Rose Garden Music

but I don’t remember them playing music during gameplay but NOT during dead balls. I have noticed in the past that they have done both but I seem to remember the music lasting for small bursts, not throughout the game.

I did find it odd when they played the music during the game, but it doesn’t bother me that much. I don’t find it to be that much different than the defense chants, or charge music, or all the other gimmicks that are played.

I personally can’t stand listening to rap/rock/pop/etc. If something I’m listening to has that kind of a beat to it, I shut it off. And really, what is the point of playing the stuff? Usually, it’s because the real hype and emotion is missing. It’s an attempt to build fake hype. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the real emotion that comes from fans cheering their team on than the shallow variety that comes from blasting music with a heavy beat to it, and I’m guessing the players would too. I can understand it at certain times, like timeouts, introducing the team (more on that one in a minute), etc., but during play? Please…

About the introductions, why, oh why, did they choose O Fortuna? Go read the lyrics. Is that really what you want to use to cheer the team on? Tell them that there is nothing they can do, that everything is in the hands of fate, and fate is hopelessly unfair. Really? Yes, it’s a nice dramatic piece of music, but if you’re looking for a dramatic piece of music, you might as well go with Verdi’s Dies Irae (lyrics here). Please change to something like Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyrie.

The other thing that really bugs me (and there are probably a lot of people who disagree with me on this) is the way the national anthem is sung. Pop-style singing tends to draw attention to the performer, rather than to the song they are singing. For the national anthem, I feel that the attention should be on the song, on our country, on what our country stands for, rather than the singer. This gives me goosebumps (as does this, though for a different reason), this does nothing for me. I find the vocal effects to just be distracting. Can we please sing it straight, and save the fancy stuff for other songs? Let the focus be where it belongs. And I say this as somebody who loves to sing, and is not averse to embellishing it from time to time (though not in the pop style). There’s nothing wrong with it in general, but I personally don’t feel it belongs in the Star Spangled Banner.

I don’t care about what songs they play and when they ate played. Literally could NOT care less.

Once a man in front of me kept screaming “oh, come on” over and over. I must’ve counted 22 times in the 1st half. I wanted to choke him and demand that he provide variation in his heckling. That idiot ruined the game for me. And yes, the music sucks.

I don’t have any issue with the music played during the games, or the volume at which it is played. May not always be a song I like, but I recognize I’m not in the majority in that regard. I suspect anyone with complaints is no stranger to angrily fleeing their homes to chase cars down the street for bumping their “hippidy hop” tunes too loud.

I will say that I consider our pregame montages to be extremely poor in quality, in both song choice (is anyone really pumped up by the ubiquitous “Welcome to the Jungle” anymore?) and the editing of the video itself.

but I don’t ever remember music being played in the Key Arena. Maybe some noises as the shot clock ran down.
I can’t imagine any team playing music DURING the game. That is awful. I’m surprised the players don’t complain about it.

As a season ticket holder, I try to enjoy the non-game aspects of attending, but man, they make it tough. If the Blazers are listening at all, I hope you’ll understand that this is one event where some of us aren’t looking for sensory overload. 10 years ago, it was a delight, but with iPods, video games, loud people on TV, and the general pace of life, it’s just – annoying. Mechanized, predicable, mediocre, and annoying. Game after game. My girlfriend feels the same way.

Enough already – turn it down.