Solution to Dorm Row

This is the metameta using the answers to the individual dorm row metas:

We are given an audio clip containing a series of pop songs. The fact that each of them abruptly cuts off in the middle of a line suggests finding the word immediately after the stop (this is also suggested by the reference to musical chairs, in which the music’s stopping point is very important). The songs and cut-off words are listed below:

Each of the seven unique cut-off words appears exactly twice among the 14 clips, confirming that they are relevant. From googling all these words together or recognizing the reference (“Winter is Coming” is probably the most famous), we find that each of them is part of the house words of one of the seven Westeros houses in the Song of Ice and Fire books / Game of Thrones TV series. (This is also hinted by the flavor, as "musical chairs" is a "Game of Thrones" and "western rows" is phonetically similar to Westeros.) Each of these houses’ sigils can be associated with a dorm answer, as follows:

The final step is to use the lengths of each of the clips, each of which is an exact integer number of seconds. This is also slightly hinted at by one of the clips being extremely short (Take Me Home, Country Roads) as well as the musical chairs theming (since you walk around the chairs for the length of the music). We index these lengths into the dorm answers:

Dorm row needs to CALL EC’S DRAGONS (a pun on Khaleesi, the title of Daenerys Targaryen, who owns some dragons; EC is how the MIT dorm East Campus is often called) to warm themselves up!