Sunday, June 20, 2010

Schland, oh Schland

Now that Germany has won Eurovision (only its second victory and its first since 1982), its footballers have been put on notice.
After coming third on home soil in 2006 and losing to Spain in 2008, Germany has high expecations of its players. Especially after beating Australia 4-0 last weekend. The Serbs put a spanner in the works there (ouch Klose) and the final group matches are even more important than usual.
But enough about soccer, let's look at the latest attempt by the Germans to merge aspects of culture: Lena + vuvuzela + referring to Deutschland as 'Schland' = a man in a black dress with a wig singing about Germany playing in the world cup.
It's really funny, well mostly, and well-written. Apparently it's really popular too, having become (According to Deutsche Welle), the 'unofficial [German] World Cup Anthem.'

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