'EXPRESS Yourself' doesn't seem likely to be a favourite song for Aidan McCrory, and it's very unlikely he'll have heard it when sampled by Tinchy Stryder or Labrinth.
Yet that funky classic could be the theme tune for this current Tyrone team, in his estimation.
The Errigal Ciaran clubman admitted he really notices the generation gap in the Tyrone squad now, even though he's still not 30 himself.
He came onto the senior panel six years ago, at the age of 23. "I was a young cub at that stage – now I'm the opposite," he says.
Now there are 13 players on the 34-strong squad who are 23 or younger.
The fresh attitude they have brought has really lifted the Red Hands, he reckons, even if he doesn't recognise the tunes they're playing.
"Ah, it wouldn't be my musical taste. I wouldn't even know what they would call it – there's not a lot of words to some of it.
"I suppose, it's the culture now of a younger generation of expressing yourself. They're always coming in with smiles on their heads and they're fairly free-living and happy people. They're happy to be at training."
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When a reporter jokingly asks if illegal substances are involved, he laughs "No, we get drug-tested, it's not like that."
"The last couple of years the characters that we have around seem to have gelled really well. A lot of the players complement each other.
"You can be in the middle of a tough drill in training, and some of the boys might come out with something and everybody will burst out laughing. It does bring a wee bit of craic to training.
"They're good lads, and they're here to improve themselves and to express themselves, they're good to have about.
"We've a few lively younger boys in there and even Mickey [Harte] gets involved in that, boys messing about and Mickey would be in taking a hand out of some of them. Some of the boys have really brought life into the squad and into the management."
That altered attitude applies during games too. McCrory was brought in as a traditional man-marker, but he often finds himself high up the pitch nowadays.
Indeed on occasions against Armagh in the recent All-Ireland quarter-final, he appeared in the left corner, then the right corner – the corners of the Tyrone attack, that is.
"We all train to learn how to shoot, we all train to learn how to tackle," said McCrory.
"It's not a thing if, you're a defender, you should be learning how to defend, or you're a forward, you should be learning how to score.
"Mickey wants us all to be fit to do everything, because any one of our players could end up anywhere on the pitch at any given time, and if it happens to be a corner-back at corner-forward and he gets the ball, he needs to be confident to be fit to score or do what he needs to do with the ball.
"Our philosophy is that when we have the ball, we have to do whatever we can to give us the best opportunity to get a score out of it.
"It's complete freedom in that you have to judge for yourself what will best serve the team. At times that might be support the play, at times it might be sit back, but whenever we have the ball, it's pretty much open licence."
He still isn't one of Tyrone's 17 scorers in the Championship so far this season – or even in the Championship, in fact - but he did grab a goal against Dublin down in Croke Park in the League this year.
Although he's set to make his 100th senior appearance for Tyrone if selected for Sunday's semi-final, he hasn't faced Dublin in Championship combat.
Yet he was on the bench for the 2011 All-Ireland quarter-final against them and the experience in the squad of such big matches could be invaluable.
His memories are of noise. Just noise. And waving arms around frantically.
He's not back on the subject of modern 'music' but rather the wall of sound emanating from the Dublin support, which is of greater concern to him.
"We have played in Croke Park. We're used to the changing rooms, we're used to the field. The thing is, when you're playing Dublin, the crowd is so vocal, that you can't actually hear people on the pitch.
"Someone could be 10 yards in front of you and you could be screaming at him, and he mightn't hear you. So you have to be more aware, to be looking around you."
"A lot of it is just preparing; knowing that that's coming, that you're not going to be able to hear people or communicate as well.
"So you have to be more aware, to be looking around you … that someone can't maybe give you that call, that you've missed something or you should be doing something else."
Hand signals don't help - "not particularly…You try and practise what you're doing as best you can. You just hope players get to know each other and you should know your role, and that on the day you're just aware."
Arm-waving does go on: "Whatever you can. You'd be screaming but, chances are, he just won't hear you. You just deal with it as best you can. There's probably not a wild lot you can do to really prepare for it."
McCrory was part of the panel in 2011 when the counties last met in Championship, Dublin destroying Tyrone by more than the 0-22 to 0-15 score-line suggested in an All-Ireland quarter-final.
"Realistically, from then until now, we're both very different teams...
"They were, I suppose, just at the start of their good times, and since then we have had a high turnover of players. We have brought a lot of new players in."
The big question is can Tyrone change the record and be the team dancing in celebration on Sunday evening?
