move over, list of sexually active popes, mommy's got a new favourite wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wrong_anthems_incidents

@deci you'll enjoy this

@nbsp REPRESENT 🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦

@nbsp https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/sports/football/43215/national_anthem_replaced_by_linkin_park_song_at_maltaslovakia_friendly

@BestGirlGrace yup, or the one where they played the ROC anthem in front of the PRC ambassador in a stadium funded by the PRC

@nbsp if i was training the national anthem guy, i feel like day one would be keeping the koreas straight

@BestGirlGrace so many of these are a result of searching "[COUNTRY] anthem" and clicking the first youtube link
imagine winning a championship and fucking borat soundtrack plays on loudspeaker
or a protest song

@nbsp i thought the borat thing was a joke for the longest time, but there it is in the citations

@nbsp hmm yes i do believe this is the right antem

@mjdxp according to the citation, which may be editorializing but still, they didn't expect australia to win so they didn't rehearse the anthem and panicked

@nbsp the most surprising thing about this is it happened *in Kazakhstan*, the one place you ought to be reasonably confident that people know the anthem

Although someone played Nepal’s anthem at an Indian election event, which seems much more egregious

@nbsp tbh numb could be an anthem considering how many plays it has on all platforms combined lol

@nbsp this one though

@nbsp@yearning.gay tbf the GDR's anthem is a bop.

@nbsp This is beautiful! 😂

@nbsp @deci

@nbsp i love this, it's clear that what happened was just the guy clicked the wrong anthem because they were next to each other on alphabetical order lol

@nbsp@yearning.gay there are two instances in there of the east german anthem being played for (west) germans, which, honestly, fair. It is objectively better.

@nbsp I wish the list also included incidents that just had remarkably terrible performances too.

Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlvafxOmfE

@nbsp the fact that "glory to hong kong" has been played 3 times since 2022 due to erroneous google search results is so funny

@nbsp *insert that simpsons clip*

@nbsp OOPS

@nbsp FDSAGDARGIJAERIUGJAERSIOUGOEISNRGI9USEDRHUINS 😭

@nbsp Wait, so the National Spamton was actually played???

@nbsp Holy shit, they played Borat’s parody of Kazakhstan’s national anthem for their shooting team:

“The spoof song praises Kazakhstan for its superior potassium exports and for having the cleanest prostitutes in the region.”

archived BBC article.

@nbsp
Lots of especially egregious ones being highlighted in the comments but somehow not this one?

@nbsp @deci “If Malta was founded in 2007”