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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was at a Lionel Richie concert recently and it seemed like he encouraged the audience to sing along in almost every song (in some of them he even provided the lyrics before singing them).  Maybe it’s just me, but when I’m spending a ton of money to see a performer, I want to actually hear the performer sing and not 20,000 audience members.  [/quote]

I agree. There was news yesterday about Adele telling security and the audience to stop chastising one guy who stood and sang apparently for the entire duration of one of her shows recently--he seems to have been standing up and singing loudly while the rest of the audience was mostly seated and not singing. (Adele is famed for her great voice; can you blame anyone who wanted to hear that voice and not random guy?) Adele wanted him left alone to do his thing. I get that this is how some people want to interact but like you, if there's an artist whose voice I love and want to absorb and remember, having one guy or the whole audience singing along loudly is not why I'm there.

Unfortunately for you and me, the whole concert experience now seems to be a sing-along experience on [i]every song, all night[/i]. I've been to plenty of large rock concerts and smaller venue shows over the years and while people have always stood, danced, sung along, right now it seems to be the entire point of the shows, rather than people just getting up to dance and sing on a few specific, big hit numbers.[/quote]

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