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* She Moves - Breaking All The Rules, like many boy and girl band songs, gear-changes up a whole tone at the bridge.
* "Down with the Sickness" by [[Disturbed]] does this during its final chorus. Once when the guitarist was giving lessons on [[YouTube]], he said plainly "Just play the main riff I just taught you and move up two strings".
* This is a disturbingly common technique used by worship leaders in the Church of Christ, where, in an effort to emphasize a theme or message, the final chorus is raised by, presumably, a half step. However, the proliferation of worship leaders with no formal musical training has led to the idea that you have to do this, completely ruining the effect altogether. Also, they tend to miss the half step and send everyone with any sort of trained ear in the audience into crying fits.
** Quite a lot of Christian music falls victim to this. It's astoundingly common in Contemporary Christian Music, Praise and Worship, and most forms of Gospel music. Some hymnals even contain pre-written modulations for each hymn, which organists can use to raise the final verse up that semitone. To be fair, it can be very tempting for a church musician to reach for this trick, cliché though it can be, since their job is to sustain musical interest while playing the same melody for several stanzas. And when it's done in [[Gospel Choirs Are Just Better|African American Gospel music]], it can be a reminder that [[Tropes Are Not Bad]].
* [[Cheap Trick]]'s "Surrender" modulates right after the intro. And then again just before the last verse.
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** [[Mitch Benn]]'s "Boybands" lampshades this with ''"Off the stools!"''
* Janet Jackson's "Doesn't Really Matter" does this twice in its final choruses.
** "Together Again", by a third.
* Whitney Houston's "How Will I Know" does a gear change a third ''down''.
** And her super-hit [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9nPf7w7pDI "I will always love you"] does a memorable gear up change before the end (''...I wish you love... (hold your breath...) AND IIIIIIII...!'').
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* Deborah Cox's "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" and "I Never Knew". Both key changes are rather awkward, the former does it between the second bridge and second chorus.
* Raffi's cover of "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands."
* Happens in the final verse of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s country-and-western parody entitled (oddly enough) "Truck Driving Song". Considering Al doesn't use this trope in his other original songs, this probably counts as a lampshade hanging.
* "When You Believe" by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston gear-changes twice, from D to E at the second chorus, then from E to F# at the final chorus.
* The final chorus of Never Shout Never's "Can't Stand It" shifts up a semitone.
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* Many [[Disney Animated Canon]] songs, such as "[[Aladdin (Disney film)|A Whole New World]]", which goes up a minor third for Jasmine's half of the song. Even better, it changes keys three times in the stage adaptation, going from E flat to G flat to E to G. The stage version of "Arabian Nights" also has a gear change.
** [[Disney]] songs do this, full stop. "Prince Ali" does it about six times!
* [[Dragon Force (video game)]]'s "Fury of the Storm" and "Heart of a Dragon".
* Sisqo's "Thong Song".
* [[Johnny Cash]]'s "Oney" uses both the traditional semitone variation and then the minor-third version: from A-flat to A to C.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7OyPCYSfLg&playnext=1&list=PLBEB88438F8C9F842&index=15 Stage 7's theme] in ''[[Battle Garegga]]'' shifts up a semitone every time it "loops" (it increases indefinitely [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NS8jaW1iIc if you listen to it in the sound test]), and it starts to become [[Nightmare Fuel]] after a few increases.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=689o0hdcQ5g "Wily's Castle Part 2"] in ''[[Mega Man 2]]'' consists of a 4-bar phrase that shifts up a semitone every cycle, and drops back down after going up a full octave.
** [http://youtu.be/3aBQAHxPsqc Fangora's] [[Kirby's Epic Yarn|theme]] does something similar with a slightly longer period of repeat. Oh, and every other period has a kickass piano slide. The drop down so that it can repeat is really subtle, as well.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA7DgTUKVE4&feature=player_detailpage#t=272s "Asterix" for the NES] makes happy use of this trope, giving the already upbeat and cheerful tune in the first three "Gaul" levels an extra punch after its first loop.
* The themes to ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU99YUZxaBM Dallas]'' and ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TwXyNx4nxk Knots Landing]''.
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* The [[Dream Sequence]] [[Love Song]] "I'd Rather Be Sailing" from the [[The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee|William Finn]] musical ''A New Brain'' features as straight an example of this trope as you can get.
* Buckcherry's "For The Movies" modulates up halfway through the final chorus.
* A "Visit Seoul" campaign had a song by both SNSD and Super Junior called S.E.O.U.L., which featured one of these. This makes the song sound quite bone-chilling.
* Westlife's cover of [[Billy Joel]]'s "Uptown Girl" (the original by the latter doesn't have it). Interestingly, the Westlife cover begins with a lower key than the original, then steps it up to the original's key at the end.
* Billy Joel does have one example: "Tell Her About It", which is in B-flat for the verses and F for the choruses (the outro is the chorus in B-flat).
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* "Sun of Jamaica", the biggest hit of Germany's Goombay Dance Band, goes up a whole step for the final repetition of the chorus, which then fades out.
* Happens in [[Andrea Bocelli|Bocelli's]] "Con Te Partiro," a shift that usually provokes rapturous applause (see: the concert DVD ''A Night in Tuscany''). Donna Summer's [[Translated Cover Version]], "I Will Go With You", also does it.
* Reina's "Find Another Woman" has a double minor third key change from Eb to Gb to A in the final chorus. "Anything for Love" does a traditional semitone modulation from D to Eb.
* DJ Ötzi's songs "Hey Baby" and "Burger Dance" each have a key change a semitone up.
* As an encore to the [[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Misérables]] 25th Anniversary Concert, Colm Wilkinson, Alfie Boe, Simon Bowman and John Owen-Jones (who have all played Jean Valjean in various performances) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-0MS72uHSQ performed "Bring Him Home" as a quartet], and added one about two-thirds of the way through. It's more amusing because [[Throw It In|the song isn't actually performed that way]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaI9BPKhExk in the musical].
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* Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" indulges in a cry of "Gonna take it higher now!" and proceeds to shift up one semitone with all the finesse the trope name implies.
* "I Just Had Sex", by the Lonely Island and featuring Akon, features a upshift towards its conclusion, as everyone joins in.
* In ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', many of the songs include an instance of this. Most notably is near the end "Like a B-Movie". This bit is even amplified on the soundtrack version. It hurts a little.
* Played with in a tiny piano piece by Leoš Janáček called ''Cekám Te!'' (Czech: ''I Am Waiting For You!'') which consists of four four-bar phrases, arranged in a song-like AABA form. The piece is entirely in A major until the last two bars, which abruptly shift to D-flat. However, instead of going on to play the A section again in the new key, the piece just stops abruptly (on the dominant chord!) -- hence the title: it's "waiting for" a phrase in the new key which will never come.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] In Disney's "Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat", which says, "Let's take this to another key, modulate, and wait for me ..."
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