![]() Fergie’s rendition is the national anthem our country deserves. Fergie’s national anthem performance at the NBA All-Star Game. Like Fergie’s performance, America is currently messy, unpredictable, sharp at times, really freaking weird, and people are always mad about it online. As if we need more passable, earnest versions of a song that literally has a verse celebrating the murder of slaves. Because even if her rendition wasn’t perfect, the reaction to it definitely will dissuade the next artist with a strange idea to try it on national television. Fergie’s performance was not a failure of conception or execution, but expectation. Experimentation in general is a good thing, and it can be an exceptional thing when it happens in such a public forum. And then when I did, I’d never stop watching it.īut when offered anything that dares to be different, social media actively worked to uphold orthodoxy. If the headlines for the video instead read, “Fergie Channels Björk in Front of 20,000 People There Just to Watch Sloppy Basketball,” I’d watch instantly. First, who cares, if it was sexy? Marvin Gaye already taught us the national anthem fucks. Jimmy Kimmel, who was at the game and was caught laughing on camera, called it “unusually sultry.” He wasn’t alone - a lot of the people who mocked the performance did so for its its overt sexiness. Even if you’ve never watched Kelly Clarkson or Pink sing the national anthem, you could picture what it would sound like right now in your head: hit all the notes at the beginning, sneaking in a little twang or rasp depending how far below the Mason-Dixon the sporting event is being held - and then it’s just belt belt belt. ![]() Social media blew up following Fergie ’s bluesy, breathy rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner at Sunday night’s NBA. And the ones she misses … who cares? As legendary jazz pianist Art Tatum said, “There’s no such thing as a wrong note.” And as Fergie said, “I’m a risk-taker artistically.” Sure, it’s weird to hear our traditionally least-weird song sung weirdly, but at least it was different. National Anthem / 2018 NBA All-Star Game. In fact, she mostly hits the notes she wanted to sing. You probably assumed she just missed a bunch of notes. She should’ve said, “You’re welcome, America. ![]() “I’m a risk-taker artistically, but clearly this rendition didn’t strike the intended tone,” she told TMZ Sports. Someone did a bad job singing a bad song that I don’t like? Pass. While it’s not too insurmountable to pull off a better performance than say, Fergie, TMB’ s Claudia Oshry stunned viewers with her own rendition of the beloved anthem on Tuesday’s show aka. I didn’t watch Fergie’s rendition of the national anthem when it aired live, for the same reason I didn’t watch it when the clip of it first started circulating - I have heard the national anthem enough. ![]()
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