july

Songs are a vehicle, much like poetry is a vehicle, to communicate complex ideas in a simple way to a lot of people at once. Songs are easy to sing (participate) but still convey the emotion; the frustration, the anger, the hope that things will get better over time, and the eventual overcoming

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

Look at all of the national anthems - they are all songs about victory and overcoming against tyranny of some sort: La Marseillaise, Star Spangled Banner, Hatikvah - and so many more - all about overcoming, and hope

Example: "Dąbrowski's Mazurka" the Polish national anthem - sung by the Napoleonic Polish Regions to express the idea that the nation of Poland, despite lacking an independent state of their own, had not disappeared as long as they sang the song and remembered - a powerful idea (correct me if i'm wrong @woj.eth)

Trevor Noah's latest special has an extended bit about the German national anthem. Hilarious, with more than a little TIL energy