Meanwhile, his track Party Done proven to be a party staple, a feminist anthem, and the ultimate punch line.
Scottish sectarians have reworked the song into an anti-Catholic anthem (sample line: "The famine's over, why don't you go home") which some bystanders in Belfast began to sing.
A band played martial anthems, with lines like, "Write with your flowing blood: death, death, death, death to Israel".
Last summer, a coalition of artists called the Madagascar Institute zip-lined a 350-pound jazz singer belting out the national anthem across the waterway.
There is no hiding his national fervour – it was there in the tears he occasionally shed as he sang Canción Patriótica, the Argentinian national anthem, when lining up in sky blue and white.
Meanwhile, Weird Al Yankovic has hit out at the semi-illiterate among us with a video called Word Crimes, a parody of Robin Thicke's controversial anthem Blurred Lines (no, we're not going to link to it).
We just found out Zac Efron and that pretty lady from the music video for 2K13 summer smash rape anthem "Blurred Lines" (her name is Emily Ratajkowki) are co-starring in an EDM-themed romantic drama titled We Are Your Friends.
THE fountains on Avenida Bolivar no longer run red and black, the Museum of the Revolution is closed, the Sandinists have abandoned even their anthem with its line "Yanquis, enemies of mankind" in favour of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy".
After a quick rendition of the national anthem, the children line up to wash their hands, while teachers with government-issue thermometers check that no one has a temperature.
According to the survey, between 34 and 36% could not identify the anthem's first line.
