Smart is Cool (a new FIRST song)

[Libby K]

even though i'm not a huge fan of rap...it's still awesome.

this song actually talks about FIRST, instead of just spelling it. love it!

[joshsmithers]

yeah, im with everyone else on the rap aspect. However, this is the first song ive heard that is based on FIRST, so i loved it.

[Schnabel]

I think it would be cool to hear this sometime during the kickoff! COUGH, can anyone pull some strings? COUGH

[Hiteak]

Its one of my few favorite rap songs, the others being White and Nerdy and All About the Pentiums by Weird Al. Lyrics really work too.

[Joe Matt]

I'm not a huge fan of the idea of having a song for FIRST, or about FIRST. There's too much to represent and many different view points, plus FIRST's fundamentally is against megastars and such.

I think some sort of high paced instrumental piece would be better than anything with lyrics, but I guess that's just me.

[Eric W. Jones]

under normal circumstances, I hate rap, but this one is pretty cool.

[Jeremytice]

Like others said, im not into rap but since the song is about FIRST it was awsome. Great job!

[Andy Grady]

What? No F-I-R-S-T anywhere in the song?

Big improvement over the anthems that FIRST tried to do last season.

[Rohith Surampudi]

[parliamentary procedure]Motion to replace the FIRST theme song with "Smart Is Cool"[/parliamentary procedure]

[Mazin]

Try listening to it 2x speed. Backwards.

Edit: Why was this put in a zip archive? To save 0.04MiB of space?

[csi235]

Originally Posted by Rohith Surampudi

[parliamentary procedure]Motion to replace the FIRST theme song with "Smart Is Cool"[/parliamentary procedure]

[parliamentary procedure]I second that motion.[/parliamentary procedure]

BTW, I also dislike rap, but I like this song. The only song in my playlist (the rest are podcasts).

As a audio geek, I feel I must post my feelings on this song. Whoever did the recording has the perfect mix, with excellent levels. I've gotta give props to whoever did this.

As for rap, not so much, but this is clearly an exception. awesome job!

[Mazin]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

plus FIRST's fundamentally is against megastars and such.

Not that Woody and Kamen are famous or anything.

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

I'm not a huge fan of the idea of having a song for FIRST, or about FIRST. There's too much to represent and many different view points, plus FIRST's fundamentally is against megastars and such.

I think some sort of high paced instrumental piece would be better than anything with lyrics, but I guess that's just me.

It isn't so much that FIRST is against megastars really it is just that Dean thinks that people who do things that effect society, like scientists and engineers should be at the same level. Dean was actually the one who started the whole song idea. It seems that if a song is a way to get kids to hear about the program then it is a very good idea. I don't think any one could write a song that could truely encompass all of FIRST, nor is that at all what people are trying to do. The song is instead just an attention getter, something to catch someones interest.

If you go back to when championships were at Disney(I wasn't there but based on what I have heard) FIRST had Mandy Moore perform and Will smith do a little video clip. Dean doesn't want to get rid of the megastars, just get engineers up there with them

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by JamesBrown

It isn't so much that FIRST is against megastars really it is just that Dean theinks that people who do things that effect society, like scientists and engineers should be at the same level. Dean was actually the one who started the whole song idea. It seems that if a song is a way to get kids to hear about the program then it is a very good idea. I don't think any one could write a song that could truely encompass all of FIRST, nor is that at all what people are trying to do. The song is instead just an attention getter, something to catch someones interest.

If you go back to when championships were at Disney(I wasn't there but based on what I have heard) FIRST had Mandy Moore perform and Will smith do a little video clip. Dean doesn't want to get rid of the megastars, just get engineers up there with them

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....