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Music Video Syndrome
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Back in the early 1980s, when MTV was new, people who directed music videos tried to catch eyes by cutting (shifting the scene) quickly to the rhythm of the music and using other special effects. The movement in them also tended to be in time to the song because doing it any other way would distract from the music. Music Video Syndrome is when media that are not music videos are cut to resemble music videos. The actions onscreen correlate and are edited to be in rhythm with the song playing in the background, which is usually something recognisable and popular, though classical music can be used instead (in particular 1812 Overture, the Ode to Joy, "Für Elise," or Amazing Freaking Grace). Bonus points if the theme of the lyrics relate to the actions being shown onscreen. The plot may progress through this song, but this may happen through actions that are timed perfectly to the song being played. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This first became noticeable in television shows in The '80s. It became more common when TV production studios and record companies became closely related: not only was it easier to get rights to the song, but using the song was Product Placement: a show with Music Video Syndrome can sometimes sell songs as well as actual music videos. Commercials and trailers get Music Video Syndrome, too - after all, music videos are commercials. They just have value of their own. Commercials often deliberately invoke this; you can tell if that's happened when the artist is credited at the beginning of the commercial. Note that this is not the same thing as a Musical of any kind - the music is a backing track that is not present in the actual scene shown. See also: Mickey Mousing, when the music itself is scored to match the action on screen. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples: |
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An especially good one is the season three premiere's use of the Peter Gunn theme song and "Every Breath You Take" played simultaneously. The two songs have exactly the same beat and work surprisingly well together. | |
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Miami Vice was pitched as "MTV Cops", and turned this into an art form, with two similar sequences in the Pilot - one in the first half and one in the second half. | |
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Studio Pierrot works have at times evoked this, particularly in their openings, most notably Bleach. | |
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Quite common on Alias, and used to varying effect, from generic slow-motion action scene to genuinely awesome or heartfelt moments. One instance of this was in the season 1 finale, when Arvin tells Emily that SD-6 really is, with all the audio fading out and the haunting music of Natalie Merchant's "My Skin" playing over it. | |
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The Simpsons has been doing this a lot in the more recent seasons, what seems like once per episode at this point. | |
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Found a lot on Scrubs. | |
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Rocky III and IV, during opening sequences and Training Montages. Lampshaded in the Spongebob Squarepants episode "The Krusty Krab Training Video", with similar BGM. |
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In the Made-for-TV Movie Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love, "Is There Room in Your World for Me?" by Debby Boone plays during Raun's therapy. This could count as an early example, the movie having been made in 1979 - two years before the birth of MTV made this trope comonplace. | |
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Supernatural, however, has managed to avert this trope. The creator, Eric Kripke, refuses to use what he calls the "anemic pop songs" that the other shows use in montages at the ends of their episodes. They only use classic rock, which the fans really enjoy. They will have an opening montage, but it's not cut to fit the rhythm of the background music, which is just that: background music. | |
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Homicide: Life on the Street used this quite often, particularly in Seasons Three to Six. Many of the songs worked well and were made of a nice combination of obscure classics, modern hits and classic rock. | |
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The Big Bang Theory parodies this trope, with Sheldon and Raj dramatically staring at a board, whilst the camera moves to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger". | |
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Homestuck. Pretty much any panel with a [S] in the name will create an instant simultaneous Moment of Awesome/Awesome Music combo. | |
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Surprisingly averted in Dirty Dancing, considering its premise (and later musical version). Much of the music is performed by the club band or played in-universe, on record players or other nearby equipment. | |
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Sons of Anarchy is a little guilty of this. | |
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"Tonight's artists featured on Smallville include...." | |
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Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch fit this trope nicely, especially in the opening sequence, the prologue of the film set to lead actress Emily Browning's cover of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" by the Eurythmics. | |
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Subverted in an episode of Lost, when morose music plays over the end of one episode, only to shut off abruptly. The show then cuts to Hurley, who curses, as the batteries on his CD player have run out. The episode closes in silence except for the sound of the waves. The show did end on a "music video" a few times in the first half of the first season, and once using "These Arms of Mine" in season 2. Usually, the music was being played on Hurley's CD player or the turntable in the Swan station. |
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Getting Together did this almost Once per Episode, in contrast with The Partridge Family's use of performance videos. This is because the creators of Getting Together wanted to focus on Bobby Sherman's acting rather than his singing; there were plans for a Bobby Sherman Variety Show that would be more music-focused, but they didn't pan out. | |
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Common in Professional Wrestling, with its entrance music, promotional packages, flashbacks, and so on. WWE actually licenses a reasonably popular song for each of its pay-per-views, two in the case of WrestleMania. | |
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The Partridge Family did this a few times, such as in "Love at First Slight," in which Keith drives the bus and broods to "Somebody Wants to Love You," or in "Danny and the Mob," in which Danny tries to evade the mobsters to "That'll Be the Day." | |
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The Starsky & Hutch episode "Huggy Can't Go Home" has a scene where Huggy Bear wanders through the poor, crime-ridden neighborhood where he grew up, set to "Huggy Can't Go Back," a song written for the episode. | |
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An in-universe example in Toys: Leslie and his sister act out a music video on the security camera as an inventive way of sneaking past the guards. | |
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Very noticeable in Catwoman (2004) during the basketball scene. | |
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The Hangover has this, especially in the first act. | |
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Baby Driver practically runs on this trope. The opening car chase is choreographed to 'Bellbottoms' by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. | |
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Freaks and Geeks often justified its use of this. The show featured a lot of scenes set to music, but it was usually music that the characters were declared fans of and often was important to the plot (ie. Lindsay and The Grateful Dead, Nick and Rush). Setting the show in 1980 meant the creators could use the music they loved growing up and keep the network from shoehorning in the latest songs from the hottest acts. | |
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Suicide Squad (2016) is an extreme version of this. After the critical bashing and financial under-performancenote It made a very nice $855m worldwide, but was seen as a shoe-in to break a billion of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warner Bros. worried that Suicide Squad would feel too bleak. A fun, peppy trailer shot like a music video was popular, though, so they had the trailer company re-edit the whole film, then wound up mixing it with their original cut. The result is an uneven film filled with pop songs, including for the introduction of each major character. | |
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Mostly averted by The Wire, which had a rule that artificial music could only appear in the final montage sequence of each season. Though apparently it took them a little while to nail down, as an early episode features drug kingpin Avon Barksdale approaching a group of his gang members with music playing from nowhere. | |
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CSI did this with subjects like autopsies and lab work. | |
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Battlestar Galactica averts the trope by almost never using music outside of that composed for the series. (One of the few exceptions before the third season was using the old TV show's theme as the Colonial Anthem.) The trope is subverted in the two-part season 3 finale, when Tyrol, Anders, Tigh, and Tory hear a chord repeated several times that no one else can—including, at one point, from a radio that's just producing static. (At one point, Tigh, in court, yells out "Will someone shut that frakking music off?!", in a scene that you can't look away from, like a trainwreck.) Eventually, the chord blooms into a full-fledged song, and they discover it's a signal from the Cylons—indicating they are Cylons, as well. After they resolve to fight for the Colonial Fleet, the song becomes a version of All Along The Watchtower arranged specifically for the show, and plays over the remainder of the episode. The main riff of this version is present in the score from the first episode of the season, though, and is led up to by a surrealistic, almost hippie-commune-drug-fueled-orgy treatment of the song in the scene immediately preceding it. It should be noted that Ronald Moore, the head writer, had wanted to include the song on the show for some time. All of this together manages to play straight, avert, subvert, and justify the trope. | |
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Averted on The Sopranos mostly. David Chase had wanted to only use "in-universe" music, but sometimes music plays with no apparent source. When this does occur, the music underscores and emphasizes the emotional effect. "The Beast In Me" playing over the end sequence and credits of the first episode, for example. An especially good one is the season three premiere's use of the Peter Gunn theme song and "Every Breath You Take" played simultaneously. The two songs have exactly the same beat and work surprisingly well together. |
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FLCL's fight scenes are storyboarded and animated in relation to the music, rather than the opposite. The music is some very nice Pro Rock. Throughout the series, the music and the animation remain closely entwined. | |
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Cold Case. Mostly appears in flashbacks, using period music from the time the current case takes place in, with the exception of one ending song (also using period music). | |
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