If you have watched any of the World Cup, you've probably heard vuvuzela horns more than times than you can stand. Some believe the horns can hasten hearing loss. It's gotten so bad that the horns may be banned from the stadium.
According to a Fox Sports, The captain for the French team blames vuvuzelas for his team's poor performance.
During the Winter Olympics, the cowbell was used ad nauseam. But there was something about it that was ok. Maybe because it's not as loud as vuvuzelas? Maybe because people seemed to use them during the skiing and bobsledding. Maybe because it actually requires energy to shake it and people do get tired and stop.
Why not try more cowbell at the World Cup? At least you can create a rhythm with it if you wanted to. I haven't heard anything remotely considered to be music come out of those vuvuzelas.
In the Fox Sports story, World Cup organizing committee head, Danny Jordaan would like to hear the crowd sing and chant more like they used to. Sounds good to me. It's not gonna happen any time soon.
Since birth, we have found a way to make noise out of anything. One of our earliest abuses was probably a kazoo. Replace that with what looks to be a 3 foot plastic horn and you are bound to blow it at least once. And if everyone else is doing... Why not join in? Since we can't stop the noise, let's try to steer it in a more sonically pleasing direction. Sing! Chant! More cowbell!
(The Saturday Night Live Skit for More Cowbell)
*picture from MSN.com
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