Sorority Girl
 

So, I came across this song and thought it was interesting. Apparently, the singer is a Sigma Chi from Georgia Southern. For all of you Southern girls-I thought it was cute and you might like it...I'm not even Southern and I think it is interesting....Enjoy!


Sorority Girl
by Luke Bryan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxplJ5Z1U3s

It's already created a splash down here. My Alpha Xi daughters from West GA brought it home when they were on spring break last week. Too bad they are not mentioned but I'm sure the girls will try to fit their letters in somehow!!

I posted it on the ADPi board and it's HUGE in my house...we were running through the halls singing it right before spring break :D

I love this song. One of our girls has posted it as her facebook status and I'm sure its going to be sung WAYY too much :)

Wow... I'd never heard this song before, and I couldn't even finish it. It makes sorority women sound like vapid lushes who don't take school very seriously. If that's the case in the south, then I say thank goodness I'm from the north land.

Ok, I'm glad someone else said this, cause I feel the same way! We complain about the negative stereotypes that the media and pop culture gives to Greeks, and then a song like this comes out and doesn't exactly help the cause.. :(

I'd say it's more sorority girls in the north who act like this. Don't be such a prude. Did you stay in and study on weekends?

Well, it's definitely too cold to wear sun dresses on game day up here haha. And yeah I did study on weekends. I guess you can say I was definitely not on the "five year plan" like this guy seems to think we all are. Actually on weekends I was usually on mandatory field trips, or in the lab. Geology: not just rocks for jocks.

You're probably right though, I shouldn't have made the north/south comparison. I was having a bad day, and not really caring about blanket statements about either region. Though that doesn't change my opinion of the song. I still think is slightly hypocritical of us (the body of sorority women) to complain about not being taken seriously, then run through the halls of a sorority house singing about the benefits of sisters to get you home when you're "drunk off your ass".

In all honesty, this song is much tamer than another sorority song that is making its way around college campuses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTJT46qTtnw

It obviously reflects sorority girls poorly, but most girls I know think it's funny rather than degrading.

Lol I'm from Michigan. I don't care if it's 100 degrees out. If I saw a girl wear a sundress to a game I'd probably throw marshmellows at her.

They actually just filmed the music video for Sorority Girl by Luke Bryan in my school's town, none of our ladies were allowed to participate in the filming. I think it's a very fun song, not degrading.

:eek: is this West coast in origin? I noticed that they tagged UCSB in the tags. If that's the case I'm glad my sorority didn't get a shout out. This is one time I'm glad we only have one chapter in CA!!!

There is NOTHING funny about this (or most hip hop music). It's too misogynistic.

ETA: The original song mentioned in this post has its "bad" points (five year plan, drunk off your ass) but it's a country song so it's against its nature to be disrespectul (at least in a mean way). It's cuter than the other one hands down, but I'm not a huge country person. I don't mind that my sorority is shouted out in that one. It's just way more respectful than the other one.

What's wrong with the 5 year plan? I laughed at that part because rarely ever does anyone I know graduate in 4 years. Too many prerequisites and too many students needing those prereqs.

I have a different take on this. The way it's put in the song implies that sorority women take less than a full course load in order to have more time to do social things. I'd be offended if someone assumed I wasn't going to graduate in four years (which I did), and my major had the most prerequisites, and required courses out of any other at my school.

You people are ridiculous, it's a fun song to be taken lightly. Sure, it's pretty accurate for the most part, but it also leaves out a lot of truth, it stick to pretty much a very small part of the social spectrum of Southern sorority girls. And I happen to find that most girls who are on a 5 year plan or so, are the graduate college, get married 5 year plans. And college might as well be five years anyway.

And for all you Northern people who want to bash Southerners, screw you. So we don't like change, never have never will.

My friends and I all graduated in four years, from different schools including Univ. of Washington and a variety of private schools. In fact, I hardly know anyone from a private school that took five years...just athletes, actually. I was pre-med my first two years, then did a 180 and switched to the communications division, picked up a minor in sociology, and I still graduated in four years from a liberal arts school with a thorough core curriculum. It CAN and IS done.

that song is so adorable! :)

LOL! I personally don't hate it because...

(irony)

I did like a 4.5 year plan... However, let it be known that I did not rush until junior year. And I kinda did stretch out my time b/c of sorority related reasons (I was on Panhellenic e-board and needed to finish the term) but also because of a last minute language requirement. I was not a social butterfly, but I won't lie, if my parents hadn't refused to pay for anymore :o I still might be in school (b/c when I graduated I had not yet figured out what I wanted to do after graduating).

I'm on the road to do the 5+ year plan, but with guys it's almost a requirement.

Women usually tend to graduate quicker than men (at least that's what it seems like).

Well congratulations to you. Our university tends to accept more students than it can accommodate (sp?). Here's how the 5 year plan happens at UMD...
3-8 sections of a specific class that all Arts, Science and Letters students MUST take, mainly freshman year (the 8 section classes were 100person Natural Science lectures)
30-40 students allowed per class unless the rarity that it was a lecture class
1000s of students trying to get in those classes.

Add to that, you can't take most of your core classes until you take those prerequisites. The math class I was supposed to take when I was an elementary ed major was filled by the time I could register my 1st AND 2nd year. There were about 2 or 3 required math classes after that.

Please reread my post that you commented. I said THAT I KNOW. I didn't say it was impossible. Remember, small commuter campuses don't have as many lecture classes that fit 100+ students. Science classes and a handful of electives were held in lecture halls. The biggest classroom class I had held maybe 40 students, and there were about 15 people on the waitlist who didn't get in. This was a class that most would take in their 3rd of 4th year.

I wish people on here would STOP thinking that every campus is the same.

I love the song.

First off, let me say that I love the song, and you have to admit that at least it's coming from a former Greek, rather than a non-greek perpetuating stereotypes. I actually have it as my ringtone, haha.

Second...what's it matter if you take 4 years or 5? Those of us that come from pretty big schools know how hard it can be to get into core classes and prereqs that you need to take before you graduate. My o-chem II lecture had between 300 and 400 people, and there were STILL people waitlisted. Trust me, it sucked. I should (not to jinx myself) be able to graduate in 4 years with a tough major and a completely unrelated minor, but it isn't going to be easy.

A grain of truth. . .
 

The thing that perpetuates a stereotype is when there is a grain of truth to the description. Frankly, there is a truckload of it in this song. I genuinely don't mean that to be disparaging, and I know there is great diversity among the tens of thousands of female greek actives. It really is spot on, however, for many sorority gals in the South, and that's who Luke Bryan is describing. No, not everyone drinks, and many are excellent students (greeks consistently have a higher GPA than the avg student population). But just check out facebook pictures and even the GC threads on rush in the South. There is a good percentage of beautiful, tanned, wealthy coquettes who wear sundresses to football games, and trust me, they are NOT offended by this song. Just read the message boards. Girls in the sororities mentioned in the song are bragging, not complaining, about it.

Personally, as a mom, I think it is a cute, harmless song. That is NOT true of the trash that was linked earlier in the thread. That is vulgar and disgusting, and the definition of offensive to me.

Wow...
 

I didn't really post this so people would get upset. I thought it was an interesting song. I'm sorry if some people got offended but, I didn't think it was that bad. In fact, I didn't think it was disrespectful and he is a Greek, himself-so, I like to support my fellow Greeks when I don't think they are being horribly mean.

If you don't like the song-I'm sorry. It wasn't meant for so much uproar.

Agree with this.

a thumbs up for the luke bryan song . it's cute and so is he!

I love the song! Does anyone know if Luke Bryan's wife was in a sorority? I read that they are college sweethearts...so I am guessing they both went to GSU together. GSU has KD, ADPi, KKG, Phi Mu, Zeta & AOPi Just curious :-)

All I can say is that I'm glad we don't get mentioned in songs.

I think it's darling! ;)

You all need to consider the campus culture that this song is coming from. Just saying.

(GSU girls - y'all are some of my favorites ever. But you are all completely crazy - the fun kind of crazy - and if I ever saw you studying on a Friday night, I would wonder what was wrong.)

I can't believe anybody would be offended by this song...I think it's adorable. Talking about drinking and a five year plan could be seen as derogatory, but it is obvious he is into her carefree attitude and confidence, and that he respects the girl in order to sing about her. I have no problems with it whatsoever...I think it's a cute song and I wish Alpha Phi was bigger in the south so we could have been included!

As for the second song, I bet it's out of California since all the sororities mentioned are ones that are at most West Coast schools (DG, Alpha Phi, Pi Phi vs. Phi Mu, KD, Zeta)...and as a California girl I'm still disgusted by it. I'm not usually even uptight about vulgarity in songs, but the lyrics in this aren't even clever...it's one thing to do a vulgar song but make it witty (Ludacris, Mickey Avalon, take your pick) but this is just lazy and dumb.

HDL66, nothing personal, I just hate the term gal!

A lot of Luke Bryan's songs, especially his upbeat ones, are tongue-in-cheek. I wouldn't take anything he sings about too seriously.