Soundtrack Dissonance/Other Media: Difference between revisions

* Reputedly, at least one news company used David Bowie's "Space Oddity" for the Apollo 11 landing. Which seems appropriate when you consider it's a song about an astronaut on a trip to space. Until, of course, you get to the final verse which seems chilling when you consider there was a real danger the two astronauts who landed on the moon might not have been able to back to the ship: ''Ground control to Major Tom/Your circuit's dead -- there's something wrong...''

** ''Space Oddity'' gets this a lot. The BBC introduced a series of school-related programmes with an advert that showed a child being dressed as an astronaut and launched into a symbolic 'universe' while ''Space Oddity'' played.

* 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.

** 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.

** This Troper once heard 'Shoplifters Of The World Unite' by The Smiths while browsing in a convenience store.

* During the team intros for 2009 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies at New Yankees Stadium, [[Star Wars|The Imperial March]] was played for the Phillies while the Yankees got the intro theme. I'm sure there's a lot of people who think someone switched the songs since it's not the Phillies who're called [[Fan Nickname|the Evil Empire]] and just got a bigger, better, more advanced <s> planet-destoyer</s> baseball stadium...

* ''[[Cracked.com]]'' presents: [http://www.cracked.com/article_18990_6-pieces-music-that-mean-opposite-what-you-think.html 6 Pieces of Music That Mean The Opposite of What You Think].

* [[Standard Snippet]] ''Oh/Ach du lieber Augustin'' is usually played while [[Oktoberfest|sterotypical Germans]] are eating drinking and celebrating. Despite the upbeat melody [[Lyrical Dissonance|the lyrics]] are telling a story set in plague-ridden, [[Older Than They Think|late 17th century]] Vienna, mass graves included.

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