The word "anthem" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a song or poem expressing loyalty, love, or patriotism, or to a song that is the official symbol of a particular group or country. For example: "The national anthem of the United States is 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'".
Most stand for the anthem and quite a few sing".
One of the show's stars, Peter Dinklage, performed an ode to his own survival on the bloodthirsty drama called Still Going Strong, while actor Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, sang a reggae anthem called Rastafarian Targaryen.
This time, their reflection on music feels more like a plea: "I want an anthem," reels No Anthems.
Blank Space is her bunny-boiler anthem where she doesn't entirely convince us she's driven insane by lust into courting a series of players – and its minimalist verses make for a rather tempered, non-bombastic opener.
Thanks to the cameras, it was possible to glimpse all sorts of revealingly human moments: the sweat on the brow of a pallbearer after piloting the coffin up the steps of St Paul's; the sudden, muttered aside of the Queen to the Duke of Edinburgh as the coffin itself passed by; the concentration on the face of a boy-treble as the choir sang the anthem from the Fauré Requiem.
Next it's the Doctor and Zan, but for now we've got Fatboy Slim's unexpected comeback anthem Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat – his first entry in the Hottest 100 since Weapon of Choice got to 21 in 2001.
After Aspinall's speech, as the crowd sang the Liverpool anthem You'll Never Walk Alone, the club captain, Steven Gerrard, and his Everton counterpart, Phil Jagielka, together released 96 red and white balloons from the centre circle.
They also performed Same Love, their gay rights anthem, with the singer Mary Lambert, though when Jennifer Hudson emerged to duet the last part of the song with Ms Lambert, it felt like a sort of apologetic compensation for the night's whitewash.
Later in the evening, the crowd sang We Shall Overcome, an anthem of the civil rights movement, outside the National Portrait Gallery as the rally wound down.
