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Bombs bursting in your hair
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 02:44PM 
As it turns out I didn't see it or hear it, but I heard about it.
One would have to live under a rock -- make that a whole pile of rocks -- to have not heard about it.
In those sorts of situations, one turns to YouTube.
I refer to the ignominious and disrespectful mauling of our National Anthem at the start of the forty-fifth Super Bowl on February 6, 2011, by one Christina I-Think-My-Knickers-Are-Too-Tight Aguilera.
Her "performance" can be summed up in a single word: shameful.
I mean, who knew the words "wave" and "brave" had fifteen and seventeen syllables respectively?
And then there was the fact that she flubbed a line.
Ms. Aguilera at first made a valiant effort to ignore the wholly justifiable uproar caused by her gaffe.
Eventually -- say, by halftime -- thanks to social sites like Facebook and Twitter, the universal furor had escalated to the point that she could no longer act as though her faux pas had never occurred.
Ms. Aguilera had her people issue a statement to the effect that she was sorry, she was just in the moment or whatever, and she sure hoped her love of country shone through her unorthodox rendition of our sacred anthem.
(I don't think she ever apologized for the willful and very nearly criminal perpetration of her tortured cats-fighting-in-a-bag vocal stylings upon millions of innocent viewers.)
(Fortunately for them, having downed their first six-pack earlier that afternoon, most were already drunk by the time she "sang.")
It made me wonder: How many times has Ms. Aguilera forgotten the words to her "songs" when she is in concert?
Something tells me the fans who pay ridiculous amounts of money to see her perform in person expect her to remember them.
As if shay shay boom boom wiggle writhe do me right now boy were remotely memorable.
And although I've never sung the National Anthem in public and it's not likely I ever will, I think before I would run the risk of botching it, embarrassing both myself and my country, I'd memorize the lyrics and practice until I knew I could sing them flawlessly.
To do less would be unpatriotic. The Star Spangled Banner is to Americans what Amazing Grace is to Christians.
You don't mess with these songs. You sing the timeless words with reverence out of respect for the millions of heroes and martyrs who, throughout human history, have laid down their lives so that you could have the privilege of singing them in public.
I know the progressiliberals in our society, by and large, do not agree. But then, as we have established, they are mentally ill.
Long before the brouhaha surrounding Ms. Anguishedlera's singularly pathetic attempt to sing the Star Spangled Banner hit the headlines, "journalist" Michael Kinsley at The Washington Post weighed in on the subject.
You'll know you're a patriot if, upon reading his article, your blood boils. At any rate, have a trashcan or a barf bag at the ready.
Because Mr. Kinsley opines that our anthem is "notoriously unsingable" and full of "empty bravado." He says there's not one iota of common values in the lyrics, except maybe "land of the free."
He says "home of the brave" is essentially a lie because it's never been demonstrated that Americans are brave, much less any braver than anyone else.
He suggests we use communist Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land or rocker Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA instead. Even if we make it Three Blind Mice, he's okay with it as long as we rid ourselves of our cumbersome, inaccurate, outdated, warlike National Anthem.
His parting shot is that "Anything would be better than those 'bombs bursting in air.'"
Is it lost on this traitorous jerk that he enjoys the glorious and voluminous spoils of freedom BECAUSE of the brave men and women who gave the last full measure of devotion so dolts like him can sit there all condescending and smug, writing about it?
Apparently so. He's too busy slurping lattes and punching out treasonous "articles" on his iPad to worry about the fine points of what had to happen in order for him to make a good living as a depraved parasite in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
It's too bad that, like ninety-nine point nine nine nine nine percent of Hollyweird types, my beloved Josh Groban is also a flaming liberal.
He's young yet! Still time to reform.
While there's life there's hope.
But at least he has enough class and patriotism -- not to mention talent -- to render our beloved anthem with grace and humility. He's made millions on his fabulous voice and is smart enough to know that when singing this song, it's not about your voice. It's about the song.
It happened at the NBA All-Star game this past weekend.
I hope you didn't miss it. If you did, here he is in all his sweetness -- the great Josh Groban who, liberal or not, has more vocal ability in his pinkie finger than all the pop singers in the world have in their collective sorry carcasses.
Make sure you throw Christina Aguilera and the Black Eyed Please, Please Make Them Stop on top of that noisome heap.
Reader Comments (9)
Thankfully, I did not hear Christina I-Think-My-Knickers-Are-Too-Tight Aguilera, mangle our National Anthem. !!!!!!!! Ugh... Ugh... Ugh....
Gentle hugs...
I did hear the tragedy that is known as Christina Aguilara singing the anthem. Even without the botched up parts, her whole style of singing it was awful. Why couldn't she just sing it like it's written?
As for Michael Kinsley - I really have no words. I'm irritated, angry and discouraged by his ilk!
Darn, I hadn't heard anything about this. Now i have something else to be ticked off about!
Way to go, Josh! And big, wet, sloppy raspberries to Miz Aguilara.
oh gosh Jen is was half passed awful! .Love to hear the beautiful versions..I cry every time.....spot on girl! (hugs!)
...I Think My Knickers Are Too Tight?????Hahahahahaaaa......omg......
Can you believe some moron PAID her for this performance????????
hughugs
This has always been a sore point with me and my hubby. We don't drink beer, so we were fully sober when we were force to listen to this atrocity. Each person who is given the privilege of singing this honored song, wants to put their own slant on it so listeners will remember. Well, we REMEMBER this one. We also remember so many others who butchered the song. Our response? "Just sing it as written". Is that too much to ask? Apparently.
How come I can't Comment, on your latest post? Wed. 2/23?
"As if shay shay boom boom wiggle writhe do me right now boy were remotely memorable."
*snicker*