Posted on 11/25/2016 4:31:15 AM PST by drewh
Cousin Francis would be proud his entire poem hasn’t been forgotten. Doubt he’d like it butchered like so many have.
My data limit won't allow it. Got any Ariana Grande videos? Preferably licking cupcakes...
Twitter comment: (paraphrase)
“Even the cops had to take a knee”
I watched her for about two minutes, get bored...figured I watch something else for a few minutes...
Flipped back to watch the game and dang, she was still.singing...
LOL
The last 3 veerses are called the forgten verses by many of the LIB-Turd PC crowd.
https://vimeo.com/122454739
It was horrendous. A musical atrocity.
Let’s ditch the idea of soloists altogether and bring back the days when the announcer would say “Ladies and gentlemen please join us in singing our national anthem” - after which everyone on attendance would do the singing.
That is the only way it should ever be done.
Did not view her televised version as this game was not seen. However, must say that when persons converse as to her rendition never mentioning the fact that when it finally ended her clothes were still on or off, she must have walked to the sidelines with no tears, holes, rips, broken seams in her wardrobe. No wardrobe malfunctions found here and little to write home about.
I took up running for a few years. At each of our longer races, including every race held at the Chickamauga Battlefield, we had a local sing the anthem. It was always well done, straightforward, and beautiful.
Aretha Franklin, while artistically notable, used the wrong venue to practice her variations on the anthem. People want to see a football game.
Dementia is not pretty.
Arethra Franklin rocks! Kudos to her proud rendition of our National Anthem.
Didn’t hear or see it, don’t care about Urethra Franklin.
BUT, I do agree that the best anthem performances are traditional versions.
I remember, back during her heyday, Linda Ronstadt (who I loved at the time) sang the anthem straight up, just like we sing it (only good).
My one exception would be the version by Jose Feliciano . While a YUGE departure from the traditional, I still think it was great. At the time, I was in the military and while some mildly objected, most were fine with it.
I didn’t watch it live but just watched the YouTube link. It was indeed a gospel-soul styling with a piano and church organ intro.
Ms. Franklin has got to be in 70s by now, a cancer survivor, she clearly doesn’t have all her teeth anymore nor does she enunciate very well but she is a Motown icon and we should probably show the Queen of Soul some R-E-S-P-E-C-T. I did not find her rendition unpatriotic or upsetting.
If anything, her rendition was a subtle slap in the face to the BLM crowd by saying “this is MY country too and I’m PROUD of her”. As well she should. We made her rich.
Painful and self-aggrandizing. It reminded me of times when the preacher asks everyone to stand and bow there heads in prayer, then he launches in a fifteen minute rant that never seems to get to the amen.
Did she occasionally sing the correct notes?
1968 World Series Game 5, Jose Feliciano - 2 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQkY2UFBUb4
Linda Ronstadt, The National Anthem 1977. 2 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MbkSrK5spM
Thanks for getting me to look those up!
Would you also appreciate Mozart's Requiem as Rap?
And there in is why we keep getting this stuff, we don't dare get upset over the trashing of the anthem. Black Gospel does the same thing to old traditional hymns, fun but takes a little to of it for me, sort of like adding a mustache to the Mona Lisa.
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