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Originally Posted by ben dover
CA killed the anthem
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I'm going to have to disagree heavily on this one. She ruined the anthem. As a person who feels the National Anthem in every bone in his body, it made me sick to hear her sing it the way she did.
Extra notes and added "style" do nothing for the song, it's beautiful and stands quite well on it's own, as written. Her "interpretation" of The National Anthem was all about HER and not the Anthem...on top of forgetting the words.
The problem IMO, is simply that the singers often are singing a song. Not the anthem. If they sang the ANTHEM, perhaps they would take more pride in the words and belt out a rendition that demonstrated their personal patriotism, versus their personal hangups.
I'm betting she was paid more to sing the Anthem (accounting for four minutes of her life) than most deployed E-4's make in a year, I digress...
Forgetting the words is unforgiveable.