For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!

The line is a wry, class-conscious joke aimed at a concert audience: those in “cheap seats” are invited to clap, while wealthier attendees are teased for their status symbols (“jewelry”). It plays on the social stratification visible in ticketed venues and punctures the formality of a high-profile performance by turning audience participation into satire. The humor depends on exaggeration—implying the affluent can contribute musically simply by shaking their valuables—while also signaling an anti-pretension stance associated with rock performance culture. In databases it is often used to capture a performer’s rapport with the crowd and a populist, irreverent attitude toward elite spectatorship.