Sorority Girl

[als463]

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

[axoalum]

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!!

[IUHoosiergirl88]

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

[jennyj87]

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

[LoggerTheta]

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.

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by LoggerTheta

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.

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..

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by LoggerTheta

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.

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?

[LoggerTheta]

Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

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".

[KMac]

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.

[futurexrushgirl]

that song is so adorable!

[JohnnyCash]

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).

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by LoggerTheta

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.

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.

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

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.

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.

[Nanners52674]

I love the song.

[IUHoosiergirl88]

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.

[HDL66]

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.