{"id":17592,"date":"2013-02-11T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17592"},"modified":"2013-02-11T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T03:25:19","slug":"cheer-syncing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cheer-syncing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheer-Syncing (aka Crowd-Syncing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rY2QLh72lCk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>It&#8217;s become commonplace now at giant events like Super Bowl halftime shows and awards shows to see an artist perform to an audience of a couple hundred beautiful, enthusiastic, coordinated fans-for-hire doing what I call\u00a0<strong>cheer-syncing<\/strong> (or crowd-syncing), a term I propose adding to our <a title=\"RTH Glossary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/category\/rth-glossary\" target=\"_blank\"><em>RTH Glossary<\/em><\/a>. Sometimes the camera pulls back to show the crowd rushing the stage as they are set free from their holding pen. In the case of The Rolling Stones&#8217; 2006 halftime show the cheer-syncing professionals were actually enclosed in a pen within the band&#8217;s stage. Talk about a captive audience.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is beautiful. Everyone&#8217;s got their hand raised to the heavens, like they&#8217;re in a\u00a0Pentecostal church. There can&#8217;t be that many Pentecostal churchgoers at televised rock performances, can there?<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zWeFJGCIhes?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>How far back does this practice of hiring an audience to crowd the foot of the stage and essentially pee their pants in unison does this practice go? Was this idea spawned after choreographed rock performances in <em>Jesus Christ Superstar<\/em> and <em>Tommy<\/em>? No one really cheers like that do they? How often does an audience actually rally around a performer the way they do on these televised spectacles?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CrnqPPzQFRE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Were those hysterical girls filmed at Beatles&#8217; concerts actually models hired to cheer-sync? The young people seated around the stage during <strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong>&#8216;s amazing <em>&#8217;68 Comeback Special<\/em> performance seem a little too natural, in some cases even tranquilized. Imagine the crowd-syncing that would have been organized had this taken place 20 years in the future?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t recall noting this practice in 1979, but then again I was doing everything in my power to avoid ever watching <strong>Journey<\/strong> on <em>The Midnight Special<\/em>.<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i9zPZnOr0F4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Is there a casting call for the cheer-syncing pen? A lottery? How I would love this post to happen across the screen of a beautiful, hand-raising cheer-sync professional\u00a0for some behind-the-scenes insights!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become commonplace now at giant events like Super Bowl halftime shows and awards shows to see an artist perform to an audience of a couple hundred beautiful, enthusiastic, coordinated fans-for-hire doing what I call\u00a0cheer-syncing (or crowd-syncing), a term I propose adding to our RTH Glossary. 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