In other news: The Backstreet Boys really suck
I got an email this morning from DC area sports-fiend and all around great guy “The Sports Curmudgeon.” (As a sidenote, if you like sports, go to his site and sign up for his newsletter which is phenomenal.)
He covers a little of everything in his rants, but today it had this:
I can understand if you tuned into the first game of the World Series last night and heard the Backstreet Boys massacre the National Anthem how you might have hit the remote and gone to another channel. That was one of the most brutal renditions of the anthem that I have ever heard – – and major sports events have been the venue for more than a few really awful renditions. Let me say five things to any and all “artists” invited to sing the National Anthem at any future sporting event:
1. The anthem has words. Stick to them.
2. The anthem has a melody. Sing the melody.
3. The anthem is a song; it is not a mini-series. It can – and should – be finished in 90 seconds.
4. Singing the anthem is an honor – – not a time for you to demonstrate your interpretation of the musical piece.
5. Sing the song; wave to the crowd; shut up; leave so the game can begin.
Here is a question for the Rays’ management who booked those clowns to sing the anthem:
Are you sure William Hung already had a gig for last night?
Thinking perhaps he was merely being curmudgeonly, I went and watch it at youtube. Nope, he’s right. It sucked. There is only one acceptible version of the National Anthem for sporting events, with the possible exception of being able to do the Little Richard version from the movie Mystery, Alaska.
You be the judge:
Category: Politics
43 seconds in and I bombed it! That rates right down there with Roseanne’s version of it, eh? Yes, William Hung would have done a better, more respectful job of MY National Anthem. Scrue the punks!
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That was my country’s Nationa Anthem? Holy cow! Time for those boys to retire.
Really…the backstreet boys…everyone else must have been busy.
Jonn wrote: Can you imagine the call from their agent when he told them he had work for them?
I didn’t make it past “see” cause that Really. Really. Sucked.
THIS is the only acceptable version of the National Anthem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvQPqfIaHk8
This will leave you choked up.
(Here’s the entire song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f82mWsH5b-Y)
Holy Cow did that stink BIG TIME.
Check out this version – http://tankerbabelc985.vox.com/library/post/soldiers-at-camp-victory-iraq-sing-the-star-spangled-banner.html
I’ll take that version ANY TIME
Boooo! At least they didn’t grab their crotch.
Even NKOTB were busy.
There’s no excuse for any professional to sing the National Anthem a capella, ever. Everybody wants to be Marvin Gaye. Guess what? Nobody can.
I listened to about twenty seconds of this and shut it off because I just had dinner and didn’t want to lose it. The National Anthem is a tribute to our country. It is not an opportunity to show off your musical chops–or lack thereof.
“There’s no excuse for any professional to sing the National Anthem a capella, ever. Everybody wants to be Marvin Gaye. Guess what? Nobody can.”
FAIL!
Did you bother watching the video I posted?
I’ve sung the National Anthem many times a capella for different events,(you rarely have an accompianist) but I always make it a point to invite the crowd to sing along. I don’t “perform” the National Anthem when I sing it, I lead it. These guys missed the whole ef’n point that it is an ANTHEM not a pop hit.