After hearing that someone named Anastacia butchered the National Anthem at the All Star Game, I found this site with a video clip: http://home.wanadoo.nl/hslots/
It was pretty bad before she forgot the words, then it just got worse. Pretty funny to watch.
I take some perverse pleasure in watching these train wrecks where people either try too hard to be “different” or just plain screw up. (Even though I like our anthem quite a bit and tend to be a very patriotic sort.) So does anyone know of a site that has clips of people butchering the anthem at sports events or elsewhere?
I have seen very few singers at major events in the last few years who actually sang the U.S. anthem properly. Most try to sound like The Greatest Black Soul Singer In The World and end up sounding like pretentious idiots.
Anastacia, on the other hand, took the cake, repeatedly singing the wrong words. She is, BTW, a born and raised American girl.
And did you notice that the words were on the huge video screen right behind her (and maybe on the other side of the stadium in front of her too)?
Anyone know of other videos???
My sound card is screwy which lines/words did she blow exactly? Was it as bad as Goulet’s “Dawn’s early Night”? (he wasn’t Born and Raised American if I remember)
“O’er the ramparts we was, were so gallantly streaming”
“and the rockets gave glare”
“gave truth through the night”
Except for those few mistakes, not very bad as National Anthem performances go. (Ironic that the words were flashed on the scoreboard as she sang-probably for the fans to “sing along” with.)
I’m reminded of Lt. Frank Drebin’s perfomance in The Naked Gun. Or Bleeding Gums Murphy’s on an episode of The Simpsons. (I’ve thankfully never heard Roseanne’s.)
Here’s what bothers me. Who in the bloody hell is Anastacia? And what is she doing singing the National Anthem at the All-Star Game?
Has our beloved song become so devalued that it’s allowed to be sung by a barely-on-the-map pop artist at such an important event?
Remeber when Carl Lewis did the anthem before a basketball game? His voice broke a few times, and at one point he stopped and apoligized and started over.
EXCAUSE ME BUT ANASTACIA IS NOT A NEWBIE IN THE MUSIC so this is not some girl that is A BARELY-ON-THE-MAP pop artist SHE IS FAMOUS and if you haven´t seen her on TV or on stage then i think you need to start WHATCHING TV.
EVERYBODY CAN DO MISTAKE THAT PROVES THAT SHE IS HUMAN…do you think it´s easy to sing in front of thousands or millions of people you´re nearly alone and you have to entertain these people well I can tell you IT´S NOT EASY so it´s nothing worng though she sang some wrong words it PROOVES THAT SHE IS HUMAN she is not this OH-YES-I´M-PERFECT-I-NEVER-DO-ANYTHING-WRONG person I´m proud of her whatever she does SHE SINGS ´CAUSE SHE ENJOYS SINGING and she has become a STAR with much struggling and SHE MADE IT ´CAUSE SHE IS StRONG PERSON HWO BELIEVES ON HERSELF AND SO ON SHE DOESN´T GIVE UP and THAT is what FEW SINGERS IN THIS WORLD HAS DONE. She had to FIGHT so she could make it to be a singer and she WON…HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE MADE THAT? I´m just asking so THERE´S NOTHING BUT HUMAN…MAKING MISTAKES…ANASTACIA IS DA BOMB
Freak.
As far as I am concerned, ANY performance that is embellished in any way is just awful. Our National Anthem is not a freakin’ pop song. In a public solo performance it should be sung straight and unembellished, preferably by someone who has a trained voice. Getting someone like Roseanne to stand up and screech like a rusty hinge isn’t funny, in my opinion. It’s degrading and disrespectful. Anastacia should never have tried to sing it if she didn’t know the words. That she did and screwed it up (she’s supposed to be a professional, after all) is shameful IMHO.
Heh…I guess if Americans can be rabid fans of a freaky little Icelandic musician, Icelanders can be rabid fans of freaky little American musicians…
Although I have to admit that I like Anastacia’s stuff when she’s not mangling the National Anthem. Not enough to actually register at a message board to lodge my protest, though…
At least Anastacia doesn’t wear a swan.
Does anyone else here think that Anastacia is really Taylor Dane?
thank you -diku- I know I´ve always been a FREAK…lmaorotf no she doesn´t wear a swan PHEW I know you´re talking about Björk but I aint sure if you´ve noticed but nearly all icelandic people hate Björk I don´t know anyone hwo likes her… all ppl that I know…HATES HER and me and a lot of people think she is a shame for our country Björk------->vomit
and by the way…Anastacia sang this song…and I think she has done it very well…had it been different if sombody that you would say …-that deserves to sing this song-… had sang it just ,like Anastacia, that person would have sang exactly the same word as Anastacia sang…dah I dunno how to say this…anyway would that had been different???
Do you have any opinions on Englebert Humperdink?
Haj
oh my…is he still alive I don´t know him…I don´t think there´s played 1 song with him now he is stop singing I think! I´ve never heard him but I don´t think I´d like him but…hwo knows! I don´t like any icelandic band or singers exept -Sálin hans Jóns míns- I love them! if you ever have heard about them!
This could be fun.
upppppssss I was thinking about wrong guy!!! Yes I´ve heard him…well I think he´s just okay…I don´t listen to him but I´ve heard songs with him and they´re okay!