[Andy Grady]

I think that its fairly safe to say that we've been pretty brutal when judging these songs. I mean, its not every day where we get to become the "Simon Cowell" of the FIRST world. I think one way to approach this is to figure out what went wrong with this...

I don't know about you, but when I first heard the song, I almost felt like my inteligence was being insulted. The song kinda came off like one of those songs I used to hear on like...the Lambchop show on PBS. Honestly...if you want kids to have a good time, and dance, and sing...you really don't need to make up a song just for them...even if they end up dancing to a song about a different organization.

The basic idea behind the song was to make something similar to YMCA that everyone could do a similar dance to. While in theory, the idea may have seemed cool...in the end, honestly, we already have YMCA...we don't need another. While we're at it...we also already hava a cha-cha, train, electric slide, chicken, and cotton eyed joe. I think...a first song would be good if it was high energy, not gimicky, and just something thats good to listen to...maybe ONCE possibly twice a competition.

FIRST already puts on a great show...in my humble opinion, it would serve the program better if the energy put into making the song went towards something that made a little more of a difference...like figuring out a way to give dying teams money.

I may sound like a kill joy...but hey...even Simon Cowell, as miserable as he is, knows what can make a star.

-Andy Grady