Cheerleading and cheer music...I understand it better now.
As a kid in high school, I used to enjoy hanging around the cheerleaders (I mean, obviously). As an adult in my 30s, I had a friend who was a semi-professional cheerleader in San Francisco. She cheered for a group called Cheer SF and I was continually fascinated by the 'flyers,' or the girls who would be tossed 20 feet in the air to flip and land. However, despite all my cheerleading observations, and some participation, I never truly understood the culture as I do now.