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DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« on: February 06, 2011, 11:42:39 PM »
Well, if you missed it, Christina Aguilera was selected for some unfathomable reason to sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl this evening. The current practice for singers who cannot carry a tune is to perform in a style best described as "urban yodeling". It sucks beyond belief, but you can't get away from urban yodelers if you listen to very much music. Most female singers, and nearly all black female singers, are urban yodelers.
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aaaaaa5a  (1000+ posts)      Sun Feb-06-11 08:17 PM
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Christina Aguilera flubs National Anthem at Super Bowl
 
Christina Aguilera messed up the words to the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. Personally, I think some singers try to put so much into the anthem, they forget the most important part of the song…. the words and melody. This was not a great rendition even if she HAD remembered all the words.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/twitter-explodes-...


Video of her singing the National Anthem here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/06/super-bowl-201...

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Yep, she was so intent on sounding all cool and black, with soulful caterwauling screams, she forgot the words and made up her own butchered lyrics. Surprisingly, people noticed. It was, after all, the National Anthem.


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hlthe2b  (1000+ posts)      Sun Feb-06-11 08:27 PM
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2. ugh ... can't anyone just sing it relatively "straight up" anymore?
I am really tired of singers adding so much ad lib affectation that it becomes either unrecognizable or just plain irritating.
The amazing part is so many DUmmies agree, and so far not one claim of racism. I mean, if you didn't like the job Aguilera did, then you're insulting nearly all contemporary urban vocals.

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aaaaaa5a  (1000+ posts)      Sun Feb-06-11 08:30 PM
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4. Agreed!
 
I honestly think she was trying to put so much "soul" into the song…. she forgot the words. I'm hoping the recent criticism singers have been taking for greatly altering the words and melody of the anthem will lead to a change.
No way. They would have to stop singing. The whole purpose of the urban yodel is to disguise an inability to sing.


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Marr  (1000+ posts)      Sun Feb-06-11 09:30 PM
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11. OOOhh ho haahhhahhhh- OOOHHHA hhahahwiwiwi WOWOWoooohh...
 ...say can you seeeEEEEEEEEeeeaaeaaaaaahhha-oooooohwowoowowwwooooo....

DUmmy Marr has written the lyrics exactly the way an urban yodeler would sing them.
 
 
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thereismore  (1000+ posts)      Sun Feb-06-11 08:29 PM
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3. Good lord Jesus that was painful. 



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northoftheborder  (811 posts)       Sun Feb-06-11 10:31 PM
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15. Why.....why......why.....
Do they get these pop stars who cannot sing the National Anthem????????????? And jazz it up to cover up for the fact that they can't sing??????? I hate- hate -hate to hear this beautiful, (though difficult to sing) song just ruined. The most beautiful singing of the Anthem I've ever heard was the Marine, or maybe it was the Naval mens chorus. Absolutely beautiful.


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Codeine  (1000+ posts)      Sun Feb-06-11 10:52 PM
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23. Someone needs to train her to sing.
Also, learn the lyrics, you ****ing imbecile. You're only singing one stanza -- even a subliterate like you can cope.

 


 

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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2011, 11:55:18 PM »
I thought the Glee girl did a pretty good job of God Bless America until she did that weird high note thing.  She would have been a better choice for the National Anthem.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2011, 11:58:46 PM »
They just need cute little 8 year old girls to sing the National Anthem.  So cute!  And the younger girls don't add in all the extra crap.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2011, 12:01:13 AM »
I thought the Black Eyed Peas sucked too.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2011, 12:11:00 AM »
Quote from: BEG on February 07, 2011, 12:01:13 AM
:argh:I thought the Black Eyed Peas sucked too.
Major suckage. In fact, every single thing about this Super Bowl was purely awful, except the game itself. The NFL and Jerry Jones should be ashamed, but I don't think that emotion is possible for the man who fired Tom Landry.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2011, 02:35:00 AM »
Quote from: BEG on February 07, 2011, 12:01:13 AM
I thought the Black Eyed Peas sucked too.
Prior to tonight, I knew nothing about the Black Eyed Peas except that they suck which I knew from watching Red Eye.  But I didn't know they sucked that bad.  The best thing about them is that no matter how bad they sucked, the Packers still won.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2011, 03:25:45 AM »
The suckage was momentous even the commercials sucked and don't get me going about Jack Buck and Troy Aikmen.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2011, 04:18:22 AM »
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The suckage was momentous even the commercials sucked and don't get me going about Jack Buck and Troy Aikmen.

About the only commercial that was decent was the one for the VW Passat with the little lid dressed up as Dick Cheney Darth Vader, trying to use the Force on anything and everything in his parents' house.  Even then the commercial was cut 30 seconds or so.  I saw the full commercial online and LMAO.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2011, 05:13:12 AM »
Were they booing her? I hate to admit but I agree with most of them. It wasn't as bad as Rosanne Barr but it is up there.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2011, 05:55:07 AM »
I watched the first 30 seconds of the National Anthem. I couldn't take it. I thought it would be a good time to take the dog out.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2011, 07:48:34 AM »
Quote from: BEG on February 07, 2011, 12:01:13 AM
I thought the Black Eyed Peas sucked too.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2011, 07:48:57 AM »
Uh oh, they're being racist again, they're dissing someone who's part Hispanic!
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2011, 08:14:48 AM »
Just goes to show how we southerners always do it better. Here's Little Big Town doing an excellent job at the 2011 Cotton Bowl between Texas A&M and LSU.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dl_nVlyhu4[/youtube]
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2011, 08:16:49 AM »
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I watched the first 30 seconds of the National Anthem. I couldn't take it. I thought it would be a good time to take the dog out.

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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2011, 08:20:59 AM »
Quote from: Tantal on February 07, 2011, 08:14:48 AM
Just goes to show how we southerners always do it better. Here's Little Big Town doing an excellent job at the 2011 Cotton Bowl between Texas A&M and LSU.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dl_nVlyhu4[/youtube]

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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2011, 08:32:37 AM »
Quote from: Tantal on February 07, 2011, 08:14:48 AM
Just goes to show how we southerners always do it better. Here's Little Big Town doing an excellent job at the 2011 Cotton Bowl between Texas A&M and LSU.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dl_nVlyhu4[/youtube]

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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2011, 08:45:36 AM »
Ok, the anthem sucked and the halftime show was worse. But I can discuss that in Sports.
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2011, 10:11:13 AM »
Ms. Aguilera, THIS is how you sing the Anthem:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrvRgcKRO0g[/youtube]
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2011, 10:41:13 AM »
I think I need to be on a heart monitor for the next 24 hours or so.  I don't know that me ticker can take all those DUmmies being in general agreement with me.  I may just have to take the next week or so and re-evaluate every assumption I cling to, trying to locate where I erroneously went left.

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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2011, 12:11:08 PM »
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That was a good one and the one with the beaver who cut down the tree to save the dude's life was a good one too.

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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2011, 02:13:20 PM »
Quote from: BEG on February 07, 2011, 12:01:13 AM
I thought the Black Eyed Peas sucked too.

That was the most ridiculous half time show I've seen in my life! I can't believe people actually pay to hear their music! And what's with the white chick tryin' to act black? There was a line in Vegas bettin' on whether or not she was goin' to have a costume malfunction like Janet Jackson!

You'd think they woulda got a country singer! It was in Dallas, after all!

Who the hell booked an Urban Black act? It stunk!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #22 on: February 07, 2011, 03:41:17 PM »
Quote from: Evil_Conservative on February 06, 2011, 11:58:46 PM
They just need cute little 8 year old girls to sing the National Anthem.  So cute!  And the younger girls don't add in all the extra crap.

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« Reply #23 on: February 07, 2011, 03:49:37 PM »
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Re: DUmmies Discuss The Super Bowl National Anthem
« Reply #24 on: February 07, 2011, 04:04:40 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on February 07, 2011, 12:11:00 AM
Major suckage. In fact, every single thing about this Super Bowl was purely awful, except the game itself. The NFL and Jerry Jones should be ashamed, but I don't think that emotion is possible for the man who fired Tom Landry.

Major suckage is the word for it, because they were that bad. It took until the start of the 2nd half to restore the energy.
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