I feel like it’s really easy to get a Grammy nom. I just checked and last year there were 94 categories, most of whcih are directed towards the artists (as opposed to all the various technical awards like the Oscars have). Including a “Best New Artist” award with 8 nominees.
Possibly it was just nerves but my Spidey Sense was telling me there was something else going on besides bad singing.
You’re forgetting Funyuns.
Well TMZ is reporting she was drunk and is checking into rehab. High five Happy?
Performative patriotism. It’s been the norm at U.S. sporting events since the 1940s, and any league or team which decided to not do it now would be criticized as “anti-patriotic,” and as “hating America.” Discontinuing it wouldn’t be worth the PR nightmare it would create, and so, we’re stuck with it.
I posted her statement above.
Didn’t see that. I trust TMZ to check if a social media post is verified. They may be slimy but they check their sources.
Alcohol (or whatever) aside, the stadium delay is for real.
Back in my college band days, I remember (with extreme pity) a young teenage girl chosen to sign the national anthem while we were standing at attention on the field (we would play if there was no singer that week). Due in part to listening for the delay, it took her nearly 3 minutes to finish when it “only” takes 2 minutes for professionals who are really milking it. Also, she changed pitch at least 10 times (by the time I stopped counting). We all felt incredibly sorry for her and made a note to warn future performers about the delay ahead of time.
I can only imagine how much worse that would be in an altered state of mind.
She just reminded me of someone who got on the karaoke stage after seven Long Island iced teas and thought she was killing it. Her facial contortions, her ridiculous vocal gymnastics, her obliviousness.
Wouldn’t someone get a dress rehearsal/sound check to get a feel for things?
Maybe, maybe not.
For the Super Bowl, yes, they do - but sometimes several hours before or even the day before.
For regular season MLB games? I doubt it but it’s possible. I wouldn’t be shocked they didn’t get one for the Home Run Derby.
I wouldn’t really be all that surprised if they didn’t get much of one for the World Series, either, though I suspect they do, even if several hours early before they let the crowds in.
There are different definitions of “killing it”. She killed it.
I can’t bring myself to listen to this, but she must have been pretty bad if she out-stunk Roseanne Barr’s rendition.
People always seem to want to add all sorts of embellishments to the anthem. As a wise person once said:
“It’s the national anthem. It’s not a blues tune!”
The story as I understand it right now is that the dress rehersal went well enough that her engineer felt comfortable picking a key for Autotune and letting it do the heavy lifting. And now Ingrid is saying that she was very drunk for the actual performance, so whatever prep happened went by the wayside. She’s checked into rehab now and I certainly wish her well.
Probably long enough ago that the crowd actually waited until the anthem was over to start clapping and cheering.
Anthem aside, what is the style of singing that she does called? Is there a name for it?
Are you referring to the trilling up and down? If so that technique is called “Melisma.” Which I might have spelled incorrectly. I’m going to check.
I’ve always heard it just generically called indie vocals or the like, especially in female voices. But apparently–I just ran across it today, actually–a term was coined for it several years ago:
No idea if the term is in wide use–like I say, I’d never heard it before.
Melisma–stretching out syllables into florid runs–is certainly part of it, but that’s been around for a very long time; cursive singing (or whatever) seems also to have a lot to do with a characteristic vocal tone and pronunciation.
Ha. I need to correct what I claimed here. Melisma is when extra notes are written in the music by the composer. When it’s added by the singer it is ornamentation. Ilearned something new.