If You Knock Me Down I Get Up Again Olympics Song

Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this report incorrectly credited the 1996 Summer Olympics functioning of 'The Power of the Dream.' Celine Dion sang the theme at the opening ceremony; the song was performed once again at the closing ceremony past Rachel McMullin and a choir of other children.

Like competing on the remainder beam or sprinting to the cease line, writing a song can be an Olympic-caliber feat. Every ii years, an artist is called on to tape a tune that volition capture the mood of the Summertime or Winter Olympic Games. Nosotros look back at the best and worst:

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12. Survival, Muse

At the time of its release in 2012, BBC radio host Jon Holmes memorably compared this London Olympics theme to "an orchestra falling downward some stairs" and the "noise of a rhino knocking a wall down." The English rockers' unbearable mishmash of crashing drums, dramatic strings and strained vocals may be the Games' worst official vocal.

11. Rise, Katy Perry

In retrospect, it's ironic how a song most rising from the bottom really marked the fall of the once-reigning pop queen. A year before releasing the garbage fire that is her Witness album, Perry recorded this pedestrian number for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, which sounds like a retread of her by hitsWide Awake andUnconditionally. Like the parachute she drags effectually in the visually ambitious music video, she'due south similarly weighed down by Rising's plodding melody and imitation-inspiring lyrics.

x.Barcelona, Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé

Barcelona is a passable duet, taken off the Queen frontman's 1988 articulation anthology of the same proper name with the Castilian opera star. While her sublime soprano compliments his elastic vocals, it'due south hundred-to-one that this classical honey song lit a fire under any athletes' feet at the 1992 Summer Games.

nine. Oceania, Björk

The Icelandic trailblazer blends rippling synths and whirring siren calls on this nautical ballad, written for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Simply it'south hardly workout playlist fabric, even if the video's briny, Neptune imagery fits right into Björk's unusual oeuvre.

8. Blindside the Pulsate, Bryan Adams and Nelly Furtado

By no stretch of the imagination is Bang the Drum a lyrical masterpiece. (Sample lyrics: "From the East / From the West / Each of us trying our best.") And yet, the 2010 Wintertime Olympics anthem is a refreshingly upbeat add-on to the Games' often downtempo catalog, fueled by a peppy pulsate solo and unabashedly cheesy chorus almost dreaming big.

7. Permit Everyone Polish, Insooni

It'southward this year's theme for the Winter Olympics Torch Relay. While it's packed with enough burn down-related phrases to last until the 2020 Games, its tricky, feel-good chorus will be burned into your brain all month long.

6.A Adventure for Sky, Christopher Cross

Cross' synth-driven contribution to the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles is a flake of a puzzler: It'south subtitled "Swimming Theme," and even so its whole chorus revolves around climbing mountains. Regardless, this blissful slice of '80s nostalgia will make you lot want to suspension out your neon-color windbreaker and leg warmers for an Olympic-size dance political party.

5. Someday, Flipsyde

Hip-hop artists have mostly been passed over when information technology comes to penning Olympics tunes. But NBC made this Oakland group an exception when information technology picked Anytime as the theme for the 2006 Winter Games — a solid selection, given its motivational lyrics nearly overcoming arduousness and unique combination of rap and Spanish guitar.

4. You and Me, Liu Huan and Sarah Brightman

This sedate duet could run the run a risk of putting you to sleep, with faint, almost childlike vocals from the Chinese singer and English soprano. But its message of unity — "Y'all and me, from one world / We are family unit" — makes this 2008 Beijing anthem ane of the Olympics' most unexpectedly moving themes a decade later.

3. Mitt in Hand, Koreana

It'due south almost incommunicable to not exist won over by the charms of Southward Korean band Koreana on this soaring throwback from the 1988 Seoul Summer Games, with hostage vocals and pulsing synths worthy of Olympics gold.

2. The Power of the Dream, Céline Dion

The Canadian icon gave a definitive performance of this rousing ballad at the 1996 Summer Olympics' opening ceremony, where her silky vibrato and formidable belt were on full display. After, at the Games' closer, 10-yr-old Rachel McMullin was joined by some 600 children from Atlanta for a more hostage, euphonious rendition. Either way, y'all can't become wrong.

1. One Moment in Time, Whitney Houston

The aureate standard by which all Olympics theme songs should be judged. Also written for the 1988 summertime event, this summit-v hitting perfectly encapsulates the spirit of the Games: giving one's all, facing the pain and ultimately becoming "more than I idea I could be." Merely it'due south too an expertly constructed pop anthem, which gradually builds to a trumpeting cease as Houston belts, "I will be free." It'south a knockout vocal performance that only she was capable of giving, and ane that elevates this from a rousing torch song to a timeless classic.

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Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/08/04/olympics-theme-songs-katy-perry-whitney-houston/87968806/

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