Artists will most often sing about subjects of interest to them, the most common examples of this are songs about love and war. However another less noticable trope is that of people listening to the music in clubs and bars, the dj will not play the music loud enough and so the artist vents their frustration. They do this through their lyrics and aking the DJ to 'turn the music up' in their songs.
A trope maker is the initial inspiration for the trope. For this particular example the trope maker was the song 'play that funky music white boy' by wild cherry. Once you listen to songs created after this eg. Rhianna 'pon de replay' (hey mr dj, won't you turn the music up?) you can see how this trope has been taken and adapted through the years to fit in with different generations.
On the other hand, although it is common for artists to follow tropes within the industry, it is also not unheard of for rebellious artists to flip a trope and attack the meaning. A band called 'the smiths' released a song called 'panic' which has the repeated lyrics 'hang the dj,hang the dj.) This is refered to as a subverted trope.
Examples of an inverted tropes could be 'evacuate the dance floor' by cascada and 'dont play that song again' by Nicki French, as they completely reverse the meaning of the original trope.
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