#fleet proposal

Song: Billie Eilish - You Should See Me in a Crown

Pros:

Calm and confident. Mocking in its nonchalance. One by one, the goals stack up. Victory is inevitable.

The Fleet came close to the "crown" last season. So, with that goal in front of mind, "you should see me in a crown" feels like manifesting the cup and making a promise to fans and rivals.

Fans could yell the "one by, one by one" part.

The song itself is very cool.

Cons:

The chant is maybe a bit of a stretch, but I stand by it.

While calm and confident is cool, it can also be low energy. This may cross that line.

My transitions are a little rough 😬 This will be a recurring theme as I have zero experience editing audio. I'm just a fan with GarageBand and a dream so please be gentle xoxo

My first goal horn proposal! I'm so excited to start sharing these!!!

I would love to hear all your goal horn related thoughts and feelings! By no means am I an expert on the history/fandom of every PWHL and NHL team, so disagreement, additional insight, and/or recommendations for new horn proposals are more than welcome :)

My plan is to post my goal horn reviews on Monday/Wednesday/Friday, and then post a couple proposals the following day. I'll be going in alphabetical order through first the PWHL then the NHL. If you have horn related thoughts/feelings/recommendations for a team, though, don't feel like you have to in any way share them "on schedule". I'm happy to hear about any team at any time <3

Song: Megan Thee Stallion - Where Them Girls At

Pros:

Straightforward taunting

Fun to sing/yell along too

Natural transition points

A very cool song

Cons:

I'll level with y'all, this has virtually nothing to do with the Boston Fleet in particular. I just though this would make a fun PWHL goal song, and Boston's horn seemed to go the best with it. (Though, full disclosure, I was only able to find clean audio of their horn from last season at Little Caesars Arena- the horn for this season at the Tsongas Center could be different)

Song: Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up to Boston

Way back in January, someone sent an ask about this song for the Boston Fleet and while I liked it as a special occasions horn, for whatever reason I never ended up actually doing an edit. I got a couple more anons about it over the summer, so I figure this is a good one to kick of the return of hockey with.

Pros:

Natural transition points

It's a nautical song about Boston. Extremely on theme for the Fleet.

Incredibly scream-able

Not lame

Cons:

High energy, but not really celebratory. This song feels more like an introduction than a crescendo.

Thank you to everyone who asked after this song! It was a fun one to put together and a great way to ease back into doing these edits <3

Song: The Standells - Dirty Water

Pros:

Natural transition

It's a song about Boston with a somewhat nautical theme, so that makes sense for the Boston Fleet. It also has a carefree, but gritty energy that matches the city its talking about.

Has a yellable refrain

Cool song

Cons:

It's celebratory, but is it too relaxed?

The Bruins and the Red Sox have been using this as a victory song since the 90s, so its not exactly original

I wanted to do at least one Boston specific goal song today, and this was the best one I could come up with. I'm Shipping Up to Boston felt a little too on the nose and Sweet Caroline will always feel too much like a baseball song for me to put it in as a goal horn, so Dirty Water it was.

There are moments picking these songs when I start to worry about them being used by other teams, but then I remember that during the 1999-2000 NHL season 16 of the 28 teams used Gary Glitter's Rock & Roll Part 2 as their goal song and chill the hell out. Compared to whatever the hell was going on then, I am a creative genius!