Nashville Bongo Drums anthem……. Worst ever???
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And yet I didn't see Alex Semin...
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Sounds like a guy who dabbles with the drums and dabbles with singing. Put them together and it just doesn't blend well. A for effort, C- for execution. Admirable attempt in a Napoleon Dynamite sort of way.
Wasn’t for a hockey game, but Carl Lewis is not good at singing. I should be banned for posting the video, so I won’t. But look it up, if you haven’t seen/heard it.
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Against my better judgment I actually looked it up. He was actually doing fine at first and I've definitely heard much worse when it comes to singing voices... then he totally lost it at "and the rockets' red glare" with a really bad screwup. He then seemed to be speed running the rest of the song (singing at a faster tempo than before) until he interrupted himself with "I'll make it up for you," followed by not really making up for his earlier screwup.
In short, I've actually heard much worse renditions than that. It's just that the worse renditions have been almost exclusively at much lower-level events, like once when I went to an Arizona State Sun Devils baseball game and they had some 11-year-old sing who... uh... let's just say she must have been tone deaf in the literal sense. The crowd kind of just awkwardly clapped afterwards, probably because they didn't want to boo a kid who was only 11 years old.
The true worst ever was Roseanne Barr. Hers want just bad; it was disrespectful.
I remember that one. It wasn't just awful, it was awful squared, as well as disrespectful. The problem is that there are always going to be a handful of people who are no good at singing and don't realize it.
On a side note, I consider it at least slightly disrespectful when anthem singers rearrange the US anthem to be in 4/4 time instead of 3/4 time, but that's so common that I'm pretty much just an old lady yelling at a cloud with that opinion.
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I thought it was better than 99% of the usual national anthem performances.
But given the reaction, I hope Nashville keeps turning out left field versions like this, so that ultimately there is enough push to end the anthems in NHL games altogether. Just use them for national team games when, you know, different nations are competing. Doing the anthems before league games always seems to me like the adult version of the pledge of allegiance.
But given the reaction, I hope Nashville keeps turning out left field versions like this, so that ultimately there is enough push to end the anthems in NHL games altogether. Just use them for national team games when, you know, different nations are competing. Doing the anthems before league games always seems to me like the adult version of the pledge of allegiance.
It's an interesting story why we do it. The tradition started during WW1 when baseball teams started playing the national anthem before games in order to stir up some wartime patriotism, and it was really popular, so they kept doing it even after the war ended. Over 100 years later, now here we are.
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Bongo's were weird but his singing was fine. Not even close to the worst anthem this season.
Worst one I've heard so far this season was the Canadian anthem at the USA vs. Canada championship game, but that wasn't the NHL. NHL-run tournament yes, but not an NHL game.
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I'm not sure what my top 3 worst are, especially since I'm going off memory alone (and my memory is not very reliable), especially since I don't really pay attention to the anthems before games, and Utah broadcasts often don't even show them I don't think. I don't really remember, since my aforementioned memory isn't very reliable.
