'Take Me Home, Country Roads' becomes a U.S. World Cup anthem
i need to know how and why "take me home country roads" became a sports anthem
CrushMD113For years it is the song they sing in Europe related to American Football games played there. Everyone in Europe knows it and sings it when our teams play there. And they now play it everywhere with mixed versions by various artists. Frankfurt Germany Colts cs Patriots. youtu.be/Ou3iyrtXByM?...
shauna39tbc i’m not just talking about soccer — i watch a lot of other sports and i’ve been hearing it a lot of late
TJE32Easy to sing when intoxicated
briantarbell.bsky.social20Its just a happy song
Doug Eyman20When I travel in China and SE Asia, this is the song that *everyone* knows and loves to sing. I have no idea how that came to be, but it is really something.
Jorge A. Caballero, MD19Hard same. Like, what?! And— why?!
Nick Brumfield18WVU sings it after every game
Somewhere I have a video of a bunch of swiss banker types loudly singing Country Roads a cappella while riding a tram up a mountain outside Zurich just because one of the Americans on the tram said he was from WV. Seems appropriate to mention rn.
Sentimentalist1John Denver saying “Far out!”
C. Smith aka Linesurge1You know I've really seen some petty low level low insignificance in Threads and topics but bitching about a song that one of the national teams has taken on with their fans, is right down there on the very bottom. These fucking people I swear got nothing going on. And that's what's really sad
anneplossl.bsky.social1Traveled to Ireland a couple years ago. Every Irish pub played their version of Country Road with local embellishments. So cool!
Guy hearing Country Roads: That song from the Miyazaki movie, Whisper of the Heart?!
Peter Labuza5(kondō, miyazaki is only the writer)
Grant Brisbee5Miyazaki? The guy who ruined Ursula K. LeGuin's beloved series?
🏳️🌈🇺🇦 🇻🇦Pope Leo XIV enthusiast2A great song about Maryland!
jody2Oh, are you asking what’s the only thing worse than the Country Road-sample including Lonely Roads by MGK and Jelly Roll? That would be Jelly Roll
DT-WxRisk1from 2022 nfl game in Germany. This was 100% organic. the crowd just broke out into THIS song for no reason. and the crowd was 90% German or european LOOOOK at the joy look at the camaraderie look at the togetherness of humans that the song evokes youtu.be/7QX5bLsmJrU?...
It's worth thinking about Country Roads global popularity in the context of the history of migration The three decades preceding its 1971 premiere saw 7 million people leave Appalachia for jobs in the Midwest The tumult of the 1960s/1970s saw similarly huge migration flows across the Global South
Tamreen67Found the exact quote from the book!
Elana Levin10Another side story is the place it was originally written about was not West Virginia but a DC suburb that was soon to be on mass transit. It would have sounded bizarre just a few years later to have a country song about it.
Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini1Thanks for this, Nick! I grew up in Rochester and live in Buffalo but my parents were from the Appalachians in PA and always referred to that as "home." As a kid, when we would go there for visits, I would see it that way, too. So it's a song that resonates with me.
Country Roads is a bit traumatic for me because when I lived in rural China in 2011 it was the one American song everyone knew so it became my default entrance music to every bar across the country
Cooper Lund18I was not in a single city that you could have called “nice”, lemme tell ya
Woozer3One of the defining moments of my life was singing How Deep Is Your Love, without a teleprompter, at a gigantic working class karaoke bar in Shenzhen in 2005.
BRAK AND BLUE1wife was there in 2009 including some rural and mostly they just got people following or wanting pics of her and a fellow 5'10 blonde woman and most of all the 6'5" foofycurlyhaired redhead guy
Not enough talk about how “Take me home, country roads” was written by the couple who wrote “Afternoon delight.”
DFAntastic17Iirc Emmylou Harris was occasionally their babysitter.
Breathin' Orange Fire7Now you know why they wanted to get home so badly.
Brian Barrish1They worked together with John Denver a lot. In fact, here they are singing backup to John on “Victory is Peace,” which was used by NBC as their theme for the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan:
I’m not sure when Take Me Home, Country Roads became our new anthem but I couldn’t be more here for it.
Jerry-ATX5It may likely be, by far, the most conservative-coded piece of art I love the most.
Weaselrina Amy4Its one of my favorites, I'm happy to see it enjoying a renaissance.
EJP3Much better vibes than chanting USA USA USA like a goon army
Call me Ishmabill1Took my kid to one of his first robotics competitions like 8 years ago. And was shocked when they stopped everything and all the kids sang along to Country Roads Was one of the first times I realized the kids were alrite and I didn’t need to worry so much.
Manny Ares 👀1better than Sweet Caroline imho
Dale Waffle1Fun Fact - that song gets me every single time. If I can, I'll belt it. If I can't, I'll get misty.
It’s news to me that Country Roads is in vogue, what Hot Tub Time Machine shenanigans is this??
Joe Cheung4US Men's Soccer World Cup run!
D.A. Rosenthal2it came back to us from germany they're fruit loops for it
Shoshana (ABOLISH ICE)1It’s become the go-to celebration song for the US at the World Cup!
Javachik1There was a fascinating Today, Explained podcast episode about the enduring international appeal of Country Roads fairly recently: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
John Robie1I like it for the soccer team, it makes a good sing along, and feels patriot-ish without the chest-thumping that most explicitly USA songs entail.