【文稿】校歌排行榜（下）

XH: Actually this one is from Yale University, that’s being played. Actually, that doesn’t sound too bad. It has an ancient feeling to it, as well Amy: They all have ancient feelings to them, but you know I think that Chinese ones and the Yale one we just heard, and even like my alma mater, they all sound the same. It’s like a choir singing it, and it sounds like you’re in church to for some reason. XH: Yeah, it’s very ceremonial feeling to it. LY: Also like a spiritual experience, I guess, but I have to say I do kind of dig, the song from Communication University of China, because it’s a lot more pop, yeah, than the rest of bunch. And also this one I have to applaud their effort because they do not only have a song, they also shoot a music video for it. And a lot of stars are actually in that music video, because they graduated from that school. So I guess that’s a lot of star power. Amy: That’s kind of pretty cool. XH: That’s probably public university, because you know a lot of celebrities from graduated from their universities anyway, so you know why don’t they choose the most famous one? It’s pretty good promotion idea. And I think some netizens are questioning this ranking, you know, they’re saying why is the song from Zhejiang University No.1? Or why don’t we know about it like if we’ve known about it we go online, and try to vote for our university. Amy: Is anyone that invested making their university song No.1? I mean they all kind of sound the same singing like in the English and Chinese and Latin whatever. They all sound exactly the same with like slightly different melody to it. LY: Yeah, I have to say I’m with Amy on this one. I don’t really think people are that invested, if they do I can only say I can only quote very popular Chinese saying 认真你就输了 it’s just popularity contest, so what’s the big deal if the school doesn’t have the No.1 song, my school has the No.1 song; I didn’t even know it had a song. XH: and you don’t like it. XH: and also here we have a listener on WeChat Emily actually sent us, her school song. She’s from Hunan University of Technology, let’s take a brief listen. Emily: 大家好，我的校歌叫做《心愿》，湖水是你的眼神，梦想满天星辰，星辰是一个传说，亘古不变地等候，成长是一扇树叶的门…… XH: that’s not too bad. Amy: Is that a school song, or is that a pop song? XH: see, now you’re criticizing you know, the song being too pop, this doesn’t sound like a school song. Amy: maybe in this case it’s not fair because its way more popular, sounding than other school songs. XH: Yeah, I guess and if it were for me, it would be impossible for me to choose which are the best school songs. So do you guys have an opinion as like music DJs, do you have a standard to judge the best school song? LY: I guess it would be very difficult because different people have different tastes, so if you are into a certain genre of music, of course you tend to give that particular type a higher score than the rest. So I do know for a fact, for example, Wang Wei is very keen to Hip Pop. XH: Hip Pop school song. LY: but I don’t think we have come across any school song that’s actually hip hop, and it would just be very difficult imagine if actually any school song has a hip hop feel to it. Or worse any swearing in it. Amy: Yeah, I think maybe you would have to judge it based on the lyrics, cause they all…. I don’t think anyone just wants to like going home and listening to CD after CD after CD after school songs. XH: No. Amy: so maybe just have to like base on lyrics and if they strike you, make you want to go studying hard in the library, then it’s must be a good song. XH: Yeah, for me, I don’t mind the ceremonious songs, in fact I love operas and stuff and classic songs, but it still has to be like, it still has needs to have a good melody. I think that’s still most important of all. Amy: Yeah, definitely. XH: Yeah.