San Antonio Spurs To Haters: Sebastien Will Sing National Anthem Again
Sebastien de la Cruz, who classily stood up to Twitter critics, will sing Thursday before Game 4 of the NBA finals. Is he the Spurs new good luck charm?
Sebastien de la Cruz, who classily stood up to Twitter critics, will sing Thursday before Game 4 of the NBA finals. Is he the Spurs new good luck charm?
Naturally, he killed it. Then he heard about the criticism and kindly informed the world that his dad was in the Navy and he was born and raised in San Antonio.
Plus Metallica’s take on the national anthem, an 8-bit Great Gatsby video game, and the heartwarming story of an artist’s first gallery show.
Turns out the “Funniest Man on Twitter” has an equally impressive voice.
The first Bruins game in Boston since Monday’s attacks started off with a rousing, emotional display.
Go ahead, world, just TRY and ruin this song. I dare you. It can’t be done.
Alright, people, let’s do this.
“I’m telling you, Francis Scott Key himself would send her a fruit basket.”
An 11 year old “singer/songwriter” sings in front of thousands at a Dallas-LA MLS game. Yikes.
Prediction: This is the mash-up we won’t be able to stop listening to all week.
USA! USA! USA! F**k yeah!
He was invited to open Saturday’s White Sox - Indians game. Spoiler: it’s not super great (but, surprisingly, not super terrible either). Respect, Danny Tanner — this takes guts. (via deadspin.com)
Before this year’s NCAA National Championship game, Grey’s Anatomy soundtrack fillers, The Fray, performed the National Anthem. The Internet seemed pretty angry about it.
Who let grandma get drunk and start singing again? Steven Tyler, of Aerosmith, “American Idol” and the art-imitating-life piece, “Dude (Looks Like a Lady),” sang the National Anthem at today’s AFC Championship game. And by “sang,” I mean “took an aural shit on,” because YIKES. (via Gawker)
America: Land of the free and home of the tone deaf. Keep some tissues handy for when your ears inevitably begin to bleed.
Everything about this is painful. Go ‘merica? (via popdust.com) Watch Video ›
MY EARS. Gold star to anyone who can make it all the way through. Watch Video ›
Christina Aguilera blowing the lyrics to “The National Anthem” hath wrought a new meme. There’s a template at the bottom, so get to mutilating those songs and posting them in the comments! View List ›
The agony and the Xtinasy of Christina Aguilera’s contorted face. This is what a stroke looks like in super slo-mo. View List ›
Sarah Palin has harsh words for Xtina after national anthem flub. View Image ›
Xtina got served. (Bizzy B Blogs, via The Daily What). View Image ›
Check out the rowdiest national anthem you’ll probably ever see. Apparently it’s some sort of a tradition to cheer through the “Star Spangled Banner,” at hockey games in Chicago. Bears football fans carried on with it at the recent NFL game. Whether you think it’s awesome or disrespectful, it’s a sight to behold. Watch Video ›
After an 8-year-old girl’s mic failed while she sang the national anthem at the start of a Norfolk Admirals game, she got some unexpected and heart-warming help from the crowd. Except for one horrible woman with an unbearable cackle. That woman can go to hell. Watch Video ›
With baseball season starting up, Americans have been googling the lyrics to their own national anthem. Seriously. Enough people have googled this in the past 24 hours for it to have registered as “spicy” on Google Trends. C’mon, America, you’re making us look bad.
Jeffrey Osborne opened the first game of the NBA finals by singing the national anthem.
Bilingual teen pop sensation sang The Star Spangled Banner before a Monday Night Football game where she was mercilessly booed. Listening to her actual songs on her MySpace, it probably would have been a good idea for her to have used a Cher-style vocoder effect. Watch Video ›