This is the best post in the thread.
This song does genuinely get played everywhere. Like I said, if we played it and had the lyrics up on the jumbotron and kept the lyrics past the timeout and had MC encouragement to sing along, I'd get it. I'd think it was cringe too. But it's just a really popular song. It's like being surprised people sing Mr Brightside at every event nowadays and that song is 10x less popularHate might be too strong a word. This particular song is cringey as heck to see guys sing but the kids enjoy it a lot. I just think it’s time for a change at PC. It’s been a solid 4 years now of it.
However, despite how popular many here say it is, and that all arenas play it, I can’t find a video of it online at sporting events other than many at PC including lots of articles and now UConn the other night. I know there has been a lot of posters here racing to defend it with this story that it’s a popular arena song but it’s not. It’s not even top 10 of her most popular songs. It appears lame to me.
How a Taylor Swift song became an anthem for top-ranked Providence College Friars - The Boston Globe
“You Belong With Me” has become the “Sweet Caroline” of Rhode Island. Here’s how it happened.www.bostonglobe.com
Here is the truth. Providence started one of the lamest traditions about 3 years ago. UConn incredibly decided to copy it. Show me any other school doing it and I will say I was wrong. Until then, your arena staff appears to be lamer than ours. By a lot. Instead of twisting yourselves in knots to come up with LAME excuses, just own it like the OP did.
Find me a video of it at a sporting event. You can’t, the song is 16 years old. You are just making crap up now.
Wanna compare lives? I have plenty more to hang my hat on if you are implying that’s what I’m doing here.
The song is 16 years old but she had to re-release all of her music due to a rights issue and she got a lot of popularity back because of it. By "everywhere" I mean "everywhere"
That’s not truth. I was in the building. You weren’t. That was the 4th of 4 songs they played a snippet of and the crowd sang along with all of them.
Teen girls and FriarJ
The video has 1.5 billion views.
Wow
5* 6’11” kid from Putman Science. That didn’t startle you? Stay tuned for another 5* shortly.
LMAO
Definite sleepless nights worrying about the Friar juggernaut.
This is really occupying your attention.
Both turned out to be a bit lame, seems fair...
This hits home. How dare you
The crowd also sang Mr Brightside at the Creighton game. With all due respect, why would UConn want to copy anything PC does? Was Taylor Swift the player to be named later in the Corey Floyd deal? Most people aren't even aware of your "tradition." Just drunk kids doing what drunk kids do. I don't think it was an organized endeavor. I think singing a Swift song is lame but I'm 52, not 19 years old. When I was in college most people liked music with some edge. Can't think of music with less of an edge than Taylor Swift but she is the hugely popular even if I don't get it. My parents didn't understand Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Megadeth but at least it was worthy of youthful rebellion.
My favorite bit of pop culture trivia is that Nick Jameson, the actor who played Russian President Suvarov in three seasons of 24, was also the bass player for Foghat in the Slow Ride era.
