Exactly. I don’t think anyone actually gets booed singing that song unless they really really torture it or they forget the words.
In the video, it appears they’re cheering for her throughout the song. They don’t start booing until the Eagles walked onto the field. They weren’t booing her performance, they’re taunting the oppossing team.
Also, c’mon, give the girl credit for doing a live performance and not lip synching to a recording like so many “pop sensations”. The draw back of singing live is, of course, it’s much harder to be perfect.
Sing less than perfect, the armchair critics jump all over you. Lip synch to a recording of yourself singing perfectly… the critics jump all over you.
Lip synch to a recording of someone else singing perfectly and they take away your Grammy.
In this case it’s more like miasma.
This isn’t Roseanne or Carl Lewis, but it’s pretty awful. (I usually don’t watch the Star-Spangled Banner, and when DeLuna was announced as “pop sensation” instead of “recording artist” I got an extra-bad feeling.) Way too much showy melisma, which was made worse by the fact that she was off-key a lot of the time. The growly stuff doesn’t suit this song at all, nor does the black preacher-style diction she tossed in there a couple of times or the hand gestures. It’s a very bad performance in every way. I’m sure nerves were to blame and I do feel some pity for her, but it’s easier to forgive that kind of thing when the performer isn’t going beyond her abilities by showing off.
Rod: Ow my frickin’ ears!
Ditto. Rather too frilly… make that far too frilly, and a few mis-hits, but undoubtedly a live performance, and she’s got some lung power there. Definitely cheers in the background until the end.
Well, I’ve heard worse…but that doesn’t mean she was any good. Pitch, gestures, growls, and then on that last “free”…oh, my. And then she added another “the brave” which was totally unneeded.
She certainly was a “pop sensation.” A vey unpleasant sensation at that.
The last time she sang the word “spangled” it sounded like she was about to vomit. She also pronounced many words like someone who doesn’t know any English. Very weird.
You know what a cat looks like a few days after it has been ran over (bloated, and hair fallen off)? Yeah, her face looks just like that.
Headphones?
This is a job for Rubber Ball Gag.
She consufes “spangled” with “mangled”.
She can sing. I just think that someone told the poor girl that this was her big debut and chance to shine, so she better give it all she got. So she did. However, the national anthem is notoriously difficult to sing, even for experienced singers. She would have been better served keeping it simple if she wanted to stay on key.
Do not taunt Rubber Ball Gag.
She comes across well in heavily produced recordings (except when pretending to sing opera – an opera singer she ain’t), but based on the football performance, I expect that without the close guidance and control of a recording producer, she is a lost lamb. Give her a few years and she might improve, but for now she is just a lump of raw talent that should not be let out in public on its own.
http://www.mtvtr3s.com/video/?vid=159495
http://www.mtvtr3s.com/video/?vid=225419
Oh, my…
With a +5 Singing Flail of Learning.
A good national anthem should be singable by the average person. A singer performing it at an event should really be leading a sing along with the crowd. People will never sing along with you if you don’t sing it straight. This seems to be an ongoing problem for various different anthems and the artists who perform them.
eh, I didn’t hate it.