National Anthems of the World: The Beautiful, Boring and Bonkers

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

Комментарии • 18 тыс.

  • @AlternateHistoryHub
    @AlternateHistoryHub  3 года назад +6835

    This was meant to come out after an actual alternate history video. But scheduling switched em. So you got this first. If you want to contribute to this madness, follow me on Twitter I guess. twitter.com/AltHistoryHub
    Art style is just experimenting for future side projects

    • @chickenwarriorr
      @chickenwarriorr 3 года назад +30

      Keep up the great vids

    • @stevenandersen6989
      @stevenandersen6989 3 года назад +42

      Good video, weird animation style, but still good. I just ask you one thing, PLEEAAASE DONT GO LIKE KNOWLEDGE HUB!

    • @MK53114
      @MK53114 3 года назад +13

      New art style looks nice

    • @wyattpereira3336
      @wyattpereira3336 3 года назад

      You've just fed my addiction of looking to see if you've uploaded every 5 minutes.

    • @spaceguy9326
      @spaceguy9326 3 года назад +2

      God save the king was a poem that denounced the jacobites.

  • @KhAnubis
    @KhAnubis 3 года назад +25107

    Interestingly, the East German anthem had the line “Germany, united fatherland”, which I guess would have made more sense nowadays, but oh well

    • @yin6287
      @yin6287 3 года назад +1006

      Yeah gotta agree with that. Really wish if Germany use this instead the older anthem.

    • @vonKraehe
      @vonKraehe 3 года назад +639

      I would have just wished that they would have united the songs, since both songs use the same tack anyway & "Germany, united fatherland" used the melody of the "Germany song" in the early years ...

    • @pingpingsson8401
      @pingpingsson8401 3 года назад +463

      The hymn was written when both governments were seeking to unite, but as the divisions became more definitive it just became an awkward reminder of the ideological split, beautiful anthem nonetheless

    • @luisvilca4467
      @luisvilca4467 3 года назад +51

      Only true men of culture know where they heard it first

    • @iszox2973
      @iszox2973 3 года назад +265

      The Line: Deutschland einig Vaterland was removed from the east German anthem as the foreign policy shifted from demanding Unification in the 50's to the co-existence in the 70's to the opposition of reeunification in the 80's. It was then sung by protestors demanding unification in 1989.

  • @mekafinchi
    @mekafinchi 3 года назад +28307

    I love how the Soviet anthem needs only a single chord for you to know it’s the Soviet anthem

    • @BasicLib
      @BasicLib 3 года назад +3777

      It god teir music
      Say what you will about the USSR, their anthem slaps hard

    • @BasicLib
      @BasicLib 3 года назад +1321

      Kinda like the red army

    • @jasonguess6951
      @jasonguess6951 3 года назад +539

      @@BasicLib the internationale is better tbh

    • @jordisaura6748
      @jordisaura6748 3 года назад +234

      Just one note

    • @robertjarman3703
      @robertjarman3703 3 года назад +96

      @@jasonguess6951 You got a favourite version of it? I can't quite decide.

  • @BygoneChina
    @BygoneChina 3 года назад +14488

    Not every nation has an anthem - Afghanistan under the Taliban didn't have an anthem, because music was banned.

    • @satakrionkryptomortis
      @satakrionkryptomortis 3 года назад +934

      you dont have an anthem. you are not a country.

    • @FriedrichBarb
      @FriedrichBarb 3 года назад +1184

      Wait what? Is this really true did the Taliban really ban music or is there a joke I’m missing? lol

    • @curiouswind9196
      @curiouswind9196 3 года назад +300

      @@satakrionkryptomortis So I can have a anthem abut no flag or freedon but still be counted as a country?

    • @MASB29
      @MASB29 3 года назад +418

      @@FriedrichBarb Yes, yes they are

    • @Brams2777
      @Brams2777 3 года назад +239

      Didn't they recently ban women from singing?

  • @4SeasonProducer
    @4SeasonProducer 10 месяцев назад +720

    "The further east you go, the calmer the anthem is"
    Phillipines:

    • @Kureemy
      @Kureemy 4 месяца назад +42

      *anti-colonization intensifies*

    • @JetstreamGW
      @JetstreamGW 4 месяца назад +42

      I mean, I think we can slot the Philippines in with the Latin American countries, at least spiritually, yeah?

    • @ronaldhui3663
      @ronaldhui3663 3 месяца назад +7

      Glory to thee, Hong Kong: *ehem*

    • @Cloud_that_looks_like_a_cat
      @Cloud_that_looks_like_a_cat 3 месяца назад

      Why was it banned?

    • @4SeasonProducer
      @4SeasonProducer 3 месяца назад +11

      @@JetstreamGW Someone called phillipines "Water mexico"

  • @enchantedsteel1128
    @enchantedsteel1128 3 года назад +5023

    “Every nation has a song, even Somalia has a song, and it doesn’t have a country”
    Now That’s allot a damage

    • @Nick-kk4kc
      @Nick-kk4kc 3 года назад +85

      Damn was not prepared for a Phil Swift reference in this comment section

    • @abdAlmajedSaleh
      @abdAlmajedSaleh 3 года назад +5

      F him I'm standing right there inthat place

    • @Oklahomarailfan.
      @Oklahomarailfan. 3 года назад +78

      “I Sawed this country in half”

    • @nick.3455
      @nick.3455 3 года назад +3

      XD

    • @SalX22
      @SalX22 3 года назад +15

      Somalia is a country tho

  • @LedosKell
    @LedosKell 3 года назад +2305

    "LET'S GO ON AN ADVENTURE, CHILD SOLDIER."
    Congo's anthem is the unofficial anthem of MMO's.

    • @breakerdawn8429
      @breakerdawn8429 3 года назад +55

      Now i want an rpg game as a child soldiers.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 3 года назад +40

      Me looking at JRPG characters: makes sense, they already look like children.

    • @renlevy411
      @renlevy411 3 года назад +23

      @@breakerdawn8429 Wait isn't that like everysingle JRPG and This War of Mine.

    • @breakerdawn8429
      @breakerdawn8429 3 года назад +7

      @@renlevy411 Yeah but i was more imagining an anime like JRPG but takes place at the Central African Republic. Nit sure how you'll write the story though.

    • @imperialzealot2939
      @imperialzealot2939 3 года назад +16

      weebs don't go to hell, they are "isekaied" to congo.

  • @namenamename390
    @namenamename390 2 года назад +3251

    The "Germany, Germany, above all" thing is one of the most misunderstood lines ever. The original meaning is not as bad as it seems. When the song was written, there was no german state. There were a lot of small states that spoke german. The line "Germany, Germany, above all" does not intend to say that Germany is the best country (how could it when that country didn't exist?), it says that the german speaking people desire nothing more than a single, unified german state.
    Of course, the Nazis misused the song to actually imply that Germany is better than any other country, but this is a wrong interpretation of the lyrics.

    • @seileach67
      @seileach67 2 года назад +229

      So kind of like when people say "put country before party" or "put nation above state(province)"?

    • @AsgardVenture
      @AsgardVenture 2 года назад +316

      @@seileach67 yes, that is how it was meant originally. Put a united german nation state above the kingdoms small states

    • @WonkOfWonkyness
      @WonkOfWonkyness 2 года назад +85

      Korrekt mein freund.

    • @deleted-something
      @deleted-something 2 года назад +2

      Rip

    • @stevemc01
      @stevemc01 2 года назад +107

      Just like the Swastika, the Nazis oofed everything remotely good about Germany before them (swasti isn't even German lol).

  • @lowberrymix
    @lowberrymix 11 месяцев назад +90

    I have to tell you that this is one of my favourite videos. I always come back and watch it in through completely! The azerbaijan part is one of the things i look forward the most and the broad overview of different anthems in the middle!

  • @Atlantjan
    @Atlantjan 3 года назад +2964

    Fun fact, you can sing the lyrics of the German and East German anthems to the melody of the respective other and it almost works out perfectly.

    • @Snookbone
      @Snookbone 3 года назад +111

      Lots of songs can be sung to the tune of another. Many English hymn books contain an index of syllables in the verses so that sets of words can be sung to different tunes if desired.

    • @SkippertheBart
      @SkippertheBart 3 года назад +47

      Still a fun fact though. I liked it.

    • @josephfox9221
      @josephfox9221 3 года назад +95

      @@SkippertheBart True I song the US national Athem to the beat of the soviet nation anthem.
      I suspect I have made numerous enemies in the afterlife.

    • @YvonTripper
      @YvonTripper 3 года назад +49

      Yes because the East German lyrics were originally written as new verses for the old German anthem. The Commy government liked the new words but didn't want to use the old tune, so they commissioned a new tune.

    • @janbumms438
      @janbumms438 3 года назад +14

      Or you sing it to „eine Insel mit zwei Bergen“

  • @joedellinger9437
    @joedellinger9437 3 года назад +6410

    Poland’s has the most amazing starting verse: “Poland is not yet dead, as long as I yet live”. Wow, harsh history there.

    • @lanvinseandelossantos6118
      @lanvinseandelossantos6118 3 года назад +677

      Ngl, Dabrowski's Mazurka is pretty badass, especially fitting for a country that *insists* on existing.

    • @Alex_7899
      @Alex_7899 3 года назад +532

      Poland is not yet lost, so long as we still live.
      What the foreign forces took from us, at saberpoint we shall retrieve.
      March, march, Dabrowski, from the Italian lands to Poland.
      Under your command, we shall rejoin our fatherland.

    • @taloob493
      @taloob493 3 года назад +302

      "we aren't dead *yet*" setting the bar really low poland

    • @jamesrussellangeles4054
      @jamesrussellangeles4054 3 года назад +273

      @@taloob493 Well, you can't set a bar if you're dead

    • @bartoszkosmowski7149
      @bartoszkosmowski7149 3 года назад +331

      @@taloob493 I mean it was writen when country was already wipe out of the maps.

  • @orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332
    @orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332 3 года назад +2506

    "Come child soldier, let's go on an adventure."
    You owe me a glass of lemonade Cody.

    • @minecraft-me4609
      @minecraft-me4609 3 года назад +87

      There a tax for that

    • @pawsteps6053
      @pawsteps6053 3 года назад +11

      @Minecraft-me wdym?
      I know social studies and american revolution and stuff but this has nothing to do with america, as far as I know.

    • @biggiec8224
      @biggiec8224 3 года назад +48

      @@pawsteps6053 it's a reference to the youtube channel "Oversimplified"

    • @ReformedSooner24
      @ReformedSooner24 3 года назад +3

      XD

    • @BuckingBadger
      @BuckingBadger 3 года назад +5

      +Minecraft-me dude....uncool

  • @HolasoyGamerpromedioreal
    @HolasoyGamerpromedioreal Год назад +136

    12:16 That is not Spain anthem ,that is NATIONAL/FASCIST spain anthem. It was settled in the Francisco Franco dictatorship. Actually , the anthem is just the music and there is no lyrics . I do not reccommend to sing it becose they may consider you Fascist.

    • @nahuelpintocavilla8190
      @nahuelpintocavilla8190 Месяц назад +12

      I was looking for this and couldn't explain it better, but to give my two cents, Spaniards nicknamed the anthem "lolo lolo", since it has no lyrics and can't be properly 'sung'.

    • @HolasoyGamerpromedioreal
      @HolasoyGamerpromedioreal Месяц назад +3

      @@nahuelpintocavilla8190 probably lol

    • @runningoven
      @runningoven 15 дней назад

      @@nahuelpintocavilla8190 Wait, did we?

    • @thecatman2400
      @thecatman2400 14 дней назад +1

      It wasn’t settled during Franco’s dictatorship, but before to unite right-wing members. It was made by Miguel Primo de Rivera 8 years before the Civil War

    • @HolasoyGamerpromedioreal
      @HolasoyGamerpromedioreal 14 дней назад +1

      @thecatman2400 still not the Anthem , but I appreciate historical knowledge
      👍

  • @yours_truly_Pioter
    @yours_truly_Pioter 3 года назад +5610

    Fun fact, Polish Anthem mentiones Italy and Italian Anthem mentiones Poland.

    • @klqritt567
      @klqritt567 3 года назад +275

      that's what I thought too, even if in italian we actually say "polish", are you italian too?

    • @meatilicious1900
      @meatilicious1900 3 года назад +724

      Two best buddies with absolutely no historic tension between them at any point

    • @leoc326
      @leoc326 3 года назад +35

      can you post the lines?

    • @emilturangi7145
      @emilturangi7145 3 года назад +541

      It's like when Terraria tells you to try Minecraft, and Minecraft tells to try Terraria. Nice

    • @cheaterman49
      @cheaterman49 3 года назад +1

      LOL

  • @kored8688
    @kored8688 3 года назад +904

    Fun fact: Sweden doesn't have an official anthem. The Swedish parliament have debated whether or not they should adapt "Du gamla, du fria" as the official anthem, but never passed it into law. The argument is that since the Swedish people all consider it their anthem, that's a stronger claim than any law passed down from the state would ever be.
    That also means that if all Swedes just started to sing "Waterloo" by ABBA at hockey and football games for long enough, that would eventually become Swedens anthem.

    • @kj134
      @kj134 3 года назад +33

      Do it. Please.

    • @ohwowitsthatguy9154
      @ohwowitsthatguy9154 3 года назад +176

      "The argument is that since the Swedish people all consider it their anthem, that's a stronger claim than any law passed down from the state would ever be."
      That's actually a beautiful sentiment.

    • @pmsavenger
      @pmsavenger 3 года назад +10

      I don't know which one would be the worst, du gamla, du fria, or waterloo! Probably still du gamla, du fria tbh. I seriously would rather have the intro to vilse i pankakan than that.

    • @ChaosMan50ty
      @ChaosMan50ty 3 года назад +13

      "du gamla" sounds like "du gammler" which means "you bum" in german lol

    • @Ragedaonenlonely
      @Ragedaonenlonely 3 года назад +11

      @@ChaosMan50ty It means "you old". Or "You Old, You Free" for the full title.

  • @youraveragewizard5079
    @youraveragewizard5079 3 года назад +742

    Other countries: "Look at our beautiful landscapes and architecture."
    Liechtenstein: "Castle"

    • @HiopX
      @HiopX 3 года назад +33

      Hey, castles are awesome.

    • @wtr3059
      @wtr3059 3 года назад +65

      Isn't that pretty much the extent of Liechtenstein's landscape and architecture?

    • @Death_Korps_Officer
      @Death_Korps_Officer 3 года назад +37

      @@wtr3059 I believe it's just that castle, and the town around it.

    • @Thegreatercheese
      @Thegreatercheese 3 года назад +19

      If you've got it, flaunt it.
      That being said I hope they're maintaining that castle.

    • @elaineb7065
      @elaineb7065 3 года назад +3

      @@HiopX Went to Milano. Some Spaniards in the hostel said "you've got to see the duomo (cathedral)", I reply: "I'm Scottish: I prefer castles!!!" I went to both

  • @dochka
    @dochka Год назад +277

    the best thing about the Irish national anthem is seeing people sing one line in Irish, then the next in English, depending on whichever they remember first

    • @agilemind6241
      @agilemind6241 7 месяцев назад +23

      We have something similar in Canada, only it usually ends up as people awkwardly mumbling through the verses sung in not their native tongue. As there are full lyrics in both French and English and for official events it is supposed to be sung in both languages taking turns for different verses.

    • @michaelkearney5616
      @michaelkearney5616 2 месяца назад +3

      We dont really do that

  • @Kurantins
    @Kurantins 3 года назад +8418

    Fun fact: The reason queen Elizabeth hasn't died, is because of the anthem's healing abilities.

    • @qwagp1675
      @qwagp1675 3 года назад +49

      no shit sherlock

    • @Divontus
      @Divontus 3 года назад +1000

      At one point in time, this comment will age poorly

    • @lilacpen8678
      @lilacpen8678 3 года назад +268

      @Koby Cossins He e'nt the queen, is he?

    • @e.a9751
      @e.a9751 3 года назад +48

      @VegetaOrAra ah yes satanic powers

    • @JonatasMonte
      @JonatasMonte 3 года назад +12

      @@Divontus Yes, yours

  • @jjFortythree
    @jjFortythree 3 года назад +2734

    I'm german and my music teacher wanted to sing the anthem but accidentally printed the whole song and than a second class shouted/sang "Deutschland Deutschland über alles" :*

    • @agecom6071
      @agecom6071 3 года назад +276

      Your music teacher let you guys sing this? Mine would have rather amputated his hand xD

    • @jjFortythree
      @jjFortythree 3 года назад +247

      @@agecom6071 she only wanted to sing the allowed part cuz after discussing anthems in class and what they mean to their country, nearly nobody knew what the German anthem sounds like

    • @linajurgensen4698
      @linajurgensen4698 3 года назад +72

      Well it’s not forbidden

    • @erort1
      @erort1 3 года назад +29

      Its forbidden to sing ist out loud...

    • @nuster7816
      @nuster7816 3 года назад +231

      @@erort1 no it isnt. Its forbidden to sing all 3 Phrases in an Official Ceremony.
      You are allowed to sing all 3 Phrases out loud so far its not meant to be the National Anthem of todays Germany.
      And honestly... its nothing bad about this anthem

  • @ipaanthem
    @ipaanthem 6 месяцев назад +41

    1:57 France
    2:20 Palestine
    2:54 11:52 16:09 UK 16:21 Rule Britainnia
    3:00 Liechtenstein
    4:43 Aruba
    5:09 10:53 Azerbaijan
    5:25 14:33 Germany
    5:44 Prussia?
    6:55 Brazil
    7:10 (idk)
    7:30 Canada
    7:41 Sweden
    7:54 Italy
    8:12 Scotland
    8:25 Czechia
    8:35 Serbia
    8:44 Saudi Arabia
    9:00 9:31 Botswana
    9:20 Sudan
    9:25 South Sudan
    9:43 Ghana
    9:51 Nigeria
    10:00 Ethiopia
    10:11 Uganda
    10:21 Mozambique
    10:30 (idk)
    10:46 11:08 Japan
    11:00 Iran
    11:02 Afghanistan
    11:04 Pakistan
    11:05 Mongolia
    11:15 Australia
    11:27 New Zealand
    12:08 Democratic Republic of the Congo
    12:16 Spain
    12:24 Puerto Rico
    12:31 China
    12:39 The Bahamas
    13:05 Indonesia
    13:19 Poland
    13:27 Ottoman Empire
    13:52 (idk)
    13:58 Libya (Gaddafi)
    14:05 Rhodesia
    14:08 Russia 1991
    14:29 14:36 East Germany
    15:08 USA 15:35 Battle Hymn of the Republic 15:50 (idk)
    16:41 USSR

    • @alexlaws5086
      @alexlaws5086 5 месяцев назад

      15:50 is our version of 'God Save the King', better known as 'America' or 'My Country 'Tis of Thee'. Ours is better.

    • @battleshippotemkin4633
      @battleshippotemkin4633 2 месяца назад +2

      Thats not the palestinian thats the peruvian anthem

    • @cat5lover862
      @cat5lover862 2 месяца назад +2

      @@alexlaws5086I’m pretty sure it’s America the beautiful

    • @alexlaws5086
      @alexlaws5086 Месяц назад +1

      @@cat5lover862 I'll keep it real with you, it's been 3 months, I don't know what in the world I was thinking at that time. You're correct.

    • @stereoLuigi
      @stereoLuigi Месяц назад

      It's sad that Turkiye is not here. The March of Independence is a masterpiece.

  • @randomstuff8149
    @randomstuff8149 3 года назад +842

    "The Chinese before the revolution"
    Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

    • @seanj4119
      @seanj4119 3 года назад +43

      The Taiwanese national anthem is pretty nice, and actually won the national anthem contest at the 1936 Olympics. Hitler apparently threw a fit over it.

    • @martijn9568
      @martijn9568 3 года назад +8

      @@seanj4119 But Taiwan didn't exist back then as a nation didn't they??

    • @seanj4119
      @seanj4119 3 года назад +43

      @@martijn9568 Of course, it was the Republic of China at the time.

    • @halorecon95
      @halorecon95 3 года назад +24

      @@seanj4119 It still is dammit! I mean, God says so, so it must be true! (The Vatican does not recognize the PRC and still only recognizes the ROC, aka Taiwan)

    • @trihermawan9553
      @trihermawan9553 3 года назад +4

      @@halorecon95 which gods are you talking about? If you consider the one who sit at vatican as your god then yes, but as far as i know, christian dont worship human

  • @danielgstohl9993
    @danielgstohl9993 3 года назад +2795

    A note about the first stanza of the German anthem:
    The phrase "Germany, Germany above all in the world" had a very different meaning in the context it was written in.
    It was a time when Germany as a nation didn't exist and was made up of many small indepent realms. In that context it meant putting the new unified German nation above the smaller states.
    Of course, times change and so those words mean something entirely different in the context of the 20th and 21st centuries, so it makes sense they weren't kept.

    • @MetallGecko1
      @MetallGecko1 3 года назад +340

      Its sad that most people think that this part is about the superiority of Germany and not about the Idea of a Unified German state above their little duchies and Kingdoms.

    • @HollowBonezz
      @HollowBonezz 3 года назад +169

      @@MetallGecko1 Agreed. Tbf most people are not familiar with the history of Germany's unification.

    • @danielgstohl9993
      @danielgstohl9993 3 года назад +86

      I think at the end of its use it was understood and used that way by Germans too though. The meaning of these words depends a lot on their context.
      It was good as a rallying cry within a forming nation, but not a good one to represent a unified Germany to the world.

    • @torhenryandreassen6144
      @torhenryandreassen6144 3 года назад +36

      Aye, its an awesome song - shame Germany can't seem to shake off all the, in a word, trauma of WW2. One oughtn't forget, of course, but accept the past for what it is.

    • @michaeltamke8542
      @michaeltamke8542 3 года назад +64

      There is another problem with the first stanza aside from the "Germany above all in the world", it's the fact of territory descriptions/claims which are no longer true. Singing those would probalby seriously disturb the neighbourging countries.
      @Tor Henry Andreassen as a German myself I can tell you, the anthem is sung only to special occasions like football or else, on lesser occasions I would not come by easy singing the anthem. History is still present and must not be forgotten to strive for a better future.

  • @dorfikloss4544
    @dorfikloss4544 Год назад +1461

    What most people (also Germans) don't know is that the verse "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" isn't reffering to "Germany over all the other states", but "united Germany as an idea or goal above everything else". Because it came from a time in which Germany wasn't one big state but a lot of small kingdoms and states loosely categorized as Germany

    • @IchhabezuvielYoutubegegucktO_o
      @IchhabezuvielYoutubegegucktO_o Год назад +142

      Yeah the reason why we don't sing that part anymore is because the landmarks used to describe Germany aren't german anymore, so we would sing about how parts of other countries are german...

    • @zero.Identity
      @zero.Identity Год назад +63

      ​@@IchhabezuvielRUclipsgegucktO_o which in return though WAS what hitler wanted - get all old german land back (and more, but thats what he said at the beginning)
      which is why it also not sung anymore, because it would paint a picture of nazi beliefs.

    • @waltergro9102
      @waltergro9102 Год назад

      Germans know that because the sentence obviousy has the meaning. Germans don't depend on wrong malicious translations of enemies.

    • @Terzis-hat-swag
      @Terzis-hat-swag Год назад +18

      The most germans also dont know that their anthem was the old anthem of austrian kaiser reich i think (an austrian friend said that to me and i looked it up and its true)

    • @lobrazs5330
      @lobrazs5330 Год назад +25

      @@Terzis-hat-swag That's true, the original is called "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" (God preserve Franz the Emperor)

  • @sonicrose8430
    @sonicrose8430 Год назад +120

    Italy’s anthem gets super hype when it’s being played at the F1 Italian GP with an Italian driver on top of the podium oh and if they drive for Ferrari? You will never hear a country more fucking hyped during its anthem.

    • @ekmad
      @ekmad 3 месяца назад +8

      Shoutout to Charles Leclerc winning for Ferrari. Incredible scenes on the podium

    • @dannyboy-vtc5741
      @dannyboy-vtc5741 2 месяца назад +2

      Le marseillaise, when they play some international football or even handball game, the entire attendance sings like crazy, i mean we all sing our anthems, as a croat, yeah for sure we sing it, and italians for sure, yeah i watch motorsports, but the french left me flabbergasted how unison it sounded and well sang for such a crowd.

  • @valerianperuser1615
    @valerianperuser1615 3 года назад +829

    The Soviet anthem is like the Megalovania of national anthems, you literally only need to hear first note and you instantly know.

    • @presofcamelot
      @presofcamelot 2 года назад +74

      Megalovania: Doot
      Soviet anthem: *DAAAAAAAAaaaa*

    • @aatreyo2214
      @aatreyo2214 2 года назад +3

      hey hold on is that the flag of Zeiberland (this is its creator here)

    • @davefred
      @davefred 2 года назад +4

      And it's as annoying as megalovania

    • @Wrugwrugwrug
      @Wrugwrugwrug 2 года назад +19

      @@davefred annoying ?

    • @goldenproductions7831
      @goldenproductions7831 2 года назад +6

      @@davefred annoying?

  • @Old_Harry7
    @Old_Harry7 3 года назад +825

    Fun Fact:
    Italy and Poland reference each other in their rispective national anthem.

    • @ruffedgrouse2711
      @ruffedgrouse2711 3 года назад +12

      In what way?

    • @Old_Harry7
      @Old_Harry7 3 года назад +158

      @@ruffedgrouse2711
      Polish national anthem:
      March, march, Dąbrowski,
      From the Italian land to Poland.
      Under your command
      We shall rejoin the nation.
      Italian national anthem:
      Mercenary swords,
      they're feeble reeds.
      The Austrian eagle
      Has already lost its plumes.
      The blood of Italy
      and the Polish blood
      It drank, along with the Cossack,
      But it burned its heart.

    • @theotmt7906
      @theotmt7906 3 года назад +31

      Ye they were great friends, In world war two, Italy didn't treat Poland like the Germans did, In world war one, Austro Hungarian soldiers who were of polish descent were put in specialized POW camps made specially for Polish troops.

    • @frigginjerk
      @frigginjerk 3 года назад +17

      @@ruffedgrouse2711 The Italian anthem has a verse that goes, "Hey, I bring-a you Pollacks de ravioli. Is like-a de little pierogies, ah?" And the Polish anthem is just "You are trying to cheet me" for five minutes.
      Source: ethnic stereotypes in America.

    • @solared
      @solared 3 года назад

      and the netherlands' anthem references germany and is written as a telling of the king's life i think

  • @saxboi1144
    @saxboi1144 3 года назад +1798

    "You can just picture this playing as the Death Star appears over the horizon to blow up Armeni- I mean, Alderaan"
    Holy shit that got me.

    • @Iron-Jupiter
      @Iron-Jupiter 3 года назад +109

      Where are the 1 million Armenians Turkey, you said it was migration Turkey.

    • @ravioligaleoli930
      @ravioligaleoli930 3 года назад +2

      And Imperial Germany?

    • @bebus6884
      @bebus6884 3 года назад +81

      Okay imma say it here. Why don't people talk about the Armenian genocide more. It was like comparable to the holocaust of percentage of ethnic group killed but yet nobody talks about it. Its so fucking weird.

    • @saxboi1144
      @saxboi1144 3 года назад +83

      @@bebus6884 Because the world doesn't want to upset Turkey for some dumb reason. The only reason the US hasn't acknowledged the Genocide yet is because we have a military base there that would be critical in a war against Russia. It's all politics, and it's fucking disgusting.

    • @Iron-Jupiter
      @Iron-Jupiter 3 года назад +13

      @@bebus6884 saxboi said the political reason but the public reason is that it just didn’t have as large of an impact to the world at large.

  • @Unknownmonkey13
    @Unknownmonkey13 5 месяцев назад +28

    For the longest time I actually thought Rule Britannia WAS the national anthem of Britain.
    Also fun fact, Sweden's national anthem isn't actually codified into law, it's just de facto our anthem.

  • @NardoVogt
    @NardoVogt 3 года назад +2204

    "It would be fitting playing in the morning in a concentration camp"
    And that was the moment cody got on a very black list in Beijing.

    • @509Gman
      @509Gman 3 года назад +140

      Like the Pooh flag didn’t do it.

    • @dudebruh8534
      @dudebruh8534 3 года назад +4

      yes I did sadly

    • @thinbluemerican470
      @thinbluemerican470 3 года назад +24

      55 rage in Peking

    • @Jesus_Offical
      @Jesus_Offical 3 года назад +9

      @@thinbluemerican470 oh 55 days in peking is fire

    • @redshirt5126
      @redshirt5126 3 года назад +8

      Lets be honest, he also got put on a black list here in the US.

  • @AlekThink
    @AlekThink 2 года назад +4235

    Aruba anthem: chilling
    Ukraine: depression
    Nigeria: proudness
    Soviet: marching
    Azerbaijan: *WAR OF WIZARDS*

    • @putinslittlehacker4793
      @putinslittlehacker4793 2 года назад +81

      ngl i was thinking it sounds like something the klingons would use as there anthem, the azerbaijan anthum that is

    • @eaar
      @eaar 2 года назад +66

      0:25 AMONG US

    • @XenaAndKin
      @XenaAndKin 2 года назад +25

      Switzerland: *Opera intensifies*

    • @hellion6737
      @hellion6737 2 года назад +9

      Sri Lanka: Lionn

    • @zerbutterftw
      @zerbutterftw 2 года назад +7

      @@hellion6737 as a sri lankan i can confirm that
      l i o n

  • @tyrannicfool2503
    @tyrannicfool2503 3 года назад +2306

    I feel like Tyler is giving Cody some of his acid

    • @supernovel7514
      @supernovel7514 3 года назад +187

      Nah I think they have a brotherly rivalry on who can create the best acid

    • @_Mr.Tuvok_
      @_Mr.Tuvok_ 3 года назад +75

      @@supernovel7514 are they actually brothers? Am I an idiot for not realizing this before?
      What is life?

    • @CactusCarrot
      @CactusCarrot 3 года назад +49

      i thought this video was a little bit acidic. not very based.

    • @AaronSoul725
      @AaronSoul725 3 года назад +32

      @@_Mr.Tuvok_ yes, their actually brothers

    • @Patrick_3751
      @Patrick_3751 3 года назад +17

      @Poop Poop I mean, they both have said they're brothers in videos they both made so......LOL

  • @FenrirStrife1
    @FenrirStrife1 Год назад +14

    I came for one thing in particular, to see what your opinion on Amhrán na bhFiann was. Managed to stop the video in just the right place to see it. 10/10, nailed it. Hilarious that you didnt even attempt the pronunciation later in the video though. You can call it "The Soldier's Song", its fine. ;-)

  • @permafrost8322
    @permafrost8322 3 года назад +757

    I can’t stop thinking that South Sudan’s anthem sounds like “If you’re happy and you know it”

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 3 года назад +26

      Congo: hay kids want to play Dragon Quest, get your AKs Child Soldier

    • @fives5555arc
      @fives5555arc 3 года назад +20

      I can’t get over Azerbaijan’s Anthem

    • @thesocialistlion2904
      @thesocialistlion2904 3 года назад +5

      Sounded like that to me as well LOL

    • @mateorios1636
      @mateorios1636 3 года назад +7

      Virgin south sudan:
      - Sounds like a Nurse rhyme
      - Why they chose kids? Innit that abuse?
      - Poverty at its finnest
      Chad North Sudan
      - Sounds like a Fictional Arab Empire's Anthem
      - Men sing this, not children
      - Rich and powerful anthem

    • @empireofprimordial3000
      @empireofprimordial3000 3 года назад

      @@fives5555arc me neither. Ut sounds like someone wants to go on a freaking Crusade or Mordor's anthem alongside Harad and Rhun

  • @Epicmonk117
    @Epicmonk117 3 года назад +397

    "National Anthems: the anime OP of a country."
    -Cody
    I'm stealing this

    • @Reverend_Sashimi
      @Reverend_Sashimi 3 года назад +7

      Yes. This was probably the best description of a national anthem I've ever heard 😂

    • @mr.bluefox3511
      @mr.bluefox3511 3 года назад +2

      I swear, this line could become a meme when people talk about anthem in general.

  • @joemontondo9113
    @joemontondo9113 3 года назад +1234

    My brain thought that "The only picture of Lichenstein is this castle" was a subtitle translation of their anthem...

  • @dominikbeitat4450
    @dominikbeitat4450 5 месяцев назад +10

    As a German, I want to point out that the forbidden parts of our anthem literally draws borders waaaay outside our jurisdiction. Like, between rivers Maas and Memel, that's gotta upset some people.
    We may not care much about their football teams, but otherwise we see Poland and the Netherlands as almost friends.

    • @markschoning5581
      @markschoning5581 5 месяцев назад

      Das Deutschlandlied in allen drei Strophen zu singen ist nicht verboten. Einfach mal googeln.

    • @markschoning5581
      @markschoning5581 5 месяцев назад

      Eis gibt keinen Teil des Deutschlandlieds, der verboten ist. Alle drei Strophen dürfen gesungen werden, nur die dritte Strophe ist aber unsere Nationalhymne.

  • @rediponto9588
    @rediponto9588 3 года назад +669

    ''the further east you go, the more peaceful the melody is"
    North Korea: AEGUKKA

    • @risannd
      @risannd 3 года назад +21

      North Korean anthem is actually calm tho

    • @yin6287
      @yin6287 3 года назад +14

      Mainland China: *national anthem Intensifies*

    • @robertjarman3703
      @robertjarman3703 3 года назад +25

      @@risannd Their anthem is actually quite pleasant. It doesn't mention Kim or the regime at all. The regime as you might imagine has avoided to use it if they can, they often use a Kim centric anthem.

    • @shrektheintelllectual3615
      @shrektheintelllectual3615 3 года назад +7

      @@robertjarman3703 that is a myth . Although they use song of general Kim il sung a lot it is still less used than aegukka

    • @DadDoStuff
      @DadDoStuff 3 года назад +1

      Their national anthem is calm. I think it is the same national anthem as the South? I don't know btw

  • @crycrybribri
    @crycrybribri 3 года назад +1874

    The first stanza of the german anthem more referred to putting the idea of Germany as a whole above regional squabbles. It also references certain "german borders" that referred to german speaking regions in an attempt to unite a fractured after the Napoleonic wars. But yeah nowadays it sounds more like conquest and supremacy because of... you know... that guy.

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 3 года назад +37

      Also sorta mocking the old odes to the austrian emperors given ie was for a germany unified under the Prussians instead.

    • @chad264
      @chad264 3 года назад +29

      that...based guy?

    • @Berobad
      @Berobad 3 года назад +1

      The first stanza of the song of the germans, isn't the anthem, the anthem is the third stanza.

    • @admiralrogers1157
      @admiralrogers1157 3 года назад +12

      @@Berobad that’s not necessarily true, it’s more that they just don’t use the first two. They aren’t banned or anything. It’s more like how the US has 4 verses to its anthem but we only use the one.
      TLDR: the whole song is the national anthem, the just omit the first two parts

    • @Apollo-vc6sc
      @Apollo-vc6sc 3 года назад +23

      @@chad264 The guy who ruined Germany forever was based, yes, absolutely.

  • @SpielkindFR
    @SpielkindFR Год назад +39

    Funfact about the german anthem:
    While the modern reading of the first stanza and specifically the line "deutschland deutschland über alles" is usually seen in the context of nazi germany and read as a supremacist message, the originally intended meaning is quite different. It was written in a time where there was no german nation, but instead a vast collection of several hundred kingdoms and principalities and it called for a unity of the german people in a unified nation. Only much later it was misappropriated to reflect the supremacist notion we associate with it today.

    • @cetterus
      @cetterus 5 месяцев назад

      The original is about the girl that is sad for the things that happened last night. But that was way before Haydn.

  • @RaderGH
    @RaderGH 2 года назад +628

    5:25 Growing up my father watched a lot of F1 racing and Michael Schumacher won so much that I believed the German national anthem was actually the anthem for F1. I still think of F1 whenever I hear it play.

  • @RoonMian
    @RoonMian 3 года назад +507

    By the way, ironic tidbit of German-German history: You can seamlessly sing the lyrics to each German anthem to the melody of the other one.

    • @Robin93k
      @Robin93k 3 года назад +4

      Because the melody/notes is the same for all 3 stanzas~

    • @benjaminlammertz64
      @benjaminlammertz64 3 года назад +36

      Also, you can sing both to the melody of "ode to joy" (Beethoven's 9th).

    • @hanshorstjoachim9498
      @hanshorstjoachim9498 3 года назад +5

      @@benjaminlammertz64 I did not know that until now. I didn't even think about it, but it reallly fits.

    • @Zoentropic
      @Zoentropic 3 года назад +4

      @@benjaminlammertz64 Woah i just tried it, that's incredible

  • @dafternpunk
    @dafternpunk 3 года назад +1186

    Curious fact: Mexico probably one of the only countries that got its national anthem by making a contest and asking people to make one. The lyrics and the tune as separete competitions.

    • @davidlipscombe916
      @davidlipscombe916 3 года назад +58

      Not quite New Zealand's started from a poetry competion in a newspaper it won and a few years later someone wrote the music to it and now the rest is history .

    • @thecommenter578
      @thecommenter578 3 года назад +8

      Uhh no, not really

    • @Raiju2
      @Raiju2 3 года назад +11

      Finnish Anthem got its start from people really liking a poem, then creating the music around the poem. I remember thinking that it was kind of hard to sing when I was a child, so maybe thats the reason.

    • @CataciousAmogusevic
      @CataciousAmogusevic 3 года назад +21

      Nope, Turkey's anthem was chosen by a competition aswell.

    • @dafternpunk
      @dafternpunk 3 года назад +2

      @@Raiju2 didn't knew that. Edited

  • @cmconley33
    @cmconley33 10 месяцев назад +5

    Agreed that the USA should adopt “America the Beautiful” as our anthem. We don’t need an anthem that talks about just one battle-that’s so limiting.

    • @TheWickedWizardOfOz1
      @TheWickedWizardOfOz1 4 месяца назад

      The battle is a stand-in for all the other battles, to be fair

  • @yashnagle1821
    @yashnagle1821 3 года назад +653

    Let’s be real all of the history/politics nerds have sometimes spent hours on youtube going through national anthems and patriotic songs

    • @Erde_midget770
      @Erde_midget770 3 года назад +16

      Yes, we do, due we?

    • @FriedrichBarb
      @FriedrichBarb 3 года назад +28

      100% correct, it’s almost like an addiction I have to listen to at least 2-3 classical or patriotic songs from nations I’m not even from 😂
      A rare one not many know about is Prussia’s “Heil dir im Siegerkranz” which is basically a copy of “God save the Queen”

    • @legion3307
      @legion3307 3 года назад

      @@Erde_midget770 Yes, we have

    • @rachard
      @rachard 3 года назад

      gang gang

    • @BigBangAttack-mt6pz
      @BigBangAttack-mt6pz 3 года назад +5

      @@FriedrichBarb Prussian Glory is pretty good

  • @jeremycuriel8352
    @jeremycuriel8352 2 года назад +1293

    I love the fact that my super small island “Aruba” is getting some recognition. That’s why we consider ourselves “One Happy Island”🇦🇼

    • @hellion6737
      @hellion6737 2 года назад +13

      I wish Sri Lanka was featured

    • @christiankrarup6501
      @christiankrarup6501 2 года назад +6

      What do you generally think of your anthem and your country? Do you identify with the whole “small island paradise” thing?

    • @jeremycuriel8352
      @jeremycuriel8352 2 года назад +23

      @@christiankrarup6501 I think the anthem perfectly represents our country. Although time is changing and its beginning to become less of a paradise for us but more so for the tourists. Even so during my time growing up there I loved every moment because it was a simple life on a hot island with a lot of beaches. Life was just pretty much, work/school, sleep, eat out and swim or chill at the beach. It was and still is a paradise in my mind.

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance 2 года назад +2

      NO OTHER HAPPY ISLANDS!
      ONLY US
      NO ONE ELSE
      NO
      NO
      NO

    • @timrattenbury4768
      @timrattenbury4768 2 года назад +2

      We put Ur number plates on a race cars!....for some reason

  • @varkgriep
    @varkgriep 3 года назад +828

    "This is Botswana" shows Cape Town South Africa and Portugese soldiers in Angola...nice

    • @jv8462
      @jv8462 3 года назад +27

      He meant the anthem playing, not the background images

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 3 года назад +26

      @@jv8462 still not very accurate but hilarious attempt nonetheless.

    • @serugobushi4214
      @serugobushi4214 3 года назад +10

      Stopped watching the video when he said that the Cuban anthem was made against the upper classes with a picture of Castro. Cuban anthem was made over a century before Castro and the socialist- communist dictatorship.

    • @sylverblitz7524
      @sylverblitz7524 3 года назад +5

      Economics Explained Moment

    • @redcoat4348
      @redcoat4348 3 года назад +4

      Sad he missed the South African national anthem. We need some representation for Mnzansi...

  • @Jay.827_
    @Jay.827_ 2 месяца назад +2

    0:54 as someone who stumbled across this video at 2:50 am while i was listening to the soviet union anthem, i feel called out-

  • @kevinsorto8313
    @kevinsorto8313 3 года назад +321

    "Let's go on an adventure child soldier" -12:10
    My man Cody caught me lacking

  • @Presidentchip-
    @Presidentchip- 3 года назад +344

    The king has uploaded

  • @richardwoods5873
    @richardwoods5873 3 года назад +2094

    "Deutschland uber alles" means "Germany above everything", written as a plea to put "Germany" above local loyalties to Bavaria, Prussia, etc. Not as a call for Germany to dominate all others

    • @jamier65551
      @jamier65551 3 года назад +442

      @@smh1245 yes, but what is more important is what it actually meant, not what the nazis spinned it to be
      Unless the swastika is 100% bad in spite of being east Asian and a religious symbol hundreds of years before Germany existed

    • @snoopydoopy9760
      @snoopydoopy9760 3 года назад +96

      Thank you!! This is so important to know. And it still means this, not what the third reich misused it to be. Nevertheless it is for the best that only the third stanza is used now.

    • @snoopydoopy9760
      @snoopydoopy9760 3 года назад +48

      @@smh1245 that is precisely why we only use the third stanza nowadays. doesn't make it any less true that the meaning of the 1. stanza is not what most people think.

    • @wallachia4797
      @wallachia4797 3 года назад +117

      @@smh1245 Being naive is better than being stupid. Why narrow down the history of a hundreds years old anthem to the one of a regime that lasted for barely ten years?

    • @refragerator
      @refragerator 3 года назад +29

      @@wallachia4797 I mean, the unsung stance also sings of German lands that aren't German anymore. Maybe that's a reason.

  • @satericat17
    @satericat17 Месяц назад +3

    I definitely think that Germany should've kept "Risen from Ruins". To me, it would've symbolically represented their rise from the ashes of Nazi Germany and from the Soviet Union. But that is my opinion. I absolutely love anything to do with countries. National anthems included. Countries and their history, geography, politics, government, cultures, and everything else about them are just so fascinating to me. -Alankuhaa Samuelkah Fischum Eircaru

  • @LeonardoDaVinci01
    @LeonardoDaVinci01 3 года назад +1351

    (1:03) I want to see all the national anthems ranked! That’s sounds epic, bro

  • @EnRandomSten
    @EnRandomSten 3 года назад +475

    fun fact that you've most likely heard; Poland's national anthem is the only one that mentions Sweden by name! however both anthems reference the same time only that the Poles sing about how Terrible we were and we Swedes sing about "remember that time we were winning wars n shit?"

    • @Danirijeka
      @Danirijeka 3 года назад +20

      Italy's, in turn, mentions Poland (and Austria, in a, uh, different kind of way), although in a stanza that is not commonly sung.

    • @jojay3981
      @jojay3981 3 года назад +19

      @@Danirijeka There is a line about "(going back) From Italy to Poland" in Polish anthem, too. Must be a reference to same events.

    • @Dread_2137
      @Dread_2137 3 года назад +24

      @@jojay3981 it's "march march Dąbrowski, from the Italian land to Poland"
      it is a reference to Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, a Polish general and statesman. He was the founder of the Polish Legions in Italy serving under Napoleon from 1795. Dąbrowski and his soldiers hoped to fight against Austria under Napoleon and, subsequently, march across the Austrian territory, "from Italy to Poland", where they would ignite a national uprising.
      also Polish anthem, called "Dąbrowski's mazurka" (or "poland is not yet lost" after 1st verse) was originally a soldier's song called ″Song of the Polish Legions in Italy″.

    • @qzg7857
      @qzg7857 3 года назад +2

      Another fun fact about Poland anthem. Yugoslavian anthem had exactly the same music just slighlty shorter

    • @cspresimir
      @cspresimir 3 года назад +1

      @@qzg7857 Because they are basically the same old tune "Hey Slovane!"

  • @whatifwevibed429
    @whatifwevibed429 3 года назад +1898

    “Go on an adventure child soldier!”

    • @fajaradi1223
      @fajaradi1223 3 года назад +40

      "Adventure"

    • @SuspiciousBread
      @SuspiciousBread 3 года назад +51

      Your choices
      1. Yes (press L1) 2. Yes (press L2) 3. Yes (press R1) 4. Die (press R2)

    • @WingMaster562
      @WingMaster562 3 года назад +7

      Fire Emblem be like

    • @alw2839
      @alw2839 3 года назад +4

      Anime be like:

    • @crimsonstrykr
      @crimsonstrykr 3 года назад +6

      @@alw2839 Tanya the Evil intensifies

  • @MusicalMethuselah
    @MusicalMethuselah Год назад +58

    I (American) just love that the Star-Spangled Banner is less of a list of nice adjectives and more of a poem. Pretty obvious synecdoche but still warms my heart.

  • @bobjones2959
    @bobjones2959 3 года назад +653

    "Rule for Asia is the further east you go, the more peaceful the melody is"
    China: *March of the volunteers intensifies*

    • @randompheidoleminor3011
      @randompheidoleminor3011 3 года назад +15

      起来
      起 来
      *起 来--*

    • @whafflete6721
      @whafflete6721 3 года назад +7

      ROC:
      *Revolution intensifies*

    • @elixer4583
      @elixer4583 3 года назад +29

      You mean, “March of the involuntary workers”?

    • @ExternalDialogue
      @ExternalDialogue 3 года назад +6

      more like march of the volunteered

    • @benjaminhammel2520
      @benjaminhammel2520 3 года назад +9

      True, except for Israel, which is the farthest west you can go in Asia outside of Turkey. You can look up the anthem, it's probably not what you'd expect

  • @romanmorozov6974
    @romanmorozov6974 3 года назад +1618

    AlternateHistoryHub: **Makes a video about anthems**
    Me: wait he didn’t take that chance to play the Soviet/russian anthem? Not even for jokes?
    AlternateHistoryHub: **plays his spirit anthem**
    Me: ah

    • @KaiserSoviet
      @KaiserSoviet 3 года назад +69

      I was shocked as it drew to the end, but then Tim Curry’s smile warmed my heart

    • @fives5555arc
      @fives5555arc 3 года назад +41

      Well, it's my spirit anthem as well. Also, we need communism because communism makes killer music. Germany should have really adopted the east's anthem

    • @n-buro3269
      @n-buro3269 3 года назад +52

      I'M ESCAPING, TO THE ONE PLACE THAT HASN'T BEEN CORRUPTED BY CAPITALISM
      ***holds laughter extensively***
      SPESSS

    • @FD_Stalker
      @FD_Stalker 3 года назад +2

      That shit chills my flaming wahraboo blood

    • @TheSuperCoolGamer
      @TheSuperCoolGamer 3 года назад +2

      yessssssss

  • @theotimeyt
    @theotimeyt 5 месяцев назад +1

    0:00 Intro
    1:32 How did the concept of anthems start?
    2:50 Why does Liechtenstein’s anthem sound so similar to the UK’s?
    4:43 Which anthem is the most upbeat?
    5:20 Has there ever been a national anthem that needed to be changed because it was just THAT bad?
    6:55 Are there similarities between regions?
    11:39 Which national anthem do you think is most fitting for its country?
    13:06 Are there any anthems you’d swap?
    13:27 Please consider mentioning the Ottoman Empire’s National Anthem. It sounds similar to the Galactic Empire’s.
    15:07 Most overrated national anthem?
    16:34 What’s your spirit national anthem… like a spirit animal but for national anthems.
    16:48 Outro

  • @vurrunna
    @vurrunna 2 года назад +1333

    "Rule Britannia" is such a better song than "God Save the Queen" that I usually forget it's _not_ the UK's national anthem.

    • @maxjones503
      @maxjones503 2 года назад +77

      Yeah just a slight issue of all the connotations about the British Empire

    • @traiforse5777
      @traiforse5777 2 года назад +55

      @@maxjones503 I'm pretty sure an anthem with connotations about the whole Empire that includes it's people is a major improvement than connotations of one reigning monarch.

    • @traiforse5777
      @traiforse5777 2 года назад +12

      The first part is a bit tricky though, especially the "arose" bit. But it's definitely more optimistic.

    • @maxjones503
      @maxjones503 2 года назад +19

      @@traiforse5777 Yeah, more just the general attitudes people in the UK have toward the British Empire. There's some people that still like it, but others thinking it glorifies colonialism, slavery, etc.
      It's not sp much about the content of the song as much as what people think of when they hear it.

    • @OtakuUnitedStudio
      @OtakuUnitedStudio 2 года назад +30

      Hollywood seems to have the same issue, since almost every movie ever uses "Rule Britannia" for the UK.
      Probably because otherwise people would have asking "Why are they using My Country Tis of Thee for England?"

  • @justthatoneannoyingguy7507
    @justthatoneannoyingguy7507 3 года назад +1129

    “The German anthem has some choice words”
    France: Act natural!

    • @joaquincobas2223
      @joaquincobas2223 3 года назад +48

      Poland: **Fear**

    • @nananghermawan24
      @nananghermawan24 3 года назад +123

      Germany : We're above The World!
      France : *there goes the kings head*

    • @Lots17
      @Lots17 3 года назад +70

      @@nananghermawan24 the song was written before Germany existed. Germany above all is the wish for a unified Germany not that Germany's superior

    • @mkbt557
      @mkbt557 3 года назад +19

      @@Lots17 yea but it doesnt matter what it was originally meant to mean, its weird to say since its accociated with the nazis. Same thing with the swastika. It doesnt matter what it originally meant, the swatztika is basically the symbol of evil nowadays.

    • @thecommentator3594
      @thecommentator3594 3 года назад +17

      @@mkbt557 *sad budhist noises*

  • @Big_E_Soul_Fragment
    @Big_E_Soul_Fragment 3 года назад +384

    National Anthems are actual country music

  • @niutus5685
    @niutus5685 9 месяцев назад +28

    I'm from Poland, so obviously my opinion is biased, but I don't think our anthem is mediocre at all. While I can see the melody being boring, the lyrics are very important to us. For a hundred years Poles were under German, Austrian and Russian rule, and later we got caught up with the nazis and communists, but we never forgot who we were. All our stories and poems were about regaining independence and returning to our homelands to be reunited once more since the times of the Commonwealth. With all that knowledge, the lyrics of "Poland is not yet lost" hit so much harder, because it would truly live on inside of us, while we still drew breath.
    In any case I'm just some Polish dude writing this in a democratic Poland, which is already independent, but the lyrics still resonate with me, because they make me stop and think how long my ancestors had to fight, how many sacrifices they've made, so I'd be able to sit my ass down in a building, in front of a computer, ethnically a Pole in a stable (mostly anyway) Polish state. While most of us Poles don't exhibit the same traits, I think our ancestors would look proudly upon us, for this is waht they fought to create. And that's the beauty of this anthem. It represents all the people that fought and died for this Polish state, this place where we can feel at home, where we can thrive safely, without oppresion or homesickness. It is truly a memoir worthy of our people, our heroes.

    • @spytf2-pb3yo
      @spytf2-pb3yo 9 месяцев назад +1

      Poland is NOT yet lost

    • @mashttyx
      @mashttyx 8 месяцев назад +5

      In my opinion the polish anthem is the 2nd best in the world right after my own country of portugal (even tho I'm slightly biased it's an undeniable banger) the lyrics just scream poland basically, the first 2 or 3 lines just explain all you have to know about poland, and the language is just beautiful atleast to me, i already wanted to learn polski but hearing the anthem made me love poland and polish so much more
      POLSKA GUROM

  • @whyyaskkwhyy
    @whyyaskkwhyy 3 года назад +420

    "LETS GO ON AN ADVENTURE CHILD SOLDIER!" THAT WAS AMAZING

    • @robbieaulia6462
      @robbieaulia6462 3 года назад +1

      The DCR would probably have child soldiers if a war broke out

    • @bindukopparapu2795
      @bindukopparapu2795 3 года назад +3

      @@robbieaulia6462 The country has been at war since 1997.

    • @MontananOwl547
      @MontananOwl547 3 года назад

      @@bindukopparapu2795 yep

  • @kambulwatts3309
    @kambulwatts3309 2 года назад +2692

    I'm Aussie and have literally nothing to do with Germany but "Risen from ruins" legitimately brought a tear to my eye. That's the mark of an amazing anthem.

    • @nyet-qr4763
      @nyet-qr4763 2 года назад +80

      As an Australian of German blood, Auferstanden aus Ruinen makes me feel hopeful.

    • @jeremy5602
      @jeremy5602 2 года назад +18

      Especially if it's from an evil regime. Damn.

    • @ryoganiwa
      @ryoganiwa 2 года назад +46

      @@jeremy5602 that doenst change the meaning and it means A LOT more then the crap we got stuck with

    • @tz8785
      @tz8785 2 года назад +10

      That one would have been a much better example for an anthem change due to embarrassment as well. As the line about "Germany, united fatherland" was a little bit at odds with the Berlin Wall, it was effectively instrumental only for about 20 years.

    • @xderjukes2066
      @xderjukes2066 2 года назад +18

      As a german I can say that im very pleased with our national anthem. Idk what the people like about that socialist crap from the DDR

  • @jetwaffle1116
    @jetwaffle1116 3 года назад +550

    The best anthem is goofy’s moral lesson, the anthem of seaburgerland

  • @wombat4191
    @wombat4191 10 месяцев назад +1

    I'd bet quite a many countries have better national songs than their anthem. Finnish national anthem for example, while being nice and all, holds no candle to Finlandia-hymn by Sibelius, which would also have a whole goddamn symphony to go with it. While the anthem is a Finnish poem written by our unofficial national poet, the composition is a German one.
    Also, Estonia adopted the same melody for some reason, I bet they would have had something more personal as a nation proud of their singing culture. Seriously though, Estonia has one of the largest song festivals in the world every 5 years, with like 3% of the country's whole population performing to another 8%.

  • @pablomolinaasensi3528
    @pablomolinaasensi3528 3 года назад +240

    Interesting fact: Spain's anthem doesn't officially have lyrics because they were scrapped after Franco's dictatorship. Sometimes at sports events people will play the one with lyrics and it'll be awkward

    • @johnfraire6931
      @johnfraire6931 3 года назад +1

      I misread that as the "French occupation" or something and looked for the version with lyrics, and now I realize I was bobbing my head to a fascist. Damn it.

    • @MChannel80
      @MChannel80 3 года назад +3

      @@Person16384 Germany does officially have lyrics. Sometimes they play the rong ones though...

    • @n-buro3269
      @n-buro3269 3 года назад +1

      Except, it's not, we all know that Nationalist Spain was built upon the Monarchists, the Phalanx (say it in spanish, yt bans the word), Catholics, Capitalists, to anti-commies, with each of their own interpretation of the anthem used during the Kingdom of Spain's time. Many theories suggests that Franco playing it safe by not using any variants there is, be it the more Militaristic or the Monarchist version, just for the sake of not losing supports from those who are fragile to break away
      I'm sorry if this sort of wrong(?) in a way, but just to keep options open for people to digest

    • @die1mayer
      @die1mayer 3 года назад

      ​@@MChannel80 What's wrong with Germany from the Meuse to the Memel?

    • @MChannel80
      @MChannel80 3 года назад +1

      @@die1mayer reality

  • @aceofspadesguy4913
    @aceofspadesguy4913 3 года назад +866

    “As the Death Star appears on the horizon to destroy Armen-I mean.”

  • @sprucebadger8229
    @sprucebadger8229 3 года назад +1013

    fun fact: all of mexico's anthem sings about war against Spain, and how everyone there will unite against a common tresspaser and painting the hills red with the blood of the enemy...
    we are a little bit spicy

    • @rodrigomaximilianomarquezm5430
      @rodrigomaximilianomarquezm5430 3 года назад +85

      It can also apply to the French invasions, but I feel like the Mexican anthem is more of a threat towards everyone who attempts an invasion.

    • @Ostentatiousnessness
      @Ostentatiousnessness 3 года назад +50

      Mexico is just a really agitated crab then?

    • @sprucebadger8229
      @sprucebadger8229 3 года назад +66

      @@Ostentatiousnessness in other words... Yes... We a really agitated crab... With guns... And tequila...

    • @danitron8317
      @danitron8317 3 года назад +24

      And then spanish anthem is like:
      Niiinooo niiinooo nino no nino nino nono ni ni ni....

    • @meneither3834
      @meneither3834 3 года назад +10

      The US anthem is about one battle against the British.

  • @TheEpicplushgod
    @TheEpicplushgod Месяц назад +3

    "It just needs a guitar, some drums, and what ever that string thing is that goes 'wooo' " *flute plays a woo sound*

  • @BeWe1510
    @BeWe1510 3 года назад +431

    Just wanting to say that „Germany, Germany above all“ originally did not mean that Germany should rule the world or something like that but that Germany should be the number 1 priority for every German, reaching German unity should be the most important thing in the world. However it is just to easy to misunderstand that

    • @tirex3673
      @tirex3673 3 года назад +57

      or in other words it's "über alles" (above everything), not "über allen" (above everyone). It goes back to a time, when the borders of the german micro states were the nightmare of every geographer.

    • @cdev2117
      @cdev2117 3 года назад +25

      Yes, it's meant in the same vein as "Rule Britannia".
      But the bigger problem isn't that it is easily misunderstood, but that the first stanza includes references to geographical locations that today are not seen as German anymore but could arguably be seen as that back in 1841, the river Meuse (Maas), the Neman (Memel), Adige (Etsch) and the Danish straits (Belt). And until WW1 those have been the borders of the German Empire (and Austro-Hungaria).

    • @tompatterson1548
      @tompatterson1548 3 года назад +1

      Change „über alles“ to „zuvörderst“?

    • @tompatterson1548
      @tompatterson1548 3 года назад

      @@cdev2117 yeah, fair enough, rewrite bits.

    • @thenewkhan4781
      @thenewkhan4781 3 года назад +8

      still, for like 90% of people outside of Germany who hear this verse it's firstly associated with Nazis. The Eastern Germany hymn is so much better.

  • @TheEvilFoxy
    @TheEvilFoxy 3 года назад +406

    Fun fact: In Finland, the US Battle Hymn of the Republic has been re-written into a childrens' song, and in Finnish, it's about a little Matti whose car blew a tire and we're gonna fix it with bubble gum.
    No kidding, look it up.

    • @Sassi7997
      @Sassi7997 3 года назад +42

      In Germany it's been rewritten into a song about children learning to read.

    • @carpetsomething
      @carpetsomething 3 года назад +12

      I know a version about a skier dying, and another one about queen Elisabeth losing her underwear on the number 7 bus 😂 (which used to be a long distance coach bus thing to England from my nearest city)

    • @joepluijkx5965
      @joepluijkx5965 3 года назад +3

      in dutch it sounds like a song about a little bunny with a fly on his nose

    • @oifikd1
      @oifikd1 3 года назад +4

      Yeah and there's a version of the song "Oh Susanna" that is about little squirrels making a rocket to the moon. And "When Johnny comes marching home" melody with lyrics about Captain Hook. And there's also the "Glory, glory Man United!".

    • @felixsantosa3815
      @felixsantosa3815 3 года назад +3

      There's also a version singing about a paratrooper falling to his death.

  • @crowbar_the_rogue
    @crowbar_the_rogue 3 года назад +196

    The lyrics of the Slovenian anthem are kind of unique and I'm surprised you didn't mention it. I say that because the anthem doesn't mention the country at all. The lyrics merely say "May long live all those who seek freedom and peace."
    Much like the German anthem, the Slovenian anthem is part of a longer poem. The poem was written by France Prešeren and is titled "Zdravljica", which would translate to "A toast." And that's just what it is: A toast to different aspects of life.

  • @Lesatur
    @Lesatur 11 месяцев назад +4

    As a political active german I argue so much about the east german anthem and how it fits our view towards the world so much better as our own anthem does! It's driving me insane that any(!) conter argument I get back is that it's from the east. So? Rotkäppchen (a very well received sparkling wine is so too!)

    • @baguettegott3409
      @baguettegott3409 11 месяцев назад +2

      So is our Sandmännchen, and we still recognized that it was the better one and kept the eastern version for that reason. Really should have done the same thing with the anthem.

    • @Lesatur
      @Lesatur 11 месяцев назад

      @@baguettegott3409 I did not know this. Thanks very much :D

  • @mattmanh4242
    @mattmanh4242 3 года назад +317

    Imagine making an anthem for the Chinese emperor only for the country to die within a matter of months
    *Ahem qing dynasty*

  • @soulman4292
    @soulman4292 3 года назад +2360

    “Armenia….. I MEAN Alderon”
    I almost fell down laughing. Cody dude.

  • @andrewgault8076
    @andrewgault8076 3 года назад +895

    I thought Waka Waka was the official anthem of South Africa as a kid.

    • @Mr_Blah
      @Mr_Blah 3 года назад +66

      Meanwhile child me thought the Pledge of Allegiance was the US anthem, I live in the USA

    • @gery8218
      @gery8218 3 года назад +57

      @@Mr_Blah do you really have to pledge your allegiance to your country every morning in school? I heard that once and I found that so weird

    • @Mr_Blah
      @Mr_Blah 3 года назад +19

      @@gery8218 Yea we do, I never really thought of it though because we are all so used to it

    • @gery8218
      @gery8218 3 года назад +44

      @@Mr_Blah I am from Europe and thats soooo weird to me haha I don't want to be mean or anything but I am really not a fan of being so patriotic. Of course, we should love our country, but we should rather love the people and the beauty of the land instead of the country itself. I wouldn't want to pledge my allegiance to the Austrian government:/ + I don't even know what the Austrian anthem sounds like haha

    • @Mr_Blah
      @Mr_Blah 3 года назад +11

      @@gery8218 I knew the in Europe a pledge of allegiance every day wasn’t something that happened, but not knowing the anthem, no offense but I thought that the anthem was just something every country taught the citizens.

  • @capnstewy55
    @capnstewy55 Год назад +4

    Honestly enjoyed this more than most of your normal content.

  • @tysonsteranka3364
    @tysonsteranka3364 3 года назад +666

    Ngl, would actually like to see you try and rank all the anthems, even if it is in multiple videos!

    • @guyonthenet2000
      @guyonthenet2000 3 года назад +4

      Yes!

    • @Jarulara
      @Jarulara 3 года назад +8

      As long as he wanted to do it I would want it

    • @BiggsTheOwl
      @BiggsTheOwl 3 года назад +4

      We all know that the soviet anthem would be in number 1

    • @JoaoOstroski420
      @JoaoOstroski420 3 года назад +7

      it could be divided by regions, like ranking all the anthens of the new world, so brazillians like me could brag about how our anthem is better than the united statesian one.
      because it bloody is.

    • @patrickedwards8160
      @patrickedwards8160 3 года назад

      @@JoaoOstroski420 American*

  • @Blo0dyMustard
    @Blo0dyMustard 2 года назад +315

    Not only the flags are reversed, the word "tak" in Polish means "yes", but in Indonesian it means "not"

  • @The-Plaguefellow
    @The-Plaguefellow 3 года назад +213

    "Actual content comes next."
    But Cody, this _is_ actual content.

  • @Jainka1
    @Jainka1 8 месяцев назад +8

    For a side project this was really amazing.

  • @smolyoutubersgroup3205
    @smolyoutubersgroup3205 3 года назад +631

    Fun fact: the Philippines is so short that it doesn't even have a chorus and it has an anime version on yt

    • @theblackbaron4119
      @theblackbaron4119 3 года назад +10

      Lol, I have to look that up now.

    • @Joridiy
      @Joridiy 3 года назад +18

      🎶Tierra Adorada, hija del Sol de Oriente, su fuego ardiente en tí latiendo está.
      Tierra de Amores, del heroísmo cuna, los invasores no te hollarán jamás. 🎶

    • @diip-ali1228
      @diip-ali1228 3 года назад +7

      It has a *what*

    • @ED-yy4te
      @ED-yy4te 3 года назад +3

      What? Even the Japanese anthem is shorter but it doesn't have an anime.

    • @farateq
      @farateq 3 года назад +1

      hold up there's an anime version? dam

  • @denise903
    @denise903 2 года назад +3040

    the oldest anthem in the world is actually the Dutch anthem, it was written in the 1500 s and was officially adopted as national anthem in 1932 (:
    edit: to finally end this debate happening in the comments; this following text was taken from the site of Guinness world records.
    ""The words of Japan's anthem "Kimigayo" were taken from the Kokin Wakashū, a collection of waka poetry published in the 9th century CE, although they were not set to music until 1880, and not formally adopted as the national anthem until 1888. The anthem of the Netherlands, "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe" or just "Wilhelmus", has the oldest music: a tune taken from a French anti-Protestant song known as "Chartres" that was first written down in 1574, and used unofficially as the anthem from the 17th century before being finally adopted formally in 1932. Of the four wordless national anthems, the oldest is that of Spain, "La Marcha Real", dating from 1770.""

    • @jemsuper
      @jemsuper 2 года назад +189

      God, the dutch with the flag everyone copied and the oldest anthem. Stop hogging em all

    • @ironleegaming8227
      @ironleegaming8227 2 года назад +51

      @@jemsuper the Dutch wishes it had a leaf on its flag

    • @nohandle-f8o
      @nohandle-f8o 2 года назад +6

      It’s called The William

    • @mukundbalasubramanian1229
      @mukundbalasubramanian1229 2 года назад +18

      Wasn't Kimigayo written even earlier?(Just not as an anthem back then)

    • @qasequchen9295
      @qasequchen9295 2 года назад +19

      What's funny is that in their national anthem they sing that they are of German blood.

  • @_Mr.Tuvok_
    @_Mr.Tuvok_ 3 года назад +387

    “Let’s go on an adventure, child soldier!!”
    I lold alot

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 3 года назад

      Makes sense JRPG characters already look like 6 Year old Veterans and I don't mean their Tour of duty.

  • @Zamtrios245
    @Zamtrios245 Год назад +6

    15:25
    The Star Spangled Banner is way better when sung by a crowd or choir.
    The stanza that's used is also secular, unlike some other songs (like Battle Hymn of the Republic)

  • @pubipubipu
    @pubipubipu 3 года назад +400

    Fun Fact: The Spanish anthem you used in the video is not the official one anymore, that was used during the Franco dictatorship, and the new one is the same without the lyrics haha

    • @nawarelsabaa
      @nawarelsabaa 3 года назад +11

      I was going to ask where he found lyrics for Spain, thanks for answering this before I even asked 😂

    • @jordisaura6748
      @jordisaura6748 3 года назад +1

      Yep. True. Anoying.

    • @quisqueyanguy120
      @quisqueyanguy120 3 года назад +13

      @@nawarelsabaa It is technically the same that happened to Germany

    • @alejo.rangerk19
      @alejo.rangerk19 3 года назад +12

      @@quisqueyanguy120 Germany at least kept a stanza. Spain is just LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO

    • @tylerbozinovski427
      @tylerbozinovski427 3 года назад +7

      Meanwhile, Russia just doesn't give a shit. They just remixed the Soviet anthem.

  • @mirizid9667
    @mirizid9667 3 года назад +2812

    "Balkans anthem is just insulting each others"
    Sounds Balkans to me

    • @froid6567
      @froid6567 3 года назад +200

      It actually isn't true. I'm fine with balkans-mockery, we do it ourselves too, but it would be nice to be taken a bit seriously from time to time.

    • @miko5742
      @miko5742 3 года назад +79

      @@froid6567 no

    • @clar1nettist204
      @clar1nettist204 3 года назад +26

      yeah that's about right
      the history of the Balkans since yugoslavia is just war and conflict mainly

    • @n-buro3269
      @n-buro3269 3 года назад +24

      @@froid6567 it's a powderkeg, even if it is taken seriously, it is still a powderkeg

    • @redjive_industries3760
      @redjive_industries3760 3 года назад +33

      I was about to make a joke about Balkan countries arguing with each other in RUclips comments on any video where there is even the vaguest mention of their country, but I see they've already done it for me

  • @Lightslp
    @Lightslp 3 года назад +126

    Actually. "Germany, Germany above all" doesnt mean that Germany is above or better than any other Nation.
    The Song was written before Germany as a Nation-State even existed. So the Lines true meaning is that the creation and unification of Germany as a Nation should be above all.
    And yes, as a West-German i have to admit that the Anthem of East-Germany is very beautiful.

    • @axelpatrickb.pingol3228
      @axelpatrickb.pingol3228 3 года назад +11

      So beautiful East Germany banned the lyrics for most of its time as an independent state...

    • @StarmashVT
      @StarmashVT 3 года назад +17

      Unfortunately, its a lot harder to sell that perspective when the very second line is "Above all in the world." The reasoning still sort of fits even then, but no one would ever understand it that way, justifiably.

    • @mezcaomezcal4724
      @mezcaomezcal4724 3 года назад +2

      @light I always wondered if germans considered themselves as east german and west german or just as german. I mean the split was not even a full lifetimes worth, and the divide was made by foreign powers in a arbitrary way.

    • @nickyliu8762
      @nickyliu8762 3 года назад +8

      And I also don't think that the first stanza was dropped because of the first line, but rather the part in the middle about the rivers Maas, Memel, Etsch and Belt. Since Germany had to relinquish their old territorial claims, the geography became outdated.
      Yeah, _Auferstanden aus Ruinen_ should have been Germany's new national anthem.
      Austria should change theirs too, maybe to _O du mein Österreich._

    • @Fulllife3.2
      @Fulllife3.2 3 года назад +1

      @@mezcaomezcal4724 If we go off the countries' governments, West Germany considered East Germany as a temporary state and all East Germans and West Germans to be a single nationality. While, the East German government considered itself it's own thing.

  • @nateapolon8840
    @nateapolon8840 10 месяцев назад +5

    I think we should change Britain's national anthem to sweet caroline

  • @thedano-spaniard2204
    @thedano-spaniard2204 3 года назад +781

    12:15
    > Speaks of German anthem being inappropriate
    > Plays Spanish anthem with the outdated Francoist lyrics

    • @soyhugo390
      @soyhugo390 3 года назад +53

      Thats the best versión

    • @boscovallejo-nagera6073
      @boscovallejo-nagera6073 3 года назад +53

      Those lyrics are associated with Francoist Spain, but it was written before the Francoist era

    • @ribby9069
      @ribby9069 3 года назад +80

      Bosco Vallejo-Nágera yeah exactly like the old verses of the German anthem. Germany above all wasn’t even trying to say ”we are the best” it was trying to say “Germany should be your number one loyalty/focus”

    • @thedano-spaniard2204
      @thedano-spaniard2204 3 года назад +45

      @@ribby9069 I believe it also meant "we all have these smaller german states but the German nation should be above them all to unite them" right?

    • @ribby9069
      @ribby9069 3 года назад +13

      The Dano-Spaniard I believe so yes, it’s a song of unity not aggression

  • @quinardosoto977
    @quinardosoto977 2 года назад +970

    The fact that Mexico had more deaths in its independence war than all other American nations COMBINED, and then a century of Civil wars deadlier (again) than all other American nations, is very well reflected in the first line of its anthem literally saying that as a Mexican you have to be ready for war.

    • @Leo-ok3uj
      @Leo-ok3uj Год назад +48

      GUERRA GUERRA SIN TREGUA
      Yeah, war is always around the corner so you better be ready

    • @raiden542
      @raiden542 Год назад +18

      as a Mexican, i hate the anthem, its too focused on war. the American anthem is more about the freedom of the nation, the bravery of the people, and the will of the people.

    • @Leo-ok3uj
      @Leo-ok3uj Год назад +48

      @@raiden542
      Hay opiniones malas y luego esta la tuya
      ¿Acaso el grito a union y libertad no significa nada?
      ¿El deseo a que ya no allá derramamiento de sangre entre hermanos?
      ¿El hecho de aceptar de que algún día Mexico dejara de existir pero aun así sus ruinas seguirán siendo prueba del valor de su gente?
      Entendería si dijeras que habla demasiado bien de Santa Anna o de Iturbide, ¿pero de que se enfoca demasiado en la guerra?
      Es un himno nacional, no una canción de cuna, se supone que te de valor, se supone que te de fuerzas para luchar por los ideales de tu nacion
      ¿Tan siquiera has escuchado la versión completa alguna vez?
      ¿O solo la primera estrofa y el estribillo en la escuela?
      A parte, ¿el himno Americano bueno? ¿Que te fumaste wey? Ni a ellos les gusta

    • @mohdadeeb1829
      @mohdadeeb1829 Год назад +24

      ​@@raiden542 Mexico had more deaths in the Mexican Revolutionary War than France in WW1.

    • @NoName-jw2wc
      @NoName-jw2wc Год назад +8

      @@Leo-ok3uj achis y eso de dónde lo sacas? Yo estaba con que más del 60% de los americanos les gustaba su himno
      Pero fuera de eso, de acuerdo con que el himno mexicano es superior, y personalmente opino que tiene mas energia que el americano

  • @-socialcredit
    @-socialcredit 3 года назад +1200

    "Even Somalia has a song, and it doesn't even have a country"
    Kurdistan: Depression 100

    • @jerrysienfeld9907
      @jerrysienfeld9907 3 года назад +55

      kurdish peoples anthem slaps tho

    • @brandonk.4864
      @brandonk.4864 3 года назад +11

      @@jerrysienfeld9907 Hell yeah it does

    • @karwan6385
      @karwan6385 3 года назад

      @@jerrysienfeld9907 As a kurdish guy who has some connection to it, the anthem imo is kinda lame.

    • @Abhishek-sr2pu
      @Abhishek-sr2pu 3 года назад

      @@karwan6385 you are a weeb?

    • @smoogle3g4c37
      @smoogle3g4c37 3 года назад +24

      @@Abhishek-sr2pu No he’s Kurdish.

  • @SolarBaller
    @SolarBaller 2 месяца назад +7

    13:42 ARMENIA MENTIONED!1!!!!1!11

  • @gheddafiduck8239
    @gheddafiduck8239 3 года назад +432

    Fun fact: the Italian national anthem was written by a 19 years old who died at the age of 21 defending the second roman republic

  • @hitomisalazar4073
    @hitomisalazar4073 3 года назад +2496

    I always like the fact that the US's anthem sounds so out of place compared to most. Because its lyrics were a poem never meant to be sung, combined with the tune of a drinking song. Which honestly sound like America to me.

    • @seraby7151
      @seraby7151 3 года назад +168

      US anthem just hates its singer.

    • @ProtoNeoVintage
      @ProtoNeoVintage 3 года назад +268

      Plus it has a note in it that 98% of the populace can't reliably hit.

    • @hitomisalazar4073
      @hitomisalazar4073 3 года назад +96

      I blame that mostly on the attempt to "class up" what was an old drinking song. "O! Archon!" I believe was the tune used for the Star Spangled Banner as an anthem.
      And then attempting to make it sound like something other than a drunk singing.

    • @jawwer00
      @jawwer00 3 года назад +32

      The Hungarian anthem was also given a melody only retroactively, and its author and composer are 2 different people.

    • @rivenoak
      @rivenoak 3 года назад +12

      @@hitomisalazar4073 _To Anacreon In Heaven_ and it is best sung half smashed :D but please: use the good wine ;)
      ruclips.net/video/ydAIdVKv84g/видео.html

  • @afinoxi
    @afinoxi 3 года назад +284

    "Even Somalia has a song and it doesn't even have a country"
    Hmm , that's spicy , bit too salty.

    • @thunderring8056
      @thunderring8056 3 года назад

      Heh, I’m seeing you everywhere my guy.

    • @Chactemal
      @Chactemal 3 года назад +3

      Palestine got one?

    • @dutchdoggogang6882
      @dutchdoggogang6882 3 года назад +4

      I am from somalia and I was born in suedie Arabia that I am 12 BTW I dotn know somal current state is

    • @redkraken6516
      @redkraken6516 3 года назад +1

      All hail to Ainz Oal Goan!

    • @Real7419
      @Real7419 3 года назад +4

      Ha, Ha I get it, it's salty because of pirates.

  • @bigchezzy8989
    @bigchezzy8989 2 года назад +389

    the lyrics of Auferstanden Aus Ruinen (Risen from ruins) make it even more beautiful, in the 2nd verse it ends with "Let the light of peace shin, so that a mother never again mourns her son, mourns her son". When i listened to it with english subtitles for the first time that part made me tear up.

    • @DimitrijDimitrij
      @DimitrijDimitrij 2 года назад +4

      , but it's communist! :(

    • @BrancoDemonio
      @BrancoDemonio 2 года назад +13

      @@DimitrijDimitrij and....whats the problem?

    • @DimitrijDimitrij
      @DimitrijDimitrij 2 года назад +10

      @@BrancoDemonio Nothing, I’m Communist too.😈
      ~ satire

    • @BrancoDemonio
      @BrancoDemonio 2 года назад

      @@DimitrijDimitrij you catch me in this time comrade, for a moment i thought i have to send u to Gulag

    • @hopejohnson6347
      @hopejohnson6347 2 года назад +17

      @@DimitrijDimitrij As far as I can remember, there's no reference to communism as a concept in the lyrics, though and even though I was born in west germany and lived through unification, I always preferred the east german anthem as well... ours is just so bland and the fact that you're only allowed to sing one verse out of three makes it even more underwhelming. They could at least have added more verses after the 1950's...

  • @History_Music_Fan
    @History_Music_Fan 9 месяцев назад +2

    6:46 one of the real reason the anthem doesnt use verse 1 and 2 anymore is because theres a line saying "von der Memelt zu der Etschelt!" which are Rivers germany doesnt own anymore

  • @afinoxi
    @afinoxi 3 года назад +363

    "National anthems - the anime OPs of the world."
    ...I never thought of them that way.