Hope FC - Call Me A Lioness, Melanie C, Self Esteem and more record song for Women’s World Cup |
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19th July 2023, 06:05 AM
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The high drama and unplumbable emotional depths of England’s footballing adventures have long been heightened by song, from official tournament tie-ins such as New Order’s World in Motion to fan-generated favourites such as dance track turned terrace chant Freed from Desire. Now, ahead of the Women’s World Cup kicking off on Thursday in Australia and New Zealand, the England women’s team hope to have a crowd-pleasing singalong of their own: Call Me a Lioness. A starting 11 of female-identifying British artists, including Melanie C and Self Esteem, have come together under the moniker Hope FC to record the unofficial track for England’s World Cup campaign. Songwriter Glen Roberts was hit by inspiration as the Lionesses won Euro 2022 and co-wrote it with producer Joel Pott and singer-songwriter Olivia Dean. Rather than focusing on the sometimes miserable experience of being a fan of the underdog – as Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds did on their enduring Euro 96 hit Three Lions – it puts fans into the players’ mindset in the dreamlike aftermath of their 2022 victory, and manifests another: “We’re bringing it home again”, as one of several chantable lines goes. Roberts, Pott and Dean started with a few beers and a checklist of elements that make a good football anthem: nostalgia, determination, national pride and a feeling of being in it together, be it euphoric victory or crushing loss. “If you look at Three Lions or Sweet Caroline, they all fall around the same tempo – they’ve all got this natural sort of moving stomp element,” Roberts says. And, of course, you need a rousing chorus that everyone can sing regardless of range. What was trickier was filling the time between the choruses, the quiet bit before the loud. “You can’t have a chorus full of singalong joy and just have the same in the verses.” Dean was an essential female voice, who, as a West Ham fan since childhood, wanted to recreate the sense of being in a crowd and singing your heart out. She remembers sitting on her dad’s shoulders and singing – “they probably weren’t very PC songs or chants when I was 11 years old” – and how that made her feel like a part of the team. Women’s football has had to fight for years to achieve wider recognition, and that additional feeling – of being part of something bigger – was a big focus for her. “When we were writing it, all I could think of was girls in primary school and them having something to shout and sing together,” she says. Call Me a Lioness certainly has the feel of a community song. The artists – with Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell, Sports Team’s Alex Greenwood, Marika Hackman, Rachel Chinouriri, Shura, Jasmine Jethwa, Rose Gray and Highlyy rounding out the lineup – were invited to take part in a very casual way, mostly by way of being friends and football fans. The result is a good-natured song with the air of a school choir, albeit one with Sporty Spice ad-libbing in the background. “It’s not premeditated in any way,” Roberts says – while it’s getting distribution from EMI, it was brought together before the label’s involvement, and all proceeds are to be split between four sport-focused charities. “I think it’s really reflective of women’s football itself, where it’s all about community,” he continues. Shura says she “never said yes to anything faster” – as a child she was scouted to play for Manchester City’s youth team and has always wondered: what if? What if there had been better funding, better sports rehab, better resources for girls like her playing in thick northern mud? “What I love about this England team is that they’re so aware and conscious and thankful to the women who have come before,” she says. “I can’t play for them, but I can sing for them now. I feel almost a part of that story.” Just as the Lionesses’ progression to the World Cup’s knockout stages isn’t guaranteed, Call Me a Lioness also faces a struggle. For a song to become an anthem it relies on repetition, and at a time when people listen to music in a fragmentary way across radio and personalised streaming services, there’s a real chance that it won’t reach enough ears, often enough, to become part of the cultural soundtrack. Think of Olé by rappers Krept & Konan, the official England song for the 2020 Euros, which went more or less ignored. But the artists and songwriters of Hope FC still hope to hear fans singing the chorus line – “Call me a Lioness, I wear it on my chest” – or even just the la-la-las. If it succeeds, it will be organic, like a grassroots local team come good. As Potts says, “it was just a bunch of mates coming together to make a song about football.” “It’s about time that we have a song of our own,” Shura adds. “Especially since we actually won something.” theguardian.com This post has been edited by -Jay-: 19th July 2023, 10:36 AM |
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19th July 2023, 06:26 AM
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Another Melanie C song I'll never listen to again. I mean hopefully it does well but it is just crap (to me). She has so many of these songs with various artists that are just not worth listening to ever again, Stop crying your heart out, He aint heavy, the one she did with Asia got talent.
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19th July 2023, 06:51 AM
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It isn't a bad song. I quite like it!
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19th July 2023, 10:03 AM
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Objectively, that is not a good song...
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19th July 2023, 10:06 AM
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19th July 2023, 10:27 AM
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19th July 2023, 10:35 AM
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I felt trepidation when I clicked play, but I ended up finding it pleasant enough, honestly! I mean, as far as an attempt goes in writing a new football song that evokes the likes of Sweet Caroline, they did a decent job of it. I am not very into football so it's never going to stir up particular feelings in me, but hopefully it connects for who it's aimed at it.
I think it's more successful in what it is setting out to do than 'How Does It Feel to Be on Top of the World' ever was. That's not to say I instantly prefer 'Call Me a Lioness' to it, that would feel a bit rash after knowing the other song for 25 years. I just feel like if this new song (not with the same theme, but the same tune) had been the song in 1998, it probably would have done better than #9. Top of the World simply doesn't have anything to it that would work as a chant in the teraces. This new song does at least have that, with "la la la la la, la la la la, bringing it home again". |
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19th July 2023, 12:21 PM
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3 lions wins because its an easy sing along. The pitch of this song is not for me.
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19th July 2023, 01:05 PM
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Can anyone find any lyrics for this?? I have googled but nothing!?
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19th July 2023, 01:09 PM
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Bit disappointed with this song. With the talent involved it could have been amazing. Instead it sounds like an S Club b-side
I can also hear Any Dream Will Do in parts |
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19th July 2023, 01:12 PM
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It's catchy enough. Not setting the world alight, but then when has any football chant ever done so in terms of musical brilliance? 3 lions is the closest but even then, it's just an ok song.
Hopefully it catches on and football fans sing it from the stands boosting it to be a hit! Even better hopefully the Lionesses win and it drives the song up to #1, I'll take Melanie C featuring on another #1 in her fourth consecutive decade in any shape or form! |
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19th July 2023, 10:48 PM
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This post has been edited by Voodoo: 29th July 2023, 03:55 PM |
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19th July 2023, 11:57 PM
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Its not bad i have to say but i think it sounds very dated.
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20th July 2023, 05:35 AM
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20th July 2023, 07:11 AM
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22nd July 2023, 01:37 AM
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This sounds very Christmassy?
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26th July 2023, 08:44 AM
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Lyric Video:
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26th July 2023, 05:25 PM
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Not my style, but Melanie’s part is actually the coolest. She has such a distinctive voice.
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29th July 2023, 06:35 PM
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This sounds very Christmassy? I get what you mean! The chorus is such an earworm. It is stuck in my head. I wonder if they are gonna release a full video. Here is the second teaser: This post has been edited by Voodoo: 29th July 2023, 09:19 PM |
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29th July 2023, 07:16 PM
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This song has really grown on me, I love the "Call me a lioooooooness, I wear it oooooooooon my chest" bit. Sounds very chanty for a stadium, lets hope they get to the finals and the audience is all chanting it!
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