You should know the words to the National Anthem if you are going to sing it front of eleventy billion people.
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You should know the words to the National Anthem if you are going to sing it front of eleventy billion people.
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You should know the words to the National Anthem if you are going to sing it front of eleventy billion people.
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If nothing else not knowing the lyrics, is more disrespectful than making the National Anthem your own.
It doesn't matter what our national anthem is, these singers can 17 up any song. Even if it's row, row, row your boat. It can be done.
It doesn't matter what our national anthem is, these singers can 17 up any song. Even if it's row, row, row your boat. It can be done.
You obviously don't know the whole story behind the national anthem. If you did, you wouldn't advocate changing it just because some idiots don't educate themselves enough to sing it correctly. There is a ten minute video on YouTube that well summarizes the whole story. I recommend you learn about all the people who died during the night discussed in the anthem and what they were doing when they died.
...and it ends in a question. Basically, it was a lawyer running smack against the Brits when they couldn't make the American Fort Henry surrender even after an all-night barrage.
The best part is the tune is an old English Drinking Song "To Anacreon In Heaven", that was first sung by the Anacreontic Society, a group of musicians dedicated to drinking and goosing wenches.
The best part is the tune is an old English Drinking Song "To Anacreon In Heaven", that was first sung by the Anacreontic Society, a group of musicians dedicated to drinking and goosing wenches.
Close but not quite. It wasn't a lawyer running smack. It was a lawyer memorializing what happened during an all night attack on the fort that was promised to end if they would just lower the flag. All the British guns were trained on the flag. Every time it went down meant someone died and immediately another would replace the fallen to what that person knew was his death. This happened repeatedly through the night. To say it was a lawyer running smack is to belittle those people who sacrificed to maintain this nation.
This is the short version...Francis Scott Key was on-board a British ship negotiating a prisoner exchange when the bombing of Fort McHenry started. The British bombed the heck out of it during the entire night (rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air). Key expected to see the British flag raised over the fort in the morning (dawn's early light). The American commander of the fort had early commissioned a very large flag to be made months before. During the bombardment, the commander sent for the flag. In the morning (before dawn), the commander lowered the smaller flag and raised the large flag (hanging in the Smithsonian today). Key was inspired to write the poem when he saw the very large flag in place of the smaller flag.
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One, we know she didn't lip-sync. And did anyone else notice the chick on the stage in front of her doing the sign language? She should've thrown her hands to her side and said "WTF" when she sang the wrong words.
hard to post with so many perfect people. I must figure out how to attain perfection before i die.
Sadly that is not so far away. Tick tock tick tock</p>
Sadly that is not so far away. Tick tock tick tock</p>
She did it for one of the NBA Finals Game in LA this past year and I think everyone in the arena was asleep after she was done... it took her 15 minutes just to finish it. Sing the damn song the way it is written and move on. No one cares for all that frilly stuff they put in there.
Changing of the guard Buckingham Palace, September 12, 2001.
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<span>An Ode to Anacreon in Heaven.
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I know you could forget your own name if the pressure was too much, but damn, you could have at least had the words on a monitor or teleprompter. Or scribbled down on your hand.<div>
</div><div>My own opinion on it is that she was trying too hard to 17 up all the notes she 17ed up the words too.</div>
</div><div>My own opinion on it is that she was trying too hard to 17 up all the notes she 17ed up the words too.</div>
Now, I'm one of these flag-flying patriot types; I believe every red-blooded American, less our Prez[cause I don't think he's a born American], should do their duty for their country in some responsible way. I saw a flash of red, yelled at my wife..who was making my favoritedish in the kitchen, to come listen to this idiot screwing up what sixth grade children know from their hearts! Then, afer the game, I played a little of Gretchen, and understood.
Actually, I buy the proposed Buy/Sell, but sell the fact that Christina did something that people should have a problem with.
I'm willing to bet she practiced a lot, and had it down well before she went out and sang for the Super Bowl. She just made a mistake. I felt bad for her more than anything else.
Also, most every famous person who sings the national anthem changes the melody, and I don't think that is disrespectful to anyone.
I'm willing to bet she practiced a lot, and had it down well before she went out and sang for the Super Bowl. She just made a mistake. I felt bad for her more than anything else.
Also, most every famous person who sings the national anthem changes the melody, and I don't think that is disrespectful to anyone.
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