The World Cup Song Onslaught: R. Kelly, Korean Pop & Wavin’ Flag (Arabic remix).

May 20th, 2010 | by: chris | View Comments

There is a career somewhere compiling all the songs dedicated to the World Cup. Given all the garbage one has to trudge through to find something half-decent, someone else can have it and they don’t need to thank me. That said, we’re going to compile some damn songs.

Since this is the era of YouTube and social networking, anyone can fire a shoddy song onto the intertubes and let it run. Yet there are a bit more polished ones out there, with the backing of major record labels and Korean fangirls, a sector seven times as large as the galaxy, plus a pretty good legal team.


Super Junior – Victory Korea:

Super Junior are Korean Super Pop with an album coming out shortly, and they took this opportunity to put out a Korean victory song. There’s a joke in here somewhere about the Korean defeat song, but having just recalled their group…yeah, Korean victory song.

No idea who Big Tony is. The “teaser” is only a minute, but trust me – that’s all you’ll be able to handle.

K’naan ft. Nancy Ajram – Waving Flag (Arabic remix):

Nancy’s a Lebanese singer and K’naan is that guy earning the ire of Shakira fans the world over because, well…because Wavin’ Flag is way better than Waka Waka. Though he can’t move his hips quite like her, for which we are thankful.

The combination of an attractive girl and good song officially blows Shakira out of the water for the summer. Game over…until we get more German a capella.

R. Kelly – Sign of Victory:

This obviously isn’t the official video – that one is rumored to include an unnamed R&B singer peeing on a 14 year old girl, only to be acquitted.

All joking aside, I have no idea why this guy didn’t just hang up the sports anthems after The World’s Greatest. Quit while you’re ahead, man.

And that’s it for this week. Next week: Some Guy From MySpace With A Keyboard, Some Guy On An Oil Drum From Jamaica and Tupac’s latest album in which he curiously rattles off all 32 participating teams while bemoaning Ronaldinho’s snub.