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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* Happens in ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'', of all shows.
* At one point in ''[[Bleach]]'', Ichigo's [[Theme Music Power-Up]] starts up against Aizen, but then cuts out when his attack is blocked.
* ''[[Lucky Star]]'' often fades out the background music like this. For example, the cake buffet scene where it fades as the girls go from [[Food Porn|moaning in delight]] over all the cake they're eating to moaning in pain as they get full and still have a lot more to finish before their time is up to avoid getting charged for "an excessive amount of leftovers".
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* Used for dramatic effect in ''[[Apollo 13]]''. At the beginning of the mission, the music was full speed, everyone was happy, and all was right with the world. By the time the tape recorder was running out of battery power, the astronauts were in serious trouble.
* Another dramatic use is in ''<nowiki>[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]</nowiki>'' when HAL 9000 sings "Daisy Bell" (better known as the "Daisy, Daisy" song, or "A Bicycle Built For Two"). It is an indicator that HAL's mind is going. He can feel it.
* ''[[Monty Python and
* Happens in [[Not Another Teen Movie]] every time a dramatic moment [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|is made awkward]].
** {{spoiler|"No need to wear blindfolds when we're jerking each other off!" * music fizzles out* }}
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== [[Music]] ==
* The use of this trope by [[Aaron Copland]] in the Hoe-Down from "Rodeo" is occasionally seen as brilliant, and occasionally seen as [[Narm]].
* The song "Tik Tok" by [[Kesha]] uses this effect on the word "tipsy", appropriately enough, as well as the final "shut us dooooown". She uses it a lot in her music, to "Self Bleep" herself and such.
* Brian Eno did a brilliant version of this trope by having a band, in entirely separate rooms, playing "Nearer My God To Thee." Every single musician was counted in simultaneously, and thus they started in sync, but they were each left to keep their own time thereafter, with the result that they drifted eerily apart, until each one was given an individual dim. to fade. The idea was not to play it for comedic effect, but to recreate the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'', if someone had managed to record the band as she went under. Hauntingly beautiful, and kinda eerie.
** That's actually a composition called "The Sinking of the Titanic" by [http://www.gavinbryars.com/Pages/titanic_point.html Gavin Bryars], though the original recording was on Eno's label. Bryars's idea is that the band keeps playing even after the ship has sunk, with the sound being dissipated by the underwater acoustics.
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