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10	[[caption-width-right:350:This is how a true star lights up the night.]]
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12	->''"I always keep a lighter in my back pocket. I'm not a smoker; I just really like certain songs."''
13	-->-- '''Creator/DemetriMartin'''
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15	Whenever some epic music plays, (or usually just any music) there's a chance of some guy raising up a lighter, cellphone, candles or just miming doing so and swaying with the music (or the music in their head). Maybe they get a crowd to join in on it, or maybe they are the only person going with it, just standing there as if they were at a concert, when they are at a wedding reception. Either way, it's usually PlayedForLaughs as well as to bring {{melodrama}} into the moment. Occasionally, it might even have the lighters set off fire alarms or sprinklers.
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17	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 "Free Bird". 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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19	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, and with smoking rates plummeting, much more likely to have available in your pocket; just don't drop or lose your phone.
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21	As this is incredibly common at concerts, please limit RealLife examples to special or unusual variations of this trope.
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24	!!Examples:
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28	[[folder:Advertising]]
29	* A Heineken commercial showed a tongue-in-cheek explanation of this trope. Man sets beer on ground. He goes back for it and has to illuminate the ground with his lighter. When he comes back up, the entire crowd has their lighters lit.
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32	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
33	* ''Manga/OshiNoKo'': When Ruby, Memcho and Kana have their first gig as the New B-Komachi, the audience wave colored glowsticks in support of their favorite performer (yellow for Memcho, red for Ruby and white for Kana).
34	* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'': Near the end of episode 121, the crowd at Lovelitchi and Melodytchi's performance of "Smile for Tomorrow" can be seen holding and waving lights during the song.
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37	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
38	* In one ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'' strip, Darryl and Wanda go to a Crosby, Stills & Nash concert. When they play "Teach Your Children", everyone around them is holding up a lighter. Wanda asks Darryl to hold up "anything that glows" since they don't have a lighter or cell phone on them, so he pulls out a picture of their daughter Zoe, as a cute gesture from his part.
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41	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
42	* In the Cosgrove Hall animated adaptation of ''Literature/SoulMusic'', the audience waves lit candlesticks during the Band With Rocks In's final concert.
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45	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
46	* 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.
47	* ''Film/{{Our Shining Days\|2017}}'' 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.
48	* Done during AudienceParticipation in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' during the song "Over at the Frankenstein Place", with the cue being "there's a light..."
49	* Occurs in ''Film/UndercoverBrother'' while the title character and Penelope Snow [[spoiler:AKA White She Devil]] are karaoke singing "Ebony and Ivory".
50	* In the sequel to ''Film/WaynesWorld'', Garth tries this and winds up setting some guys hair on fire.
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53	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
54	* 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.
55	* Used in ''Series/{{Glee}}'' during Kurt and Blaine's rendition of "Candles" by Music/HeyMonday at regionals. The audience held up plastic candles.
56	* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': when the guys from K&B Construction come on [[ShowWithinAShow "Tool Time"]] and play their tools as instruments, Tim, Al & Lisa (the Tool Time Girl, played by Creator/PamelaAnderson) use grill lighters.
57	* An episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has Ted and Robin do this while Marshall sings a song about Barney getting slapped in the face.
58	* ''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.
59	* The final episode of ''Series/PhoenixNights'' features a StarsInYourEyes night, during which Brian Potter and Jerry St. Clair recreate Music/EltonJohn and Music/GeorgeMichael's "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" duet which the audience respond to with this trope.
60	* Happens occasionally in ''Series/That70sShow'' when the gang goes to concerts.
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63	[[folder:Music]]
64	* 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.
65	* The cover of Music/BobDylan'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.
66	* Also referenced in "Lighters" by Music/BrunoMars and Bad Meets Evil. Naturally, whenever Music/{{Eminem}} performs the song live, he asks fans to hold up lighters if the brought any.
67	* Live performances of Music/{{CHVRCHES}}' appropriately named "Afterglow" commonly evoke this trope.
68	* ''Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommittee'': Almost every video that features [[IdolSinger Mona]]. Her concerts are always filled with hordes of fans waving glowsticks in her honor.
69	* Music/{{Daughtry}}:
70	** Referenced in their song "Long Live Rock & Roll"
71	---> "So throw your lighters up and darling sing with me tonight"
72	** {{Invoked\|Trope}} by Chris himself at one concert where he told the audience to hold up their phones, lighters, or "whatever you got that lights up" while he played "Home". He jokingly refused to play the song until enough lights were up, instead singing the following to the tune of "Home":
73	---> I'm gonna need more phones\
74	I'm gonna need more phones\
75	I'm not gonna play this song until I get more phones\
76	I'm talking to you right here I know you got more phones
77	* Referenced in Five for Fighting's "Slice": "No cell phones, just twenty thousand lights, swayin' on a Saturday night alright."
78	* Invoked by [[Music/MiracleOfSound Gavin Dunne]] during a live performance at the Escapist expo (recorded [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AR7hpn4ML_M here]])
79	* Referenced by Music/{{Halestorm}} in the song "Rock Show".
80	* 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").
81	* 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!'".
82	* Music/{{Roxette}}'s "Listen to Your Heart" video has the audience wave sparklers during the finale.
83	* 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.
84	* 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.
85	* Creator/VictoriaWood's song "Reincarnation" refers to this with one of the lives she'd like to lead.
86	-->Dr Scholl will be my favourite sandal,\
87	Higher heels than that I cannot handle,\
88	Saw Music/BarryManilow and held my candle,\
89	Wax was running down my blouson.
90	* Invoked in Music/VNVNation's {{power ballad}} "Nova", with the lines "Light the fire in me" and "Shine your light on me".
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93	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
94	* This became a staple of Wrestling/BrayWyatt's entrance, as fans would hold up their cell phones in the darkened arena as his calm, eerie entrance music played. He referred to the lights as his "fireflies."
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97	[[folder:Video Games]]
98	* The local currency in ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' (a.k.a. ''HeavyMetal: The Game'') are the Fire Tributes, which are actually signs of approval by the [[PhysicalGod Gods of Metal]] and appear as 2D hands holding lighters whenever you do something awesome like jumping over a canyon in your hot rod or beating a mission.
99	* Certain encore performances in ''VideoGame/GuitarHero II'' are accompanied by members of the audience waving lighters. (Yes, Free Bird is one of them.)
100	* Playing well enough in the level "Guitar Solo" of ''VideoGame/MrBones'' would have your skeletal audience hold up candles.
101	* {{Discussed}} by Quentin from ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', who tells you that it would be nice if you held up a lighter during his band's concert. The drummer, Phoebe, isn't too happy about this proposal since, due to problems with controlling her [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic]] powers, fire is a sore subject with her.
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104	[[folder:Web Animation]]
105	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''
106	** 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, singeing the Paper in the process.
107	** In an Easter egg in the [=SBEmail=] "portrait", Homestar breaks out a lighter while Strong Bad "plays" the keyswordtaur.
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110	[[folder:Webcomics]]
111	* ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'', TMBG "She was a hotel detective" video.
112	* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': Done with magical fires in the last panel of [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-12-06 this]] strip.
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115	[[folder:Web Videos]]
116	* 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 Music/WhitneyHouston's "I Will Always Love You".
117	* Parodied in Creator/RyanGeorge's "[[https://youtu.be/yeYwntRc81U First Guy to Ever Hold Up a Lighter at a Concert]]" video.
118	* Webvideo/ToddInTheShadows' review of "Lighters", from the Music folder above, notes how it's an EvolvingTrope, and using its original form is outdated, saying Bruno Mars would probably be more correct if he sang "A sky full of [=iPhones=]..."
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121	[[folder:Western Animation]]
122	%%* This trope was among many parodied by the Warner Brothers (and the Warner sister!) on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''.
123	* In the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "Boyz 4 Now" the audience does this with their cell phones during the titular boy band's concert.
124	* In "Sad About You" on ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsWelcomeToCareALot'', 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.
125	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' episode "See Jane Run", Trent lifts a Zippo in tribute to his sister at a track meet.
126	* 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.
127	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when they're watching a Music/BeastieBoys reunion concert . Fry does this and a couple of nearby aliens follow suit with some glowing anglerfish-like protrusions.
128	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E24TheManeAttraction The Mane Attraction]]", many unicorns in the audience (including Rarity and Twilight) light up their horns in a manner similar to this trope when Coloratura performs "The Magic Inside".
129	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
130	** One episode has Bart trick Reverend Lovejoy into having "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Music/{{Iron Butterfly\|Band}} 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.
131	** A later episode features guest star Music/LittleRichard hosting a Teacher of the Year award show where Mrs. Krabappel has been nominated for the top honor. Homer is shown in the audience with a lit lighter shouting for "[[Music/{{Prince}} Purple Rain]]". After Little Richard shouts back at him, a star-struck Homer tells Marge that "Music/MichaelJackson just told me to shut up".
132	* 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.
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135	[[folder:Real Life]]
136	* During the Hurricane Sandy Relief Concert at Madison Square Garden on 12/12/2012, Music/AliciaKeys asked fans to do this with cell phones, as she played "No One" on the piano.
137	* There's an app that will let you induce a simulation of this on your smartphone.
138	* More recently, most smartphones now have LED camera flashes that can be lit continuously to use as flashlights, and this is what people will raise in tribute.
139	* After Music/{{Prince}} died, movie theaters across America showed ''Film/PurpleRain'' in tribute. Many a lighter was raised at the end.
140	* After Creator/CarrieFisher died, ''Franchise/StarWars'' fans held Raised Lightsaber Tributes.
141	* At Japanese idol performances, fans use LED lightsticks that can light up in one of several different colors.
142	* During streamed music performances, expect to see flame or fire emojis spammed in the chat if such behavior is allowed.
143	* 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, [[PowderKegCrowd which rapidly escalated into riots and mayhem]] as a culmination of three days of difficult conditions surrounding the festival.
144	* 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.
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