Our National Anthem Sucks

It's about time someone said what needs to be said it. Buckle up for a theoretical analysis about why our national anthem sucks
From Soren:
"About the singular "bomb" I use in my example at 6:12 as opposed to the commonly sung "bombs" - Francis Scott Key's original manuscript of his poem, "Defence of Fort M'Henry," uses the singular version in the fifth line of the poem. However, "bombs" was apparently also in use as early as 1814, the same year in which Key penned the manuscript."
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3:00 Part One: Meter
4:56 Part Two: Range
10:03 Part Three: Rhythm
12:25 Part Four: Cadence
14:23 Part Five: Disjunct Melody
17:11 Part Six: The Fermatas
18:48 Part Seven: America the Beautiful

[@dbates314]

What do you know... 17/8 at the end.

[@sorenallen]

Told you I wasn’t joking

[@HenryEJD]

Completely Agree, I say this almost every day, Battle Hymn of the republic... Easy to sing, and goes hard every damn time

[@sorenallen]

I rescind my advocation of America the Beautiful. This is the correct answer.

[@cinnamon3389]

Drop the sheet music for 17/8 Star spangled banner

[@thelakesbrassquintet]

We’ll see if that can be arranged…

[@smokey.w]

Hail, Columbia could have been our national anthem. We missed that chance :/

[@OrangeLordTrue]

Don't know about you, but it really ruins the anthem for me when professional singers don't strictly adhear to the sonority sequencing principal and almost glissando the start of some words in correlation with it. Gosh am I right lol

[@KaylaPearlCPNinja]

The Stars Spangled Banner has always been the worst national anthem in my opinion because it’s been created more for people who have a soprano voice range and negates every single other voice range that ever exists otherwise. For example, I have never heard ANYONE who has alto voice range sing this song nor have I heard anyone who has anything lower than an alto voice sing it ever. It feels like whoever wrote the music has purposefully ignored everyone who does not have a higher voice range and as a result made this national anthem impossible for most people to sing along too.

[@F-Man]

The melody was actually written in 6/4. *Everyone* sings it wrong, even you.

[@sorenallen]

11:38 👀

[@RMcAvoy7]

Who’s here after the Home Run Derby.

[@ccehack]

AYOOO

[@rays7805]

It's actually a terrible time to be an American, but go on. Regarding the song's range, I'll just quote my third grade teacher: "... Gave proof through the night [jumps up an octave] That our flag was still there. O, say does that star spangled [jump down an octave] Banner yet wave..." Regarding the range of the song, I'll just quote what a singer I recently saw doing some karaoke was almost certainly thinking to himself: "I don't CARE what key the song is in! I don't CARE how miserable it will make people if I sing in a different key from the backing music! I'm just gonna sing this song MY way, and I'm not doing ANYTHING wrong!"

[@sorenallen]

Ngl, these other countries really do be having better national anthems though…

[@fizz3221]

I feel like that has to do with how other nations treat their anthems compared to the US. Anthems often are a song for the nation's people, and are often used as rallying cry for the country's citizens. As with the United States, it's just a song that gets butchered by famous celebrities and is rarely sung right. But hey, that's my opinion.