Am in Europe. The very few times I’ve seen them ask part of the audience to shout was a left/right thing where people sitting on the left wing were being put to compete with ones on the right wing to see who shouts more. But even that was very very rare.
Well, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. They’ll say left side, right side. Front, back. Locals, people who traveled from far away. Guys, girls.
It’s just a way of increasing audience participation. Maybe the audiences in Europe are just naturally more fun, and so they don’t need all of the prompting from the stage?
It could also be a linguistic barrier. If the singer is from the same country, they could get away with shouting “all girls scream”, but they still risk not being understood by parts of the audience… When I’ve experienced it it was always visual, either it would be two different singers in charge of their own “area” of the public, or the singer would “move” right/left and “mimic” the specific part of the audience to scream (sorry English is not my native language so I’m not sure how to convey this…)
Am in Europe. The very few times I’ve seen them ask part of the audience to shout was a left/right thing where people sitting on the left wing were being put to compete with ones on the right wing to see who shouts more. But even that was very very rare.
Maybe I just live in an unfun part of Europe?
Well, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. They’ll say left side, right side. Front, back. Locals, people who traveled from far away. Guys, girls.
It’s just a way of increasing audience participation. Maybe the audiences in Europe are just naturally more fun, and so they don’t need all of the prompting from the stage?
It could also be a linguistic barrier. If the singer is from the same country, they could get away with shouting “all girls scream”, but they still risk not being understood by parts of the audience… When I’ve experienced it it was always visual, either it would be two different singers in charge of their own “area” of the public, or the singer would “move” right/left and “mimic” the specific part of the audience to scream (sorry English is not my native language so I’m not sure how to convey this…)