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This Year’s ESPN College Football Anthem Actually Isn’t That Bad
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Over the past five years, ESPN has rolled out some absolutely horrendous college football theme songs.
You’ll recall they went with IMAGINE DRAGONS in 2018, and whenever a promo would come up you’d have to hear that dork singing “You’re a natural / A beating heart of stone / You gotta be so cold / To make it in this world…” Just a terrible song. Imagine Dragons make the guys in Nickelback look like prime Zeppelin.
ESPN did slightly better in the following years, rolling out Judah & the Lion and a track from the late Juice WRLD, called Come and Go. It was autotuned crapola but infinitely better than Imagine Dragons. This year, it’s gonna be a DJ Snake track with Rick Ross and Rich Brian, which comes from the new Marvel movie called Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings:
Honestly? It’s not bad. Good drop. No overproduction on the vocals.
The bottom line is that you are going to hear this song 500 times this season. Every ESPN commercial break will contain a promo for the weekend’s big game, and so this tune is going to be drilled into your head, whether you like it or not. This is infinitely better than the brutal stuff we’ve had to listen to in the last five years, though I’d prefer they bring back Big and Rich because I’d rather have “Coming to your citaaaay” reverberating through my skull, perpetually, vs. listening to Imagine Dragons even just for 5 seconds.
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