So a couple of weeks ago, I was up in Moraga for a Vandy game at St Mary’s. If you ever cross over Checkpoint Caldecott, I strongly recommend a trip to see the Gaels in action – their little 3500-seat bandbox gym lights up with as loud and rowdy a crowd as you’ll find in college hoops, and the team (chock full of Aussies) is actually pretty damn good. Vandy managed to blow an 11-point lead and won by 2, and St Mary’s had a shot at the end that would have won it.
But that is not the point of this post. The point of this post is that they played a LOT of recorded music, much to my chagrin as a former stalwart of my undergrad basketball pep band* – and sprinkled in among Miley Cyrus and random hip-hop was Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing”. (Believing? Believin’? Whatever.)
Not only did the students go apeshit when the opening piano hit, they sang along. The whole damn song.
When the hell did a Journey track from my elementary school days turn into some sort of Gen-Z youth anthem? How does shit like this happen? My God, it’s not like we were all singing and dancing along to a Doors song back when I was in high sch–
–what?
Never mind.