--- title: Cruise Ship Plays White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" On Its Horns description: It sounds like, as one YouTube commenter notes, the perfect theme song for an alien invasion canonical: https://time.com/95361/seven-nation-army-cruise-ship/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-11T15:37:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:34.888Z og:title: Cruise Ship Plays White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" On Its Horns og:description: It sounds like, as one YouTube commenter notes, the perfect theme song for an alien invasion og:url: https://time.com/95361/seven-nation-army-cruise-ship/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cruise Ship Plays White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" On Its Horns twitter:description: It sounds like, as one YouTube commenter notes, the perfect theme song for an alien invasion twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's a Cruise Ship Playing 'Seven Nation Army' on Its Horns  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney May 11, 2014 3:37 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney May 11, 2014 3:37 PM UTC The White Stripes’ most recognizable tune got a [nautical remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTlTxFio6DY) on Friday as the MSC _Magnifica_ celebrated its “harbour birthday.” Instead of [blasting Britney Spears](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/28/me-against-the-music-britney-spears-songs-are-being-used-to-scare-away-somali-pirates/) to ward off Somali pirates, perhaps cargo ships could learn a lesson here and start playing this surprisingly ominous-sounding cover to stay safe in dangerous waters. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/95361/seven-nation-army-cruise-ship/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/95361/seven-nation-army-cruise-ship/"},"headline":"Here's a Cruise Ship Playing 'Seven Nation Army' on Its Horns","datePublished":"2014-05-11T15:37:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:34.888Z","description":"It sounds like, as one YouTube commenter notes, the perfect theme song for an alien invasion","url":"https://time.com/95361/seven-nation-army-cruise-ship/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Viral Videos","Jack White"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/95361/seven-nation-army-cruise-ship/","name":"Here's a Cruise Ship Playing 'Seven Nation Army' on Its Horns"}}]}] ```