Remind me again; are sedimentary sports of golf and bowls at The Olympics these-days? It pays to ask these things given the song chosen as N.Z’s Olympic theme-song (above) sounds like it was penned by someone living in their seventh decade and a closet fan of Harry Connick Jnr?
Let’s cut to the chase here – who the fuck can take a lyrics like "Through sweat blood and tears, you followed your dreams" seriously?
Say one of our athletes looking for motivation?
Kiwi fans looking for a hum-along pick me up?
On the motivation scale this croon ‘Stand Tall’ fails to register, is as inspirational as a headmaster telling the assembly to “pick-up your rubbish at lunchtime.”
Why not do a re-make of ‘Climb Every Mountain’ and be done with?
No I’ll go one better and suggest a re-make of Craig Scott’s Commonwealth games tune from 1974.
The song ‘Stand Tall’ was apparently penned by Sam RB who frequents Queen Street along with humanities flotsam and jetsam.
Unbeknown to you and me the streets of N.Z are a hotbed of busking talent and not just the haunt for some drunk doing a rendition of ‘Ten Guitars’ on ukulele.
Wellington’s Blanketman’s posthumous rap anthem “Gotta Dollar Ya C==t”?” must surely be in the pipeline?
But back to ‘Stand Tall’ and who the fuck decided this was a worthy song to fire-up the troops at the front and the masses at home supping coffee to stay awake in front of their telly’s?
You don’t need to be a T.V detective to follow the blood-trail on this one.
Scraping the surface like a sandfly it appears Sam’s benefactor, the man behind his meteoric rise to fame and a free trip to London on the tax-payer, was one Eddie Rayner.
You’ll remember him as the keyboard player from Split Enz.
That’s the same band the ‘Play it Strange’ chief executive Mike Chunn, the people who organised this song quest, played bass for.
Chunn is quoted as saying “Sam RB was a major talent who had achieved against the odds.”
With all these odds and strange’s getting bandied around here you’d be forgiven for being confused how ‘Stand Tall’ could have possibly been the best offering from the 300 entries received?
Sadly looking at The Finalists like ‘Rise Up Your Flag’ (video below) which Viagra have picked-up on – the answer appears to be resounding yes!
truely sad it sounds like a broken and sad record, why not have Billy tk SNR to flick some brillance and passion, this song is utterly appalling
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Paul I think you will find it was steve allan not craig scott in 1974, both brillent though. remember "smiley". Getting a bit befuddled in your old age?
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