All I felt, other than being pissed that yet another decent singer screws up the national anthem, is a small appreciation for instant karma.
She made the honor of singing our national anthem all about her singing and she screwed it up royally.
With all that talent and ability, she could have watered my eyes and put a patriotic lump in my throat with the anthem. Instead, I just wanted to change the channel.
Since she’s gone to the war zone and given our troops morale boosters, I’m willing to give her a pass on this one.
I stole the "yodeling" comment from a freeper, who's observation was funny and spot on accurate.
.....at least they didn’t put Lady GaGa out there!
Lucky for me, I missed it. I don’t care how many troops she has “entertained”, the National Anthem is not about the singer.
With all the yodeling, I couldn’t follow the song anyway, so I didn’t even notice.
An X? Really?
The left can be very picky about that, ya know....
“I was so distracted by the sex that I had back stage with Slash... the lines of cocaine that I snorted... and the half pint of Jim Beam that I guzzled before the show... I was so crocked I could not remember my name... do I really look like Cindy Lauper?”
LLS
She joins a long line of flubbers of the National Anthem. The producers of these events need to dispense with Solo vocalists in favor of a band playing the anthem with an Honor Guard and if the fans want to sing along, fine.
Blaaaah. I missed it last night so went over to youtube. Had to turn it off after a few seconds. Awful doesn’t begin to describe it.
The Grateful Dead, 1993, sing the National Anthem a capella. Nice.
http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/the-grateful-dead-si.html
Its not that she messed up the words,its how she sang it. To much theatrics for such a simple song.
I give her credit, she didn’t make an excuse, she just told it like it was and hoped people got the spirit.
Now we are getting the truth about this. It turns out she botched it a couple of times during practice on Saturday, and got pissy about it then. Her staff has been trying to get her into rehab and were amazed that she was picked to sing at the Superbowl.
The words where being shown on a wall in front of her too, all she had to do was read.
Just amazing to me that the people responsible for the most watched sporting event in the Country would pick an unreliable prima donna to sing the anthem. They would have been better off picking a local High School choir member, at least they would have been sober, and taken the job seriously.
You would think that the NFL would know better.
For decades now, top pop culture stars have been freaks.....and the freakier the better.
Actual talent is not found any more in the performer, but in the stagers, the costumers, the amplifiers, the cosmeticians, the lighting and pyrotechnic specialists plus the shapers and purveyers of hype and scandal surrounding the "artist". This manufactures a "star" in today's dumbed-down society.
The Super Bowl casting honcho simply hired entertainers that he figured the American public appears to want to see, i.e., a troupe of freak show exhibitionists.
There wasn't a lick of actual personal talent presented to last night's Super Bowl audience, but who cares as long as the noise, flashing lights plus writhings and gyrations cover up this fact so nicely.
Leni
As long as the last 3 verses are ignored, its always a fumble.
Somebody send the self esteem ambulance to her pad. This is America and we all know what’s most important.