He wears a suit that even Bob Eubanks would turn down. The video features Psy dancing through a trash storm. “Gangnam Style” was designed to be ridiculous. Relying on Pharrell’s expertise, Jackson State used the song as a foundation for their huge drum line in order to infect an entire stadium with the tune. Like so many salsa and meringue tunes, the song’s energetic and repetitive nature gets up inside your skull and just bounces around forever. “Blurred Lines” might have Robin Thicke’s name at the top, but it’s Pharrell’s sparse, catchy percussion that drives the tune. Robin Thicke, “Blurred Lines” (Jackson State) The song is also fitting: like the clothes at a thrift shop, most of those sweaty pep band and marching band outfits are in their second, or third, or fourth generation of use, much to the members’ dismay. Acknowledging the song’s anything goes atmosphere, University of Idaho blows that twisting sax line up into a massive, ancient Roman battle cry. Macklemore will be the first to tell you that “Thriftshop” has a serious message but it’s housed in a silly exterior.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, “Thriftshop” (University of Idaho Pep Band)
Michigan State seems to be asking: does a marching band even need to actually play its instruments to be a marching band? The popularity of EDM proves to be frutiful in the marching band setting, as Michigan State performs a medley of Skrillex remixes, only to stop playing halfway through the performance, and do the world’s largest simultaneous beat drop.
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