Ah, yes. Peaceful, tolerant, intellectual, progressive San Franciscans. Nancy must be so proud.

Nice.
But, I got your voice right here. Kelli O’Hara.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6u7HGxLmeI

When I saw this, I knew the GMen would win. That’s a no-no to the football gods…

Kristin Chenoweth was AMAZING, but I have to agree with Gloves, Kelli O’Hara was even better. Both ladies have stunningly beautiful voices and incredible ranges. It’s such an extremely difficult song to sing correctly.

Shame on the 49ers fans. 

Tommy, you being a Jets fan explains a lot.

Are you auditioning for a writing job on Modern Family?  If so keep your day job… 

I thought there were boos every time Victor Cruz caught a pass.

Turns out it was Giants fans just yelling out “CRUUUUUUUZ”. 

I love her. She is such a fireball, and that was a great rendition. Made me tear up a little….as usual on that song.

Agree it was a little tacky to be booing during the Anthem. 

I don’t think Steven’s rendition was that bad. He sang it like he sings, and it is a hard song. Steven is Steven.

Thats why SF lost!

Could she sing it any slower? The situation calls for a brisk interpretation not operatic self-indulgence. It was painful and until I read this piece I’d assumed the crowd was suffering as much as I was.

I guess there won’t be any Jose Feliciano, Marvin Gaye, and Jimi Hendrix masterpieces coming from Beyonce, Justin Bieber, and Taylor Swift….???

What a shocker. This article has nothing to do with politics but obviously someone is lame enough to try to use this against a politician/party.

Whitney Houston’s rendition of the National Anthem is and will always be the best of all time.. It is the standard.. It was perfection..

I’ve never liked our National Anthem. “America the Beautiful” is a far superior song.

I agree. I wasn’t that impressed with her rendition of it any more than I was with Steven Tyler’s version. both sucked.

Josh Groban sings a good version of it…

America The Beautiful.

Um, this is San Francisco we’re talking about.  Remember when the Blue Angels had to cancel their Fleet Week appearance because San Fran didn’t want to appear to be supporting the military?

the real question is: what moron booked Tyler to sing the National Anthem?  why did said moron book Tyler to sing the anthem?  whoever booked Tyler obviously had not heard him “sing.”

playing the National Anthem before football or baseball (or any sporting event) is faux patriotism.  the practice should be abolished

And it was fake – regrettably.   She lip synced it after performing and post-producing  in a studio, so no surprise each note was perfect.  Even if ‘touched up’ in post-production it was still stunning.  I keep it on my iPhone.

New York Giants – 20
Sanctuary City 69ers – 17

We get to see #6 Jeff Jimerson on a regular basis.  He even makes Oh Canada sound good.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/813972-the-8-best-national-anthem-singers-in-hockey#/articles/813972-the-8-best-national-anthem-singers-in-hockey/page/4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L_23XC3uCY    100% Live..

Yes the Super Bowl rendition was  prerecorded but the  Welcome Home the Troops rendition I posted above is  live..  There wasn’t touch up needed when Whitney was in her prime.. It’s a shame she’s destroyed her gift..

Tyler looks like an aging tranny that’s trying waaaaay too hard to keep what he barely had in the first place. That voice, even in its day,  was enough to make your hair hurt. 

Rabid football fans & football fans first & residents of their city only incidentally.

Booing, its just so—-gay!

They’ve both had opera training, which helps out in just about any singing genre (the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks also), and which one you prefer is entirely a matter of taste.   

But there are noticeable differences, just in terms of their vocal capacities & deliveries.  
 
O’Hara struggles to get up in volume & scale; she has to PUSH, & it shows up both with her top notes being noticeably ‘thinner’, & in her little struggles with the breaks she has to make to get there. By way of contrast, Chenoweth more control over all of volume, scale & transition.  

Another difference, again a matter of taste, is O’Hara treats the anthem more respectfully.  I suspect Chenoweth finds it, or the setting she’s been asked to sing it in, or both, insufficiently challenging – she fools around quite a bit, adding flourishes most would never dare try, even risking hamming it up too much at the end.  

I actually like both versions, & I can respect why some would prefer O’Hara’s. But if you’re looking for who’s the greater artist, it’s no contest: Chenoweth by a country mile. 

This has nothing to do with comparing the versions, but Chenoweth’s personal biography seems right of fiction; if you made her up for a story, your editor would likely tell you it’s not credible. She’s a one-off, an American original, an “only in America”. (By way of contrast, O’Hara is more cookie-cutter American, a conventional member of a conventional type, to such an extent hers can be found even in Canada, the U.K. & Australia.) The closest approximation I can think of to Chenoweth is Dolly Parton, another original. 

Not good, but still not as bad as what disgusting Philly fans would have done.  Thank goodness the Eagles suck and we don’t have to worry about seeing their loathesome “fans” at a championship game anytime soon or hopefully ever.

Uh, you mental midget would-be music critics seem to miss the point….which is the total lack of respect shown by too many in attendance at Candlestick Park (or whatever they are calling that p.o.s. stadium these days) during the singing of our national anthem……but in Tyler’s defense, at least he didn’t butcher our national anthem yesterday as badly as he did a few years back at the Indy 500……Roseanne Barr should be thanking him……

To be fair, I’m from Kansas City(Red state country), and we boo the opposing team every chance we get. Shit, we don’t even say home of the brave(Chiefs!). Only exception was after 911 against the Bills(they got a standing ovation).  BTW I’m sure Nancy has never even seen witnessed a sports event, amateur or pro.

Give me a break, what did you expect from the land of fruits and nuts, patriotism? 

Concur, thugs.

http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/27694626/34202391/10

Jeers from Queers…..LMAO!!

I’m not saying Steven Tyler is old but when he was born the Dead Sea was still sick.

Seriously agree! 
They screwed up a perfectly good British drinking song – To Anacrean In Heaven – by using Key’s piss poor poem about a battle where our Capitol and White House were razed and we had to suit for terms!

It must have been a condition of the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of !812 that we have to sing a bad poem to a drinking song as penance!

Kristin Chenoweth did a superb job!  Her rendition was beautiful.  The San Francisco fans were so rude to boo the Giants during the national anthem, however, that the NFL should force the 49′ers to rotate Steven Tyler, Roseanne Baar and Nancy Pelosi to perform the National Anthem at all of their home games next year!

Steven sounded to me as though somebody had dropped a cat into a washing machine!  (This joke was originally told by “The Kingfish” on the TV version of “Amos ‘n’ Andy” in response to his wife’s singing).  I do not want to be sued for plagiarism!

San Francisco lost because Tim Tebow was so offended at the conduct of the San Fancisco fans, that he prayed for the Giants to win.  Do not underestimate either the “Wrath of God” or the power of prayer!

Why can’t Taylor Swift and Kanye West sing a duet at the Super Bowl? LOL !

Kristin singing the National Anthem was the best of the year. She was terrific!

Fun fact: We all know who wrote the words for the Star Spangled Banner – but how about the music?  

It was written by a Cuban band leader by the last name of Rubalcaba. His son was also a band leader, and his grandson is now a jazz piano great, Gonsalo. I don’t know if anyone in the U.S. gets to see him live, for the obvious reason of our ridiculously outdated relations with Cuba – unless they see him Canada. American jazz legend, bass player & band leader Charlie Haden put out a concept album with him & several other Latin American jazz headliners called “Nocturne”, under a Canadian label, plus the concerts the group did supporting the album mostly were in Canada.  

Evidently Cuba & Canada have full diplomatic, trade & cultural relations. Canadians are #1 of foreign tourists there & there are Canadian bank outlets with cash debit machines, so tourists from Canada don’t have to exchange currency before going.

America’s not what it used too be.  How about we worry less about bullshit like this and instead work to stop the TSA, Patriot Act and NDAA?  As well as more wars of aggression clear across the world!

What can you expect from Communists in San Fransicko?  They have no respect for anything but subversion and perversion.

and two fumbled kicks deep inside their zone late in the game – but mostly those two fumbles.

I can’t recall any other recent year where any of the 4 possible outcomes would have been just as appropriate for the Super Bowl. It might have been different if Green Bay hadn’t lost the week before to the Niners, but it almost looked like the two games were continuations of each other, the dynamics were so similar. (Maybe it helps not be a fan of any of them; my team didn’t have even a sniff this year.)

And it looks like the same effect we’ve seen in the last two World Series of MLB is in this year’s Super Bowl – the winner doesn’t have to dominate the season; it can come together late in the season. The 9-7 (now 11-7) Giants’ secondary is a mess, but their line play is overwhelming, & that Jason Pierre-Paul, in just his second year, looks like what you’d get if you combined Lawrence Taylor with Michael Strahan. Plus the NFL clearly has a new ‘best QB named Manning’, & Coughlin’s game plan was better than Harbaugh’s – or at least more daring: throwing in all that slop! And talk about lucky – not just the fumbles, certainly the one that barely touched the return guy’s leg (The field call being overturned was also a bit lucky – not every ref would do that on review on a play that close & critical, & especially against the home team.), but the key to Brady’s offense this year, those two tight ends, may be doubtful: Gronkowski came back to play after that tackle that bent him back, but that can have effects for weeks, & Hernandez is listed as doubtful due to concussion, which sometimes turns out to be a forever thing.  

All that and apparently Tebow being so dumb he forgot to pray for his own team.

Uh, no. People who were writing music in 1814 do not have Jazz piano playing grandchildren. The music was written by John Stafford Smith, originally as “To Anacreon in Heaven”, which was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, a musicians’ club in London.

I’m pretty sure Steven Tyler wrote the music.

It’s just a poem, overlaid on a drinking song, made during the war of 1812. There’s no reason to have this sung at every freaking sports event. I’m sick of this faux-patriotism.

I didn’t hear a single boo in that.

LOL…while I go for more pizza…..

Was the Pelosi dig neccessary? I took you seriously until I got to that…

Tyler did what he does…”walk this way”? Chenoweh was just totally inappropriate for a football stadium.

Yes…another good one.

I agree that the two turnovers by the 49ners were the keys to the game.  However, Tim Tebow and his followers could argue that God caused the two fumbles and gave the Giants the strength to avoid any costly mistakes.  He did not pray for his own team, because he thought it might seem selfish. LOL !

P.S. I agree with you analogy to baseball.  I am still in shock that the Cardinals beat the Phillies and Rangers.  When you are hot, you are hot!

Have you ever heard Nancy Pelosi sing?  Rotate in the great Republican singer, Arnold Schwarzeneger,  so that the San Francisco fans will be tortured in a bi-partisan manner.

Typical of Whiner fans.  They show no respect just like their arrogant coach.  Chenowith did a beautiful job, not so for Steven.  That was excruciating to listen to. 

Finger Of Shame to some 49ERS fans that booed Giants on Jumbotron during National Anthem. Chenowith did a pretty good job.

I think Kristin did a pretty good job, but it was so rude of San Fransisco to boo the Giants while she was singing our national anthem.  As the boos got louder she appeared disheartened and sang a little off balance and it became operatic towards the end of the song. Maybe she was trying to get through the embarrassment posed upon her by those in the crowd that were doing the childish crap that some might do at a highschool football game.
Those who were booing were inconsiderate, and only showed themselves to be disrespectful to Kristin, and our “National Anthem.”

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