We Are Scientists record song for England’s World Cup team
Would a band be considered traitors to their country if they record a World Cup song for a rival nation? If so then We Are Scientists ought to be strung up by their ears.
The Brooklyn, NY based band recently recorded the song “Goal! England” as an anthem for England’s World Cup team, whose first game in the tournament is against the United States this coming Sunday. When NME.com asked the band why they recorded a song for England but not the U.S., bassist Chris Cain admitted that, “We’ve never been huge football guys, but we’re pretty big England guys, and we know her well enough to know she loves her a football anthem. So we made her one.”
A football anthem, Cain? It’s called soccer, benedict arnold! I would be madder but I can’t because I know the U.S. probably won’t go that far in the World Cup (you know i’m rooting for them, though) and because the song W.A.S recorded is pretty damn catchy.
Check it out down below and, if you’re an England fan, you can download the song for free over at goalengland.co.uk. You’ll also be able to see a video of the band recording the vocals in one take.
We Are Scientists – “Goal! England”
Tags: We Are Scientists, World Cup
June 9th, 2010 at 8:00 am
We (the English) call it football so that’s probably why Cain said that to a British magazine
June 9th, 2010 at 10:05 am
I love this song!
June 9th, 2010 at 11:42 am
soccer is such a stupid word..american “football” should be called helmetball..stupid americans
June 9th, 2010 at 11:59 am
cocky americans… its called fotoball!!!
england will go far
but as we all know final will be spain vs. germany or Holland (yes im dutch:P)
June 9th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
its called football,not bloody soccer!
June 10th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
[...] of the games anytime soon but at least these guys stuck by the U.S. team unlike We Are Scientsts and their song for the English team (although, their song is much easier to chant along to.) Check out the song down below and get [...]
June 11th, 2010 at 9:00 am
The whole world call it football… Only americans name the game as soccer… But as any american, they really believe the world is only US.
June 11th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
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