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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5004844, member: 173"]
I’m spending way too much time analyzing the best strategy for a new intro song this morning, this is where I think a best first attempt (that’s not a fight song version) would land:

Iowa does “Back in Black” which they started using in 2005 (and is awesome…).  That song came out in 1980.  A song around 25 years old that still has some relevance would be ideal - older fans in their 40s liked it as kids, and probably play it around their kids so younger fans are familiar with it.  I looked up songs from 1998 because I forgot it was 2024 already and so thought that was 25 years ago - Everybody by Backstreet Boys is on the list.  That’s not viable for an intro - but I thought that was interesting.

I took my kids to an AHL hockey game a couple months ago; they played that song and a group of preteen girls in front of us started dancing and singing along.  They played it at the N.J. Devils game I went to this weekend and they kept showing MILFs getting down on the video board…I think those support the idea a song from about 25 years ago has the highest likelihood of success.

A counterpoint is that Jump Around came out in ‘92 and started being used in ‘98, so we could go more recent - my rebuttal would be that, having lived in Wisconsin for a fair part of my career - those folks are weird, unlike anywhere else in the country, and Wisconsinites often serve as the exception that proves the rules (as they potentially are in this case).
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