Another sign of dissent could be detected in the last days of "really existing socialism", when protesting crowds sang official songs, including national anthems, to remind the powers of their unfulfilled promises.
This time, their reflection on music feels more like a plea: "I want an anthem," reels No Anthems.
These man-who-wronged-me anthems are all well and good until your other half wanders off to buy drinks, only to reappear half an hour later with two shots of Aftershock Blue and a light-up baby's dummy.
It includes exponents of urban hip-hop, melodic rock, retro-country, guitar band anthems and even the power ballad.
The record was achieved on a visit to Prague, when she arrived early at the president's palace, whereupon the guard of honour snapped to attention and the band struck up the national anthems.
With its huge outdoor events and with rave anthems gatecrashing the top 10 with no mainstream radio support, there was an anarchic mood in the air.
There's also Chvrches' echoing anthems, Savages' wiry post-punk, and a full slate of bleepy, hooky art-pop.
Waving her flag dreamily as the strains of party anthems thundered around Piazza Venezia, Mariella, a fan from the southern region of Calabria, gave her verdict: "It's a coup d'état.
In a decade when alternative music was hijacked by Coldplay and James Blunt, and Green Day's American Idiot was the closest rock got to social outrage, Sleater-Kinney were a cult force, writing radical anthems of rebellion that tackled issues from gay rights to the War On Terror with a high-kicking bravado that made guitar music feel revolutionary again.
Continuing a grand tradition of alternative footballing anthems is Lily Allen, who has unveiled what she claims is an unofficial World Cup song, entitled Bass Like Home.
Supporters in traditional costumes and the country's blue and yellow colours formed outside the institute and regaled the president with nationalist anthems.
