While being sort of biased, I have to say that I do not mean to offend anyone.
So, I have been listening to playlist on spotify to know what other national anthems sounds like, and, dude, they, almost, all sound similar as if they came out of certain few people’s hands. To me, obviously, Azerbaijani and a very few others from the same region sound distinctive.
Why do you think that is? Due to Political and/or Western Classical music influences?
https://old.reddit.com/r/azerbaijan/comments/1ctfuf6/why_do_you_reckon_most_of_the_national_anthems/
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Westoids just weren’t creative enough to surpass Uzeyir Hajibeyov
Jokes aside it probably has to do with the fact that European countries have similar traditional values.I haven’t listened to them but I assume Arabic countries also have similar anthems
My country’s national anthem is literally the same as Palestine’s anthem, which to me sounds really bad
The pre-2003 anthem was already much more badass
Many European countries borrowed (or may I stay, stole) the anthems of more prevalent powers and used it, like Germany did with the British one.
Believe it or not as a kid what got me interested in Azerbaijan was your national anthem. I thought it was epic and distinctive; can’t say I’ve listened to a similar anthem. I like the Azerbaijani SSR anthem too (aesthetically I mean, not the SSR itself)
Israeli here, our anthem is a hybrid of an unofficial Czechoslovak resistance anthem (under Austria-Hungary) and a Romanian folk song. The result is more of a lullaby than an anthem
Seriously, it’s in a minor key. People usually whisper the words
check out the US, Brazilian, French, and Indian ones