To get the rage with clapping?

[TinfoilHattie]

Not applause. That's fine and a great way of showing appreciation.

It's the "clap along with the music" which makes me cringe. It's like being back at pre-school. Gives me the rage when the kids do it and they now know better than to clap along to the car radio. Gives me the rage even more when some crappy performer tries to encourage audience participation by getting people to clap.

Just NO.

Why? You do sound really angry about it!

if it bothers you that much don't go to concerts, otherwise where do you come across it? Quite an easy thing to avoid, I should think

Gosh

I just find clapping amusing , like a load of seals (myself included) when clapping

Only bothers me if it's not actually time with the music, but if you remove toddlers and music themed reality shows then I can't say I come across clapping along terribly often.

I'm with you OP... some burnt-out performer encouraging an audience to clap along, usually out of time, with their shitty song is the stuff of toe-curling-cringe-inducing-nightmares.

Oh hattie you sound outraged

School performances, dancing shows, pantomimes....

Nothing more cringey than a group of 11 year olds dancing to Ed Sheeran or something while the parents are encouraged to clap along.

More I think about it, it really should be a criminal offence. (only semi jesting).

And then there's that even more awkward point where no one is quite sure whether they should stop yet, and it all just peters out with just a few 'seals' left... :o

I just find clapping amusing , like a load of seals (myself included) when clapping

Me too! Half expect cries of arf arf and can almost see flippers instead of hands. Although that's more for applause than clapping along stuff. I suppose clapping along is a bit cheesy/cringey but you sound so.... well, cross, OP! It is pretty benign really.

"We pay, you sing"

Oh I know my hatred for clapping is irrational - but I think everyone has that one "thing" which does their head in and drives them nuts. My 8 year old can't abide the noise of trainers squeaking on the floor as you walk. I can't abide clapping.

Ha I had an ex years ago who always got the rage at clap aloud light entertainment. He thought it was 'downmarket' and too ITV.

I find clapping fascinating, the different type of clapping in response to things.

I really don't like clap along at the end of theatre. I like to give a good hard strong applause if it was good. Clap along waters it down and you can't applaud independently in a 2000 seat venue all slapping their hands together out of time.

I guess that means I think YANBU.

As long as it's in time, and on the 2nd and 4th beats - never first and third, unless you're in Germany, or some reason - then YABU.

I'm with you OP - clapping along is toe-curling.

for some reason

I think it's cringey too, OP. Is there nothing better human beings can do with their hands than slap them together so that they make a discordant racket and, once they've been slapped long enough and hard enough, start stinging?

(I might be slightly odd here - I even get to a point where applause starts to sound strange, usually when it's gone on just that bit too long.)

I love the awkwardness of the last clapper. I always think fool and have a little laugh to myself.

I hate it too and always feel self-conscious when it happens - if I join in I feel awkward and if I don't I feel awkward!!!

That's true Hattie

My bugbear is people who just wander to the front of the queue , or out the shop and to the front like this morning, of a bus queue . Really pisses me off and today I actually moaned to a guilty one. Perhaps I am old but I would never dream of just walking to the front and have the brass neck to stay there , whilst mugs like me are queueing .

I don't like it either but it could be worse...could be people 'woop woop' ing along, that gives me the rage!

OP, YANBU.

The Germans go in for this in a big way and it's so, so cringy and horrible. A load of kindergarten or primary school parents clapping along to some horrible song blaring out (whatever happened to encouraging them to sing or make music themselves?) while their dc do some awful, supposedly cute dance routine Tacky and nasty and awful.

When my ds2 left kindergarten they played a song about household chores and made him do some awful pantomime in which he was a patriarch sitting on a beer crate and tipping his hat while a girl ran round in an apron miming dusting and hoovering and all the bloody parents LAUGHED. And clapped along.

Berts

When I was younger I went to a concert where the performer tried to get everyone clapping. I dutifully joined in (with some vigour) and people around me followed my lead.... Which was unfortunate as I have no sense of rhythm and I threw the entire audience out of time. The poor bloke had to stop and start again.

So yes, I complete concur.

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There's a German band that's done a song about this - the singer tells about meeting a gorgeous woman at a concert, who utterly fascinated him until she started clapping on beats 1 and 3!

I get the rage when I'm watching Strictly and the dancers come on whilst some superstar is singing and the audience claps and whoops and you can't hear them. It makes me