Jewel puts the national anthem to a folksy treatment. People either love it or hate hate hate it. I thought it was fun. Something different. Article below the tweet recaps the contention. Jewel Just Performed An Incredibly Divisive Rendition Of The National Anthem At The Indy 500
I don’t get what’s so contentious. She misses a few notes and the whole thing sounds sung in a different key. But it’s not like that’s the first time an artist took any liberties. Not a very surprising performance. How is that “incredibly divisive”? I expected something Roseanne Barr level crazy, instead it was about how I’d expect Jewel to sing it. I guess it qualifies as divisive for the Indy 500 crowd? They should invite Flea next year.
I was there. I didn’t care for it but divisive? Its no longer enough for regular people to have a difference of opinion now someone labels those reasonable differences with fighting words
I’m in favor in someone just singing it straight before a ball game. It’s two minutes long, but too many singers have decided they need to stretch it out and go all Whitney Houston. Don’t get me wrong Houston’s rendition was epic as was the Jimi Hendrix version, the others since not so much.
I'm not offended by things like this but I think performers who think they are bigger than the song are asses. It is the National Anthem, it is not about you.
I find the NA as sung by most is terrible, much better as an orchestral piece. I appreciate the occasional alt versions The one done at the Super Bowl by Chis Stapleton was fantastic.
Some people also like to sing along. It makes it harder to do that when it’s sung in a unique way. However, it doesn’t really bother me that much and I think it was an exaggeration for the headline to call it incredibly divisive. Just people having different opinions.
Hard to sing due to octave range big part of problem. Invites experimenting and modifying to try to avoid having to hit the hard noted
People with bigger voices seem to do better. Several Country stations played Lee Ann’s version every morning for a decade.
I don’t care for Jewel’s version personally, but I don’t see anything remotely offensive or divisive about it. It was just meh. Whitney set a very high bar in 1991 that many have tried to exceed but none have approached in my opinion. Well, okay, maybe Frank Drebin.
Drebin is the best. I love YouTube on Police Squad clips and episodes, at the risk of severe spousal judgment
He played with a guitar and changed traditional structure and notes a bit. I didn't find his or Jewelz divisive. I think this is mostly a nothing. A few snowflakes always gonna get upset. Whatevs
