Eh?? Sweet Caroline has been chosen as the song of the Jubilee?

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I mean WTF?

Radio 2 listeners were polled and chose this old song (now associated with football and irresponsible gambling advertising on TV) as the song we're all supposed to sing to Elizabeth on her jubilee?

I should have put this in AIBU. AIBU to not be able to get my head round it? I find it embarrassing actually.

I don't mind the song, I hear it at the football regularly (where no one who sits around me and has done for years and years is drunk or racist, waves a flag or fights (though we do all shout, obv, as they do at any sporting event). Maybe the person who thinks football is like this should try going to a match!

I think it is wholly inappropriate though, 'good times never seemed so good' - WTF we are in appalling times and everything is a pile of shit!

We do at the cricket, where it is sung regularly

I don't accept ridiculous generalisations of any groups of people. My emotional intelligence has reached a level where I purposefully will challenge anyone who thinks that "Everyone who is ... {insert description of choice} ... must therefore be ...."
We call it racism, sexism, ageism in some cases, but the same principle applies to people on here saying "all boomers" "all MiLs" "all teens" "all HVs" "All GP Receptionists" etc etc etc.

So yes, perhaps weird is a subjective word, but "factually incorrect" for the majority of people that watch football would apply.

@the80sweregreat 3 lions is an English football anthem. England is not UK and as much as I'm happy for England to take financial resonsibility for her and her subjects, Elizabeth Winsor is not the Queen of England, she is the Queen of the UK.

and LOTS of people have odd views about people who move to live in another country
LOTS of people have weird views about people who look different from themselves
LOTS of people have weird views about people whose sexual preferences are different from their own
etc
etc
etc
Which strikes me as all the more reason to point out that their judgements and generalisations are so often very wrong.

I wasn't writing about the Queen. I was just saying that the 3 lions song is on a banned list this year at the World Cup as someone had mentioned it.

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if they want people to sing along it should have been Come On Eileen

I think it's horrible. Why could they have written a new special one to mark the occasion.

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I hate that bloody song and am already sick of hearing it, it's everywhere! Absolute crap.

At least Elton John isn't rewriting I'm Still Standing....or is he????

"I'm Still Standing" would be perfect! I honestly don't get what Sweet Caroline has to do with anything. Bizarre choice.

Agree...v odd and crap choice. Not sure what I was expecting but not that.

It's a definite improvement on God Save the Queen. Even if people are a bit foggy on the lyrics of Sweet Caroline, it has a discernible tune.

My DD (reportedly) has been learning the queen’s favourite song at school. Which is apparently “anything you can do I can do better” which seems kind of gloaty of her Maj given her unlimited budget and assistance

The Queen has her own song. God save the Queen. Sweet Carine is used at sporting events. I hear it at the cricket a lot.

The monarchy didn’t choose it!

I could understand it if her name was Caroline but it isn’t. Very odd.

Wtf does that (shite, overplayed) song have to do with the Queen, the jubilee or the UK? Radio 2 listeners voted for it, really?!

I am not sure what the fuss is about. It's just a low number of listeners voting on a radio station. It's not an official appointment or has been passed by an Act of Parliament.

A piece of fucking shit I've hated all my life.

So quite fitting for the fucking Queen, as far as I'm concerned.

It does not say much for the listeners of Radio 2.

That song just reminds me of drunken nights out. Because of that it seems inappropriate to me.

Will it be sung with the sectarian 'add ons' used by NI football fans and others?

It's totally irrelevant to the occasion.

It should at least have been a song originally written by a Commonwealth member. So many to choose from, and we pick that one.

On a personal level, I was never a fan of it and I got totally sick of it during the football tournament last year; with the aftermath of all the bookies adopting it for adverts.