Sound: Contrapuntal (anempathetic)

Contrapuntal (anempathetic) Sound:

Definition:  sounds which are opposite to the emotion expected from the narrative. So for example, to put it plainly, fun music over a sad scene

For example: Reservoir Dogs,
The song 'Stuck in the Middle With You' is introduced as diagetic sound which is introduced  by the tuning of a radio. What follows makes the relaxed nature of the song and its lyrics, which include the line 'hard to get out of my chair', into a piece of music which seems to mock the victim, with the same level of sadistic sarcasm as is evident in the mindset of Mr Blonde.

The song 'Stuck in the Middle With You' is used in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut film Reservoir Dogs, during the scene in which the character Mr. Blonde (played by Michael Madsen) taunts and tortures a bound policeman while singing and dancing to the song. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Tarantino recalled

"That was one of those things where I thought [the song] would work really well, and [during] auditions, I told the actors that I wanted them to do the torture scene, and I'm gonna use 'Stuck in the Middle With You,' but they could pick anything they wanted, they didn't have to use that song. And a couple people picked another one, but almost everyone came in with 'Stuck in the Middle With You,' and they were saying that they tried to come up with something else, but that's the one. The first time somebody actually did the torture scene to that song, the guy didn't even have a great audition, but it was like watching the movie. I was thinking, 'Oh my God, this is gonna be awesome!'

Look at the example from Reservoir Dogs (Dir: Quentin Tarrantino, 1992)