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Aretha Franklin's Insanely Long Five Minute National Anthem Causes a Twitter Meltdown
CBS ^ | 11/25/16 GMT | y John Breech

Posted on 11/25/2016 4:31:15 AM PST by drewh

The only thing more dramatic than the Lions' 16-13 fourth-quarter win over the Vikings on Thursday was Aretha Franklin's rendition of the national anthem.

Actually, "dramatic" might not be the best word to use to describe Franklin's performance.

"Never-ending" would probably work better after Franklin somehow managed to belt the anthem out for a full four minutes and 35 seconds.

To put that into perspective, oddsmakers usually expect the national anthem at the Super Bowl to run for roughly two minutes.

Franklin doubled that, plus some, and let's just say people on Twitter weren't amused.

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To: SandRat

Cousin Francis would be proud his entire poem hasn’t been forgotten. Doubt he’d like it butchered like so many have.


61 posted on 11/25/2016 6:11:57 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: drewh
Aretha Franklin sings National Anthem 2016 NFL Vikings at Lions Football Game

My data limit won't allow it. Got any Ariana Grande videos? Preferably licking cupcakes...

62 posted on 11/25/2016 6:13:14 AM PST by Libloather (Hillary - the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: drewh

Twitter comment: (paraphrase)

“Even the cops had to take a knee”


63 posted on 11/25/2016 6:15:32 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Bulldaddy
They should just play a video of Whitney Houston’s best-ever National Anthem from the 1991 Super Bowl.

That was overblown version also

The reason it has such a rep and was acclaimed at the time was because of Desert Storm

That crowd and the majority of Americans would have applauded anyone
64 posted on 11/25/2016 6:18:35 AM PST by uncbob
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To: drewh

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


65 posted on 11/25/2016 6:22:01 AM PST by Popman
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To: bgill

The last 3 veerses are called the forgten verses by many of the LIB-Turd PC crowd.


66 posted on 11/25/2016 6:24:35 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: SandRat
Here's some newly found lyrics to the Star spangled Banner

https://vimeo.com/122454739

67 posted on 11/25/2016 6:29:32 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: drewh

It was horrendous. A musical atrocity.


68 posted on 11/25/2016 6:34:29 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: drewh

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.


69 posted on 11/25/2016 6:36:15 AM PST by zencycler
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To: drewh

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.


70 posted on 11/25/2016 6:37:00 AM PST by V K Lee (DJ TRUMP=My Strongest Advocate MAGA; DJT=The Swamp Drainer)
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To: drewh

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.


71 posted on 11/25/2016 6:43:54 AM PST by meyer (There is no political solution to this troubling evolution...)
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To: drewh

Dementia is not pretty.


72 posted on 11/25/2016 6:49:31 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: drewh

Arethra Franklin rocks! Kudos to her proud rendition of our National Anthem.


73 posted on 11/25/2016 7:01:43 AM PST by Tarasaramozart
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To: drewh

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.


74 posted on 11/25/2016 7:22:25 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: SkyPilot

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.


75 posted on 11/25/2016 7:25:24 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: castlegreyskull

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.


76 posted on 11/25/2016 7:43:24 AM PST by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: ez
She actually repeated many of the lines three times.

Did she occasionally sing the correct notes?

77 posted on 11/25/2016 7:46:51 AM PST by itsahoot (Three words I don't want to hear is Comprehensive Immigration Reform.)
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To: faucetman

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!


78 posted on 11/25/2016 7:56:41 AM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion)
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To: Tarasaramozart
Kudos to her proud rendition of our National Anthem.

Would you also appreciate Mozart's Requiem as Rap?

79 posted on 11/25/2016 8:00:59 AM PST by itsahoot (Three words I don't want to hear is Comprehensive Immigration Reform.)
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To: OrangeHoof
I did not find her rendition unpatriotic or upsetting.

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.

80 posted on 11/25/2016 8:07:19 AM PST by itsahoot (Three words I don't want to hear is Comprehensive Immigration Reform.)
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