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Collapsing Nation Still Somehow Expects Singer to Perform Anthem Sober (thehardtimes.net)

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[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 99 points 4 months ago

However, European leaders completely agree with the behavior.

“It’s standard protocol to breathalyze everyone who enters Wembley Stadium to make sure they’re drunk enough, including players,” says Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. “This incident makes sense to me. Prior to our election, the recorded rates of intoxication throughout the stadium were much higher. America’s terrifying future is in the hands of its citizens, and to cope, in one of those hands should also be a cold one.”

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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 72 points 4 months ago

This finally got me curious to have a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjSiCqLUr7A

Gods. That was indeed bad.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

That was impressively bad lmao I'm surprised she wasn't immediately booked to perform for the RNC

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 44 points 4 months ago

Apparently she immediately checked herself into rehab

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 46 points 4 months ago

Rehab won't help the creeping sense of dread consuming us all. But glad she's trying.

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 4 months ago

I’d lord it over the others in rehab. Oh, your lowest moment resulted in your family hating you? Mine was aired nationally and will be viewable for the rest of my life! In your face!

But seriously, I hope she finds what she needs in rehab.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 20 points 4 months ago

Lol, do they actually have fireworks in every match?

That's incredibly cringe. Well the whole thing about singing the national anthem is cringe but the fireworks really makes it 10x worse.

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Screw the environment. More CO2 please.

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[-] yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 4 months ago

It started off okay and then wow did it take an abrupt turn.

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

Whole thing sounded like she learned singing from tiktok that morning

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 12 points 4 months ago

Stealing from the comment section on that video

"First Trumps ear, now ours!"

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

Holy fuck that was the worst singing I have ever heard in my entire life

This has to be on purpose

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

I think I've found my new ringtone

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 55 points 4 months ago

worst thing to happen to this country since President Clinton,” said Republican Governor, Greg Abbott, as he turned on a generator to power an air conditioner and dressed himself in a bullet-proof vest

Yup, sure sounds like him.

[-] rabber@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't even believe she was drunk, she just sucks. Her studio albums weigh heavily on autotune from my brief listen

Also why even hire a country "musician" whose vocal range is one octave and their songs are the same three chords, like what are you even expecting here

[-] BallsandBayonets 26 points 4 months ago

Country singers are the only ones left with who are willing to sing the national anthem.

[-] rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 months ago

So that’s why they’re called country singers… ^/s^

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

People used to have lower standards

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

someone has to say i say it, so here goes: it's your anthem that sucks. i don't know who this woman is but i don't care. seriously it is so ass. and incredibly racist. ditch it for a better one. pick something people can sing. it's not normal that you sing this anthem since childhood and at every event but still out of all professional singers who attempt to sing it only Whitney Houston and like two more people could do it.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

It does suck. The tune is adapted from a song praising wine. Being drunk when singing it seems appropriate.

I'm missing the racism aspect, though, how so?

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It has four verses, even though typically only the first verse is performed. The full version has these lyrics:

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
⁠That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
⁠Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O'er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't really read that as condoning slavery, as much as acknowledging that slaves fought and died in the war?

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Ah, thought it might be something like that. Pretty much nobody knows any stanzas past the first exist, so it's a bit silly to criticize it for that. It sucks just fine without it.

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[-] kittyjynx@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

I mean America Fuck Yeah! is right there and ready to go!

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[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Whiteley Houston's version was actually prerecorded, but she did sing it live when recorded in 1 take

Lady Gaga also did a very good version

Agree that with this girl in the OP, that the song (which is challenging) was just out of her range, plus she's a "cursive" singer like that girl in The Chainsmokers or Ellie Goulding, which is not a very good technique for singing IF you want range, flexibility, versatility, or even longevity in your voice. In general she's a decent, consistent singer (I've seen many videos of her performing live since this) as long as she's within her range. I think she just lacks the skill for that song specifically.

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[-] poorlytunedAstring@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Seriously who the f is this girl

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

A person who makes decent music aside from that day. I mean, nobody can hit home run after home run but like.. Damn. She said she was drunk at that time, idk.

Here's a decent song of hers: https://youtu.be/j_A8Zjwr9m0

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[-] thatsjustgreat@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

I found her anthem appropriate and think it should be sung this way going forward. It matched the vibe of this unchecked fascist takeover that is happening right before our eyes.

[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Incredible headline

[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Wait! Isn't sobriety unamerican...going off what I have observed.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 4 months ago

It certainly is at a sports event

[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

And lets be clear, its ANY sports event. My 2nd grade catholic school soccer games were just an excuse for the parents, coaches included, to get plastered. The church probably pulled in more money at the concession stand than at the donation plate.