Im sorry but Rosanne Barr doesnt even come close to that crap I heard last night by Anastacia....... (ok Barr was awful). 1. She sung it 4 octaves too low and sounded like a man. 2. She has no pronuciation skills what so ever. 3. She changed the freaking lyrics: "....and the rockets GAVE glare....." WTF??!? 4. She was wearing hideous trashy rags that looked like she stole from Cyndi Lauper's 1984 closet. 5. Her voice sucks 6. She sucks Ok Im done.
Whats so bad is this chick is HUGE over in Europe and her record company is just now making a big push to try and get her popular here in the states. She's gotten all sorts of good gigs for an unknown pop singer here in the US...
It sounded pretty bad IMHO also. When she said "...rockets gave glare...", I had to turn that crappy rendition off.
I agree RocketRiver my wife and i were watching last night....she chimed in with, "oh, how embarassing," in a very smug way...it was really pretty funny!
no, hands down the worst rendition of the National Anthem was by that flake Macy Gray... she was obviously stoned when she sang and she flipped lines around! oh god i didn't know whether to be pissed or feel sorry for her! it was awful!
I thought it was bad as well.. and I was talking to someone online at the time and they were like umm that was horrible... I noticed the changing of red to gave.. but did i just misunderstand or did she also save gave TRUTH instead of gave proof....
The star spangled banner is too difficult song to sing, it's really not even a very good song to be blasphemous. The range is way all over the map, and the tempo makes little sense. I am no musicologist but I don't think this song, patriotic connattions aside, is very good. I always thought America the Beautiful was much easier, more memorable and better sounding, plus its actually about the USA in general rather than the battle of Fort McHenry.
One of the reasons it is so hard to sing is that it was originally written as a poem, that later was put to music. It was never intended to be sung. On Sept. 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key peered through clearing smoke to see an enormous flag flying proudly after a 25-hour British bombardment of Baltimore's Fort McHenry. Key was inspired to write a poem, which was later set to music. Even before "The Star-Spangled Banner" became our national anthem, it helped transform the garrison flag with the same name into a major national symbol of patriotism and identity. http://web8.si.edu/nmah/htdocs/ssb-old/6_thestory/fs6.html
That's what I was thinking. Macy Gray performed horribly. One should try singing it before attempting to sing in front of some 40,000 fans at a baseball game.
I can't think of that rendition without laughing to the point of tears! ) Absolutely no rhythm, voice, anything...it was HORRIBLE. Well, HORRIBLY FUNNY!!!
That reminds me of the time that I was at an NBL game, and there was this chick singing the Aussie Anthem. She forgot some of the lines and just stood with a blank expression on her face looking at the crowd. Then Andrew Gaze stepped up to her and told her the next lines. One of the funniest moments ever.
