The music that happens to be blaring through my headphones right now is “We’re Back,” a 2021 rock song by the Valley of Wolves. The song’s exactly what the title implies: a catchy, energizing tune about a triumphant return.
Over this last week-and-a-half back on campus, it has become my go-to hype-up song, for lack of a better term. It captured my excitement about returning to Evanston as a sophomore. “We’re back,” lead singer Will Champlin belts out in the hook. “‘Cause legends never die.”
Those words rang true before I even heard the song when Northwestern prevailed over Nebraska in Dublin one month and a day ago.