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WanderWisley@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

What song should be the national anthem of your country?

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What song should be the national anthem of your country?

WanderWisley@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days ago
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  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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    American Idiot - Green Day

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
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    United States of Whatever

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      Time to dredge this up again.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    John Cage - 4’33

    Everyone just has to sit in silence and think about why having a nationalist song is kinda weird in the light of the modern day

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      I see John Cage - 4’33, I upvote.

      When I think about it’s almost certainly my most listened to song. Some days I’ll just listen to it on repeat for hours

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    “My Oil”… talkin’ bout MY oil

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Entry of the Gladiators for America because it has become a fucking circus over here.

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      Hey now…

      That song rocks when its played by a proper brass band, it only sounds silly when you make it silly. Otherwise its a good march.

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    US should just change to the Russian national anthem until the current puppet is out of office

  • RaoulDuke85@piefed.social
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    Fuck the USA by The Exploited

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    Hamsterdance - USA.

    It captures the mindset of our current administration and it goes through my head whenever I think of the bumbling redneckery they churn out on a daily basis.

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    “America! fuck yeah! Coming again to save the motherfuckin day, yeah!”

    https://youtu.be/LasrD6SZkZk

    Edit: wow, this is hilariously relevant given the situation in Venezuela.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      This suggestion aged faster than milk…

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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      Porno,

      Fuck yeah!

      Valium,

      Fuck yeah!

      Edit after watching the video: fuck this so perfectly encapsulates America’s bullshit. Between firing a rocket launcher at a terrorist toppling the Eifel tower into the arc de Triomphe, and shooting a jeep into the Sphinx.

      I never watched the movie after I matured, I really should rewatch that movie.

      Also forgot there was a slowed down version, and while not sobbing, I did shed a tear. I feel Kamail Nanjiani crying during Godzilla.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    There’s only one right answer in Canada.

    And that is, of course, The Logdriver’s Waltz

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      The Logdriver’s Waltz

    • moistclump@lemmy.world
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      Preach

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    Where did you come from, Where did you go?

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      This person evils

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        You’re upset because its true

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
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    Current Country - USA: Probably the theme song of Team America. My brother showed it to me in like… idk 2015-2018 or something and I thought it was funny.

    Or alternatively: The Theme Song of Man in the High Castle (It’s about alt-history where nazi germany won and takes over America… fitting for current events)

    Previous Country - People’s Republic of China: This Mandarin Fan-Made version of 海闊天空 (Vast Oceans, Boundless Skies).

    The original 海闊天空 is the most popular song in the Canto-sphere, I think every Hong Konger or even most Guangzhou resident would know it. The original has the term 原諒我這一生不羈放縱 愛自由 (Forgive me for my entire life never giving up freedom) which I think it’s about personal freedom like careers and personal choices, not as in political, but Hong Kong protesters have used it as their unofficial anthem.

    This Mandarin version adds much more words that implies politics, but oddly enough, I don’t think this song got banned in China. Namewee (the person who made the Music Video) later made another MV that has more political anti-CCP lyrics that probably cross the government’s “red line” and he got banned from China for that. (Namewee is a Malaysian Citizen of Chinese Ethnicity)

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    Germany: David Hasselhoff - I’ve been looking for freedom

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      cynical version, both German Rap also Content Warning: too many bad things to list

      Disarstar - OneTake #32 / Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum

      K.I.Z - Oktoberfest

      https://lyricfluent.com/lyrics_translation/kiz_oktoberfest_tarek_kiz_mehnersmoos_lyrics_english_translation

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      I’m guessing you’re not German?

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        I am indeed german and I’ve been looking for some freedom lately.

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          Never realized Germans identified with this song, thought it was an Anglo-Saxon thing.

          • squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi
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            He single-handedly reunited Germany with this song

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            Germans LOVE Hasselhoff’s music for some reason.

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    It should be the Battle Hymn of the Republic, just with some of the original lyrics:

    John Brown’s body lies a moldering in the grave

    John Brown’s body lies a moldering in the grave

    John Brown’s body lies a moldering in the grave

    But his truth keeps marching on

    or

    We’ll hang Jeff Davis from a crab apple tree

    We’ll hang Jeff Davis from a crab apple tree

    We’ll hang Jeff Davis from a crab apple tree

    John Brown’s truth keeps marching on.

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    I have very, very strong opinions about the the US national anthem (the Star Spangled Banner). It’s too long, too boring, the words are weird because it was a poem first. As a kid, I had a hard time remembering the lyrics to the song (to put it in perspective, I had no problem remembering the Canadian national anthem after couple listens of the version that was on the South Park Movie OST). Furthermore, the US national anthem is written by a pro-slavery dick head. Lastly, 99% of people do not have the vocal range to hit the highest notes.

    You know what is a great, catchy song, that anyone can sing? Woodie Guthrie’s This Land is Your Land. I am half willing to drop the lines critical of the US government, if it means that it would be chosen as the national anthem. (Edit: grammar)

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      As a funny idea with American being so shallow and stupid these days I think the national anthem should be whatever was the number one song of the year before and it should change every year.

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