Confirmed that Doop was played at the Washington Capitals game tonight. Also a confirmed report of it played at the Houston Aeros AHL game earlier tonight as well.
Absolute disgrace. Yeah, we didn't invent it, but we have a REASON for doing it (Nowak) not just "hey look, it's really popular for those guys, let's steal it" We were also the only team in this hemisphere using it. In the case of DC, they're our rival's for ****'s sake. How pathetic is that!? We've defined ourselves with this as a team, fan base, and franchise, and now it is just being exploited by lazy ass marketing departments who can't come up with their own shit. I'm disgusted.
Maybe we shouldn't define ourselves with stuff borrowed from other clubs then. Just a thought. You're not going to hear "Fly, Eagles, Fly" at anyone else's stadium.
to be disgusted seems like a huge overreaction. they played a song, that the union has no rights to, over the loudspeakers. its not like the crowds dooped and celebrated. its was pre-face off music or whatever. just cuz we use the refrain of a certain song, doesn't mean nobody else can ever play it.
well, i guess it might be a good thing that "DOOP" is now copywritten....I'd off myself if I ever saw Ovie and DOOP on the same shirt
Only copyrighted for soccer-related use if I remember correctly. Don't be surprised to see exactly that as retarded marketing groups see the success we've had with it. We didn't just randomly take it. It was the first thing Nowak ever asked of us, and it took off. We took it from a goal song to a brand. To just take it without that history and slap it on your hockey team is retarded. It's only being done because of it's success here. So who is the big Mönchengladbach fan in the Caps organization? If that's the case, then I'm actually fine with them using it, but I'd bet any amount of money that whoever decided to add that song was exposed to it by us and is just trying to emulate our success with it. Did they use it as a goal song? That would be even worse...
I'm not following you at all. It's ok if they're borrowing it from Gladbach, but not ok if they're borrowing it from us? I don't see what the big deal is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Like_It_Loud the song existed before soccer fans used it.... its not our song, its not Gladbach's song and its not the Capitals song. its just a song. arenas can play whatever they want. on top of that its not like its the goal song or a celebration song, they played it as a filler.
My point: even though we didn't create it, it developed organically for us. Had Nowak not requested it, i doubt we'd ever have done it. If they arrived at the same thing through an organic process like that, I don't hold it against them, but I'd almost certainly guarantee that they didn't. Instead, I'd bet that they've seen us doing it and how the Union utilizes it for marketing and as a brand and just want to exploit it and cash in on that. Look how often #DOOP is trending in Philly on Twitter... Never would have thought it would be as successful as it is.
Nobodys saying it didn't exist pre soccer usage. Hell... It dates back to LL Cool J. The whole song is derived from a mistranslation of "my radio, believe me I like it loud" Pre Union, though, when in your life as an American have you ever heard Scooter - I Like It Loud? You're the only person who has said how it has been used. Stuff on Twitter made it sound like it was being used as a goal song and Caps fans were already singing along like how we use it or Chicago's Chelsea Dagger This changes my opinion somewhat, but I still think it's a shameless rip-off. It's fair usage, but it's as stupid as the Flyers playing Shipping Up To Boston in between the 3rd period and overtime when the Bruins are a rival.
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yes i did hear it before the union. but you are missing the point, which is that it doesnt matter where they got the song from. its just a song. every arena in the nation plays music. if their music guy hear about it from us, who cares? are we hipsters where we need to have everything before its popular and if someone else plays a song we like we bash them because we knew about it first? If the Joe Louis Arena plays a not so popular yet fitting song between faceoffs and Wells Fargo Center plays it 3 weeks later should Detroit fans be mad? hell no. edit - just saw you didnt know when they played it, so nevermind.
Now that I think about it, maybe they were confused and actually thought they were in Philly with so many Phillies fans filling their ballpark this week.
It was just a pre-faceoff song, and it was some extra-Euro dance remix version. Wasn't any DOOPing until just about the time that the puck dropped. It's quite possible that someone in their organization heard it via the Union, but it also could have been an Ovie favorite from partying in the Balkans. Funny to notice and mention, but not a big deal at all.
...and I am assuming just the word DOOP, not anything associated with the song. So.......no DOOP for the Caps!
except for at Hartford Hawks games (NCAA BB). http://www.ncaawiki.com/index.php/Fly_High (listen from 1:06 on and from 2:29 on) Numerous web citations indicate that this music was "written by Stephen Gryc for Hartford." Whose fight started first, the Eagle's or the Hawk's? Who's been flying higher, or longer? Who composed the "Eagles fight song"? http://philadelphia-eagles.net/fightsong.html
Not another one of these.... sigh... can't wait for 10 years down the road when the original things are uprooted for some changes and the reactions to them then. This is kind of like Axl Rose going to a Laker game for the first time and thinking that they only played "Welcome to the Jungle" because he was in the audience... and not to build up the crowd and team. It's not all about you. Edit: Also, SOB / Union did it first in the US and for soccer. We have bragging rights. Bragging. It's kinda like how a certain hockey team used a commercial as a goal song.
