Mets fans finally have something to cheer about regarding the team's worst start since the bad old days of 1992: The team's trainwreck performance will probably keep any of the early-oughts' lights of post-grunge from following in the footsteps of Creed singer Scott Stapp, who, fresh off shredding the national anthem at the Florida Marlins' Opening Day festivities, has penned a song in honor of the teal-suited team. It's called "Marlins Will Soar" and it has the same vague references to faith and being lifted up that his work with Creed did, only this time he manages to rhyme "triple play" with "playoff race." Artistic growth! [Via / Related]
Thursday, April 15, 2010
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The youtube title (I can't bring myself to click the play button) is "Marlins will Soar." Stappie, Marlins are fish. They swim, and occasionally jump. If you see a marlin soaring, a catapult was likely involved in its recent history.
Ha! I bet not a single person here will actually click the play button...
Don't be so sure about that Doc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TmQGIW_Tgc&feature=related
I did because i am not familiar with one: Strapp, Scott and his noiserythems. Do you have a Q-tip...my ears are all bloody.
I did, and suddenly felt like standing on a mountain top with wind in my hair. And then I thought about fish soaring and felt strange.
Will tight, fringed leather pants be involved somehow?
Everything I hate about baseball and everything I hate about music in the same video. I'd watch it but I want to live.
And how the fuck do marlins "soar"? Is Stapp getting his science from a Juggalo-approved textbook?
Hey this is is gonna go great with their all-new stadium detailed in 1980's RUBIKS-CUBE PRIMARY COLORS.
Florida: not just an another uncircumsized Dick in the crowd...
(This was painful to listen to: thanks)
For something as lightweight as Stapp and his "music," EVERYTHING soars.
Scott Stapp is a caricature of a parody of Scott Stapp. That's the only way I can bring myself to comprehend the way this fucker sings.
I'm left thinking the same thing. Like, thirty years from now, he'll come out and be like, Ha ha! I can't believe everybody thought I was being serious.
Also, yes, the idea of marlins "soaring" is so weird. Is this a reference the old John Ashcroft song about the eagle? Is the notion of "soaring" one of those special signifier words for ultra Christians that Bush and Palin pepper their speech with? I'm sort of thinking so.
David Fricke told me he likes this lots and has a cover story in the works Re: the hot new musical genre of "grungeball".
Candlebox will reunite and do a version of Meet the Mets that KILLS, and Weiland will maybe just blow A-Rod for some heroin money.
Could we just fast forward to June when they deliver the new manager/GM/rotation/1B/2B I ordered?
I don't know much about sports anthems, but I'm pretty sure most of them don't openly admit that the only way their team is going to win (ok, "soar" if you will) is "by dreaming and luck".
Also, why does it look like he's about to assault the mic stand?
Hey, I Misread Something on The Awl, Case File #9F22: "Martians Will Soar"
And, I mean, who would stop them?