National Anthems of the World: The Beautiful, Boring and Bonkers
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- Опубликовано: 10 мар 2021
- National Anthems. There's 179ish of these things around. Why do we have them? Which ones are overrated? What is even happening? I listened to all of them, now I'm answering your questions them.
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Keep up the great vids
Good video, weird animation style, but still good. I just ask you one thing, PLEEAAASE DONT GO LIKE KNOWLEDGE HUB!
New art style looks nice
You've just fed my addiction of looking to see if you've uploaded every 5 minutes.
God save the king was a poem that denounced the jacobites.
Not every nation has an anthem - Afghanistan under the Taliban didn't have an anthem, because music was banned.
you dont have an anthem. you are not a country.
Wait what? Is this really true did the Taliban really ban music or is there a joke I’m missing? lol
@@satakrionkryptomortis So I can have a anthem abut no flag or freedon but still be counted as a country?
@@FriedrichBarb Yes, yes they are
Didn't they recently ban women from singing?
I love how the Soviet anthem needs only a single chord for you to know it’s the Soviet anthem
It god teir music
Say what you will about the USSR, their anthem slaps hard
Kinda like the red army
@@BasicLib the internationale is better tbh
Just one note
@@jasonguess6951 You got a favourite version of it? I can't quite decide.
As a non-communist (West-)German I would have loved to take "Auferstanden aus Ruinen" as the anthem for unified Germany. It's just so fitting and epic in my opinion. Goosebumps everytime.
The problem with that is, that it was the DDRs Anthem... So politically it would be difficult to establish.
And shortly after East German fell, a small Japanese game company used the now-not-a-national-anthem-anymore as... music theme for raunchy scenes, forever nailing the coffin for Auferstanden aus Ruinen.
@@Lakhshamana Moment mal, was?
I mean, Russia did the same.
I think the current ones history is more relevant to the german people and their struggle for unification and our tainted legacy
I really think Cody didn't give enough credit to Poland's anthem, "Poland Is Not Yet Lost". It was pretty influential on anthems in the late 1800s among East Europe nations struggling for independence. Ukraine and Yugoslavia in particular are/were heavily inspired by it.
It clearly struck a chord with a lot of people and the lyrics are pretty powerful imo. The Poles standing firm, singing of thier heroes, and how despite so many trying to destroy them, they still live, and reaffirming thier right to exist.
I read a translation of the lyrics, because of your comment here. And.... Yeah, wow. Pretty goddamn moving.
Amhrán na Bhfiann is about fighting the British for our freedom.
It's always interesting to me how much the anthems of Germany and Poland have not the same, but a very similar theme. All of this "There can be a Germany (again)" and "Poland can and will continue to exist." in both nations anthems is the same underlying theme in the weird landscape that was 1800 Europe.
The reason why Ukraine and Yugoslavia used it is that it was originally created as a pan-Slavic anthem back when that was a thing, but it wasn't invented by Russians and never became popular in Russia, so it kind of became the only symbol of a pan-Slavism that was against, rather than for, Russia. So it overall represents those less populous Slavic peoples asserting their right to not be Russian.
@@plasmakitten4261 nope, any panslavic stuff was mid 19th century creation. When the Polish anthem lyrics were written in the last year of the 18th century.
Fun fact: The reason queen Elizabeth hasn't died, is because of the anthem's healing abilities.
no shit sherlock
At one point in time, this comment will age poorly
@Koby Cossins He e'nt the queen, is he?
@VegetaOrAra ah yes satanic powers
@@chavymcgopnik8591 Yes, yours
“Every nation has a song, even Somalia has a song, and it doesn’t have a country”
Now That’s allot a damage
Damn was not prepared for a Phil Swift reference in this comment section
F him I'm standing right there inthat place
“I Sawed this country in half”
XD
Somalia is a country tho
Thank you SO MUCH for including the East German anthem "Auferstanden aus Ruinen"
Funfact: They stopped singing the lyrics in East Germany arround 1970 because they mention a "unified German mother land" which at some point wasn't... lets say... expedient anymore.
I think "Hail to thee in the Victor's Crown" is a pretty epic title
The Hungarian anthem was composed by a guy who wrote mostly opera (pretty kickass ones, too) and it shows :D It has an uncomfortably large range for the average person without any singing training. Then there's the other, not-anthem called Szózat (roughly "Speech" but the fancy kind of speech) that we also sing at the end of celebrations that call for it, and it's EVEN HARDER to sing. A banger definitely, but it goes very deep.
Fiam, ezeknek a kultúràlatlan barmoknak felesleges magyaràzkodni.
1) Lányom 2) közel 40 vagyok @@captainp.2721
Considering it's coming from a nation with a substantial pioneering of classical music, I'd expect nothing less
Interestingly, the East German anthem had the line “Germany, united fatherland”, which I guess would have made more sense nowadays, but oh well
Yeah gotta agree with that. Really wish if Germany use this instead the older anthem.
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 ...
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
Only true men of culture know where they heard it first
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.
"LET'S GO ON AN ADVENTURE, CHILD SOLDIER."
Congo's anthem is the unofficial anthem of MMO's.
Now i want an rpg game as a child soldiers.
Me looking at JRPG characters: makes sense, they already look like children.
@@breakerdawn8429 Wait isn't that like everysingle JRPG and This War of Mine.
@@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.
weebs don't go to hell, they are "isekaied" to congo.
what is actually funny about the east- and west-German anthem topic: The East German is, according to my knowledge, written so the lyrics of the West-German fits to the music, for the day of reuniting. Which i think is really said they didnt combine those two, but was a genius move from East-Germany. Great video
I think the most underrated anthem is actually the official one for the EU, which is Bethovens 'Ode to Joy', but without the lyrics. It's a known classical piece and since it's without the lyrics no language is favoured.
how so??? i think the lyrics are so nice!!!
Joy (joy), joy (joy)
Joy, beautiful spark of the gods
Daughter from Elysium
We enter, drunk with fire
Heavenly ones, your sanctuary
Your spells bind again
What fashion strictly divided
all people become brothers
Where your gentle wing rests
@@LexifromZargon I think every nation just signs lyrics translated into their own language, but the official anthem has no lyrics. It's nice that way.
If European integration is your way to go, you have to look for unifier language real quick. That language wouldn't be a replacement of native languages, but will be a new shared identity like the eu flag is.
Indonesian too have many native languages specific to it's own ethnicities (thousands in fact) and Indonesian language is only native to miniscule of them in total, were used since it's the language shared for the entire population, making sharing and integration much stronger - which including it's anthem.
Personally I think South Africa has the most underrated anthem.
I feel like Tyler is giving Cody some of his acid
Nah I think they have a brotherly rivalry on who can create the best acid
@@supernovel7514 are they actually brothers? Am I an idiot for not realizing this before?
What is life?
i thought this video was a little bit acidic. not very based.
@@_Mr.Tuvok_ yes, their actually brothers
@Poop Poop I mean, they both have said they're brothers in videos they both made so......LOL
Fun fact, Polish Anthem mentiones Italy and Italian Anthem mentiones Poland.
that's what I thought too, even if in italian we actually say "polish", are you italian too?
Two best buddies with absolutely no historic tension between them at any point
can you post the lines?
It's like when Terraria tells you to try Minecraft, and Minecraft tells to try Terraria. Nice
LOL
Just realized that the bit of sheet music in this video’s thumbnail is the opening to Megalovania from Undertale
Weird that the Dutch anthem wasn’t talked about it’s the oldest in the world and have lines in it like I’m from German blood and the king of Spain have I always honored
This always gets me annoyed, it’s “Dietsen bloed” AND NOT “DUITSEN BLOED”
@@KiwiWasAlreadyTakenCorrect, and Dietz refers to the ancestors of Willem that came from the County of Dietz, a place in nowadays GERMANY…
"Come child soldier, let's go on an adventure."
You owe me a glass of lemonade Cody.
There a tax for that
@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.
@@pawsteps6053 it's a reference to the youtube channel "Oversimplified"
XD
+Minecraft-me dude....uncool
Poland’s has the most amazing starting verse: “Poland is not yet dead, as long as I yet live”. Wow, harsh history there.
Ngl, Dabrowski's Mazurka is pretty badass, especially fitting for a country that *insists* on existing.
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.
"we aren't dead *yet*" setting the bar really low poland
@@taloob493 Well, you can't set a bar if you're dead
@@taloob493 I mean it was writen when country was already wipe out of the maps.
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.
Well it literally is a poem, so there's that
@@theballingboi5360 tru tru
As a Brit, I think ‘Jerusalem’ is far more a representation of what Britain is than ‘Rule Britannia’ or ‘God Save the Queen/King’. It’s the transporting Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’ poem about the Industrial Revolution and the transition Britain was in into a patriotic hymn . And it gives me shivers every time! The only time I get that with a song was with the East Germany ‘Rise from Ruins’. It’s the idea of hope for the future and how it’s always in the current generations hands to shape their nation for their future generations
I love Jerusalem but i don't think it would work for the whole UK. I think England should use it as their anthem for sporting events etc but I think because it only references England in the song I don't think that would work as the British anthem. I'm from Scotland and I don't think I'd be too wild about it being the British anthem even tho I do love it and think it's a beautiful piece of music!
@@callahanslegionnaire3090 The current anthem isn't very good in that regard either.
Jerusalem is beautiful and I am Irish
i'd go for I Vow To Thee My Country actually - easy to sing, gracefully slow, iconic chords, and that excellent swell into the chorus. And as a traditional hymn the lyrics are quietly spiritual and devotional, without nationalistic pride or mention of exclusively england...
@@victorayorke7123I Vow to Thee Country is also very moving because it’s WW1 related which really touches us Brits even to this day. That war shaped modern Britain and the flaws with it today
"The Chinese before the revolution"
Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
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.
@@seanj4119 But Taiwan didn't exist back then as a nation didn't they??
@@martijn9568 Of course, it was the Republic of China at the time.
@@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)
@@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
"Balkans anthem is just insulting each others"
Sounds Balkans to me
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.
@@froid6567 no
yeah that's about right
the history of the Balkans since yugoslavia is just war and conflict mainly
@@froid6567 it's a powderkeg, even if it is taken seriously, it is still a powderkeg
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
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!
The Finnish national anthem is a really good listen, because of just how many As are in the Finnish language and especially how many are in the words chosen for the song, it’s very melodic, and it’s lyrics are really soothing too. I genuinely listen to it while playing games and writing
I kinda prefer Sibelius' Finlandia to fit in with the Nordic's tendency to make cozy sounding anthems
Aruba anthem: chilling
Ukraine: depression
Nigeria: proudness
Soviet: marching
Azerbaijan: *WAR OF WIZARDS*
ngl i was thinking it sounds like something the klingons would use as there anthem, the azerbaijan anthum that is
0:25 AMONG US
Switzerland: *Opera intensifies*
Sri Lanka: Lionn
@@hellion6737 as a sri lankan i can confirm that
l i o n
Fun Fact:
Italy and Poland reference each other in their rispective national anthem.
In what way?
@@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.
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.
@@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.
and the netherlands' anthem references germany and is written as a telling of the king's life i think
This is one of the best videos youve ever made. Love it
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
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" :*
Your music teacher let you guys sing this? Mine would have rather amputated his hand xD
@@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
Well it’s not forbidden
Its forbidden to sing ist out loud...
@@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
The Soviet anthem is like the Megalovania of national anthems, you literally only need to hear first note and you instantly know.
Megalovania: Doot
Soviet anthem: *DAAAAAAAAaaaa*
hey hold on is that the flag of Zeiberland (this is its creator here)
And it's as annoying as megalovania
@@davefred annoying ?
@@davefred annoying?
Thanks for including the colombian anthem. I like it a lot, its about the independence and national heroes, who fought to liberate La Gran Colombia, that disolved later into 4 countries
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.
“Go on an adventure child soldier!”
"Adventure"
Your choices
1. Yes (press L1) 2. Yes (press L2) 3. Yes (press R1) 4. Die (press R2)
Fire Emblem be like
Anime be like:
@@alw2839 Tanya the Evil intensifies
"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.
Like the Pooh flag didn’t do it.
yes I did sadly
55 rage in Peking
@@thinbluemerican470 oh 55 days in peking is fire
Lets be honest, he also got put on a black list here in the US.
We definitely want that full ranking
Honestly I've always loved anthems. They tell you a lot about the cultures and the cultural values of said countries.
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.
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.
Still a fun fact though. I liked it.
@@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.
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.
Or you sing it to „eine Insel mit zwei Bergen“
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.
So kind of like when people say "put country before party" or "put nation above state(province)"?
@@seileach67 yes, that is how it was meant originally. Put a united german nation state above the kingdoms small states
Korrekt mein freund.
Rip
Just like the Swastika, the Nazis oofed everything remotely good about Germany before them (swasti isn't even German lol).
I feel like the GDR's anthem and military orchestra is criminally underrated. It blends German and Soviet music so well.
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. ;-)
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.
Do it. Please.
"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.
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.
"du gamla" sounds like "du gammler" which means "you bum" in german lol
@@ChaosMan50ty It means "you old". Or "You Old, You Free" for the full title.
I thought Waka Waka was the official anthem of South Africa as a kid.
Meanwhile child me thought the Pledge of Allegiance was the US anthem, I live in the USA
@@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
@@gery8218 Yea we do, I never really thought of it though because we are all so used to it
@@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
@@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.
in the topic of latin american anthems, when it comes to Uruguay's anthem, that long intro before the actual lyrics feels a bit overwhelming when Uruguay is your opponent in soccer... and then the lyrics go hard like a roundhouse kick
Ireland and New Zealand have two of the best national anthems out there. As an Aussie, the latter is something of a guilty pleasure for me.
''the further east you go, the more peaceful the melody is"
North Korea: AEGUKKA
North Korean anthem is actually calm tho
Mainland China: *national anthem Intensifies*
@@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.
@@robertjarman3703 that is a myth . Although they use song of general Kim il sung a lot it is still less used than aegukka
Their national anthem is calm. I think it is the same national anthem as the South? I don't know btw
Let’s be real all of the history/politics nerds have sometimes spent hours on youtube going through national anthems and patriotic songs
Yes, we do, due we?
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”
@@Erde_midget770 Yes, we have
gang gang
@@FriedrichBarb Prussian Glory is pretty good
Honestly enjoyed this more than most of your normal content.
You should make a serie where you make a tier liste of all national anthem i would love that hahahaha
Other countries: "Look at our beautiful landscapes and architecture."
Liechtenstein: "Castle"
Hey, castles are awesome.
Isn't that pretty much the extent of Liechtenstein's landscape and architecture?
@@wtr3059 I believe it's just that castle, and the town around it.
If you've got it, flaunt it.
That being said I hope they're maintaining that castle.
@@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
My brain thought that "The only picture of Lichenstein is this castle" was a subtitle translation of their anthem...
so patriotic
Oben am j̶u̶n̶g̶e̶n̶ Deutschen Rhein
Me too, bro!!! 🤣🤣🤣
@@DK-tv6rk *Oben am* -deutschen- *jungen Rhein*
-help- yeah me too! XD
-help-
My country technically has an anthem. The words haven't been sung in almost 30 years though.
For... Reasons.
what country are you from?
Spain I guess, like me
YUP THAT LAST BIT, although the Korean Empire anthem from way back when is actually my spirit animal now.
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.
US anthem just hates its singer.
Plus it has a note in it that 98% of the populace can't reliably hit.
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.
The Hungarian anthem was also given a melody only retroactively, and its author and composer are 2 different people.
@@hitomisalazar4073 _To Anacreon In Heaven_ and it is best sung half smashed :D but please: use the good wine ;)
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I can’t stop thinking that South Sudan’s anthem sounds like “If you’re happy and you know it”
Congo: hay kids want to play Dragon Quest, get your AKs Child Soldier
I can’t get over Azerbaijan’s Anthem
Sounded like that to me as well LOL
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
@@fives5555arc me neither. Ut sounds like someone wants to go on a freaking Crusade or Mordor's anthem alongside Harad and Rhun
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.
Poland is NOT yet lost
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
Great posting. Thank you. I agree like many others have already posted, that the East Germany anthem was a great one. About Africa, have you gotten the time to listen the current one of the Central Africa Republic? Unless you speak French, try to get the orchestral version. To me it was a discovery of one of the most beautiful anthems. The version you get in Google is a short one.
"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.
Where are the 1 million Armenians Turkey, you said it was migration Turkey.
And Imperial Germany?
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.
@@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.
@@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.
“The German anthem has some choice words”
France: Act natural!
Poland: **Fear**
Germany : We're above The World!
France : *there goes the kings head*
@@randomdudeontheinternet9469 the song was written before Germany existed. Germany above all is the wish for a unified Germany not that Germany's superior
@@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.
@@mkbt557 *sad budhist noises*
Finally remembering to watch this after a year
Edit: this video represents the anthem enthusiasts perfectly
5:25 as a german i gotta say, i never wipped my head aeound so fast to my second monitor as i hears that first note.
Terrible country PTSD man, shits kicking in hard
"This is Botswana" shows Cape Town South Africa and Portugese soldiers in Angola...nice
He meant the anthem playing, not the background images
@@jv8462 still not very accurate but hilarious attempt nonetheless.
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.
Economics Explained Moment
Sad he missed the South African national anthem. We need some representation for Mnzansi...
"Rule for Asia is the further east you go, the more peaceful the melody is"
China: *March of the volunteers intensifies*
起来
起 来
*起 来--*
ROC:
*Revolution intensifies*
You mean, “March of the involuntary workers”?
more like march of the volunteered
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
Happy to see Aruba mentioned. Glad the roadwork was done for these anthems!
Germany missed a great opportunity in the 90ies: You can swap the lyrics and the instrumental of the GDR and FRG anthems and it works.
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.
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 .
Uhh no, not really
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.
Nope, Turkey's anthem was chosen by a competition aswell.
@@Raiju2 didn't knew that. Edited
“As the Death Star appears on the horizon to destroy Armen-I mean.”
Rip Arminia killed by the Ottoman Empire
I died laughing
azerbaijan AZERBAIJAN
Based 🤘🏻🐺
@@godstop3688 it never happened :)
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.
I imported a right hand drive 1990 Land Rover Defender 90 from the UK to the US last year. It was heavily customized, massive lift, 35" mud terrains, bull bars, winch, wildly expensive stereo system, the works. I entered it in a British car show. There were your usual Rolls-Royces, Aston Martins, McLarens, then I came in, union jack flying on a pole at the back, and I was playing Rule Brittania on the stereo. I won a trophy for "Most British."
National Anthems are actual country music
insert gif of mind blowing
xD
Well it’s nice to see you here
*inserts good point meme*
Have my like and begone with thee!
"Rule Britannia" is such a better song than "God Save the Queen" that I usually forget it's _not_ the UK's national anthem.
Yeah just a slight issue of all the connotations about the British Empire
@@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.
The first part is a bit tricky though, especially the "arose" bit. But it's definitely more optimistic.
@@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.
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?"
Mate, can you please make another channel where you just talk about stuff like this? Literally watched this video a few times now, it's just good vibes. Also, a discord that is focused around anthems, flags etc would be a cool idea!
I heard about the previous anthem of Georgia playing as them in a hoi4 mod. Gave me goosebumps. Still enjoy to listen to it
The best anthem is goofy’s moral lesson, the anthem of seaburgerland
I fellow scrumble I see
based
Lmai
@@seaburgerdotorg2154 mr seaburger himself
Fun fact: the Philippines is so short that it doesn't even have a chorus and it has an anime version on yt
Lol, I have to look that up now.
🎶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. 🎶
It has a *what*
What? Even the Japanese anthem is shorter but it doesn't have an anime.
hold up there's an anime version? dam
this is one of my favorite videos ever. I watch it about every 6th months. . Its a Perfect Cody video. The East Germany anthem brings tears to my eyes and Im a Brit! Being a scouser (Livepuddlian) our Anthem is "You'll Never Walk Alone" My City will always be in my heart.
The pronunciation of Māori hurt me a lot as a New Zealander.
For anyone who wants to know how we pronounce it it’s like Mau-re, kinda. We have a weird accent down here.
"National anthems - the anime OPs of the world."
...I never thought of them that way.
WARNING I am the unprettiest human YTer worldwide. Take the hint, dear chan
@@AxxLAfriku ok
@@AxxLAfriku please go away
But if anthems are OPs, what is ED?
@@redkraken6516 like One Piece (latest episodes) they don't have EDs
*Some national anthems roughly summarized*
🇺🇸 "1812 was tough, but our cool flag's worth fighting for"
🇬🇧 "English monarchy best monarchy"
🇫🇷 "No monarchy best monarchy"
🇷🇺 "Let me tell you *exactly* how was my visit to this badass country called Russia!"
🇨🇳 "Ay everyone let's make this huge human wall"
🇯🇵 "Your highness, your reign is gonna be long. No, but I mean like, REALLY long."
🇰🇷 "No, Arirang is not our national anthem."
🇮🇳 "Damn, we got many people groups don't we."
🇵🇱 "That dude didn't come all the way from Italy for us to be foolin' around. Don't even think about it."
🇭🇺 "Can y'all chill? We're trying to carry on with our lives here"
🇳🇱 "Hey Wilhelmus. Don't forget that I love you"
🇮🇹 "By the foot or by the knife Italy comes back to life!"
🇮🇱 "Yo, Jerusalem, remember when they tried to exile us 2000 years ago? Good, I got excellent news for you."
🇸🇦 "The boss of the Muslim world is in the houuuuuuuse! 🙌"
🇦🇪 "The jewel of the Muslim world is in the houuuuuuuse! 🙌"
🇪🇬 _(Hook)_ "My homeland" _(×837)_
🇧🇷 "Come to Brazil 🙃"
🇬🇷🇨🇾 "Heyyy liberty! Thought I wouldn't recognize you didn't ya?"
🇹🇷 "Okay, first of all it's not logically possible that I'm not the best country in the world. Did you know that I..." _(five hours later)_ "...therefore, Turkey number one, and you can't factually deny it."
🇫🇮 "Umm... I think I have Oedipus complex"
🇸🇮 "Y'all like wine?"
🇪🇦 " "
Nice!
I'm brazillian, I loved that 😂
Omg turkey is 100% correct
We are the best you can't deny it 😐
You... are GOING TO BRAZIL JOIN THE BUS NOW
As an Indian I would say its pretty true, lots different cultures of people but the whole anthem summarized would be vast and varied people as well as land and then its about victory, to inspire confidence in the common man that he can do something for his nation. As an Indian I personally would say its pretty good.
The Spanish one you mentioned was the one used during the dictatorship. The melody is the same now but withour any lyrics 😊
I vastly prefer the Azerbaijani anthem to any of the "peaceful" or "relaxing" ones. Those ones feel like they're lying to me about humans. Like, the kind of music we'd send aliens that we want to start bilateral trade with. The Azerbaijani anthem sounds like...how humans *really* are.
"National Anthems: the anime OP of a country."
-Cody
I'm stealing this
Yes. This was probably the best description of a national anthem I've ever heard 😂
I swear, this line could become a meme when people talk about anthem in general.
"Even Somalia has a song and it doesn't even have a country"
Hmm , that's spicy , bit too salty.
Heh, I’m seeing you everywhere my guy.
Palestine got one?
I am from somalia and I was born in suedie Arabia that I am 12 BTW I dotn know somal current state is
All hail to Ainz Oal Goan!
Ha, Ha I get it, it's salty because of pirates.
14:50 instead they did neither lol
Russian Federation's Oblasts also each have an anthem, most of which slap. My favourite is Buryatia, closely followed by Tuva
My personal favorite is Tuva but Buryatia is close second
Tuva should’ve stayed independent just for the anthem
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
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...
@@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.
Germans know that because the sentence obviousy has the meaning. Germans don't depend on wrong malicious translations of enemies.
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)
@@Terzis-hat-swag That's true, the original is called "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" (God preserve Franz the Emperor)
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.
Because the melody/notes is the same for all 3 stanzas~
Also, you can sing both to the melody of "ode to joy" (Beethoven's 9th).
@@benjaminlammertz64 I did not know that until now. I didn't even think about it, but it reallly fits.
@@benjaminlammertz64 Woah i just tried it, that's incredible
The great thibg about the east-German anthem is that you can still sing the regular text to it. It's a lot more engaging than the 1840s melody and overall a mich better anthem, in my opinion.
For a side project this was really amazing.
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
I was shocked as it drew to the end, but then Tim Curry’s smile warmed my heart
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
I'M ESCAPING, TO THE ONE PLACE THAT HASN'T BEEN CORRUPTED BY CAPITALISM
***holds laughter extensively***
SPESSS
That shit chills my flaming wahraboo blood
yessssssss
"LETS GO ON AN ADVENTURE CHILD SOLDIER!" THAT WAS AMAZING
The DCR would probably have child soldiers if a war broke out
@@robbieaulia6462 The country has been at war since 1997.
@@bindukopparapu2795 yep
I love how no one sees the german flag on the thumbnail
Is no one going to mention that the sheet music on the thumbnail is Megalovania?
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?"
Italy's, in turn, mentions Poland (and Austria, in a, uh, different kind of way), although in a stanza that is not commonly sung.
@@Danirijeka There is a line about "(going back) From Italy to Poland" in Polish anthem, too. Must be a reference to same events.
@@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″.
Another fun fact about Poland anthem. Yugoslavian anthem had exactly the same music just slighlty shorter
@@qzg7857 Because they are basically the same old tune "Hey Slovane!"
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
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.
Mexico is just a really agitated crab then?
@@Ostentatiousnessness in other words... Yes... We a really agitated crab... With guns... And tequila...
And then spanish anthem is like:
Niiinooo niiinooo nino no nino nino nono ni ni ni....
The US anthem is about one battle against the British.
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!)
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.
@@baguettegott3409 I did not know this. Thanks very much :D
04:58 Thank you for helping me learn that those are called ABC islands, how nifty!
Imagine making an anthem for the Chinese emperor only for the country to die within a matter of months
*Ahem qing dynasty*
wasted
Oof
12:15
> Speaks of German anthem being inappropriate
> Plays Spanish anthem with the outdated Francoist lyrics
Thats the best versión
Those lyrics are associated with Francoist Spain, but it was written before the Francoist era
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”
@@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?
The Dano-Spaniard I believe so yes, it’s a song of unity not aggression
13:41 I’m dying 😂😂😂