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This memory makes me feel embarrassed
Someone on my local board mentioned listening to early 90s hip hop and it made this story come rushing back to me..
I was in the marching band in high school. I hated it for so many reasons-the uniforms, being a band nerd, the other kids in the band that epitomized being a band nerd because they didn't care about being nerds, the public ridicule of my peers. I wanted to be anyone but who I was in those days.
This all came to a head in one horrible football season halftime performance--the band director decided we needed a show of current music for Homecoming, so they got the sheet music for Rump Shaker, by Wreckx-n-Effect. I was mortified before we even started practice. Upping the shame ante, they MADE US DO A BOOTY SHAKING DANCE AND RAP THE CHORUS OF THE SONG.
So there's the Butler High School marching band on Homecoming night, in our unis with plumes sticking out of our hats, dancing and singing "all I want to do is zooma zoom zoom zoom and a boom boom! Just shake your rump!" The student body roared with laughter. I wanted the field to open up at the 50 yard line to swallow me whole. Meanwhile my fellow band nerds rejoiced in the dorky dance and song.
Ready to rumble.
Re: This memory makes me feel embarrassed
and this post promted me to look up my high school and jr high band directors on FB. they are all there, including prissy. doesn't she look like a prissy to you?
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Oh Kristen. Oh no.
My middle school band director friended me on facebook last week. That made me feel real awky.
The nerve!
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dude i was on flagline. i was like a cheerleader of the band dorks
The movie Drumline makes you cool after the fact, Kristen. The arch rival marching band was big into hip hop.
We didn't have a band...or a drama club. School was too small. I did, however, make up a gymnastics routine to "It takes Two" complete with lip synching and lots of booty shaking, hands shooting up in the air and jumping to distract from the fact that I couldn't do anything more acrobatic than a cartwheel.
At least you can say someone else made you do it.
I was in colorguard! All my friends that I still have from high school were in band or colorguard. But yeah, it was not cool at our school. I hung out in the band hall.
Our HS marching band didn't do much - we walked onto the field, made some formation, then walked off. We played 70s funk music almost exclusively.
I was in marching band in college. We were band nerds, but no one cares about that crap in college. Or maybe they did, but we were too drunk to notice.