History Main / RaisedLighterTribute

* Also referenced in "Lighters" by Music/BrunoMars and Bad Meets Evil.

In modern times, some people may hold up their cell phones with the light on instead and there are even smartphone apps intended to simulate the look of a lighter's flame. Much safer than using fire; just don't drop or lose your phone.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when they're watching a reunion concert of Music/TheBeastieBoys. Fry does this and a couple of nearby aliens follow suit with some glowing anglerfish-like protrusions.

** Strong Bad holds up a lighter at the end of the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "guitar" after an over-enthusiastic reenactment of him jamming with Strong Mad and The Cheat.

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* ''Film/OurShiningDays2017'' has the main characters' ensemble perform at a FanConvention, where a group of audience are seen waving around glowsticks. These same group of audiences would later show up in the Chinese Orchestra's final performance to support them.

* Done during AudienceParticipation in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' during the song "Over at the Frankenstein Place", with the cue being "there's a light..."

* A ''UsefulNotes/ComicRelief'' parody of costume drama featured a scene set at a Creator/CharlesDickens reading which was portrayed as a Victorian rock concert, complete with the crowd waving lighted tapers.

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* Parodied in Creator/RyanGeorge's "[[https://youtu.be/yeYwntRc81U First Guy To Ever Hold Up a Lighter At a Concert]]" video.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E24TheManeAttraction The Mane Attraction]]", many unicorns in the audience (including Rarity) light up their horns in a manner similar to this trope when Coloratura performs "The Magic Inside".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* This has become a staple of Wrestling/BrayWyatt's entrance, as fans will hold up their cell phones in the darkened arena as his calm, eerie entrance music plays. He refers to the lights as his "fireflies."

* Whenever a VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends tournament match reaches [[DownToTheLastPlay game 5 of a best-of-5 series]], Silver Scrapes is played as the final game is being set up, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8fd2N7kTZI the crowd will raise their phones in tribute]] to the series going the distance.

The lighters were originally used as silent applause during an encore, and also perhaps as an homage to the stories about audience members at UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}} lighting candles. In particular the practice became associated with Music/LynyrdSkynyrd and the audience reaction to "Freebird". Its use has extended occasionally to otherwise very moving songs as well (or in the case of parodies, maybe not so moving songs).

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* Referenced in "Barefoot Blue Jean Night" by Music/JakeOwen ("Never gonna grow up / Never gonna slow down / We were shining like lighters in the dark in the middle of a rock show").

* Invoked by [[Music/MiracleOfSound Gavin Dunne]] during a live performance at the Escapist expo (recorded [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AR7hpn4ML_M here]])
* Referenced by Music/{{Halestorm}} in the song "Rock Show".
* Music/{{Staind}}'s live recording of "Outside" also features Fred Durst of Music/LimpBizkit, whose most noticeable contribution to the performance is to say "I'm feelin' those lighters, y'all!" to the crowd.
* Invoked by Music/TheyMightBeGiants. During live performances of "Careful What You Pack" and "Madam, I Challenge You To A Duel", Flansburgh has asked the audience to hold up their cellphones to shed light on the band as they play.
* Music/JayZ's "Empire State of Mind" (and by extension, Music/AliciaKeys' "Empire State of Mind II: Broken Down") references this trope with the bridge line "Put your lighters in the air, everybody say 'Yeah! Yeah!'".
* Music/{{Roxette}}'s "Listen to Your Heart" video has the audience wave sparklers during the finale.
* Referenced in Five for Fighting's "Slice": "No cell phones, just twenty thousand lights, swayin' on a Saturday night alright."
* Invoked in Music/VNVNation's {{power ballad}} "Nova", with the lines "Light the fire in me" and "Shine your light on me".

* One of the eponymous Blue Men of the Music/BlueManGroup will do this after a plant in the audience calls for "Free Bird". It doesn't last long though, as one of the other Blue Men immediately puts it (and the song) out with a fire extinguisher.

* One of the eponymous Blue Men of the ''Music/BlueManGroup'' will do this after a plant in the audience calls for "Free Bird". It doesn't last long though, as one of the other Blue Men immediately puts it (and the song) out with a fire extinguisher.

* The [=PistolShrimps=] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPVolA1K1Ug Harry Potter Starts a Band]]'' features a scene from the Film/HarryPotter films, made to look as it their raised wands are lighter substitutes as they badly sing along with Whitney Huston's "I Will Always Love You".
* Parodied in ''Creator/RyanGeorge'''s ''[[https://youtu.be/yeYwntRc81U First Guy To Ever Hold Up a Lighter At a Concert]] video.

* An example that [[GoneHorriblyWrong went badly wrong]] happened on the final night of Woodstock '99 when the festival attendees were given candles to light up while Music/RedHotChiliPeppers performed "Under the Bridge" as a vigil tribute for the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} tragedy. During the band's set, the crowd began to light the candles, with some also using candles and lighters to start bonfires, which rapidly escalated into riots and mayhem as a culmination of three days of difficult conditions surrounding the festival.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode where Bart tricks Reverend Lovejoy into having "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Music/IronButterfly played in church by disguising it as a hymn, the congregation starts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4g-wx2Y_wg#t=0m57s holding up lighted candles]] near the end of a solo that causes the the harmonium player to pass out.

* ''Film/OurShiningDays2017'' has the main characters' ensemble perform at a {{Con}}, where a group of audience are seen waving around glowsticks. These same group of audiences would later show up in the Chinese Orchestra's final performance to support them.

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* The film adaptation of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' has a melancholic version of this trope towards the end. After [[spoiler:Dumbledore dies and his body is found at the foot of the ramparts]], the crowd of people gathered raise their wands in tribute to the [[TheArchmage great wizard,]] [[TheMentor teacher and mentor]]. Their wand tips are lit, and the collective energy burns away the Dark Mark in the sky above, sending a clear [[DefiantToTheEnd We Will Not Surrender]] message.

* Happens occasionally in ''Series/That70sShow'' when the gang goes to concerts.

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': Andy's band [=MouseRat=] writes a farewell song for celebrity horse and beloved town attraction Li'l Sebastian titled "5,000 Candles in the Wind". When it's performed at the farewell concert, the audience waves plastic candles.

* The cover of [[Music/BobDylan Bob Dylan's]] 1974 live album ''Before the Flood'' depicts an early example. Dylan claims that he didn't understand the significance of the gesture at first and thought the fans were mad at him and were going to set the arena on fire.

* ''Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommittee'': Almost every video that features [[IdolSinger Mona]], as her concerts are always filled with hordes of fans waving glowsticks in her honor.

* Playing well enough in the level "Guitar Solo" of ''VideoGame/MrBones'' would have your skeletal audience hold up candles.

* This was parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode, "Band Geeks", with footage of a live-action audience holding up lighters during the performance by Squidward and his band.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when they're watching a reunion concert of Music/TheBeastieBoys. Fry does this and a couple of nearby aliens follow suit with some glowing anglerfish-like protrusions.
* In "Sad About You" on ''[[WesternAnimation/CareBearsWelcomeToCareALot Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot]]'', as Harmony Bear performs a heartfelt song to show that music can convey a wide range of emotions, Grumpy Bear pulls a couple of candles (they appear to be electronic or glow-stick type) out of his [[LessEmbarrassingTerm "Care-y-all"]] and he and the human visitor Joy start waving them.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' episode "See Jane Run", Trent lifts a Zippo in tribute to his sister at a track meet.
* This trope was among many parodied by the Warner Brothers (and the Warner sister!) on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "The Son Also Draws," a touching reconciliation between Peter and his son Chris is greeted with a round of 70s folk classic "Cat's In The Cradle" by a forest of hallucinogenic talking trees. Then one of them raises a lighter and they all burst into flames.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "Boyz 4 Now" the audience does this with their cell phones during the titular boy band's concert.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E24TheManeAttraction The Mane Attraction]]", many unicorns in the audience (including Rarity) light up their horns in a manner similar to this trope when Coloratura performs "The Magic Inside".

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* Used in ''Series/{{Glee}}'' during Kurt and Blaine's rendition of "Candles" by HeyMonday at regionals. The audience held up plastic candles.

* Creator/VictoriaWood's song "Reincarnation" refers to this with one of the lives she'd like to lead.
-->Dr Scholl will be my favourite sandal,\\
Higher heels than that I cannot handle,\\
Saw Music/BarryManilow and held my candle,\\
Wax was running down my blouson.

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->"''I always keep a lighter in my back pocket. I'm not a smoker; I just really like certain songs.''"

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[[caption-width-right:300:This is pleasing to [[VideoGame/BrutalLegend the gods of metal]].]]