Anyone who's Greek and been at a school with a Delta Gamma chapter knows that every year, they hold a philanthropy event called Anchor Splash. The basic event is a few swimming events, with a synchronized swimming dancing event at most schools. Well at Southern Miss, the girls perform the synchronized swimming dance, but the guys perform in a different event the day before, called King Neptune. Basically, each fraternity puts together a dance from scratch, practices, and performs it on stage in front of all the fraternities and sororities. Massively stressful!
So, the past week and a half, we've been putting the dance together. Two days ago, we had it down pretty well, but we found out that one of the people doing the dance has to work now. But that's not the worst! Another one of the dancers got sick, making him unable to dance. Fortunately, we had two backups. Unfortunately, one of them is me. So, for the past two days, we've had to practice a huge amount to get myself and the other alternate fully caught up. It's been hectic and stressful, to say the least. But we finally got the dance fully down at midnight.
Oh, but of course that's not the end of the problems. We're starting off with I'm On A Boat, the remixing into another song. If you've ever heard I'm On A Boat, you know there's a lot of cursing. Even the clean version isn't fully censored. So I went through and censored it myself, because the Dee Gee Music Director asked us to. But tonight, the night before the dance, they tell us that we need to change it because even censored, it's too offensive. Now, if they had told us this days ago, or even on Sunday, we could've modified the dance to a new song. Instead, we had to jury-rig a replacement to that section. Here's what we did.
We took the instrumental version of I'm On A Boat, and then recorded our own words over the top, with new lyrics and stuff. This way, there's no way they can say it's offensive, because there are no offensive words. But it took until 1 AM to do, hence the timing of this post.
Well, I'm off to bed. Tell how it goes tomorrow after we get up there and embarrass the hell out of ourselves. :-D Peace!
