autumn-knight t1_iye3gpk wrote
When they tried to add lyrics, opponents accused the national anthem of being, believe it or not, too nationalist! It sounds odd and funny (I mean if anything is going to be nationalist, it’s a national anthem, surely?!) but against the backdrop of Spanish history and its linguistic makeup, it makes sense it would controversial having lyrics in one language and not the others.
pm-me-racecars t1_iyea3yo wrote
They could copy Canada and have multiple songs with the same music.
autumn-knight t1_iyeyopd wrote
That’s one option. Another is New Zealand where it’s becoming common to sing a verse in Māori then a verse in English. Might be a bit harder with a verse in Castilian, Catalan, Galician then Basque though...
pm-me-racecars t1_iyf5md2 wrote
In Canada, it's super common to have the first part be French and the second part be English.
It's just a little funny that the official "translations" aren't translations at all, and are actually two completely different songs set to the same music.
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