Comments on: Spain to get something to sing about http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/ Just another Blogs.reuters.com weblog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:30:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Xavier http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-196714 Xavier Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:09:32 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-196714 Spain is a multicultural country, there are several languages spoken there: Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galizian. The Spanish-speakers will not accept an anthem in several languages and the Spaniards with a motherlanguage different from Spanish will not accept an anthem only in Spanish. I think that an anthem with lyrics will not mean unity if not the contrary. Spain is a multicultural country, there are several languages spoken there: Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galizian. The Spanish-speakers will not accept an anthem in several languages and the Spaniards with a motherlanguage different from Spanish will not accept an anthem only in Spanish.
I think that an anthem with lyrics will not mean unity if not the contrary.

]]> By: Simon Baskett http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-193682 Simon Baskett Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:57:34 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-193682 Rafa, Here's the link to the previous versions of the words during the Franco era and that of Alfonso XIII. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcha_Real By the way Aragones was quoted as saying this week in AS that he sings the version from the Franco era because he was taught it at school. Rafa,
Here’s the link to the previous versions of the words during the Franco era and that of Alfonso XIII. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcha_Real

By the way Aragones was quoted as saying this week in AS that he sings the version from the Franco era because he was taught it at school.

]]> By: Rafa http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-193568 Rafa Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:35:01 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-193568 What are the words from the France era, Simon? Are they particularly outrageous? What are the words from the France era, Simon? Are they particularly outrageous?

]]> By: Simon Baskett http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-193361 Simon Baskett Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:16:51 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-193361 I see that there is even a bit of a controversy in some of the Madrid-based sporting press claiming that the two Barcelona players in the squad (Xavi and Carles Puyol) turned down their socks which are topped with the colours of Spanish flag so that they would not show in the team photo for the recent Latvia match, so I think putting words to the anthem could prove to be a bit problematic. I see that there is even a bit of a controversy in some of the Madrid-based sporting press claiming that the two Barcelona players in the squad (Xavi and Carles Puyol) turned down their socks which are topped with the colours of Spanish flag so that they would not show in the team photo for the recent Latvia match, so I think putting words to the anthem could prove to be a bit problematic.

]]> By: Kev http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-193266 Kev Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:51:55 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-193266 Coming up with acceptable words to a national anthem is going to be tricky in a place which is nervous even about calling itself one nation. If they insist, I'd ditch the current tune and just go with something by Serrat. "Fiesta" sums up Spain about perfectly, and it'd certainly liven things up at Euro 2008. Coming up with acceptable words to a national anthem is going to be tricky in a place which is nervous even about calling itself one nation. If they insist, I’d ditch the current tune and just go with something by Serrat. “Fiesta” sums up Spain about perfectly, and it’d certainly liven things up at Euro 2008.

]]> By: Rafa http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-192922 Rafa Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:13:27 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-192922 How about this: Easy! Easy! We find it really easy Just to qualify And then we mess it up Lisbon, Hanover, Ko-re-a or Rome When the quarters come, you know we're going home OK, it might need a bit of work... How about this:

Easy! Easy! We find it really easy
Just to qualify
And then we mess it up

Lisbon, Hanover, Ko-re-a or Rome
When the quarters come, you know we’re going home

OK, it might need a bit of work…

]]> By: Five Times http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-192900 Five Times Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:45:33 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-192900 Funny post. Really interesting to know that Spain's anthem has no lyrics! And Liechtenstein's saving the queen also... almost. :D Funny post. Really interesting to know that Spain’s anthem has no lyrics! And Liechtenstein’s saving the queen also… almost. :D

]]> By: Elena http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-192614 Elena Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:41:16 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-192614 I don't know what Aragones was mumbling, but sometimes I feel like singing the popular lyrics from my childhood in the 70s... "Franco, Franco, ya tiene el culo blanco porque su mujer, lo lava con Ariel" ("Franco, Franco, already has his bum white, because his wife washes it with Ariel"). Hope this time we manage to come up with a more intellectual version! I don’t know what Aragones was mumbling, but sometimes I feel like singing the popular lyrics from my childhood in the 70s… “Franco, Franco, ya tiene el culo blanco porque su mujer, lo lava con Ariel” (”Franco, Franco, already has his bum white, because his wife washes it with Ariel”). Hope this time we manage to come up with a more intellectual version!

]]> By: Antonio Lopez http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-192465 Antonio Lopez Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:27:19 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/06/04/spain-to-get-something-to-sing-about/#comment-192465 Of course the national anthem did once have some words. First in the time of King Alfonso XIII and then again during the Franco era, but understandably these were dropped when Spain became a democracy. Of course the national anthem did once have some words. First in the time of King Alfonso XIII and then again during the Franco era, but understandably these were dropped when Spain became a democracy.

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