Willie Nelson, “The Party’s Over”Īs you’ll notice, there are an abundance of country bar-closing songs, which makes sense since it tends to be the most literal of all music genres.
The whale he’s finally free! But now the boy is friendless again! Life is a cruel joke.
That last scene in Free Willy - when the boy teaches the whale to jump to its freedom, and the rousing violin music swells in the background - really plucks at the heartstrings. But be forewarned that you may have several sobbing millennials on your hands. This late-career Jackson hit was one of the last truly pleasant memories we have of the former King of Pop and will have you leaving the bar on a high note. Too real.īetter known as the theme to the kid-friendly, orca liberation propaganda film Free Willy, this Michael Jackson diddy is the best, feel-good bar sing-along that absolutely no one knows the words to. The song’s narrator is so desperate for love, that he’s willing to go home with a woman who confuses him with other, more famous musicians. It only recently came to my attention that this is the de facto bar-closing song of many parts of the Deep South, and I understand why - it perfectly encapsulates the despair that sets in when last call is announced. David Allen Coe, “You Never Even Called Me By My Name” There is the off-chance that this song will come on at the end of the night, and you and the person you’ve been speaking to will sing it together, and the highly suggestive lyrics will convince you that yes, you should take each other home tonight. If she already wants Eddie to be her baby, why the fuck is he spending three and half minutes trying to convince her to shack up? It’s made all the stranger by the woman who coos “Be my little bay-bee” in the refrain. Money’s drunk and horny plea to a woman to take him home because he’s sad and lonely strikes the ear as pathetic and manipulative, especially in the current social climate.
And to appease who? Wedding DJs are painfully unoriginal. Now every uninspired wedding DJ in the country thinks it’s a contractual requirement to play this song at least once during the reception. Pierzynski, a man voted the most-hated player in Major League Baseball in 2012 by his peers, liked to sing Journey at karaoke, and it took off from there.īut more than a dozen years later, this song has once again been overplayed to the point that it’s been stripped of every ounce of nostalgic joy.
The Chicago White Sox adopted the tune as their team anthem during their improbable World Series championship run that year, vaulting it back onto the charts 24 years after its release. There was a brief - I repeat, brief - moment in 2005 when this song’s reemergence in the culture was fun. In that vein, here are the best bar-closing songs, ranked: 12. You want a song that will bring patrons down smoothly and lovingly herds them toward the door. Watch the video by clicking here.Yet, despite what some people say, you don’t want to play a song that’s so repulsive that it causes people to flee like madmen. Dodgers, Greg Bader, Senior VP for the Baltimore Orioles and out MLB umpire Dale Scott. In the video, Sports Equality Foundation co-founder Kirk Walker of UCLA introduces the singers: Nona Lee, Executive VP for the, Arizona Diamondbacks, Erik Braverman, VP of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Cierra VanDyke, a member of the Blue Crew for the L.A. Doesn’t matter, because they did it with gusto and pride!
These are some brave people! And okay, so maybe they only got most of the lyrics right. In honor of that occasion and to celebrate being out and proud, the foundation recruited five LGBTQ people who work behind the scenes at Major League Baseball and one famous face from the baseball diamond, to sing that song, to the best of their ability.Īnd then they shared the video on TikTok for all the world to see and hear! Now a new video is online that’s made especially for LGBTQ baseball fans.īaseball’s Opening Day, April 1, is the first time in a year that many fans have been inside a ballpark and able to sing the national pastime’s official anthem, Take Me Out to the Ballgame.
In the few months since it launched, the Sports Equality Foundation has shared more than 70 videos on TikTok, attracted more than 16K followers and 181K likes for those videos.