There’s so much “teachers pet” ink just dripping off this paper, I can smell it through my phone
For some reason most of my school went out to various David Hasselhoff songs. To this day I don’t know why, only that I wouldn’t have had it any other way. This was back in 2009, in a Swedish gymnasium with no connection to him (AFAIK).
So, Vampires… (related to op, I swear)
If holy water works against vampires, why not purify a humidifier?
Better yet, know why you don’t see any vampires in Africa? Because Toto already blessed the rains down in Africa.
As long as it’s not Green Day, Good Riddance… again.
I rather listen to farts than the happy song
“ 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.
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.
“and I feel fine” doesn’t though lmao
Happy is a song devoid of soul. I saw someone bring up that if he released this song today, he would probably be mobbed.
Too bad Pharrell went this route. I really enjoyed him in N.E.R.D.
If I’m bitten by a zombie
I’m probably not telling you!
Funny enough N.E.R.D. also has a song called “Happy” but it’s definitely a different vibe than his more famous song of the same name. This one’s happy because an ex-lover is finally out of the singer’s life and their life is now so much better for it.
There’s something deeply unsettling to know that there’s someone out there who genuinely thinks Happy is 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
I mean Africa is pretty cringe too
sare-en-get-EEEEEEEE
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
I like the implication that Toto Africa has no rhythm whatsoever lmao
But fucking “happy” does???
Clap along
But I DON’T feel like a room without a roof!
We walked out to Highway To Hell because someone’s older brother blasted it from their stereo in the parking lot.
I’m still salty that my choice of “Living La Vida Loca” was unanimously voted against so that we could have “I’m Still Standing”
For my senior class I floated the idea of ‘Fight for your right to party’ by the Beastie Boys, and it took off. Won in a landslide when we voted.
Then the school leaders basically ignored us and chose some lame van Halen song, even though no one wanted it, and no one in the class listened to van Halen because they were fucking ass-rock has beens
What? You’re telling me you don’t want to receive your diploma to a song that ends with the band members catcalling random girls?
And the complaint that mom threw away your best porno mag?
If the school picked Hot for Teacher to play on behalf of the students that would be… Something.
https://youtu.be/MH9FyLsfDzw?is=tHK_alGkOAlLvD1X
Metal cover all the way
That cover lives rent free in my head
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
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
One of my classmates was part of a bagpipe group so he and his group played our graduation. Fantastic choice actually.
