Try Not to Laugh: The Worst National Anthem Fails

[@SuperDadsBaby]

“She is Modulating” is a very nice way of saying she has no pitch

[@SamTheMan12]

yes

[@pvzfanatic1523]

yes

[@ejscion576]

Yes

[@goodpeopleoftheworldunite]

If in doubt, call it jazz. 😉

[@robinder_]

it's not her fault tho, i met lots of people who can't keep a stable pitch while singing and are just completely unaware, so sad tbh

[@JoshuaWillis89]

I feel bad for the ice skating guy. You can’t see anything further than a foot in front of you under a spotlight. They did him so dirty. I guarantee that carpet wasn’t there in rehearsals and whoever was in charge threw it down for some special guest while that guy was in some green room waiting for his performance.

[@greenapple9477]

Who was the idiot who put CARPET ON TOP OF ICE?

[@flo-gs8qw]

for sure, when you’re skating under that lighting, anything that isn’t immediately under the spotlight is just pitch black or very hard to see, even if that doesn’t seem that way in recordings - plus, it seemed like he was looking into the audience rather than at his feet (which seems right performance-wise anyways), and either didn’t see the carpet or didn’t react in time and props for him for being able to pick himself up carry on so well!!

[@Acidfrog475]

@@flo-gs8qw I didn't think it was a fail. The fail was the dumbass carpet, but the singer was a goddamn champ.

[@Aotalksmusic]

@@greenapple9477 Unfortunately, it looks like an opening gala to some hockey match so some Serious Important People would otherwise fell on their bums trying to get to the middle of the rink for their boring speeches without it (and damage the ice along the way, which tbh is kind of more important) Like top 10 gala fails for figure skating medal ceremonies also involve carpets skaters have to pay attention to, so... Anyway, they guy's a champ and carpet can burn

[@joelanttila7927]

@@greenapple9477 In Toronto Maple Leaf games, often they honor soldiers who come home and they lay the carpet for them to walk out.

[@abigail40]

"shes modulating more than shostakovich" -twoset 2021

[@ladym.7594]

*gets added to iconic ✨two set quotes ✨*

[@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock]

Hello Abigail, please accept my gift of amethyst

[@michaelyeelianglim452]

Auto-subtitles: "Shots of garbage"

[@gspaulsson]

Joke. Conductor to orchestra: Now I need you to make a few changes. In bar 43, F# not F natural, then Bb instead of C, and in the next bar, G instead of Ab. Soprano: What should I do, Maestro? Conductor: Nothing my dear, just keep singing the way you do. Maybe that's sexist, but there are corresponding jokes about tenors: "A tenor has resonance where his brains ought to be". Once a tenor made a snarky remark about us baritones, and I said to the conductor: Sir, I resent the remarks of your tenor. (in case you don't know, the stock phrase is "the tenor of your remarks."

[@dulcian3230]

At least Shostakovich makes sense.

[@volundrfrey896]

Every other country: lets just play an instrumental version and let the audience sing it together. America: which B-list celebrity is available to butcher our anthem?

[@Prometheus4096]

It is kinda odd. It is like it is done on purpose, where they let people sing the US anthem a capella over and over. Mostly in Europe the tradition of an anthem is to be played by a military band, without singing. The singing by famous people of European national anthems at sports events is completely a cross-over from the US. It is idiotic because no anthem that you are supposed to sing should have the melody the US anthem has.

[@fantomhalo3938]

Yeah, like there are kids at my school who can and has sung it better than 90% of all celebrities who have performed it.

[@Tenchi707]

@@Prometheus4096 US is stupid

[@ahmadfirdaus4183]

Imo American does that bcs they really want to try to recreate that one excellent performance by Whitney Huston, and never really succeed.

[@_the_rizzler]

​@@ahmadfirdaus4183 At least Ben Platt sings it well

[@timothy4664]

That woman at the GOP CPAC wasn't just off key, she lost the key and got locked out of her house.

[@CT-ni2gf]

Best comment I have read by far

[@timothy4664]

@@CT-ni2gf thanks. I do try lol

[@bryna1776]

HAHAHAHAHA OMG

[@tehs3raph1m]

I'm British and I would have done a better job of that by burping

[@dakuten7883]

ooooh burn

[@Freya407]

“Is this anthem (US) just that difficult?” The US national anthem is basically a centuries-long prank on soloists

[@JoshuaWillis89]

Facts

[@ericaashby7310]

"You know what wouldbe funny? Let's make the song start out really low so that when they start, they start too high to leave room for the BELTING high note at the end!!!" *maniacal laughter*

[@derocklong5122]

Yes singing three octaves is no fun at all.

[@OnboardG1]

It does, at least, stop the crowd from singing it at sporting events.

[@santiagovillalobos2352]

I thinks it makes it worse that most performers try to change it up.

[@olgabaccini7846]

Noobs: she's out of tune Pros: she's modulating more than Shostakovich

[@pakacha8999]

Roomieofficial fans: She's a little bit pitchy

[@sheelfjohnson]

I wouldn't have said she's out of tune, I'd say she's in tune for each of the many, many, many different keys she's trying to sing in throughout the course of the song.

[@QoraxAudio]

Engineers: okay, we need to build a frequency demodulator.

[@Rex-golf_player810]

@@pakacha8999 goddammit rami

[@isaamaandaa]

@@pakacha8999 lmaoo so damn accurate

[@LittleLotteWanders]

Classical soprano here. The United States national anthem (The Star Spangled Banner) is not only just inherently difficult in composition (particularly when you get to "and the rocket's red glare" where everyone tends to mess up lol) but it was not meant to be belted. Francis Scott Key wrote it in 1814, meaning our modern belting style was not a "thing" yet, therefore it was meant to be sung in classical, or what we call "legit" voice. Though not the original key, nowadays it's typically performed in Bb major, so the highest note you'd be attempting to belt is an F5. That is NOT an easy note to belt! Once you get to that point on the staff, singers should be switching into what's called "head voice" to keep themselves on pitch. Belting is typically done in middle and chest voice on lower notes. If you try to take your middle voice belting sound into head voice range, chances are you're going to fall flat or just sound like you're screaming. (People can talk about "mixing" all day, but it's not any easier of a technique) It's one of those technical things that's difficult to put into layman's terms. Think of it this way: Have you ever tried to sing "Let it Go" from Frozen? The top note Idina Menzel sings there at the end is an Eb5. So you're trying to belt a half step higher than that in the US national anthem lol. Please just don't. ESPECIALLY don't try to make some poor person sing a piece with so many skips a cappella. That piece requires a good ear. Hire classical sopranos/tenors or use military/marching band lol. Case in point: The Star Spangled Banner is not a pop song, nor musical theatre. Don't treat it like one, or you'll be immortalized on reaction KZbin lol.

[@OceanicPearlz1]

Yes exactly, I agree as an American Soprano too!

[@ngwee1]

I find that it's actually easier to sing it in C because in that key you can already "turn" (girare) on E5 at the beginning of that problem phrase and sing it entirely in head. For some reason I find it easier to sustain on G5 than on F5. Likewise for the vowel in 'free'. On the other hand, transposing to A or lower makes the descending arpeggios inaudible for most. So, what about having two groups of singers: the lower voices singing the "Oh, say" part, and the higher ones waiting till the anthem shifts abruptly into rocket territory. Just a suggestion. 🙃

[@hydrogen3266]

The tune wasn’t written by Key, he just wrote the lyrics. The tune comes from the English drinking song “To Anacreon In Heaven.” John Stafford Smith wrote it for the Anacreontic Society, and many say it was written to be hard to sing on purpose. It’s usually sung in Bb because military bands and school bands normally play it in Bb because it’s the easiest/most stable for tuning key. It’s also nice when it’s always in the same key because it’s usually a similar arrangement and can be memorized or parts can be played at the same time and it sounds fine. I play in one band that plays it in Ab Major (it always throws me off), and once in Db Major. Adding a chorus to a band is easy too, and if you don’t change key it’s even easier. So a lot of people sing it in Bb Major. Because of all the exposure to Bb, we are affected in our perception of the anthem by what’s known as the Levitin Effect (basically people remember tunes in the right key or the key they’ve heard it in the most). Because people have heard it in Bb Major so much, singing in another key can sound off to them, which might affect their perception of their own singing and make it even harder to sing it or put it in a lower key. When I sang it in high school chorus we had a sop section that actually sang in head voice (because it’s a chorus and not solo), and I sang alto so I didn’t have to worry about the high notes. That and I was in band so most of the time I just played it instead. It doesn’t normally go well when people try to “show off” on this tune because it’s already a show off song and they’re just not showing off in the right way and it makes it sound much worse

[@hypothalapotamus5293]

It's difficult to argue against hiring a classical soprano or tenor if you are expecting the national anthem to be sung in a highly technical way (and turn it into some sort of range flex). That said, I believe that the US national anthem should not be completely separated from modern US culture and that it is a good idea to have modern popular musicians do their own interpretations at public events, as it is a song that belongs to all Americans.

[@catherinegrove6969]

what should i look up if i want to hear it sung in the classical voice? most of the things I look up have belting

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

The entire problem with Fergie's national anthem can be summed up with: a non-jazz singer trying to sing a jazz rendition of a non-jazz song. It was a disaster waiting to happen. I can imagine a great jazz singer killing on that arrangement though.

[@Teth47]

Nah it's that Fergie can't actually sing very well in any genre. I'm a shit vocalist with no training, passion, practice, or desire and I'm pretty sure I can do better than her XD

[@manguy01]

It didn't help that she was weirdly trying to make the national anthem seductive. Like "Santa Baby" without intending any irony

[@stinks7065]

@@manguy01 omg this! the way she combined that weird supposed-to-be-jazzy vocal rendition with her body language made me think of those women who try to imitate marilyn monroe

[@hat7475]

@@manguy01 yeah, I always wonder why National Anthems are sung that way, y'know??

[@morusalba6405]

@@manguy01 to be fair, her entire career is/was based on being the seductive chick. they just should have never let her sing the anthem in the first place.

[@kaydenny6485]

As a wise friend once said, “You can’t sexy up the national anthem.”

[@ariannahoward4554]

I'm sure someone has

[@dollywhitley3314]

@@ariannahoward4554 fergie?

[@angie.mci10]

Yassss

[@ariannahoward4554]

@@dollywhitley3314 I'm sure i responded and my comment was deleted, but i don't think her version counts

[@dollywhitley3314]

@@ariannahoward4554 💀💀lol

[@abigail40]

“This is what happens when you defund the arts” That person, whoever you are, you’re spitting facts

[@anaghshetty]

Plot Twist, that comment was made by a twoset alt

[@rifwann]

@@anaghshetty every artist has the same hatred for people devaluing their work, so no..

[@andreyudii3721]

the fact that this performance was made in a conservative political action makes it even funnier

[@anaghshetty]

@@rifwann obv I was just kidding, reminded me of the old days when they reviewed funny comments in classical music videos

[@alliu6562]

@@andreyudii3721 ikr I was sobbing

[@eee22145]

5:04 that Chinese national anthem 5:40 “it wasn’t that bad” As someone in Hong Kong, I can tell you they messed up the Chinese national anthem BIG TIME.

[@aRandomPerson8015]

I’m in hk too and fr though it sounds so fucked up

[@jenlau3954]

​@aRandomPerson8015 Late reply, but I couldn't agree more. The rhythm was so off.

[@hieveryone406]

from hk too, and that sounded SO OFF

[@Professionalintrovert]

I’m from China and it sounded bad but at least it was recognizable😭

[@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr]

they fucked up the flourish lmao

[@JoshuaWillis89]

You can tell that TwoSet doesn’t have much experience with wind bands. They were WAAAAY too kind.

[@wuyipiano]

Maybe there's no benefit for them or anyone to be less kind.

[@littlegreenboxes]

"The music wasn't that bad..." are you kidding me??? They even give you the comparison wind band to show how horrible it sounds 😭 Trying to play it up like it's the recording equipment ..smh

[@JoshuaWillis89]

@@wuyipiano they’re usually kind. I just mean they didn’t know what to point out. I personally would be mortified to play in a ensemble that sounds that bad.

[@elissahunt]

@@JoshuaWillis89 Sadly, I have played in such an ensemble. Fortunately, it wasn't for anything important. I personally think that in some countries, the military "bands" are comprised of soldiers who were just given a horn and told they were now in the band.

[@seanbeadles7421]

Even the good band had some tuning issues

[@zoomerbeats628]

The Canada guy was the best singer. Even after he tripped.

[@edibleandsentientautomobil5396]

Who is he tho?

[@selina2331]

His name is Mark Donnelly

[@edibleandsentientautomobil5396]

@@selina2331 cool lad

[@anival9576]

That was where I laughed the hardest. So awesome!

[@peter-subramanian]

Love how he just holds up the mic and sends it to the audience 🤣 👌👌👌

[@gabriela7298]

In brazil we don't usually have a person to sing, we all do it together. But the problem is that the WHOLE NATION struggles in one specific verse of the anthem so it aways turns out kinda bad

[@yopassthefuckinsalt922]

Which one was it? Been a while since I last heard it sang

[@vivianfreitas6179]

I was actually looking for a comment on Vanusa's performance. Very hard to describe to foreigners lol

[@gabriela7298]

@@yopassthefuckinsalt922 "brasil de um sonho intenso" and "brasil de amor eterno"

[@gabriela7298]

@@vivianfreitas6179 vanusa just messed up EVERYTHING

[@rafaellazeni]

@@vivianfreitas6179 Vanusa said she was really high on meds that day... Idk if that's true but it's sad either way. Funny also, not gonna lie lol

[@slambat2905]

The awful thing about the NBA one is that she practiced that. She heard herself sing it, and still thought "yeah, this is a good idea"

[@coyotech55]

Yeah, that was just sick, comical and kind of insulting, but she did seem proud of herself.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

“How can I make the National Anthem sexy?

[@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr]

fun fact: singing the philippine national anthem like that is very fucking illegal😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@durps8815]

YESSS the canadian anthem (ice skater guy) was like the only one that's not totally out of tune lmao, way to represent my man

[@susanbryant6516]

He did great!

[@utha2665]

You'd think there would have been a rehearsal beforehand, right? Unless he just forgot where he was, lol.

[@blakebowers3708]

@Hamza Mzali wow, even worse than the USA singer

[@sarahr3076]

I wish I'd recorded a couple of pathetic renditions of O Canada I heard when I lived across the street from the football field at UofT years ago. Fortunately for those "singers," hardly anyone went to UofT football games.

[@marieindia8116]

Who puts carpet on ice?

[@carawedeking6609]

Americans: can't sing the national anthem in tune standing still Canadian: sings in tune while ice skating, face plants, continues to sing in tune

[@mimimonbebe9077]

But canadians are Americans

[@carawedeking6609]

@@mimimonbebe9077 they're from the continent of North America yes, but colloquially people from the US are referred to as American

[@JoshuaWillis89]

He definitely nailed it, but “O, Canada” is much easier than “The Star Spangled Banner.” It’s just objectively true.

[@carawedeking6609]

@@macmatt1718 people from Canada= Canadian. People from the USA= ?(what word would you have me use if not American)

[@KENTOSI]

@@mimimonbebe9077 So what's she meant to say? "USA-ians" ?

[@nicolehernandezg1]

I love how the guy who was skating kept singing. THAT IS A PERFORMANCE

[@Tara_P_Rose]

I remember when Fergie tortured the USA anthem… it was extremely painful to hear & to bear, for real. She had to make a public apology afterwards lmao 🤣

[@alphazero0]

It's the gift that keeps on giving. It's always a good day when I remeber it and search for it on KZbin.

[@OceanicPearlz1]

Yeah Dont even remind of that 😢…. that was painful to watch a pain in the but…. -

[@alphazero0]

@@OceanicPearlz1 thanks for reminding 😂😂😂

[@SpreadDemocracyUSA]

Yup I remember this very well. I was 14 back then, I remember it being my cousin's birthday. So of course family was there. My family is a military family so my dad and some Uncles stood up to salute, while the rest of us put our hands over our hearts. When Fergie started singing I literally wanted to remove my hand over my heart. To my surprise, my Uncle Tony beat me to it, I saw him stop saluting, and say "That's not my anthem!" Once he said that we all couldn't contain ourselves from laughing. Never forgetting that moment.😅

[@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr]

fun fact: in my country, the ph, it is illegal to sing our anthem in this way

[@Prizzlesticks]

I have fallen like that on the ice, and it not only really bruises your knees an arms, it kind of takes the wind out of you. I'm impressed he not only kept hold of the mic (audio techs probably sighed with relief, mic drops are the worst), but that he got back up and kept singing AND skating. Like, damn. I'm just impressed. Also, yes. When there are spotlights on the ice, it can actually be really hard to see. Not just because the rest of the rink is dark, but because the light reflects off the ice very strongly. Between the light and dark extremes, it can be really difficult to parse your surroundings. Worse yet, it's possible they didn't bother rolling the carpets out in rehearsal, so he wouldn't have had a good idea of where they were beforehand. Geeze, what a champ.

[@erizamisorafujoshi7002]

Wow... Now knowing this, the guy managed it like a boss

[@Prizzlesticks]

@@erizamisorafujoshi7002 May we all learn to manage like hockey anthem man. (◡‿◡✿)

[@boomingbob1579]

That is tru he indeed is

[@syntacticalcrab]

That was the most wholesomely Canadian thing I've ever seen. Skating while you're singing, just going "oh no I'm okay" after falling flat on your face on the ice, and to solve the problem just invite the crowd to sing with you xD

[@hat7475]

FOR REALLL

[@wolfgangmozart_fake]

LMAO PUTINS FACE WHEN SAUDI ARABIA PLAYED RUSSIAS NATIONAL ANTHEM

[@nikitaostrovsky8416]

Putin is turning that meeting into a GULAG recruitment program

[@Franko1411]

He's thinking about whether he should declare war on them.

[@泡麵不加湯]

Putin: Where's my nuclear bomb

[@kestrel3509]

@@nikitaostrovsky8416 lmfao

[@ann.m.4794]

It was Egypt

[@philippatran2745]

After looking up the American anthem, I was like “Seriously America, why did you pick such a hard song to be your national anthem? How normal people can hit such random high notes?”

[@reepicheepsfriend]

The best part - it's not even an American tune. It came from a comic British song. You might notice that it's not as "serious" sounding as most other national anthems.

[@revaamritkar7281]

@@reepicheepsfriend Meant to belted whilst drunk off of patriotic glory, amen. Definitely not whatever Fergie was trying to do!

[@tedwards1025]

@@revaamritkar7281 It is definitely not meant to be belted drunk off patriotic glory lol it was chosen by one of the biggest asshole presidents in the early 1900s based on a poem from the war of 1812 that he liked (with the awful other verses of the poem removed) back when most countries were just starting to do national anthems and nobody really gave a shit about them

[@tedwards1025]

Yeah it's hard to sing; it's clearly not meant for singing along like most anthems lol. That's why most of the time it's performed by a soloist or a band or something

[@adagio7635]

this explains kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZXPaaNvltB9gNk

[@intheovaloffice]

I legitimately felt my jaw drop to the floor when the CPAC girl switched keys ten times in two verses

[@alinalee8119]

This should be a try not to cringe challenge, not a try not to laugh challenge.

[@wiisportsbot8050]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6TYoaCDotKVadU

[@ArtificialPerson]

Yet Eddy still managed to lose 😂😂😂😂

[@alessav808]

fr 😂

[@sriprakhyapochiraju9498]

And a try not to roast challenge😂😂

[@Yukalitlee]

I was in pain. This was torturous...

[@francopineda2009]

She is like "If you can sing slowly, you can sing loudly"

[@mtgsk5180]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Viking_Raven]

And the other one's like: "If you can sing slowly, you can sing lewdly".

[@E-Ruu]

Fergie's NBA All-Star anthem singing was so bad the players looked like they were playing YLYL.

[@ДариоБетанкур]

🤣🤣🤣

[@pjschmid2251]

I’ve never seen this before and I’m wishing I’d gone my entire life without seeing it. What the hell!

[@duncanblue6698]

Like number 420

[@michaelwright2986]

And losing.

[@yufuyoshimura5426]

Honestly, the singing itself isn't bad at all personally, it's not really pitchy/modulatory like the first one or strained like the second one. It's just super out of place when singing the national anthem at such an event, where there is an expectation of the anthem being sung a certain way.

[@mannykhan7752]

The US national anthem is especially notorious for getting wrong when singing live. It has pitch variations of more than two octaves and singers are usually advised to start with a low key. Also, in the expression "in the land of the free", you switch quickly from an open vowel sound to a closed vowel sound which is really difficult to pull off.

[@Halberds8122]

Yes, I decided to look at it for the first time and it sounded weird

[@jasonjansen9831]

4:31 that's not a fail, that's one of the greatest wins of all time. Dude does a faceplant mid song, gets up, skates it off, and finishes the performance like a boss.

[@kaputt_jay3873]

Honestly

[@QuinticGhost]

Like a boss boi

[@tainaj7088]

How he just gets up and walks on. He is a true champ 🫡

[@Kanzen0]

@@tainaj7088 champ 🫡

[@STOPLIKEBEGGARS101]

Who the h*ll puts a mat where someone is supposed to skate?!

[@jspihlman]

That girl at CPAC had so many keys she must be a janitor!

[@Bexrt]

😂😂😂😂

[@RonanBodisch]

In her defence, it is a hard song to sign. But still, it was not the best look. Better than Fergie though.

[@tedwards1025]

@@RonanBodisch Nah at least with Fergie you could tell it was intentionally arranged (poorly) to be what she's singing. And lots of children find it hard to sing but still get it right, no excuse for messing up that badly as an adult. The comment was right, this is what happens when you defund the arts

[@M3ANIAC]

@@tedwards1025 children have higher pitched voices

[@jazz_meh]

@@M3ANIAC sure, but you can change the key from the beginning. The girl at the CPAC was somebody "important" 's relative (i think it was a sister in law or something) Home girl was just straight up out of tune

[@BarefootDani]

I didn't laugh. I just watched in horror. ... Until I saw Putin's patient yet suffering face for the second time. Man, this guy hears a lot of bad anthems.

[@annasolovyeva1013]

A lot more good ones. The Russian Anthem is quite easy to stick to fofr any musician trained in European tradition. Even russian music school elder classes (think 12 year olds trained as musicians since the age of seven) usually can stablely perform the Russian Anthem as a choir and it sounds good. They gathered a 1000 children who never ever met from all around Russia, rehearsed it for like a month and performed it in three voices at the 2014 Olympics without even thinking of failure. The SU anthem and many other soviet popular children, military and patriotic songs were written to be sang as a choir with ease by anyone who trained a bit. Think Katusha, Winged Swings (Крылатые качели), Moscow Evenings, Smuglyanka-moldavanka, the Slavic woman's goodbye (it's Russia's most famous festive marsh) or just anything you hear for the victory day parade. Krilatov and Dunaevsky were the most famous composers of who specialised entirely in songs for mass singing mostly for movies and for the pioneer!

[@rimmka29]

@@annasolovyeva1013 nobody cares

[@skipfire00]

@@rimmka29 clearly many people do

[@rimmka29]

@@skipfire00 not really clearly

[@johnalden5821]

Good.

[@sophiawasylinko8448]

I definitely laughed. Putin can't seem to get a break. And I'm proud of the Canadian anthem guy. But Fergie...this was actually my first time hearing her rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner." And while I'm not American, I felt genuine pain for the Americans listening to this.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

He can get lots of breaks if he climbs up to the top floor.

[@funbeefydiefact]

never let fergie sing the anthem anymore

[@AmyKurylo]

As a vocalist who’s sung the USA’s national anthem many times, I can tell you: Yes, it’s hard to sing. You really have to have great pitch, breath support, and tonal control. Practice, practice, practice ❤️

[@rosegranger2872]

Agreed! It's insanely hard

[@mathildewesendonck7225]

Just don’t sing it then in public please... 😫 it hurts. She hardly hits any note, it’s not just about the high notes.

[@johnny_eth]

We appreciate your talent skill and dedication. But not that of the girl at Cpac

[@rufescens]

Yes! It's a famously difficult anthem to sing!

[@abigail40]

It’s cuz of the melody leaping right?

[@trickyagent127]

The Fergie national anthem is a perfect example of interpreting a song without ever understanding the meaning behind it

[@authoreyes101]

National anthems are a heartfelt, patriotic, musical homage to a country, not... sexy time.

[@amaracea]

Now someone has to sing their national anthem in a deep soothing voice

[@demifiendrussia]

@@amaracea ohh,say,can you see, babygirl?

[@jillianb2631]

Havent even finished the video and assuming this is Fergie.... edit: yup 😂😂😂🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

[@authoreyes101]

@@demifiendrussia LOOOOOL!!!!!!

[@estherpettigrew3042]

A thousand times, yes. OMG. Talk about totally misreading the situation and being tone deaf in a different way.

[@lucieciepka1031]

I have played in a military orchestra and sometimes you get out of the bus, you tune up and then you wait for 15 min in the sun and especially the brass heaths up and you start and EVERYONE is out of tune and everyone is trying to compensate, but as you play your breath cools down the instrument and it’s all different for everyone. My two worse extreme performance was an +42C for around an hour in total and at -27C for around 4 hours going in and out every 20 min for around 20min. If you put musiciens through this and also their instruments for years, what do you expect. That’s why we had concerts once a year so we can just care about the music…

[@chelseamawarsharon2885]

Singing US National Anthem Fergie: sing it in *_c u r s i v e_* way

[@megabyte7047]

Sing it like one of those French girls. Hope you all get the reference.

[@oluchiibe98]

🎶"BAAAANNNNERRRWEWAREARERE WAAAAVVVEE"🎶

[@juliarunn5009]

@@oluchiibe98 ughhhh why can I hear it through this comment 😭 it makes me wish I was more deaf then I already am 🤣

[@evry1loveronica]

Then smear it

[@thairinkhudr4259]

Singing Skating Man: Starts singing again while getting back up. The audience: *Liked that*

[@ankavoskuilen1725]

I liked that too. He was a brave man!

[@magicarp79]

Yeah, the guy is a champ.

[@cad1848]

yeah. falling on ice, especially with something in your hand, hurts a lot. the pain goes away after a while, but the dude was a total champ for continuing singing

[@Bohh574]

Putin is like: "Ivan, get me the nukes"

[@abigail40]

Putin looks like my teacher listening to me play out of tune for the 273823748834838th time

[@МарияКичатова-л8к]

Vanya

[@east_bay_transit_nerd]

@Hamza Mzali bro can you not

[@ivanamaya5775]

Ill get em for you mr putin

[@I.amthatrealJuan]

Time to invade this place and rename it to Putingrad.

[@zuongzi1519]

I love seeing the expressions of the politicians when their anthems get messed up by foreign bands. They all look like they're going "bruuuuuh" inside

[@volrath__]

The problem with all these versions of Star Spangled Banner is they all try to emulate Whitney Houston's versions, and that is something that no singer should ever put themselves against, they will always be inferior!

[@sophiaperennis2360]

Why not just sing the original and be done with it.

[@Maerahn]

They will definitely fail if they can't belt in their high range, but try to do it anyway. Whitney could because she was phenomenal, and could belt high notes in chest or mixed voice as easily as breathing, but if a singer's not able to hit those high notes without going into head voice they shouldn't try to belt them like they would a chest/mixed note, because they'll end up shrieking like a cat that's had its tail trodden on at best, or falling way short of the right note and howling out of key at worst. If you gotta use head voice to hit the high notes, just do that and concentrate on making them clear and pure, rather than loud and roar-y!

[@fredhasopinions]

Regardless of singing technique - how the HELL did that first girl end up on all those notes?

[@jennakeith5711]

Facts!

[@withniejules2244]

Facts.No one can outdo Whitney .

[@zoeglass]

Speaking as an American Soprano: If you want to belt the national anthem... BELT IT IN YOUR MIXED VOICE. NOT YOUR CHEST. Thank you and happy singing

[@isabelheiner631]

LEGIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@joleecathcart7861]

I also try to sing it the original way and try to do the show off versions. The Anthem is to pay respect to those who have died to give me freedom and to appreciate our Country. Also, I find it that I sound better and have more control of my voice when I start in a lower key. Lots of people (I'm not saying all of course) start way too high and by the time it gets to the rockets... they are literally singing up there with the rockets lol. But lots of love to those who are brave enough to sing the Anthem of their country for others.

[@OceanicPearlz1]

Oo Im An American Soprano too!

[@Ba-kt6ju]

You can belt it in full chest voice lol, you sopranos just suck at chest voice

[@egisantoso949]

Pls just sing it straight note. No belting. 😂

[@graceahola2980]

The lady who kept modulating: my aural skills professor put that on the dictation portion of the final as a joke, but most of us students actually notated it, very painstakingly.

[@jimthesalad]

I need the notation. Please. Please pretty please.

[@tarar6926]

That is amazing!! Hahahaha

[@moarmygene7310]

LOL

[@cyruswong4249]

As a Chinese, I can proof they sang the china nation song almost all wrong

[@victorlee3949]

I’m a Chinese too 😊

[@cyruswong4249]

@@victorlee3949 ayyyy the gang

[@lunarebony6122]

im half chinese

[@Yucio-ot5eq]

四分五裂的程度🥲

[@GardeRegimentZuFubOfficerKaub]

100% Chinese 🇨🇳

[@carr0760]

As a vocal teacher I can objectively say that yes, the US Anthem is difficult, but no, it is not THAT difficult. The biggest mistake people make (aside from not being able to stay in tune when a capella) is trying to sing the whole thing in chest voice. The song changes registers, so the singer must as well. Also, people just try to show off, which never ends well. Unless you're Whitney Houston. As a Canadian, I'd prefer to sing the US Anthem; it's much more interesting.

[@andynonymous6769]

Canada’s anthem is easier to sing in large groups I think. Meanwhile America’s anthem is more technically difficult. Yeah?

[@wilbur1425]

Isn’t the Americans anthem like five minutes long

[@carr0760]

@@wilbur1425 Not at all. It's not even 2 if you just sing it straight and at a reasonable tempo. People like to drag it out to show off unnecessary vocal runs, but even then it's 3 minutes or so.

[@SaraSong-mw3zm]

yeah I was screaming in my head "please switch to your head voice"

[@AlvinaYunoa]

Canada’s anthem is easy af lol

[@DragonriderEpona]

German Anthem being played horribly. Joseph Haydn: angry noises

[@adalata]

The biggest fail I remember about the german anthem was when the singer at a soccer match sang Broth in the Light... instead of Bloom in the shine... (of this luck) Or exactly in german: Brüh im Lichte... instead of Blüh im Glanze... (dieses Glückes)

[@lenapri28]

the german isn't even that hard tbh

[@alsy0055]

why are russian and saudis playing german anthems there? what event was that?

[@craftyraf]

When I was 15 years old, I played 2nd trumpet in a band. On arrival at our concert at the church they told me that the 1st trumpet was not there, he was sick. So I suddenly had to play 1st trumpet, unprepared. The stupid thing was: The first trumpet had to play a song for about 1 minute all alone without any accompaniment from other instruments, in honor of deceased soldiers of world war 1... My grandfather was sitting in the back of the church. I played terribly, devastated with stress, the song didn't even resemble the original. After the concert, I heard my grandfather say that they should have shot that trumpeter in the war, instead of our soldiers. He never knew it was me.

[@Steve19206]

Oh my god

[@Tara_P_Rose]

Wow…you must’ve felt sooo embarrassed! But that wasn’t your fault since it was just sprung on you last minute with no time to practice or prepare. That’s pretty unfair of them to do that.

[@mukulhariharan4715]

Where’s the video recording

[@sophia_gamerxd7737]

That must have felt horrible, especially when your own grandfather said that, my heart goes out to you my friend.

[@kwokvinnchan]

Awkward...Imagine having to replace others unprepared (especially solo) and even getting scolded by your grandpa without him realizing it is you...it is really unfair though

[@ishakak147]

4:51 - why the hell do they agree for you to just iceskate on the ice and then they just put the carpet in the middle of it.

[@caribbeanman3379]

You guys missed one: A band played the wrong national anthem at a function hosting a diplomat from China. The host country formerly had years of diplomatic relations with Taiwan, but the leader of the host country wasn't satisfied with the relationship so he dumped Taiwan and hooked up with China. Evidently they neglected to update the band with the music for China's anthem so they just absent-mindedly followed their habit and played the Taiwanese anthem. It was even on the BBC. lol.

[@leemaeganonkiu5325]

Link pls

[@Ab-dj6lh]

Except it’s not. This is China’s national anthem, just played really badly. If you just google the anthem you can hear it’s the same one. Plus the other anthem is completely different and sound nothing like this. Please do some fact check next time.

[@caribbeanman3379]

@@Ab-dj6lh What on earth are you talking about? You totally misread my comment!

[@ruthsteen6943]

They probably don't want to open that particular can of worms on the channel.

[@DarkPsychoMessiah]

@@caribbeanman3379 It's just the usual "CCP is not real China, Taiwan is" shit

[@melodyli1990]

The actual “try not to laugh challenge” is for the people listening the anthem

[@minnieyuyantung]

and they cannot do any responds because of respect (stand still when you heard national song

[@paulveitch5870]

It's either try not to laugh or try not to cringe as hell🤣

[@unamused0.06]

As sb who knows the Chinese national anthem (05:04), it IS massively hilarious, somewhere in the middle the key just changed, the tempo is a mess, the entire band is lost and just faded away in the end... Gotta give it up for the trumpet though, stayed strong throughout and is *actually* on beat and played correctly despite the utter chaos

[@hat7475]

Trumpet players carried the team 😭

[@HarunoHime07]

Trumpet players FTW

[@Nolaris3]

The funny thing is that it's not just Xi who was there but his entire cabinet just standing awkwardly

[@troutwarrior6735]

Trumpet supremacy 🤣

[@wynncovers8057]

YEAH AHHAHAHA when they said the music’s not that bad I’m like haHa guys you sure xD

[@chickenuggetrefund3470]

I was wearing headphones on full volumes on the American anthem 😢

[@tlang7616]

RIP eardrums

[@IXScasualty]

We are all in Spain without the S

[@RibbinOpinion]

I think it's a worldwide joke to royally screw up the Russian national anthem now. And we Americans are very good at screwing up our own :)

[@BeanBean_Official]

No one has to make a joke out of us, we do a good enough job of that ourselves lmao

[@xotan]

@@BeanBean_Official I love the American anthem ( I'm European), but it presents difficulties. These performances were cringe-making. It deserves better.

[@livus3787]

And egyiptians too xD

[@Judoudo]

@@BeanBean_Official Please explain the meaning of "lmao". I heard this from friends and it was strange. Greetings from Russia ❤🇷🇺

[@LittleBakedBean]

@@Judoudo it means “ laughing my ass off”

[@ftumschk]

I wish they'd sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" straight, because those pop/soul versions are nearly always embarrassing. It's the national anthem being sung at a public event, after all, not a school pageant.

[@mahill2006]

Lady Gaga’s version at Biden’s inauguration, I think was a perfect mix of pop and traditional. It worked really, really well.

[@ftumschk]

@@mahill2006 It did, but Gaga is a fine artist and it was a decent arrangement. The danger comes from people who *think* they can sing in a "soulful" way, and then butcher a song with clueless melismas that can easily go off-key in the wrong hands.

[@juliarunn5009]

I agree!! Stop adding all the extra notes, sing it simply and from the heart, if there’s going to be extra notes then DO THEM WELL. Whitney Houston’s performance is my absolute favorite performance of the anthem.

[@sachiconza9406]

@@juliarunn5009 Hear hear

[@arianah8842]

Agreed

[@Valathia]

The USA anthem is a very good example of what NOT to do when writing an anthem. An anthem should be easy to sing by a large group of people, because it's something for that group of people, that represents them. Although the USA's anthem is a beautiful song, it's a very poor anthem. I've always found it weird that it's the one person singing, anthems are meant to be sang by everyone, plus you need an actually good singer to pull it off circling back to the first point.

[@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938]

It was a poem...never meant to be put to music in the first place...

[@cadysample5792]

It’s actually not that hard to sing plus it was first sung by a group of me I believe but those high notes were put in by singers on a national stage not for the people

[@Choinkus]

@@cadysample5792 The difference between the lowest and highest notes is a twelfth. That's more than at least any anthem I can think of (though the Russian anthem comes close from what I can remember of it). I can hardly sing the US anthem in any key or octave. But then again, I'm also not a singer.

[@koehnmailand6821]

As an American, I can confirm

[@CHRF-55457]

Tbh it was written as a poem lol

[@sophia_gamerxd7737]

Oh my god this video brought back a hidden memory of mine. Ok so once in grade 3, (I was doing online school) there was this huge assembly like I'm talking 700 students + teachers in 1 call and at the start of the assembly they needed a person to sing O Canada. Only 2 people volunteered to sing. The day before the performance, my parents found out that someone needed to sing for the assembly, and forced me to volunteer, I had not told them about it because I was terrified myself to sing in front of that many people but I did anyway. When the 2 previous students found out that I was volunteering they dropped out instantly, so I had no choice but to proceed now. On the day of the call I was terrified, once everyone had joined the call I had to sing. I was so friggin nervous that my voice sounded so crappy and I'm still embarrassed of it to this day. The worst part was, one of the teachers recorded it, and sent it to my parents so they could remind me every once in a while of "How good" my singing was, every family reunion/holiday they played that recording in front of everyone and I would just run into my room and start crying. It upsets me because I know I could have done better.

[@mouhiazeck]

That sucks :(

[@luismarioXD]

Hell yeah. Try not to laugh is back.

[@_the.black.sheep__]

Now I am just waiting for Charades.

[@norinjon3240]

WE NEED CHARADES

[@Felix-kz6bu]

Yes ik!

[@justina2612]

@@_the.black.sheep__ YESS

[@charlesss8309]

Comment is older than video lol

[@justary_97]

*”Modulating more than Shostakovich”* _- Eddy Chen, 2021_ i’m wheezing

[@spiderdude2099]

Fun fact: Most places if you apply to sing the national anthem of America, will SPECIFICALLY ask you to just sing the “and the rockets red glare” section because it is the hardest part and where most performers fuck it up. Pass that, and you’re gold.

[@wilh3lmmusic]

They should also include the preceding “were so gallantly streaming” and watch you fail the L E A P

[@spiderdude2099]

@@wilh3lmmusic it’s not a huge jump, and also most people care about how you handle the highest pitch, not how well you change pitches.

[@wilh3lmmusic]

@@spiderdude2099surprisingly fast response, within minutes!

[@Widdekuu91]

If I sing it, which I never do, I sing it in a low voice, and then go high up in that low key. Like a speakingvoice-key, rather than a singing one.

[@glibbergloop]

In case this hasn't yet been mentioned regarding the national anthem chick changing key a bunch (2:00). People modulate unintentionally all the time when singing, and get back to the "original" key off and on, but not for the reasons one might think. Singers memorize certain pitches for certain songs and some singers really can't sing those certain phrases in any other key. So if they go off the rails off-pitch in one verse, they might end up singing in multiple different keys, due to nervousness mixing with that vocal muscle memory (As TwoSet said, practice practice practice is what is necessary to overcome that problem. A singer needs to try to memorize the pitch vibrations and muscle feelings of all the pitches throughout the whole song.) 😅

[@tyelerhiggins300]

I must say, that national anthem was not quite 'fergalicious'.

[@soundspective341]

😂😂😂

[@Adingalingling]

If you’re a professional and you’re singing a national anthem don’t add your own spin on it. Especially if people are supposed to sing along with you. Also if you don’t have good control with your voice.

[@alecsanavongsay8894]

@@Sputterbug aka most people who sing anthems it seems

[@boundary2580]

@@alecsanavongsay8894 it always blows my mind the people who they call to sing the anthem. Sometimes you get a nice classical male singer who sings it straight up in a nice easy key and sounds great. Then sometimes you get someone who has seemingly never practiced singing the anthem correctly in their life.

[@tf8896]

There’s this one singer that was called to sing the Dutch and Turkmen anthem in football, with a backing track. She sang in her own tempo the entire time and it was torture.

[@hopelessviolin4690]

Completely disagree. Almost every rendition or the star spangled banner is different and there’s no official version.

[@hopelessviolin4690]

@@Thelaretus i thought we were talking about instrumentation and harmonies. In the case of melody I like 70% agree. However singers should have the freedom to swerve the occasional note but in the last example given by Twoset it is very distasteful and excessive

[@elainewu4955]

*Chinese anthem got crushed* Eddy: it wasn’t that bad Me, Chinese: Oh it’s that bad. Believe me. It’s the worst of bad. It’s beyond the definition of bad. I cringed to tears

[@jywang8637]

Yes! F# is out of tune. The rhythm in the last part is totally messed up!

[@hoyen315]

and they improvised for two bars in the middle 😂

[@GlitchyBastard]

Yep, jazz version of Chinese anthem😂

[@kkuralina]

As a person who have China Chinese family members it was HORRENDOUS SBDJSNJCNND BUT ITS SO FUNNY THO

[@_quella4808]

Yes, it's really bad if not the worst though😂

[@yvettebracefield6270]

Singer: *and the rocket's red glaaaare* Eddy: quacks in disapproval

[@AshleyImAnn]

The amount of anxiety I had hearing national anthem. Just upon hearing the word national anthem reminds me of high school when I had to play the national anthem in front of the whole school assembly for the first time on piano and I had a mind freeze while playing and just froze and let choir sing the rest of it a capella... I still cringe at that time Performace Nightmares 🙂

[@tomasvrabec1845]

😂 when you from a small enough nation that you escape this issue.

[@raulpardo4210]

Been there lol

[@andrewbuchan2232]

I forgot the words one time when I was singing the national anthem at my college; I think it was for a lacrosse game. Fortunately, there was not much of a crowd

[@LouFerl]

@@andrewbuchan2232 I am a Canadian living in the US and I always have a sheet of paper with the lyrics of the US national anthem in my music folder just in case we are told at the last minute that we will sing it; saved me twice these past 20 years. I guess I could decide to memorize them at some point... ;-)

[@tarfeef101]

I'm very proud that my country's appearance (Canada) was someone being legit AF and just absolutely winning.

[@womiko3993]

So basically everything we love Canada for! :) You have the most embarrasing neighbour, but still remain calm and loveable! :)

[@derekpintozzi2498]

@@womiko3993 yeah ofc is ppl from Greenland always embarrassing our southern neighbor

[@szfehler]

Except now they changed the lyrics deliberately to butcher grammar and smear its dead corpse into the ground..." In all of us command". Argh

[@chimmu.]

@@szfehler Apparently the grammar is actually correct though. I think the concept behind the change makes sense, especially considering the fact that the song was originally written in French. The English version isn't a direct translation (since that would be extremely difficult to rhyme), so why not make it inclusive of all Canadians, ya know?

[@szfehler]

@@chimmu. you're right! It is proper grammar if you also change the meaning of the line. I honestly had not considered that - it had been "in all our son's command" for so long.

[@TurtleMyrtle12]

Fergie's display was so embarrassing. Singing the National Anthem is not the moment for "self expression".

[@utha2665]

Well, not *that* much expression. It's like watching Trump dry-humping the national flag, eww.

[@sullyhill1164]

She fully skipped a part of the song

[@blakebowers3708]

@Hamza Mzali stop self promoting

[@ZachIzBeast]

@@blakebowers3708 don't worry, I went through and reported every single one of his comments as spam, you should do the same

[@mahlerbartok]

It definitely can and should be (see Whitney Houston, that was a very unorthodox arrangement), it is just up to the subjective opinion of the population if they think it sounds good. And with Fergie, well, they didn’t😂

[@Mr_Skywere]

8:15 people who use auto tune trying to actually sing

[@Mr_Waffle.]

What they said about being the "main character" is so on point. Fergie was there to sing a song, she should've focused on doing her job and not trying to be the star of someone else's show. People were watching for the basketball, not for her ego.

[@CHRF-55457]

Fergie was cringey

[@andynonymous6769]

She just wanted to make it more interesting, and even if she didn’t screw up, she succeeded

[@eerrm1]

@@andynonymous6769 So, she thought the anthem was boring without her?

[@andynonymous6769]

@@eerrm1 it is

[@RuhollahNakhaee]

@@CHRF-55457 Cringie.

[@JJ-dd3ul]

The US National anthem is hard to sing for 2 reasons: 1) a lot of the big “belting” areas of this song is where most singer’s voice naturally breaks cuz they’re trying to transition from chest voice to head voice and they may not have the technique down to mix properly. And 2) most singers are trying to pull a Whitney Houston. Meaning either they’re trying to do the same rendition as her or trying to “put their own spin on it” and hope it will be as widely accepted as Whitney’s version now is.

[@boundary2580]

Whitney’s version has a full orchestra supporting her and affirming the key changes.

[@joobin814]

You also can't expect vocalists to always be in tune. There's slight jumps and its hard to stay in tune when you don't have a reference note or anything.

[@mattbalfe2983]

Eh, you know they should just go for the Hendrix version and call it a day.

[@default632]

@@mattbalfe2983 Then they shouldn't be singing the anthem on stage.

[@jimpemberton]

Having been an American military musician, we occasionally played for CISM events where military athletes from different would compete. It's kind of like the Olympics that people don't know about. So we have a ton of national anthems that we have to rehearse in a short period of time. They are easy enough to play, but they sometimes require instruments that you don't natively have. We always just used our own instruments and made it work that way. I can see countries who don't typically play with Western musical instruments who are either trying to play them for the first time, or trying to interpret anthem for countries that use Western instruments using their native instruments that may not be well-suited for Western tunings, or may not even be chromatic. So I can understand when national anthems don't always work out internationally.

[@linuslaw9648]

Oh that actually kinda makes sense

[@carrieannem5348]

Thank you for your explanation!

[@chukwudiilozue9171]

But when your country's national band gets a reputation or playing that badly, you should probably put in some work for the Russian anthem or US anthem.

[@martenkahr3365]

@@chukwudiilozue9171 There are countries where the military band is neither career military nor professional musicians, but conscripts in the 18-24 age category who got assigned to the band because they mentioned they like music or some shit as shallow as that, and they get regularly replaced by fresh conscripts just as young and inexperienced. Which basically means practically nobody in the band will ever have more than a year or two of experience in band performance while they're part of the "national band". But hey, the government doesn't have to pay anything extra that they aren't already paying their conscripts if they have that kind of band play.

[@syntacticalcrab]

Dude I played tenor sax in cadet band and student orchestra. Do you know how many pieces we had to transpose and arrange on short notice. It's not that hard.

[@rhamzaful]

Plot twist: The one who sang the Star Spangled Banner is a music theorist. She testing the people on the tonal center of her rendition.

[@Alice-gr1kb]

the US anthem really was like “nah lemme be a virtuoso piece”

[@monie3681]

Seeing your country's anthem get exceptionally butchered was extremely painful. So in conclusion, fund the arts, or your country's anthem will be destroyed next

[@blakebowers3708]

@mzali hamza 2 f off

[@tamirlyn]

The arts are funded just fine. They just need to start selecting people by competence, and not by whatever criteria they're using. I'm sure those people were paid some good money for their atrocious performances.

[@monie3681]

@@tamirlyn The funding for arts varies for different countries, so if it's true for yours then, good, congratulations. But then unfortunately that's not the situation in a lot of countries. Also it was a joke with reference to the video lol it's not that serious

[@ices2256]

some of them were: a country fucks up another country's anthem... what should they do? fund another country so they dont fuck up again?

[@monie3681]

@@ices2256 but then there were also countries that fucked up their own anthems lol. And the band that fucks up anthems will eventually get a chance to play (and fuck up) their own anthem, right? because in the ceremony, the same band plays both anthems. So, there Also it's a joke dont be so serious :D

[@angelserenade]

In my country, singing the National Anthem the way Fergie did is a big no-no. Our Anthem is supposed to be in marching tune, and singing it differently will only give you tons of hate and criticism. Just like when "La Diva" and Martin Nievera sang the Philippine National Anthem, that was cringe-worthy

[@kindanooby2988]

As an American, I believe the national anthem really shouldn’t be done like that either. I guess the performers just want to make themselves stand, but by doing so, they really screw it up. I wish we had a really popular recording that isn’t as botched as these.

[@andrewwigglesworth3030]

@@kindanooby2988 Nope, the tune was taken from a drinking song. Look up "The Anacreontic Song." How you came to think people could march to it is unfathomable.

[@almajoyem8679]

I believe there was a law regarding it if you sing it out of mockery...

[@ZhangtheGreat]

The thing about the US national anthem is: we don't know what's a "good performance" until it happens. Then we judge the singer on their performance only after the fact. For instance, nobody knew our anthem could sound as vibrant as it did until Whitney Houston's Super Bowl 25 performance. It's really unfair to the singers, because while we say we want them to sing it as "normal," what we _really_ want is for them to do it in an epic way, but we can't tell what's "epic" until it's done, and now we hold everyone to Whitney Houston's standards (which are impossible to meet).

[@MiguelThinks]

Less is more am I right?

[@OnTheVergeOfLosingIt]

‏‪0:27‬‏ god is NOT saving the queen with this one

[@joannedj1]

He needs to save her from an assault on the ears on that occasion! 😂

[@joannedixon-jackson7348]

That first one was supposed to be an attempt at “God Save the Queen” allegedly! Writing as a British person, our anthem is pretty easy, or should be, so if they can’t get that right, I dread to think how the band would get on with some of the world’s trickier national anthems! I was impressed with the Canadian skater, though!

[@accountname9506]

I heard that it's sometimes done as a intentional insult.

[@edukid1984]

I knew 5 seconds in that the band was (supposed to be) playing "God Save the Queen", and I'm not even Brits - the melody is very recognisable even when butchered to that extent. And speaking of Canadian skater, who the heck thought it was a good idea to lay out carpets on the ice when you knew the performer would be skating? Number one no-no for any skating rink - NO foreign objects of any size on the ice unless the skaters are fully aware of its whereabout! He could've been seriously hurt. It's doubly odd for this elementary mistake to happen in Canada, of all places!

[@ZenoDovahkiin]

>very easy Your anthem has a 50% cahnce of changing its name when a new monarch takes the throne.

[@gerardacronin334]

Yes, it’s the UK anthem, but the tune is the same as “My country tis of thee” which is considered a patriotic song in the US. Recycling!

[@The-Wordsmith]

@@gerardacronin334 - 'My country tis of thee' was written in 1832 by Samuel F. Smith. 'God save the King' was first publicly performed in London 77 years before that in 1745 (2 years after its composer, Henry Carey, died, so it was probably written some 100 years before Smith's interpretation). In addition, music scholars believe that Carey's song was based on a much earlier piano work by Englishman John Bull (1619). The US is definitely the recycler here ;-)

[@reetubala5656]

"Is this anthem really that difficult?" Yes. A thousand times YES. That being said, Y U NO SING IN TUNE?! *sobs*

[@paunitka7]

It must be very hard for a regular person, but c'mon, it's not difficult at all to a trained singer.

[@reetubala5656]

@@paunitka7 There's different challenges to the Star Spangled Banner. The range of the song spans an octave and a half which means finding the right key for a singer can be tricky. Start a little low to avoid blowing your voice out at the top and you'll be petering out on the lower notes. Start even a half step too high and you risk straining your vocal cords on the top notes and potentially just sounding like you're screeching. It's probably why that singer modulated so much. She kept trying to find her sweet spot, but every time she changed keys, she realized the next line was either going to be too high or too low in the new key she picked. lmao The lyrics are also notorious for getting forgotten midway and while there's many different factors that can contribute to that, the way the phrases are broken up definitely plays a huge part (along with stage fright and nerves). 😄

[@paunitka7]

@@reetubala5656 Yes, I agreed that it might be hard for an amateur. :) They should practice more. :)

[@reetubala5656]

@@paunitka7 Agreed! We all could ALWAYS use more practice! haha

[@woozihae]

@@reetubala5656 looking at the videos, why do they pick the worst singers? Lol, like how to they even decide who sings? I mean they're probably not that bad when they sing other songs, but they could've really just picked another great singer 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@TheWitchvortex]

There was this well known professional singer in Hungary, who was supposed to perform the hungarian anthem on a sports event. She forgot the lyrics and the melody of the anthem. She stopped and asked for help from the audience. She said, "Help me, I don't know the lyrics of the anthem. But we are all hungarians, so you should all know it and help me out." She got boo-ed down from the stage.

[@ahumanistpotato]

Bro how could you forget your own anthem 💀

[@deborac9550]

@@ahumanistpotato well...I can't say many people know mine

[@DimkaTsv]

To be fair... Even though many people may know first few lines of anthem, i am pretty sure that barely anyone can remember whole text of it. Maybe USA is some strange place that anthem is just so common that people recite it over and over many times over year

[@ahumanistpotato]

@@DimkaTsv I'm Turkish and everyone here knows at least the first two stanzas (it has ten stanzas but only the first two are sung)

[@DimkaTsv]

@@ahumanistpotato well, russian anthem is usually performed as melody and not song. Rarely someone sings to it, just stays proudly and silently. Maybe because it is originally intended for chorus to perform, and syncing a random croud is just too tough. But we do hear it at least once in a year. Right before new year, at president speech

[@sameperson2520]

3:25 she should be a jazz singer bc she was wayyyyyyy out of tune so many wrong notes

[@Ez550-xyz]

5:04 As a Chinese citizen, I didn't even recognize our own anthem with how poorly they played it.

[@RandomPerson2609]

@@Craigthedingledingbat stereotype detected

[@tebar957]

how the fuck did you get in yt without getting detected using a vpn?

[@Ez550-xyz]

@@tebar957 um... its not that hard actually- and... the government isn't THAT strict about it :/

[@tebar957]

@@Ez550-xyz oh ok

[@poltergeist-5243]

I literally had to rewind it and only recognized it when i saw xixis face :v

[@akabaneaki]

I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THATS A CARPET for the skating one! Like it looks like its a floor pattern i wouldnt think a carpet would appear on a ICE RINK

[@bethanytim1402]

it’s actually quite common here in canada. they put them out for some “important” person to walk on so that they don’t slip on the ice. clearly they didn’t care about the people already on the ice in this scenario.

[@ceoce]

4:35 I didn't laugh when that person fell down, but I can't help laughing when Eddy repeatedly patted on Brett's back and shoulder with a loud "bang bang bang" sound effect...

[@carolhayes7750]

Brett will have bruises from Eddy's pounding him on the shoulder and back.

[@ceoce]

@@carolhayes7750 I think Eddy did that all the time when he is excited -- judging from Brett's response, i.e. zero response. Likely it is just loud because of their good mic and won't cause bruises.

[@Feimicha]

I wouldn’t imagine it would hurt though, Eddy is such a gentle soul that I can’t imagine him [un]intentionally hurting Brett. He does it when he’s emotionally psyched, so it’s understandable.

[@ayishas4385]

Okay, American here: LET US SING OUR OWN DARN ANTHEM. Why do they always get a soloist up there, messing with it, showing off, wobbling her voice all over? I have never, in my entire life - and that is not hyperbole - heard it done well when they get a soloist to sing it at an event, whether it's a high school kid who's been chosen for the honour, who inevitably gets an attack of nerves in the middle of it, or some famous person, thinking she has to make it sound unique and fancy so that everyone knows she's the one singing it. How are we supposed to join in when they're butchering our anthem? It's our anthem, and the crowd wants to sing it too, and a lot of us know the harmony, if someone would only sing the melody properly. It's not that hard to sing, if the person who leads it stays on key and resists the temptation to make the moment all about them. Or, better yet, just give us accompaniment, and you will hear a large crowd of people who collectively are way more on tune than any of these soloists.

[@electronickitten02]

Let's appreciate: 1K likes and 0 dislikes. As it should be.

[@late8641]

The dislikes the video is going to get will be caused by people laughing so hard they accidentally hit the wrong button.

[@dianamarcekova9615]

Well, not anymore 😒

[@QtPieMarth]

1,413 likes to zero at this point, honestly impressive

[@silversunset]

1.6k now (When I wrote this comment, there were still zero dislikes)

[@asyraffrys5512]

5 already

[@The-Sneaky-Vampire]

UUUGGGHHHHHHH!!!! As a vocalist, it infuriates me to no end to hear the Star Spangled Banner slaughtered like that! The problem with almost all American national anthem performances is that ever since Whitney Houston, singers are forever trying to treat it like some belty, yodely pop solo. They use it as an opportunity to show off...almost always badly. There is ZERO respect for the anthem itself and what it means. I would highly recommend that anyone who's going to sing the Star Spangled Banner actually read up on the history and meaning of the song. It's chilling and haunting, but also inspirational.

[@_blank-_]

And Whitney Houston lipsynced her performance. If she didn't do it live, no one should.

[@lizajane2971]

Absolutely agree! I love the story behind the Star Spangled Banner. It makes me cry and THAT'S what I want to think about when I hear it, not being distracted by or embarrassed for the vocalist.

[@frozenpixie8801]

Oh boy, hard cringe on the Fergie one. The players trying not to crack up have my everlasting respect.

[@ayishas4385]

I like how they eventually just gave up. They're like, "Oh, my buddy's grinning? I guess I can grin too."

[@OceanicPearlz1]

Watching that live on tv was worst 💀💀💀💀

[@victorydrawsmanga4539]

6:47 As a violinist and pretty much musically trained most of my life, that moment irritated me SO MUCH-

[@nielsokkema3134]

Actually, the American anthem is really hard to sing because it's quite high in an uncomfortable spot for most singers. Ngl, it's very funny that a lot of fails happen with the American anthem

[@jdmitchell6559]

Yes. It has a very wide vocal range of an octave and a fifth which needs a trained voice to do effectively.

[@katieprocell]

Also includes a few secondary dominants in the melody. But also if somebody can't sing it, hire someone else.

[@carlosclark8488]

I know that did the national anthem correctly is Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey

[@kristin123a]

They should at least just flip into head voice instead of trying to scream it out if you realize that you’ve started too high.

[@jdmitchell6559]

@@kristin123a Yes, good point but it takes a trained voice to do that without a clunky sense of 'changing gears' ! My favourite rendition was the one Leslie Neilson did in one of the Police Squad movies , but that was an intentional send-up!

[@kendallthompson2027]

I have sung the Star-Spangled Banner many times for military occasions. It is a difficult song to sing because it is SO tempting to switch keys. I had a REALLY hard time with changing keys all throughout a piece but it has gotten much better. However, in the most recent recording of me, I modulate from A major to Ab major when I was trying to sing it in Bb major(which seems to be the most reasonable key to me). FYI, I am a classical singer so I don't try and scream or belt the high notes but instead do them in my head voice or a mixed belt if I am singing in a key low enough.

[@amyzhang5036]

Me, on hearing TRY NOT TO LAUGH: Actively trying not to laugh ❌ Give up on the challenge straight away and laugh at almost anything for no reason✅

[@LouFerl]

@Hamza Mzali This guy should be banned from the TwoSet channel.

[@MAZviolinist]

She is modulating more than Shostakovich!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I have taught elementary music and middle school orchestra since 2008. I am good at not laughing at musicians not being perfect. That line was hilarious

[@dxdxdkino1583]

I couldn't even laugh at fergie I was IN SHOCK

[@E-Ruu]

Imagine seeing that shit live tho lol

[@rebekahlee7360]

Right? If I saw that live, I'd be laughing, but I'd be nervous-laughing. Like, what the actual heck??

[@jashalu]

honestly I had to mute it most of the times because I just could not listen to that...

[@MichaelScheele]

It was painful to watch/listen.

[@liesalllies]

I always laugh at the players reactions

[@klyazmaland]

9:04 -hey bro, nice ceiling -heck yeah

[@abigail40]

**flashbacks to twoset just giving up and wheezing in every try not to laugh video**

[@theradiumgirl9298]

As an American this video feels like being put on one of those medieval stretching racks

[@leelandluver]

It sounded like Fergie just chose to do the National anthem in a really old-style jazz rendition, but it’s not a style that a lot of mainstream Americans would be familiar with and enjoy. It’s a very particular style. I think it just wasn’t a good choice for the occasion/song. I imagine she wanted to do something unique, as the US National anthem has been done soo many times by soo many famous singers. And, yeah, the US National anthem is really challenging vocally.

[@jamesrawlins735]

For some reason I kept thinking of Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday to JFK when I saw Fergie's version - but Fergie's version is ......

[@fiddlefugue1743]

I was getting some heavily discounted Billie Holiday vibes in the performance, but she just wasn't nailing it: Poor pitch, thin vocal tone, no pulse.

[@theworldisajojoreference8342]

Correct

[@charliecampbell6851]

Please.....please don't call that a jazz style.

[@baronmeduse]

Sad state affairs for the home of jazz.

[@syntacticalcrab]

5:25 Eddy: The music wasn't that bad Oh my god it was so bad, Eddy. As someone who still somehow remembers the arrangement of the PRC anthem from childhood, oh my god that fife was going off the rails. I swear the trumpet player was trying his darnedest to play as loudly as possible to drown it out. (Trumpet missed a triplet but I'll let it slide :P)

[@estherpettigrew3042]

Easier to let it slide…if it was a trombone!!!

[@andrewzheng4038]

Fr those mofos were playing some jazz type swing eight notes or some shit, missed half the notes, the entire supporting cast dropped out halfway through, etc. Honestly the worst one in the video

[@andrewhcit]

That was probably the worst of them all. The band was falling apart from the first note. I guess it wasn't quite as badly out of tune as some of the others, but it sounded like every single person in the band was playing at their own tempo.

[@whoami6601]

Alternate title: „Fergie moans the national anthem at the NBA All-Star game“ Was Fergie drunk, or what was she on? (This is supposed to be a serious question lol)

[@omega1231]

Fergie was never a good singer, passable for what the black eyed peas did, but if it wasn't for pitch correction and auto tune her solo career would not have gotten very far, although that can be said for many pop stars of today.

[@Karen-pk3uv]

She did it on purpose. She was trying to do something unique and tried to sing like a jazz singer. Nobody reminded her she is not a jazz singer and the NBA All-Star Game was the worst environment to try to be one for the first time. Therefore, the only explanation I can come up with is, Fergie is probably a bitch and surrounded by passive aggressive and petty yess-men. Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@irissupercoolsy]

she looks drunk to me

[@maryelizabeth1216]

the funniest fail imo was at a baseball game when they asked everyone to stand for the US national anthem and then an explicit rap song started playing instead. they cut it off right away ofc but the shocked, collective gasp that rose from the crowd was glorious