Even Amerika sounds better

I can’t say this shit in work, so I’m gonna say it here.

10 points

The German and Hungarian anthems are just as bad

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Germany, sure, but Hungary… Hungary’s fine.

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8 points

No, it’s boring bland euro music with embarrassing lyrics

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Germany also has a cool anthem

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10 points

I read somewhere that “Auferstanden Aus Ruinen” was deliberately written so that you can adapt its lyrics to “Deutschlandlied” as well as “Ode to Joy” and vice versa. It doesn’t quite work once you get to the end of a verse, but it does mostly work.

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16 points

National Anthems are a shit genre

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14 points

I like national anthems!

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14 points

I mostly agree, but sometimes they have the perfect level of drama, like that scene in Casablanca

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11 points

Whenever Ferrari wins in F1 they play the Italian anthem and it’s a lovely jaunty march.

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Whenever i hear the Italian national anthem, i imagine the lyrics to just be “Italia, Italia, Italia, Italiaaaa” over and over again. idk why

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That would be better than the patriarchal bullshit that “fratelli d’Italia” is

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A good national anthem should be a bad song. Think about it. A soldier crying and saluting an objectively brilliant piece that makes you want to cry? Meaningless. The song makes everyone want to cry. But that same soldier crying to a mediocre 19th century drinking song with the most forgettable orchestral backdrop you’ve ever heard? Damn, he must really love his country to be moved by that piece of shit

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23 points

Auferstanden aus Ruinen is fire

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5 points

Such a beautiful anthem, only New Zealand, The Internationale, and the Soviet ANthem come close.

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3 points

New Zealand

It’s just a pop song though. And it has more mentions of god than an average church song. Also sounds hollow because it’s still the anthem for Anglo settler state.

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18 points

Is it still god save the queen, i honestly don’t knkw

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24 points

It is. Except it’s “king”, which just sounds worse.

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14 points

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Ew yeah that’s nasty

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9 points

how many royals must die so britain goes back to its natural state of having a queen

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21 points

Even Amerika sounds better

You mean The Anacreontic Song?

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