{"id":11608,"date":"2026-06-12T14:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=11608"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:02:19","slug":"i-am-from-bosnia-take-me-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2026\/06\/12\/i-am-from-bosnia-take-me-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am from Bosnia &#8211; Take Me to America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIf we have to have quick cash grabbing World Cup tie-ins, make them more like this:\n<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FmX0DJ6kOqc\" title=\"Dubioza Kolektiv - I Am from Bosnia - Take Me to America\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nTurns out <a href=\"https:\/\/dubioza.org\/\">Dubioza Kolektiv<\/a> is actually a pretty right-on ska\/rock band from Bosnia-Herzegovina, active for all sorts of leftwing causes, if we can believe their <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dubioza_kolektiv\">Wikipedia page<\/a>. They originally recorded this song under its proper name, <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0a5BJxrarL0\">U.S.A.<\/a><\/cite> for their 2011 album <cite>Wild Wild East<\/cite>. Then it was intended as a satirical take on the desire of many Bosnians to, well, migrate to America. But then Bosnia-Herzegovina actually qualified for the World Cup for the first time ever, by beating Italy even and so&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A4yXDInWelI\" title=\"\u2018Take Me to America\u2019 song unites the Balkans\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nAs the report from TRT above shows, there&#8217;s a history behind all this that makes both Bosnia&#8217;s appearance at the World Cup and this song so poignant. Today they&#8217;re playing their first game at the finals, so it feels fitting to post this. That it&#8217;s a skanking ska song makes it even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we have to have quick cash grabbing World Cup tie-ins, make them more like this: Turns out Dubioza Kolektiv is actually a pretty right-on ska\/rock band from Bosnia-Herzegovina, active for all sorts of leftwing causes, if we can believe their Wikipedia page. They originally recorded this song under its proper name, U.S.A. for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[333,236,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-music","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11611,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608\/revisions\/11611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}