If you haven't heard it, here:
Here is a list of reasons why this song sucks:
- Too many cord changes. This song changes cords so many times, it makes it sound like it's out of tune.
- Too slow. A fight song should be something that should pump up a team. It should be something that could be sung after a team scores. This sounds like something that would be played after your team loses or after one of your key players goes down with a concussion.
- Too long. If Vikings fans sung this song after a touchdown, by the time it was over, the other team would have already driven down the field and scored a touchdown of their own.
- The singers are chicks. If some women are in the choir that sings the song fine...but it appears that almost the entire group that sings this song is female...or else Prince's voice has gone up even higher.
- The singers sound like they are drowning in water. I'm not sure what that techinque is...but is sounds horrible and it makes the lyrics unrecognizable.
- The lyrics make no sense. The first line: "the veil of the sky draws open" What? The sky has a veil? Huh? The second line: "the roar of the chariots touch down" How does a roar touch down? The third line: "we are the ones who have now come again" Where did you go? The fourth line: "and walk upon water like solid ground" So the Vikings are like Jesus? The fifth line: "as we approach the throne we won't bow down" Ok...fine, don't be respectful, jerks. The sixth line: "this time we won't be denied" So you normally are denied? The seventh line "raise every voice and let it be known" Ok...let us know what? They eighth line: "in the name of the purple and gold" I repeat, are you going to let us know? Ok...that was the first verse...I don't think I need to go on.
- The song sounds like something that should be played when remembering fallen heroes of war...not a victorious football team.
- Neither the tune nor the lyrics are memorable. Can any Vikings fan even get through the first verse of this song remembering how the tune goes and/or what the lyrics are?
- Flutes. Flutes don't sound very tough. They are what fairies use when flying around in their fairy world.
- Synthesizers replacing an orchestra. Unless you are playing a rock song, if you are trying to make an grandiose piece of music, don't cheep out and have a whole orchestra play off the keyboard. Get the real horns and strings in there and do the damn thing right!
- Electric Guitars. Electric Guitars have no place as the main instrument in a fight song. A fight song should be able to be played by a marching band. Marching bands don't have electric guitars unless they suck.
- It makes Eddie Vedder's Cubs song sound good. It takes some work to make a song shittier than that crap that came out of Pearl Jam Boy's head.
