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2[[caption-width-right:250:''Sing!'']]
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4->''"When I say 'we', you say 'suck'! WE!"''\
5''"SUCK!"''\
6''"WE!"''\
7''"SUCK!"''\
8''"Dick."''
9-->-- '''Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence''', "Backmask"
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11When AudienceParticipation and music meet, this is the result. A song, especially a live one, where the audience is expected to sing part of the lyrics. FollowTheBouncingBall may come into play here.
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13Usually accomplished by having a repeated part in the song, which is first sung by the band and then they signal for the audience to repeat it. The artists will often hold their microphone toward the audience. Responsible for the OtherStockPhrases "All together now!", "I can't hear you!", "Make some noise!", "Gimme a(n) (Letter)! Gimme a(n) (Letter)! Gimme a(n) (Letter)!" and "When I say A, you say B! A! (B!) A! (B!)".
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15Sometimes it leads to AudienceParticipationFailure. See also CallAndResponseSong.
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17----
18!!Parodied/lampshaded/subverted:
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20* Music/{{KISS}} is a band based around theatrical shows, pretty much all their songs are written for this. It's parodied in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', where the singer holds the mic out to Lois for the chorus of "Rock and Roll All Nite"... [[FandomHeresy and she gets the line horribly wrong]].
21-->'''Gene Simmons:''' I... wanna rock & roll all night! (''holds the mic in front of Lois' face'')\
22'''Lois:''' And have a wonderful... time.
23* Music/TimMinchin's song "Hello" parodies the concept, leading the audience to question why he's making them sing, calling him a "self-indulgent wanker," and demand he get on with the show.
24** Playing it straight through [[MundaneMadeAwesome pure awesome]], Tim also asks the audience during "Canvas Bags" to repeat the refrain while he runs off-stage to get the fan so he can do the [[DramaticWind flapping shirt in the wind]] effect.
25* Music/RobbieWilliams's audience participation, especially "Angels" (at Live 8, the audience sung pretty much the entire song), was parodied by Creator/LeeMack in December 2007 on ''Series/LiveAtTheApollo'':
26-->'''Lee:''' Could someone tell Robbie Williams that this doesn't constitute entertainment? [''struts along looking smug''] "Come on Glastonbury, you know this one" [''holds mic to the audience''] "Yeah, we know it, Robbie. It was 150 quid to get in. Any chance you could sing it for us?"
27* Subverted by Scroobius Pip in "Thou Shalt Always Kill": "When I say Hey, thou shall not say Ho; When I say Hip thou shall not say Hop."
28** "When I say 'he say she say we say Make Some Noise' ... kill me."
29** Ironically enough, the audience does tend to participate in the "Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music" sequence.
30* Subverted in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26LvqYGTMZ0 Mounted Animal Nature Trail]]'' by Music/TheArrogantWorms. The song (as explained by a long preamble) is about a nature park where all the animals are dead, stuffed, and mounted on sticks. It ''seems'' that the audience should sing along during the chorus, except, as the band will eventually point out,
31-->Bear in mind the animals are ''dead!'' This inhibits their vocal talents!
32-->It's a funny funny joke! I got it, so can you!
33-->...Do you have a school here? Like, even one would be good.
34* Subverted by Music/TomLehrer in his introduction to "The Irish Ballad" on the live album ''Music/TomLehrerRevisited'':
35-->''Oh -- one more thing. One of the more important aspects of public folk singing is audience participation, and this happens to be a good song for group singing. So if any of you feel like joining in with me on this song, I'd appreciate it if you would leave -- '''right now'''.''
36* From Saul Williams' ''Niggy Tardust'':
37-->"When I say 'Niggy', [[SubvertedTrope you say nothing.]] Niggy."
38-->"[[DoubleSubversion Nothing!]]"
39-->"Shut up."
40* 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]]. And to do so more angrily with every chorus.
41-->''I will NOT sing along!''
42-->''Keep your stupid song.''
43-->''We're the audience,''
44-->''it's you we came to see!''
45-->''You're not supposed to train us,''
46-->''You're 'sposed to entertain us.''
47-->''So GET TO WORK''
48-->''and leave me be!''
49* Australian satirical duo Shortis and Simpson have a song called "Don't You Hate It When They Make You Sing Along?" which is based around performers attempting to badger the audience into singing along when they don't want to.
50* On the ''Literature/SoulMusic'' soundtrack album, two choruses of the stadium rock pastiche "The Messenger" 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.
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52!!Examples in music/real life:
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56* Music/ArcadeFire's "Rebellion (Lies)" and [[EpicRocking "Wake Up"]]
57* The chorus of Bowling for Soup's "Come Back to Texas"
58* The entire FolkMusic ''genre'' of call-and-response songs.
59** Also some songs have picked up lines not originally present in the lyrics, such as the line in the traditional song "Wild Rover" "And it's no, nay, never!" being followed by the audience shouting, "Rise up your kilt!" before the singer's next line, "No, nay, never no more!"
60* Similarly, Responsorial Psalms.
61* Most famously: "Hey Jude" by Music/TheBeatles. Say it with me now...Naaaaaa na na NA-NA-NA Naaaaa! NA-NA-NA Naaaaaa! He-ey Jude!
62** At the 2002 Golden Jubilee celebrations, the entire audience repeated the chorus several times.
63** When Music/PaulMcCartney performs it at concerts, he frequently stops during the chorus and just lets the crowd sing it. He'll also kind of conduct it by calling out "Now, just the men! Now, just the ladies! Everybody!"
64** Music/PaulMcCartney has also started using "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," as an AudienceParticipationSong at concerts.
65** There have been reports of performers playing the distinctive opening chord to "A Hard Day's Night" followed by the audience singing the entire song unaccompanied.
66* In the live version of Manzo's "My Pace Daioh" (the theme from ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}''), the audience, rather than the band, does the "Ay ay ay!" shouting.
67* Music/BillyJoel took this to its logical extreme when he ended his sets with "Piano Man". Honestly, the only words he sang were, "It's 9 o'clock", and then the audience proceeded to sing the remainder of the song themselves.
68** Not quite the case anymore - he'll still sing the majority of the song, but for the penultimate chorus, he and his band will just stop and let the audience sing it. Since Billy himself is the "Piano Man" in question, hearing an entire stadium-sized audience sing it back at him is pretty heartwarming.
69* [[Music/TheSmiths Morrissey's]] [[FanConvention fan]]-[[IOweYouMyLife base]] could undoubtedly [[WaxingLyrical recite]] every lyric the man has ever written, but the uniting torch song appears to be that of "There is a Light That Never Goes Out."
70* When those [[Music/BeastieBoys Beasties]] ask the time... it's [[Music/LicensedToIll TIME TO GET ILL]].
71* Strong Bad's live remix of "Everybody to the Limit" on the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' CD ''Music/StrongBadSingsAndOtherTypeHits'' includes two parts like this; the first has him instruct the audience to sing "Come on, Fhqwhgads! I say come on, Fhqwhgads!" loud enough "the people in East Reykjavik" can hear them, then near the end, he does some [[CallAndResponseSong call-and-response]].
72-->'''Strong Bad:''' Somebody say "Trogdor!"\
73'''Audience:''' Trogdor!\
74'''Strong Bad:''' Say "Burninate!"\
75'''Audience:''' Burninate!\
76'''Strong Bad:''' The Cheat is overwhelmed!\
77'''Audience:''' The Cheat is overwhelmed!
78* Music/MyChemicalRomance with pretty much anything, and they encourage it like crazy. You can guarantee that, whatever the song, at least a hundred hardcore fans will be howling along with tears spurting from their eyes. This got pretty impressive at Reading 2011 during "Famous Last Words" when a gajillion black-clad kids were yelling "I am not afraid to keep on living! I am not afraid to walk this world alone!" in unison.
79* On the Music/DireStraits live album ''Alchemy'', the audience singing along is audible over the music. On every song.
80* The Angels' "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?" - audiences invented the response "No way, get fucked, fuck off!"
81* "Addicted" by Simple Plan-when Pierre sings "How long will I be waiting?" the entire audience will bellow back, "Until the end of time!"
82* The "fuck you" parts of the Irish pub song ''[[http://www.timmalloys.com/buggeroff.html Bugger Off.]]''
83* The same goes for what is probably Music/{{Overkill}}'s most famous song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLZPo2m2Qvs "Fuck You."]]
84* Of course, Music/{{Queen}}'s "We Will Rock You". As detailed in ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'', after an incident where their concert audience sang to the band after they finished playing, Music/BrianMay decided to write a song that the crowd could perform with the band. The double stomp and clapping rhythm through the song was intended to get the audience to do it themselves.
85** In fact in the London stage production of ''Theatre/WeWillRockYou'', the actor playing Gallileo will often specifically try and get the audience involved if they aren't making enough noise when 'We Will Rock You' starts up.
86** "Radio Ga Ga" is just like that. Try to listen to it and not clap, is almost impossible. Music/FreddieMercury once stated that having the audience to take a part in their song was exactly what he wanted.
87** 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 Music/BrianMay, 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.
88** And then there's the vocal contest-type things Freddie Mercury would do with the crowds, singing sequences of notes at the crowd and getting them to try and match his vocals. The crowds were surprisingly good at it.
89** On their ''Live in Montreal'' Album, they had a bit of trouble getting the crowd to sing along with certain songs, which were widespread in Europe but not so much in French Canada.
90** When Music/GeorgeMichael performed "Somebody To Love" at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992, [[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.
91** Freddie's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klr5z0hoP04 vocal competition]] with the audience at shows. His 1986 Wembley competition was even shown at the 2012 Olympics, they wisely decided to cut out the part where he points at an audience member who outdid him and says 'F*** you.' to much laughter.
92** Live Aid at Wembley Stadium in 1985, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-JcbK4Z5Gk which is widely regarded as the best live performance in modern history]].
93** Brian May and Roger Taylor have theorized that songs like "I Want It All" and "The Miracle" would have become these if Freddie hadn't become too ill to tour after 1986.
94* Music/XJapan:
95** Early on, it was ''X,'' the band's image song. It includes the "X Jump," which has actually registered as a 2.0 earthquake when engaged in by millions of fans at once at Tokyo Dome.
96** Later on, ''Endless Rain,'' ''Kurenai,'' and ''Tears'' took on the role as well.
97* Music/ThinLizzy gained part of their reputation or being the 'world best live hard rock band' by including this in at least one song per gig. Phil Lynott's banter and rapport with the crowds was well documented- the most famous example(s) preserved on the "Live and Dangerous" album, in particular the song "Baby Drives me Crazy".
98* Music/BarenakedLadies' fanbase is ''very'' into audience participation; the band briefly stopped performing "If I Had $1,000,000" live because the song mentions Kraft Dinners and they were sick and tired of having boxes of macaroni thrown at them when they got to that line. In the live version that sometimes plays on radio, you can actually hear them complaining "Aren't you going to ''eat'' it?" after the line.
99** "Pinch Me" also has Audience Participation written into the ''real'' lyrics - Ed Robertson remarks "I can hide out under there." There's a pause, and his next line is "I just made you say 'underwear.'"
100*** Music/{{Primus}} famously had a similar problem when they performed "My Name is Mud" at Woodstock '94 and got pelted with mud.
101* German bardic metal band Music/BlindGuardian have such a rabid fanbase that they incorporate this into their songs- they record their songs with layered choral parts that the crowd sings live, turning every song into Audience participation. The most impressive examples are "The Bard's Song," which live [[https://youtu.be/Zklqr1xj32Q is sung almost entirely by the audience]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ_VFJn2kJM this version]] of "Valhalla," where the crowd keeps going after they finish the song. Both songs can be seen back-to-back [[https://youtu.be/i-IcX_bccFc here]].
102* Comedian Music/StephenLynch does this in his song "Superhero", asking audience members to suggest hero names. (Results include Valtrex Boy[[note]]"Isn't that the herpes medicine?"[[/note]] and Buttsex Man[[note]]"[[BlackComedyRape The world's most effective superhero!]]"[[/note]].)
103* Music/JudasPriest:
104** Rob Halford has been known to let the audience sing the entirety of the song "Breaking the Law".
105** In recent years, "Turbo Lover" has become this, with Halford letting the audience sing the chorus.
106* Every Music/IronMaiden album has at least one "Woah-woah" bit that the audience can sing along to--for instance, "The Trooper".
107** Iron Maiden fans will sing along to everything, especially in well-known "anthem" songs. This includes not only choruses but verses, riffs, and even solos. Especially in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoiHX9azZeQ "Fear of the Dark"]]: the band could pretty much stay silent for the first minute or so and nobody would notice.
108*** During the song "Run to the Hills", singer Music/BruceDickinson has always had the crowd sing the second half of the line "Out on the plains...we gave them hell".
109** Music/RushBand is very similar. At one point in Rush In Rio, the crowd sang along to "YYZ"... [[ExaggeratedTrope which is an instrumental]]. Also, expect people in the audience to play air drums--and play them closer to the original studio recording than whatever is being played live.
110*** The did the same for "La Villa Strangiato" -- another instrumental--letting out a "Yeah/Hey!" every time a certain riff comes up.
111*** And for "Temples of Syrinx" -- not an instrumental, but the part people cheer along to doesn't have any words.
112* Similar to Rush's ''La Villa Strangiato''[[note]]In that the chanting is just the frontman and the crowd shouting "HEY!!" every other beat[[/note]], 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]]''.
113* In his live shows, Jonathan Coulton has the audience sing ([[StylisticSuck badly, by his instructions]]) "All we wanna do is eat your brains!" during "Re: Your Brains". Inevitably, one or two people throw in random shouts of "Brains!" immediately afterward.
114* Music/PaulAndStorm have audience participation aspects in several of their songs. "The Captain's Wife's Lament" is probably the best-known (and often {{exaggerate|dTrope}}s it by going OffTheRails; a ten-minute performance of this two-and-a-half-minute song is considered ''short''), but "A Better Version of You" also has this.
115* Music/{{Rammstein}} played with this in their song "Ich Will", the song is about being misunderstood, and the "audience" responses during the chorus are muddled shouts to illustrate this.
116** It can somehow be {{exaggerated|Trope}} by the fact the crowd's lyrics aren't said by Till and that that the crowd isn't asked to answer during the show, so you only know that you are supposed to answer when you are supposed to answer and what you are supposed to answer.
117** 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 CAN'T HEAR YOU!".
118** By no means the only song that fills this trope. During live performances of "Du hast", Till Lindemann falls silent and lets the audience sing the chorus by themselves.
119* Music/NineInchNails song "Piggy" frequently has this happen, as lead singer Trent Reznor invites the audience to start singing the song with him, most notably the phrase "Nothing can stop me now", as it's repeated a lot in the song, and other Nine Inch Nails songs, to the point it has become ArcWords within the band's music.
120* Music/MarilynManson: "Antichrist Superstar" and "This is the new Shit" are designed for this trope.
121* Music/TheArrogantWorms play it straight with some versions of the song "Jesus' Brother Bob":
122-->'''Worms:''' There were a thousand people/Right outside the door\
123'''Audience:''' Help us, Jesus, help us!\
124'''Worms:''' Came the cheering from the mob...
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126* Wish You Were Here - at least, the second verse - is this for Music/PinkFloyd's alumni.
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128* Music/FiveIronFrenzy's "Handbook for the Sellout": Not only would the fans sing along, but vocalist Reese Roper would remain silent and stick his microphone into the mosh pit for the first four lines of verse one.
129* Music/JoanBaez once led her entire audience in a "repeat-after-me" version of "Amazing Grace". It appears on her live album "From Every Stage", and it's quite good.
130** It didn't work so well when she tried it at Live Aid. That crowd wouldn't start singing along until she segued into "We Are The World."
131* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mq4UT4VnbE "Minnie the Moocher"]]
132** Many of Music/CabCalloway's songs invoked this trope, the songs were often written so that his orchestra and/or the audience could repeat his scat talk. Every once in a while he'd surprise and confuse everyone by breaking out in very rapid, hard-to-repeat gibberish in place of his typical "hi-de-hi-de-hi-di-ho", just for laughs.
133*** As seen in ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' in all its glory.
134* There's also "Living Next Door to Alice" (Alice?! Who the fuck is Alice?) by Smokie.
135* One of the odder and more extreme examples was during a live performance by In Flames. Before the next song the lead singer Anders Friden just picked some guy from the audience and made him do vocals for the next song "Bullet Ride". The results were poor but it was an interesting variation on this trope.
136* Certain performers have actually admitted to using this when they forget the words to a song. They'd just point the microphone at the audience and let them take care of it.
137* The album version of "Stay Beautiful" by Music/ManicStreetPreachers has a deliberately placed guitar lick in place of words at the end of the "why don't you just..." part of the chorus.. It's the audience's job at the gigs to shout out a hearty "FUCK OFF" in its place.
138* Music/TheyMightBeGiants' song "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" consists entirely of sections of the crowd alternatively calling out "Apes!" or "People!".
139** The live version of "She's Actual Size" featured on the Dial-a-Song compilation features an audience participation ''drum solo.''
140** Live performances of "Hide Away Folk Family" generally feature John Flansburgh commanding the audience to "scream as if they are in hell" during the instrumental bridge.
141** During live performances of "Drink", Flansburgh usually asks the audience to chant "Drink! Drink!" when "Drink" is sung on the chorus, oftentimes dividing the two chants between the general standing area and the balcony if the venue is set up as such.
142* Music/WeirdAlYankovic uses pretend audience participation in the recordings of small parts of two of his songs: "Dare to be Stupid" and "Albuquerque". When he performs "Dare To Be Stupid" live, he has the audience sing along in those segments (doing the "I can't hear you!" part at least half a dozen times). He doesn't perform "Albuquerque" live very often because it's basically 11 minutes of non-stop rambling and screaming and it hurts his vocal cords to do it all at once during a show. He performed it in a concert in Albuquerque because he said he pretty much had to but was too worn out to sing anything else afterward.
143** He has since adopted "Albuquerque" as his encore. Probably the best place to put it.
144* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXCivy4LmGE My Ding-A-Ling]], by Chuck Berry.
145* Music/{{Oasis}}, "Don't Look Back in Anger". Taken to its logical conclusion in July 2009, when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhcV85h5sqo Noel Gallagher stayed silent and let the crowd sing the whole song.]]
146** And "Wonderwall", of course. Especially when Jay-Z [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDIOVXx-y8 is covering it.]]
147* Brazilian band Raimundos has at least two songs: "Eu Quero Ver o Oco" (people scream the title not only in the chorus, but during the intro as well), and "A Mais Pedida" (since a part was recorded with a guest female singer).
148* During Woodstock, Country Joe and the Fish got the crowd of ''500,000'' to sing along to a song ("Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag") that starts with, "Give me an F! Give me a U! Give me a C! Give me a K! What's that spell?!".
149* During their concerts, Music/DragonForce get the crowd to sing a part of their song, "Through the Fire and Flames". While performing a different song in Ohio, the crowd just laughed and cheered when ZP Theart held out the microphone. He then went on a short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJQG9W8qxBo tirade]] about this.
150* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] pretty much made a career out of Audience Participation. According to WordOfGod, "Hey folks, the places where YOU sing are in CAPS. We expect you to know your parts when we play live..."
151* Music/DreamTheater used "Take The Time" as a major Audience Participation moment in early tours, with a call-and-response in the chorus, and a clap-along section at the end of the instrumental section.
152* WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GzU0r4C4U4 "When I say Avada Kedavra, scream like you're dying (starts at 2:53)."]]
153* Northern Irish band Therapy? have played one of their oldest songs, Potato Junkie, at just about every gig for the past 16 years or so, because if they didn't, their fans'd kill them. Why? Because throughout the (always extended) middle eight, the audience chants "James Joyce is fucking my sister".
154* Music/LilJon & The East Side Boyz' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYGQIxMM-Qw "Get Low,"]] anyone? TO THE WINDOOOOOOOOOW! TO THE WALL!!
155* Music/{{Rihanna}}'s "Umbrella". No matter who is actually singing it.
156* Music/RageAgainstTheMachine-"Killing in the Name" ends with the repeated line "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!" which seems tailor-made for audience participation.
157** This was a problem when Biffy Clyro tried covering the song for a live performance that was being broadcast on a national radio station at lunchtime. The band agreed to just sing the melody during that line and so make it expletive free. The audience didn't.
158* Mindless Self Indulgence, quoted above, have great fun with this - often the audience will be called upon to sing (or rap) an entire song for the band.
159* Pete Seeger's take on "Guantanamera".
160** And every other song he's ever done.
161* Music/FallOutBoy have "This ain't a scene, it's an arms race", which has a choir part somewhere near the end of the song. When live, the audience sings this with much enthusiasm. (The fact that it's basically one sentence helps.)
162* John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats is famous for haranguing a notoriously shy indie-rock crowd into singing along with a number of closing numbers, including the Music/AceOfBase song "The Sign". Best Quote: "Time was when I had to harangue people to sing that one and I spent the entirety of the time between the first chorus and the second verse singling out the people who hadn't sung. I can't even see the people who hadn't sung this time, but I know you're there, cause I couldn't fucking hear you. I need to hear you. I will come out there! I have witnesses that will tell you that I will come out there and make you extraordinarily uncomfortable, standing in front of you with my guitar where you'll go 'damn, I'd like to beat a hasty retreat to the exit but I just, there's something about a guy talking right to you that you can't just turn around and walk away.' So, what I wish you'd do is sing and save us both the embarrassment and the pain and the years of the therapy!"
163* Music/BruceSpringsteen has a ton of these, most notably Hungry Heart, where the audience traditionally sings the entire first verse and chorus.
164** And his cover of ''[[Music/TheRamones I Wanna Be Sedated]]'', which was an audience request in the first place.
165** Don't forget "Waitin' On A Sunny Day"; when the audience on Creator/VH1's ''Storytellers'' wasn't singing along with the chorus, he admonished them by saying in a good-natured voice, "Well, you know what these songs are for! Come on you bastards, earn your keep!" They started clapping and singing immediately. He briefly discussed this trope during the same show, saying that one of his main reasons for writing these types of pop songs is so he can hear the audience sing them back at concerts.
166** "Born To Run" and "Rosalita" both have the audience sing along to the ''instrumental''. So does "Badlands."
167** In his "Live from New York City" DVD, the audience sings along with the opening saxophone lines from "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out". Later in that song, when Bruce introduces the band before the third verse, he gets the audience to chant "CLAR-ence! CLAR-ence!" in anticipation for his introducing Clarence Clemons.
168** And of course any time Springsteen plays "Santa Claus is Coming to Town".
169** Live versions of "Wrecking Ball" have the audience singing "Whoah-oh-oh" repeatedly at the end.
170** He's also been known to have the audience fill in a few lines of "Thunder Road."
171** On the ''Live In Dublin'' album, the band starts playing "Old Dan Tucker" and the audience immediately starts singing the chorus. They get through it three times before Bruce starts singing the first verse.
172* Music/TheHoldSteady: Craig Finn writes a lot of singalong choruses, like "Massive Nights".
173* "Once In Love With Amy" from ''Where's Charley'', at least in the version performed and recorded by the show's original star Ray Bolger, invites the audience to sing along.
174* Creator/MontyPython did "The Philosophers' Song" this way in their live performances.
175*** The curtain call reprise of the song includes follow-the-bouncing-ball lyrics projected on the backdrop.
176*** Thousands upon thousands of people in a London stadium sang along with the choruses -- no bouncing ball required -- when Eric Idle performed this song as part of the 2012 UsefulNotes/OlympicGames' closing ceremony. Who knows how many people watching it on TV or online joined in?
177*** 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.
178* Music/JAMProject did this with awesome effect with their live performance of Skill. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwky1ciyE0g "MOTTO MOTTO!"]]
179** It's reached the point where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF0TBqy1NAE they don't even need to sing GONG anymore]].
180** And during live performances of "Storm", the audience would yell "[[Manga/GetterRobo GETTA]]!!!" during the chorus.
181* The live version of Worm Quartet's "What Your Parents Think All Your Music Sounds Like" has the audience singing the chorus of "SEX, DRUGS, SATAN."
182* Sage Francis - ''Escape Artist'' features the lines:
183-->"When I say Hip, you say- shut the fuck up, I ain't sayin' shit -and I respect it"
184* "All Right Now" as sung by Queen + Paul Rogers.
185* Keane often gets crowds sing the chorus to "Somewhere Only We Know". Sometimes Tom Chaplin will pick up the whole mic stand and hold it to the crowd to get them to sing it.
186* Sing "The Old Dun Cow" in a room full of [[FilkSong filkers]] or Rennies, and when "somebody shouted [=MacIntyre=]," ''everybody'' shouts "MACINTYRE!"
187* In {{pantomime}}s (the British use of the word, not the American usage) an audience participation song is practically a requirement.
188** Oh no it isn't!
189*** [[OverlyLongGag Oh yes it is!]]
190* Edwin Starr's ProtestSong "War" seems built for this, as the chorus starts out "War -grunt- / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing!"
191* In keeping with its [[FolkMusic folk]] nature, Music/DonMcLean's "American Pie" designs its final chorus for audience participation by having a "soloist" chorus after the last verse leading into an "everybody sing along" final repeat.
192* [[Music/GhostBand 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.
193* Since Music/KidRock's friend Joe C. died, his brief parts in the songs have become Audience Participation moments.
194** Not to mention any time his song has the "''radio, edit''" sound clip, there's about a 50/50 chance of the audience screaming out that, or screaming out the words that it obviously and intentionally cropped out.
195* [[GenreMashup 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.
196* The entire genre of "Jodies," Military Cadence songs, is Audience Participation by nature. They are written to have a hard beat to keep your running at a constant pace (your left foot should hit just as you sing one).
197--> "I don't know but I've been told..."
198* During the Music/GooGooDolls' concerts, John Rzeznik has the audience sing the chorus to "Iris".
199* Creator/AndyKaufman was fond of leading his audience in sing-alongs, most infamously "The Cow Goes Moo" (a self-penned song). The end of his 1977 primetime special features another frequent selection, the Fabian song "This Friendly World", presented with bouncing ball graphics on the screen.
200* Music/MeatLoaf gets the audience to sing along in concert, occasionally haranguing them if they don't/won't (an example can be heard on the live from Melbourne version of Bat Out Of Hell)
201* Creator/MandyPatinkin doesn't let concert audiences leave without doing the hokey-pokey.
202* Swedish television program ''Allsång på Skansen'' is entirely based on this trope. It tends to get insanely high ratings and sometimes... Surprising artists show up. It's often REALLY strange to look at the audience.
203* In live performances of "Army", Music/BenFolds tends to organize sides of the audience to mimic the horn section break from the studio version.
204** He also lets the audience sing the "God please spare me more rejection" line.
205** Also, in live performances of "Not The Same", he teaches the audience to sing the three-part harmony "aaahhhh" parts during the chorus.
206** During solo live performances of "You Don't Know Me", the audience sings Regina Spektor's part.
207** If he ''really'' likes the crowd he's performing for, he'll "Rock This Bitch" for them when asked to.
208** Additionally, during Ben Folds Five performances of "Underground," after Darren's opening line of, "I was never cool in school, I'm sure you don't remember me...", it's customary for members of the crowd to scream, "Who the ''fuck'' are you?!" at him.
209* In the live ''At Budokan'' version of Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me", every time Robin Zander sings "Didn't I didn't I didn't I see you cryin'?", the audience responds with "cryin', cryin', cryin". This was completely spontaneous on their part, they were imitating an echo effect used in the studio version of the song. And since this live version then became much more popular than the studio version ever was, it continues as a tradition.
210* The band Coheed and Cambria has several songs that require audience participation in order to work properly. Claudio's voice sometimes falls out, but you sometimes don't notice because the audience simply goes right on. In particular, the songs "No World For Tomorrow", "Blood Red Summer," and "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" stand out. The last two have sections specifically for a crowd chant. The latest live album, rather a box set, had the track "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3"'s chant section sung entirely by the audience with Claudio letting them sing his part of the chant too. It was completely electrifying.
211** Also, subverted in "Wake Up" and a few other songs, at least on some live performances, when Claudio has(or maybe just does, because you usually CAN hear the audience in the background) to sing all his vocals, which must be pretty difficult when he sings songs where his vocal track OVERLAPS itself...
212** Played straight again during a few live playings of "A Favor House Atlantic", where the audience sings the chorus ("Good eye, sniper/I'll shoot, you run")
213** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxw77OIRuU0& yeaaah
214* When Music/{{REM}} performs "Man on the Moon" in concert, the audience is cued to join in on the "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" refrain in the verses and the second use of the title phrase in the choruses. This is only appropriate considering the song's [[Creator/AndyKaufman subject]].
215** And don't forget "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)": [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein "LEONARD BERNSTEIN!"]]
216* ''VideoGame/RockBand'' adds these for many of the songs on-disc and even has crowds singing along to instruments in some cases (such as the solo of "Say It Ain't So" in the first game and the intro riff of "American Woman" in the second). It also occasionally shows up in downloadable songs (such as "Losing My Religion" but, disappointingly, not in "Don't Stop Believing"); "Pick Up the Pieces" even has the crowd singing along to the ''horn section''.
217* Many songs with "woah"s in them are these, especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AIMmmM7JQ4 Love in an Elevator]] by Music/{{Aerosmith}}.
218* Music/PearlJam's "Better Man"; sung along so much by fans at concerts that Eddie Vedder doesn't sing the first verse anymore, as the crowd handles it. Also, any live recording of "Even Flow".
219* Music/BadReligion's "Raise Your Voice" is tailor-made for this, but it was also popular with their earlier song "Generator". On ''Tested'' (their live album), pretty much the entire first verse is sung by the audience.
220* Jambands have more unusual audience participation because people see them so many times. Reactions can evolve over the years as fans see them again and again. Music/{{Phish}} are the most extreme example. Sometimes it's just singing along ("and we love to take a bath," the "Whooo"'s in "Twist", the "Oh yeah!" in "Fluffhead", the "Wilson" chant in, well, "Wilson") but a few more involved reactions are the audience clapping along to the drum fill in "Stash." Fishman hasn't played the woodblock fill since the early '90s since it just gets drowned out by the clapping, but everyone still does it. At the 1996 Red Rocks show a fan-created flyer was handed out asking people to scream, "Hood," after the band sang, "Harry," in "Harry Hood." 13 years later, fans are still doing it. The band also got into the game. They had a [[http://www.phish.net/faq/language.html secret language]] for the fans. Certain riffs could be played in the middle of a jam that would mean various things. "The Simpsons Theme" was a cue for the fans to scream, "D'oh." A series of falling notes means that everyone should fall down. "Turn Turn Turn" would lead to everyone turning around and facing the soundboard. The language hasn't been explained since 1992 and signals have become rarer and rarer, but they were played as late as 2000 and fans still responded to them.
221** A non-Phish jamband example - Widespread Panic had people throw lighters at the band after the line, "Somebody throw me a fire," in "Big Wooly Mammoth." They actually had to stop singing the line for their own safety.
222* Music/SonataArctica's lead singer, Tony Kakko, usually leads the crowd in a sing-along in the middle of concerts to give the rest of the band a rest. Sometimes this is a rousing Old [=McDonald=] Had A Farm and other times he assigns each section of the audience a drum sound to mimic and proceeds to play "We Will Rock You" on the crowd. He also leads the crowd in singing the 'ohhh-oh-oh' bits in songs such as "My Land" by pointing up or down depending on where the pitch goes next. It is also absolutely required for the audience to shout 'Run away! Run away Run away!' during "Fullmoon".
223** Not to mention that he closes every single show by getting the crowd to sing with him "We need some vodka" to the tune of ''Hava Nagila''
224* Pretty much every AFI album begins with an anthem song. Except for The Art of Drowning's, which is an instrumental.
225** [[PunctuatedForEmphasis THROUGH! OUR BLEEDING! WE! ARE ONE!]]
226** "Torch Song" isn't really an Audience Participation Song but it's sort of joined the ranks of their crowd anthems anyway since they've opened every Crash Love show with it. (If nothing else, everyone will sing the "''Anything!''"s)
227* Music/{{Metallica}}'s "Music/MasterOfPuppets" is usually performed with the audience singing part of the chorus.
228** Recently, as can be seen on Français Pour Une Nuit, they've started singing the melodic instrumental section as well.
229** The "Exit light, enter night" bit of "Enter Sandman" is ''invariably'' sung as a call and response. Yes, even in the cello ensemble cover.
230** The [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Chanting]] from "The Memory Remains".
231** And, lest we forget, "Creeping Death". ''DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!...''
232** Hetfield: Searchin'! Crowd: Seek and destroy! Rinse, repeat.
233** The middle section in their instrumental 'Suicide and Redemption'.
234** [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SHOW! YOUR! SCARS!]] in "Broken, Beat, and Scarred."
235* Similar to the ''VideoGame/RockBand'' example above, Sony's ''Singstar'' makes players do this for the opening synth part of Europe's "The Final Countdown".
236* Audience participation is common in wizard rock, probably because the first big wrock band, Harry and the Potters, employs it overwhelmingly. "When I say ''wizard,'' you say ''rock!'' Wizard!...''Wizard!''...''WIZ-ZARD!''"
237* Music/TheLivingEnd does this for "Second Solution" near the end when the title lyrics are repeated several times.
238* Moosebutter does this with their song "I Hate Mosquitoes", first having the audience sing the repeated line "I hate mosquitoes" during the chorus, then the "BAM!" that follows each repetition. ("And if you sing it really loud, no mosquito will ever bother you ever again, your whole life...")
239* Dutch band Blöf always gets a response in their song ''Wat zou je doen'' (''What would you do''). Roughly translated: "Would you laugh, would you cry, would you say that I am an asshole?" "YES!"
240* The performance of "Hey Jude" from Party At the Palace. The entire Mall and back garden of Buckingham Palace all packed to bursting with people ALL singing along to an extended version of it.
241* Music/DepecheMode's ''Everything counts'' is a classic example. They used to play it at the end of their concerts. The audience would repeat the chorus for minutes on end after the song was over ("The grabbing hands grab all they can / Everything counts in large amounts"). You can listen to a live recording of this on the album 101.
242** The choruses of "Enjoy the Silence", "Walking in My Shoes", "Personal Jesus", and "Stripped" also fit this trope, as does the opening verse of "Never Let Me Down Again". Especially since all of them other than "Stripped" (which was missing from the first 1.5 tours of the aughts) have been played on every show of every tour since their release.
243* Joe Dolce's song "Shaddap You Face" wasn't intended as one of these; in concerts, the audience picked up on the "Hey!" sung only after the first line and started inserting them after ''every'' line, and singing along with "Ah, shaddap you face!" at the end of the chorus. The music video fully embraces this trope, with Dolce singing alongside a sign with the song's lyrics written on it for the audience.
244* Music/FooFighters concerts are basically 2 and a half hour invocations of this trope. Oftentimes the audience sings louder than Music/{{Dave|Grohl}} does, especially during "Best of You", "Times like These", "Rope" (during the "CHOKE! On a kiss, save my breath for you!" part of the chorus), "Learn to Fly", "Arlandria" (Dave does a stop and go portion in the middle of the song, encouraging the crowd to yell along with the guitar chords) and of course "Everlong".
245** Not to mention that for quite a few years, they wouldn't play "Big Me" in concert because fans would throw Mentos candies at the band when they performed the song. (Its music video is an extended parody of then-current Mentos commercials.) Dave remarked that being hit by the candies was "like being stoned" (no, not ''[[TheStoner that]]'' kind of stoned), adding "Those little … things are like pebbles – they hurt."
246* Music/{{Selena}} often invited audiences to sing along with her. For example, on her album ''Live'', she has them sing along with two refrains of "Ven Conmigo".
247* The Frames function on audience participation, especially on 'Rent Day Blues' ("Kool and the gang play on the radio" "Celebrate good times, come on"), 'The Blood' (the harmony), 'Star star' and 'Fake' (most of the song). They've also traumatised many a venue's health and safety officer by encouraging the audience at seated gigs to get up and dance.
248* The live version of Roxette's "It Must Have Been Love", as featured on the album ''Tourism''. Credits: Vocals and piano: Marie Fredriksson. Backing vocals: 40,000 Chilean fans.
249* Arashi's Lucky Man is not far off the example for this trope.
250--> "When I say Lucky you say Man!"\
251"Lucky Man Lucky Man!"
252* [[Music/KoRn KoRn's]] "Y'all Want a Single" live with the audience screaming back "Fuck that!" or "FUCK THAT SHIT!" (depending on which half of the song it is) in reply to Davis' "Y'all want a single say..."...[[ClusterFBomb Mass Cluster F Bomb]].
253** While they don't have very many examples, "ADIDAS" has two. Audiences often shout back "FUCK!" in response to the first "I don't know your fuckin' name..." in each verse to have it match the second and, after the bridge, Davis often goads them into singing one of the alternate "All day I dream about..."s before screaming "FUCKIIING!" back in reply.
254* On one Music/BlackSabbath live album, War Pigs has Ozzy sing a line (example: Generals gather in their masses...), the crowd sing the subsequent line (...just like witches at black masses), and repeat.
255* Paul Rodgers often allows the audience to participate in performances of "All Right Now," originally by Rodgers' former band Free.
256* Music/TomPetty & the Heartbreakers: In later years, Tom didn't sing "Breakdown" anymore. At all. Just lets the band play and the audience sing, with an occasional snark if they're too stoned to remember the lyrics.
257* "Music/AlicesRestaurant" has an audience participation part at the end, complete with chiding by Arlo Guthrie.
258-->'''Arlo:''' That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing ''loud.''
259* ZP Theart of Music/DragonForce, Tobias Sammet of Music/{{Edguy}}, Marco Hietala of Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} and Tarot, and many other vocalists have admitted to using calls for audience participation to hide spots where they've forgotten the lyrics.
260-->'''Singer:''' KINGDOOOOM! FUKKEN!
261-->'''Audience:''' Gone!
262-->'''Singer:''' KINGDOMFUKKEN!
263-->'''Audience:''' Gone!
264-->'''Singer:''' KING DOM FUKKEN!
265-->'''Audience:''' Gone!
266-->''[Band proceeds to play "Kingdom Gone".]''
267-->''[Band finishes song, feedback squeals.]''
268-->'''Singer:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeFiPu5nS4c KINGDOMFUKKEN! KINGDOMFUKKEN! KINGDOMFUKKEN!]]
269* Music/LinkinPark sometimes has the audience sing the last verse of "In the End" in addition to Chester's brief parts during the first two verses. Not to mention that live versions of "Bleed it Out" feature a singing contest between the two vocalists with the audience's help.
270** During Chester Bennington's memorial concert, when "Numb" rolled around, the stage was left empty. With no prompt, the audience sang the song from start to finish. Mike also invited them to sing Chester's parts in "In The End". They didn't just sing Chester's parts.
271* The main verse to Music/{{Disturbed}}'s "Stupify" seems tailor-made to a call-and-response relationship between the band and crowd. The singer shouts "All the people in the left wing '''FUCK'''" to the response from the left section. After that is the right wing (right section), the high rise (the upper gallery or higher seats), the underground (lower front area or mosh-pit) all shouting "'''FUCK'''" back to the band. The lead singer, David Draiman, encourages this.
272** Their cover of "Music/LandOfConfusion" requires a chorus of voices shouting "wha-oh!" in between verses (otherwise bassist John Moyer has to somehow fill this place alone). It's also customary to raise one's fist in the air during the end of ''Ten Thousand Fists''' chorus (the lyrics are literally shouting "Ten Thousand Fists in the air!").
273** The band's SignatureSong, "Down With the Sickness", is best known for what David Draiman calls a monkey growl ("ooh-WAH-AH-AH-AH!"). The band, knowing people are going to replicate that sound in concert, sometimes stops playing and turns off all the stage lights when they get to it as a gag.
274* Part of the chorus of Kate Miller-Heidke's "Politics in Space" is one of these call-and-response things.
275* ''[[Music/BonJovi SHOT THROUGH THE HEART!]] AND YOU'RE TO BLAME!''
276** Performances of their so-called national anthem "Wanted Dead or Alive" from 2001 onwards have the audience take over the vocals in the first verse. And don't forget "Livin' On A Prayer;" try finding someone who doesn't sing along to it the moment Jon Bon Jovi starts the acapella intro.
277* Music/GreenDay have several, either "Basket Case", or from ''Music/AmericanIdiot''. If songs from the latter are played abroad, Bille Joe makes a point of saying that the audience participation is so much better than in America.
278** Also the "1,2,3,4" at the beginning of "St. Jimmy"
279* Music/GreatBigSea has long had audience participation. Their live (recorded in different cities) album ''Road Rage'' features several, a notable one being "Excursion Around the Bay" where part of the audience (initially one small group) lets rip a enthusiastic "Hey!" after the chorus, which grows and grows as more people join in (clearly with band encouragement) until the last chorus, which the band lets the audience sing, and ends with an enormous roar.
280* Music/{{Muse}}'s insanely dedicated fanbase ensure this is a phenomenon found in almost every song they play live, but "Knights of Cydonia" (with epic bellow-along moments throughout pretty much the whole number) tends to invoke particularly enthusiastic audience response, which the band play up to by showing the lyrics on the light show screens. It probably helps that it's often played as an encore.
281** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNV9gv0NmzU&t=172s first such bellow-along moment]] in "Knights of Cydonia" doesn't even ''need'' lyrics!
282* Music/{{Paramore}} is fond of this trope. They have "My Heart" ("Sing us a song and we'll sing it back to you"), "[[TitleDrop Born For This]]", "That's What You Get", and "Where The Lines Overlap" ("Now I've got a feeling if I sang this loud enough you would sing it back to me.")
283* The first few lines of the Music/ArcticMonkeys song "When The Sun Goes Down" is traditionally sung by the audience at concerts.
284* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' once lampshaded this, in a list of things that suck about concerts, calling the singer lazy for making the audience sing for him.
285* Music/ToriAmos' "Big Wheel"
286--> Tori: I-I-I am a M-I-L-F!
287--> Audience: Don't you for-get!
288* "Revolutions" or rather its more recent version "Revolution, Revolutions" by Music/JeanMichelJarre whenever played before a UK audience. Come to think of it, it was Jarre's only piece of music with lyrics before the end of 1999.
289** Then again, if Jarre's audience is hyped up enough, they'll sing along with {{instrumental}} pieces of music like "Fourth Rendez-vous" or "Chronologie 4".
290* ''The Rocky Horror Show'' as a whole takes this trope to the extreme. Even ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', despite being [[TheMovie a movie]]. The audience partici— — —pation at both musical and film goes as far as shooting water pistols or throwing toilet paper, rice or toast bread at certain scenes.
291* The Music/LeningradCowboys {{inverted|Trope}} this whenever they played "Kasakka" live. First they got the audience to sing the song, then the band started to play along. ''Twice''.
292* The German comedian Otto Waalkes got the audience to sing along with "Nasdrowje Womm" at the end of his earliest shows — and then sometimes left the stage while the crowd continued to sing for several minutes before they noticed that the stage was empty.
293** "Hänsel und Gretel". Yes, the fairy tale song. Otto only sings the first ''syllable'', and the audience sings the rest.
294* When Udo Lindenberg sang "Jonny Controletti" in his early years, two guys disguised as Mafiosi would jump out of hidings with fake machine guns at the end of the song and "mow down" the audience who always played along.
295* [[Music/ThirtySecondsToMars 30 Seconds to Mars]] developed a rabid fanbase/street-team after the release of the first album, called the Echelon. Singer Jared Leto (yes, he of ''Film/RequiemForADream'' and ''Film/LordOfWar'' and other films fame), would often get the crowd to join in on songs during touring for the second album. This was then followed up by inviting a thousand people to form choirs to sing on every song of the third album. Most fans will happily join in with singing along during their parts for songs. Logic dictates that the fourth 30StM album will consist entirely of the fans singing.
296* The song "Rise, Rebel, Resist" (during the tour of the same name) was directly stated to be this at an Otep show I saw this year. When Otep sang the line "Perfect little spouses in perfect little houses", she then asked the audience to sing the next line ("It's family fun time - let's commit a hate crime!").
297* "Because We Want To" by Billie Piper.
298* Slipknot's live album, 9.0 Live, includes a good deal of Audience Participation - including one (Spit it out) where the audience flubs it.
299-->'''Singer:''' Let me hear your fucking voices as one, motherfuckers!
300-->'''Audience:''' *general roar*
301-->'''Singer:''' Way to go *does verse*
302-->'''Audience:''' *chanting* Fuck me! I'm all out of enemies! Fuck me! I'm all out of enemies!
303-->'''Singer:''' Now that's exactly what I asked you to do 15 seconds ago!
304** The 'Spit It Out' performance during live shows is also notorious for its involvement in getting the ''entire audience to kneel down on the ground'' after the second verse so that after the bridge they can all jump up in unison. The process of getting nearly every audience member to comply with sitting down has led to a few issues however, as some people are less willing than others to do as the band says. A good example comes from [[http://youtu.be/Aoqdruc0wyA?t=3m59s this performance]], where frontman Corey Taylor becomes visibly aggravated with a group of fans in the center who refuse to kneel for him and spends several minutes repeating himself to "Get down on the fucking ground", before giving up and continuing into the bridge.
305* 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. 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".
306* In their most recent tour to promote The Hazards of Love, Colin Meloy of Music/TheDecemberists leads the audience in a spontaneous song, with each third of the audience doing a different melody or sound. After teaching each section their part, he conducts their specific volume and tempo.
307** Even before the Hazards of Love tour, Music/TheDecemberists would incorporate audience participation in one of their most popular live songs, "The Mariner's Revenge Song." Meloy gives the audience a signal at which they must scream as though they are being swallowed by a whale to coincide with the same event in the song. He suggests "screaming and crying for your mother." The song is often performed as an encore or finale.
308* [[Music/BlueOysterCult Blue Öyster Cult's]] song "Dominance and Submission" features an audience participation moment so popular with fans that many compilations will include a live version over the original studio version. '''DOMINANCE!''' ...and submission. '''DOMINANCE!''' Submission. '''DOMINANCE!''' Submission. '''DOMINANCE!''' Submission [epic guitar]
309* We say Hillshire, you say farms! Hillshire! (Farms!) Go meat!
310* Music/JoeSatriani's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcfuyGS5onQ Crowd Chant]]. Satch's riffs (and other assorted tricks) during the "verses" are deliberately structured with gaps of equal length to allow an audience to recite them with their collective voices to the point where it's a flat-out requirement.
311* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers were trying to sell some executives on making "Under The Bridge" their next single. The executives agreed to attend a live performance of the song so they could hear it. When the vocals were supposed to start, however, Anthony Keidis wasn't paying full attention and missed it -- at which point the audience started the song for him. When he went up to apologize to the executives for "fucking up" later, they said something like "Fuck up? What do you mean fuck up?! When the entire crowd sings your song for you, that's our next single!" AudienceParticipationSong taken to a bit of an extreme.
312* From ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' there's the COOL&CREATE song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMPB8iVK20Q Help me, ERINNNNNN!!]], which contains Beatmario yelling Touhou-related phrases and the audience imitating him.
313* Music/{{U2}} often closes its concerts with their song "40," and it's a tradition for audiences to keep singing the chorus "How long to sing this song" along with Bono -- and continuing to sing after he leaves the stage. And continuing to sing after the rest of the band leaves the stage one by one. And continuing to sing until the house lights come up after the show.
314** U2 fans have even given this treatment to ''songs that have not technically been released yet.'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMkGOA5-FVE Here's]] an example.
315* Music/PeterGabriel did something similar; he used to close his concerts with his song "Biko", and at the very end of the song, audiences would join him in a repeated "Whoa-oh-ohhhhh" chant, throwing fists in the air. Peter turned the moment into a call-and-response, naming various civil rights leaders the audience should "sing for" -- "Sing it for Martin Luther King! Sing it for Nelson Mandela! Sing it for Stephen Biko!" Before finally saying, "What happens next is up to you," and leaving the stage - leaving the audience to carry on singing.
316* In some benefit concerts, Music/PhilCollins has done an acoustic version of "In The Air Tonight," featuring just him and a piano; the moment where the drum break usually comes in, he just pauses for a few seconds' silence. A few times, however, the rest of the audience has joined in with their own "vocal drum break" by shouting, "BA-BUM BA-BUM BA-BUM BA-BUM BUM BUM!"
317* T.M.Revolution (pictured above) loves this. He will very often have the audience sing all or part of a line in a song, or have them sing the backing vocals. Other times he'll just demand "Utae!!" ("Sing!") and hold his mic up as they sing multiple lines, sometimes even the entire chorus, of a song.
318* "Diamonds Aren't Forever" by Music/BringMeTheHorizon.
319* Hatebreed's dedicated fanbase does this quite a bit, especially on the song "I Will Be Heard," which probably was built around audience participation. Look up the performance of this song on their ''Live Dominance'' DVD if you're curious.
320* Music/ImogenHeap on her latest tour will divide the audience into 3 groups for "Just For Now", and sings the lyrics "hide and seek" while the audience loops "ransom notes..." under her.
321* Music/JacksMannequin concerts in which "Holiday From Real" is played will usually have the audience shouting the "fuck yeah."
322* Music/DefLeppard usually has the audience sing the chorus of "Pour Some Sugar On Me".
323* Revocation has "Dismantle the Dictator", which oftentimes involves the band completely letting the audience take over for the gang shouts in the bridge.
324* In most live performances of Music/CobraStarship's "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)", Gabe Saporta will bring an audience member up on stage to do Travis [=McCoy=]'s rap.
325* A presentation about ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' at an animé convention demonstrated that "Marisa Stole the Precious Thing" is such a song, apparently.
326** On a related note, who doesn't get the urge to swing their arms while yelling "ERIN! ERIN!"?
327** The equally catchy 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.
328* The live version of Captain Ahab's "I Don't Have A Dick" as it appears both on film and in "The Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts" features several crowd members shouting the first part of the chorus after the opening stanza.
329* The band VNV Nation requests that audiences sing along to Solitary (because "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.
330** Perpetual is also notable for the crowd (and vocalist Ronan) singing "nananaNANAnana!" along with the instrumental intro, and chanting the repeated closing line "let there be/let there always be/neverending light" (sometimes long after the instruments have faded out)
331* Some live recordings of "[[Music/DaveMatthews Ants Marching]]" has him let the audience sing/shout for a few lines before picking it up again.
332* At one of the Live 8 concerts, Creator/WillSmith turned the theme to ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' into this -- granted, he was performing IN Philly. But reportedly, all he said was, "okay, let's see how many of you remember this one -- 'iiiiiiiiin WEST Philadelphia, born and raised'....." and then just stood, grinning, as 20,000 people finished the entire rest of the song for him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqFWL6l9_b0 Link]]
333* Music/{{Epica}} usually lets the audience sing the 'FOREVER AND EVER!' part of the ''Cry for the Moon's'' chorus.
334* In his ''Tinselworm'' tour, Creator/BillBailey encourages anyone who goes to see Music/TheKillers to sing the equally logical: "I've got ham but I'm not a hamster" when prompted by the band to sing: "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier."
335* Music/GarthBrooks:
336** His SignatureSong "Friends in Low Places" contains a secret live-only "third verse" that the audience chants.
337** "Unanswered Prayers" became one on the ''Double Live'' album as a result of his {{Corpsing}} over the volume of the audience singing it.
338* Music/{{James}}' lead singer Tim Booth resented the fans turning "Come Home" into an anthemic audience participation piece - he wrote the song from a dark place as a critique of his own life ("After 30 years I've become my fears / I've become the kind of man I always hated"). He came to terms with it though and eventually came to embrace it. And stopped being so miserable.
339* Music/KTTunstall tries to prevent this after the audience worked out how her [[IAmTheBand loop pedal]] worked and realised that if they shouted an obscenity loud enough at the right moment, it'd be repeated through the whole song.
340* Music/{{Chicago|Band}} with the "We can make it happen" refrain of "Dialogue".
341* A live recording of Music/{{Foreigner|Band}}'s "Hot Blooded" from the compilation album ''Records'' includes the audience being invited to shout the words "Hot blooded!" at the appropriate time, with the invocation: "Now listen up! You gotta be louder than we are! We got the amps; you got the numbers! There's strength in numbers!"
342* 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 (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.
343* Exhumed has used "Limb from Limb" as one of these for the majority of their career, and "As Hammer to Anvil" has fast become another one.
344* The Flemish group Clouseau has a ballad, "Laat Me Nu Toch Alleen" where they give the audience the chance to sing the starting verse. Only, the song has a part where it sounds as if it goes over to the bridge but actually starts another verse. This part is consistently sung wrong by the audience, the lead singer will then correct the audience and start the song over again, this time singing himself. By now, it's anybody's guess whether this is so because the audience always gets it wrong, or whether everybody knows that Clouseau expects them to sing it wrong.
345* Name a Music/KaizersOrchestra song, any Kaizers Orchestra song. If it's performed live and has been released previously, the band ''will'' leave the refrain over to the audience, and they ''will'' sing along.
346* Korean Pop groups such as Music/SHINee, Music/SuperJunior, Music/GirlsGeneration, etc. have designated ''fan-chants'' that the fans and audience sing along to. Fan-chants may include singing the members' names as an interlude in a song comes along.
347** FridgeBrilliance: fan-chants were actually made to keep the audience's noisy singing down and organized.
348* Hail The Villain's ''Take Back The Fear'' has several parts. The audience is meant to back up the chorus and also sing the titular line.
349* No love for Music/DuranDuran? SWITCH IT OFF!
350* Music/{{Pulp}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWaHnlt2I3U "Common People"]]. Even on the mastered versions of this performance that they've released, you can still hear the crowd's voice better than Jarvis'. It fits the song though.
351** Glastonbury is well known for hosting massive moments of audience participation.
352* Music/{{Blur}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T8LMZhz6FQ "Tender"]]. When the band performed the song at the Reading Festival in 2003, Damon Albarn requested that the audience sing Graham Coxon's "Oh my baby/Oh my baby/Oh why?/Oh my" lines since he was no longer in the band. When Blur reunited (with Coxon) for a brief festival tour in 2009, the audiences were still keen on singing those lines, even continuing the tradition after the song ended and during the encore breaks.
353* The iconic song "Are 'Friends' Electric?" is a mainstay of Music/GaryNuman's live performances. Gary often vocalized along with the soaring synthesizer breaks in concert, until the audience began doing it for him. The audience also tends to supply the [[TitleDrop titular line]] of the song. "You know I hate to ask..."
354* Mark Donnelly sings "O Canada" at Vancouver Canucks home games. After the first stanza, he turns it over to the audience for the second.
355* This is Music/DashboardConfessional's entire shtick, to the point where the audience starts singing the first verses the moment Chris Carrabba starts playing. It's really the only reason to attend his solo shows where he just shows up on stage with his guitar.
356* Music/TheProtomen do this with a few of their songs at live shows, most notably the song from Act II "Give Us the Rope" where the entire song is audience sung.
357** 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 drowned out by the fans before long.
358** In "The Hounds", the audience plays the part of the reporters, shouting at Dr. Wily, "WHAT WAS HER NAME?"
359* The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain encourages both joining in and a call-and-response in its most-requested cover, that being Wuthering Heights (oh, Heathcliff... ''HEATHCLIFF!'') They too have been known to leave out the chorus and let the audience sing it themselves occasionally.
360* Music/TheVeronicas most of their live show features audience participation
361* Music/FrankTurner's entire repertoire is basically this. At gigs, he will invite the audience to sing along from the first song and most of his songs have an "and now you sing" moment
362** To the point Frank has two rules at his shows: 1) Don't be a dickhead, we're all a community here to enjoy the show and 2) If you know the words, you have to sing along!
363* Music/{{Coldplay}} has many, most notably "Viva La Vida" and its "ooooh oooh oooh" chorus.
364** Especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ldOuVuas1c this performance]] - Chris Martin plays SIX NOTES, and he's got half the audience. Six more, and everyone's singing.
365* Music/DeltaGoodrem, by design, A Little Too Late, Innocent Eyes and You Will Only Break My Heart have sing-along bits.
366* Taken to its logical extreme by Music/SoundHorizon's "The Glory Kingdom", a live-only song that's sung ''entirely'' by the audience at the end of each concert.
367* The German Punk-Band "Die Ärzte" (The Doctors) has a song called [[BrotherSisterIncest "Geschwisterliebe"]]. When they weren't allowed to perform the song live, they just played the instrumental part and let the audience sing.
368* Music/SteveTaylor had a big one in "We Don't Need No Color Code" which was a protest song against racist policies at Christian universities. Crowds at his concerts used to really get into it, as well.
369* It happens at Music/MileyCyrus concerts as well, notably on "[[http://youtu.be/g96qwJQ_rzs Simple Song]]".
370* Music/EltonJohn:
371-->'''Elton:''' ''"Bennie!!!"''\
372'''Audience:''' ''"Bennie!!!"''\
373'''Elton:''' ''"Bennie!!!"''\
374'''Audience''' ''"Bennie!!!"''\
375'''Elton:''' ''"BENNIE!!!"''\
376'''Audience''' ''"Bennie!!"''\
377''Elton:''' ''"Ohhhhhh, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiRZYqGHn6Q and the Jets]]!!!"''
378* Music/RushBand has, at times, had concert audiences singing along with YYZ. [[{{Instrumentals}} Not that there are any actual words..]]
379* Music/FaithNoMore:
380** One of the reasons they caught a lucky break having "Epic" as their big hit, not just because the lyrics were so fun to toy with, is the interactive potential of the song's infamous breakdown ([[PunctuatedForEmphasis "What?! Is?! ]][[RuleOfThree It?!]]" "What the ''fuck'' is it?!" "What is it, kiddies?!"). "Be Aggressive" is another favorite in this regard, as there's nothing more awesome than hearing a big crowd comprised predominantly of heterosexual males scream "I swallow! I swallow! I swallow! I swallow!"
381** The audience singing the chorus to "Midlife Crisis" (You're perfect! Yes, it's true! But, without ''meeeeee'', you're only you!) became a staple of their reunion tour.
382* Music/BitterRuin demand clinking glasses and "HEY HEY"s from the audience to get the full effect of The Dancing Dolls Of Porcelain.
383* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine: Often, Florence Welch has the audience do something during "Dog Days Are Over". With "Rabbit Heart", she asks for all the ladies to be raised up so they're above the crowd. ("Raise her up!)
384* Creator/SteveMartin's first live album has him doing a ditty he says his dad taught him which starts out to be sweet, introspective and heartfelt ("Be courteous, kind and forgiving / be gentle and peaceful each day") and then it disintegrates into silliness ("Be tasteless, rude and offensive / live in a swamp and be three dimensional"). After Martin performs it, he entreats the audience to join in.
385* John Farnham's You're The Voice, "You're the voice try and understand it, make a noise and make it clear..." "WHOA-OH-OH-OH-OH-OH-OH, WHOA-OH-OH-OH-OH-OH-OH-OH-OH-OH, etc"
386* Music/SaraBareilles divides the audience in half to provide the backing vocals for "King of Anything".
387* Crowds in Argentina have a long and proud tradition of singing loudly along with the lyrics, riffs and even some solos, as immortalized in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ytVB1r_bM Iron Maiden's Flight 666 DVD]] and the classic "Megadeth Aguante Megadeth" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZK_bT2kdDk over Symphony of Destruction]]. Needless to say, most local bands have at least one of these on their repertory.
388* Pat Travers' "Boom Boom ([[spoiler:Out Go the Lights]])".
389* Creator/NanaMizuki
390** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eveaH342_X8 Power Gate]]", which has the audience completing the first lines of certain verses for her
391** She also no longer needs to do the part in "[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs Eternal Blaze]]" where she sings out the name of the song [[http://youtu.be/cZFPVAOrdXQ?t=3m15s as the audience will do it for her]].
392* This is one of the defining features of a Music/TaylorSwift concert. No matter what song is being sung, there will be a ''thunderous'' sing-along from the crowd that sometimes threatens to drown out the not-especially-powerfully-voiced Taylor. Even her opening acts can find this happening to them if a song of theirs is familiar enough. There are a ''lot'' of sore throats and chests and parched mouths by the end of the night.
393** 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 chants 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 and she raises her hands, knocking every dancer on stage to the ground.
394** In her rendition of 'You Are In Love' she asks the audience to be her backing singers, repeating the last word of every line in the chorus back at her like in the studio recording. The result is tens of thousands of people becoming a unified, ethereal sounding choir, somehow knowing every word to an acoustic song only available on the deluxe album.
395** During one performance of "Delicate," an audience member screamed "1, 2, 3, let's go bitch!" in between the intro and the first verse, a moment which went viral. In subsequent performances of the song, Taylor started leaving a longer pause after the intro to allow the audience to shout the line.
396* Crowd sing-alongs have become just as commonplace increasingly mainstream world of electronic music, ''especially'' if a song is popular (and given that during live sets, a DJ will typically bring tracks by other artists into the equation as well. And because the DJ can easily just turn the song down for the crowd to sing that one line everyone knows).
397** ''Everyone'' knows the chorus to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmM-jOqvlkQ Clarity]]". [[Music/SwedishHouseMafia And not to mention "Save the World" or "Don't You Worry Child"]]. "Wake Me Up!" qualifies now as well.
398** They even sing along to the ''instrumentals.'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGaH1u5Jeo The Island]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AK_jyM8sOc Calling (Lose My Mind)]]" result in this a ''lot.''
399** "[[Music/KidCudi People told me slow my roll, I scream out...]]" "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SqtNsua0ng FUCK THAT!]]"
400* One of the most well-received parts of concerts by ACappella musical group {{Music/Pentatonix}} is where they divide the audience into thirds and have each third sing a part (as Team Scott, Team Mitch, and Team Kirstie), then have Avi and Kevin (the [[MediaNotes/VoiceTypes bass]] and beatboxer/vocal percussionist respectively) do their thing underneath. As a rather large portion of the Pentatonix fandom is made up of music geeks, it's not really surprising.
401* Walter Sickert and the Army Of Broken Toys typically divide the audience in half before playing "Off With Her Head", with one side shouting "Off!" and the other "Head!" during the chorus (The studio version gets the effect across with band members shouting and GratuitousPanning). Also, they've covered Ray Parker Jr's ''{{Franchise/Ghostbusters}}'' theme, which naturally lends itself to this.
402* During live performances, Music/MegumiHayashibara lets the audience sing "[[{{Literature/Slayers}} Give a reason]] for life!"
403* On a Peter, Paul & Mary live recording Paul prefaced "Puff the Magic Dragon" with an extra verse.
404-->Together we will sing it\
405It's just a children's song\
406And if you do not know the words\
407''You'd better learn them''
408* ''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 phrases, gradually making them harder to follow.
409* "Hey Homies!" by ''Music/TheAquabats''. At live concerts, audience members are not only encouraged to join in on the "call and response" chorus ("Hey Homies!" "What's up?" "What was that?" "Clap-clap!"), but to hug fellow audience members during the second verse.
410* Pretty much any song by ''Music/KooKooKangaroo''. Their live shows are all about getting the audience to dance and sing along.
411* Given ''Series/{{Friends}}'' 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...]]).
412* In the last episode of Podcast/AsItOccursToMe, Christian Riley's song exploited the call-and-response convention of the show's name.
413-->'''Christian:''' Goodbye AIOTM -\
414'''Audience:''' AIOTM!\
415'''Christian:''' The wind whispers your name...
416* While Music/{{ABBA}} had quite a lot of sing-along songs, "Mamma Mia" stands out for its "Swedish finger dance" routine. ''Every'' tribute band on this planet includes this in their shows.
417* The Echosmith song "Cool Kids", being their SignatureSong, often includes this at live performances.
418* Music/TheCatEmpire have many. More than half of the setlist in the gigs I've been to and the audience doesn't just sing the song lyrics, they often try to sing some of the trumpet solos too. Possibly, special mention should be given to ''The Wine Song'' which often also involves the audience being directed into dancing in co-ordinated circles.
419* Here Music/ChristyMoore sings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYpgsPB-Bkw "Black is the Colour"]] (a much-covered folk piece thought to originate in Scotland). The Glaswegian audience sings along quietly for the whole song, but on the final chorus Christy asks them to join in, and the result is spectacular.
420* This happened to French singer [[http://youtu.be/fbzFKq1vrFY Patrick Bruel in 1991]]. The audience began singing along without any prompting, leading to ManlyTears from Bruel as he let the crowd take it away.
421* 60s folk group The Limeliters would entreat the audience to spontaneously create their own verses to "Hey Li-Lee-Li Lee."
422-->'''Audience member:''' Why rehearse, put on a show?\
423'''Audience:''' Hey li-lee-li-lee lo.\
424'''Member:''' Kingston Trio, out you go!\
425'''Audience:''' Hey li-lee-li-lee lo.\
426'''Lou Gottlieb:''' (''spoken'') Oh, dreadful partisanship there!
427* It practically being their anthem, lead singer Haruna Ono of Music/{{SCANDAL|JapaneseBand}} likes to let the crowd sing the last verse of SCANDAL BABY, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pVYfH0LLDY here (in 2010)]] and again [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1JbyAQR_rs here (in 2015)]].
428* In concert, Music/PoetsOfTheFall's "[[https://youtu.be/CiOZe5wQcC0?list=PLjACqN5i5sDV-vl7PcNKmeMiivkLiHE2x The Happy Song]]," with its minimal, repetitive lyrics, may be reworked into a closing number that serves as an opportunity for the audience to sing along, with the addition of genially menacing new MadnessMantra lyrics to thank them for coming.
429-->'''Singer:''' 'Cause really, we love you!
430-->'''Audience:''' 'Cause really, we love you!
431-->'''Singer:''' LOVEYOULOVEYOULOVEYOU!
432-->'''Audience:''' LOVEYOULOVEYOULOVEYOU!
433* Music/{{Slade}} had "Get Down and Get With It", "Cum On Feel The Noize" and many others. They even recorded a version of "Okey Cokey". One particularly heartwarming moment of audience participation came at their [[CareerResurrection Career Resurrecting]] gig at the 1980 Reading Festival when the crowd started shouting for "Merry Xmas Everybody" - in August. Noddy Holder told the crowd "You want it? ''You'' sing it!"... and the crowd did. The recording of the crowd singing was used as the intro to Slade's Christmas EP that year.
434* Music/SamanthaFish has used her crowd-pleasing "Bitch on the Run" this way, explaining to the audience how to sing the repeated line "Right now, right now I'm feelin' it" when she cues them.
435* Many Music/SteeleyeSpan songs, but especially their signature tune "All Around My Hat".
436* [[OlderThanRadio Older than radio]]: One of the most famous pieces by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Sr., "Radetzky March" is traditionally accompanied by rhythmic clapping of the audience in one of its parts, which is uncommon to classical music.
437* Music/{{Sabaton}}'s fans are such nerds that at least half the audience is typically singing along on any given song, but they encourage it on several songs.
438** Joakim always thrusts his mic out to the audience several times during the chorus of "Ghost Division".
439** The live versions of "Uprising" and "Carolus Rex" often insert an extra beat between the bridge and closing chorus to let the audience shout out respectively "War-saw!" and "I was chosen by heaven!" The audience also usually sings the closing "Warszawo, walcz!" on "Uprising".
440** On the ''Heroes'' live album from the Sabaton Cruise, Joakim invites the Swedish-speaking members of the audience to sing the first half of the first verse of "En livstid i krig" all by themselves, to rebut claims he's heard that the Swedish crowds are lame.
441** For a particularly strange example, Sabaton brought Music/RadioTapok, a Russian-language cover artist whom they had helped make [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRow6G5wQIw a cover of "Attack of the Dead Men"]], onstage to perform his cover live in Moscow (which the band later released as a single). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kChcPVOvLSk The audience didn't miss a beat and sang right along to the homemade Russian lyrics.]]
442** The intro of Swedish Pagans.
443* Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} always has the audience join in on the "We were here" bits of "The Greatest Show on Earth".
444* Bodysnatcher often has the audience do the lead-in to the final breakdown on "Ego Killer":
445-->The only thing bigger than your mouth, is your fucking ego! SHUT YOUR GOD DAMN MOUTH!
446* {{Music/ACDC}}'s song "Thunderstruck" is a popular audience participation song at concerts with the audience joining in shouting "Thunder!!!" in several parts of the song, especially the opening and later singing, "Na-ah, Na, Na-ah, na, na".
447** During live performances of "Whole Lotta Rosie", it is customary for the audience for the audience to shout "Angus!" during the intro each time Angus Young plays the riff. The chant originated in their first live album ''If You Want Blood You Got It'', where producers Harry Vanda and George Young cut out a recording of the audience chanting and dubbed it on top of the intro to "Rosie".
448* The MJR chain of movie theaters has a short ad containing a song which plays before the movie starts. After both instances of the line "it's more than just a movie, it's a big night out!", there's a short pause before three notes play, and you'll be hard-pressed to watch the ad without hearing ''some''one clap along to the notes.
449* The opera adaptation of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' ends with the performers encouraging the audience to sing along to "Auld Lang Syne," as the characters do in the original movie.
450* Music/TheHumanLeague's [[https://youtu.be/nHtTJ7aBjTc "The Sound of the Crowd"]].
451* Music/BillyIdol's [[CoveredUp cover of]] "Mony Mony" becomes this in live performances. Audience members will often shout a certain formulaic (and usually obscene) variation of a particular phrase in the two measures following each line, for example "Hey, say what... get laid get fucked!"
452* The Music/BackstreetBoys' SignatureSong "I Want It That Way". On several shows of the Into the Millennium Tour, the boys had a sing-along with the audience to the final choruses of the song.
453* Music/GoodKid:
454** When the band plays "Witches" live, they'll have the audience sing the chorus ("We talked, we talked about it all night / We thought, we thought we'd make it alive") with them.
455** During live performances of "Down With The King", the band has the audience sing the accompaniment ("Down with the king! Down with the king!" and "You are so cruel! You are so cruel!").
456* In "Señorita", Music/JustinTimberlake gets the men and women in the audience to sing what becomes a CallAndResponseSong.
457-->'''Men:''' It feels like something's heatin' up, can I leave with you?\
458'''Women:''' I don't know, but I'm thinkin' 'bout really leavin' with you.
459* Music/{{LANY}}: In live performances of "never mind, let's break up", the audience is meant to say the TitleDrop after "I thought about giving you one more chance..." Also, they say the line "Pick another fight, tryna find another thing wrong with us!" the last time it appears.
460* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In the 25th Anniversary Concert, during "[[PepTalkSong It's Easy, M'kay]]", Trey (Mr. Mackey) asks the audience to agree not to say the word "fuck". While most of the audience responds, "Okay, Mr. Mackey!" as prompted, a few are heard saying "Fuck you!" or "Fuck off!"
461* "If there's something strange/In your neighborhood/Who you gonna call" "[[Film/Ghostbusters1984 GHOSTBUSTERS!]]"
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465* In the stage adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Aladdin}}'', the beginning of "Friend Like Me" uses [[CallAndResponseSong call and response]] audience participation.
466* The [[CutSong cut intermission song]] ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' song "Time" has Nicky ask the audience to drown out the complaining crowd in the bathroom by singing along to the last verse.
467* 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.
468* In ''[[{{Theatre/Hamilton}} Hamilton]]'', during the final two choruses of "You’ll Be Back", King George commands both the ensemble and audience to join in.
469-->''"Everybody!"''
470-->''"Dah dah dah dah dahhhhh..."''
471---> ''"whoa whoa whoaaa in "My Shot" when Laurens says Everybody sing,
472* ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' has the song "Dentist!" which becomes this when Orin instructs the audience to "Say ''ahhhhh!"'
473* In ''Theatre/{{Pippin}}'', Pippin's grandmother Berthe asks the audience to sing along with her in the choruses of "No Time At All" (except for the last one, which she insists on taking by herself).
474* The mooing section of "Over The Moon" from ''Theatre/{{RENT}}''.
475* One of the people who worked on ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}'' admitted that there was one song that they couldn't ''stop'' people singing along to: [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"]]. (Not LyricalDissonance in context, trust us.)
476* "Der Tanz der Vampire" from [[Theatre/TanzDerVampire the show of the same name]] was not written to be like this, but its relatively rock concert atmosphere compared to the rest of the show has given it this kind of status. The audience participation probably began with the "We Will Rock You"-esque chant at the end, but it spread to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW45rBYNdWU the whole song. Check it out!]]
477* In the London stage production of ''Theatre/WeWillRockYou'', the actor playing Gallileo would often specifically try and get the audience involved if they aren't making enough noise when 'We Will Rock You' starts up.
478* The ''Theatre/{{Tsukiuta}}'' series thrived on these in the days before COVID. Many of their songs have callouts that the fans all just know, such as "So Fast!/So Vast!" and so on in Gravitic Love. In addition, all of the units have a call and response catch phrase, and many of the actors created ones for themselves as well.
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482* ''WesternAnimation/RazzberryJazzberryJam'':
483** The Jazzberries do this in-universe at the end of “The Forever Song”, as they briefly leave their audience repeating the titular unending tune while they have a backstage chat, before coming back out and ending the song.
484** “When You Call”, from the episode “Calling All Jazzberries”, is also one, as the in-universe audience is brought into the song’s call-and-response pattern.
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