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ok this is hands down the greatest rendition of the nat anthem i've ever heard as well as any vocal performance ever IMO. my friend was talking about it like these crappy hack singers like beyonce and american idol people, and honestly, no pop singers have ever come close to TRUE "world class" musicianship vocally except whitney houston. i'm talking at the level of ella fitzerald or something like that. the beyonce, mariah carey, and all the other "big name" super bowl anthems are all crap. how they get so much attention proves most people are tone deaf or something.
and on the topic of lip syncing, i am not sure i have heard whitney synced this but watching is closely her vibrato match 100% with the audio so it seems live. even the natural imperfections in her throat and stuff match up. but this is my rebuttal to people who say "oh whitney lip synced it" is that even if she did, she still sounds great whereas if all these other singers lip synced it, they sound crappy, so you would think they at least put more time into it, or auto tuned it or something. beyonces version sucked ass. i've been to probably 300+ baseball games in my life and i can safely say i've never heard a decent singing of the national anthem, or god bless america. ever. it's pretty sad really.
i know this thread might have been more fitting in, oh, 1992, lol, but i just figured it deserved some daylight. since the first day i heard it back when it aired live i still get chills down my back hearing it. so while i am pretty sure from personal judgement it is truly live, either way, the performance is so perfect it's scary. unreal.
ps - at around 1:34 or so at "the bombs bursting in air" it's kind of a slip up. she clearly turns her head and no vibratto, but i don't get it, all the other vibrattos are dead on. i'll try to analyze some more. she seems SPOT on with most of it.
ok this is hands down the greatest rendition of the nat anthem i've ever heard as well as any vocal performance ever IMO. my friend was talking about it like these crappy hack singers like beyonce and american idol people, and honestly, no pop singers have ever come close to TRUE "world class" musicianship vocally except whitney houston. i'm talking at the level of ella fitzerald or something like that. the beyonce, mariah carey, and all the other "big name" super bowl anthems are all crap. how they get so much attention proves most people are tone deaf or something.
and on the topic of lip syncing, i am not sure i have heard whitney synced this but watching is closely her vibrato match 100% with the audio so it seems live. even the natural imperfections in her throat and stuff match up. but this is my rebuttal to people who say "oh whitney lip synced it" is that even if she did, she still sounds great whereas if all these other singers lip synced it, they sound crappy, so you would think they at least put more time into it, or auto tuned it or something. beyonces version sucked ass. i've been to probably 300+ baseball games in my life and i can safely say i've never heard a decent singing of the national anthem, or god bless america. ever. it's pretty sad really.
i know this thread might have been more fitting in, oh, 1992, lol, but i just figured it deserved some daylight. since the first day i heard it back when it aired live i still get chills down my back hearing it. so while i am pretty sure from personal judgement it is truly live, either way, the performance is so perfect it's scary. unreal.
ps - at around 1:34 or so at "the bombs bursting in air" it's kind of a slip up. she clearly turns her head and no vibratto, but i don't get it, all the other vibrattos are dead on. i'll try to analyze some more. she seems SPOT on with most of it.
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