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.
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.
You need something you can walk to, like Another One Bites The Dust, Stayin’ Alive, anything by ZZ Top, that sort of thing
What are those.
What are toto or África
I bet you could use context clues to figure it out
Sorry about that other unhelpful jerk. It’s a song: Toto - Africa
We were allowed to build small groups of 2-3 people and choose our own song. We went with “Another brick in the wall”
My school banned that song from ceremonies after every class chose it for like 5 years straight.
This gives me Director Skinner vibes :D
“Are our students unhappy? Are we out of touch? No! It’s the kids that are wrong!”lol yeah there was some of that happening. Although to be fair, we were a bunch of idiots… we chose the same song as the previous year (bohemian rhapsody). Talk about apathetic
I rather listen to farts than the happy song
Pretty sure he wrote it on purpose to be stupid as hell just to prove he could.
I was so medicated that I don’t remember what I “walked out on…” I guess it was Pomp & Circumstance or something, right?
As a non-American, I was very confused for a bit. Why are senior citizens needing to pick songs? What are they graduating from?
Senior student in high school. 12th grade
Senior is also the word to describe students in the 12th grade, the final year of high school.
One of my classmates was part of a bagpipe group so he and his group played our graduation. Fantastic choice actually.
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?
“Who said that?!”
And the complaint that mom threw away your best porno mag?
it’s not the best Beastie Boys era, I give you that. gigantic penises on stage included.
If the school picked Hot for Teacher to play on behalf of the students that would be… Something.
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!
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
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.
We did the Throne Room/Ending Credits theme from Star Wars played by our symphonic band. It goes hard.
Duel of the fates for six hours straight or bust.
CORN ONNNNN…
THE KOBBBB…
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.
“ It’s the end of the world as we know it” by REM would seem appropriate these days.
“and I feel fine” doesn’t though lmao
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.
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.
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
