[SkyPilot]

About 15 years ago, some “artists” began using the occasion of the national anthem to showcase a black-pseudo gospel-drawn out-street cred version of the Star Spangled Banner. I did not watch Franklin's, but I assume that is what it was. Probably like Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love Lou meets Francis Scott Key.

[Lisbon1940]

Should this even be allowed?

[uncbob]

Started during Desert Storm in 91 Super Bowl

[bk1000]

“...showcase a black-pseudo gospel-drawn out-street cred version of the Star Spangled Banner.”

Urban yodeling.

[mc5cents]

Whitney Houston’s version at Super Bowl XXV in Tampa is still my favorite. She sang it with heart and emotion the way it is supposed to be sung. It was very emotional due to the fact that desert storm had just begun and everyone was given a small flag to wave.

[OrangeHoof]

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.