Yelle makes music that makes Sam think

My daughter and I went to a concert last night at the Hawthorne Theatre in Portland: Yelle.  We saw her a few months ago, and decided after that show they we would see them any time they came to Portland.  Going to shows in the last year, I've added a layer to the way I engage a concert.  Writing a book in which a character is obsessed with music, and which may in the future involve live performances of music, I've started looking at shows through that lens.  How would my character view this experience?  Which people in the crowd would she pick out and think about?  How would she respond if the crowd did this, or if that happened during her show?

For example, there's this song that Yelle does called "Ba$$in" which as the title implies, has some bass in it.  The band is a female lead singer and two drummers, both men, who wear matching coveralls.  During "Ba$$in," both men came out from behind their drum sets to so some funky French dance moves involving rotating their hips with their backs to the crowd.  While they're rotating, Julie Budet is dancing around like a crazy person, alternating between hip shaking and a kind of exaggerating zombie-like stomping.

During this sequence, several members of the audience threw dollar bills on the stage, which I thought was peculiar. Was it supposed to be a compliment?  Was it ironic?  Being a rock star, she probably is greeted with many strange expressions of esteem from her fans, and I'm sure this wasn't terribly strange as far as all that goes.

But it got me thinking about my character Gilly Frank.  If she were in a band, how would she respond to something like that?  If she were in the crowd and someone she knew threw dollar bills at a female lead singer, what would that look like to her?

Here's a live version of "Ba$$in" from a different concert, but it gives you the general idea, I think: