Kaiser Chiefs Won’t Do World Cup Tune
We have to admit that we’re a little disappointed – after all kinds of wild rumours, Kaiser Chiefs have decided that they aren’t going to release a World Cup song this year after all.
It’s a shame – the entire country was holding its breath and looking forward to seeing a fat bloke dressed up as the Artful Dodger going "Ohhhh! OOHHHHH!" all over the top of a Parklife b-side and doing keepy-uppies.
The 2006 World Cup in Germany is hurtling towards us, and everyone
is bracing themselves for an inevitable wave of Nazi jokes, limp
punditry from washed-up old players and endless news footage of drunk,
topless, fat, pink-bellied, tattooed England supporters getting blown
over backwards by high-powered water cannons after kicking in a German
cafe.
But there’s a hole in the England World Cup line-up. Not Wayne
Rooney or Sol Campbell or any of those schmoes – we’re talking the
official England World Cup song. It’s a vital ingredient to World Cup
success, but one that gets repeatedly fouled up. Whether it’s Echo And
The Bunnymen helping The Spice Girls murder (How Does It Feel To Be) On
Top Of The World in 1998 or that shonky Ant and Dec song from 2002,
there hasn’t been a decent World Cup song since 1990. And that’s where
Kaiser Chiefs (CDs) were supposed to come in.
The Football Association had been quietly backing Kaiser Chiefs to
record the England World Cup song for a while now, but now a statement
by Kaiser Chiefs has put an end to speculation – they don’t want to do
it:
"We’re flattered about these rumours regarding the England
football
team’s World Cup song, but there’s no truth in them, they are just
rumours. The only writing we’ll be doing in the next few months will be
for our next album. We have no plans to write the England football
team’s World Cup song. Sorry to dispel the myth."
Great – a Peter Kay England World Cup song looks just a little bit more realistic. Thanks a lot Kaiser Chiefs, you bastards.
Read more:
No World Cup tune from Kaisers – Monsters And Critics
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Im glad they arent. I dont want football hooligans singing a Kaiser Chiefs song, and i dont want the band to be famous for singing a world cup song.
And, the lead singer is not fat. You arsehole
Even non-football fans are already singing THE HIGHEST HIGH by ADAM BOSTOCK.
It’s been compared to Robbie Williams singing a Lightening Seeds song backed by The Doors. It’s a far more rousing song than Embrace’s World at Your Feet which is a rather dispassionate song and uninvolved. Embrace is an unusual choice to front a football song given their fairly somber mode of delivery but when all’s said and done the one we’ll all be joining in with will depend on ultimately the most rousing and singalongable tune, not whether the band singing it have the backing of the FA, who after all run football very successfully but one wonders who makes the musical decisions. Perhaps it was based on the fact that Embrace have a large following.
As for Justin Hawkin jingoistic attempt to incite our fans to remember the war and go out fighting. Well.. it just beggars belief. He clearly needs to court controversy to get attention which is sad. Time to move on and realise that Football is only a game albeit one that makes a fortune for many and runs some people’s entire thoughts and behaviour.
Let’s give them all something to sing about. I reckon even the foreign national soccer teams might even join in with The Highest High.