Yes, but he sings and prances around like a San Francisco homo with a gerbil up his butt. Save it for Gay Pride Week. I like to hear America's anthem sung in a straigtforward and manly way.
Prances? He sits at a piano and sings. Are you sure you're not mixing him up with Prince at the halftime show? He prances.
Personally, I think if Billy Joel were wearing Mossy Oak Breakup cammo with face paint, driving a 4x4 with a Remmington 700 .30-06 in a gun rack, he'd still be an effeminate little sissy. Then to follow up with the little purple queer Princess at halftime...was this the Super Bowl or the Tossed Salad Bowl?
Now, Charlie Daniels doing the National Anthem and Ted Nugent for halftime a** kickin' entertainment...that would've been worth watching. As it is, I watched neither.
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I thought Mr. Joel was sitting at the piano when he sung the National Anthem. I also thought it was quite a good rendition.
I like to hear America's anthem sung in a straigtforward and manly way.
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I think you must, with all due respect, have a tin ear. Billy Joel sang the anthem with almost zero deviations from the way it is written. My son's girlfriend (a music teacher) and I (musician for most of my 48 years) both marvelled at how straight, uh, as written, he sang the anthem.
And given that he sang the entire anthem sitting down at the piano, just what the hell were you watching "prancing around like San Francisco homo with a gerbil up his butt", must have been someone at your house.
Ummm... he was seated before his piano - and he sang it straightforwardly .
I wonder if you are projecting your own insecurities?