What the hell is up with the music?

The greatest country in the world accumulated the most gold medals in the history of a winter games event. This means our athletes are BEASTS!!! This also means they know quality when they see it.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said of the music that accompanied these games. My disdain started with the "I Believe" song. CTV, which aired the Superbowl, showed the Olympic montage in EVERY, and I do mean literally every commercial break. So instead of talking E-Trade babies, clydesdales, and a cow, I get a little pip-squeak singing a song called "I Believe" behind montages advertising specific athletes, ironically none of which actually won gold.

Before I continue on to last night, I would like to say that the little lady that sings the song is quite talented and the attention she will get from this is warranted. The song is not the most terrible thing I've ever heard but when I am inundated by it over twenty times a day for over three weeks, it better be the best damn song I've ever heard. It most definitely isn't.

Now last night......

I didn't watch most of the closing ceremonies due to hockey fever. My wife and I were so excited by the gold medal win by the greatest country in the world we decided to play the world tournament feature on NHL10. So we played our round robin and then tuned into the closing ceremonies.

Thankfully, what I'm about to describe my American friends to the south didn't see. NBC may have done Conan O'Brien wrong, but they did the American people right by cutting away to their own programming instead of the crap I'm about to describe:

I missed the memo where the ceremonies ended and Nickelback came on. They were rocking hard but, it's Nickelback.

One would think that's a bad start but then came a clearly outdated Avril Lavigne. What phone does she endorse again, exactly, I don't remember either.

So then to make things interesting Alanis Morrisette shows up and sings a song I've never heard of. She has clearly gotten over the angst that the world knows her for and her song was beautiful. Unfortunately if was five minutes and my eyes were closing before the final choruses. Really, who planned this thing.

Then it gets really ugly. Simple Plan followed by Hedley. At this point I'm freaking out because Nickelback was probably the best act so far (Alanis was better but out of place). At this point there is no saving this train wreck so I get ready for bed.

I found it really disrespectful to the Olympic athletes that these artists were what we gave them as a "thank you" for putting on displays of world class athleticism.

So as the unfunny lady said as she greeted me when I turned on the closing ceremonies last night, "Sorry."