History Main / AudienceParticipationSong

Sometimes it leads to AudienceParticipationFailure. See also CallAndResponseSong. Trivia/SoraNoManiMani

Sometimes it leads to AudienceParticipationFailure. See also CallAndResponseSong.

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

* MyChemicalRomance, with pretty much anything. 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 (to say nothing of ironic) 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.

* 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, the performer will typically bring tracks by other artists into the equation as well).

* 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/LifeOfBrian "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"]]. (Not LyricalDissonance in context, trust me.)

* One of the people who worked on ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}'' admitted that there was one song that they couldn't ''stop'' people singing along to: ''Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life''. (Not LyricalDissonance in context, trust me.)
** In fact, the curtain call reprise of the song includes follow-the-bouncing-ball lyrics projected on stage.
* Comedian Stephen Lynch does this in his song "Superhero," asking audience members to suggest hero names. (Results include Valtrex Boy and Buttsex Man.)

* MandyPatinkin doesn't let concert audiences leave without doing the hokey-pokey.

** 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/vFN-N1OeCis?t=3m16s as the audience will do it for her]].

* NanaMizuki's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eveaH342_X8 Power Gate]]", which has the audience completing the first lines of certain verses for her

** ''Everyone'' knows the chorus to "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmM-jOqvlkQ Clarity]]". They also know ''all'' of the signature songs Music/SwedishHouseMafia.
** Especially in electronic, ''they even sing along to the instrumentals.'' "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGaH1u5Jeo The Island]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AK_jyM8sOc Calling (Lose My Mind)]]" elicit this a ''lot.''

* NanaMizuki's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eveaH342_X8 Power Gate]]", which has the audience completing the first lines of certain verses for her

** BilingualBonus: the shouts are actually "Wir verstehen euch nicht!", which is German for "we don't understand you", and other variations of the sentence immediately following Till's lyrics.
*** Actually, the shouts are "Wir hören dich", "Wir sehen dich" and "Wir fühlen dich"(We hear you, we see you, we feel you). The singer is the only one to say "Ich verstehe euch nicht"(I don't understand you), not the audience.

* When {{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 [[AndyKaufman subject]].

* During Goo Goo Dolls concerts, John Rzeznik has the audience sing the chorus to "Iris".
* 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 prime time special features another frequent selection, the Fabian song "This Friendly World", presented with bouncing ball graphics on the screen.

* This is 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.

* JacksMannequin concerts in which "Holiday From Real" is played will usually have the audience shouting the "fuck yeah."