Rufus Wainwright ändert den Text von O Canada für Spiel 5 der World Series | CBC-Musik
https://www.cbc.ca/music/world-series-rufus-wainwright-blue-jays-canadian-anthem-9.6959775?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
Rufus Wainwright ändert den Text von O Canada für Spiel 5 der World Series | CBC-Musik
https://www.cbc.ca/music/world-series-rufus-wainwright-blue-jays-canadian-anthem-9.6959775?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
7 Kommentare
I’m generally not a fan of changing the anthem on a performers whim but I don’t hate this.
Doesn’t even make sense. „That only us command.“ If you’re going to change it (which I don’t think a singer should) change it to make sense „That only we command.“
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He might want to double-check the French words. I know he grew up living with his mom in Montreal but it sounds like he’s forgotten some of his French.
The French half of the song was so full of messed up lyrics that it stopped meaning anything. If we’re going to be patriots getting upset about anything, maybe it should be that he literally did not know half the words to the song he was singing and just made them up.
I have loved a lot of Rufus’s work, but my dude… if you don’t know the French lyrics, just sing the all English version.
And if you’re going to try and make a political statement by changing some of the words, it’s a whole lot more effective if it doesn’t just look like you have no idea what the actual words to the entire song are.
If you can’t sing the national anthem as it is legislated than don’t accept the invitation. If you want to make a political statement do so on social media or other means of communication.
What is interesting is while the English lyrics have consistently changed every few decades since 1908, the French lyrics have never changed since 1880 and is still sung in its original form. This is despite the French lyrics being extremely anachronistic. Its message would’ve been considered anachronistic even just 20 years after they were written, in 1900, in the aftermath of the Manitoba Schools Question.
And yet they stuck, while English Canadians have fought over each line and word of their lyrics to ensure they remain true to values of their time. The addition of „sons“ amid WW1 patriotic fervour. There was the addition „We stand on guard for rights and liberties“ in the 1960s when those concepts were in the zeitgeist. When „sons“ was considered sexist, we decided for plain English „in all of us“ rather than returning to the archaic but gender-neutral „thou dost in us command“. And now there’s a fight over „home AND native land“ or „home ON native land“, which is essentially a battle over the concept of native-ness and whether someone without specific indigenous blood or legal status can be a „native“. And now this „only us“ thing because of the spat with America.
I think it’s a silly debate to be honest, and I am honestly more irked by the fact Toronto hasn’t sung a bilingual version of the anthem in either of their two home games. The Raptors at least did that in Game 1 of the 2019 NBA Finals in a nod to the fact this is a bilingual country and as the sole Canadian team the Blue Jays should understand that responsibility to represent.