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One-Song Bard

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18 feature instances
3 referencing feature instances

One-Song Bard	type	FeatureClass
One-Song Bard	label	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard	page	OneSongBard
One-Song Bard	comment	When the cast of an audiovisual work includes a bard, or another type of professional musician or singer, but they only seem to perform a single song in the course of the story, instead of numerous, as you would expect from a seasoned performer. There can be a number of in-story justifications for this, but out-of-universe, it usually boils down to the production costs of writing and recording a plot-relevant song specifically for the story. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Compare One-Hit Wonder. See One-Book Author for the closest you can get to Real Life examples. Examples:
One-Song Bard	fetched	2022-08-06T15:57:28Z
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One-Song Bard	processingComment	Dropped link to OnePiece: Not an Item - CAT
One-Song Bard	isPartOf	DBTropes
One-Song Bard / int_12381dc	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_12381dc	comment	Lohse in Divinity: Original Sin II is a world-famous bard and several NPCs recognize her as such, but she only ever sings one song in the game, "Sing To Me". This is justified by the fact that a powerful demon that is possessing her hates music on principle: the first time she tries to sing in the story, he makes her break her lute, and she doesn't sing for the second and final time in the game until after he has been exorcised from her shortly before the final act.
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Divinity: Original Sin II (Video Game)	hasFeature	One-Song Bard / int_12381dc
One-Song Bard / int_2858b08a	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_2858b08a	comment	Uncle Jesse on Full House. When he wasn't being an Elvis impersonator, his only real hit song was "Forever." Stephanie continues the tradition on Fuller House with "The Boy Next Door."
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One-Song Bard / int_5755b96a	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: With a few exceptions, all of Elan's songs follow the same basic tune of "x, x, x, x the y" with any extra lyric crammed in at the end. Since Elan is a Quirky Bard, it fits.
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The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)	hasFeature	One-Song Bard / int_5755b96a
One-Song Bard / int_5874fe63	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_5874fe63	comment	Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon features Minako's idol singer career as a major plot point, but viewers are going to have to hear a lot of repeats of "C'est la vie".
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One-Song Bard / int_5908ee91	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_5908ee91	comment	The bards in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim know precisely two songs, and they all perform them the same way. Conveniently, one song supports the Stormcloaks, and one supports the Empire. If you're going to make money as a musician during a civil war in Skyrim, you need to be able to entertain both sides of the conflict.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game)	hasFeature	One-Song Bard / int_5908ee91
One-Song Bard / int_629cd094	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_629cd094	comment	Leliana in Dragon Age: Origins prides herself in her bardic past (although bards in this series are not just performers, but also assassins and saboteurs for hire), but only ever sings once in the course of the story, namely "In Uthenera", an ancient elven funeral song. Later games don't see her sing at allnote Dragon Age: Inquisition has her sing "The Dawn Will Come" along with the rest of the Inquisiton, but that performance is started and led by Mother Giselle, although she does perform the same song at Wynne's funeral in Asunder.
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Dragon Age: Origins (Video Game)	hasFeature	One-Song Bard / int_629cd094
One-Song Bard / int_67afc2e4	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_67afc2e4	comment	While Johnny Crawfish has many songs on The Noddy Shop in which he sings, he's only had one solo song, "Special", which was made for a potential investor in the show and was not featured on the show itself.
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One-Song Bard / int_67ce5a04	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_67ce5a04	comment	Azura from Fire Emblem Fates is a Songstress, but she only ever really sings one song, "Lost in Thoughts All Alone". This is justified in-story by it being a versatile Magic Music, which she can use to achieve different magical effects, focused on buffing allies and debuffing enemies. Thus, Azura simply doesn't ever need to learn any other songs.
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Fire Emblem Fates (Video Game)	hasFeature	One-Song Bard / int_67ce5a04
One-Song Bard / int_7b429ebc	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_7b429ebc	comment	Averted in Saints Row, where Aisha's fame in-universe matches her actual presence on the radio, with no less than three singles playing on different in-universe stations during regular gameplay. It's particularly notable because Aisha is just a minor side character in the Vice Kings story arc, yet Volition hired an professional R&B singer-songwriter to voice her and to record all three songs exclusively for the game.
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One-Song Bard / int_87a6ba6	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_87a6ba6	comment	The Zit Remedy (later the Zits) on Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High only had the one song, "Everybody Wants Something".
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One-Song Bard / int_8d817ccb	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost has the rock musician Charlie, whose band Drive Shaft seems to have one and only song, "You All Everybody". After mockery from fans, it was later revealed that the group were a One-Hit Wonder.
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One-Song Bard / int_91e45f5	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_91e45f5	comment	Before the events of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, Phoenix Wright became the pianist for the Borscht Bowl Club, even though he only knew how to play one song. This is justified since his title as a pianist was just a cover for his real job, which was to challenge customers to games of poker.
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	One-Song Bard / int_91e45f5
One-Song Bard / int_af83a9f1	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_af83a9f1	comment	Jimmy (The Bard) in South Park: The Stick of Truth only has one real song: The Maiden from Stonebury Hollow.
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South Park: The Stick of Truth (Video Game)	hasFeature	One-Song Bard / int_af83a9f1
One-Song Bard / int_b9e6e305	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_b9e6e305	comment	The New Scooby-Doo Movies: In the episode where Jerry Reed guest-stars, he sings a song to help the gang find him. Instead of singing any other songs he might be known for, he sings "Pretty Mary Sunlight" over and over.
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One-Song Bard / int_e48493b3	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_e48493b3	comment	Iolo FitzOwen from the Ultima series may well be the king of this trope: despite being present as a famed bard in every installment (except VIII), he is only ever credited with a single full song, "Stones", which he didn't even compose until Ultima V (and whose lyrics were actually written by his wife)!
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One-Song Bard / int_ea4f62db	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_ea4f62db	comment	Parodied in Family Guy's Shot-for-Shot Remake of A New Hope, Blue Harvest, where the leader of the Cantina Band subtly implies that they only know one song.
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One-Song Bard / int_f1d35e6c	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_f1d35e6c	comment	Despite much of Atlanta following Alfred aka Paper Boi's career as a rapper, only one song, "Paper Boi" (his first hit) has any substantial play. Occasionally other song titles are referenced, but they're never actually performed.
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One-Song Bard / int_f67a0d24	type	One-Song Bard
One-Song Bard / int_f67a0d24	comment	A variant occurs in the anime adaptation of Genshiken, where Kosaka is very skilled at playing video games, but aside from a VS match of Puyo Puyo (which mostly happens off-screen) the only game he's ever shown playing is Guilty Gear Isuka, and only the exact same Sol vs. Jam match every time.
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One-Song Bard	processingCategory2	Music Tropes
Royal Canadian Air Farce (Radio) / int_89d1a6e7	type	One-Song Bard
Atlanta / int_89d1a6e7	type	One-Song Bard

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