Posted on 02/09/2025 4:52:45 PM PST by dennisw
The UK Daily Mail covered this on their front page: --- Fans slam Jon Batiste's 'shameful' rendition of the national anthem at Super Bowl 2025 ---
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-14378841/Fans-slam-Jon-Batistes-shameful-rendition-national-anthem-Super-Bowl.html
So I went to the video to see for myself. Bring back Kate Smith!
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The UK Daily Mail coverage of Jon Baptiste singing his Star Mangled Banner -—
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-14378841/Fans-slam-Jon-Batistes-shameful-rendition-national-anthem-Super-Bowl.html
Yes :)
He did ok
I will give Baptiste credit for tremendous vocal range into the high notes.
Could have been worse. I’m not enamored with inner city culture. Wish we could quit kowtowing to anything “black”. But I’ve heard much worse.
Still, I quit watching football when the Colts left Baltimore so it isn’t as if the NFL is worried about what I think.
All the guys who perform, I compare to Chris Stapleton’s version, all the women, I compare to Whitney’s version. This guy’s rendition wasn’t good.
I did not care for it. I like jazz. But, I prefer to have the crowd sing the National Anthem together. There is no reason why that can’t be done.
It was awful.
I have to agree with you, could have been a lot worse. He gave it some strength and I kinda liked parts of it. I think the ending shoud have been on a much higher note.
When I saw it was going to be Baptiste, I watched my wife—big fan of his. Three notes in, she winced and cringed, and said, “ Oh, but I love Jean Batiste… how could he do something so bad?!?
Yeah, it sucked dirty dead doggie d!@$s.
It’s a NO from me. There is no reason to stray from the original score.
These a$$clowns who think they know better, simply don’t.
Leave it alone.
agreed- i listened to avideo of the crowd cheering Pres Trump and it was during the anthem, and wow- couldn’t beleive what i was hearing- not a fan at all of his rendition of anthem
It was excrement. Do we always have to have Blacks with minimal talent doing these things? How about somebody who can actually sing?
I liked it
Very New Orleans style
This. Once, just once before I die, I'd like to hear someone at a sporting event sing the national anthem as it was originally written, with no yodeling or other "interpretation". Just stand up, belt it out, and get on with the game.
the Grit network Dale Robertson Movie was much better.
Agreed, HartleyMBaldwin.
Meatloaf actually killed it.
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