hot take, but national anthems are just terrible songs. the lyrics are bad. the arrangements are bad. everything about them sucks.
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Proposal: get a new anthem every few years (say, for example, 5).
Additional proposal: don't get tied up by the nationality of the author (I kinda want a j-pop Italian anthem).
Sadly, there are still generations of people who have been trained to love their anthem unconditionally and uncritically (e.g.: my parents).
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@typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt The Italian anthem is all about getting the lads together to go to war against Austria. That's a bit dated, I think.
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@bovaz the portuguese one is about being very proud and nationalistic, and also about fighting against the british because they "stole" africa from portugal.
... yes really.
they changed one word to no longer reference the british, and they don't really teach any of this in schools afaik, so i guess most people have no clue what the national anthem is about.
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@typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt so, if the lyrics don't reference the british, what's the anthem "about" now? How an unnamed someone "stole" Africa?
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@bovaz well the anthem didn't talk about africa directly, i just mean that is the reason why the original lyrics said "contra os bretoes" ("against the brits"). now it says "contra os canhoes" ("against the cannons").
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