"Get Em High" by Kanye West feat. Talib Kweli and Common.
N-now throw your motherfuckin hands, get 'em high
All the girls pass the weed to your motherfuckin man, get 'em high
Now I ain't never told you to put down your hands, keep 'em high
And if you're losin' your high then smoke again, keep 'em high
I'm embarassed that I'm the one to come in with this suggestion, but Miley Cyrus's Party in the U.S.A. may work for you:
So I put my hands up, they're playing my song, the butterflies fly away,
Noddin' my head like "yeah!" Movin' my hips like "yeah!" posted by Comic Sans-Culotte at 2:13 PM on June 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
It's new, and it's slower than you'd expect, but Lady Gaga - Bloody Mary: I'll dance dance dance with my hands hands hands above my head head head... posted by psoas at 2:16 PM on June 6, 2011
Are there any criteria to narrow what you're looking for? I am guessing there are literally thousands of songs that would fit this.
(This search, for instance, for "put your hands in the air" says it yields 1000 results, but my sense is that means "over 1000" results, as searching for "love" also yields 1000 results...) posted by ManInSuit at 2:17 PM on June 6, 2011
Jay-Z, Izzo (that's the anthem, get your damn hands up)
Does Petey Pablo's Raise Up count? The instructions are a little more complicated: take your shirt off, twist it around your head, spin it like a helicopter. posted by Metroid Baby at 2:18 PM on June 6, 2011
I think it'd be easier to list dance pop that doesn't mention this idea.
But my contribution to this little list is House of Pain, "Jump Around," because I'm oldschool like that.
Get up, stand up, come on, throw your hands up
If you've got the feelin' jump across the ceilin' posted by SomeTrickPony at 3:39 PM on June 6, 2011
I can't believe that I still remember this, but these lyrics are included in "Funky, Funky Christmas" by the New Kids on the Block:
Throw your hands in the air - pause
Kick the ballistics Santa Claus posted by meggie78 at 3:47 PM on June 6, 2011
Chris Brown's Yeah 3x includes the lyric "Hold your glasses up, people everywhere / Now everybody put your hands in the air." posted by Spyder's Game at 4:05 PM on June 6, 2011
If we put it down and come out with our hands up
you gotta put it down and come out with your hands up
I gotta put it down now and come out with my hands up
my hands up posted by belladonna at 4:07 PM on June 6, 2011
The (otherwise truly appalling) lyrics to Mambo #5 mention hands clapping and doing other things as well as "touch the sky". posted by Cookbooks and Chaos at 4:13 PM on June 6, 2011
Not exactly right, but too good not to mention: The Safety Dance, which features maybe the strangest music video ever made and the line "everybody look at your hands!"
(plus, their hands *are* in the air an awful lot) posted by dizziest at 4:24 PM on June 6, 2011
Kanye West, "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" ("throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe"); "Big Brother" ("if you feel the way I feel why don't you wave your hands")
Lil Sonic ft. Lil Wayne, "Hands in the Air"
Gotty Boi Chris, "Huslaz At" ("throw your hood up, throw your ward up, middle fingers up")
Err, also the Sarah Palin rap from SNL ("all the mavericks in the house, put your hands up; all the plumbers in the house, pull your pants up") posted by sleepingcbw at 4:50 PM on June 6, 2011
Put your hands in the sky
Surrender, remember we'll be here forever
And we'll never say goodbye posted by Judith Butlerian Jihad at 6:16 PM on June 6, 2011
Arome - Hands Up -- I used to play the hell out of this when I was DJing at raves still. posted by empath at 6:46 PM on June 6, 2011
You know I know how
To make em stop and stare as I zone out
The club can't even handle me right now
Watchin you watchin me we go all out
The club can't even handle me right now (yeahhhhh)
(Put your hands up! )
(Put your hands up! )
(Put your hands up! ) posted by anitanita at 11:23 PM on June 6, 2011
posted by Apropos of Something at 1:56 PM on June 6, 2011