Tag: um…Australia…. ????

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i’m watching a british youtuber’s birthday stream and an aussie viewer sent in a comment saying “why was he born so beautiful, why was he born at all? because he had no say in it, no say in it at all” which was received with confused existential horror, and this is how i just discovered that australian happy birthday songs are not universal

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do you not sing this in other countries?!?!??

NO we do not sing a lament for someone’s personal beauty wishing they’d never been born. That is some weird Greek tragedy shit.

fuck I’ve literally never thought about the lyrics of this thing I’ve been singing my whole life but: yes, we do sing this – and it’s to the tune of our national anthem

Every video I found of this is either an amateur video of like, someone singing this to a grandparent, or a very professionally produced version with no lyrics included. Also every lyric version has the line “He’s no fucking use to anyone / he’s no fucking use at all”. The entire cultural conception of this song is by far the most Australian thing I’ve ever encountered in a life more or less filled with encountering Australian things, and I am horrified and delighted.