History Main / CrowdSong

** Especially recently, popular wrestlers who have instrumental entrance themes will have the melodies of said theme either fully vocalised or accompanied by the crowd en masse. Notably, Sami Zayn's ''"Worlds Apart"''[[note]]Pretty much everything! The vocalised intro, the '''"LET'S GO!!"''' and the entire trumpet melody.[[/note]], Finn Bálor's ''"Catch Your Breath"''[[note]]A single loud cheer in time to the [[ScareChord scare chords]]. Especially when Finn has adopted his "Demon King" persona, where he will rise up to his feet and spread his arms out in time to them as he comes down the ramp.[[/note]] and Shinsuke Nakamura's ''"Rising Sun"''[[note]]The main violin melody, especially after Lee England Jr. performed it live to accompany his entrance at NXT Takeover: Brooklyn[[/note]]

* Most British Football clubs have their own club anthem, some of them quite affecting; hearing 40,000 Liverpool fans spontaneously singing "You'll never walk alone", for instance, is quite moving.
** It is certainly rather more moving than most football chants/taunts, with a few of the more notable ones listed here, aptly demonstrating the average British football fan's warped and occasionally whimsical sense of humour.
*** "Who ate all the pies? Who ate all the pies? You fat bastard, you fat bastard, you ate all the pies!" (Traditionally directed at heftier players, a notable example being Sheffield United's goalkeeper Paddy Kenny)

*** More amicably, when Liverpool face Borussia Dortmund, who have also adopted ''You'll Never Walk Alone,'' with both fans happily singing it in unison. It probably helps that a) Dortmund fans make no bones about having adopted it from Liverpool [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff (as did about half the Bundesliga, for whatever reason)]], b) both teams and sets of fans are very alike in philosophy, with similarly atmospheric stadiums and legendary home stands (Liverpool's Kop End and Dortmund's 'Yellow Wall'), resulting in massive amounts of mutual respect, c) more recently, sharing a universally beloved manager, Jurgen Klopp, who joined Liverpool (and quickly established himself as a fan favourite) after leaving Dortmund, who he led to two league titles and a Champions League final, where he is very fondly remembered.
* In November 2015, France were scheduled to play a friendly match against their oldest and bitterest rivals, England, at England's Wembley Stadium. Three days before the match, the Bataclan Attacks took place, killing 129 people, with three suicide bombers blowing themselves up outside the Parc des Princes while France and Germany were playing, and cousin of one the France players, Lassana Diarra, was killed. The match went ahead and the French fans and team were greeted with a Wembley lit up in the colours of the French flag, the French national motto of 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité' emblazoned on the side, floral tributes laid by both managers, the head of the FA and Prince William, the traditional giant St. George's Flag at the home end replaced by a French tricolore, an impeccably observed minute's silence and, at the end of that, all 71,000 fans, English and French alike, joining in a thunderous rendition of 'La Marseillaise', the French national anthem (and appropriately, a stirring call to arms). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPbkQ220VDk&annotation_id=pfc%3AFPbkQ220VDk&src_vid=4dGl-3KQj3E&feature=s2lp Try listening to it without tears coming to your eyes and/or hairs standing up on the back of your neck.]]

** When Arsene Wenger, manager of the famously WeakButSkilled Arsenal football team, compared [[UnnecessaryRoughness the notably physical]] Stoke to a rugby team, their fans responded by singing 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot'.

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* Series/{{QI}} - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVBXb4XIqE They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is...]]
** To elaborate, Stephen gets tripped up while trying to explain the titular line. Jimmy and Bill proceed to turn it into a rousing crowd song and the rest...just has to be seen.

** Before then, they also had a parody of "Music/BornInTheUSA" by Music/BruceSpringsteen, called "Barn in the USA" that was lyrically and thematically similar to "Earthlings", though it was mostly sung by barn animals (hence the title).

* [[SeventeenSeventySix 1776]] gets their CrowdSong out of the way first thing with "Sit Down John". Basically, all of Congress wants UsefulNotes/JohnAdams to ''shut up already''.

** Also "At the Gala" from the season one finale, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]".

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* The first ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' opening. Sing at any anime or gaming convention. You will get an immediate and highly amusing reaction.

* Like [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the movie]] it was based on, the King of Swamp Castle in ''{{Spamalot}}'' is constantly trying to put a stop to these kind of songs, or any kind of singing whatsoever. He ultimately fails of course.

* If they don't know the main lyrics, then at the very least some people will recognize the chorus segments of "[[Music/Tears for Fears Shout]]".

%%* Anime/TheIdolmaster anime, specifically episode 20.
* The entire main class from ''Anime/AssassinationClassroom'' sings the anime openings.

* Classic LampshadeHanging in Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'':
-->'''Margaret''': But see, they come - Sir Despard and his evil crew! Hide, hide - they are all mad - quite mad!
-->'''Rose''': What makes you think that?
-->'''Margaret''': Hush! They sing choruses in public! That's mad enough, I think!
* ''La Vie Boheme'' from RENT counts as a small-scale crowd song--everyone in the Life Cafe (except for Benny and his three associates) joins in ''right on cue'' after Mark's mocking prayer for the death of Bohemia. It's both spontaneous AND an EarWorm.
* A few songs in ''Urinetown: The Musical'' count, but none moreso than "Act I Finale", in which the entire band of the poor people, the two local policemen, and the BigBad and his henchmen all join in a song about the rebellion's goals.
* Two songs from ''Theatre/GuysAndDolls'' count: "Luck Be A Lady" first has Sky Masterson singing about how badly he needs to win this round of craps, and then all the gamblers around him join in apprehensively singing at him to shut up and roll the dice. "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" then features a prayer meeting full of missionaries and the aforementioned gamblers singing about the dream that Nicely-Nicely had last night (which is often implied to have been made up on the spot).
* The musical ''Theatre/{{Titanic}}'' is made up almost exclusively of these, with only two solos and two duets of any appreciable length.
* Like [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail the movie]] it was based on, the King of Swamp Castle in ''{{Spamalot}}'' is constantly trying to put a stop to these kind of songs, or any kind of singing whatsoever. He ultimately fails of course.
* Sondheim averted some of this in ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' -- there is a great deal of counterpoint in the crowd songs, with individual members singing different things. Most noticeably shows up in "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir" and "God That's Good!" "City on Fire," on the other hand, is perhaps the only straight CrowdSong in the bunch.
** [[Creator/StephenSondheim Sondheim himself]] [[WordOfGod has admitted]] that he doesn't like this idea, as it stretches WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief too much for him. As such, he makes it a point to avert the trope as much as possible, with many of his works, including ''Sunday in the Park with George'' and ''Merrily We Roll Along'', containing large group numbers with people singing, if not different melodies, different lyrics in different tempos. When the trope ''does'' come up, he does his best to [[JustifiedTrope justify it]] with some kind of plot device (in ''Sunday in the Park'', for example, the Act One finale is something of a dream sequence, so the characters aren't fully in control of their thoughts.)
* This trope is subverted during a song in the musical ''HowToSucceedInBusinessWithoutReallyTrying''. To get ahead at the office, Finch learns that his boss is a graduate of Old Ivy, and then Finch falsely claims to be an alumnus of that same college. When the boss starts singing the college song "Grand Old Ivy", Finch joins in ... but, rather than singing in unison, he lags slightly behind the boss so that the audience will understand that Finch doesn't actually know the lyric.

* [[Theatre/LesMiserables Do you hear the people sing]] - both the main song and the reprise at the finale. Being epicified by a 250 persons choir certainly helps.
* ''Theatre/TwiceCharmed'' has "All Because of a Shoe," "In A Moment," and "Chasing A Dream."

* "My Shot" from ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' starts off as a solo IWantSong from the titular character before his friends join in, abd then all of colonial New York, showing the spread of Revolutionary fervor that Hamilton spearheaded.