• rustydomino@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    my dude, not considering patriotism (such as it is), lyrical meaning and what-not, the US Anthem is a decent piece of music, and I would rank it top tier as far as national anthems go. You’ve not heard a crappy national anthem until you’ve heard Taiwan’s national anthem, and I am about as patriotic as Taiwanese gets. (again just talking about the music itself and not lyrical content, Taiwan’s national anthem is very problematic)

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      4 months ago

      we disagree on both, lol. just as a piece of music, maybe it’s the performance in the video but that sounded pretty badass. this could easily be the climax soundtrack in an epic movie.

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        4 months ago

        lmao, i guess familiarity breeds contempt. because of the dispute with china, taiwan doesn’t play its national anthem at international events such as the olympics when one of their athletes win. instead, they play the flag anthem, which I MUCH prefer (again, just as a piece of music). I would be very happy if they adapted the flag anthem as the new national anthem.

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          4 months ago

          i get why you like this more, it’s more of a marching song like most anthems. me i don’t really think a national anthem should necessarily be a march. too militaristic. why not have something culturally appropriate and more importantly unique? i like that about the actual anthem. (again, didn’t look at the lyrics at all)