I'm sure everyone is familiar with the YOG cheer.
I mean, how could you not be. It's on TV all the time, despite the fact that really, it's about the worst song I've ever heard. No offence to JJ Lin, he's a very competent songwriter, but what inspired him to come out with this "song" is beyond me.
Notice comments have been disabled? Well, it's precisely because there were too many people saying exactly what they thought of it, which wasn't very nice.
The only thing going for this song is, it's so catchy it's a earworm. Hear it a few times and it's destined for that part of your consciousness where you find that you're singing it to yourself and doing the hand actions even as you tell yourself that you're being brainwashed into doing so. Like all of Lady Gaga's songs.
Really, what's with the hand actions? Are they trying to teach us how to Hadouken like in Dragon Ball? Hadouken, hadouken, hadouken, BIG HADOUKEN. Okay, can we start cheering now? Oh shit, that was the cheer? No you're kidding me right?
But just when you thought that was bad, you watch JJ Lin attempt to do his best at firing you up with finger guns. Pew pew pew!!
Omg, kill me now. Really.
Now, here are what I consider true Olympic song classics.
1) Celine Dion's The Power of the Dream for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
2) Sarah Brightman and Jose Carreras performing "Amigos Para Siempre" at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics
So inspirational. What happened to real music?
But anyway, at least the theme song is okay. They should really give more publicity to it, "Everyone", instead of the stupid cheer. At least the theme song is not irritating.
Sean Kingston can't sing for shit. Nothing like an acoustic performance to take the sheen off overproduced stars.
And, now, it's time for me to be a patriotic Singaporean. Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah hey! Pew pew pew!!