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“Dancing on my Own” is Officially a Loser Song and Goes in the Dust Bagster of History
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Let’s get a quick temperature check of the Phillies’ unofficial 2022 and 2023 anthem:
It’s time to put dancing on my own to rest. It’s a second place song. No more.
— Philly Sports Sufferer (@mccrystal_alex) October 25, 2023
We deserved to lose for singing a ok and dancing on my own. Songs are liquid hot diarrhea in a jar.
— Lew (@Lewsers) October 25, 2023
Dancing on my own officially a loser song https://t.co/RUJouFeml5
— Court (@courtgrail) October 25, 2023
There was initially some skepticism when the song was brought back about halfway through this season. Why? Because it was a second place song.
Kyle Schwarber and Rhys Hoskins said as much when asked about it eight months ago:
“It’s a second-place song,” Kyle Schwarber said. “It’s done.”
“I personally think it’s the 2022 Phillies,” Hoskins said. “Something will pop up during the year, right? We’ll latch into something.”
Well the “something” that popped up during the year was, once again, Dancing on my Own. Nick Castellanos revealed in the summer that the Phillies had unretired the track and started playing it in the clubhouse after wins. This is when they were starting to get hot, so the song was seen as a boon and it made a full return to Citizens Bank Park and the Philly sports scene.
The thing about Dancing on my Own is that a lot of fans don’t even seem to like it. They just went along with it because the team enjoyed it and it allowed fans to connect with the squad and join the run. It brought the city together. That’s why people sang the song, not because they love the lyrics about standing in the corner and being a little soy boy. It’s a remix of a cover* of a sad nightclub anthem that might have a tinge of self-empowerment in the lyrics, but ultimately centers on a person watching their ex get with someone new. Nothing about it correlates in any way to baseball, Philadelphia, or American sports.
Captain has it right:
No more Dancing on My Own pic.twitter.com/ZCB6zFxMmS
— Bell Ringers Podcast (@BellRingersPSR) October 25, 2023
*Robyn shares co-writing credits with a guy named Patrik Berger. Send royalties to those two.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com