Yesterday I was shopping on iTunes and under the free section there was a song by Weezer that is either trying to promote the world cup or taking advantage of the world cup. Usually the free songs on iTunes are kind of lame but this one was by a song by a group that's been around for a while and I'm familiar with, so I downloaded it.
One things that bugged my about the song was the cheering and narration at the beginning. I don't think narration in songs works very well, this is what went wrong with Green Day's song Holiday. That song had a great groove to it but it slowed down and then said, "a Representative from California has the floor." I would've taken this section out if it were my decision. My problem with narrations is that they usually are distracting and they abruptly change the mood of the song.
But anyway, after the cheering the song started sounding kind of cool. I guess my problem with the song was the lyrics. The lyrics are too upfront and the message is a little to blatant. I couldn't find the actual text of the song but it says "it doesn't matter what ______ thinks" or "you represent ______." Imagine if some love song just implicitly said things like, "I love you" or "you're attractive." There are zillions of love songs but none would express feelings buy saying those things exactly as written above. I didn't hate the song and since I got it for free I can't feel ripped off but it is pretty low quality; it feels like some people were trying to produce a rock song but they had writers block or they were in a rush. I think I possibly could have written a song with the same level of quality as this one. To be honest I have a hard time imagining people who like mainstream popular music because it's mainstream and popular liking this Weezer song. So I guess sporting events should stick with Queen's We Will Rock You.
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