Watching the U.S./England game yesterday, I was struck by the fact that the U.S. team doesn’t have any creative chants. The England fans in attendance repeatedly drowned the bar with well-orchestrated cheers, all the while swaying back and forth with mugs in their hands. Our response was the dreadfully mediocre “U.S.A., U.S.A, U.S.A.,” yelped ad nauseam until the crowd ran out of gas. Even more embarrassing was when one section tried to substitute “U.S.A.” for “Ole” in the song of the same name. You can imagine the disappointing results.
Now we have Weezer, helmed by soccer fanatic Rivers Cuomo, contributing their own offering to the U.S. national team’s musical canon. The song is called “Represent” and…
it’s not very good. False hope.
