My family loves baseball season. But one thing they do not love is the way I critique and dissect how the national anthem is sung at the beginning of the game. My family thinks I am too picky. I think that I am merely exercising common sense.
The Star Spangled Banner is notoriously difficult to sing. Unless you really have the chops to embellish it, it is best sung straight, without riffs, runs, trills or whatever vocal improvisation you, in a moment of delusion, thought you could pull off. Singer, know thyself.
Speaking of chops…which awesome version of the Star Spangled Banner do you think is the awesome-est? Beyonce’s or Whitney’s?
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I’d like to hear Anna’s first.
Whitney. No contest.
gotta agree w/jood: WHITNEY
JJ and I just watched both. Boy, Whitney could sing. I miss her.