j-mac
Nuthin' but the truth
Not going to agree here…your opinion of the melody is irrelevant to the discussion really…You don't have to automatically love the national anthem just because you love the nation, in the same way red, white and blue don't have to be your favorite colors and hot dogs and apple pie don't have to be your favorite food.
It's a bad song. It's okay to admit it. Singers have to jazz it up a lot because we all know: it's just a bad song. That ends in a question.
(Case in point: no great songwriter would write the high note on the word "freeeeeeee"....which is a horrible vowel to sing on. Just. No.)