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On, On, U of K, also punctuated as "On!On! U of K", [1] is a fight song at the University of Kentucky.Although it is primarily associated with the historically successful Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball program, the lyrics are actually specific to football. [2]
Taylor Swift David Eulitt/Getty Images Taylor Swift became a bonafide sports fan after she started dating NFL star Travis Kelce in summer 2023. “Football is awesome, it turns out,” Swift ...
A fight song is a rousing short song associated with a sports team. [1] The term is most common in the United States and Canada. In Australia, Mexico, and New Zealand, these songs are called the team anthem, team song, or games song. First associated with collegiate sports, fight songs are also used by secondary schools and in professional sports.
At college football games, the schools' marching bands often add stadium anthems to their repertoires. In baseball , many stadium anthems are used as entrance music for various ballplayers. For example, AC/DC 's " Hells Bells " was the entrance music for Trevor Hoffman and Metallica 's " Enter Sandman " filled the same role for Mariano Rivera .
The lyrics were written in 1907 by screenwriter and playwright Aurania Rouverol, then a student at Stanford, and are set to the trio from Robert Browne Hall's New Colonial March. [1] Although Come Join the Band remains Stanford's official fight song, the Stanford Band nowadays plays All Right Now as their usual fight song at football games.
“Long live the walls we crashed through. I had the time of my life, with you.” — “Long Live” “Let them say what they want, we won’t hear it.” — “I Know Places”
In an interview with Billboard, BossMan Dlow said of the song, "Yeah, that's one we're gonna make it the sports anthem. You could damn near play that before your games. We're gonna try to make it a broad song." He also stated that the ESPN television program SportsCenter was a big part of his life while growing up. [1]
The song's verses consist of Murphy listing sports-related words ("baseball, basketball, ping pong, short shorts") in a monotone voice and comparing activities that take little effort ("getting high in the morning, buying things off the Internet") to sports, while the chorus consists solely of him shouting and speaking the word "sports" in various ways; during the outro, the song slows down ...