Living Colour’s guitarist Vernon Reid described their 1988 anthem this way (as documented on Wikipedia): “’Cult of Personality’ was about celebrity, but on a political level. It asked what made us follow these individuals who were larger than life yet still human beings.”
And unless we are stereotyping… like those rote, almost robotic German National Teams (oops)… every team, national team or club, forges, or strives to forge, an identity. Whither the U.S. National Team? Yah, they are a hot topic back in the comments of the announcement of “In the Box” already… What is this team’s personality?