To hate Sweet Caroline

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It used to be a good song but it's been so overplayed it's become unbearable. And with the extra "So Good" x 3 that seems to have become an official part of the lyrics over the years makes me want to tear my ears off.

@keffie12 came on to say the same!! Does give me goosebumps at VP though!

How good was Konsa tonight!

I absolutely hate it. How has it been one a thing for football and even for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee ?

Funnily enough I was asking a Caroline I know about this just tonight and she said she loves the song!

Yes, they should use ‘Send in the Clowns’ or ‘Being Alive’.😀

I thought it was a shit song long before football fans co-opted it.

I like Neil Diamond but also don't understand why this would be chosen as an English football anthem. Neil is American and it seems to have no link at all to football.

Traditionally sung at the Boston Red Sox games at Fenway Park for best part of 30 years ...... now suddenly the go to song any sporting event .... God knows why!!

I love Vindaloo! Especially the music video, which makes me so nostalgic for the days of Cool Britannia - not that much of it was cool as such, but there was a verve and optimism that we don't have any more.

Sweet Caroline can get in the bin though. I can't remember a time when I wasn't sick of hearing it.

It was an anthem for the Northern Irish fans originally. Now been pinched by England.

But yes, an awful song. Nearly as bad as Dancing in the Moonlight by Toploader. But not quite.

I miss 3 Lions

I absolutely hate it too it makes me cringe every time I hear it.

Was on radio 2 today. Do they put the kettle on?! Great tune

YANBU

Ooooh I love it it's so good, so good, so good

Like the song, just not one for an English football team, nor for the Lib Dems to dance to either.

My thoughts too. I love Neil Diamond and kind of feel bad that his song has become this 😁 He's probably quite happy to coin in the royalties though.

@HighOnMaiden

ive never seen that before, I fear you may have forever ruined the song for me!🤪

but as you don't like Meatloaf either...

I think it's best we don't discuss music 🤣🤣

Ed Davey looked so 'normal' and so happy singing along & Dad dancing.

My daughter has been learning it on the cello. It makes me want to stab my kitchen worktop in time to the “so good” x 3 bit every time she does it. Which is a lot because she loves the song. Like nothing else she’s ever practiced!

“Sweet Caroline” was inspired by a photograph of the then-9-year-old Caroline Kennedy. The lyrics were written a few years later about Diamond’s then-wife Marsha.
In 1969, the song peaked at #4 in the US and #3 in Canada. Two years later, it reached the top 40 in three European countries including a #8 peak in the UK.
Playing “Sweet Caroline” in the middle of the eighth inning at Boston Red Sox home games has become a tradition, especially the chorus to which many in attendance sing along. It began when the Fenway Park music director at the time Amy Toobey began playing the song over the loudspeakers in 1998. The tradition was continued by her replacement Megan Kaiser. From NPR:
I spoke to a woman named Amy Toobey, who had been the music director before Megan Kaiser. It was Amy who started playing “Sweet Caroline.” The reason: She just liked the song. That’s it.
“Sweet Caroline” was also used as the theme song for the short-lived daytime variety show The Caroline Rhea Show (which replaced the long-running The Rosie O'Donnell Show).
Neil Diamond always dreamed of performing the song for Caroline, which he did on her

I am a Brit living in the US and we have been wondering all through the Euros why England are singing Sweet Caroline! It's like the epitome of an American song to me.

I love that song. I saw Neil Diamond sing it live at the NEC.

Defo over played BUT we add a little bit at my club to abuse the rivals and that makes it more fun.

We always turn it up when played at England games and put our ears to the tv to see if we can pick up any pockets of fans singing the Villa version 😁

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Love it!

Loath it