Fuck you, Christina Aguilera

You mean like this?

Charlie Brooker said the following about Mariah Carey but it cuts 'n pastes well for Christina Aguilera just as well.

“it’s hard to detect much in the way of palpable feeling in Carey’s music. Her singing voice wavers up and down through the octaves, like someone slowly tuning a shortwave radio in search of an authentic emotion. It’s technically amazing, but almost impossible to relate to on a human level”

Just checking in to ask Chessic Sense if the thread title worked.

So did you?

Because it’s a football game, not fucking American Idol try-outs. Get up there; sing the fucking song; sit the fuck down. Stop trying to impress the judges with your goddamn vocal acrobatics.

The NFL knows who they hired. If they wanted straight forward, 1(maybe 2) syllables per note, they hired the wrong chick. I suspect the vitriol would be much less if she hadn’t flubbed the lyrics.

Damn, I saw the Cafe Society version of this thread before I saw this one. Here, I could have really expressed how I feel. (And many thrown in the observation that, the first photo I ever saw of Christina Aguilera, I could have sworn she looked exactly like an inflatable sex doll.)

If no one sang the Star-Spangled Banner, we’d never have the single best rendition of the national anthem: I give you Marvin Gaye, at the 1983 NBA all-star game.

When you think about it - what kind of title is ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ anyway? Who says ‘spangled’ nowadays?

This. Although usually there’s no band; they play a recording over the PA.

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As for people putting their “spin” on the anthem, why the hell not? If people want the same, dry, “standard” version, they could just get a voice recording of it done by some no-name singer and play it over and over.
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Because The People don’t get to choose.

Clearly this is not true or we’d have seen some sort of official crackdown on stylization. If it bothers you that much, you should probably write a letter to someone because otherwise, they’ll just hire the same sort of person next year. Plus, minus the lyrics misstep, that was actually a nice rendition of the song. You’re pissed she didn’t sing it straight, not that she sang it badly, because that was not badly sung. Roseanne Barr sang it badly. And sung straight, it sounds even more like crap anyway.

Last night, I thought she looked like Cyndi Lauper.

There were 19 people at the SB party I was at, and 10 of them, almost in unison, said, “Oh my god, it’s fucking Cyndi Lauper” pretty much the moment she appeared on screen.

there must be tremendous pressure on the singer to finish at the right time to sync with the jet flyover.

Nah. They just tell the pilots to idle until the last stanza begins.

It’s still played before the movies at military bases. Having been overseas/deployed much of the last 15 years; it seems strange to me not to stand and listen to the Star Spangled Banner now when the wife and I go to the movies.

Though its obviously none of my business, this. I don’t quite understand the American obsession with playing the anthem prior to (at least the ones I watch) every fuckin’ sporting event. I mean, why? Do people – players included – all of a sudden forget what country they are in prior to watching a B-ball game?

But then, there’s the righteous indignation of the OP…so yeah, fuck Cristian Aguilera! :confused:

Yeah, I never thought about it, but are there other countries outside of the US that play the anthem when doing a match between two national teams?

It started, I believe in World War II. After the war, with the start of the Cold War, no one wanted to be first and stop it, for fear of being seen as unpatritotic. So now, 65 years plus later, it is so engrained that if anyone stopped it people would think they were making a statement by doing so.

Well, I’m not pissed; I’m mostly indifferent. But it was badly sung. It was badly out of tune, especially at the end.

Yes. We also sing “Joy to the World” every Christmas because otherwise we’d forget that it’s Christmas. We’re dim like that.

Yes.

In my experience, watching international rugby and soccer matches, the anthems of both countries are played before the game. Given that these games are, by definition, games between national teams, it actually makes sense to play the anthems on such occasions. Also, in those cases, the anthem is generally sung straight or played by a band, and people in the stands sing also.

I think the habit of playing it before every fucking game, like they do in the US, is ridiculous. What’s even worse is that, in baseball at least, we also sometimes have to put up with God Bless America in the 7th-inning stretch. That song is a fucking abomination.