Try Not to Laugh: The Worst National Anthem Fails
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"shes modulating more than shostakovich"
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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."
At least Shostakovich makes sense.
“She is Modulating” is a very nice way of saying she has no pitch
yes
yes
Yes
If in doubt, call it jazz. 😉
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
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?
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.
Yeah, like there are kids at my school who can and has sung it better than 90% of all celebrities who have performed it.
@@Prometheus4096 US is stupid
Imo American does that bcs they really want to try to recreate that one excellent performance by Whitney Huston, and never really succeed.
@@ahmadfirdaus4183 At least Ben Platt sings it well
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 CZcams lol.
Yes exactly, I agree as an American Soprano too!
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.
🙃
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
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.
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
LMAO PUTINS FACE WHEN SAUDI ARABIA PLAYED RUSSIAS NATIONAL ANTHEM
Putin is turning that meeting into a GULAG recruitment program
He's thinking about whether he should declare war on them.
Putin: Where's my nuclear bomb
@@nikitaostrovsky8416 lmfao
It was Egypt
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
But canadians are Americans
@@mimimonbebe9077 they're from the continent of North America yes, but colloquially people from the US are referred to as American
He definitely nailed it, but “O, Canada” is much easier than “The Star Spangled Banner.” It’s just objectively true.
@@macmatt1718 people from Canada= Canadian. People from the USA= ?(what word would you have me use if not American)
@@mimimonbebe9077 So what's she meant to say? "USA-ians" ?
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.
I’m in hk too and fr though it sounds so fucked up
@aRandomPerson8015 Late reply, but I couldn't agree more. The rhythm was so off.
from hk too, and that sounded SO OFF
I’m from China and it sounded bad but at least it was recognizable😭
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 🤣
It's the gift that keeps on giving. It's always a good day when I remeber it and search for it on CZcams.
Yeah Dont even remind of that 😢…. that was painful to watch a pain in the but…. -
@@OceanicPearlz1 thanks for reminding 😂😂😂
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.😅
fun fact: in my country, the ph, it is illegal to sing our anthem in this way
“This is what happens when you defund the arts”
That person, whoever you are, you’re spitting facts
Plot Twist, that comment was made by a twoset alt
@@anaghshetty every artist has the same hatred for people devaluing their work, so no..
the fact that this performance was made in a conservative political action makes it even funnier
@@rifwann obv I was just kidding, reminded me of the old days when they reviewed funny comments in classical music videos
@@andreyudii3721 ikr I was sobbing
Noobs: she's out of tune
Pros: she's modulating more than Shostakovich
Roomieofficial fans: She's a little bit pitchy
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.
Engineers: okay, we need to build a frequency demodulator.
@@pakacha8999 goddammit rami
@@pakacha8999 lmaoo so damn accurate
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"
Yeah, that was just sick, comical and kind of insulting, but she did seem proud of herself.
“How can I make the National Anthem sexy?
I legitimately felt my jaw drop to the floor when the CPAC girl switched keys ten times in two verses
“Is this anthem (US) just that difficult?”
The US national anthem is basically a centuries-long prank on soloists
Facts
"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*
Yes singing three octaves is no fun at all.
It does, at least, stop the crowd from singing it at sporting events.
I thinks it makes it worse that most performers try to change it up.
That woman at the GOP CPAC wasn't just off key, she lost the key and got locked out of her house.
Best comment I have read by far
@@CT-ni2gf thanks. I do try lol
HAHAHAHAHA OMG
I'm British and I would have done a better job of that by burping
ooooh burn
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.
Yes, I decided to look at it for the first time and it sounded weird
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.
He can get lots of breaks if he climbs up to the top floor.
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.
Who was the idiot who put CARPET ON TOP OF ICE?
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!!
@@flo-gs8qw I didn't think it was a fail. The fail was the dumbass carpet, but the singer was a goddamn champ.
@@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
@@greenapple9477 In Toronto Maple Leaf games, often they honor soldiers who come home and they lay the carpet for them to walk out.
As a wise friend once said, “You can’t sexy up the national anthem.”
I'm sure someone has
@@ariannahoward4554 fergie?
Yassss
@@dollywhitley3314 I'm sure i responded and my comment was deleted, but i don't think her version counts
@@ariannahoward4554 💀💀lol
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
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…
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.
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
It didn't help that she was weirdly trying to make the national anthem seductive. Like "Santa Baby" without intending any irony
@@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
@@manguy01 yeah, I always wonder why National Anthems are sung that way, y'know??
@@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.
This should be a try not to cringe challenge, not a try not to laugh challenge.
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Yet Eddy still managed to lose 😂😂😂😂
fr 😂
And a try not to roast challenge😂😂
I was in pain. This was torturous...
As a Chinese, I can proof they sang the china nation song almost all wrong
I’m a Chinese too 😊
@@victorlee3949 ayyyy the gang
im half chinese
四分五裂的程度🥲
I was wearing headphones on full volumes on the American anthem 😢
RIP eardrums
We are all in Spain without the S
The Canada guy was the best singer. Even after he tripped.
Who is he tho?
His name is Mark Donnelly
@@selina2331 cool lad
That was where I laughed the hardest. So awesome!
Love how he just holds up the mic and sends it to the audience 🤣 👌👌👌
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
He did great!
You'd think there would have been a rehearsal beforehand, right? Unless he just forgot where he was, lol.
@Hamza Mzali wow, even worse than the USA singer
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.
Who puts carpet on ice?
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
6:18 free vacation in siberia
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 ❤️
Agreed! It's insanely hard
Just don’t sing it then in public please... 😫 it hurts.
She hardly hits any note, it’s not just about the high notes.
We appreciate your talent skill and dedication.
But not that of the girl at Cpac
Yes! It's a famously difficult anthem to sing!
It’s cuz of the melody leaping right?
National anthems are a heartfelt, patriotic, musical homage to a country, not... sexy time.
Now someone has to sing their national anthem in a deep soothing voice
@@amaracea ohh,say,can you see, babygirl?
Havent even finished the video and assuming this is Fergie.... edit: yup 😂😂😂🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
@@russianconservative LOOOOOL!!!!!!
A thousand times, yes. OMG. Talk about totally misreading the situation and being tone deaf in a different way.
0:27 god is NOT saving the queen with this one
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.
That sucks :(
You can tell that TwoSet doesn’t have much experience with wind bands. They were WAAAAY too kind.
Maybe there's no benefit for them or anyone to be less kind.
"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
@@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.
@@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.
Even the good band had some tuning issues
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
Which one was it? Been a while since I last heard it sang
I was actually looking for a comment on Vanusa's performance. Very hard to describe to foreigners lol
@@yopassthefuckinsalt922 "brasil de um sonho intenso" and "brasil de amor eterno"
@@vivianfreitas6179 vanusa just messed up EVERYTHING
@@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
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.) 😅
6:47 As a violinist and pretty much musically trained most of my life, that moment irritated me SO MUCH-
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?”
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.
@@reepicheepsfriend Meant to belted whilst drunk off of patriotic glory, amen. Definitely not whatever Fergie was trying to do!
@@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
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
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That girl at CPAC had so many keys she must be a janitor!
😂😂😂😂
In her defence, it is a hard song to sign. But still, it was not the best look. Better than Fergie though.
@@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
@@tedwards1025 children have higher pitched voices
@@andrewmeany5461 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
Literally the US anthem’s “Rockets red glare” is so hard for sum reason🤣
8:03 tho
oh yeah Brett’s face on the thumbnail 🤣
Singer: *and the rocket's red glaaaare*
Eddy: quacks in disapproval
She is like "If you can sing slowly, you can sing loudly"
🤣🤣🤣
And the other one's like: "If you can sing slowly, you can sing lewdly".
I love how the guy who was skating kept singing. THAT IS A PERFORMANCE
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.
8:15 people who use auto tune trying to actually sing
Singing US National Anthem
Fergie: sing it in *_c u r s i v e_* way
Sing it like one of those French girls. Hope you all get the reference.
🎶"BAAAANNNNERRRWEWAREARERE WAAAAVVVEE"🎶
@@oluchiibe98 ughhhh why can I hear it through this comment 😭 it makes me wish I was more deaf then I already am 🤣
Then smear it
Putin is like: "Ivan, get me the nukes"
Putin looks like my teacher listening to me play out of tune for the 273823748834838th time
Vanya
@Hamza Mzali bro can you not
Ill get em for you mr putin
Time to invade this place and rename it to Putingrad.
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There was this guy in 1994 who sang Oh Canada in Las Vegas....but completely changed the melody and words....
Fergie's NBA All-Star anthem singing was so bad the players looked like they were playing YLYL.
🤣🤣🤣
I’ve never seen this before and I’m wishing I’d gone my entire life without seeing it. What the hell!
Like number 420
And losing.
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.
The Fergie national anthem is a perfect example of interpreting a song without ever understanding the meaning behind it
A veteran BBC sound technician who did outside broadcasts said he dreaded working on events like the Trooping of the Colour, a big military parade involving lots of military bands. He pointed out that they're moving, that a military band covers a lot of space, and you have to be so careful where you put your mikes (and indeed, how many mikes?) and that mixing the sound - live broadcast for TV - means pinpoint precision. Otherwise a mike might pick up, for instance, only drums with the rest of the musicians being drowned by them; or else there's too much trombone and not enough woodwind which gets drowned out by the brass, and you ends up with something as utterly disjointed as some of the stuff featuring in this video. That might not have been the fault of the musicians but of the techs recording them.
3:25 she should be a jazz singer bc she was wayyyyyyy out of tune so many wrong notes
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.
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!
@@annasolovyeva1013 nobody cares
@@rimmka29 clearly many people do
@@trifectum3504 not really clearly
Good.
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.
Honestly
Like a boss boi
How he just gets up and walks on. He is a true champ 🫡
@@tainaj7088 champ 🫡
Who the h*ll puts a mat where someone is supposed to skate?!
The range of the us national anthem is so enormous and it’s really difficult
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.
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.
Wow... Now knowing this, the guy managed it like a boss
@@erizamisorafujoshi7002 May we all learn to manage like hockey anthem man. (◡‿◡✿)
That is tru he indeed is
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
FOR REALLL
German Anthem being played horribly.
Joseph Haydn: angry noises
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)
the german isn't even that hard tbh
why are russian and saudis playing german anthems there? what event was that?
Anyone else watching this one year later and thinking how much they have improved with their videos
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.
Singing Skating Man: Starts singing again while getting back up.
The audience: *Liked that*
I liked that too. He was a brave man!
Yeah, the guy is a champ.
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
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!
Why not just sing the original and be done with it.
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!
Regardless of singing technique - how the HELL did that first girl end up on all those notes?
Facts!
Facts.No one can outdo Whitney .
The fact that he was in tune even after he fell like-
5:09 Everyone in this frame, from Wang Huning to the guy in the left hand corner, looks like they're seriously considering the nuclear option
Hell yeah. Try not to laugh is back.
Now I am just waiting for Charades.
WE NEED CHARADES
Yes ik!
@@_the.black.sheep__ YESS
Comment is older than video lol
The actual “try not to laugh challenge” is for the people listening the anthem
and they cannot do any responds because of respect (stand still when you heard national song
It's either try not to laugh or try not to cringe as hell🤣
The Star Spangled Banner isn’t even actually that difficult. We have to play it for marching band every once and a while, and somehow my section is always unprepared. Sometimes half of us don’t have our music, sometimes we can’t agree on whether to have our concert baritones or marching baritones.
One time there were three of us, including myself. Only one of us had a lyre. I had my concert baritone and just held my music. Another girl with a marching baritone DUCT TAPED it to her bell. The last girl had a concert baritone and lyre, but had lost her music and printed off a completely different arrangement of the song from Google. We were in middle school, but that is my funniest memory of marching band.
The US National Anthem isn't easy to sing because it has a huge range compared to most songs. The song covers a twelfth between its lowest and highest note, and that means that singers have to be more careful how high they start than for pieces with smaller ranges. Inexperienced singers are likely not to give themselves room for the high notes near the end of the song.
Among national anthems, only Iceland's (spanning a 14th) covers a wider range. No other national anthem in the world spans more than an 11th.
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.
Lady Gaga’s version at Biden’s inauguration, I think was a perfect mix of pop and traditional. It worked really, really well.
@@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.
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.
@@juliarunn5009 Hear hear
Agreed
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.
Link pls
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.
@@Ab-dj6lh What on earth are you talking about? You totally misread my comment!
They probably don't want to open that particular can of worms on the channel.
@@caribbeanman3379 It's just the usual "CCP is not real China, Taiwan is" shit
1:05 Vladimir is like… bro what the heck is this music…
7:49, "this guy? is trying to be respectful"
Fergie's display was so embarrassing. Singing the National Anthem is not the moment for "self expression".
Well, not *that* much expression. It's like watching Trump dry-humping the national flag, eww.
She fully skipped a part of the song
@Hamza Mzali stop self promoting
@@blakebowers3708 don't worry, I went through and reported every single one of his comments as spam, you should do the same
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😂
*”Modulating more than Shostakovich”*
_- Eddy Chen, 2021_
i’m wheezing
I’m trying not to laugh while completely laughing
As someone who has had to perform our US National anthem at many big events, it's not easy. You have to have amazing pitch and breath control. But God damn...
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.
Canada’s anthem is easier to sing in large groups I think. Meanwhile America’s anthem is more technically difficult. Yeah?
Isn’t the Americans anthem like five minutes long
@@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.
yeah I was screaming in my head "please switch to your head voice"
Canada’s anthem is easy af lol
I'm very proud that my country's appearance (Canada) was someone being legit AF and just absolutely winning.
So basically everything we love Canada for! :) You have the most embarrasing neighbour, but still remain calm and loveable! :)
@@womiko3993 yeah ofc is ppl from Greenland always embarrassing our southern neighbor
Except now they changed the lyrics deliberately to butcher grammar and smear its dead corpse into the ground..." In all of us command". Argh
@@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?
@@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.
7:28 why did they have to make it jazzy?
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
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 :)
No one has to make a joke out of us, we do a good enough job of that ourselves lmao
@@BeanBean_Official I love the American anthem ( I'm European), but it presents difficulties. These performances were cringe-making. It deserves better.
And egyiptians too xD
@@BeanBean_Official Please explain the meaning of "lmao". I heard this from friends and it was strange. Greetings from Russia ❤🇷🇺
@@Judoudo it means “ laughing my ass off”
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.
I need the notation. Please. Please pretty please.
That is amazing!! Hahahaha
LOL
lol i laughed and cringed. Every time. Especially Russia‘s. How van your mess up such a good anthem?
oh my god i had never in my life heard the fergie version of the national anthem
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
LEGIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
Oo Im An American Soprano too!
You can belt it in full chest voice lol, you sopranos just suck at chest voice
Pls just sing it straight note. No belting. 😂
I must say, that national anthem was not quite 'fergalicious'.
😂😂😂
2:00 This young woman is attractive and has a pleasant & unique tone to her voice. It's very unfortunaate that she can't sing accapella without changing the key of the song several times....sometimes within the same phrase. I'm wondering if she had ever pacticed without accompaniment? It makes me wonder if she can stay on key and pitch if she has accompaniment? Because, (I'm guessing), if she can, she probably would be pleasant to listen to....
1:37
Putin be like: shoygu, where did I put the nuclear codes?
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.
Oh my god
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.
Where’s the video recording
That must have felt horrible, especially when your own grandfather said that, my heart goes out to you my friend.
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
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
Trumpet players carried the team 😭
Trumpet players FTW
The funny thing is that it's not just Xi who was there but his entire cabinet just standing awkwardly
Trumpet supremacy 🤣
YEAH AHHAHAHA when they said the music’s not that bad I’m like haHa guys you sure xD
I used to be the vocalist for our high school jazz band. I also had to lead us, sometimes acapella, sometimes with a pianist, for the national anthem every Monday our school assembly (Australian anthem) and for our school song (we had a terrible school song). Every now and again I'd subtly sing the student 'modified' school song which was a tiny bit spicier to alleviate the monotony. I hated it, but other students appreciated having a guide so I was never ridiculed for it. It would suck to have immortalized public fails like this (except the skater's was a definite win).
@4:23 Being Canadian, and having seen the clip. I knew exactly what was happening. Both of your reactions were priceless. 😂
My favourite National Anthem fail is "O Canada" being sung to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree." ^_^ (1994, Las Vegas - at a CFL game).
the US anthem really was like “nah lemme be a virtuoso piece”
9:04
-hey bro, nice ceiling
-heck yeah
As a Canadian I remember when this happened and everyone was so impressed with him and his singing
Like, this is what happens when you don’t practice 40 hours a day
This happens when you arent ling ling
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 🙂
😂 when you from a small enough nation that you escape this issue.
Been there lol
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
@@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... ;-)
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.
Whitney’s version has a full orchestra supporting her and affirming the key changes.
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.
Eh, you know they should just go for the Hendrix version and call it a day.
@@mattbalfe2983 Then they shouldn't be singing the anthem on stage.
She modulated a quarter tone, impressive
As an American this video feels like being put on one of those medieval stretching racks