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Of course it does. Brazil’s gonna Brazil.
good thing there’s no new Zealand
I am much disappoint. Looking it up, I find that Brazil has four songs: the national anthem, the anthem of the republic, the flag anthem, and the anthem of independence. None of them mention boobs, and one of them does mention blood.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_National_Anthem#Lyrics
Em teu seio, ó liberdade
That’s not boobs. Every translation that I found had it as “bosom” in English, referring to the chest area. I mean, maybe some people have liberty in their tiddies, but that seems unusual.
And this is how I learned there were 4 verses to the star spangled banner https://www.lyricsondemand.com/n/nationalanthemlyrics/usanationalanthemlyrics.html
Same. I have never in my life heard anything after “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave”
I thought verse two was: “Play ball!”
No, it’s “Gentleman, start your engines!!”
I heard that we were able to identify spies because of this. Apparently they were taught the full anthem whereas Americans do not recite the full one. It’s funny to imagine these spies thinking they’re absolutely killing it and the Americans looking at each other like “we gotta get rid of them, huh”.
Yeah its pretty fucked up.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave
The fuck?
This verse is referring to the british, not menial laborers or chattel slaves. “Hirelings” was (is?) an insulting term to describe a mercenary, and the implication is that they are either brigands who are only in it for a pittance wage, rubes who do it because of a loyalty to the monarchy and/or impressed soldiers of the british (a practice with many parallels to chattel slavery, for what that’s worth). A modern version might call them “sheep” with a similar implication.
Well, except Britain promised freedom to slaves that fought for their cause, so I still assume it means slaves in the literal sense.
Kinda fucked the US didn’t do the same given the whole fight for freedom bit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_in_the_Revolutionary_War
The US National Anthem is the only one in the whole world that mentions bombs.
The only one that explicitly mentions them, yep. It’s a recounting of the british attack on a US fort during the war of 1812, which was attacked by, among other things, british bomb ships (mortar carriers). The actual bombs being referenced would be called shells in the modern era. Interestingly many others refer to guns and cannons and incoming fire and etc. as well; China’s makes explicit reference to being shelled (tho as I have had it explained, it’s also a bit of quite clever wordplay: 冒着敌人的炮火，前进 can mean both “withstand their (physical) guns/cannons” and “stand up in the face of their (metaphorical) aggression”)
Which is weird, since it was written in 1814, and I can’t think of any bombs that burst in the air back then other than fireworks. Were they shooting fireworks in a battle?
The British Navy fired mortars — whose projectiles can explode midair — from bomb ships to bombard Fort McHenry, along with using Congreve rockets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baltimore
Neither the Austrian nor the German national anthem mention blood?
They both at mention a heart which… might be why they were included? But I think this map may just be AI or recaptioned from something else because thats a bit of a stretch to call blood.
edit: USA, China & mexico both overtly mention blood though… Maybe it really is the heart thing? Though if that were true then Canada should be on there too. Idkwtf
edit 2: and the Brazilian anthem is disappointing given the way it’s brought up in the OP; it’s not a crass use of it like “boob” but very much akin to “my heart beat in my breast” or “nurtured by your bosom”. By that metric a ton of other countries also feature tiddy anthems.
If thats a question, yes, germany does not use the first two verses of the national anthem any more. The nazis made those uncomfortable.
Ok but this needs distinction between shedding the blood of enemies or shedding your mother’s blood because you’re born.
Doubt, unless mention of battle is sufficient to make the list
EDIT: I was wrong. Here’s one of the verses that are not usually sung:
“And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave, From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
