History Main / AudienceParticipationSong

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

** Music/{{Rush}} is very similar. At one point in Rush In Rio, the crowd sang along to "YYZ"... [[UpToEleven 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.

* Music/PaulAndStorm have audience participation aspects in several of their songs. "The Captain's Wife's Lament" is probably the best-known (and often takes it UpToEleven 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.

** It can somehow be a UpToEleven 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.

** When they play "Turbo Lover", they let the audience join in on the chorus.

** In fact in the London stage production 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.

*** 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.
*** 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.
*** 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.
*** 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.

* Music/JudasPriest - Rob Halford has been known to let the audience sing the entirety of the song 'Breaking the Law'.

* Music/TomPetty & the Heartbreakers: Tom doesn'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.

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** Music/{{Rush}} is very similar. At one point in Rush In Rio, the crowd sang along to "YYZ"... [[UpToEleven which is an instrumental]].

** 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.

* Music/FooFighters concerts are basically 2 and a half hour invocations of this trope. Oftentimes the audience sings louder than Dave 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".
* 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."

* [[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]].

* The Music/LeningradCowboys [[InvertedTrope inverted]] this whenever they played "Kasakka" live. First they got the audience to sing the song, then the band started to play along. ''Twice''.

* Music/{{Chicago|Band}} with the "We can make it happen" refrain of "Dialogue."

* 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.

* Mark Donnelly sings "Oh Canada" at Vancouver Canucks home games. After the first stanza, he turns it over to the audience for the second.

* Sara Bareilles divides the audience in half to provide the backing vocals for King of Anything

* The Music/BackstreetBoys' SignatureSong "I Want It That Way". On several shows of the Into the Millenium Tour, the boys had a sing-along with the audience to the final choruses of the song.

* {{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 the "Na-ah, Na, Na-ah, na, na" part.

* Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Tom doesn'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.

* [[Music/JoeSatriani Joe Satriani'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.

* From VideoGame/{{Touhou}} 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.

* A presentation about VideoGame/{{Touhou}} at an animé convention demonstrated that "Marisa Stole the Precious Thing" is such a song, apparently.

* Some live recordings of "[[DaveMatthews Ants Marching]]" has him let the audience sing/shout for a few lines before picking it up again.
* 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.
** Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqFWL6l9_b0

** 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 ''[[PrecisionFStrike 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!"

** During Chester Bennington's [[AuthorExistenceFailure 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.

* Music/{{Chicago}} with the "We can make it happen" refrain of "Dialogue."

* Music/BillyIdol's [[CoveredUp cover of]] "Mony Mony" becomes this in live performances. Audience mumbers 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!"

** 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.

** The choruses of "Enjoy The Silence," "Walking In My Shoes," 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.

* Sonata Arctica'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".

* Music/{{Sabaton}}:

** The live versions of "Uprising" and "Carolus Rex" 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".

* 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!". Also, they've covered Ray Parker Jr's ''{{Franchise/Ghostbusters}}'' theme, which naturally lends itself to this.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC6JUA8cjoY "Minnie the Moocher"]]

--> Bear in mind the animals are ''dead!'' This inhibits their vocal talents!
--> It's a funny funny joke! I got it, so can you!
--> ...Do you have a school here? Like, even one would be good.

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

* [[Music/TheSmiths Morrissey's]] [[FanConvention fan]]-[[IOweYouMyLife base]] could undoubtedly [[WaxingLyrical recite]] every lyric the man has ever wrote, but the uniting torch song appears to be that of "There is a Light That Never Goes Out."

* 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]].

*** 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 out did him and says 'F*** you.' to much laughter.

* 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.

*** The did the same for "La Villa Strangiato"--another instrumental--letting out a "Yeah/Hey!" every time a certain riff comes up.
*** And for "Temples of Syrinx"--not an instrumental, but the part people cheer along to doesn't have any words.
* Similar to Rush's ''La Villa Strangiato''[[note]]In that the chanting is just the frontman and the crowd shouing "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]]''.

* Music/PaulAndStorm have audience participation aspects in several of their songs. "The Captain's Wife's Lament" is probably the best-known (and often takes it UpToEleven 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.

** It can somehow be a UpToEleven 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.

* Music/NineInchNails song "Piggy" frequently has this happen, as lead singer Trent Reznor invites the audience to start singing the song with him, most notibly 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.

** During live perfomances 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.
* 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 chords 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.

* 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 a F! Give me a U! Give me a C! Give me a K! What's that spell?!".

* 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.

* 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!"

* 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 prime time special features another frequent selection, the Fabian song "This Friendly World", presented with bouncing ball graphics on the screen.

* 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.
** 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.

* The main verse to Music/{{Disturbed}}'s "Stupify" seems tailor-made to a call-and-response relation-ship 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.
** Their cover of "[[Music/{{Genesis}} Land of Confusion]]" requires a chorus of voices shouting "wha-oh!" inbetween 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 Fist in the air!").

* When Udo Lindenberg sung "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.

** 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.

* Music/PeterGabriel did something similar; he used to close his concerts with his song "Biko", and at 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.

* 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.
* 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.

** 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.

* 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

* Music/DeltaGoodrem, by design, A Little Too Late, Innocent Eyes and You Will Only Break My Heart have sing along bits.

* Taken to it's 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.

** One of the reasons they caught a luck 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 ''[[PrecisionFStrike 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!"

* 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"

* Crowds in Argentina have a long and proud tradition of singing loudly along with the lyrics, riffs and even some solos, as inmortalized 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.

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

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

* 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.

* On the ''Discworld/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.

* In the stage adaptation of ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', the beginning of "Friend Like Me" uses [[CallAndResponseSong call and response]] audience participation.

-->'''Gene Simmons''': I... wanna rock & roll all night! (''holds the mic in front of Lois' face'')\\
'''Lois''': And have a wonderful... time.

-->'''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?"

-->'''Arlo''': That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing ''loud.''

-->'''Singer''': KINGDOOOOM! FUKKEN!
-->'''Audience''': Gone!
-->'''Singer''': KINGDOMFUKKEN!
-->'''Audience''': Gone!
-->'''Singer''': KING DOM FUKKEN!
-->'''Audience''': Gone!

-->'''Singer''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeFiPu5nS4c KINGDOMFUKKEN! KINGDOMFUKKEN! KINGDOMFUKKEN!]]

-->'''Singer''': Let me hear your fucking voices as one, motherfuckers!
-->'''Audience''': * general roar*
-->'''Singer''': Way to go * does verse*
-->'''Audience''': * chanting* Fuck me! I'm all out of enemies! Fuck me! I'm all out of enemies!
-->'''Singer''': Now that's exactly what I asked you to do 15 seconds ago!

-->'''Elton''': ''"Bennie!!!"''\\
'''Audience''': ''"Bennie!!!"''\\
'''Elton''': ''"Bennie!!!"''\\

'''Elton''': ''"BENNIE!!!"''\\

''Elton''': ''"Ohhhhhh, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiRZYqGHn6Q and the Jets]]!!!"''

-->'''Singer''': 'Cause really, we love you!
-->'''Audience''': 'Cause really, we love you!
-->'''Singer''': LOVEYOULOVEYOULOVEYOU!
-->'''Audience''': LOVEYOULOVEYOULOVEYOU!

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* {{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 the "Na-ah, Na, Na-ah, na, na" part.

Usually 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!)". Most of the time, used with {{Ear Worm}}s.

* Music/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 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.