• yesman@lemmy.world
    6 days

    Unironically, the Soviet Union. I’ve herd that anthem a thousand times as a joke, but you know, it kinda slaps.

    Obviously I’m just talking about the arrangement and music because I’ve no idea what the lyrics mean.

  • HelloThere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6 days

    France fucks, any anthem about glorious dead and cunting monarchs in to the sun is immediately S tier.

    Sincerely, F tier UK.

    • ValiantDust@feddit.org
      6 days

      Qu’un sang impur
      Abreuve nos sillons !

      (May impure blood
      Water our furrows!)

      Can’t see anyone misinterpreting that.

      Don’t get me wrong, the Marseillaise slaps, but it does have some slighltly problematic aspects.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      6 days

      I’m a huge fan of O Canada. Always enjoyed catching hockey games where one of the Canadian teams came down and so I’d get to hear it. Also enjoyed seeing games up in Montreal and getting the Francophonian version.

      • BurgerBaron@quokk.auEnglish
        6 days

        The French lyrics are different too, not sure how many people outside of Canada even know that, sports fans aside! In Alberta schools since the 80’s they’ve sung the middle part of the song in French even if the kids have no idea what they’re saying 😅, here’s English translation:

        O Canada! Land of our ancestors,  
Thy brow is wreathed with glorious flowers.  
For thy arm knows how to carry the sword,  
It knows how to carry the cross!  
Thy history is an epic  
Of the most brilliant exploits.  
And thy valour, steeped in faith,  
Will protect our homes and our rights.  
Will protect our homes and our rights.

        Unfortunately very Christian.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
          5 days

          Land of our ancestors

          Wow that’s disgusting to include in the anthem considering the genocide of indigenous peoples that Canada is founded on and continues to perpetuate.

          • BurgerBaron@quokk.auEnglish
            5 days

            It’s barely a secret that’s still the case yes. You can tell by the french public resistance to make the french lyrics more secular as well. People have tried. It’s certainly embarrassing.

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
    5 days

    Romania

    Note: I am not Romanian

    The lyrics start with something like “Awaken from your graves and kill those barbaric tyrants”.

  • Balinares@pawb.social
    6 days

    Fuck all the war songs, Slovenia’s anthem is a drinking song called The Toast if I remember correctly.

    • pontata@lemmy.world
      5 days

      The full song is 8 verses long and all of them are in the shape of a wine cup, and the seventh verse is our national anthem. The entire song mainly talks about drinking which mostly sums up Slovenia :D

      And our anthem sings about peace among all nations not just ours which is rare I would say.

  • Dagnet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 days

    Brazil has a very complicated, beautiful and long national anthem. Its great and all but using such difficult words and being so long means most people here don’t know the full song much less understand its meaning.

    Funnily enough, I memorized and can sing the italian hymn because of my middle school, but can’t sing the full national anthem from my own country

    • NullCypher@lemmy.world
      6 days

      I am not sure they still do but back in the day at least some Brazilian text books used to have the national anthem on the back, thats how I learned the words.

  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world
    4 days

    I get jealous every ANZAC day when they play the New Zealand national anthem. So good.

    And they have their Mauri language right there too.

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6 days

    Ukraine’s national anthem is definitely up there. Part of the reason is that it’s writen by an actual songwriter instead of a poet, unlike the anthems of most western nations

  • Malta Soron@sopuli.xyz
    6 days

    France and the Netherlands have war songs for their national anthems that are pretty good.

    • xangadix@lemmy.world
      6 days

      I don’t know about France, but the Dutch anthem is not only a war song, it actually makes a lot of fun of Spain. As that was the enemy in the war the song is about. Which is always lots of fun during soccer matches against spain

      • gnutrino@programming.devEnglish
        5 days

        To the king of Spain I’ve granted A lifelong loyalty.

        That sure is some astringent piss taking there, I’m sure the Spanish are incandescent.

        • xangadix@lemmy.world
          5 days

          Yeah that line meant ironically. The geuzen sang it while slaughtering Spanish troops