Hollywood Records has released the original song We Are America from the Hulu original documentary Anthem. The track written by Ruby Amanfu, Charity Bowden, Kris Bowers (who also composed the score and produced the film), Dahi, Joy Harjo & Cecilia Peña-Govea is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to the song after the jump. Anthem is directed by Peter Nicks and produced by Nicks & Bowers themselves, Sean Havey, Chris L. Jenkins and Ryan Coogler. The documentary, which follows Bowers & Dahi as they travel across the country to find out how the national anthem would sound like if it was based on American music, had its world premiere earlier this month at the Tribeca Film Festival and is premiering today exclusively on Hulu.
Original Song ‘We Are America’ from Hulu Documentary ‘Anthem’ Released
Posted: June 28, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Cecilia Peña, Charity Bowden, Dahi, Joy Harjo, Kris Bowers, Peter Nicks, Ruby Amanfu
…”how the national anthem would sound like if it was based on American music”
Can we start with the review using American grammar?
The National Anthem of the United States of America is a song of survival in the face of the Colonial Powers that burned our capital and enslaved our freemen sailors to fight in yet another European war. The very premise of the new “anthem” is incorrect in that the words are unique to our nation as it fought to stave off enslavement to the Colonial power from which it had purchased its freedom in blood barely one generation earlier. The new anthem is also wrong in wording – we are not “America”. We are the United States of America – Whereas America, or the Americas are either one or two continents.
Excellent achievement, exceptional song!!! However, it will not be able to replace The national anthem of America, for the simple reason because it’s a little too busy lyrically and not. easily to sing for the masses… Yet, I’m hopeful that a remix will do the trick and replace Our National Anthem one day, one generation… ¿Who will step up and present the remix?
You’ve got to be kidding. You think people will sing this at the opening of a game or at the seventh inning stretch. Or our military bands will play it.
You people amaze, talking like a bunch of incel white guys. The point of the song, of the project, is to recognize what a polyglot of a nation we are. The spirit of the piece is that we are ALL Americans, we have a place here.
If you cannot accept that, then I really feel sorry for you. This is my country, right or wrong; when right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be PUT right.
And relax, no one is trying to change you mind. But you must know and accept that I have just as much right to be here as you do. I am going to learn this piece and sing it every chance I get.
Where can I get the lyrics and chords for this song? And who controls the copyright?
@Calvin H. Johnson – Yes! We are a multicultural nation aspiring to offer everyone here equality of opportunity. By recognizing our diversity and joining together to sing with each other, we can honor all our roots, acknowledge our wrongs, and connect. These connections are key. “Our changing earth deserves that we do better.” The next generations need us to do better. This wondrous Anthem inspires us on that path.
I don’t believe the measure of a national anthem is whether it fits comfortably into game openings and the seventh inning. The Star-Spangled Banner is wonderfully sentimental, expressing a hope and yearning for the preservation of our flag and, symbolically, our nation. Yet it ties war, bombs and rockets together with our nationalism.
Do we want to emphasize rockets and bombs twice at every ballgame? I find that line a bit discomforting. In Anthem (We Are America), multiple references are also discomforting – slavery, the Trail of Tears. So be it. Good that we acknowledge our failures and our joys together. We can be uncomfortable part of the time. It’s an incentive.