Soundtrack Dissonance/Other Media: Difference between revisions

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== Advertisements ==

* This strikes me as a classy ad for [[Brand X|Tamon Whiskey]]. Nice quiet uplifting music in a cozy local village pub atmosphere. Now start paying attention at the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIETjZM-y7c 0:25] mark<ref> This was aired recently by IQ, a Swedish organization for "smarter views on alcohol".</ref>.

* This strikes me as a classy ad for [[Brand X|Tamon Whiskey]]. Nice quiet uplifting music in a cozy local village pub atmosphere. Now start paying attention at the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIETjZM-y7c 0:25] mark.<ref>This was aired recently by IQ, a Swedish organization for "smarter views on alcohol".</ref>

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duSGxOwuqNI This] camera commercial from HP features [http://www.metrolyrics.com/pictures-of-you-lyrics-the-cure.html ''Pictures of You''] by The Cure, a song about missed opportunities and the sadness of having nothing at all left except the pictures.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggvObMOcrRg This ad] for a local digestive cure center has a backscore better suited for a late night phone sex hotline ad.

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* The ''[[Gorillaz]]'' video for El Manana depicts air-pirates destroying the band's floating windmill while a band member runs for her life. Most of the video is pretty action packed and it ends on a cliffhanger. Despite this, the song is very somber and soothing.

** This also happens in the "sequel" video, On Melancholy Hill. The video fits the music for the most part except for the opening in which the aforementioned bandmate takes her revenge agaisnt the air pirates, shooting them down with a machine gun. The song is pretty mellow as well.

* [[Devo]]'s music video Beautiful World may codify this trope for music video—a song that sounds happy and upbeat, at first set to cherry images of dancing women and sci-fi future, quickly takes a turn towards war footage, and race riots. [[Humans Are ~~Bastards~~|"It's a beautiful world,"]] indeed.

* [[Devo]]'s music video Beautiful World may codify this trope for music video—a song that sounds happy and upbeat, at first set to cherry images of dancing women and sci-fi future, quickly takes a turn towards war footage, and race riots. [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|"It's a beautiful world,"]] indeed.

* [[My Chemical Romance]]'s video for SING can be called a similar case to El Manana, the song itself is upbeat and somewhat encouraging, the video shows the Killjoys blasting their way through BL/ind HQ to save the little girl, the girl makes it out alive, but the Killjoys all die doing so.

* [[Rammstein]]'s video for [http://vimeo.com/31836365 "Mein Land"] is an [[Inverted Trope|inversion]]: music is your typical Rammstein, but it's set to a stereotypical American beach party from [[The Fifties]], with the band dressed as [[Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist|Hawaiian Shirted Tourists]]. Also, there are shots of [[Mr. Fanservice|Till as a lifeguard]].

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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* The demons of ''[[Exalted]]'' are truly, thoroughly fucked up. How do we know this? Lots of reasons, really, but the most relevent to this page is the Organ of Agonies, a musical instrument that you strap innocent victims into before ~~playing--which~~ it will then ''slice, bludgeon, stretch, and mangle to death, making paradoxically beautiful music out of their agonized screams.''

* The demons of ''[[Exalted]]'' are truly, thoroughly fucked up. How do we know this? Lots of reasons, really, but the most relevent to this page is the Organ of Agonies, a musical instrument that you strap innocent victims into before playing—which it will then ''slice, bludgeon, stretch, and mangle to death, making paradoxically beautiful music out of their agonized screams.''

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* [[Screw Attack]] present: All of the fatalities in ''[[Mortal Kombat]] II'' to the tune of Baby Elephant Walk!

* ''Les Trois Accords'', a Québecois parody rock band, seems to embrace this trope and [[Surreal Music Video]] in their videoclips. Examples include [http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd2e0Sv2J9k ninjas and country music], [http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=mtToc5EmSho hawaiian music in a winter background] and [http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=4bLuSbQ2P_s just plain surrealism].

* Some [[Fan Vid]] makers appear to be deliberately [[Invoked Trope|Invoking]] or [[Stealth Parody~~|Stealth Parodying~~]] this by putting serious content to upbeat, [[Tastes Like Diabetes|even saccharine]] songs; For example, [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Hare Hare]] [[Halo]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6UzR1WCsXM anyone]? How about ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' to Caramelldansen, as in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NRcNyI6ljA Macabredansen]?

* Some [[Fan Vid]] makers appear to be deliberately [[Invoked Trope|Invoking]] or [[Stealth Parody]]ing this by putting serious content to upbeat, [[Tastes Like Diabetes|even saccharine]] songs; For example, [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Hare Hare]] [[Halo]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6UzR1WCsXM anyone]? How about ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' to Caramelldansen, as in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NRcNyI6ljA Macabredansen]?

* An old ''[[Doctor Who]]'' comic features a mercenary who can't get an annoyingly cheerful song out of his head, later realising that he'd got his headset stuck on playing it after it comes off after he'd been shot after mortally wounding a friend of the Doctor. The Doctor shoots the headset.

** The tune in question, just for the record, is "We'll Meet Again" by Dame Vera Lynn, already touched on on this very page.

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* During the credits of Brad from 4PlayerPodcast's Lets Play of Silent Hill 4 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ15n95C6UA\] he plays 'Come On Eileen' by Dexy's Midnight Runners, not only does this clash with the general mood of the game (though not of the Let's Play as it is Brad), he gets an ending where {{spoiler|Eileen Galvin dies}}.

* Though it can't actually be heard, one chapter of ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'' has Nny go on a murder spree... while listening to "Ode to Joy".

* This occured (belive it or not) in the [[Newspaper Comic]] ''[[Doonesbury]]'', when a pair of gay radio commentators wed on an airplane which just happened to hold a gay men's choir, who serenaded them with "I Want It That Way" by The Backstreet ~~Boys -- a~~ ''breakup song''. {{spoiler|They divorced a few years later, though they still work together.}}

* This occured (belive it or not) in the [[Newspaper Comic]] ''[[Doonesbury]]'', when a pair of gay radio commentators wed on an airplane which just happened to hold a gay men's choir, who serenaded them with "I Want It That Way" by The Backstreet Boys—a ''breakup song''. {{spoiler|They divorced a few years later, though they still work together.}}

** And a much sadder one: when Andy Lippincott dies of AIDS, the last panel of the comic shows him slumped in bed as the Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice" plays in the background.

* ''XKCD'' provides an [http://xkcd.com/400/ Important Life Lesson] on why not to use shuffle on a background music player.

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** A lot of the dramatic readings he does fit this trope, considering the content of the fics.

* [[Star Wars|the Battle of Hoth]] with the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr_hMbbrr5U Coca-Cola X-mas] theme? It's [[Better Than It Sounds]].

* This seasons' ''[[Myth Busters]]'' ~~commercials -- destruction~~ set to the tune of ''Ave Maria''.

* This seasons' ''[[Myth Busters]]'' commercials—destruction set to the tune of ''Ave Maria''.

* Averted quite well in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p6MOiY7FM4 seasonal commercial about the plight of homeless during the holidays]. It begins playing the classic "I'll Be Home For Christmas", which seems rather dissonant considering the focus is a man with no home at all, but ends with the song's most poignant line "if only in my dreams".

** Most people forget this song was echoing the thoughts of American troops during World War I, who had hoped in vain to return home in time for Christmas.

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** Somehow averted in U2's most recent tour. Concerts begin with "Space Oddity" and contain a recording of astronaut [[wikipedia:Mark Kelly (astronaut)|Mark Kelly]] while in space. Kelly speaks to the audience and quotes "Tell my [[wikipedia:Gabrielle Giffords|wife]] I love her very much she knows."

* Similar to, and perhaps serving as inspiration for the ''[[Schindler's List]]'' example listed under the Films section, there are chilling real-life accounts of groups of Holocaust victims being forced to run nude in a field, then shot by Nazi soldiers, all while classical music or peppy, patriotic pop songs were played over a speaker system.

* Way back during 'Nam, Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" was never played, even on Christmas time. The only time it was played was on the American radio station in Saigon during Operation Frequent Wind, on April ~~29th~~, 1975. Why? The song was meant to signal US personnel to immediately get to the various evacuation points, because the city was about to come under fire. Saigon fell the next day.

* Way back during 'Nam, Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" was never played, even on Christmas time. The only time it was played was on the American radio station in Saigon during Operation Frequent Wind, on April 29, 1975. Why? The song was meant to signal US personnel to immediately get to the various evacuation points, because the city was about to come under fire. Saigon fell the next day.

** Somewhat similarly, the signal for Portugal's [[wikipedia:Carnation Revolution|Carnation Revolution]] almost a year to the day earlier (25 April 1974) was [[Silly Love Songs|Portugal's entry]] for the [[Eurovision Song Contest]]. The revolution was nearly bloodless, but it ''could'' have gotten quite bloody if the forces loyal to the regime had opted to make it so.

* Often happens with background music in stores.