Comments on: Open Thread: ATL Theme Song

By: ATL Man

ATL Man — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 06:35:10 +0000

This song wouldn’t seem so bad to all of you people if the outlook on Atlanta wasn’t already as horrible as it is. Being that I live here it is bad enough to say bad things about the place I live but Atlanta is going downhill quickly under Shirley Franklin’s control. Look for Atl to become the future New Orleans. By no means in any way do I think that this city needs to be more diverse toward blacks. Atlanta is most likely the most black oriented city I have ever seen and I’ve visited alot of places. Our anthem song or whatever they call it doesn’t need to signify that we are trashy people that call up our homie friends from the hood to create some shity song that costs the taxpayers alot of money. Don’t you think that that money should go toward something more needing, like, say EDUCATION in public schools? Georgia overall is the worst state in education and I’m not proud to say that as I was born, raised, and went to school here.

Atlanta, however, shouldn’t be diversified more. That has already happened. I mean look at our city, we have an area of it preserved just for MLK, which don’t get me wrong he was a great man and his accomplishments were great. We have a black mayor, which I’m sure her”accomplishments” are really helping out the whole black president thing. If Shirley Franklin can do this horseshit to Atl imagine what could happen with a black president to control the whole country. The U.S. would turn into a big shitwhole if it’s not already. But back to how diverse Atlanta is. Look at our football team, almost all of the starters are black, we are one of the few teams with a black starting QB by the way.

On the subject of sports, it is embarresing to say to someone from another state that my hometown is Atlanta. Atl is one of the worst cities for sports. Everything is bad. The bulldogs are really the only sport team that we are known for. The falcons, 37 seasons in the NFL; 11 winning seasons. None back to back. I really feel sorry for the diehard Falcon fans that have loved them for years if there are any.

Back to this song though. I haven’t done my research to see how much it cost taxpayers but I’ve heard from 200,000 to 8 million. I don’t know but I think that Ray Charles had it right on his first try and the taxpayers didn’t have to pay him. To go with that around the U.S. we are known for the Ludacris song “Welcome to Atlanta” which was also a great song which signified the “new” culture that’s in Atlanta. People liked that song. But this one comes around and I have heard all of two comments form people that liked it and they sounded black.

I have come face to face with Shirley Franklin once and ironically it was in a Krispy Kreme in Buckhead. Of course already disliking her as our mayor, the last thing I needed to see is her stuffing her face with a doughnut. So my first words to our mayor were, “Hey, you’ve got some jelly on your shirt.” Not what you expect to say to your mayor huh?

By: Concerned Citizen

Concerned Citizen — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:22:08 +0000

Who cares what genre of music the song is. The point is not that the song is rock, r&b, rap or whatever. The point is what the song represents; specifically what the mayor has decided what should represent our city.
This is a great city. The Fox, Atlanta Symphony, the High and the Arts Center, Major and minor league sports teams, a budding rap scene, a new aquarium, a storied history, great parks, georgia tech, georgia state, emory, morehouse, and other schools, great research hospitals, (the olympics were here!), and the list goes on and on
The song the mayor chose to portray our city represents none of these things. The way I see it the mayor is chosing to portray Atlanta a city that has nothing more to offer than a young hip hop culture. “There’s no place I’d rather be” the song says. Well shouldn’t you tell them why Sherly?
-Jon, a student at Georgia Tech

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:28:09 +0000

Tom,

Point taken. I’m not sure where you get the $8 million figure from. Atlanta’s spending on its branding campaign is, amazingly, one-third that compared to its peer cities. As far as the election goes, you just missed it. She just started her second of two terms with more than 90 percent of the vote.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:18:39 +0000

Its true.. I just moved here and I’m not only pissed, i’m embarrassed….. When is the next election so we can boot Shirley out of office for this stupid 8 million dollar blunder?

Fools.

By: Maurice

Maurice — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:09:37 +0000

The song is almost as embarrassing as the Atlanta Public School grammar used in some of these posts (i.e. “stank”, “u”, “hatin”, “you is”, “ay”, “wit”). If the song doesn’t scare people away from moving to Atlanta, some of these posts might.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:15:31 +0000

Ay man yall need 2 chill out wit all a that, yall stank behinds can’t even come up wit a real song.First of all his name is real so u need 2 stop hatin!Also if u aint from atlanta you is GAY! I appreciate the song and love it so get off his F***in case!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: velvel

velvel — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:19:39 +0000

The saddest part is that anyone thinks it is not garbage.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:16:51 +0000

Okay, I don’t like the song or the logo either, but give me a break… Atlanta is not Flint, Michigan. Now turn that frown upside down!

By: Some other Mike

Some other Mike — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:04:50 +0000

Wow, we have a theme song! Maybe, next year, we’ll get a _variety_show_! Imagine the possibilities!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:23:55 +0000

Atlanta has fantastic intown neighborhoods

In other words, Atlanta is America’s biggest small town. That’s how I see it, at least.