Sorry for my lack of patriotism, but I DVR’d the game and fast-forward over it.
I heard it was so long, six WWII vets had to take a knee.
Twitter comment: (paraphrase)
“Even the cops had to take a knee”
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
It was horrendous. A musical atrocity.
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.
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.
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.
Dementia is not pretty.
Arethra Franklin rocks! Kudos to her proud rendition of our National Anthem.
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.
Come on, guys. I listened to all 5 minutes of it, and while it wasn’t my choice of style, it wasn’t that bad. It’s just that we live in a culture of short attention spans. We think that substantial issues can be discussed in three-minute sound bites or 140-character twitters.
She would have done better to have sung the song normally and included all four stanzas of a very profound poem. She could’ve done that in about the same five minutes!
Even in her prime her voice affects me like fingernails on a blackboard.
Couldn’t handle listening to her. Argh!!!
Ms. Franklin “churched” it up. That’s why she appeared with her Hammond organ player.
Not my preference, but I’ll leave it to others to determine its tastefulness as a patriotic tribute.
I was more concerned that this wealthy tycoon appeared in expensive Chinchilla coast on national television without a bicuspid tooth.
Some of those singers sound like they’re having a difficult time with a bowel movement.