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Invisible Backup Band
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It's time for a character to display his incredible musical talent! They walk onto the empty stage, pick up a mic. An audience gathers in anticipation. Then he/she begins to sing and... Whoa! Where'd this choir and ten-piece band come from? It's the Invisible Backup Band! When a single character begins to sing a capella or play a musical instrument, he will immediately be accompanied by suitable background instrumental parts, backup vocals, or even a full symphony orchestra (and maybe even some neat stage light effects) with no conceivable source in the story universe. Piano, guitar, sax, gospel choir... you name it and it will be a member of the Invisible Backup Band. Every musical thrives on this concept. Let's say the musical is set in the tropics. The singer is walking alone in a desert island; not a person is in sight. They hum the opening bars of a song and a few measures later their vocals are harmonized and a full band begins to play. This isn't realistic, but we are OK with it, because accompaniment and backup instrumentals make the vocal leads richer and more enjoyable. May or may not accompany Magic Music. Compare Summon Backup Dancers. |
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Road to Zanzibar discusses this together with Mickey Mousing in Conversational Troping during an Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date which ends with Bing Crosby conducting the invisible orchestra to accompany him while he sings the Love Theme: | |
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Lampshaded with Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop as the episode's guest stars. Shari, Lamb Chop, and Big Bird sing the song "Perfect as a Pig" to Suey the Pig to boost her confidence in being a pig. When the invisible choir echoes the last line of every voice, all four look around for the source and give each other confused looks. | |
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Justified in Symphogear as a secondary function of the girls' Disco Tech armor. | |
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The titular character of Kobato. uses hers in the first episode. She's accompanied not only by a piano, but also by synth effects, a spotlight, and flower petals. | |
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Wild Rebels gives the (anti-)hero a horn accompaniment as he plays guitar for the love interest in the forest. | |
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Sesame Street: Lampshaded with Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop as the episode's guest stars. Shari, Lamb Chop, and Big Bird sing the song "Perfect as a Pig" to Suey the Pig to boost her confidence in being a pig. When the invisible choir echoes the last line of every voice, all four look around for the source and give each other confused looks. Frequently, the characters will call out "Music maestro!" or "Hit it!" when cueing their invisible orchestra. One episode instead had Baby Bear about to sing a song, asking someone off-screen to hit the play button on the music player. |
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Parodied a bit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (of course). Any time Herbert even mentions wanting to sing, music starts to play. —Only to be followed by his father Letting the Air out of the Band | |
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Another lampshade hanging: The Music Meister from Batman: The Brave and the Bold had brass and strings for him during one song, synth for another, and crunchy guitar and piano for yet another, even though he had no visible means of producing that music until his big finale when he was standing in front of a giant stereo system. | |
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Happens several times in Camp Rock, most noticeably when Shane is singing to Mitchie by the lake. This is very Narmy as the movie is heavily promoted as not being a musical but a "movie with music". | |
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Spellbound! Magical Princess Lil'Pri does this whenever they "Himechen" (the shows name for their transformation). | |
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In Turning Red, after 4*Town starts singing to contribute to the second red moon ritual, background instruments can be heard despite their stage being destroyed and presumably most of their audio equipment. | |
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It pops up in Dragon Age: Origins, in a scene at the camp. | |
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In Macross Frontier, when Ranka begins to sing in public for the first time, initially you can see a guitarist at a nearby music shop add some of his strings to her performance (it helps that she's singing a very popular and well-known song). This doesn't, however, explain the full drums and keyboard accompaniment. | |
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Averted in Gitaroo Man. On every stage, the background music is provided by a trio of kids dressed in animal costumes. They only have a pair of cymbals, a ukulele, and an accordion, but somehow they're able to provide the entire soundtrack on their own. According to their in-game bio, being a backup band is their sworn duty. | |
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This happens quite a bit in Ar tonelico, whenever one of the Reyvateils sings, thanks to their Song Server manifesting the song right as they imagine it, while they sing the main melody. | |
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In Twin Peaks, James' song he sings while playing guitar in the episode "Coma" has bass and percussion come out of nowhere halfway through. | |
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Subverted in There's Something About Mary: Every time the theme music was played, a breakaway shot showed two musicians, normally playing from an implausible position. | |
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And yet another lampshade hanging in Phineas and Ferb episode Rollercoaster: The Musical. | |
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Azmaria Hendric of Chrono Crusade has a gospel chorus and a soft church organ playing beneath her songs. She also uses Magic Music. | |
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The scene in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing where Quatre and Trowa play a duet on violin and flute, respectively, while there are also drums and guitar in the background. Apparently a couple of Maganac soldiers were playing right behind the camera. | |
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Naturally, this happens a lot in Glee. Sometimes, however, it's averted rather hilariously. In one instance, Jesse and Rachel are singing Lionel Richie's "Hello" together. Jesse is shown playing the piano, but string and percussion instruments are heard as well. At first, this appears to be an example of this trope; however, the camera then zooms out to reveal an actual back-up band, materialized out of nowhere. In another, Rachel is speaking with her mother, and suggests they sing a song together. After the latter agrees, Rachel calls for her pianist, who again shows up from out of nowhere. Rachel explains "he's always around". |
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In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Cameron is accompanied by a ghostly offscreen chorus while singing sadly to himself in bed. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 loves to poke fun at this trope whenever it pops up in a movie they're watching: Wild Rebels: When the (anti-)hero is playing guitar for the love interest in the forest, and a horn accompaniment suddenly breaks in: Eegah: While camping in the desert, Arch Hall Jr plays a guitar song, and ghostly vocals back him up. "I see he remembered to bring the Isley Brothers camping with him." Girl in Gold Boots: Solo guitarist Critter performs multiple times, accompanied by harmonica and other instruments from nowhere. "I love the way you play the harmonica with your ass!" Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 2: The local Bad Guy Bar has the music of a full medieval band, but the only musician in sight is a single fiddle player. |
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Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel: Creamy Mami has this effect as part of her Magical Girl powers, which is how she ended up with a career as an idol singer. | |
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Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 2 does this with a background character so it's easier to overlook. The Dark One's tavern employs just one fiddle player to serenade patrons, but he somehow makes the music of an entire medieval string band. Eagle-eyed viewers may notice that he isn't actually touching the fiddle strings most of the time. | |
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Inverted in LocoRoco, everybody is aware of the game's background music and sing to it. It's played straight in a few cutscenes. | |
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In a similar vein, the TV edition of Fame uses this trope religiously. For example, the song "I Still Believe In Me" is sung by Coco (in her actress' last regular episode) with Bruno accompanying on piano; about 30 seconds in strings kick in from out of nowhere and stick around for the rest of the song. Averted in the parent film where almost all the music is done by the characters/extras. | |
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A good chunk of the songs in Rags are just the characters singing in the street, a pawn shop, or on stage with no equipment, and yet they'll inexplicably be accompanied by instruments, auto-tuning, and layered vocals. | |
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Eegah!! While camping in the desert, Arch Hall Jr plays a guitar song, and ghostly doo-wop vocals back him up. | |
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Subverted in Blazing Saddles. Just as you're wondering where the music is coming from, Bart rides past Count Basie and His Orchestra. | |
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Fancy Lala: Fancy Lala has one. | |
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In No More Heroes, Dr Peace sings a rousing tune (with full accompaniment, natch) when Travis meets him in an empty baseball stadium. Given that he's singing over the PA system, it's possible that's where the music track is coming from. | |
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Most of the songs in Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny have, at the very least, invisible drummers and bass guitarists. A couple also have a guitar playing out of nowhere, or an electric guitar playing when Kage and Jables only have acoustic guitars. "Classico" is probably the only song without an invisible backup band. | |
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This shows up in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks and probably a few of the other games in the series. | |
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The Arkenhammer of Erfworld functions like this, allowing the attuned user (Stanley) to "Rock Out" by using it like an air-guitar. This confers some massive combat bonuses and is the Titanic aspect of dance fighting. Dance fighting in general seems to use this trope when invoked, but not to nearly the same impressive degree (the Arkenhammer almost deafened Parson when demonstrated in an enclosed space). | |
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"Once More With Feeling", the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode. Played straight, lampshaded ("That would explain the huge backing orchestra I couldn't see and the synchronised dancing from the room service chaps"), and even slightly averted. ("She needs backup! Anya, Tara...") | |
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In The World is Still Beautiful, Princess Nike has a magic song that causes it to rain. One has to assume that it also causes backing instrumentals to come in out of nowhere. | |
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Another lampshade hanging in the I ♡ Arlo episode "In the Blue with You", when Arlo says "there's music all around." | |
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Occasionally shows up in Family Guy, singing faux-slogans as the punchline of various jokes. | |
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In a more literal sense, an episode of A Little Snow Fairy Sugar has the musical accompaniment played by fairies that nobody can see or hear. | |
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Invisible Backup Band / int_ee9d184f | |
| Invisible Backup Band / int_ef7240a6 | type |
Invisible Backup Band | |
| Invisible Backup Band / int_ef7240a6 | comment |
Used straight in Girl in Gold Boots with solo guitarist Critter being accompanied by harmonica and other instruments from nowhere. | |
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| Girl in Gold Boots | hasFeature |
Invisible Backup Band / int_ef7240a6 | |
| Invisible Backup Band / int_f40c15ab | type |
Invisible Backup Band | |
| Invisible Backup Band / int_f40c15ab | comment |
Sort of parodied in Rock 'n' Roll High School: Riff Randall is daydreaming about Joey Ramone serenading her in her bedroom, and even though a full-band recording of "I Want You Around" is being used in the scene, it appears that he's only being backed up by Johnny Ramone on acoustic guitar. Then she opens the bathroom door and it turns out that Dee Dee and Marky were playing bass and drums in there the whole time. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Rock 'n' Roll High School | hasFeature |
Invisible Backup Band / int_f40c15ab |
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