god, this girl with the nation anthem is bad

[carolinakid]

i got to agree Houston to me was the best ever

[eidolon]

lol ck, I thought the organ work was the weak part, but that voice too...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/RealMichelleW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Real MichelleW</a> performs the National Anthem ahead of <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kickoff2021?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw ">#Kickoff2021</a>. <a rel="nofollow" href="https://t.co/wYHrBOl5jx">pic.twitter.com/wYHrBOl5jx</a></p>— NFL (@NFL) <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1436124847197806598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >September 10, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

i don't know what's worse: he voice, or the extra instruments added in to change up the traditional sound of the song.

[jtoler]

KVB I randomly recorded that super bowl when I was in 4th or 5th grade and would watch it all the time. Don’t really know why, not a fan of either team (bills or giants), just a little kid and thought the idea of the super bowl was cool I guess. But I included the national anthem by Whitney Houston (also, don’t know why) and I watched it over and over and over, anthem and all. That’ll forever be my standard to which an anthem is held. Even as a child I was just blown away. And actually here recently as an adult, I have actually started listening to her music more and more and my fukkin Christ she could sing! I mean we all knew she could sing, but when it’s just on the radio all the time, like as you become old enough to have memories in the 80s, and that’s just what’s on the radio, it doesn’t really strike just how fukkin GOOD she was until you take years of time off of hearing her shit. Really one of our biggest musician tragedies, it’s good that we got a pretty good career out of her, but someone who had such a gift and shared it with us doesn’t deserve to go out the way she did.

Anyway hahaha….that got long…

something must be going on in the universe lol I just went on a whitney houston marathon one night last week, watched that anthem several times and listened to a ton of her other songs

[texhooper]

something must be going on in the universe lol I just went on a whitney houston marathon one night last week, watched that anthem several times and listened to a ton of her other songs

Hahaha ME TOO! Crazy. It’s pretty eye-opening, like how her voice has stood the test of the time and still hasn’t been topped in pop music. I’ve spent most of my life not caring about pop music and still don’t really care for much of it but if something hits me right then I’m in. And Whitney is hitting me right these days. The first song on her first album, You Give Good Love, this fukking song man, her voice is just so perfect

[carolinakid]

yep it so sad how both her and her daughter died almost the same way............

[Mac4Lyfe]

Oh God. That was the worst. Even the players were laughing.

Fergie looked like she was high as shit.

KVB I randomly recorded that super bowl when I was in 4th or 5th grade and would watch it all the time. Don’t really know why, not a fan of either team (bills or giants), just a little kid and thought the idea of the super bowl was cool I guess. But I included the national anthem by Whitney Houston (also, don’t know why) and I watched it over and over and over, anthem and all. That’ll forever be my standard to which an anthem is held. Even as a child I was just blown away. And actually here recently as an adult, I have actually started listening to her music more and more and my fukkin Christ she could sing! I mean we all knew she could sing, but when it’s just on the radio all the time, like as you become old enough to have memories in the 80s, and that’s just what’s on the radio, it doesn’t really strike just how fukkin GOOD she was until you take years of time off of hearing her shit. Really one of our biggest musician tragedies, it’s good that we got a pretty good career out of her, but someone who had such a gift and shared it with us doesn’t deserve to go out the way she did.
Anyway hahaha….that got long…

Tex, I was working at Disney world in 1984 with their MKCP (Magic Kingdom College Program). They have a night just for employees. Whitney Houston was a guest singer. She wasn't even known back then, she was probably just a teenager. I sat there listening to her thinking I was listening to the voice of an angel. It was so easy, smooth, perfect.

Fast forward many years later a few months after 9/11. I'm watching Lebron and the Cavaliers and guess who was singing the National Anthem. Whitney Houston. OMG. She sang that anthem and there was not a dry eye in the arena. I was balling like a baby. Everyone was so pro USA because of 9/11. When she finished the entire arena was silent for what seemed like minutes. You could hear people crying but almost a pin drop, then the announcer finally says "now that's the way it's supposed to be song". Everyone erupted. A few months later she was singing it in the Super Bowl. Someone must have given the NFL that tape. To this day nothing compares to the anthem then when she sang it in Cleveland. We were all blessed to have her if even for a moment in time. (see what I did there?)

[Mac4Lyfe]

Hahaha ME TOO! Crazy. It’s pretty eye-opening, like how her voice has stood the test of the time and still hasn’t been topped in pop music. I’ve spent most of my life not caring about pop music and still don’t really care for much of it but if something hits me right then I’m in. And Whitney is hitting me right these days. The first song on her first album, You Give Good Love, this fukking song man, her voice is just so perfect

Maria Carey and Christina Aguilera are on par. Dare I say Maria might be a bit above Whitney. They did a duet and Whitney said that she stepped aside to let Maria do her thing. I thought Maria could hit the highest notes every until I heard this girl.

[texhooper]

yep it so sad how both her and her daughter died almost the same way............

It’s terrible, it really is. I feel like somewhere in our next evolutionary step we somehow are able to protect these kinds of people. I have no idea exactly what that means but basically it seems like humanity will or should somehow develop some way to protect these extraordinarily gifted people who enrich and enhance our lives the way so many musicians have who have had a tragic demise. Maybe by the year 5000 this will have developed

[texhooper]

Mac I understand but they’re still not Whitney

[jtoler]

It’s terrible, it really is. I feel like somewhere in our next evolutionary step we somehow are able to protect these kinds of people. I have no idea exactly what that means but basically it seems like humanity will or should somehow develop some way to protect these extraordinarily gifted people who enrich and enhance our lives the way so many musicians have who have had a tragic demise. Maybe by the year 5000 this will have developed

if only she could have stayed away from bobby brown, all bad for her

[texhooper]

Fergie looked like she was high as shit.

Tex, I was working at Disney world in 1984 with their MKCP (Magic Kingdom College Program). They have a night just for employees. Whitney Houston was a guest singer. She wasn't even known back then, she was probably just a teenager. I sat there listening to her thinking I was listening to the voice of an angel. It was so easy, smooth, perfect.

Fast forward many years later a few months after 9/11. I'm watching Lebron and the Cavaliers and guess who was singing the National Anthem. Whitney Houston. OMG. She sang that anthem and there was not a dry eye in the arena. I was balling like a baby. Everyone was so pro USA because of 9/11. When she finished the entire arena was silent for what seemed like minutes. You could hear people crying but almost a pin drop, then the announcer finally says "now that's the way it's supposed to be song". Everyone erupted. A few months later she was singing it in the Super Bowl. Someone must have given the NFL that tape. To this day nothing compares to the anthem then when she sang it in Cleveland. We were all blessed to have her if even for a moment in time. (see what I did there?)

Incredible stories here. This is why it’s so fukking sad and just not the way it’s supposed to go when these people end up emotional self-destructive wrecks. That’s just not the way it should be, and as I get older it’s harder and harder for me to accept that that’s just how it is! I don’t know, I have no answers on how to fix it but it just feels wrong in my gut

[carolinakid]

^^you are 100% correct and her daughter got hook too

[Mac4Lyfe]

Sandy Patty, a Christian singer is another person who sings like an angel. I heard her singing in a church in Florida many years ago and she was incredible. She has 4 octaves and her high soprano is amazing. Voice of an angel.

Another side note. Brian McKnight is an unreal singer. I was watching local Los Angeles news one evening and a reporter was interviewing him at random. He was like at a grocery store or something. The reporter was asking him random questions and at the end asked him if he could sing something. He was like in jeans and a Tshirt just chilling and belted out a few verses of something that was incredible. I kept rewinding and rewinding it in total amazement. That reporter literally was creaming in her pants.

[texhooper]

Sandy Patty, a Christian singer is another person who sings like an angel. I heard her singing in a church in Florida many years ago and she was incredible. She has 4 octaves and her high soprano is amazing. Voice of an angel.

Another side note. Brian McKnight is an unreal singer. I was watching local Los Angeles news one evening and a reporter was interviewing him at random. He was like at a grocery store or something. The reporter was asking him random questions and at the end asked him if he could sing something. He was like in jeans and a Tshirt just chilling and belted out a few verses of something that was incredible. I kept rewinding and rewinding it in total amazement. That reporter literally was creaming in her pants.

Yeah Brian McKnight has some fukking pipes for sure.

Sandi Patti gives me ptsd from an evangelical Christian upbringing. I’m not going back and listening to her bro, I’ll take your word for it haha

[carolinakid]

it seems like so many of today singers cant sing it and they try gimmicks to the song for their lack of talent..

[Mac4Lyfe]

Incredible stories here. This is why it’s so fukking sad and just not the way it’s supposed to go when these people end up emotional self-destructive wrecks. That’s just not the way it should be, and as I get older it’s harder and harder for me to accept that that’s just how it is! I don’t know, I have no answers on how to fix it but it just feels wrong in my gut

I talked to a guy a long time ago when I first moved to LA and he told me such an ridiculous story that I thought he was crazy. He told me that many famous singers and actors sold their souls to the devil. That they made a pact with the devil to be famous. He told me the name of a book that I could not remember but that it was like a book of the devil and these stars pledged to the book. He named off a bunch of famous people (not Whitney, this was way before she died) and that's why they all died young. I nodded and acted like I was in agreement but at the time I thought he was bipolar. Many years later I wonder if he was right???

[Mac4Lyfe]

Yeah Brian McKnight has some fukking pipes for sure.Sandi Patti gives me ptsd from an evangelical Christian upbringing. I’m not going back and listening to her bro, I’ll take your word for it haha

Haha, I could see her getting on your damn nerves if you had to listen to her all day, every day. LOL

Now I remember where I saw her. It was at Benny Hinn's church in Orlando. He always had some really good singers. Joel Osteen has the same thing at his church in Houston.

[Mac4Lyfe]

it seems like so many of today singers cant sing it and they try gimmicks to the song for their lack of talent..

CK - and no one can play an instrument anymore? WTH? What happened to brass players or great wind, sax, clarinet, flutist?

[carolinakid]

^^^^^^^^^^ i think rap came in and spoil it

[texhooper]

I talked to a guy a long time ago when I first moved to LA and he told me such an ridiculous story that I thought he was crazy. He told me that many famous singers and actors sold their souls to the devil. That they made a pact with the devil to be famous. He told me the name of a book that I could not remember but that it was like a book of the devil and these stars pledged to the book. He named off a bunch of famous people (not Whitney, this was way before she died) and that's why they all died young. I nodded and acted like I was in agreement but at the time I thought he was bipolar. Many years later I wonder if he was right???

It does sound crazy but it is kinda nuts how pervasive this theory is though. It’s possible that some version of this is true maybe? Probably not but here’s kinda how I see this whole thing. If an alien comes down to earth from another planet and she says her name is Whitney Houston and she belts out How Will I Know, at that point we say, ok, this is unbelievable, we need to protect this alien and make sure they can live life here among us. The alien has an unbelievable gift but can’t balance a checkbook or change a tire or whatever and we say “ok alien Whitney Houston, you keep making music, and we’re gonna make everything else alright for you.” That’s roughly how I’ve conceived this over a few nights of being really drunk watching videos of Jimi Hendrix. It’s not exactly an explanation of the “sold their soul to the devil thing” maybe it’s in fact the antithesis but somehow it feels intertwined. Like for someone to give us so much of themselves (as opposed to the devil) that we then have some kind of responsibility as a collective to this person. I probably sound fukking crazy right now but it just sucks so much that these people go down the way they do and it just doesn’t seem right

[Kermit]

^^^^^^^^^^ i think rap came in and spoil it

The biggest new Hip-Hop song by some hot shot singer with the same lyrics repeated over and over again has 100 people getting credit, while a classic like Bohemian Rhapsody only has a couple.

[Mac4Lyfe]

It does sound crazy but it is kinda nuts how pervasive this theory is though. It’s possible that some version of this is true maybe? Probably not but here’s kinda how I see this whole thing. If an alien comes down to earth from another planet and she says her name is Whitney Houston and she belts out How Will I Know, at that point we say, ok, this is unbelievable, we need to protect this alien and make sure they can live life here among us. The alien has an unbelievable gift but can’t balance a checkbook or change a tire or whatever and we say “ok alien Whitney Houston, you keep making music, and we’re gonna make everything else alright for you.” That’s roughly how I’ve conceived this over a few nights of being really drunk watching videos of Jimi Hendrix. It’s not exactly an explanation of the “sold their soul to the devil thing” maybe it’s in fact the antithesis but somehow it feels intertwined. Like for someone to give us so much of themselves (as opposed to the devil) that we then have some kind of responsibility as a collective to this person. I probably sound fukking crazy right now but it just sucks so much that these people go down the way they do and it just doesn’t seem right

Damn, was it you that I was talking to years ago? haha, just kidding but you are actually making a lot of damn sense to me right now. I've never heard anything like that but you got my head spinning. Your theory would at least make a very good movie. Wow, that's actually pretty deep.

[Mac4Lyfe]

The biggest new Hip-Hop song by some hot shot singer with the same lyrics repeated over and over again has 100 people getting credit, while a classic like Bohemian Rhapsody only has a couple.

Maybe I'm just getting old but I listen to songs today of all genres and I'm saying to myself. Is this music? No real band, lyrics are shit, it does not make sense, where have all the great singers/bands gone?

[WireWire]

Dak’s arm looks weak so far, not a good sign for Dallas.

What game were you watching?

[Mac4Lyfe]

I had the Bucs and the Under tonight...

[carolinakid]

this was a game you watch and not bet, no way i wanted any of this game tonite. high profile games in the end will kill you if you bet them on a reg thing imo.that why i tell people in the college basketball to stay off the high profile games, they will kill you if you bet this type of game all season

[VeggieDog]

Bad singer gets a singing job = good BJ given to get the gig.

[phinfan27615]

Alicia Keys with the Colored Anthem was pretty good. They should have had her to do the real anthem and skip the Colored one.

What's this alternative anthem you speak of? Never heard of it, but I'd guess it goes something like this

[thechaoz]

Who cares we got games

[BeatTheJerk]

What game were you watching?

I said that after the 1st couple drives so stfu. I realize I ended up being absolutely wrong overall when the game finished.

[Hman]

Maria Carey and Christina Aguilera are on par. Dare I say Maria might be a bit above Whitney.

You ate not wrong

Mariah is just a tad better than Whitney