Imagine you could write a the World Cup Song?
Well it looks like there are a few avenues, but this way you can win some money by writing a World Cup Song and putting your video on YouTube.
“This is the official place for lovers of World Cup Songs and the World Cup Song 2010 competition is FREE to enter for anyone with a song about South Africa 2010 or your countries’ team.”
You can win a thousand pounds. Take a look at why you should get your mates together and record a World Cup song.
This week’s table leader:When England Rule the World.
Wavin Flag By K’naan
Wavin Flag by Somalian born K’naan is the rousing Soccer Anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Here is our contribution, “The Beautiful Game!”
You can hear an extract on the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRGtLjvEP6U
The song is currently on the Sony A&R system pitched as the Zakumi mascot song. The co-writer Eric Begala (the poetry & praisesinging in the song is Eric) is enormously talented & is representative of the great wealth of possibility with which our nation is so very alive, & yet he lives in the informal settlement near Fishhoek. “The Beautiful Game!” uses soccer as a metaphor for nation building & is a rich collaboration of artists (Lead vocals by Obita & Eric Begala) from the entire spectrum of our Rainbow Nation! “The Beautiful Game!” is about a South Africa Alive with Possibility!…
Here is a song that people are going mad for here in South Africa. It’s building up pretty fast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoBcXchutWk