Was I the only kid who thought “dawnserly” was an adjective?
Jack Black is actually talented, so that’s not surprising.
Ramona Quimby thought so too.
She tried to blues it up. Didn’t work but not the end of the world.
Unpopular Opinion: it ain’t that nice a song when done right anyway.
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I hear it that way every time. The Donserly song.
Well, she made it her own, that’s for sure.
(I can’t stand the articulation on this. It starts off relatively okay, and then once it hits “early light,” with the vocal fry and pitch drops at the end of the syllables, it’s over for me.)
Make the vocal fry stop.
Oh God, just got to “oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave”
MAKE IT STOP!
EDIT: We mixed some Mariah Carey with some Idina Menzel, tossed in some Marilyn Monroe, and finished it with an overabundance of Angsty Teenage Girl. That was absurd.
The best solution is to not have it performed at sporting events at all. It is pointless. If it is, it’s either good or not. The whole thing about messing with it and interpreting it is irrelevant. It’s a song. Maybe people should just do their own version of that shitty lee Greenwood song to push the absurdity to new levels.
I agree. Just skip it. We don’t do it at other events.
Two and a half minutes? 
I wouldn’t want to listen to Fergie’s voice for that long on purpose for anything that didn’t involve a large cash payout.
Huh. That just sounds like an opera singer, not a bad performance. ?
Just sing the song.
I saw Whitney Houston sing it in 1991 and it almost literally the only one I ever remember thinking, “Wow, that was amazing.”
Look, pro singers. You’ve got a talent, and a work ethic, that I’ll never have. I acknowledge that gladly.
That said, when a song is as difficult to sing straight as the Star Spangled Banner, you’re better off just singing it. If you can pull it off, you’re pretty much a master of your craft. If you try to fancy up an already difficult song, you’re more apt than not to mess it up.
Yep, that one was awesome and now almost legendary.
Usually Opera Singers do excellent jobs. Robert Merrill was also very good.
No matter how bad Fergie was, it was not as bad as a Roseanne Barr’s. Google it if you dare.
Y’see, Jack Black has a good sense of both situational and self-awareness, so he knew what the time, the place and the event called for and what he could deliver.
Good God man, there are laws about crimes against humanity… not worth all the suffering.
It was very bad, but it was amusing to see many of the players try to hold it together and fail.
It was absolutely horrible. She forced a song written in 3/4 in to 4/4 by ham-fistedly shoving an extra beat in every measure. As a veteran of and long time observer of high school choirs, I can attest that girls who cover up for not being able to find the right note by sliding all over the place until they accidentally land on it are no more than 1-2 cents a dozen.
You hold a minority opinion, enjoy.
My post from about 6 years ago regarding the Star Spangled Banner: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=641831&highlight=national
I’ve heard many, many renditions of our national anthem. Some good, some bad, some horrible and some outstanding. The link to Marc Anthony made me want to stand up and salute my monitor, while I found the rendition by Fergie to be disgraceful. Was she trying to be sexy?! If she had any sense of history she would know that the words she sang were a description of a battle during the War of 1812 in which a prisoner of war was hopeful that Fort McHenry did not fall to the British. If she finds that to be sexy the girl needs therapy. I have nothing against singers who put their own stamp, so to speak, on the national anthem, but please, show some respect.