America, Fuck Yeah
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America, Fuck Yeah is the theme song to the movie Team America: World Police. The song is a parody of 1980s hard rock anthems, which emphasize electric guitar and synthesizer. It is very similar in style to "Danger Zone", the theme to the 1986 film Top Gun, and also to Randy Newman's tongue-in-cheek ode to Los Angeles, I Love L.A.
With lyrics like "coming again to save the motherfucking day" and "freedom is the only way," the song is a microcosm of the movie, a satire of the United States and jingoism. It satirically glorifies the "American way of life" that Team America fights to defend, including Wal-Mart, the NFL, breast implants, and Valium. Written by South Park creator Trey Parker and performed by his band DVDA, the song, challenges terrorists to "lick my butt and suck on my balls."
In the movie the song plays whenever Team America leaves its fortress in Mt. Rushmore. At one point, however, the upbeat song is replaced with a slow and sad version (the "Bummer Remix"), indicative of the personal turmoil experienced by the team. Because it contains thirty-seven instances of the word "fuck", the song received very little radio airplay. However, on January 26, 2006 the song was voted number 52 in the annual Hottest 100 aired by Australian national youth radio network, Triple J.
The basic refrain of the song is:
- America, FUCK YEAH!
- Coming again, to save the motherfucking day yeah,
- America, FUCK YEAH!
- Freedom is the only way, yeah,
- Terrorist your game is through / 'cuz now you have to answer to...
- America, FUCK YEAH!
- So lick my butt, and suck on my balls!
- America, FUCK YEAH!
- Watcha gonna do when we come for you? Yeah!
- It's the dream that we all share, it's the hope for tomorrow,
- FUCK YEAH!
[edit] American life lampooned in the song
The line, "What you gonna do when we come for you now?" may refer to either a Hulk Hogan catchphrase or to the theme song to the long-running American television series Cops.
Except where noted, a crowd enthusiastically yells, "Fuck yeah," following each item:
- McDonald's (Fast food restaurant; Occasionally misheard as "regattos" or even more rarely as "the ghettos")
- Wal-Mart (Retail giant)
- The Gap (Clothing chain)
- Baseball
- NFL
- Rock and roll
- The Internet
- Slavery (Reference to the enslavement of African people in America's past)
After a long pause, it continues:
- Starbucks (Coffeehouse franchise)
- Disney World (Theme park)
- Porno
- Valium (Sedative)
- Reebok (Shoes) (Reebok is actually a UK company)
- Fake tits
- Sushi (Originally from Japan)
- Taco Bell (Another fast food chain)
- Rodeos
- Bed Bath & Beyond (Domestic goods retailer) - A sparse (two people) "Fuck yeah!"
After another pause, it continues:
- Liberty
- Wax Lips
- The Alamo
- Band-Aids
- Las Vegas
- Christmas
- Immigrants
- Popeye (Popular comic character)
- Democrats
- Republicans (A less enthusiastic response)
- Sportsmanship - Silence
- Books - Silence
These items are implied to be "American." At once, the list mocks American consumer excess (wax lips, Bed Bath & Beyond), moral authority (slavery), ignorance (Reebok is a UK company), values (The Gap rates an enthusiastic response, while sportsmanship and books do not) and a lack of original culture (Sushi, Taco Bell).
[edit] Other Versions
A variation of the song where obseneties are not present is played during the Rusty Humphries conservative talk show program in the United States, replacing "America, Fuck-yeah" with "Rusty - Hum-phries" or "Rusty, hell-yeah".
