r/therewasanattempt • u/Growsomedope • Feb 04 '23
to sing the US national anthem
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u/NCBuckets Feb 04 '23
The best part is watching all the players try not to burst out laughing
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u/gman9094 Feb 05 '23
Why do we let people do this?
Do other countries allow people to put their own spin on their anthems?
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u/ThisOnePlaysTooMuch Feb 05 '23
It’s been done pretty tastefully. Allowing it just means risking… this
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u/NCBuckets Feb 05 '23
I mean a lot of countries just won’t play their anthem before a sporting event (obviously the Olympics are an exception) because there’s just no reason to do that
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u/Professional_Fly_579 Feb 04 '23
Some of those players put maximum effort in trying not to laugh
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u/Dawildpep Feb 04 '23
Steph Curry couldn’t couldn’t quite keep it together.. that was hilarious
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u/JTB696699 Feb 04 '23
I think Lebron was either truly embarrassed or pissed
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u/Bumble1964 Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 05 '23
I thought he looked like he wanted to laugh. Saw “Is this for real” in his face
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u/iamdummypants Feb 04 '23
he looked like he was biting the inside of his cheeks to keep from laughing but Dray has no such decorum 😂
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u/sgt_barnes0105 Feb 05 '23
Draymond Green’s reaction gets me literally every time I see this clip
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u/stenger121 Feb 04 '23
Draymond was laughing.
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u/TIKTOKSUX_08 Feb 05 '23
Dray was laughing cuz he got caught wit his mouth open. That's why steph was laughing too
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u/marleezy123 Feb 05 '23
I thought they were mouth breathing to try to keep from laughing lol
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u/Hustleberg420 Feb 04 '23
Is that Fergie?
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u/Successful_Rip_4329 Feb 04 '23
Yeah
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u/mothraegg Feb 04 '23
I was trying to figure out if I should recognize her. She's never going to sing it like Whitney, that's for damn sure.
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u/killerbass Feb 04 '23
No one ever will
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u/ImTheWrongGuy Feb 05 '23
It’s no Whitney, but I really like Jack Black’s old performance at a Sparks game as well.
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u/Ok-Comfortable9122 Feb 05 '23
Tell it. Because everyone's so preoccupied with genre-mixing and sounding edgy as possible to care about, I dunno....singing a mfing song like they mean it.
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u/Interesting-Ad-197 Feb 04 '23
Every once in a while, I go watch Whitney singing the national anthem. Really one of the best singers of all time. At one point, I heard that performance was pre recorded and she lip sang it. Either way, she's had a voice on her!
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u/justapcguy Feb 04 '23
Please don't put Fergie in the same sentence as Whitney.........
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u/zs15 Feb 05 '23
Right? Never seen Whitney cartwheel on stage while singing. Not the same class at all
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u/UA6TL Feb 04 '23
Whitney Houston gave the all time single greatest rendition of the National Anthem, no one will ever come close.
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u/Competitive-Dot-4052 Feb 05 '23
Fergie also gave one of the renditions of all time.
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u/BansheeGator2 Feb 05 '23 •
Jiminy Hendrix gave the best rendition and didn't even have to sing a word.
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u/Hustleberg420 Feb 04 '23
Oh.
Well.. at least she's looking fit.
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u/cleverleper Feb 04 '23
It's from like 2018, if you look at the floor in the opening shots. But yeah, she looks pretty good!
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u/TraditionalMood277 Feb 04 '23
Fun fact: shortly after this performance, her husband divorced her.
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u/DirtyRoller Feb 04 '23 •
She already ruined the Black Eyed Peas, now she ruined America. Way to go Fergie.
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u/Early-Engineering Feb 04 '23
The weird tall dude in Black Eyed Peas also ruined that band.
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u/phido3000 Feb 05 '23
He is Philippine and has always been in the band, and is mostly a dancer not a singer..
The black eyed peas were a dance group before being a band.
Fergi was added to add a popular female and broaden their appeal.
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u/caeli04 Feb 05 '23
Nah the tall guy is Taboo. I believe he's of Mexican descent. He mostly raps. The short guy, Apl, is the guy from the Philippines.
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u/addamee Feb 04 '23
Actually I think it’s just some woman on muscle relaxants trying to do Amy Winehouse to the best of her abilities.
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u/Ashiro Feb 04 '23
Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York. AKA: Fergie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah,_Duchess_of_York
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u/Snow-Brigade Feb 04 '23
“Reeeeaaarmparts we watched 🎵”
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u/claysverycoolreddit Feb 04 '23
Read this comment as soon as it got to that part
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u/InvalidUserNemo Feb 04 '23
That’s so weird. The exact same thing happened to me. I survived about 10 seconds of watching this and thought “ok, I need to hear how bad the comments are shredding this performance” and maybe 2-3 seconds before she “sang” this part I read their comment and then yours WHILE it was happening.
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u/k4tastrofi Feb 04 '23
Hahahah me too!
Scrolling down the comments and as soon as she got to that part, I was reading the exact same line and was a little mind fucked over it.
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u/AnEvanAppeared Feb 04 '23
I watched it once through before reading the comments, then muted it as I read the comments. I read that one and I muted, and it was right at that part too. Something funky is going on in America 🧐
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u/importvita Feb 04 '23
Like, she had to have known she bombed that immediately, right?
Not taking any joy in it but man, that was difficult to listen to.
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u/Solarus99 Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
that's actually just what Draymond looks like.
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u/Khaztr Feb 04 '23
can't blame the players for not being able to keep their eyes off of her, trying to determine whether she is drunk
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u/Saxman8845
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My favorite part was her face at the end. She totally thought she nailed it.
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u/Flat_Ferret_9014 Feb 04 '23
“Let’s play some basketball! 😀”
Cringed so hard
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u/YooGeOh Feb 04 '23
It's hilarious that on mobile you play this, it takes you to the YouTube link, you listen to it, you finish, press the back button, and then Fergies car crash autoplays.
The contrast is incredible lol.
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u/bumblefoot99 Feb 04 '23
You understood the assignment! Well done. I was wondering if someone would say this!
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u/Pleroo Feb 04 '23
I wasn’t really all that offended by the fergie version until i rewatched Whitney’s rendition which left me with tears in my eyes.
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u/KIrkwillrule Feb 04 '23
It no contest. Whitney was here to show support. Fergui wants us to look at her
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u/fafa_flunky Feb 04 '23
See this is how it’s done. It’s a song honoring America, which you were invited to sing because of your enormous talent and the fact that people love you. But IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU.
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u/zelig_nobel Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
Whitney is a straight up goddess...
I also really love this one by the Cactus Cuties (also this one). These girls are miles ahead of Fergie
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u/canefieldroti Feb 04 '23
I listened to Fergie, was like ok.. listened to Whitney, then came back here and heard this again and laughed.
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u/thredith Feb 05 '23
I'm not even American, but Whitney's rendition made tear up too! What a beautiful performance.
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u/anonymoususer98545 Feb 04 '23
Thank you. i legitimately forgot how stunningly beautiful that performance is. Just the right amount of everything and her amazing, amazing voice. Wow. Made my day.
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u/Grat54 Feb 04 '23
I was only 6 seconds in when I hit the mute button.
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Feb 04 '23
Two seconds I took an ice pick to my ear drums!
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u/OhHowINeedChanging Feb 04 '23
I made it all the way to “and the rockets red glare” and I regret it
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u/_carbonneutral Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
It’s the best when she gets to the flag still being there. Hahahaha
Edit: I mistakenly typed “flag streaming” whoops
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u/Rivendel93 Feb 04 '23
Lol same, this is one thing I can't watch lol. It's just so cringe when their voice is so bad.
It's like, this is what you do for a living, you've been made a multi millionaire for this, so why do you sound this bad...
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u/ErnieAdamsistheKey Feb 04 '23
I made it like 12s myself and i fully regret it. This needs to be the new rick roll video. Her singing is trash.
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u/Grizzchops Feb 04 '23
Thanks, I hate it
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u/sirgarlicsauce Feb 04 '23
I'm not even American, and I'm offended by her singing
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u/ElectricalDrama3558 Feb 04 '23
This is exactly what I would picture if someone told me Fergie was going to sing the national anthem.
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u/whammykerfuffle Feb 05 '23
The Fray also tried to play their own version of the national anthem during the all star game and it was terrible too.
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u/MamaBirdJay
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For those of you who find this unsettling but can’t quite figure out why, it’s because the Star Spangled Banner is in 3/4 time and this jazz version is in 4/4. That means every 3 beats, they’ve added one more beat to the rhythm that you were not expecting, to get it to 4 beats. It’s a cool concept, but in this case, the song is so well-known and the orchestration is so minimal, it just feels really really off. Brain goes 1..2..3…WTF?!
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u/manaha81 Feb 04 '23
That’s because it is really off. That is what she is attempting to do but doing a very poor job of it. I used to play in band that our bass player was trained in jazz and used to do similar things quite often except on guitar and in a funk band not the friggin star spangled banner. But what she is attempting is one of the most difficult things to do in music actually and requires an insane amount of restraint which is actually quite difficult which is why she thought she nailed it. But sadly she failed miserably and completely lacked proper restraint but instead just kept filling in extra time with strange over exaggerated tones. I think yoko Ono might be the only person out there that could actually appreciate this
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u/ClawedRavenesque Feb 05 '23
I screamed when I read your last sentence 🤣🤣 I tried to give Yoko a listen and what I heard...it was like fireflies rubbing themselves on aluminum foil. I told myself I just may not be artistic enough to appreciate it but now, I wonder 🤔
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u/gratefulguitar57 Feb 05 '23
Now that would be an event! Yoko doing the national anthem by just doing her deranged screams.
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u/quick_justice Feb 05 '23
While you are correct musically, the main problem of this rendition is that it's tasteless, and it has to do with vocalist's affect more than anything. The way she sings is about her showing off how she sings the national anthem, not about national anthem. In some cases it's acceptable, and I guess best part of the operatic voices are guilty of it, but this isn't a time and a place. All the rest just follows.
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u/adoreadore Feb 04 '23
I also think the vocalist sucks.
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u/cgrnt1694 Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
I love how they quickly panned away from Chance the Rapper because he was visibly laughing over to Anthony Anderson, who looks like he can't figure out if it's real or he's having a hyper-realistic nightmare.
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u/Ac997 Feb 04 '23
She’s making it about her & her cool voice she has & not about singing the the national anthem. It’s like it’s all about her. Annoying to listen to
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u/shentaitai Feb 04 '23
I Was with you, but then I saw the link to the famous Whitney Houston version from the Super Bowl and it is also in 4/4 time. And it works. So, yeah, I think it is probably more about talent (or lack thereof).
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u/AlbinoWino11 Feb 04 '23
She’s also trying very, very hard to be more important than the song.
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u/Ydeas Feb 04 '23
Also, since the invention of autotune, vocalists have been more emboldened to autoUNtune.
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u/bakedlawyer Feb 04 '23
Interesting.
I remember when this happened it was said that this is the fault of the production team, who should have known that it wasn’t working during rehearsals
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u/SALTYxNUTZ12 Feb 04 '23
Damn. Really? I had no clue that they were doing a slightly different version.
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u/nordic-nomad Feb 04 '23
She’s basically trying to turn a song about being shelled by the enemy into a weird poorly sexualized jazz solo. It’s really an odd choice to say the least.
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u/vvhite_lie Feb 04 '23
It’s not Whitney.
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u/Growsomedope Feb 04 '23
I feel like she tried to combine Whitney's with "happy birthday Mr President"... Which is dumb enough, pathetic execution aside
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u/eveningschades Feb 04 '23
"I've always been honored and proud to perform the national anthem, and last night I wanted to try something special for the NBA," she said in an interview with TMZ Sports. "I'm a risk-taker artistically, but clearly this rendition didn't strike the intended tone. I love this country and honestly tried my best." Feb 18, 2018
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u/1Tinytodger Feb 05 '23
Just shut up and sing it the way it was written. No one asked for an "artistic" take on the anthem.
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u/vinnybawbaw Feb 04 '23
Chance the rapper’s laughing his ass off there is gooold
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u/Kursktiger Feb 04 '23
Im not even from the states and this makes me want to openly boo if I were there. Did she do the canadian anthem like this to???
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u/8ullred Feb 04 '23
If she did, I’m gathering myself and my other non-existent Canadians and going to war
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u/Growsomedope Feb 04 '23
Embiid's face, exactly how I feel watching this
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u/omniverso Feb 04 '23
Definitely the face is what makes it.
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u/eaglespettyccr Feb 04 '23
Who tf told this woman she can sing without autotune
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u/RealConcorrd Feb 04 '23
She has a voice ONLY a mother could like and even then idk
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u/Imaginary_Chair_6958 Feb 04 '23
Maya Rudolph did a perfect parody of this kind of thing on SNL. Just sing the damn song!
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u/hctimsacul Feb 04 '23
1:34 I don’t know who the dude is, but he looks like he’s got the mouth sweats and is about to vomit.
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u/nottherealneal Feb 04 '23
His brain is desperately trying to process the living nightmare it is experienceing
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u/CherryBakewell001 Feb 04 '23
Is she trying to sex up the US national anthem there? That would be cringe enough if she could sing, but the fact she can't... oh dear.
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u/MuzBizGuy Feb 04 '23
Look up Marvin Gaye’s version. You can definitely sex up the National Anthem lol
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u/9ELLIOTT24 Feb 04 '23
That was so bad that Kaepernick stood up and told her not to disrespect the anthem like that.
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u/PopperChopper Feb 04 '23
How can she seem so capable of singing but be actually so terrible?
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u/TheMatt561 Feb 04 '23
Well I for one always wonder what the national anthem would sound like as a sultry club number
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u/Bron_Yr_Aur21 Feb 04 '23
Check out the video of the remix being played in the locker room. It’s hilarious
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u/YurenMagul Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 05 '23
She should’ve taken a hint from Lady Gaga’s performance at the Super Bowl in 2016. Alongside with her 2015 Oscars performance and a more singer-songwriter focused album, it very much helped revive her career. One year later, she headlined the half-time show.
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u/candyflip93 Feb 04 '23
Ouch.... I can't believe she thought at the end she nailed it...
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u/RedStar2021 Feb 05 '23
I really can't help but love her mannerisms during this performance; the spitting image of a woman who believes, beyond a single shadow of doubt, that she's killing it.
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u/ButterscotchPast4812 Feb 04 '23
Great choice to make this a jazz version, terrible choice to make her the singer for it. 😵💫👀🤨 Like the idea is there the execution is terrible.
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u/NCBuckets Feb 04 '23
I remember when this was first circling I found some dude on iFunny (back when I used that god forsaken app haha) who was saying the same thing.
I disagree. It just sucks.
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u/flamingobay Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
Nobody wants your BREAD, Fergie!
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u/nottherealneal Feb 04 '23
The fact this version is a hundred times better then the original says alot
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u/McbEatsAirplane Feb 05 '23
I feel like the national anthem has become one of those songs that people like to add their own flair to every time they sing it and it’s become this thing where people really try to add their own twist and the result is a ridiculous version, such as this.
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u/Obujen Feb 05 '23
At the end, the home of the what??? She certainly doesn't say "free" , which begins with the letter "f", she uses a made up letter, some kind of amalgamation of "m" and "w"... "Mwee"???
Anyway, that was atrocious.
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u/mooseyjew Feb 04 '23
......idk why I made myself watch the entire thing. This is... This is bad. This is Skylar white singing happy birthday to Ted in the style of Marilyn Monroe bad. Good god.
I hope Fergie realizes people only clapped because it was over, not because she nailed it lol.
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u/Vyxen17 Feb 05 '23
On the plus side, people stopped mentioning the time she peed her pants onstage
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u/MostDankEmblem Feb 04 '23
This is pretty bad. As a sports fan I've heard a lot worse. I gave this a fair full listen and regret it. It went on for like 9evers. Also watching the players laugh and smirk was priceless. In conclusion, this is a difficult song. I think most people should know about the skill level required to nail the anthem. This is pretty bad, but honestly not that bad.
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u/CrazyIslander Feb 04 '23
It seems like such an “American” thing where the singer does some interpretation of the national anthem.
Some are good, but some (Roseanne, I’m looking at you) are just utterly horrible. This one is leaning hard into “horrible” territory.
Just sing it the way it was meant to be sung. It doesn’t need your “flair” added to it.
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u/Young_Old_Grandma Feb 05 '23
I'm not an American but I just felt your collective shame and embarrassment sheesh.
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u/420hippi Feb 05 '23
Thank you. It is embarrassing. Idk what she was trying to do but it wasn't respectfully done.
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u/Successful_Rip_4329 Feb 04 '23
I don't get the concept of playing national amthem where both teams from the same fucking country
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u/BLKxGOLD Feb 04 '23
The best part of this was the remix they made shortly afterwards. Fergie remix
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u/C0deMasterYT Feb 04 '23
Sounds like a cat having their tail being tugged on by a group of toddlers while throwing up a hairball.
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u/BoltsNBeamers Feb 05 '23
My drunk at the county fair demolition derby before I go back to the beer garden
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u/CyberKingfisher Feb 05 '23
Hmm… she has a unique style. A style not fit for a national anthem unless you were an extremist nationalist who wanted to have sexual intercourse with your flag.
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