Why Won’t People Sing the National Anthem Correctly?!?!?!

[JOSweetHeart]

To me, these are the best group performances of the song.





God bless you and both groups always!!!

Holly

 

[toobfreak]

If they’re singing it at a concert, that’s one thing.

Whoever sings the SSB at a concert?

If it’s being sung before an event, as a respect for the nation, it needs to be sung in the traditional Manner

That is your opinion. It is usually sung before an event, and while I've heard some variants I didn't like, it was mainly for lack of singing skills not because of the variation. Variation is part of creativity and individuality, and I rather like there being the possibility of some unexpected but brilliant variation with the song, such as that time Whitney Houston sung her beautiful rendition of the song at the Super Bowl.

After all, America herself is /about/ individuality.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

To me, LeAnn Rimes has never been a disappointment where the song is concerned.



God bless you and LeAnn always!!!

Holly (a day one fan of her)

 

[whoisit]

Irrelevant. Until its officially changed the current anthem needs to be sung respectfully and properly.

I think many will miss this nation if it is destroyed like some are hoping for.

 

[whoisit]

If they’re singing it at a concert, that’s one thing. I wouldn’t pay money to hear someone else’s take on it, but I can understand the concrpt.

If it’s being sung before an event, as a respect for the nation, it needs to be sung in the traditional Manner

Have you ever seen this short story? Made me tear up first time I heard it.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

 

[RhodyPatriot]

 

[fncceo]

The "Star Spangled Banner" is a war anthem

Try reading the lyrics of La Marseillais sometime.

 

[SaxonJackson]

I wonder why countries have a national song, it seems rather weird. And then people get all angry about people singing it in a way they don't like. It's like you're creating something just so people can get angry.

You'd have to be a patriot to understand. If you don't love the country in which you live then you likely won't love the symbols, history, and songs associated with it.

The following lyrics are NOT a Pop Tune. They tell a heart wrenching story. People who sing this song without giving reverence to the words do a disservice to the men who fought that war and the patriotic Americans who benefit from the efforts of those men.

United States of America

The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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 fully glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, 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 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.

Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved 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.

Francis Scott Key

 

[Anathema]

That is your opinion. It is usually sung before an event, and while I've heard some variants I didn't like, it was mainly for lack of singing skills not because of the variation. Variation is part of creativity and individuality, and I rather like there being the possibility of some unexpected but brilliant variation with the song, such as that time Whitney Houston sung her beautiful rendition of the song at the Super Bowl.

The SS. Is not about individuality or variation. It represents the Nation as a whole, but individual citizens and therefore should be shown appropriate reverence by being sung with the original tune ONLY.

 

[frigidweirdo]

You'd have to be a patriot to understand. If you don't love the country in which you live then you likely won't love the symbols, history, and songs associated with it.

The following lyrics are NOT a Pop Tune. They tell a heart wrenching story. People who sing this song without giving reverence to the words do a disservice to the men who fought that war and the patriotic Americans who benefit from the efforts of those men.

United States of America

The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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 fully glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, 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 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.

Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved 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.

Francis Scott Key

"a patriot", which is what?

Someone who likes thinking that they themselves are better because they think their country is better?

Or someone who picks up litter and helps old people and does good things for the country?

 

[Mac-7]

The "Star Spangled Banner" is a war anthem. Many think "America the Beautiful" should be the national anthem.

"America the Beautiful" embodies in its rather lengthy lyrics the highest ideals of a Christian nation. Most versions omit most of the verses of the song.

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Without the Revolutionary War and the following War of 1812 America would be Canada where with few exceptions the men squat to pee

 

[Woodznutz]

You'd have to be a patriot to understand. If you don't love the country in which you live then you likely won't love the symbols, history, and songs associated with it.

The following lyrics are NOT a Pop Tune. They tell a heart wrenching story. People who sing this song without giving reverence to the words do a disservice to the men who fought that war and the patriotic Americans who benefit from the efforts of those men.

United States of America

The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

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 fully glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, 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 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.

Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved 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.

Francis Scott Key

Thanks! I have never heard those verses.

 

[toobfreak]

The SS. Is not about individuality or variation.

Sure, now just show me where that is written.