“Semper Supra,” was unveiled during the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference Monday.
We're the mighty watchful eye,
Guardians beyond the blue,
The invisible front line,
Warfighters brave and true.
Boldly reaching into space,
There's no limit to our sky.
Standing guard both night and day,
We're the Space Force from on high.
The only thing worse than Sousa music is music written to sound like Sousa.
I've had this idea rattling around in the back of my mind for a few years now:
An arrangement of Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" that gets more and more depressing and distorted as it goes on, and eventually just degrades into a cacophony when it reaches the section before the piccolo solo (normally featuring a brief but vivacious call-and-response between the trombones and the other brass instruments), and subsequently descends into a murmur, maybe with some weeping and/or wailing. At this, two percussionists play a subdued drum roll on the snare and a timpano. The sound of a single trumpet blasts through, playing the melody of the final stanza from the chorus of L'Internationale and holding out the final note for the whole ensemble to join them in unison. This serves as a direct segue to playing a particularly intense, energetic, and enthusiastic rendition of L'Internationale.
I call it "The Stars and Stripes No More".
If it makes whoever listens to it into a commie or something, yeah
It's wild to me that military music is so terrible when military band member is one of the best paid gigs for a musician. They enter as E-6 making like $60k a year and the military recruits symphony-level musicians. Meanwhile if you work a smaller symphony like San Antonio's, they're on strike because the symphony wants to only pay a fraction of them a fast food wage without health insurance. Everyone there is an expert in making music and this is the product.
the military recruits symphony-level musicians.
They must go crazy playing this sort of shit all the time.
It seemed really dreary to me from the outside. They'd practice with the same grueling military schedule to play the same three songs at that day's retirement ceremonies. Sat in a parking lot for three hours before the next one, audience doesn't care about their elevator music, functionally it's just a left foot-right foot marching cadence for everyone in uniform. Their dress uniforms had to be in perfect condition, probably to a higher standard than a top-tier symphony, despite spending all day driving between parking lots. Just one big stupid fuck-fuck game.
Just one big stupid fuck-fuck game.
Well, at least they are making at $60,000 at a minimum.
Their dress uniforms had to be in perfect condition
It's funny to think they could give flawless performance after flawless performance of their elevator music and nobody gives a shit. But if there's a tiny stain that somehow formed on the back of their white trousers - they could get hell.
The entire space force was originally some trump ego booster so he could have a major accomplishment in office, and libs won’t even do something about a glorified Air Force branch that exists as pure spectacle lol
I remember all of the libs were coping by being like "actually we've needed a Space Force for a long time now", ignoring the fact that we didn't actually consolidate all space projects into one administration and instead we just have one more than we used to.
The Russian Space Force Anthem slaps way harder and has lyrics that are way more hopeful and less fascist.
We’re the mighty watchful eye, Guardians beyond the blue,
Also how bad are they at song writing that they missed rhyming "eye" with "sky"? Like low hanging fruit but come on!
The rhyme scheme is ABABCDCD, it works fine. Still stupid lyrics though
Death to America
They missed rhyming “eye” with “sky”?
Why do you hate America so much?
They rhymed space with day and eye with line.
Those technically can work but they super do not in this song
At least it doesn't mention how the USA invaded Mexico unprovoked to grab more territory (from the halls of Montezuma), or the first foreign military engagement that ended up in a country Obama went back to and destroyed (to the shores of Tripoli) like the song from one of the other branches of the armed forces.
reminds me of the "buy war bonds" / stage performance montage of the Captain America movie that took place during WW2.
it's shit, but it's less cringey than that air force rock anthem band aka "Max Impact". that shit makes me die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGdWkl9M_TY
I was expecting hard rock so at first I was surprised it was country. But then I had to laugh at myself. Of course it would be modern country music. What's more American than that shit?
well that's just their more recent pivot. this is Max Impact about 4 years before the country rock version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRFAsVgMvvU
CW: possibly the most self-serious b.s. ever recorded
Haha. Ack. You should put that in c/videos. That's what I was expecting the first time.
Sounds like a mid tune from a 50s educational film, just like all other US Military songs.
