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Was a rhetorical question... of course we do.
Its time to put to bed this nonsense that our club song is the worst in the AFL. Every time you read our game day threads and we get up for a win there is the predictable replies of how crap the song is, etc. When in fact, if you break it down the West Coast Eagles have arguably the best song of all 18 teams. Heres why.
Our club was born in the 80's, and true to form - it sounds like a cheesy 80's song. Its authentic. Its genuine. Its real. People on bigfooty seem to have formed this popular opinion that GWS have a great song. Actually its rubbish. Theyve tried to make it sound like their song (and therefore their club) was created in the 1900's with lots of history when everyone knows their team was just created a handful of years ago. Its misleading and try-hard. Our Eagles song came out the same year as Rick Astleys "Never Gonna Give You Up". That song hasnt aged well and for a while it was used to troll people, otherwise known as Rick-rollling someone. Well guess what - every time our club has a win we are trolling YOU. Every thought of that?
And another thing - the lyrics are perfect. The first 2 sentences tell you who we are, just in case you werent listening the first time. Then we state what we're doing by ASKING A QUESTION. It then includes a reference to popular 80's TV show Sesame Street with a shoutout to big bird. And to top it off the song finishes with "We're flying high", an amazing prediction that our players would have great success despite being weighed down with drug cultural issues. Overcoming adversity and chasing dreams.
So the next time we get up for a classic win and you lot feel the need to declare how awful you think our song is, just remember that many of us are PROUD of our club and sing the song with glee. Cos you know what, in the words of Quentin Lynch - its F##KING AWESOME.
Its time to put to bed this nonsense that our club song is the worst in the AFL. Every time you read our game day threads and we get up for a win there is the predictable replies of how crap the song is, etc. When in fact, if you break it down the West Coast Eagles have arguably the best song of all 18 teams. Heres why.
Our club was born in the 80's, and true to form - it sounds like a cheesy 80's song. Its authentic. Its genuine. Its real. People on bigfooty seem to have formed this popular opinion that GWS have a great song. Actually its rubbish. Theyve tried to make it sound like their song (and therefore their club) was created in the 1900's with lots of history when everyone knows their team was just created a handful of years ago. Its misleading and try-hard. Our Eagles song came out the same year as Rick Astleys "Never Gonna Give You Up". That song hasnt aged well and for a while it was used to troll people, otherwise known as Rick-rollling someone. Well guess what - every time our club has a win we are trolling YOU. Every thought of that?
And another thing - the lyrics are perfect. The first 2 sentences tell you who we are, just in case you werent listening the first time. Then we state what we're doing by ASKING A QUESTION. It then includes a reference to popular 80's TV show Sesame Street with a shoutout to big bird. And to top it off the song finishes with "We're flying high", an amazing prediction that our players would have great success despite being weighed down with drug cultural issues. Overcoming adversity and chasing dreams.
So the next time we get up for a classic win and you lot feel the need to declare how awful you think our song is, just remember that many of us are PROUD of our club and sing the song with glee. Cos you know what, in the words of Quentin Lynch - its F##KING AWESOME.
