History Main / AudienceParticipationSong

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* [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly Prog-reggae-ska]] band RX Bandits used to have a horn section, all of whom have now departed the band. However, during their older material, the crowd will regularly shout the horn lines along to what they're playing. Completely spontaneously.

* During Music/TheGooGooDolls' concerts, John Rzeznik has the audience sing the chorus to "Iris".

** The equally [[EarWorm ear-wormy]] song Usatei now has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8GGssAVlug band version]], also done by COOL&CREATE. This trope is practically a given.

* Given ''Series/{{Friends}}'' [[EarWorm stuck "I'll Be There For You" into the heads of a lot of people]], The Rembrandts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NTTtydR5Hc make sure to exploit it live]], with both the claps at the opening and at a certain point turning the chorus into call and response (note how [[AudienceParticipationFailure a few don't know the line...]]).

-->"[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Shut up.]]"

** And "Wonderwall", of course.
*** [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Especially when]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Jay-Z]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDIOVXx-y8 is covering it.]]

*** During their final performance of ''One Down (Five to Go)'', Eric Idle invoked this and told everyone watching around the world, either in the cinema or there in the venue, to sing along to "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" one last time. And thus TearJerker meets SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, with a large dose of SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome too.

* Music/AmandaPalmer of The Dresden Dolls has made an ''art form'' out of this. She sees absolutely no use for a difference between herself and her audience, and treats her shows as fun get-togethers, asking random fans to sing with her, hold up her props, or come bring her wine in her hotel room for a makeshift party. Her absolute SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome was when, during a vaudeville tour across Europe, her crew got stuck in a different country because of the Iceland volcano. Instead of using her crew, she pulled two fans onto the stage to stay there throughout the show and play the theme from ''Film/{{Clue}}'' on her keyboard, while she ran around the stage between the songs acting out the theatre parts by herself "Creator/TimCurry style".

* The band VNV Nation requests that audiences sing along to Solitary (because [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments "this song is our hymn and our anthem"]]), and (at least in the Pastperfect recordings) Harris will complain during various songs that they aren't singing along loud enough.

* Music/{{Nile}} has quite a few of these, as the songs often feature repeating chants, which lyricist Karl Sanders said was an attempt to call to mind a semi-ritualistic nature in keeping with the Egyptian sounding music. During some songs, particularly "4th Arra of Dagon," and "Black Seeds of Vengeance," the band will actually step away from the microphones, and simply chant along with the crowd ([[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome which is often just as loud as the band itself]]). Lots of songs also feature sections where the audience is encouraged to chant rhythmically to the beat of the music, usually just some form of shouting. The result is quite cool.

* About a year after ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' went viral, Creator/TeamStarkid were at the Azkatraz convention. A bunch of them (Darren Criss, Joey Richter, Matt Lang, Brian Holden, and Dylan Saunders, namely) were hanging out in the lobby, playing songs from it for the fans. Cue up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHIhuHNRDEs "Get Back to Hogwarts"]], Joey telling everyone to sing along, and Darren being all verklempt that people know the lyrics to his songs. The SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} is at 5:09 when the entire crowd yells "BITCH I AIN'T CHO CHANG!".

** Also the end of "The Will of One". K.I.L.R.O.Y. chants the final lines of the song through a vocoder, and is promptly [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome drowned out by the fans before long]].

** Particularly prominent within the live performances of Blank Space, in which Taylor struts menacingly across the stage carrying a golf club, telling the audience she has 'a lesson for them'. The audience chant the words 'Boys only want love if it's torture, don't say I didn't, say I didn't warn ya' until Taylor's echoes of the line become increasingly frantic andshe raises her hands, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome knocking every dancer on stage to the ground.]]

* ''Music/ChickCorea'' of all people managed to do this on a London concert, with a ''Synthesizer''. He made the audience copy a number of jazz phrazes, gradually making them harder to follow. The event crossed between SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and CRMOF.

* Similar to Rush's ''La Villa Strangiato'', and probably taking the prize for the unlikeliest music genre to have chanting fans in the process, French technical death metal band Gorod will often try to get crowds to chant along to the lengthy tapping solo in the middle of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLmDlvE_hU Disavow Your God]]''.

* Similar to Rush's ''La Villa Strangiato'', Gorod - a ''technical death metal'' band - will often try to get crowds to chant along to the lengthy tapping solo in the middle of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLmDlvE_hU&t=48s Disavow Your God]]''.

* Music/{{Nightwish}}:

* Of course, Music/{{Queen}}'s "We Will Rock You". The clapping rhythm through the song was intended to get the audience to clap along.

** BilingualBonus: The chorus lyrics literally mean "Can you hear me? (We hear you!) Can you see me? (We see you!) Can you feel me? (We feel you!) I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU!".

** BilingualBonus: The shouts are "Wir hören dich", "Wir sehen dich" and "Wir fühlen dich"(We hear you, we see you, we feel you). The singer is the only one to say "Ich verstehe euch nicht"(I don't understand you).

* In a SubvertedTrope ''of a DefiedTrope'', folk artists Molly & The Tinker perform an "Anti-Singalong Song", getting the audience to [[MindScrew sing about how they won't]].

--> ''I will NOT sing along!
--> Keep your stupid song.
--> We're the audience,
--> it's you we came to see!
--> You're not supposed to train us,
--> You're 'sposed to entertain us,
--> So GET TO WORK
--> and leave me be!''

* The folk artists Molly & The Tinker perform "The Anti-Singalong Song", getting the audience to sing about how they won't.

* Metal band Music/{{Ghost}} incorporates a lot of vocal parts sung by a church choir into their songs. The audience is often requested to sing these parts during live shows.

* On the ''Discworld/SoulMusic'' soundtrack album, two choruses of the stadium rock pastiche "The Messanger" are sung by a distant crowd, presumably the audience at the Hide Park Free Festival. It even has the bit where Buddy suddenly comes back in on the last line.

* One of the reasons Music/FaithNoMore caught a luck break having "Epic" as their big hit, not just because the lyrics were so fun to toy with, but because of the interactive potential of the song's infamous breakdown ([[PunctuatedForEmphasis "What?! Is?! ]][[RuleOfThree It?!]]""What the ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]'' is it?!" "What is it, kiddies?!"). "Be Aggressive" is another favorite in this regard, as there's nothing more CrazyAwesome than hearing a big crowd comprised predominantly of heterosexual males scream "I swallow! I swallow! I swallow! [[FourIsDeath I swallow!]]"

** Brian May and Roger Taylor have theorized that songs like "I Want It All" and "The Miracle" would have become these if Freddie Mercury hadn't become too ill to tour after 1986.

* Of course, Music/{{Queen}}'s ''We Will Rock You''. The clapping rhythm through the song was intended to get the audience to clap along.

** ''Radio Ga Ga'' is just like that. Try to listen to it and not clap, is almost impossible. Freddie Mercury once stated that having the audience to take a part in their song was exactly what he wanted.
** Queen would have the whole audience singing along to "Love of My Life" in their live concerts - usually the song would be performed mid-show as just a vocals-and-guitar duet between Freddie Mercury and Brian May, and as the audience sang all the lyrics together Freddie would stop singing now and then & let the crowd carry the song. One gets the impression that this was to give the band (except Brian) a bit of a break.

*** When George Michael performed "Somebody To Love" at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYAR8RigqDA&feature=player_detailpage#t=226s he managed to get the audience to sing the long, descending "love" near the end.]] Brian May's reaction is worth seeing.
*** Freddie's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klr5z0hoP04 vocal competition]] with the audience at shows, it was even shown at the 2012 Olympics, they wisely decided to cut out the part where he points at an audience member who out did him and says 'F*** you.' to much laughter.
** Live Aid at Wembley Stadium in 1983, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-JcbK4Z5Gk which is widely regarded as the best live performance in modern history]].

*** During their final performance of ''One Down (Five to Go)'', Eric Idle invoked this and told everyone watching around the world, either in the cinema or there in the venue, to sing along to "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" one last time. And thus TearJerker meets HeartwarmingMoment, with a large dose of SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome too.

*** During their final performance of ''One Down (Five to Go)'', Eric Idle invoked this and told everyone watching around the world, either in the cinema or there in the venue, to sing along to "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" one last time. And thus TearJerker meets HeartwarmingMoment, with a large dose of AwesomeMoment too.

-->"[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Shut up.]]"

* Music/AmandaPalmer of The Dresden Dolls has made an ''art form'' out of this. She sees absolutely no use for a difference between herself and her audience, and treats her shows as fun get-togethers, asking random fans to sing with her, hold up her props, or come bring her wine in her hotel room for a makeshift party. Her absolute CrowningMomentOfAwesome was when, during a vaudeville tour across Europe, her crew got stuck in a different country because of the Iceland volcano. Instead of using her crew, she pulled two fans onto the stage to stay there throughout the show and play the theme from ''Film/{{Clue}}'' on her keyboard, while she ran around the stage between the songs acting out the theatre parts by herself "Creator/TimCurry style".

* The band VNV Nation requests that audiences sing along to Solitary (because [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming "this song is our hymn and our anthem"]]), and (at least in the Pastperfect recordings) Harris will complain during various songs that they aren't singing along loud enough.

* Music/{{Nile}} has quite a few of these, as the songs often feature repeating chants, which lyricist Karl Sanders said was an attempt to call to mind a semi-ritualistic nature in keeping with the Egyptian sounding music. During some songs, particularly "4th Arra of Dagon," and "Black Seeds of Vengeance," the band will actually step away from the microphones, and simply chant along with the crowd ([[CrowningMomentOfAwesome which is often just as loud as the band itself]]). Lots of songs also feature sections where the audience is encouraged to chant rhythmically to the beat of the music, usually just some form of shouting. The result is quite cool.

* About a year after ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' went viral, Creator/TeamStarkid were at the Azkatraz convention. A bunch of them (Darren Criss, Joey Richter, Matt Lang, Brian Holden, and Dylan Saunders, namely) were hanging out in the lobby, playing songs from it for the fans. Cue up [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHIhuHNRDEs "Get Back to Hogwarts"]], Joey telling everyone to sing along, and Darren being all verklempt that people know the lyrics to his songs. The CrowningMomentOfFunny is at 5:09 when the entire crowd yells "BITCH I AIN'T CHO CHANG!".

** Also the end of "The Will of One". K.I.L.R.O.Y. chants the final lines of the song through a vocoder, and is promptly [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome drowned out by the fans before long]].

** Particularly prominent within the live performances of Blank Space, in which Taylor struts menacingly across the stage carrying a golf club, telling the audience she has 'a lesson for them'. The audience chant the words 'Boys only want love if it's torture, don't say I didn't, say I didn't warn ya' until Taylor's echoes of the line become increasingly frantic andshe raises her hands, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome knocking every dancer on stage to the ground.]]

* ''Music/ChickCorea'' of all people managed to do this on a London concert, with a ''Synthesizer''. He made the audience copy a number of jazz phrazes, gradually making them harder to follow. The event crossed between CrowningMomentOfAwesome and CRMOF.