Refers to the popularity of any given artist based mostly upon the samples taken from their songs, or remixes by other musicians of that artists songs. In these cases, the remix will often times be more popular than the Artists original song.
"The original song is ok, but the TRAP version by Baauer is so sick, it gives the original the Ellie Goulding Effect."
When an actor becomes delusional after becoming slightly well known, and begins posting incoherent, babbling, drug fueled rhetoric about conspiracy theories on social media
"I used to always love watching Charlie Sheen on t.v. until he slowly started suffering from the Randy Quaid Effect"
When a series is over-hyped to such an extent where most people believe it can't possibly be good, but actually manages to live up to the hype.
Person 1: What the fuck? I just watched death note and its actually as good as people say.
Person 2: Thats The Death Note Effect for ya.
When your dream girl likes everybody, but you, and your dream girl liked/likes all of your best friends/friends.
The Dream Girl Effect Victim: Why doesn't she like me. I'm in love with her so much.
Best Friend: Yeah. She asked me out.
Having the ability to state the obvious in a monotone voice in any given situation. All while standing over a dead body.
Jeff was giving me the Gary sinise effect yesterday. He just kept stating the obvious about everything I said.
When a song is so terrible that it becomes eerily catchy, putting you under somewhat of a spell causing you bob your head
This can also happen when listening to artists such as Lil B, V-Nasty, and OJ Da Juiceman
The Rebecca Black Effect is the reason why lil b has 50,000,000 views on youtube, and why "Friday" arguably the worst song released in the history of music have gained so much attention recently.
When the bass of a song is so loud it jiggles a girls boobs
I was listening to some Weezy when this girl with big tits suffered from the bass Boobie effect