FIRST RAP???

I can’t recall it from the fist time they played it but if it’s worse than those two abominations then I have no intention on listening to it ever again,

I’m kind of confused as to why this song was commissioned. A large part of the appeal of rap is the subject matter discussed in most other rap songs in addition to the style of music. Simply substituting that for FIRST themes isn’t suddenly going to make anyone like FIRST. It reminds me of all of those stupid anti-bullying or anti-drug “songs” that my school always tried to push on me; no matter how much I agreed with the message, these things never helped.

You are not. I not only want to never hear it again, I desperately want that two minutes of my life back.

Truth. This is the wrong way to try to make supernerd-dom cool. All this does is take otherwise cool supernerds and make them look… exactly how we do not want nerds to look.

This was health-class-self-esteem-video parody made reality.

Truly awful.

It sounded much much better at Atlanta.

Like the first two songs that FIRST released back at the Boston Regional sometime back, this won’t be winning a Grammy. I think that if they ever want to have a song that will be great they are going to have to hire a producer because it kind of sounds like someone made these in Garage Band (no offence).

Ideally, they are going to need to have some kid in a program graduate and go on to create a top selling record and make it big in the music industry and then come on back give FIRST an awesome song.

However, I think there might be an interim option, make it a president’s circle type challenge and ask all teams that are interested to write, record and produce a song about FIRST.

Interestingly, it seems that the idea behind this similar to what they do in elementary schools in some Asian countries particularly South Korea. In South Korea internet addiction is a rising problem and to combat it the government has ramped up efforts in classrooms with education starting at the early elementary level. One of the ways they like to teach is actually through song. Anyway it is interesting to make that connection to these songs that First is trying to test on the community.
Source: http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/01/29/07

Autotune did die, sometime in the 70’s…
Unfortunately, they found a cure to the disease that caused the death.

In the end, its really not that bad.

First off, try listening to it on studio monitors or a full PA or studio headphones. it sounds better.
Second, the main rap lines and how they echo out are well mixed, very similar to BEP, which many people enjoy.
Third, the choruses are pretty bad, but catchy.

The whole song is rounded around current “pop” music, which most of you guys dispise. However, I must say its well mastered and edited. Its overall a well made song, but whether you like it or not is up to you.

I was in Atlanta…

so, we now have a music video to go along with it

Looking forward to seeing it at #1 on TRL sometime next week… wonder if Carson Daily still hosts that show on MTV…

i think i saw three 1717 clips in the video, did any other team/person get more?