No, which is a shame because they wanted to do something. I sent an email to the fan services guy. Even talked to him over the phone. He never got back to me.
New York City All The Way
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but which one of us is Method Man? The song doesn't actually apply to anything sport or New York related. It's Meth singing about himself.
Let me take a wild guess. Mike Quarino? I'm gonna go ahead and file that under "What else did we expect".
That's disappointing. Maybe somewhere down the road we can try and rekindle it. Even if not in an official NYCFC capacity.
I don't remember his name.
Yeah, I suppose they had their reasons. I mean punk rock is a pretty niche genre. But then again, a lot of punk rockers like soccer for some reason.
I still think it would make a great chant though.
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I kinda feel like this is what happened with that. We gave them an awesome punk anthem called "New York Belongs to Me" and they paid someone to write a squeaky clean version called "New York City All the Way."
Maybe.
But I've said it before and I'll say it again: It's up for the fans to make up the club culture. The club doesn't have the right to impose a culture on us. So we can do whatever we like, in other words.
The song certainly sounds like Tubthumping, but it is also reminiscent of one of the great new soccer songs of our time...
(which is frankly better than the one our club came up with)
(which is frankly better than the one our club came up with)
I haven't really wanted to throw my hat into the chant game, but I have always thought that it would be cool to have some that have NYC old school roots like a spin on some Tribe, RunDMC, Nas, Jay-Z lyrics. Would be easy to use a catchy hook, which would no doubt be easy for folks to remember, and would have some true NYC flavor. Can we kick it? Yes we can. It's tricky to score a goal, to score a goal on NYC, it's tricky . . . tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky. It's like that, and that's the way it is. It's a hard knock life, FOR YOU. Not saying any of these work, but I like the NYC flavor concept. And I do also like David Villa singing '90's songs in English.
Our version of this
ok just heard it...lol, might as well put the original chumbawamba song. This feels like a cheap imitation that a local newscast does to promote their local affiliate channel.
but the bigger question is. Is this really necessary ? I mean sure many teams in europe have their actual club anthems/ songs. i dont think other MLS come up with this.
usually here some teams adopt actual songs to play in their stadiums during beginning of their games.
But i give credit to villa for doing this, shows he likes being here and wants to help the club get promoted/ known.
but the bigger question is. Is this really necessary ? I mean sure many teams in europe have their actual club anthems/ songs. i dont think other MLS come up with this.
usually here some teams adopt actual songs to play in their stadiums during beginning of their games.
But i give credit to villa for doing this, shows he likes being here and wants to help the club get promoted/ known.
Dumb songs are a tradition of sport as much as institutionalized racism and owners lying about their financials.
It'll get an eye roll from me at the park, but this isn't a big deal. Of all the "cringe-worthy" sports videos, this is more professional than most.
It'll get an eye roll from me at the park, but this isn't a big deal. Of all the "cringe-worthy" sports videos, this is more professional than most.
I'm going to go ahead and doubt that this will be the official anthem...for now. A city with a rich music history, one that birthed Hip Hop and Hardcore and this is what we get? I just refuse to believe it. I've been down with that New York Belongs to Me song since day one.
That said, not a huge deal. Most of the "anthems" of Premier League teams are even more cringeworthy than this haha
That said, not a huge deal. Most of the "anthems" of Premier League teams are even more cringeworthy than this haha
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I fear greatly that our inner hipsters in the TR will start singing this ironically and then it will become one of our things.
If there's not a "Can I kick it? Yes you can!" call-response, Third Rail has failed us, and should be disbanded immediately.
