Trump is preceded by worst ever national anthem
mainThis is the US national anthem that opened Conservative Political Action Conference 2021.
Just before Donald Trump turns up for his first major event since leaving the Whote House.
Check your dental insurance.
UPDATE: The singer’s name is Sailor Sabol. She’s a GOP member from Orlando, Florida, and she’s available for weddings, christenings and executions.
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And check out the key changes below.
A metaphor for that cult’s respect for the constitution.
What is happening in America has a positive side to it.
When all trust in the U.S. is gone, Europe will wake up and take its place in the world.
And you know what that means.
German aircraft carriers!!
Let’s see who makes who nervous then.
At best crude comments even if sardonic.
What on earth has that got to do with singing the American National Anthem by a totally self-obsessed singer and so out of tune, so many transpositions of key, with a chest voice dangerously pushed up? Is that the best they could find? Ghastly rendition. Nothing to do with the Germans or any part of Europe.
Aircraft carriers are so 20th century.
I‘m doubtful about Europe‘s future leadership role. Look at our younger generations. Arguably almost as passive and decadent as the same generations in the US.
Going by that, the future is China dominated.
5 renminbi have been deposited into your account, patriot
Truly remarkable
To quote Victor Meldrew.
‘I don’t believe it.’
Agree. It looks like fake news.
Worse than what we saw during Biden’s inauguration, but not much worse. Quite comparable I’d say.
If you think they were comparable you have to be 100% tone deaf.
At least Lady GaGa stayed on pitch and in key. This poor child did neither. You must have wax in your ears.
I don’t remember who of the greats said that (or something very similar), but I believe that missed notes are excusable, while no soul in your art is not. This girl is clearly not musically trained, but she tried to do her best in a respectful manner. Sad that people are laughing at her.
Incompetent flailing is not soulful.
What are you talking about Lady Gaga has more talent in her baby toe than you have at all. I’d like to see try to outdo her. She had to put on an outrageous act because america thinks everyone should look like a model.shes worth over 300 million because she’s has no talent. She’s a triple threat What a loser. Look in the mirror see what you’ve done with your life. She’ll be in the exclusive Egot club soon. Can you say that. Go back to your hairy dirty couch and eat some leftovers from an old take out bag. That’s life!
Equally awful.
False equivalency, right on cue. No comment section would be complete without it.
You must not be a musician.
Then you’re tone deaf too LOL #allkeysmatter
If you think those two were comparable, you have dog shit in your ears.
this was worse!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR062mzJLLoRmE7lehgl6TLsaG03L4fYwfTFnJBXI7JO1YP6hQg89dTtHOE&v=LdgT0hX1swc&feature=youtu.be
Oh yeah? Well, so far 123 people (and counting) disagree with your sour grapes false comment.
Wow, that’s quite the hot take. So many people, myself included, feel that Gaga’s performance and arrangement by Michael Bearden was absolutely superb. Who’s performance of the SSB do you prefer?
I’m not British/American, so I don’t have special feelings towards American anthem and I don’t follow its performances. The only performance of this piece that really touched me was after 9/11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad3NoimHero
Anyway, I always found the idea of pop stars singing national anthem as weird. Are they really the best people for this job?
The problem with this particular performance is that there were plenty of other terrible performances (YouTube remembers them), but only because it was on Republican event, it got noticed and what is happening with this girl now is bordering with bullying. If she performed at DNC, it wouldn’t get such reactions.
Precisely. But when did we ever expect liberals not to bully someone with whom they disagree?
Dale: My favorite rendition of The Star Spangled Banner was sung by Whitney Houston at Super Bowl XXV in 1991 in Tampa: https://youtu.be/N_lCmBvYMRs
You are what we call a staunch republican!
I’ve made my living as a musician. I spent 20 years as the jazz pianist in a professional military band, the USMA Band stationed at West Point, New York.
You are either tone deaf / partisan hack or a fucking moron.
Take your pick. 🙂
Even Florence Foster Jenkins is turning in her grave.
Florence Foster Jenkings is probably angry she didn’t get stylistic credit for that rendition of the national anthem.
The Star-Spangled Banner is notoriously difficult to sing, but this was really too much.
It is quite difficult to sing, I agree, which is why you shouldn’t have an amateur sing it at a major event like this. I’ve known high schoolers who could’ve done better.
All those Americans embarrassing themselves in public, should simply sing the short version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBwPylMRAeo
You are presupposing that this is a major event?
The new tune for “Amerika uber alles.”
We already have a Department of Heimat Security.
YEAH, that was my German-American Reaction, way back when.
Clueless and Tone-Deaf, in equal parts.
Solfeggio has never been a strong point of the neoconservatives in the USA.
But my PA claims this lady sings quarter tones and that it’s a version by Charles Ives.
Tell your PA that Charles Ives composed “Variations on ‘America’”, not the ‘Star Spangled Banner’.
Bad as it is, I think it – er – Trumps the rappers who not too long ago frequented the White House. And they were feted and lionized by a man who couldn’t pronounce the name of Martha Argerich.
It’s all kitsch; just choose your own special variety of tasteless music.
Incorrect.
Schoenberg.
Bravissimo, Herr Borstlap! Magnificently summed up!
LOL
Your Charles Ives is notably the best comment of all.
If it makes you cringe, it’s not Charles Ives.
White privilege run amok X 2.
No, I think the ultimate white privilege was in WW2 when thousands landed on the beaches of Normandy or earlier ‘privileged’ men who were shot down in their thousands during the Battle of Britain.
Yeah, that’s real privilege right there. I wonder if they thought about that as many of them fell from the sky on fire in their cockpits.
Interesting irony; they died to protect the freedoms of those now hectoring white people as having ‘privilege’.
White privilege word salad #219. Interesting irony; despite facing Jim Crow at home and segregation within their ranks men and women of color volunteered for service during WWII in unprecedented numbers to fight fascism wrought by white nationalists.
Yeah, all those white men storming the beach at Normandy simultaneously yelled out, “I’m doing this for all my black brothers that segregation has kept far away from me!”
The way you go on about WW2 heroes, it’s almost like you’re taking credit for their sacrifices. I know you’re old but you’re not that old.
You’re also 100% off-topic, but thanks for playing anyway.
You should watch Carl Lewis.
Simple, it’s because they lack empathy. You can’t express music without empathy.
Absolutely correct. Great comment!
For a tone deaf party, they deserve a tone deaf singer.
Bravo, great observation and apt comment.
Good point. Well said.
Isn’t he in jail yet?
Fucking hell that is awful
Just missing a 12-piece viola ensemble…….
This is not the worst national anthem; arguably, that award goes to Carl Lewis.
Nice job finding a way to throw a quick Trump-bashing in your headline – you needed to change the first title, but I’m sure it was worth it. Can you imagine Trump’s face when he sees your clever jab?
Yeah, me neither.
She was dreadful and you know it. Tht she was the best they could get says a lot about the draw CPAC has.
I can certainly imagine it, with the orange pancake makeup cementing his cellulite-filled jowls into a rictus of glee
Modulation Randomitis. You hear it all the time at professional sports events. This was really, really bad, but I’ve heard worse, at WNBA games. Doing it in a combination of 4/4 and 3/4 adds to its badness.
Well DUH. The WNBA audience is ALL fat fingers…
Her musical abilities are on a par with the Republican Party leader’s political abilities. So she’s perfect.
sounds like the singers on a cruise ship.
That girl needs to go back to singing scales. She went off key half a dozen times in that APPALLING rendition.
Worst since Rosanne Barr!
And Here is the accompaniment https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0qVD2fzNvQxVPamWY3r8dJMkRYKZHTPdbGTImnmhp
No one should have let this child humiliate herself in this way. As a voice teacher, it makes me terribly sad to think that any parent or teacher would allow this to happen on a national stage.
She’s not a ten year old – I can just imagine her response should her parents or (music?) teacher have advised against her ‘big break’!
Interesting modulations…
Really have to see the version with accompaniment for full enjoyment.
https://youtu.be/LdgT0hX1swc
She has a name, Norman.
Your note implies that this singer took the stage just before Trump spoke. Well I checked and it is at least 4 hours since you posted this and Trump has yet to speak. You clearly suffer from TDS. Go put on a Bernstein recording of Mahler 3 and clear your head of this obsession
This is what happens when you defund the Arts.
Microtonal Star Spangled Banner. She hit each quarter tone perfectly.
Ouch! She thought she nailed it too.. hilarious!!
Wrong- this was from Day 1 of CPAC, so Thursday. This was not the immediate preamble to Trump currently speaking. Please get things right once in a while, Norman.
So? That hardly excuses this excruciatingly awful rendition.
It just cheapens it to try and somehow link it to Trump. Trump’s done enough on his own and doesn’t need any help in that category. Also, this performance was bad enough as it is and doesn’t need Trump’s name hitched to it.
Let’s not kid ourselves…if she wasn’t white, you wouldn’t be allowed to criticize. Lest you be immediately cancelled.
This just isn’t true. This scenario is every republican’s nightmare for some reason. The people who really get cancelled are usually… bad people.
Please see the version Larry Goldings performed (with her) on youtube…amazing….amazingly bad…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdgT0hX1swc
The worst President ever deserves the worst national anthem ever.
https://youtu.be/hf0dcMH4N5U
And this is what happens when the people in at convention want to hack away at the arts. Just saying….
We do have real-time auto tune programs available. today. as in, available for use to avoid such things.
“They may say that I can not sing…”
Well befits the fascistic vermin in attendance.
Tone deaf. Just like Rethuglicans.
I can never ever hear that song again
Who was this,and why did they let her sing? Is she somebody’s relative? mistress?
Actually painful to listen to and reflective on how tone deaf this institution and their messaging is….
Her musical ability is on a par with her political acumen.
A rare opportunity to compare snarky comments and snarky commentators on SD with those on YouTube itself. You folks here need to raise your game — this is pitiful.
Trumpers don’t know a good note from a bad one just like they don’t realize their leader is a scam artist. Why expect them to have musical taste?
Or they know, and don’t care.
Triad trouble
Modulation mishap
Accidental accidentals
Not to worry, however. A Good Samaritan has set it to music…
https://youtu.be/hf0dcMH4N5U
Brilliant!
The Star Mangled Banner!
This tune (if legend is to be believed) originally was a drinking song. Not a dirge. Poor woman. How many keys did she dwell in momentarily?
She dwelled in about as many keys as she dwelled in between…..
Is Q a key signature?
Even better with accompaniment:
https://fb.watch/3Y4wexG67t/
All Keys Matter.
Well, she certainly can’t be accused of favoring any one key over any other…
LOL!
She is following in the footsteps of Florence Foster Jenkins
The Right went bonkers in 1990 when comedienne Roseanne Barr butchered and shrieked her way through the anthem when opening a baseball game. Will there be similar political outrage this time? I somehow doubt it.
As to which performance is worse, I leave it to musical masochists to decide.
I have asked before: why on earth does any country allow its national anthem to be completely mangled by singers who either cannot sing even reasonably in tune or believe they have the right to play havoc with the rhythm. It has become a running joke when watching most events American.
Painful. Turn the volume down. You already know the words.
Just Plain Bad. Unless the pitch deviation were intentional.
awful, downright embarrassing
That was hysterical, thanks for sharing. Very fitting for that group. Why was the other woman standing next to her? Very odd.
‘Probably the only position in which she was able to avoid the fully intensity of this aural assault!
This almost makes it bearable:
https://youtu.be/hf0dcMH4N5U
Well that sucked. I guess it is as fitting as the golden statue of the republicans new god or the stage she just massacured the Star Spangled Banner on that is a replica of the Nazi SS emblem. Remember who we are dealing with here.
Florence Foster Jenkins would be proud.
Democracy is hard for these folks. I wouldn’t expect them to be able to handle it’s signal tune.
The tone-deaf unmusicality of America’s KKK White Supremacist party.
Considering that the flag and Anthem are the subject of so much pride (supposedly) why is the Anthem almost always “murdered”
This is in another league though !!!!
Apart from barely singing a single note in tune, this Ivanka- coiffed warbler forgot the latest text of “The Trump Spangled Banner”:
Oh say you will see, Donald Trump in true light
Such a cowardly crook, always cheating and scheming
His disdain for the truth, toxic Tweets through the night
He’s a klepto and con, ever posing and preening
With his gold-plated hair, chasing ass everywhere
Plotting treasonous crimes from his Florida lair
Oh say does that Trump spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the fleeced – hapless home of the Knave.
She was singing in the key of Q- anon.
Agree with Mr. Lebrecht 100%
She’s singing in the key of Q-anon.
Yes. She gives a new meaning to ‘the Florida Keys’. Perhaps this one is Key Falso?
If this had been notated precisely as screamed, it would have been deemed unperformably difficult. It takes some talent to perform like that!
I challenge you to release it, Robert. You could have a million-selling hit on your hands.
Here is an attempt at it, quite successful, I think:
https://youtu.be/X_H1TEidRSU
Cello quartet complete with score, key changes and rhythmic intricacies …
You’re all dupes to the LameStream Media. This lovely woman sang our National Anthem perfectly!
p.s. Trump won! Reverse the steal!
Is Mr Knowitall deaf as well as dumb?
One can never be sure on the internet, but… methinks his comment is satirical.
I agree, but our world has spun crazily far away from being contained by irony.
The 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference opened with a tribute to a great American patriot: John Cage. New pitches for the Star Spangled Banner were selected through the i Ching by the casting of red, white, and blue yarrow stalks.
Stand by the TRUE elected president and avant-garde art lover Donald Trump. Fight fight fight!
Ah, the combination of a hooked fish and a tin ear.
Those are what we call “alternative pitches” (to paraphrase Kellyanne Conway)
Oh, my. That “rendition” was in several keys at once. Positively schizophrenic as befits the current GOP.
The touchstone of a corrupt and artistically bankrupt music education system. That is all there is to this travesty. (This is also be the tip of an iceberg of ineptitude of whose dimensions we are not aware.)
The performance has been transcribed to a score. You can now perform it her way yourself. Once again, the GOP proves it cannot attract genuine artistic talent. Perhaps they should rethink their stance on the arts. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10101836696572559&set=a.529876950599
“Who knew that such music was even possible? One hear’s such sounds and can only think: whackjob wingnuts!”
Schoenberg and Berg would be very proud of this 12-tone, microtonal rendition. Don’t you agree?
Sounds a bit more like Harry Partch to me…
The next time she sings the national anthem in this way, EVERYONE will be kneeling….(or writhing on the ground/floor).
Yes the rendering is awful – so is the spelling of ‘Whote House’ btw!
Is this a joke? I don’t think anyone could change key so many times without doing it on purpose!
If I had played the trumpet at Oberlin the way she sang… I would have flunked out in the blink-of-an-eye!
I had to stop watching at 1:04 – too painful for words (and so entirely appropriate to introduce Donald Trump)!
Fabulous harmonization Emily!
It reminds me of the music of Gesualdo, which isn’t as spiced up as much due to the cocaine she used to perform:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFJpgdZmUzQ
She had more keys than the Keymaster in the Matrix.
This (among other things) is why the anthem – ANY national anthem – should be sung communally. Even before COVID restrictions might reasonably have been used as an excuse, the trend toward using soloists for the American anthem seems to have completely swallowed up the practice of singing it together, to everyone’s detriment, and the bonkers mixed-meter arrangements so in vogue now (including Renée Fleming’s contribution a few years ago at the Superbowl) only make it harder to sing along.
It’s not an aria. It’s a communal demonstration of patriotism and solidarity. The multitude of unfortunate musical errors made by this poor young woman are dwarfed by the category error that enabled her performance in the first place.
Any Google search on”Why is the American National anthem hard to sing” will give you more details on the technical aspects of the melody.
Usually performed in Bb major, the tessitura, or vocal range, spans 12 notes (Bb to a high F). If a singer or chorus can’t hit the high F, then the key should be lowered to facilitate the range, maybe to an Eb or D. There are other anthems that are more difficult to sing as well: Ecuador and Togo for ex.
Think about the Beatles tune “With a little help from my friends”–only 5 notes. Rumor has it that Ringo had difficult singing anything, so they wrote him an easy song.
Oh Lord! Is this for real, or did someone manipulate it somehow? I keep googling snopes to find out but with no luck.
She was singing all the right notes, but not necessarily…
She was really quite…breathtaking.
… available for weddings, christenings, and executions … is a wonderful line.
Let me buy you dinner for that.
Look me up if you visit the Netherlands.
Dave Horne, Vught, The Netherlands
If she’s available at executions, as stated above, the person being executed
would be like ” shoot me now , shoot me now! “
https://fb.watch/3_HJAiilP5/
A québécois vocal quartet re-harmonized it and, by golly, it sounds almost good, like Max Reger on acid.
Is she somebody’s daughter or cousin! WHY was she asked? . I’m 88 years old and I would’ve been happy to sing! I’m available for weddings, (or funerals), too!
That’s not true. The Carl Lewis National Anthem at a Chicago Bulls game back in the 90s was way WORSE. He forgot the wrds in the middle of the song, and it went downhill from there. It took everything the players had not to burst out n laughter. If you think I’m lying, look it up on Youtube.
The USA anthem is notoriously hard to render; it’s range is not to be done by one person, really. Even famous versions, such as Whitney Houston’s, are rather painful. I find the way the CPAC singer fakes it really rather amusing, going thru various transposing floors to suit her range. However, some cop should have taken her away for the way she turns into a fire truck siren on ‘free’.
TRUMP IS PRECEDED BY WORST EVER NATIONAL ANTHEM
Okay, okay,okay, now here are your instructions….I have listened to this horsemanure from start to finish and because you are mine – you are my indentured servants and HAVE TO LISTEN from start to finish. Oh just trust old Aunt Mary, you will be laughing your heinie off from 1/2 way thru til the big let down at the end. Then yer gonna be helpless! ***Insult to injury….listen to the cold fish applause at the end!
Best version ever!
Must be sung in an English axunt.