However, European leaders completely agree with the behavior.
“It’s standard protocol to breathalyze everyone who enters Wembley Stadium to make sure they’re drunk enough, including players,” says Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. “This incident makes sense to me. Prior to our election, the recorded rates of intoxication throughout the stadium were much higher. America’s terrifying future is in the hands of its citizens, and to cope, in one of those hands should also be a cold one.”
I really hope this is full grade satire…
This finally got me curious to have a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjSiCqLUr7A
Gods. That was indeed bad.
That was impressively bad lmao I’m surprised she wasn’t immediately booked to perform for the RNC
Apparently she immediately checked herself into rehab
Rehab won’t help the creeping sense of dread consuming us all. But glad she’s trying.
I’d lord it over the others in rehab. Oh, your lowest moment resulted in your family hating you? Mine was aired nationally and will be viewable for the rest of my life! In your face!
But seriously, I hope she finds what she needs in rehab.
Lol, do they actually have fireworks in every match?
That’s incredibly cringe. Well the whole thing about singing the national anthem is cringe but the fireworks really makes it 10x worse.
Screw the environment. More CO2 please.
It’s actually pretty easy to make carbon neutral fireworks, since it’s only dependent on the energy put into the system and black powder historically used charcoal as it’s fuel source which is renewable.
But that carbon wouldn’t be in the air otherwise, so not good. Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Unless you’re planting trees and then cutting them down to bury them, it absolutely would.
No, in that case, you’re digging up carbon in trees, lighting it and putting it in the sky…
Only if it’s virgin forest. I said it could be carbon neutral which would imply tree farming. The only way you can sequester carbon with trees is literally burying them.
This was an All-star game, not a normal match.
What is an all star game?
I think it’s just an exhibition game with the best players in the league. Exhibition meaning not part of the normal season, but it’s a special event.
Thanks
It started off okay and then wow did it take an abrupt turn.
Whole thing sounded like she learned singing from tiktok that morning
Stealing from the comment section on that video
“First Trumps ear, now ours!”
Holy fuck that was the worst singing I have ever heard in my entire life
This has to be on purpose
I think I’ve found my new ringtone
Talk about Wishful Drinking
worst thing to happen to this country since President Clinton,” said Republican Governor, Greg Abbott, as he turned on a generator to power an air conditioner and dressed himself in a bullet-proof vest
Yup, sure sounds like him.
Honestly it’s the least believable line in the article. No way Abbott misses a chance to bash Obama.
I don’t even believe she was drunk, she just sucks. Her studio albums weigh heavily on autotune from my brief listen
Also why even hire a country “musician” whose vocal range is one octave and their songs are the same three chords, like what are you even expecting here
Country singers are the only ones left with who are willing to sing the national anthem.
So that’s why they’re called country singers… /s
People used to have lower standards
I’ll do it. Sounds fun.
someone has to say i say it, so here goes: it’s your anthem that sucks. i don’t know who this woman is but i don’t care. seriously it is so ass. and incredibly racist. ditch it for a better one. pick something people can sing. it’s not normal that you sing this anthem since childhood and at every event but still out of all professional singers who attempt to sing it only Whitney Houston and like two more people could do it.
It does suck. The tune is adapted from a song praising wine. Being drunk when singing it seems appropriate.
I’m missing the racism aspect, though, how so?
It has four verses, even though typically only the first verse is performed. The full version has these lyrics:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.I don’t really read that as condoning slavery, as much as acknowledging that slaves fought and died in the war?
how does that work with “the terror of flight”?
the entire songs context is around the Battle of Baltimore which included 25 hours of naval bombardment. from the perspective of the ships where it was witnessed and given the volume of shells fired they assumed everyone would be dead.
They’re running from the British troops.
that’s still not good. why does it only talk about slaves and hirelings then?
Because it talks about other people in other places. Also, in context it could be referring to the British forces themselves. It had already been used as a rhetorical device for that after the revolutionary war.
Really though the idea that he would take a break in a poem about the war of 1812 and specifically the bombardment of Fort McHenry to dunk on slaves is just weird too. It doesn’t fit.
Here’s the complete extra stanzas.
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream, 'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion A home and a Country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation! Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto - “In God is our trust,” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Ah, thought it might be something like that. Pretty much nobody knows any stanzas past the first exist, so it’s a bit silly to criticize it for that. It sucks just fine without it.
i don’t understand your point. it’s one thing to say you can’t say people are racist for liking it, because they wouldn’t know the full lyrics which, i didn’t say anyway… but it’s silly to criticize a song for being racist just because people stop singing it before it gets really bad? bit of a weird take.
It’s silly to use a stanza that is literally never sung as criticism for why it sucks as a national anthem. As a reason for why the whole song as a general concept sucks, sure.
I mean America Fuck Yeah! is right there and ready to go!
Wait, that’s not the American anthem?!?
Whiteley Houston’s version was actually prerecorded, but she did sing it live when recorded in 1 take
Lady Gaga also did a very good version
Agree that with this girl in the OP, that the song (which is challenging) was just out of her range, plus she’s a “cursive” singer like that girl in The Chainsmokers or Ellie Goulding, which is not a very good technique for singing IF you want range, flexibility, versatility, or even longevity in your voice. In general she’s a decent, consistent singer (I’ve seen many videos of her performing live since this) as long as she’s within her range. I think she just lacks the skill for that song specifically.
my dude, not considering patriotism (such as it is), lyrical meaning and what-not, the US Anthem is a decent piece of music, and I would rank it top tier as far as national anthems go. You’ve not heard a crappy national anthem until you’ve heard Taiwan’s national anthem, and I am about as patriotic as Taiwanese gets. (again just talking about the music itself and not lyrical content, Taiwan’s national anthem is very problematic)
we disagree on both, lol. just as a piece of music, maybe it’s the performance in the video but that sounded pretty badass. this could easily be the climax soundtrack in an epic movie.
lmao, i guess familiarity breeds contempt. because of the dispute with china, taiwan doesn’t play its national anthem at international events such as the olympics when one of their athletes win. instead, they play the flag anthem, which I MUCH prefer (again, just as a piece of music). I would be very happy if they adapted the flag anthem as the new national anthem.
i get why you like this more, it’s more of a marching song like most anthems. me i don’t really think a national anthem should necessarily be a march. too militaristic. why not have something culturally appropriate and more importantly unique? i like that about the actual anthem. (again, didn’t look at the lyrics at all)
That’s kind of the point, it’s an achievement to be able to sing it well.
it’s a national anthem dude not a tiktok challenge
TikTok challenges aren’t skilled singing achievements, they’re fun activities to do with friends.
Yes, be sure to never excel or try hard, lest someone on Lemmy accuses you of doing something from TikTok
this literally has nothing to do with what I said. I said the notion of having the “point” of a national anthem be too hard for anyone but the select few be able to do it is ridiculous. it’s not an achievement; it’s a rally.
the national anthem should be sung by the people. in general.
that goes double for the US , considering the obsession this country has with making everyone sing it all the fucking time for any mundane reason.
You can’t deny that an anthem celebrating individual achievement matches way better with the American ethos than a song that can easily be sung by anyone. Not that I’m a fan of that ethos, but yeah the anthem is not out of character at all.
The anthem isn’t really treated like a “rally”, people stand with their hand over their heart and watch a skilled singer sing it.
It’s pretty much only sung at the beginning of professional sports games. Maybe government ceremonies, idk.
Seriously who the f is this girl
A person who makes decent music aside from that day. I mean, nobody can hit home run after home run but like… Damn. She said she was drunk at that time, idk.
Here’s a decent song of hers: https://youtu.be/j_A8Zjwr9m0
Did you intentionally pick the worst metaphor possible, given the context? Because that was the worst metaphor possible, given the context.
No, but I left it because it was neat.
If by neat you mean it undermined your argument, then yes, it was neat!
Tf is your problem lol
Overall? Capitalism. You?
Buddy, it’s called a pun. It’s a play on words. I love you.
Aw, I love you too! That’s why I’m trying to help you make better jokes. Like, you were so close, but it just didn’t land right with the point you were making.
I found her anthem appropriate and think it should be sung this way going forward. It matched the vibe of this unchecked fascist takeover that is happening right before our eyes.
It’s a baseball stadium. Seems pretty unreasonable to require that she be the only one sober.
Incredible headline
Wait! Isn’t sobriety unamerican…going off what I have observed.
It certainly is at a sports event
And lets be clear, its ANY sports event. My 2nd grade catholic school soccer games were just an excuse for the parents, coaches included, to get plastered. The church probably pulled in more money at the concession stand than at the donation plate.
Honestly the majority of the stadium probably didn’t notice. It sounded like it could’ve been right.
Can I be California sober?
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