Spanish Version of US National Athem

[PixieDust32]

What do you think? I think is WRONG!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12440160/

 

[Charade]

Not only is it wrong, they changed the words!!! Which is even wronger!

 

[PixieDust32]

Not only is it wrong, they changed the words!!! Which is even wronger!

Exactly!

 

[PixieDust32]

One of the singers is GLORIA TREVI, a Mexican pop singer.

 

[PixieDust32]

La Trevi

Glori Trevi became a Latin pop sensation in the early 90s by singing songs that championed teen sexual liberation and bashed macho male attitudes. And while her music was the usual unimaginative Top 40 drivel, her message and the inspiring effect that it had on young audiences – especially young female audiences – made her a hero even among Mexico’s intellectual community. Writers and social critics Carlos Monsivaís and Elena Poniatowska talked of her in glowing praise, and even Zapatista guerilla leader Subcomandante Marcos admitted to being a fan. Not surprisingly, conservatives in this very Catholic country hated her, which of course gave her even more credibility among her audience.

That was Gloria Trevi, revolutionary pop star, as she was in the early 90s.

But then, by the late 90s, rumors began to surface about Trevi, her anti-social manager/producer Sergio Andrade, and the cult-like cadre of young girls that tagged along with the singer as her “back-up vocalists.” Andrade, who was in his late 30s at the time, had been marrying and divorcing various members of his brat pack – most of them girls of 13 to 15 years of age. When one of the members of the entourage – a 13-year-old whom Andrade had not married – abandoned a newborn baby at an orphanage in Spain, Mexican authorities finally moved into action and got the young girl’s parents to press charges against the manager/producer.

Then, the whole Andrade-Trevi clan, which seems to have included about 8 or 10 young teenage girls at the time, went into hiding in Brazil for a few years. While there, Andrade set himself to the task of impregnating all of his entourage, thinking that babies born in Brazil would protect him and the rest of the group from extradition to Mexico.

Eventually the Brazilian cops found the group – which included 3 of 4 newborns by this point – and threw Trevi and Andrade in jail. Andrade was charged with kidnapping, torture and child rape; and Trevi was accused of abetting the crimes by working to lure new girls into the group – and by participating in Andrade’s abuse and ritual humiliation herself.

Then, two years later while she was being held in solitary confinement in a Brazilian prison, Trevi somehow managed to become pregnant. She claimed that she had been raped by prison guards. But a DNA test showed that Andrade, also being held in solitary confinement, was in fact the child’s father. Rumor had it that he had had a sperm sample smuggled to Trevi’s cell in a glass of warm milk.

Anyway, despite their best efforts, both Trevi and Andrade got extradited back to Mexico to face numerous charges. For while the brainwashed backup singers had at first stubbornly refused to incriminate either of the clan’s leaders, after several months apart from their leaders, the mind control wore off and the girls started to talk.

She got out in Sep 2005.

 

[Stacey2grls]

Actually, this makes me want to vomit, no joke.

 

[thelionqueen]

I heard this today and literally shouted at the TV.
IS THIS EVEN HAPPENING???? I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!!!

A National Anthem, in any country, is the anthem of that country, therefore should be sung in the language of that country!! I cannot believe this was even considered, let alone being allowed to happen. I am TOTALLY outraged!!

Imagine "God Save the Queen" sung in German....would this happen?? NO WAY, yet in the good ol' USA, we'll sing our national anthem in the tongue of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS so they feel more welcome...COME ON!!!

I think that LEGAL US CITIZENS should march with the AMERICAN FLAG and PROTEST the march of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!! Why is no one marching for the rights of US citizens?

This country is seriously twisted!

 

[SplshMtn99]

Wrong on sooooo many levels!!! Wrong to change the words of any national anthem....and wrong to change the language.

ETA: The OPs link wasn't working for me, but I found this.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12440160/

 

[Charade]

I'm just waiting for someone to post they don't see anything wrong with it and declare the rest of us racists.

 

[Stacey2grls]

I'm just waiting for someone to post they don't see anything wrong with it and declare the rest of us racists.

My thought exactly!

 

[rhanditresmom]

huh??????


good grief.....

what i want to know is...where was my english version of Taiwan's national anthem while i lived there???? oh, that's right, that would NEVER HAPPEN! and I learned it in CHINESE!!!!!

great scott.

 

[Curious]

I'm just waiting for someone to post they don't see anything wrong with it and declare the rest of us racists.

I don't see anything wrong with it; you must be racists!

 

[Charade]

I don't see anything wrong with it; you must be racists!

 

[JennyMominRI]

Wow,Off the top of my head and without thinking about it ,it strikes me very wrong

 

[olena]

Yuck. Our National Anthem is one of the most unsingable songs out there. It drives me nuts to hear it butchered at sporting events, but this is even worse.

 

[Curious]

Sorry I made you wait so long. Your poor PC. May it RIP.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I think they are nuts.

 

[PixieDust32]

I think they are nuts.

Ditto!

 

[Free4Life11]

I'd be interested to hear it mainly to hear this "Latin rhthmic" music. I wonder if the meaning is the same in Spanish? Sometimes words don't mean the same thing when they are translated. I guess I just don't see the point of doing this.

On a side note, when I was a kid I always thought it was "Jose, can you see..."

 

[Curious]

On a side note, when I was a kid I always thought it was "Jose, can you see..."