World Cup Detour #1: Awful National Theme Songs
While it’s always thrilling to have your team advance deep into the championship, inevitably somebody comes up with an idea for a an asinine fight song and makes your fandom sound really really stupid. Most of the time these are simple cash-ins, as for the 2002 World Series when Thomas Dolby replaced “She Blinded Me With Science” with “San Francisco Giants.” (Sound it out, it works. And it hurts.) Some will feature hapless team members attempting to rap. Others are simply misdirected excess fan energy. But what happens when you get, ahem, the ENTIRE WORLD involved? Disaster. Check out some particularly horrible theme songs at the NPR story linked below.
NPR : Singing of the World Cup, Off-Key and Off-Kilter
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