We walked out to Highway To Hell because someone’s older brother blasted it from their stereo in the parking lot.
That’s gonna be my funeral song lol.
I proposed it and the rest agreed. Felt like a fitting song graduating in the 2010s.
https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw?is=tHK_alGkOAlLvD1X
Metal cover all the way
You left the google tracking tag on the link, everything after the ?is and itself are a tracker that google ads to youtube links do that they know who watched a video you shared, and they then connect those accounts, even going as far as making one’s liked videos become the other’s suggested videos
Here’s the link cleaned up: https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw
Thanks!
One of my classmates was part of a bagpipe group so he and his group played our graduation. Fantastic choice actually.
I like the implication that Toto Africa has no rhythm whatsoever lmao
But fucking “happy” does???
Possibly apocryphal anecdote, but Pharrell may have created happy to be the most soulless, unimaginative song to be like this is the garbage you producers want, and the producers loved it. Cannot stand that fucking song. Sounds like something Bruno mars would write on purpose
If you wanted to torture secrets out of me, that song would be the way to do it.
“It was only until you were out of ideas and you asked yourself a rhetorical question and you came back with a sarcastic answer. And that’s what ‘Happy’ was,” Williams said. “How do you make a song about a person that’s so happy that nothing can bring them down? And I sarcastically answered it and put music to it, and that sarcasm became the song. And that broke me.”
Pharrell in an interview. So you’re right pretty much. It was created for Despicable Me 2 so the movie folks had veto rights and he couldn’t make something he actually would’ve wanted to make
Clap along
But I DON’T feel like a room without a roof!
Im seeing a lot of hate, but these are both good songs.
Happy:
- upbeat and celebratory
- fun to dance to
- a nice contrast to pomp and circumstance
Africa:
- cool instruments
- fun to sing along to
- a classic rock song from the 80s
WILLIAMS: Well, after nine times of, you know, nine nos, like, nope, doesn’t work, doesn’t work, doesn’t work, doesn’t work, doesn’t work, doesn’t work, doesn’t work, then I had to kind ask myself a rhetorical question. How do you write a song about someone that’s so happy that nothing can bring them down? I’m paraphrasing. And the song ended up being the sarcastic answer to that.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/07/nx-s1-5001928/pharrell-says-his-hit-happy-came-from-a-sarcastic-place
There’s something deeply unsettling to know that there’s someone out there who genuinely thinks Happy better than Africa
I actually can’t think of a worse choice, maybe wheels on the bus or some other nursery rhyme? Even that would at least feel subversive
Baby Shark
Nyan cat
Or crazy frog
https://youtu.be/Ha3PktcY5yA (invidious). Don’t use any of the songs mentioned, just this video. On loop.
Or crazy frog
Finally someone with taste
Nyan cat slaps
I mean Africa is pretty cringe too
How does it feel to actually have a scientifically proven wrong opinion? ~I’m just fucking with you. Please don’t get angry, my comment stands but it still just a joke bro~
Hahaha wrong Africa
Look, if you can’t bless the rains down in Africa, I don’t think we can be friends anymore
If I did I’m afraid it would magically stop raining
sare-en-get-EEEEEEEE
I hate the song Africa by Toto, absolutely can’t stand to hear it. Anything even silence would be a better choice to walk out too.
I always thought that the lyrics were not only a total trainwreck from a rhythmic perspective, but pretty culturally insensitive, even for the 80s. the music itself was ok, but kinda simplistic in a repetitive, poppy way. like many 80s pop songs, it was obviously the product of too much booze, coke, and resultant self-confidence.
obviously the product of too much booze, coke, and resultant self-confidence
And that’s exactly how Toto got the gig doing the soundtrack for the 1984 version of Dune.
The whole soundtrack sounds like something you could compose with a cheap synth keyboard
It was an expensive synth keyboard back in the '80s though.
I mean, it’s an expensive synth today too. You ever seen what pro 80s synths go for today?
Shit like this is why I didn’t attend eithervof my graduations and got married in front of a preacher and two friends
Did it cure what’s deep inside?
when posting this comment, did you think:
I know that I must do what’s rightSure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.
Are you frightened of this thing you’ve become?
Oh I really misunderstood the point I thought this was some kind of old persons home, and they organised some sort of walk outside with music…
I finished Grade 8 in 2000. Naturally our theme was Anthem for the Year 2000 by Silverchair.
Can’t remember what the one for my highschool graduation was though. Could’ve been Sandstorm by Darude. That song was seemingly everywhere.
“ It’s the end of the world as we know it” by REM would seem appropriate these days.
A radio station where I grew up (Cleveland) switched formats to alternative/grunge/whatever in 1990 or 1991 and they kicked this off by playing that song over and over for three straight days. It was a surreal experience to hear it on the radio every time I went to drive anywhere. For me, this was the real moment the '90s began (the other contenders being the premiers on MTV of “Groove is in the Heart” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit”).
Apparently many stations all over the country switched formats the same way, by playing “End of the World as We Know It” over and over again.
That was 100.7 WMMS when they got bought by clear channel! That is a reference I never thought I’d see in the wild.
No, it wasn’t WMMS (unless my memory is even worse than I thought). It was a different station although I don’t remember which one. They called themselves “the End” (hence the song), maybe WEND? I dunno. They had that one DJ who had relocated from LA for the gig.
I stopped listening after that one Barenaked Ladies song started getting played once an hour. “It’s been” had me changing the channel so fucking fast it even happened when it was used in their promos. Good god do I hate that fucking song.
According to this it was 107.9 WENZ. A comment says they kicked things off in May 1992 which I guess is about right.
Oh my gosh you’re right! Just got done finding the wiki on them as well. I forgot that was when they switched formats.
“and I feel fine” doesn’t though lmao
My class wanted to walk out to “Bittersweet Symphony” by The Verve.
The first couple of lines go, “It’s a bitter sweet symphony, this life. Tryin’ to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money, and then you die.”
The school did not go for that.
“The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades”
Sounds upbeat enough, about nuclear apocalypse.
In an internet funny, the year everyone was obsessed with the song Africa was also the year Africa was rolling tropical storms off the assembly line all thru summer (in the northern hemisphere)
We did the Throne Room/Ending Credits theme from Star Wars played by our symphonic band. It goes hard.
My aunt and uncle walked down the aisle to that. 100% solid walk on song. I pitched the same, didn’t go over well. Still got married, but it was touch and go.
Duel of the fates for six hours straight or bust.
CORN ONNNNN…
THE KOBBBB…
You need something you can walk to, like Another One Bites The Dust, Stayin’ Alive, anything by ZZ Top, that sort of thing
I nominate Mii Channel Theme Flute Cover (Wii) for the graduation song.
Alternate if you want to hear a flute cover of that without your ears bleeding for the memes: https://youtu.be/PZH3mgPwpgI?is=e6J_hWEZO6bbftxo
Mii channel theme is surprisingly good pick to make flute music out of.
good video but please see this comment https://lemmy.world/comment/26048483
Oh yeah I didn’t clean the link up you’re right.
Can I propose “Is Vic there?” by Department S?
This sing is the one weird al parodied right?
Weezer also covered it, in which Weird Al also performed. Not sure if we are talking about the same thing.
In turn, Toto covered Hash Pipe.
Weird Al did parody the song, yes
I’m starting to like this Weird guy
It’s a shame he had that affair with Madonna and then died.
Really sucked after Michael Jackson did a knock off of one of his songs…
What’s Weird Artificial Intelligence? It sounds interesting.
It’s…… weird…….
