Tag: Walker Hayes

SEC deletes tweet of Walker Hayes’ new song after getting ratioed by college football fans

SEC fans have strong opinions about Walker Hayes’ new song.

If you watched even one college football game in 2021, odds are very good that you were exposed to Walker Hayes’ smash hit ode to fast-casual dining, “Fancy Like”. First, let me say, I’m sorry that happened to you. This is a safe space where we can all heal together.

Secondly, we had to know that a follow-up was coming this football season because anything that works once is going to be tried again and again until it stops working. That follow-up is here and college football fans are already, uh, healthily expressing their feelings about it.

Hayes’ new song “Y’all Life” was shared by the SEC’s official Twitter account on Friday — a tweet that was deleted not long after getting severely ratioed — and College Football Twitter very quickly responded in the way any cornered animal that feels threatened would respond.

 

That awful Applebee’s song drowned out CBS’s halftime show and NFL fans weren’t happy

“YEAH, WE FANCY LIKE APPLEBEE’S ON A DATE NIGHT.”

If there’s one thing in the world all sports fans can agree on, it’s that Walker Hayes’ song “Fancy Like” is an abomination.

The song became infamously hated last college football season after Applebee’s ran it into the ground with their much-maligned commercial which played… constantly. It occasionally rears its ugly head here and there, but for the most part, the world has been a better place since we’ve been subjected to that song far less.

All was well, until Sunday’s AFC Championship Game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Kansas City Chiefs. During halftime, Kansas City had Hayes performing “Fancy Like” as a special guest… right in the middle of CBS’s broadcasting panel analyzing the first half.

It’s clear someone messed up hard on the speaker placement, or the audio mixing, or just the timing of Hayes’ performance, but it ran right over CBS’s halftime show and made a complete mess of the audio for minutes.

It was one thing for the audio snafu to happen, which made listening to that segment of the broadcast absolutely miserable, but it’s another for the tune in question to be the objectively terrible “Fancy like Applebee’s” song.

NFL fans were less than pleased about the audio disaster that unfolded during halftime, but hey at least the jokes were funny!

Walker Hayes’ performance for Chiefs vs. Bengals crashes CBS halftime show

CBS didn’t seem to expect Walker Hayes’ halftime performance in the #Chiefs vs. #Bengals game.

The Kansas City Chiefs had some special halftime entertainment for the AFC championship game with a performance by Walker Hayes, who performed his hit song “Fancy Like.”

CBS apparently didn’t realize this was coming and failed to make the necessary adjustments for their halftime show. The result was absolute hilarity on national television. You couldn’t hear a word of James Brown, Nate Burleson, Phil Simms, Boomer Esiason or Bill Cowher as they tried to break down the first half of the Chiefs-Bengals AFC title game.

They were trying to let the show go on, but all you could hear was Hayes’ lyrics about Applebees. Check it out:

Boomer Esiason had a particularly funny response to the incident, turning to his colleague’s and exclaiming, “I have no idea what you just said.” Before saying his two cents on how the Chiefs-Bengals first half played out.

Whatever happened here, it didn’t make for great television. There’s sure to be some talk over this with CBS and Kansas City so it doesn’t happen again in the future.

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