Here…get that bad taste of CA out of your mind and feast on Whitney.
Damn, that was already 20 years ago. This song can be great song if sung by a great singer, not a trendy.
Yeticus Rex, was expecting some kind of fuck up with the Whitney Houston version. That was fantastic!
Let’s face it. We have a really crappy national anthem. Maybe it wouldn’t get slaughtered so routinely if it were better suited to its purpose. I can’t get all worked up because some air head chick screwed up the lyrics, even if she’s supposed to be a pro singer.
What do you mean, “learn the lyrics” ? The US anthem is like every other anthem in the world. The lyrics go:
FIRST LIIIIINE
Second line
Third line
mumble mumble
…
final LINE
CHORUS!!!
There’s no second stanza, it’s all mumble mumble CHORUS from here on out.
Our national anthem has no chorus.
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Exactly. I’ve said it for years: our national anthem is a sucky PoS. I still say we change it to “Rock Lobster”, which would be much more entertaining for everyone.
It wasn’t Aguilera’s ability that messed it up, it was her choice of delivery.
I have very little time for her music, but it’s indisputable that she has a great voice and is an outstanding singer. She could have done it beautifully if she wanted to.
I wonder if the OP noticed she wasn’t wearing a flag pin either.
They should play Jimi Hendrix rendition at all sporting events and forget the singing.
America is not the only country with stupid playing of anthems. Once I was in the Philippines and the screen told us to all stand as the Phillippine national anthem was played before a movie. It felt insane, like something out of 1984.
That only ever happened once though, I’ve seen maybe 10 movies in the philippines.
We’ve got a Cop here who does a pretty good version as well.
Especially if Seth MacFarlane (as Peter Griffin) does the “Official” version.
Whitney Houston wasn’t a trendy 20 years ago?
Well aren’t you special?
My sister, who thinks because she was a music major that she is THE authority in music, insists that Aguilerra was wonderful, and keeps harping at us how “she sang it all a capella!!! The other singer had a back-up band!” :rolleyes:
In Ireland for Hurling and Gaelic Football matches the national anthem is played, with the last few lines drowned out by shouts of “Come on (Insert County / Club)”.
Gotta love the GAA.
For rugby the national anthem is only played for international matches. And even then only at home of course!
Watching Australian Rugby League they seem to do this at some matches too.
Oh and if you want to hear a really mangled rendition of a national anthem, be in a pub in the darker parts of the Irish countryside at closing time.
Actually, the answer is yes. In Australia now, they do the national anthem before the Grand Final of any of the major footy codes (AFL and Rugby League in particular)
And before the Melbourne Cup too, but I don’t think the gee-gees give too much of a toss. They don’t know the words any better than the footy players.
Cripes! Her performance of that song was atrocious. A hideous melding of Michael Bolton’s overwrought technique with Mariah Carey’s overblown melisma.
It’s just an anthem, Christina, not some operatic tragedy.
Holy crap, so did I!
FWIW, so did I. Lauper should sue for defamation.