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* 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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== Other ==
* This actually became a fad on [[YouTube]], especially with [[
** Now there are videos to counter this, called "X DOES Y WHILE I PLAY QUITE FITTING MUSIC."
*** Like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cszjPuYnyKU this] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJajHAl4T6I this]. (There's also a wonderful [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic recut trailer for Mary Poppins] made two months previously.)
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGk4PC2eUmg ''Battleship Potemkin'', with a Parliament Funkadelic soundtrack.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsEvbwZbI4I ''Phantom Of The Opera'' playing] ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsEvbwZbI4I The Entertainer]''.
* [[
* ''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]]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]?
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* The Internet meme of Rickrolling, which is the use of a falsely advertised video that, when viewed, actually runs audio of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", falls under this trope, because in a piece of irony in relation to the lyrics, the viewer ''is'' being let down.
* The ''entire point'' of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL9Qcbh-vxw Inappropriate Soundtracks.]
* The whole Billy Herrington meme from Nicovideo. Anime and video game music combined with gay wrestling? Pretty dissonant stuff.
* [http://www.imeem.com/amvcenter/video/h4ZPaz-Z/zarxrax-amv-hell-4-the-last-one-comedy-video/ AMV Hell] derives a lot of humor from this.
* [[Let's Play|Lets Player]] [[Deceased Crab]] plays with this in his videos of the Flash Games [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOxzZ8Iln8s Don't Look Back] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=240teOagPhk I Was In The War]. {{spoiler|He switches the games' soundtracks, having a jarring effect on their atmosphere.}}
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* 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.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_1b5uK9Xoc Don't Russian Me Now.] A controversial level in [[Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare 2]] set to Don't Stop Me Now by ''Queen''. Though really, you [[Chaotic Evil|can't spell slaughter without laughter.]]
* The 1984 song, "Yo, Little Brother" is about the older brother finding out the titular little brother has gotten into the wrong crowd that he himself escaped from in the past. The ''music video'' on the other hand had the older brother looking like a 1950s child version of [[Max Headroom]], the little brother like a 7-year-old [[Billy Idol]] and the "wrong crowd doing things they shouldn't oughta do" are [[WTH Casting|a kid dressed up as Prince (that can't dance,) a mini-Rick Ocasek, a mini-Bruce Springsteen and a mini-Cyndi Lauper (that would've made a better Boy George,)]] who simply play Charades. Aside from a more [[Lighter and Softer]] approach to the song, it was a prequel to [[Milli Vanilli]] as the kid in the video, Nolan Thomas was lipsynching Elan Lanier's song in an obnoxious case of [[Executive Meddling]].
* ''Goodbye To You'' an early 1980s song (by Scandal) covered some 20 years later by The Veronicas, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCg1q0h1PP0 used here] to advertise ''{{spoiler|birth control pills!}}''
* Used to deliberate effect in [[Devo]]'s "Beautiful World" video: The lyrics about how wonderful humanity is were meant to be read as sarcasm [[Isn't It Ironic?|despite the happy melody]]. However, it's still unsettling to see the prominently used stock footage gradually go from idyllic suburban life, fashion shows, and dance parties to Klan rallies, riots, starving children, and nuclear bomb test footage, all while the lyrics keep going on about how the world is a "sweet romantic place" backed by chirpy synthesizers.
* The disturbingly calm and romantic background music in the [[Brain Bleach|2 Girls]] 1 Cup video.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lma2xqVOrfE Chin-chillin...]
* Legendary example of bad writing [[My Immortal]] has soundtrack dissonance in [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/the-sage/fanfic-theatre/15170-ep012a Bennett the Sage's Fanfic Theatre] . As he's reading, you can hear Vivaldi's Four Seasons playing in the background. Amazingly, not even Vivaldi can make this fic sound any better.
** 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' ''[[
* 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.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZXoZbvq9s NHL player Clint Malarchuk gets his throat cut on-ice] (warning: very graphic) while an extremely ill-timed commercial for Buick plays over the arena sound system.
* How about a literature one? In [[The Dresden Files|Dead Beat]], Harry Dresden literally powers an undead Tyrannosaurus Rex using the power of polka, care of Waldo Butters, a little pathologist in a one-man-band polka suit.
* In the world of (North American) commercials, Celebrity Cruises is still the reigning king of soundtrack dissonance. Its first "wrong" song moment was with their commercial featuring Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life", a song about heroin addiction. Its second "wrong" song moment was with their commercial featuring "Fame" by [[David Bowie]], a song he wrote about the perils and emptiness of fame.
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* [http://youtu.be/bWxS9MNo4jA Just to kiiiiss youuuu...]
* Occasionally done in the ''Classic Game Room'' [[YouTube]] videos where cheerful music plays over scenes of extreme gore and violence. Here's an [http://youtu.be/zpHNqOcM2jo example].
* [http://youtu.be/f2nwzlzR04c This] extended version of a scene in {{spoiler|''The Avengers'' where the Hulk beats the ever-loving snot out of Loki}} features banjo music in the background.
* [[Mitch Hedberg]] had a joke about this phenomenon, where he jokingly talked about how [[We Are the World]] reminded him of the time he fucked his girlfriend in a pet cemetery.
* [[YouTube]] user dprjones uses this trope to great effect (from time index 9:44 to the end of the video) when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKi6yoYwaI showing just how badly the religious gloss over the atrocity of Noah's Flood.] If you don't have time to watch it, the music is a cheery children's song about loading animals onto the ark, with documentary footage of floods and the resulting corpses.
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* 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.
{{quote|"The Muzak wasn’t; it was an 80s selection with pop songs you’ve heard a million times, and leaves you with the haunting image of an old woman, elegantly dressed, studying a row of pickles while [[Michael Jackson]] insists that he’s bad." -- [http://lileks.com/bleat/?p{{=}}6196 James Lileks]}}
** This Troper once heard 'Shoplifters Of The World Unite' by The Smiths while browsing in a convenience store.
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** Philadelphia teams rally around "Eye of the Tiger," because 1. The Rockey movies were filmed in Philadelphia, and 2. Philadelphia teams are perennial underdogs, having endured a 25 year championship drought until the Phillies won the 2008 World Series. It even showed up in 2009 with the fact that the defending champions were considered the underdog, despite having a team nigh identical to the one they had just won the championship with. Yeah, the Yankees won, but they should never have been considered the favorites in that scenario.
** The Yankees do that at every home game, regardless of who they're playing.
* Wind-up and pull-string musical toys tend to go this way, particularly if they're of the cheap dollar store variety. This troper has seen tons of pull-string toys that plays ''Fur Elise'', contrasting the cute antropomorphic shell of the musical toy. However, some of the brand name ones also fall into this category: this troper also owns a pull-string musical duck that plays ''How Much Is That Doggie In The Window'' that's made by Chicco. What does a duck has to do with a dog, this troper doesn't understand.
** Interestingly, that's similar to the setup for the famous [[Only Fools and Horses]] episode "A Touch of Glass", AKA "the falling chandelier episode"; long before the chandeliers are even mentioned, Del Boy has just bought a massive shipment of gaudy cat ornaments which play ''How Much Is That Doggie in the Window'', an incongruity which leads Rodney to be less confident than Del that they will be able to sell the cats at a profit.
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwT-RbU03vc And now, the same thing], with a [[Babar]] musical toy. This hits home as Soundtrack Dissonance because ''How Much Is That Doggie In The Window'' is the last thing you'd expect from a toy featuring elephants.
* There's a peppy jazz number called "I'm gonna Kill You Just For Fun".
* Apparently some older computers [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/261186 would play] "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" as an indication that your CPU fan or your computer's power supply was failing.
* During the Olympics in China, there were some Visa commercials (I think) that showed the usually happy victory scenes. The Soundtrack was the piano "chorus" from Sia's ''Breathe Me'', which is a song about a person who self-harms crying for help.
* a [[wikipedia:Jazz funeral|jazz funeral]] displays this.
* The Muzak remained on in the plaza at the World Trade Center on September 11. A cop described the eerie sensation of being there with no people around and no sounds except for that, sirens in the distance, and debris falling to earth...as well as people jumping from the windows.
* There is a music box/water globe trinket that features ocean waves and happy dolphins that plays the song "Amazing Grace". Keep in mind that the man who wrote this song nearly died in a shipwreck....
* On Christmas Day of 1975, Francisco Macías Nguema, dictator of Equatorial Guinea, executed 150 alleged plotters in a national stadium while a band played "Those Were The Days".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk& Susan Boyle's premier.] As she sings a song about the death of dreams and how horrible real life is...well, you just have to look at the reactions to see the dissonance. Hell, [[The Mean Brit|Simon and Piers]] are smiling. That's mind-screwing dissonance in itself.
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* Coldplay tended to get this a lot in recent years, probably because TV producers know they're popular without actually listening to their songs. One particularly egregious example was during the 2008 Academy Awards, where "Viva La Vida" (a song about a tyrant's fall from grace) was played over a montage of Jerry Lewis' movies and telethons for disabled children. Uh, what?
* ''[[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.
{{quote|''Oh du lieber Augustin alles ist hin!''/ Oh dear Augustin everything's gone!}}
* You can [[Invoked Trope|invoke]] this at any time.
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