Why do concerts always have an encore?

Congress said:well, let's be honest, that rhythmic chanting for an encore was pretty much unavoidable👋

"One more song!"
😬

Scarlett Johansson said:down in Chicago they just grab you by the sneaker and scream "PLAY MISS OF BRMA!!" 😬

better for a sneaker than for a duck

btw, the word "sneaker" always takes me back to those old games when the late Nikita used to call basketball
"Paspalj scored a bucket right next to that famous local beauty"
"Another basket from Paspalj, a sweet assist from Paspalj, and a sub for our national team—out goes čutura, in comes Paspalj"
And in that moment when Paspalj would dive for the ball and land right in front of the photo reporters, it’d be like my favorite poet said: "even the reeds bent low just to catch a glimpse of the girl undressing"

granitepilot2 said:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_terminology#B

bis – "again," "twice."

Total waste of time. Even Wikipedia doesn't have a decent page dedicated to this phenomenon 😢 Might be enough material for a PhD in musicology if you're bored enough 🙂

And honestly, why even bother? In English, what we call a bis is just an 'encore' -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encore_%28concert%29

stormyviper11 said:I don't usually care much for Bisev, but there are exceptions—those rare moments where I feel genuinely lucky to be part of a crowd that pushes a performer into an unplanned encore. For instance, when we forced Divljan to do about five or six encores at his first concert at KSET (that one that popped up out of nowhere right after freshman week), I actually found myself picking out the chords to "chocolate" on my guitar, even though I hadn't played them in twenty years. It was completely spontaneous.

Oh my god, I can't believe it!😍 Right before that show, I actually asked Divljan why they never played "chocolate," and he told me straight up, "Because that isn't my song." Then I remember that exact encore (well, one of the encores 😁) and I was absolutely floored when he actually played it. That concert was 👍 👍 👍

Scarlett Johansson said:down in Chicago they just grab you by your sneaker and scream "PLAY MISHAN OFF THE BRAKE!!" 😬

😎

Susan Clark10 said:I can't even believe it 😍 before that concert I actually asked Divljan why they never played 'chocolate' and he just looked at me and said, 'because it's not my song.' I remember right during that one 😁 encore, I was absolutely floored when he finally played it. That show was 👍 👍 👍

Honestly, man, I went absolutely wild at the first gig at the local arena. I grabbed a spot dead center right in front of the stage and, aside from maybe one bathroom break, I didn't budge for the entire set (there were some crowd shots on Divljan's site where I'm clearly the guy right in the middle). Then there was that college orientation party where it was basically the same vibe—partying all through the weekend—and when KSET finally took the stage, I couldn't get my feet off the floor. It was the first concert where I actually stayed put instead of running away or acting like a jerk. Which, naturally, means those first three shows are probably my fuzzier memories... 😉

Harold Sullivan8 said:Why does it even matter? In English, what we call an encore is just called an 'encore' -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encore_%28concert%29

Thanx, I had no clue that was the term used in English...

Michael Newman50 said:The disco set yesterday was pretty great, but I wish someone would finally talk about that awesome Scottish band instead of getting lost in all these philosophical debates.🙄

Is that 90s teen sensation still around?

An encore is basically just part of the show that artists do out of the goodness of their hearts, because
they aren't actually getting paid extra for it.

Like, if a band’s contract says they have to play ten songs or stay on stage for an hour, once that's up, they can come back out and melt everyone's minds with an encore, or
they could just flip the crowd the bird and walk off. It’s totally their call.

For me, nothing beats that encore the firefighters did at KSET last year. 😬

rapidbison42 said:Is that teen sensation from the nineties still around?

😘

I mean, even if it isn't used as an album title—which would be cool—they should definitely use it on a poster, maybe as a song name or just a lyric somewhere...

Harold Sullivan8 said:...when in English what we call a bis is actually 'encore'...

That isn't an English word; it's French... and it actually means even 😬

So what? I can literally see the word right here in my English dictionary.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=encore

You’re just a little Antifa kid from the old man

Don't go hating on the opening acts... I mean, most of them are total hacks, but without them, you wouldn't get the chance to kill two birds with one stone—RATM and ADF in Chicago.🙂

What on earth does the opening act have to do with the headliner?