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...Your duo wasn’t always called Ratatat. What was your first name, and how did it evolve?EM: The first name was “Cherry” which was a name our friend James came up with when we had just made one or two song ... so we went with that for a while and we ended up changing it before our first record came out. We were kinda sitting down thinking of names and it was one that we didn’t hate so much.7. FM: What is your greatest source of musical inspiration...
Audience member Sharon S. Song ’12 said that she is leaning towards the humanities after being turned off by the impersonality of Economics 10. She said she has learned how to “trust” herself to forego perceived financial opportunities “to do what she is passionate about...
...than its share of beloved traditions: pine tar and linseed oil, chewing tobacco, the infield-fly rule. But few are as hallowed as the singing of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch by stadiums full of musically challenged, slightly boozy baseball fans. And the song itself, like the tradition, has surprisingly deep - and equally loony - roots. (See the 10 worst ceremonial first pitches...
...envelope - now on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. The original 32-line ditty has been greatly distilled down to the version we know today, but lost a lot in the translation. Norworth's first draft included some extremely helpful context: that the song was sung from the point of view of one Katie Casey (whom he later renamed Nelly Kelly), a baseball fanatic trying to get her boyfriend to take her to a game instead of a show. These days, most baseball fans only know Katie's plaintive chorus...
...have gotten farther on my thesis conclusion that day, but I felt accomplished knowing that I had figured out that one.Of course, we don’t always get the satisfaction of deciphering Shaq’s tweets, like when he asked for help identifying the song “weee weee wha weee weee wha weee wee weeee.” Shaq, I spent a good portion of my afternoon Googling multiple versions of those lyrics, singing them at different pitches and speeds, and even contemplating the significance behind the number...