\|a certain Bond film]], and even uses the 007 theme's chord progression during the verse. * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Iwio2YH1I Boardwalk Empire State of Mind] by Erik Weiner (aka Agent Sebso). Samples from the show's theme song and the chorus takes off [[Jay Z]]'s "Empire State of Mind". Line 190 ⟶ 195: * [[Snoop Dogg]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8tODhvb47s Oh Sookie]", written for the heroine of ''[[True Blood]]''. * Roughly half of [[Chris Hadfield]]'s recorded work. He's singing about his life; it's the fact that his life includes having commanded the International Space Station that makes some of his music "found filk". * [[Jim's Big Ego]] has in its catalog "The Ballad of [[The Flash\|Barry Allen]]" -- then again, the eponymous Jim is Jim Infantino, nephew of DC Comics artist and ~~edtior~~editor Carmine Infantino, who co-created the Silver Age Flash. * Some big collections floated on Usenet, e.g. Net Bardsong Book. ''Dragon Road'' ("It was on the first of August, out of Amberway") from there was re-filked as ''[http://alluvian.blogspot.com/2011/03/engraverymisguided-and-dwarf-road-song.html Dwarf Road Song]'' in "[ENGRAVERY:MISGUIDED]" series. Fittingly, since the original is about [[Killer Game Master]] on duty, and ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' is about "‼FUN‼". == Somewhere in Between == Line 197 ⟶ 203: Oh, surely not. Lehrer was an old-school piano-bar singer-songwriter of comic and satirical songs, a professional who wrote songs for himself to sing for money. His tunes were mainly original unless he was specifically making fun of some specific thing, and his arrangements are HARD; try playing and singing "Vatican Rag" or "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" if you don't believe it. Also, Lehrer had (or at least professed to have) little respect for the folk music scene, or its style of performance. That said, his music is a regular staple of filksinging circles. * [[Flanders and Swann]] were nearer in the sense that their material was mainly quite easy to sing along to but again, professional performers with no interest in amateur ~~preformance~~performance. * Ditto [[Allan Sherman]]. * [[Voltaire (musician)\|Voltaire]] has his ''[[Star Trek]]'' songs, including the entire album "Banned on Vulcan," as well as the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaD2iqGvn1w "Cantina"] on ''Ookie Spooky.'' (Warning: This is a ''filthy'' song. You'll never see ''[[Star Wars]]'' the same way again.) Voltaire's presence at events such as Dragon* Con put him in this category. Line 209 ⟶ 215: * Guyz Nite wrote [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY a song] about ''[[Die Hard]]'', that was even included in the fourth movie DVD. * [[Touhou Project]] fandom has created an extensive catalog of work that, at least, seems to border on filk: take ZUN's original (instrumental) BGMs and boss themes and add lyrics about the games and the characters. Of course, these songs end up as the [[Memetic Mutation\|breeding ground]] for certain [[Fanon\|creative interpretations]] of said characters. One notable example (particularly when it comes to [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]) is [[IOSYS]]'s interpretations of [[Tsundere\|Alice Margatroid's]] various [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVhtS5cjAv0 stage] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVwstM4vZC8 boss] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0jbvJjTXPw themes], which [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-cT2nDslCs explore] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0_-J-pHNsc her] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qS1kqhhebw feelings] for [[Even the Girls Want Her\|Marisa Kirisame]]. Also, [[IOSYS]] has created songs that are a bit closer to parody-style filk. These range from extremely blatant (being nothing more than outright lyric swaps), such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT99cSIgYjI "Kire Kire Mayoi"] ("Hare Hare Yukai" from ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''), and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBvHiI2ZFrw "Laser Mari Fantasy"] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px2zX-M2alQ "Pegasus Fantasy"] from ''[[Saint Seiya]]''), to the less obvious, like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZQboNNzoPs "Love-Colored Damage Report"] ("Sketch Switch" from ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''), and more recently, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoRdggqTxfE "New Attack Resurrection"] ("only my railgun" from ''[[~~To Aru Kagaku no Railgun\|~~A Certain Scientific Railgun]]''). See [[IOSYS/Trivia\|the IOSYS Trivia page]] for more examples. And not only [[IOSYS]], there were another circles that have done songs that are a bit closer to parody-style filk. For example, Silver Forest has a song called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMK3Yx8xo_A Kaze no Uta], which is a blatant parody to [[Air\|Tori no Uta]], especially at the beginning and ending of the song. Another examples from other circles are: *** From Yellow Zebra, we have various examples. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL6aLEEZOe0 "Shooting Star"] sounds pretty similar to Forever, from [[Elemental Gelade]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLi4slcTmIg "Worlds End"], which sounds pretty much like ETERNAL BLAZE from [[Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha As\|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's]], between others, maybe. Line 223 ⟶ 229: * ''[[The Guild]]''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU "Do You Wanna Date My Avatar"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrN3Rh55uM "Game On"]. * Spider Robinson, as part of a [[Robert A. Heinlein]] tribute essay called "Rah, Rah, R.A.H.", wrote his own filk song, "Ol' Man Heinlein" (to the tune of "Ol' Man River" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein). It can be found in Robinson's anthology ''Time Travelers Strictly Cash''. * ''[[~~Doctor~~Dr. ~~Horribles~~Horrible's Sing -Along Blog]]'' is pretty much an entire filk ''musical''. Then there are the auditions for the Evil League of Evil, many of which contain filks made up by the people auditioning. * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSS-cJu_h7I "Even Gods Cry"] by The Turtlenecks, written about the ''[[God of War (series)\|God of War]]'' games from Kratos' point of view. It seems rather out of place on an album mostly populated with grunge-metal tributes, although it's clear from the lyrics that it's at least somewhat parodic. * [[Abney Park]] Line 230 ⟶ 236: ** Unsurprisingly, then, in ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'', Carrie writes [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=82525 her own filk] to a Janis Joplin tune. * [[Nerd Core]], pretty much as a genre. For example, mc chris, professional nerdcore artist and voice actor best known for his work with [[Adult Swim]], has ''Fett's Vette'', a hip-hop ballad about everyone's favorite ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Memetic Badass]]. * [[Horslips]] were an Irish band, and generally regarded as the inventors of Celtic Metal. "Dearg Doom" is probably ~~theit~~their Crowning Moment Of Awesome; it's a part of a concept album based on The Táin, and somehow manages to kick even more ass than the original legend. They're a difficult one to call, though. There were costumes, electric mandolin solos, Heavy Metal renditions of Traditional Irish Folk tunes and their lyrics embraced Celtic Mythology in the same way many Filkers embrace ''LotR''. But then again, it 'was'' the 1970s. * Rapper Richie Branson [http://www.jefusion.com/2012/02/gundam-wing-hip-hop-mix-tape.html will be releasing] a ''[[Gundam Wing]]''-themed mix tape. * It's an old tradition to tweak marching tunes. Sometimes they are just adapted, and sometimes made into [[Bawdy Song]], [[Gallows Humor]] or something even nastier. ** "[http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_birdsofprey.htm Birds of Prey March]" by [[Rudyard Kipling]], presumably to the tune of [[Crimean War]] song 'Cheer Boys Cheer' or cockney song 'Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road'. * Tabletop crowd won't stay behind LARP, so there are "adaptations", too. From /tg/: [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4762354/ random "boomdiadda boomdiadda"] (''I love the world''), [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7018103/ "Fighter Got Shield"] (''Baby Got Back'') and some more, [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~7403186~~22839538/ "Come gather round clans"] ([~~http~~[Magic: The Gathering]] version of ''The Times They Are A-changin<nowiki>'</~~/suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/8413729/~~nowiki>'' by [[Bob Dylan]]), [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~18043629~~23023418/~~#18045741~~ "I believe in Myrkul!"] (''How Did You Know?'' with them undead), [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~22839538~~24074738/#p24075285 various] re-filks after several links to filk, [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~23023418~~30754093/ "What should we do with a drunken sailor?"] (de-railed, re-railed, drunken thread); [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~24074738~~7403186/ various space related songs] (starts with ''Dawson's Christian'' by [[Leslie Fish]], then goes on); [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~30754093~~25968902/#p25969828 various antagonist themed]. [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~25968902~~20674762/#~~p25969828~~p20677464 Knight drinking song]. [ Song of Damborill] Lich [[Boastful Rap\|Rap Battle]]? [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5315595/ Right here!] [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/8413729/#8414185 Irish songs… with zombies] (The Pogues "Sally MacLennane", and so on). [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/20976897/#p20977717 Skeleton marching song]. Given that ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' is one of the most popular sources for [[Fusion Fic]]s, it really should not be surprising that [https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Grimdark_Songwriting this extends] to songs and musicals (the latter are already goofy enough, after all). * Just in one thread: ''[[My Chemical Romance\|Black <s>Parade</s> Crusade]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2727253/], and then a whole musical, plus [[Memetic Mutation/Tabletop Games\|METAL BAWKSES, Cultist-Chan and Love Can Bloom]], and an illustrated version of ''[[The Lion King\|Be prepared!]]'' (Disney is always better with WAAGH, isn't it). ''[[Major-General Song\|I am the very model of a modern Governor-General]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2727253/#2731396]. Tau<ref>they are "weeaboo" faction</ref> ''[[Pokemon]]'' theme [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2727253/#2732564], Orkified ''[[Darkest of the Hillside Thickets\|20 Minutes Of Oxygen]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2727253/#2733144], etc. * Annuva fread: ''[[Major-General Song\|I am the very model of a modern Governor-General]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3599241], ''[[Springtime for Hitler\|Springtime For Horus]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3599512], ''[[Fiddler on the Roof\|Mekboy on Da Roof]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3600341], ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\|Sweenus Todd]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3600491], ''I'll make a slogga outta you'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3600559] (''I'll Make a Man Out of You''), ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)\|Inquisitor Frollo]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3600714], and ''[[The Lion King\|Be prepared!]]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3600870 again], ''[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3600921 An Harlequin's life for me]'', ''[[Grease\|Greasey Loightnin']]'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3601288], ''IT’S TIME TO TRYYYYYY <s>[[Wicked (theatre)\|Defying Gravity]]</s> BEIN’ MORE OOOORKY!'' [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3602715], ''I Have Confidence'' ([[The Sound of Music\|The Sound Of Bolter]], apparently) [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3603415], ''[[An American Tail\|Somewhere Out There]]'' with [[Memetic Mutation/Tabletop Games\|Cultist-Chan]] [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3604056], ''[[The Great Mouse Detective\|The World's Greatest Criminal]]'', - Orky vershun [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3599161/#3604839]... * [[Manowar\|ManoWAAAGH]]! [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12929447/#12930236 "EVIL SUNZ, EVIL SUNZ LIVIN ON DA ROAD"]. * ~~And~~ [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~6041926~~12746130/ soMore on"Grimdark songwriting"]: ~~(from~~"Eye ~~''By~~of the ~~rising~~Terror" of(to the ~~moon~~tune of ''Eye toof the Tiger''~~[[Aladdin~~), "I'm in a dread" (~~Disney~~''I'm ~~film)\|One~~On ~~Jump~~A ~~Ahead]]~~Boat'') ~~and~~etc. [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7403186/#7405818 onBlack Ships]. [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~12746130~~21145950/ "what do you do with a drunken guardsmen"], [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~13488330~~23289523/ "I love the Whole Board"] (and [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~16346534~~31172536/ repost] with some deviations). And [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/6041926/ so on] (from ''By the rising of the moon'' to ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)\|One Jump Ahead]]''), and [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13561058/ on] ("Rhino Rush. Like a boss", etc), [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~21145950~~13488330/ and on], [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/~~23289523~~16346534/ and on] (various marches), [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/30409619/ and on] ... ** ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' has some too, like Slann [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/18043629/#18045741 version] of ''We Do''.. There's also <s>''God save our Queen''</s> ''Gork save our crazy green'' (seems to have first appeared on a now-defunct board). * There's an entire ''[[Homestuck]]'' themed album ''[//phemiec.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-sad-trolls Songs for Sad Trolls]'' ("Twelve songs about twelve kids with grey skin, orange horns and complicated destinies.") from PhemieC. == Russian/Post-Soviet Minstrels == Line 253 ⟶ 261: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Fan Work~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:~~{{PAGENAME}}~~Fan Works]]▼ [[Category:Derivative Works]] [[Category:Music Tropes]] [[Category:Parody Tropes]] [[Category:Self-Demonstrating Article]] ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]