Hail & Unite approved
Yesterday the UM Central Student Government endorsed Hail & Unite's project. No funding, but still..
February 25th, 2015 at 3:28 PM ^
February 26th, 2015 at 6:13 AM ^
Yes, it's "meaningful" in the sense that, "Hey, I want to be a guy/girl who gets to say I collaborated on a song with ____________!" It's like taking a selfie with a celebrity in the form of a song.
February 25th, 2015 at 10:57 AM ^
This is such a nothing issue. They didn't "approve" anything -- they said that if you want to go out and try to get famous people to write a song about Michigan, go crazy. It's a free country. They didn't provide any funding, they didn't suggest that the student government would officially adopt the song in the (unlikely) event it is actually written.
Way too much ink has been spilled (uh, keyboards have been mashed?) over this non-story already.
February 25th, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^
Let them have their fun. If it comes out, great. As long as they never make a petition to replace The Victors with this.
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February 25th, 2015 at 11:01 AM ^
I hope that when their efforts eventually fail (in the near future), someone could write an article about it and publish on Michigan Daily. It will be about a cautionary tale to students on how to think logically, to listen to outside advice and to put personal gains secondary to the public.
February 25th, 2015 at 11:03 AM ^
Let them do it, and when they fail, we can hold it up next to "In The Big House" as an example of why you never mess with The Victors.
In other news, Pop Evil has a new album out, and the song "Trenches" isn't bad.
February 25th, 2015 at 11:10 AM ^
February 25th, 2015 at 11:37 AM ^
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February 25th, 2015 at 11:48 AM ^
February 25th, 2015 at 11:11 AM ^
But the freaky facial expression of the male frightens me nearly as much.
February 25th, 2015 at 11:20 AM ^
There is one thing the Hail & Unite cretins are absolutely right about:
“We really wanted to clarify that ‘The Victors’ and what we are doing couldn’t be further apart,” Weinberg said.
No shit.
February 25th, 2015 at 11:27 AM ^
.....my initial complaint about this sort of thing:
February 25th, 2015 at 11:28 AM ^
February 25th, 2015 at 11:28 AM ^
No funding = ignore
At this point, they are a bunch of college kids doing whatever they want. I'll get worried about it at the point that someone in the actualy UM decision making tree decides to give 2 s***s about it, which is going to be never now that we have actual adults in charge.
February 25th, 2015 at 11:41 AM ^
February 25th, 2015 at 12:34 PM ^
when Sexybits were banished.
February 25th, 2015 at 12:08 PM ^
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February 25th, 2015 at 1:11 PM ^
No, I might be older, but I can still recgonize a douchey dork when I see one.
And I think you're backwards on how older folk misinterpret teenagers. I've always seen the opposite occurring: older people think the kids who really aren't that cool are actually cool, not the other way around. If older people actually think you suck, then you know you have a problem -- you probably really suck a lot.
Also, since Seven Nation Army is a song by a Detroit band, it is inherently distinct for us. Every other fan base that uses it is kinda really cheering for us without realizing it.
February 25th, 2015 at 11:52 AM ^
February 25th, 2015 at 11:57 AM ^
used only to boost their members resumes so it doesnt surprise me that they endorsed an idea that only exists to boost its creator's resume
February 25th, 2015 at 1:01 PM ^
Empty recognize empty
February 25th, 2015 at 12:00 PM ^
I screw up the The National Anthem fer crissakes..........
February 25th, 2015 at 12:10 PM ^
Seriously, they need to just stop with this. It will never get off the ground, and in the process it is going to piss off everyone.
February 25th, 2015 at 12:21 PM ^
I mean we also have Lets Go Blue. We could just kill opponents with so many fight songs and spirit songs that we don't even need to play actual games!
/s
February 25th, 2015 at 12:48 PM ^
Are you me? Am I you?
ARGHHHHHHHH!
February 25th, 2015 at 12:26 PM ^
Hail and Unite is a great thing, until you run out of other people's money.
February 25th, 2015 at 12:29 PM ^
Er...said Margaret Thatcher?
February 25th, 2015 at 1:38 PM ^
but since I can't find that on the internet, I concede your argument.
February 25th, 2015 at 12:32 PM ^
Wow can't believe they are doing this.
February 25th, 2015 at 12:38 PM ^
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February 25th, 2015 at 12:39 PM ^
DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT
February 25th, 2015 at 12:50 PM ^
Students proposed changing the nickname of the team from the Wildcats to the Purple Haze. The latter referred to a very popular Jimi Hendrix song about his hallucinatory experiences on LSD.
The majority of the student body, which was then in a drug-induced delirium, voted to adopt the nickname. Several national newspapers reported that the Wildcats were now the Purple Haze. But the administration vetoed the change. Students protested to no avail.
More recently, the desire for change peristed. Somebody suggested changing the name to the Fighting Armadillos but they were judged insufficiently fierce. Since Northwestern was basically the college team of Chicago, somebody suggested a name related to the Chicago Bears---like the Colbears in honor of alum Stephen Colbert (class of 1986).
February 25th, 2015 at 12:51 PM ^
Just scrolled through the entire thread and no JHackney nuclear mushroom cloud.
Shut it down. Everyone go home. It's over.
FML
February 25th, 2015 at 12:58 PM ^
It appears like they're trying to characterize the backlash as being specifically related to whether they're attempting to replace The Victors. That seems pretty disingenuous.
The main thrust of the backlash is that these are vapid dorks with no clue about what would make something good but still really want to be seen as doing something cool so they're pushing ahead with their wildly inaccurate notions of what's cool (big celebrities, mainstream corporate America trendy buzzthings) and completely empy substance. It's just corny.
This is what happens when you combine douchey with dorky. You get maybe the worst thing possible. My impression is that they're really trying to do have their names associated with something that they imagine will make them campus celebrities at the bar. It's a desperate attempt for attention, and it's corny. No one wants something like this officially associated with a school they're associated with by way of their degree.
February 25th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
It occurs to me that maybe the Hail & Unite push is actually a reflection of wanting to fill the game airways with something other than Seven Nation Army and the Blues Brothers. While I basically think the whole "give us money and we'll get Eminem to write us a pump-up song" is destined for failure, I do think there is a possibility of this continuing to curve the trajectory that has been such generic music at games (FB & BB mostly). Children of Yost have been good at asserting themselves at the games in such a way that the use of pipped in music there is kept to a minimum.
At least this pipped in music wouldn't be borrowed from Penn State (who figured out the awesomeness of the White Stripes) and Duke (who has been doing the Blue Brothers dance since the 80s). Makes UM look lame to repeat it.
February 25th, 2015 at 1:26 PM ^
1. You're giving too much credit to Penn State. Some Italian guy in their media department got the idea from it being used in Italian soccer leagues. It had nothing to do with awesomeness.
2. If we don't want the same jock rock, why don't we just pick some alternatives from the enormous plethora of availble music out there instead of trying to shart out some corporate-cheese crap? Just flip through some deep funk albums or some older Italian movie soundtracks. Or this always gets me hype: soundcloud.com/flyinglotus/coronus-the-terminator. There's so much that's so much better than what they will end up with from this "make a corporate board structure and hire celebrities" like a dictator commissioning a famous artist to make a patriotic song praising the leadership or face consequences.
February 25th, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^
I hope Ross didn't teach these kids how to market. Even if they do create a "good" song that's played at the game, I wouldn't be surprised if people boo, simple because of the arrogance displayed throughout this entire process.
February 25th, 2015 at 6:04 PM ^
of my most cynical view of the business world, where their training encourages this notion of taking any product and beating over the head of its target consumers until they just submit and accept it.
February 25th, 2015 at 2:38 PM ^
Another gif I never get tired of!
February 25th, 2015 at 2:15 PM ^
nonsense until now. Cant believe they are actually trying to do this.
February 25th, 2015 at 2:39 PM ^
Hail and Unite!
February 25th, 2015 at 2:46 PM ^
February 25th, 2015 at 5:16 PM ^
ok well, at least this is finally ove-- wait what?