should "Lean On Me" replace "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the US national anthem?

Lean On Me has too much sadness and pathos, it's an anthem for truly the end of the world

whut

"No Thugs In Our House" perhaps closer to the pulse of the American psyche

i just have this vision of the citizens huddling together in their caves by candlelight singing 'lean on me' as the radiation sickness picks them off one by one

Easier to imagine the end of the world than a society based on siblinghood

anthems are for sports events and occasions of pomp and circumstance; they don't really matter but they are intended to amp up glory rather than celebrate siblinghood; if they can do both, more's the better. anthems don't really matter at the end of it and they don't really have any impact on society, but it is a fun question to think about

ITT some people show they didn't follow the whole "did you know there's a verse in the Star-Spangled Banner that celebrates slavery" controversy

anyway, I already recorded the real national anthem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA9UnZUKveY

^^^^ goddamn

Lean On Your Bootstraps

Easier to imagine the end of the world than a society based on siblinghood

which is why my backup in case "Lean on Me" falls through is "Kill the Poor"

'lift every voice and sing' would be a way better choice than 'lean on me'. agreed (and great performance obv)

ITT some people show they didn't follow the whole "did you know there's a verse in the Star-Spangled Banner that celebrates slavery" controversy

I'm aware of the verse in the original poem on which the anthem is based.

Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here fodder but "The Star-Spangled Banner" > "Lean On Me" musically speaking.

i didn't know about that verse :(

why is there no option for "no anthems"

Give me mandatory disco sing-a-longs or give me death.

Give me mandatory disco sing-a-longs or give me death.

― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:32 (twenty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

'i feel love' can be yours, and 'left to my own devices' ours, and everyone wins

/remembers that Eric H is Canadian, not USAmerican

anyway, I already recorded the real national anthem:

Don't mean to embarrass you here but this is not actually an embed of 'Bring Out The Katz'

I'm Minne-Canadian.

it's back on

why is there no option for "no anthems"

just to annoy everyone tbh

i'm annoyed

xxpost from the Minne-Can Republic

"The Star-Spangled Banner" > "Lean On Me" musically speaking

the hideous hot take I was waiting for!

needs a guest verse IMO

The Vajazzled Banner

None of the arguments in that piece seem like reasons to pick a song as the national anthem? I could understand preferring "Lift Every Voice", "God Bless America", or "This Land Is Your Land" but "Lean on Me" is political correctness gone mad. As a non-American, I voted to keep TSSB bc Hendrix.

if they just played the hendrix solo at every sporting event and no one sang: sure

Don't mean to embarrass you here but this is not actually an embed of 'Bring Out The Katz'

yo Griff.... LIFT EV'RY VOICE!

half the stadium yelling OH, the other half yelling YES

currently discovering that i do support replacing the national anthem with "bring in the katz"

This is truly an opportunity to bring the entire nation together

Also bc I <3 that every American has to sing a descending sixth and then go up to the raised subdominant in the third bar of their anthem xps

Lots of people stan for "America the Beautiful" and not without reason - way too religious for me but there is the germ of a good idea in it. It's more about what the nation can become than how allegedly awesome the nation currently is.

"Confirm thy soul in self-control; thy liberty in law" = like, we know there's still some good in you, so please start showing it. We like the representative democratic aspects of the constitution, but you need to get better at actually living up to those principles. "Crown thy good with brotherhood" = the good things about you ("the better angels of our natures," one might say) need to be backed by fostering and promoting moves toward ACTUAL real equality.

Still, way too god-centric for irreligious me. Ditto "God Bless America," obv.

I would be okay with Lift Every Voice and Sing but only if DJP's recording is the only authorized version, and all lesser musicians are prohibited from even attempting it.

national anthem should be yes's version of simon's 'america' and fans should be forced to sing steve howe's guitar solo. if they bum a note, they don't really love america, do they?

Neil Diamond's America

Europe's "The Final Countdown"

Still, way too god-centric for irreligious me.

this is a major reason I like "Lean on Me"

The same could be said for "Dude Looks Like a Lady," of course

Also bc I <3 that every American has to sing a descending sixth and then go up to the raised subdominant in the third bar of their anthem xps

100% OTM

star-spangled banner isn't a banger or anything, but i appreciate the anachronisms, SAT words, bizarre syntax, and quaint contractions.

I was just informed that Americans don't actually sing this song with a range of a 12th every morning in school and just recite some pledge instead. I no longer admire the American spirit in taking on this challenge. Now I just want your anthem to be "Don't Stop Believin'" or some shit.

I would vote for "Dude Looks Like A Lady", for president even

Imagine if before every football game, the crowd rose to their feet and gave a solemn rendition of "Goodies" by Ciara

they do this in atlanta already, iirc

#actually the anthem should just be prince's solo on 'while my guitar gently weeps' at the 2004 r&rhof ceremony

the anthem should just be gentle weeping

Also bc I <3 that every American has to sing a descending sixth and then go up to the raised subdominant in the third bar of their anthem xps

Thank you! Also, everyone who can hold their hand's shape in place for more than a few seconds can play the entirety of "Lean On Me" on the piano, which means it is not good and in fact bad.

No, because I don't want "Lean on Me" being sullied by having to be the American National Anthem.

^^that is a good reason!

meanwhile "songs that are easy to play are inferior", if that is indeed the take, baffles me

It’s incredible

welp, the anthem is officially dead

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10128419-mlb-fans-react-to-viral-national-anthem-video-ahead-of-2024-home-run-derby

i checked other live performances of her original songs and they're nothing like this, but the signs are there, she frequently pushes her larynx up and wavers off pitch, seems they autotune her a lot on record

I watched this right before bed and kept my partner up for about 10 minutes with hooting laughter

Did she record this backwards?

Best comment: "Tough week to be an ear in America."

Tough week to be an ear in America. https://t.co/V9JfYSr12L

— The Food Manufacturing Guy (@TipOfTheBanana) July 16, 2024

AI not quite there yet.

let this be another nail in the coffin for this style of singing please

Unfortunately I don’t think bad singing is going anywhere

of course they included a singing expert in the article saying "well this is difficult, this particular stadium has poor acoustics".

that would make sense if like, you were harmonizing with other people, singing with accompaniment that you could barely hear as you didn't have an inner ear monitor, or had an inner ear monitor blaring your own voice with a split second delay (which yeah, would fuck you up). but if you're singing an anthem a capella, like, how loud you can hear yourself or not is irrelevant, you're not supposed to adjust the way you sing based on how well you can hear yourself. by the time you hear your own voice, the sound has already been produced, it's too late to fix. you're supposed to use the same placement/technique regardless, overcompensating is a mistake karaoke singers make, not professionals. plus, your pitch is your pitch, again...once you hear your own voice, whatever came out has already been heard by everyone, if it was wrong, you can't go back and fix it. you shouldn't require to hear yourself loudly to stay on pitch. the Beatles couldn't hear shit at the Hollywood Bowl and managed to harmonize with each other.

(though as I mentioned above, harmonizing a different thing, as you're listening to how you fit in with the other voices, which does require being able to hear)

otm, plus if you really really need to hear yourself, there's also the highly complex, elite-level technique of holding a finger up to one ear. but not sure a 4x grammy nominee could be expected to master that though

my mother used to ask me why I was picking my ear when I sang barbershop

I said "cos this music sucks"

well it got sad :(

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/who-is-ingrid-andress-home-run-derby-national-anthem-singer/5601196/

https://i.redd.it/dgbbc4kyzwcd1.jpeg

That is both sad, and (in a way) refreshingly honest. She didn't blame having a cold, or the sound guy, or childhood trauma, or Jewish space aliens.

A pretty good “apology” note, I agree

golly it's almost like transparency is the best form of communication. (shockedpikachu.png)

on that note, good for her. whoda thunk that deflowering the national anthem could be such a great example.