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Re: Smart is Cool (a new FIRST song)

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Originally Posted by Joe Matt
Lets pretend my ears didn't bleed when I heard the song. The cross between megastars (and I mean this as a song/actor type situation, not inventor megastars) and FIRST has never gone well and will not go well. People LAUGHED at the Nats back then when Mandy took the stage and when Will Smith behind all his trophies told us to keep doing great things as he made loads of money (go do a CD search if you don't believe me). FIRST is not about splash and artificiality, it's about much more than any song can cover.

Now to the song itself. It's bad, and I know I'll probably get neg repped, but it's not my musical style. Now, this is not true about many others, but I have a question: what if this was death metal? Punk? Ska? Country? We're talking about a subjective medium here. My problem comes from the idea that we should have an OFFICIAL FIRST SONG to be played at all the competitions. Would you want your friends to hear this song? Would you want to play it in the car?

Now I'm going off to go listen to The Current....
When Dean was on the Colbert report the reception on here was great. I hate to say it but no matter how many inventors and politicians show up at competitions and are impressed the general public, the people who really need to hear FIRST's message are not going to care, until FIRST has things like celebrity spokes people It will never enter the mainstream, and the majority of people will never get it's message. Traditional views of engineering are not appealing to the majority of people, the reason that kids want to become actors, athletes singers etc is because those fields are prominent, the only way for FIRST and engineering to become as prominent as these mega stars is to do what these mega stars do. FIRST has borrowed from these areas in the past, hence why many regionals are in sports arenas, why there is loud music like a sporting event, and why there is lighting like concerts. It seems like songs may just be another media. This is not going to be a hit pop song(most likely) maybe it would fit better as the background track for a commercial, or maybe it will just get laughed at like Mandy Moore. However I think that the song idea that Dean had last year may be worth a try and I also believe that this song stands head and shoulders above the two we heard last year. To say that FIRST will not be able to cross with mega stars seems like an admission of defeat. In a battle with Mega stars engineers wont win in the eyes of the public. but with mega stars FIRST and Dean's ideas could get a huge boost.
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