God Bless the USA!

[Jinx]

So, I was just at the pool, and one of my neighbours brought their radio, and had it turned to the country station. While country music really isn't my thing, I dealt with it (I used to work at a down home country cookin' restaurant.) At least two songs came on in an hour period about how great America is.

So really, this is a question for you folks who aren't from the US. Do you guys have songwriters who write and sing songs about your respective country? Excluding your independence day for you country, is that something that pops up a lot? Here it's perfectly normal to have songs about freedom, eagles, guns, and how smurfing cool America is.


Do you guys have patriotic songs that play on a normal day?

[Shlup]

I... am very interested in the answer to this question.

CZECH REPUBLIC, smurf YEAH! HERE TO SAVE THE MOTHERsmurfING DAY, YEAH!

[I Don't Need A Name]

Other than the likes of Rule Brittania and God Save The Queen, and some war songs like Long Way To Tipparary and White Cliffs of Dover, I don't think the English have many songs that big themselves up in such a way. Patriotism is encompassed by being English to us, and that is to just queue quietly xD

[fire_of_avalon]

The Patriotism thing didn't become a bastion of pop-country until after 9/11. But it's really freaking annoying.

[Roto13]

The Patriotism thing didn't become a bastion of pop-country until after 9/11. But it's really freaking annoying.

This is the worst thing about 9/11. Not the people who died in the World Trade Centre attack. Not the people who died in the subsequent war. Not the backlash against ordinary peaceful Muslims who aren't the types of people to blow up buildings.

The worst thing was troutty nationalistic pop country songs about making sweet love to a bald eagle wrapped in an american flag.

[I Don't Need A Name]

The worst thing was titty nationalistic pop country songs about making sweet love to a bald eagle wrapped in an american flag.

And the subsiquent 'We went through 9/11 so you should all bow down to us as we suffered something nasty' fallout that ensued...and still ensues a lot of the time if someone even mentions it.

[blackmage_nuke]

We have a few in aus but there is no radio station dedicated to them (to my knowledge)

I just came here because I love this song

[Peegee]

Canadians are obsessed about proving to the rest of the world that they are not USAians. Our local pop culture media is indicative of this.

[Jiro]

We have plenty of songs about Australia but not necessarily about it being great.

[krissy]

but jiro

WALTZING MATILDA

[Jiro]

We used to sing alternate lyrics. Waltzing matilda who bloody killed 'er? Lying in the grass with a dagger up 'er ass.

[Roto13]

Canadians are obsessed about proving to the rest of the world that they are not USAians. Our local pop culture media is indicative of this.

Tragically Hip 4eva

[DMKA]

It's the one thing we and North Korea have in common, lol.

I haven't heard a patriotic song on the radio in a long, long time. Unless you count Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus.

[Sephex]

I can't remember where I read this or else I would link it, but "Party in the USA" shot up the charts once again when word broke out that Bin Laden died. I laughed at this information because it is so tacky.

[Quindiana Jones]

If getting through bad trouts qualifies a country as dominant, then Poland would rule the world. Long live Poland.

But no, nobody in the British Isles is stupid/patriotic. Everybody hates England, especially the English, so we don't have any wanker tracks. The Welsh don't, because they've done nothing of consequence. The Scottish don't, because singing is for poofters. The Northern Irish don't, because they have nothing to be proud of, and the Irish don't because why sing patriotic songs when you can just drunkenly sing The Pogues?