Hello All,

About a month has passed since the slight controversy surrounding the National Anthem sung in Spanish, or better known as "Nuestro Himno". Well, the Nielsen Sound Scan numbers are in, and what a shocker, the album didn't sell more than 25,000 copies!

I for one am happy that the public did not fall for such publicity stunt. What is more amazing is the view by the creator of the song, Adam Kidron. I recommend you take a look at his personal blog and post entitled, "Fear of a Latino Planet"!

http://akidron.typepad.com/my_weblog/

I am also glad that the public did not buy the album, but the "publicity stunt" did make all the papers, so maybe by giving him the time of day we did fall for the "stunt."

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-Howard Stern

"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."
-George Carlin

Guy is a tool for the record business. Repeating talking points, out to make a buck off of a political situation. Pure idiot.

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"Un hombre del honor debe nunca olvidarse de cuáles él es porque él ve cuáles son otros."
- Baltasar Gracian

I never really got the hype over this one. The anthem has been sung in alot of languages and in different styles (metal, country, rap, hip hop, etc). Heck, it's not even American by origin, but the British drinking song "To Anacreaon in Heaven," whose crude and difficult lyrics make it a fun song to test how well you can hold your liquor before slurring the song all up. America even stole the British anthem itself and rewrote it to "Let freedom ring." Downright cheeky that was, lol. A good percentage of Americans I know sadly can't recite the lines of the song in English. To me, it all seemed like a self-stroking ego exercise who was the bigger patriot. But the record sales don't surprise me for a simple reason--who wants to listen to the anthem played repeatedly? I love the American anthem and some other nations have really great ones too, but they aren't exactly designed for cruising the strip and daily listening as ordinary music. It's an event thing, and doesn't have a good marketplace value.

This is the lyrics to the American anthem originally:

http://glyfix.com/soa/lyrics/anacreon_theme.html