Vivian and Teo Ser Luck caught off-guard?

[SNAblog]

What a debacle! Seems like the simmering conflicts between YOG and SSC is beginning to boil over. Vivian and Teo Ser Luck caught off-guard? However, I fully agree with the YOG official who said that JJ Lin's song is silly and the actions are childish.

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_546138.html

Jun 26, 2010
Oh no, not O yeah
By Nicholas Yong

OH NO, oh no, oh no-o. You Are The One, Singapore, a song urging people to get behind the country's athletes with the catchy chorus, 'O yeah, O yeah, O yeah, hey', is running into controversy.

The song, penned by local singer JJ Lin, and its music video have been blaring on radio and TV since its launch at the end of April. Its video features distinctive Street Fighter-like gestures and has attracted more than 100,000 online views.

Many listeners and viewers who find the repetitive tune running through their heads, or wags who have taken to mimicking the hand gestures, may think that it is the official song for the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in August. However, they will be surprised to know that it is not.

In response to queries from LifeStyle, a YOG spokesman clarified that the games already has an official theme song, Everyone, sung by five young singers, including Singapore Idol finalist Tabitha Nauser.

It added that the JJ Lin song is, in fact, commissioned by the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) as part of the Cheer Singapore initiative to encourage Singapore athletes in action and also to cheer for visiting teams coming for the YOG. YOG organisers did not play a part in its production.

Besides confusing the song with the official YOG one, feelings are also running high over what some perceive as its 'cheesiness'. The response from some members of the YOG organising committee has also been less than positive. 'Most of us find the song silly and the actions are very childish,' said a senior executive with the YOG, who declined to be named.

 

[jw5]

Isn't it fantastic when there's internal conflict?
It's almost like reading in the newspapers about disputes between the management committee and members of an exclusive private club.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Thank heavens for the admission. I had thought all civil servants have bad taste.

There is hope yet for this country.

 

[Varuna]

'Most of us find the song silly and the actions are very childish,' said a senior executive with the YOG, who declined to be named.

Even a senior executive with YOG has already admitted that the song was childish, not to mention many of us who were dumbfounded the very first time we saw it on TV. I just hated it whenever this horrible song came to my ears and deep down inside my mind I wondered what sort of person would approve such horrible thing to represent one of the world's most prominent sporting events, the Youth Olympics. This song is a total disaster. It has totally watered down the whole event before it actually even started. As if torturing us with that piece of horrible thing is not bad enough, now they say that the song is not the official song at all. This is ridiculous. Is this the way to organise and bring up an event, by using a non-official (childish) song to flood the media and public first and then bring in another official song to confuse everyone? Where is the consistency and ease of identity for the public to relate to this event? I am no marketing expert but I find this way of doing things absurd. If we really do not have what it takes to host an international event of such scale well, then do not take it. It is better to let others have it than to "trample" it from mismanagement.

 

[Brightkid]

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It added that the JJ Lin song is, in fact, commissioned by the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) as part of the Cheer Singapore initiative to encourage Singapore athletes in action and also to cheer for visiting teams coming for the YOG.........

I don't understand this sentence leh. Can someone exprain what it means and how this childish song can encourage local athetes and also cheer for visiting teams when goosepimples apprears on your skin every time this song is heard ?

 

[Logisex]

This is a Mickey Mouse event for kids so you should ask the kids whether they like it, not some senior executive. Besides, kids love JJ Lin.

 

[myfoot123]

[COLOR="_______"]It sounds like kindergarten song meant for "xiao Dou Dou". Oh Yea, Oh yea, hey!!! All along we thought it was YOG doing cheap thrill, now it is more than meet the eyes. I am sure TSL and Vivian are busy thinking how to play Tai Chi knowing YOG is a complete failure by now. Who will take the blame remain a question, or was it? Will PAP shove it down Singaporeans throat again?[/COLOR]

 

[kingrant]

They shld really have asked Sun Ho to contribute her talents. All the sportsmen and officials and Singapore males will have a hard-on everytime she appears in her video. Now that is hardly anything to piss on.

 

[Rogue Trader]