First Post EVER! and Explanation

Now, some of you may be wondering, "Why did you make a blog? Didn't that stop being cool in like 2005?" If you are one of those people, I say, BEGONE! LEAVE! Because you don't need to waste your time on me, and I don't need to waste my time on you. Now, to those of you who are actually still reading, I made a blog because I thought it was pretty neat, and I am hipster enough to use an older medium for spreading my ideas through the amazing thing that is the internet, but not cool enough to do it via video. So, a blog was the solution.

This particular blog is dedicated to an oddity of sorts: The college fight song, or just the fight song. I don't believe in the phrase "football fight song" because one of the guiding principles I use when deciding the quality of a fight song is its transparency, which basically means how easily can it be used for other sports, but that's beside the point. One could say that I have an obsession with fight songs, and in order to understand why I'm wasting my time writing about them, I have to give the explanation as to why I became interested in them in the first place. To save time, here's how the story went: I thought my school's fight song was too football-oriented, too long, too riddled with archaic language, and just too uninspiring. To try and solve this conundrum, I did the only reasonable thing a person can do: research fight songs, find the best one, and rewrite the words for my school. Now obviously this didn't end up working out, mainly because of the tradition involved with a fight song, and now my school's fight song is something I've accepted as solid, and I've even started to appreciate it more than I used to.

On this blog, I will mostly posting about college fight songs, the background and history, lyrics, just stuff like that. And my opinions on them, that's a big part of this all. Occasionally I may post about an Alma Mater, which is basically a national anthem for a school. Maybe I might even go crazy and talk about college marching bands. So be prepared for the hypothetical roller coaster you are about to embark on (it's actually kind of mundane if you're not into this sort of thing).