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Excessive audience participation during "I Will Always Love You" got a musical version of the Bodyguard shut down in Manchester [1]

['Devin Nealy']

Date: 2023-04-10

Every decade produces a song that is impossible to avoid and becomes a drunken karaoke favorite. The 80s have a ton of them, but in my personal opinion, the crown has to go to Journey's Don't Stop Believing, which will reliably cause perfectly rational adults to form amateur cover bands at the grocery store. When it comes to 90s songs that have the ability to make people become MK Ultra-style backup singers, two tracks spring to mind: My Heart Will Go On and I Will Always Love You.

Yes, I know that the latter track was originally a Dolly Parton song from the 70s, but the records association with Whitney Huston and The Bodyguard will forever tether it to the 90s. According to AV Club, an audience in Manchester was so overcome with nostalgia that they began to sing along with the track during a musical performance of The Bodyguard.

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