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Why Philadelphia adopted 'Dancing on My Own' as its unofficial anthem
It’s a great time to be a Philadelphia sports fan.
The Eagles are currently enjoying a bye week after coasting to a 6-0 start behind the electric performance of Jalen Hurts. Meanwhile, the Flyers opened their season winning four of their five first games. Perhaps the most surprising twist in the Philadelphia sports stratosphere is the 76ers, arguably considered Philadelphia’s best chance at a championship this summer, having dropped their first three games.
Nowhere is the city’s energy and momentum more palpable than Citizens Bank Park where the Phillies are steamrolling the National League in their first postseason appearance in over a decade.
Philadelphia narrowly edged out the Milwaukee Brewers by one game for the sixth and final spot in the National League. Since then it’s been all Phillies, sweeping the Cardinals, denying Atlanta a chance to defend their World Series win, and most recently, dominating the star-studded San Diego Padres en route to the franchise’s first World Series appearance since 2009.
Known for its passionate fanbase that sometimes borders on unhinged, Philadelphia has adopted an unlikely anthem down the stretch – “Dancing on My Own.” The song, originally sung by Robyn but covered by Callum Scott, has been blasting from Rittenhouse Square to the Phillies locker room.
Why are Philadelphia fans playing “Dancing on My Own?”
Philadelphia fans don’t do anything half-hearted and their adoption of “Dancing on My Own” is no exception. Social media is chock full of fans celebrating from the stadium to the comfort of their homes behind the catchy beat.
So how did the heartbreak hymn become a rallying cry for success? According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the song’s emergence as a baseball staple can be traced back to catcher Kevin Plawecki who chose it as his walkup song during the Red Sox 2020 season.
Plawecki said the tradition started in an effort to annoy one of his teammates, Mitch Moreland, but eventually took on a mind of its own, inspiring Boston through a season of empty stadiums and their 2021 playoff run.
While the Red Sox came up short in the Divisional Series, Kyle Schwarber was unfazed by any potential bad mojo when he brought the song with him from Boston to Philadelphia.
The song is now part of a nearly five-hour playlist – curated by backup catcher and clubhouse DJ Garrett Stubbs -- that includes everything from “Dixieland Delight” to Dua Lipa to T-Pain. Despite the abundance of options, “Dancing on My Own” is the go-to victory song.
What other teams have adopted unofficial anthems?
The Phillies are far from the first team to adopt an unofficial anthem, instead joining a long list of college and professional teams synonymous with specific songs. Some of these connections are self-explanatory -- like Frank Sinatra’s “(Theme From) New York, New York,” which echoes throughout Yankee Stadium -- while others have a more complicated origin story. They all, however, share a common quality to rally supporters and intimidate opponents, often defining the gameday experience.
Here’s a look at some other notable unofficial team anthems:
“Wonderwall” - Manchester City
Leave it to the Brits to convert an emotional rock ballad into the rallying call of one of their biggest clubs.
The Oasis single is played at the end of every home game. It was written by Noel Gallagher, one half of the estranged Gallagher brothers and Manchester natives.
Despite reportedly having limited contact with one another, both Gallagher brothers remain lifelong supporters of the Blues and were on site at the 2021 Champions League Final. Chelsea defeated Manchester City 1-0 and the West London club capitalized on the celebrity appearances with some celebratory trolling.
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” - Liverpool
Arguably one of the most revered traditions in all of sports, this anthem parts from the sheer chaos and energy of the rest of the list.
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” was originally written and produced by Rodgers and Hammerstein, before being popularized by Gerry and the Pacemakers, a local Liverpool group.
Over the course of the next half century, it became weaved into the fabric of the club’s rich history as it played through Anfield, one of the oldest stadiums in the Premier League.
The song – which is plenty emotional with its lyrics alone – cemented itself as a deeply-moving and even tear-jerking experience following the Hillsborough disaster, a human crush that resulted in 97 deaths. The youngest victim was 10-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley, whose cousin, Steven Gerrard would go on to serve as Liverpool’s captain and lead the club to a Champions League title.
To this day, fans throughout Anfield break out into the famous anthem, often lifting scarves in the process. When Liverpool won the Premier League in 2020 in front of an empty stadium, their players made sure to keep the tradition alive.
“Take Me Home, Country Roads” - West Virginia
Similar to LSU with “Callin’ Baton Rouge” or Tennessee with “Dixieland Delight,” this anthem seems pretty self explanatory … at least on the surface.
The Mountaineers kick off every game with John Denver’s masterpiece with tens of thousands of fans joining in. The only catch, however, is that there’s some debate about whether the song is even referring to the state of West Virginia. Some suggest Denver was talking about the western part of Virginia.
A technicality? Probably. Some intrigue to an otherwise obvious anthem? Potentially.
“Enter Sandman” - Virginia Tech
Lots of high school and college teams play the Metallica hit, but none do it as well as the Hokies. Since adding in a new scoreboard in 2000, the Virginia Tech players march from their locker room and funnel into a narrow tunnel while the heavy metal plays across Lane Stadium.
A year after first introducing the song to Blacksburg, members of the marching band started jumping and thus one of the most intimidating entrances in college football was born.
“Jump Around” - Wisconsin
The Badgers kick off the fourth quarter of every home game with House of Pain’s one-hit wonder “Jump Around.
” The instructions? Simple -- jump around.
The tradition is so chaotic that school officials briefly tried to suspend the practice over structural concerns, but quickly resumed after confirming that Camp Randall Stadium was built to withstand the jumping of 80,000 fans.
Wisconsin took the less is more route and it paid off as it was ranked the second-most intimidating gameday tradition by opposing players.
“Don’t Stop Believing” - Red Wings and Giants
This one is a classic case of two cities taking claim over something.
On the one hand, Detroit -- home of the Red Wings -- is notably name-dropped in the first verse. On the west coast, the Giants play the hit every 8th inning as a nod to Journey’s Bay Area roots. Frontman Steve Perry notably sang during the 2014 World Series.
Phillies have the perfect playoff anthem in 'Dancing on My Own' — it's just the wrong version
The Philadelphia Phillies recently went viral for their taste in music.
After clinching an unexpected playoff run, the players celebrated in the locker room with popped champagne and a rallying cry. Their song of choice? "Dancing on My Own."
How did 'Dancing on My Own' became the Phillies song?
“There’s no deeper meaning or backstory to it, other than it’s an absolute banger and we love singing it in the locker room,” Phillies catcher Garrett Stubbs — who accidentally became the team's DJ — told MLB.com. “After a win, we play ‘Dancing on My Own,’ ‘Cold Heart’ and a couple other ones. We’ve been playing those songs since the beginning of the season. They come on in order after wins, so everyone knows what songs are going to play and everyone knows the words to those songs.”
Important to note: The Boston Red Sox first went viral for celebrating a win to the song in 2021, paving the way for the song to be seen as an acceptable victory anthem.
Stubbs added: “I hope when we win a few games here in the NLDS, we’ll have Philly playing ‘Dancing on My Own’ and ‘Cold Heart’ around the bars.
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Days later, the City of Brotherly Love seemed to officially pick the tune as the team's playoff anthem as they continue to charge on towards the World Series, playing it during games and even in public spaces in the city to get residents pumped up.
However, the city picked Calum Scott's acoustic version that was later remixed by Tiesto, not the original by Swedish pop superstar Robyn.
The internet quickly internet'd and responded with, "Say what now?" Here, we look back on the song's storied history and what fans are saying about it.
Who originally sang 'Dancing on My Own'?
"Dancing On My Own" appeared as the lead single to Robyn's 2010 album "Body Talk." Critics praised the song for being so heartbreakingly bittersweet, perfectly encapsulating the melancholy loneliness and exciting freedom of being alone in the corner of a nightclub.
In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked Robyn's original version of the song as the 20th greatest song of all time. Sandwiched between Billie Holiday‘s “Strange Fruit“ and John Lennon‘s “Imagine," "Dancing on My Own" is that decade’s highest entry on the list.
"Written with Stockholm producer Patrik Berger, the song made Robyn an iconic cult hero," Rolling Stone wrote. "But it also became the template for a whole generation of young songwriters, from Taylor Swift to Lorde, looking for the ideal glitter-and-sobs cocktail. 'This song, to me, is perfect,' Lorde wrote. 'Joyous even when a heart is breaking.'"
Over the years, the song has been covered by numerous artists, but it was Scott who gained worldwide recognition for his haunting acoustic rendition. He performed the stripped-down version of the song on his YouTube channel, later belting it as his audition for "Britain’s Got Talent" in April 2015.
Robyn in 2011.Gus Stewart / RedfernsRacking hundreds of millions of views, his version quickly became many people's introduction to the tune and their only understanding of it. In 2016, it was remixed by Tiesto, bringing the song back to the club roots the song was initially intended for.
Now, that version has found itself at the center of the Phillies' postseason, but many Philadelphia residents and music historians are speaking up that the original should be the one getting the spotlight.
After local newsroom Billy Penn shared an email explicitly saying the cover would be played by a real estate company to celebrate the Phillies' success, Twitter clamored back.
One person tweeted, "This is Robyn erasure dammit."
Another fan added, "Please. Stop with Calum. It’s a @robynkonichiwa song and her version bangs and is much better. Calum is soft on purpose, the boys need to go harder. At least give her credit. I cringe when you say Calum’s song.....ugh."
"Can we agree there’s only one version of Dancing on My Own and it’s Robyn," one person wrote.
Another had this hope for the future: "If and when the Phillies make it to the World Series could we please switch to the Robyn version of Dancing on my Own?"
While Robyn has yet to address the controversy, she likely doesn't care considering she's still making royalties off the beloved track wherever and however it gets played.
But many people have gushed around the fact that "Dancing on My Own" — which initially had a huge queer following and is considered by many to be an LGBTQ anthem — has found its way into the locker rooms of one of America's most popular sports.
"The #Phillies celebration song being Dancing On My Own by Robyn is incredible," one person tweeted. "You have 40 year old straight dudes driving around the city blasting a Swedish gay disco club anthem and I’m obsessed."
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90,000 12 life hacks, to quickly learn how to dance from Mamita DanceDances
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on At the start, you always want to get a quick result.
When it doesn't happen, the hypothesis arises that everything takes time. After a conditionally acceptable time, humility comes to mastering pair dances, which, perhaps, is not given, and I will just do what I learned somehow.
This is the most common story of those who believe that the mere act of attending a pair dance class is enough to learn how to dance.
Absolutely not. If you want to really dance well, you have to make an effort outside of the dance class. A good teacher will definitely be needed, but the initiative should be on your side.
1. Listen to music
The most common and accessible advice that is given already in the first lessons. And it definitely works. Music creates a certain atmosphere of the dance and intuitively you want to move to it. It doesn't matter where you listen to music - in the car, on headphones while walking or doing household chores.
An addition that will help you dance better is your active participation in the music.
Sing along, dance or simply beat musical accents with any free parts of the body. In the subway, for example, it is enough to tap out bright moments with your fingers, in the car to sing along with sounds, and at home you can jump for pleasure.
2. Watch videos of good dancers
It's complicated, but also obvious. It’s more difficult, because without recommendations from more experienced dancers, unfortunately, it’s not so easy to find a good quality video on the net (I mean not the resolution quality, but the content itself).
Meaningful video viewing is about building an understanding of HOW dancers make a particular impression on a partner or viewer. Technology is at the heart of everything. Understanding how the pros do it is a big step forward.
It is important to distinguish a show from a disco dance, a staged performance from an improvisation, a stylized dance from an authentic one, etc. Ask for recommendations and dance teachers will always throw off a couple of videos of worthy landmarks.
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3. Dance in salsatecas/milongas/discotheques
A very delicate moment when it is worth coming to the first party. From a technical point of view, most students in 1-3 months have a sufficient set of figures and techniques to come and dance calmly. Psychologically, the same moment can be stretched out for an indefinite time. After all, it is imperative to “not lose face”, “learn more figures” and be sure what to do in case “there is an unfamiliar movement”.
In fact, the partygoers don't really care (except for a small layer of non-professional teachers who want to help inexperienced dancers by treating them as customers in the future). It is important to come and try dancing after a month of classes.
You can only with friends or guys from your group. This will be enough to feel the adrenaline and inspiration from the dance.
4. Dance with partners or partners not of your level
The conventional wisdom that you need to practice in groups of your level does not withstand the test of experience. Perhaps now your eyes widened in surprise, and you want to meaningfully read the phrase again. Yes, you saw everything correctly: when you dance with a partner of your level, you don’t grow anywhere.
It's important to understand that not only does it work one way and you have to dance with cooler dancers, but it works even more effectively the other way. It is no coincidence that teaching pair dances dramatically raises the level of the teacher himself. You have an endless stream of very beginner dancers.
How it works. A more experienced partner needs to be "stretched". It's easy and obvious. With beginners, you need to take more initiative on yourself, see the general pattern of the dance more widely, turn on and insure more, try to be an example and be more careful.
The quality of interaction begins to grow significantly. And wonderful partners too.
Dancing with partners of your level doesn't make you grow. Dance with both beginners and more advanced dancers
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5. Learn to dance for a partner and for a partner
Turks and Argentines are one of the best partners in the world. In Russia, partners are highly valued. Why? The answer is simple. In Argentina and Turkey, it is not questionable for men to ask another man to lead in one piece or another and give feedback on the quality of the lead. For them, it will be a great shame to hear moralizing from a partner, or even more so to be known in the community as an insecure partner.
In Russia, due to the constant, often far-fetched, opinion that there are more women in pair dances, partners calmly get up and study their partner's part. Such partners then grow into very cool dancers and teachers. In no case do this at parties, only in class. Here we are talking only about the learning strategy. At parties, be yourself.
6. Do not memorize the links
Always try to look deeper and understand the through principle and idea of movement. Understanding what and how is done will make it possible to independently generate any sequences and chips.
Human memory is limited and there will always be a moment when something will escape and your repertoire will be limited by the size of RAM.
In Argentine tango, for example, there are seven levels of movement construction that, when mastered, will allow you to make millions of combinations. And how many dance sequences can you really remember? In rueda, more than 150 figures dance in a rare circle.
It's hard to keep more in mind.
7. Develop your body
Many years of experience in teaching couple dance shows that as soon as everyone pairs up in a class, any progress in individual style ends. But it is the individual style that distinguishes everyone at the disco: partners change, and style is always with you.
The body as the main instrument of dance must be very plastic, responsive and emotional. Surprisingly, not all pair dance schools have a general physical warm-up. It is vital to tune the body and understand how it works.
You can always train extra and concentrate more on the basic steps, as their true value is as body work. The sequence of steps is, in fact, the simplest thing that can be in pair dancing. The quality of individual performance determines the craftsmanship.
8. Try on the images of inspiring dancers
A psychological life hack for those who have already mastered the steps, but still feel that there is not enough brightness and drive.
Most are terribly afraid of being someone else's "clone". Here the action is the same as under the influence of hypnosis - the more you resist, the more you plunge into an altered state of consciousness.
With a high degree of probability, you are already dancing like someone else's "clone". A meaningful fitting of someone else's image is that you mentally take the image of the one who inspires you (inspiration is critical in this case) and "put on" yourself. Then you start dancing and trying to feel in general how it is to be able, for example, to be the best partner or the sexiest partner in a disco. This is much more difficult than it seems. But it works extremely efficiently.
9. Dance to offbeat music
Habitual rhythms keep you tight. Tango salon or speedy timba leave little room for experimentation and fantasy. Pattern dancing is always noticeable and is reserved for beginners.
The truly new is born outside of the usual.
Look for places to experiment. If there is no place, organize self-training. The main thing is not to get carried away, because music determines the style. We bring something new to pair dances, rather than trying to change them.
Search, improvise, don’t be afraid to go beyond, develop in different directions, be inspired by music atypical for the style
10. Try your hand at basic dance directions
dances exist according to their own non-choreographic laws.
This is the deepest delusion, which has turned into a ceiling for the qualitative development of partner dances. After all, all professional dancers, for example, in salsa or bachata, build their ideas on the basic choreographic principles.
Do not think that choreography is only applicable on stage. Any meaningful movement of the body can be choreographic. In general, try classical or modern choreography. Basically, hip-hop can work too.
11. Look for battle sensations
Pair dances return us to an active position of manifestation of our body. As in the days of our ancient ancestors, we impress the members of the opposite sex by how dexterous, hardy, sexy, etc. we are. Modern laws of the jungle in the entourage of big cities.
If you look around the dance floor, it becomes clear that the majority are clearly herbivores (not in the sense of vegetarians, but in relation to those around them). I am sure that predators are always more interesting in terms of the attractiveness of the image - try to find a counterbalance among herbivores, for example, a cat woman or a lion man.
The conversation is about an internal position, not about aggressiveness. Lability and lack of control are inherent in adolescents, and not in adult self-sufficient people.
Accordingly, even a training or friendly battle gives, on the one hand, practical skills - to make a bright sequence of movements, bring an idea to a climax, show a spectacular feature, on the other hand, develops the psychological basis of the dance - self-confidence, resistance to extraneous attention, self-control and self-control in complex elements.
12. Communicate with professionals
The environment shapes the internal position. Basically, real passionaries of the dance community are ready to openly talk, discuss and support the development of dance in every possible way. Universal principles and the ideas they articulate have a much longer and more practical perspective than meets the eye.
Accept that, for example, behind the words "listen to your partner" is not only a beautiful metaphor, but also a practical skill to literally listen to your partner. At the same time, always treat every thought, even the most respected teacher, as a private opinion.
Your skill will lie in finding the scope of the idea even in conflicting opinions. Most often, the contradiction is speculative and the truth lies in the angle of perception or situationality.
Your dancing growth will stop sooner or later. This can happen at the level of three basic steps or years of experience in teaching and show performances.
Regardless of your level, the suggested 12 life hacks can get you off the ground and greatly accelerate your dance growth. There is no way here without your motivation and activity. Take your dance development into your own hands. 9Ol000 Dangerous sexuality
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How to learn and start singing well at home
Singing, dancing, drawing - we are taught all this without fail, first in kindergarten, and later at school.
However, not everyone becomes the chosen one, whose vocals, at least, do not irritate others, not to mention the stage career. Of course, one cannot do without talent, but it is quite tolerable to perform at least simple works quite within the power of everyone. So, how to start singing from scratch?
Contents
- Deep breath...
- What harms ligaments?
- "We call this howl a song"
- First steps...
- Pumping muscles
- If there is no vocal data...
Take a deep breath...
The first thing to do - even before you start looking for a vocal teacher or try to train yourself - is to master breathing exercises. Yes, yes, the inhales and exhales that we do unconsciously greatly affect the sound that we get at the “output”. If you want it to be beautiful and clean, take a little time every day to learn how to breathe with both your stomach and chest. In addition, you must control this process in order to avoid convulsive wheezing or the "asthmatic effect" - choked inhalations and exhalations when singing.
What harms the ligaments? ↑
In order for your voice to still sound beautiful and clear, it is not enough just to start practicing vocals. It should also strongly exclude those factors that can harm the ligaments. First of all, it is smoking. If you don't want the music rehearsal base in Moscow to be shocked in the future by how similar to the original, but in a very peculiar and unpleasant interpretation, you perform songs by Vysotsky or Leps - forget about cigarettes (and about hookah, by the way, too).
Also cross out fiery hot drinks from your list of habits, as well as too cold, large portions of ice cream. Your ligaments will not appreciate such a “temperature extreme”, and instead of a beautiful sound, they will make something unintelligible. But the classic dish "for singing" - raw eggs - you will have to, if not fall in love, then at least learn how to drink.
Seeds and carbonated drinks can do as much damage to your voice as ice cream.
In addition, you will have to give up screaming at the limit of your vocal cords. Break your voice - you can forget about your musical career for a long time, if not forever. Restoring the function of the vocal cords can take many months. By the way, professional phonators, that is, specialists who help restore damaged ligaments, often use flaxseed oil as a prevention and treatment for non-closure. It has the ability to return the voice after its "inept" use.
“This song is called by us”
So, the preparatory work has been done - you don’t start the day without breathing exercises and drunk raw eggs, and all unnecessary habits are in the past. Now you can decide where to start singing, where to do it and, most importantly, under whose guidance.
At first, it is better to study with a teacher, at least a couple of times a week. It is a professional who will tell you how to control your voice correctly, how to get into unison and set the technique.
But at the same time, do not forget - no one canceled independent work. Practice at least an hour a day - and after six months or a year you will be able to enjoy your musically sounding voice.
First steps...
First you have to work hard with your musical ear. If you are persistently told that you do not have one and are not expected, do not believe it. Even people with a complete lack of it, relying solely on musical intelligence and a sense of rhythm, are able not only to play and sing, but also to invent musical compositions. Just remember Beethoven...
If you're trying to figure out how to start rapping, it's worth remembering that everything original always starts with imitation. Thanks to this technique, we quickly and without unnecessary theory master the basics and basics. In terms of vocals, it's about singing in unison. That is, the synchronous repetition of a melody after a recording or live performance at the same vocal pitch.
Our first and foremost task is to achieve resonance. You will immediately know what you have achieved. This feeling of complete fusion and synchronous vibration is simply impossible to confuse with anything else.
The second, no less important point is the breath control. Not being able to breathe, as a result, you will either simply cough from lack of air with full lungs, or you will earn clearly audible shortness of breath. To learn how to breathe correctly, you must have an ordinary candle at your disposal. Light it, empty your lungs completely of air, then inhale without fanaticism and slowly begin to exhale it so that the flame only deviates, but does not go out. And remember about fire safety!
Building muscles
Do you think that learning to breathe and not tearing the ligaments at the stage of the initial level of training is aerobatics? Do you know that you will have to pump the press in the truest sense of the word? More precisely, not the press itself, but the diaphragm, which is responsible for the duration, intensity and texture of the outgoing sound? Choose a few heavier books, lie down on a flat hard surface, put your mini-library on your stomach and start breathing calmly and measuredly.
Half an hour of such training is enough. On the day, of course.
By the way, you will have to do not only the diaphragm, but also the muscles of the face. Articulation also needs to be carefully polished to bring all the indicators into an acceptable form.
If you don't have vocal skills...
If you don't have an outstanding voice, don't despair. Of course, the second Netrebko or Pavarotti is unlikely to come out of you, but in karaoke with friends you will definitely get applause. True, for this you will need to work hard. But you can get an answer to the question of how to start singing well. The most important thing for you in such a situation is to be able to put your voice. You can contact a specialist or try to correct the shortcomings yourself, using the available exercises used by professional academic singers. Here are some simple options:
- Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, relax your body.
