Posted on 05/30/2023 6:37:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Famous singer Jewel sang the national anthem at the Indy 500 on Sunday, and the internet is roaring louder than the engines.
Jewel immediately created a divided audience with her rendition of the anthem, with fans either touting the artist for nailing it with such a gutsy performance, or wailing at her for butchering an anthem she had no business changing. The majority are upset at the star for slowing down the song, rearranging the lyrics and adding a soulful spin.
SynergyBee @SynergyBeeMe · Follow I don't care what anyone says, This was a PERFECT way for Jewel to sing our National Anthem, With RESPECT! Not just blasting through it carelessly, but actually giving time for REAL REFLECTION on WHY WE HAVE THE FREEDOMS we do. THANK YOU to THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR ALL To their call
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The live crowd of car enthusiasts gathered in Indianapolis to kick off the Indy 500 festivities and looked visibly stunned when Jewel rearranged the majority of the song. Passionate Americans displayed facial expressions depicting pure confusion as they quickly realized they couldn’t sing along because nothing about the Star Spangled Banner sounded familiar.
The famous singer strummed the guitar and crafted her own tempo for the anthem, with many immediately taking to social media with outrage, calling her performance a fail that compared to Roseanne Barr’s butchering of the anthem in 1990. Jewel was widely criticized for not following the traditional structure of the country’s song, and adding her own, country twist to it. The line was immediately drawn between fans who hated the changes and those who loved them and found Jewel’s rendition refreshing. The one thing both sides can agree on – is that it’s today’s hottest topic, and everyone’s talking.
90% of people were surprised she was still alive
I didn’t find it disrespectful. She sang it like she meant what she was singing
People complained when Jimi Hendrix did it, but then again he served with the 101st Airborne at Ft. Campbell, so he earned it.
Roseann Barr she ain’t........................
I don’t even know who she is....................
I just thought it was a lousy rendition for that venue. Right after a beautiful, upbeat version of America the Beautiful and before an equally upbeat Back Home Again in Indiana, she brings the ceremonies to a screeching halt.
This is really interesting, the rendition and the reactions.
Did she change the lyrics? I didn’t catch that she did. That would not be kosher.
But her flee-flowing melodic alterations?
The Star-Spangled Banner is ‘famous’ for being unsingable!
Looks like she took on the challenge of solving that problem.
And then people got all offended.
It’s like drink and be called a wino. Don’t drink and be called a square.
I completely agree. It was a nice rendition. She has a great voice. Haters gotta hate I guess. Of course, the best part was the cool fly-over!
Nice rendition, and shes still Hot!
The tune of The Star Spangled Banner was originally a old pub drinking song, “To Anacreon in Heaven”...........
I agree. She made it slow, but it was not disrespectful and making and issue out of this is stupid.
I wasn’t nuts about it but really, it was okay.
Her version is lovely. Nothing to argue about.
What we might better be discussing is whether that star spangled banner yet waves o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
My answer is no, it does not.
“I’ll take pop stars who should retire for $500, Alex.”
Remember when Jimmy Hendrix was criticized for his ‘rendition’ of the Star Spangled Banner? Not agreeing with the criticism, just seeing if anyone else remembers.
So the blackout version that we got to see didn’t show her performance. I thought maybe we had missed coverage. During the live performance, did she come after the gentleman who sang Back Home Again in Indiana and before the announcement to start the engines?
If so, the blackout audience in Indiana and surrounding areas weren’t treated to her rendition.
FWIW, I don’t dislike Jewel, and I thought her performance was heartfelt, though it does bother me that she changed it as significantly as she did. There were several parts that she missed the mark of it, I think.
It sucked.
I remember it well.
I thought it was just fine...........
The lyrics are “a good-natured takeoff on a bit of pseudoclassical mythology”.[7] The following is taken from the first Longman and Broderip edition:[27]
First known publication of the lyrics of “The Anacreontic Song”, from The Vocal magazine, 1778. The reference to “Rowley’s” was removed in later versions.
1
To Anacreon in Heav’n, where he sat in full Glee,
A few Sons of Harmony sent a Petition,
That he their Inspirer and Patron would be;
When this answer arriv’d from the Jolly Old Grecian
“Voice, Fiddle, and Flute,
“no longer be mute,
“I’ll lend you my Name and inspire you to boot,
“And, besides I’ll instruct you, like me, to intwine
“The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’s Vine.”
2
The news through Olympus immediately flew;
When Old Thunder pretended to give himself Airs.
“If these Mortals are suffer’d their Scheme to persue,
“The Devil a Goddess will stay above Stairs.
“Hark! already they cry,
“In transports of Joy,
“Away to the Sons of Anacreon we’ll fly,[28]
“And there, with good Fellows, we’ll learn to intwine
“The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’s Vine.
3
“The Yellow-Hair’d God and his nine fusty Maids,
“From Helicon’s banks will incontinent flee,[29]
“Idalia will boast but of tenantless Shades,
“And the bi-forked Hill a mere Desart will be
“My Thunder no fear on’t,
“Shall soon do it’s Errand,
“And dam’me! I’ll swinge the Ringleaders, I warrant.
“I’ll trim the young Dogs, for thus daring to twine
“The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’s Vine.”
4
Apollo rose up, and said, “Pry’thee ne’er quarrel,
“Good King of the Gods, with my Vot’ries below:
“Your Thunder is useless”—then shewing his Laurel,
Cry’d “Sic evitabile fulmen,[30] you know!
“Then over each head
“My Laurels I’ll spread;
“So my Sons from your Crackers no Mischief shall dread,
“Whilst snug in their Club-Room, they jovially twine
“The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’s Vine.”
5
Next Momus got up with his risible Phiz,
And swore with Apollo he’d chearfully join—
“The full Tide of Harmony still shall be his,
“But the Song, and the Catch, and the Laugh shall be mine.
“Then, Jove, be not jealous
“Of these honest fellows.”
Cry’d Jove, “We relent, since the Truth you now tell us;
“And swear by Old Styx, that they long shall intwine
“The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’s Vine.”
6
Ye Sons of Anacreon, then join Hand in Hand;
Preserve Unanimity, Friendship, and Love!
‘Tis your’s to support what’s so happily plann’d;
You’ve the sanction of Gods, and the Fiat of Jove.
While thus we agree,
Our Toast let it be.
May our Club flourish happy, united, and free!
And long may the Sons of Anacreon intwine
The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’s Vine.
Yes, I thought it was pretty good.
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