The Star-Spangled Banner was a poem written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key about the Defence of Fort McHenry, which later became the american patriotic song.
It's also the one song when can tell a distinct difference in singing talent between vocal/musical legends who have proven themselves time and again and teen popstars when they sing it at football games or anywhere else.
It's also the one song when can tell a distinct difference in singing talent between vocal/musical legends who have proven themselves time and again and teen popstars when they sing it at football games or anywhere else.
The Star-Spangled Banner was a poem written in 1814 about the Defence of Fort McHenry, which later became the american patriotic song. It's also the "sorting hat" in the vocalist world.
Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix guitar Vietnam message...hell, even Mariah Carey.
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Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, etc.
Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix guitar Vietnam message...hell, even Mariah Carey.
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Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, etc.
by Mai Valentine December 15, 2010
Get the The Star-Spangled Bannermug. Quite simply, it's the national anthem of the United States of America. It was written by Francis Scott Key during the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. The melody was taken from a British pub song and new lyrics were added. The song is EXTREMELY difficult to sing, and even though many famous people have sung it at sporting events, VERY few have ever got it right.
I was watching the 2004 Summer Olympics on TV. They were being broadcast (taped) from Greece. The U.S. womens soccer team had won the Gold medal in the game finals. When they received their medals in a ceremony most of them joined in a vocal rendition of the star spangled banner . It was the most wretched, lousy and downright godawful version of that anthem I ever heard in my life, and I've heard plenty of horrible renditions. This was the famous 15 minutes for the ladies, since the networks, the press (and the general public pretty much too) don't really give a rat's ass about womens sports, let alone soccer as much as they do about football, baseball and basketball - especially as played by men. A moment of national pride for the U.S.A., forgotten in a flash. And so it goes.
by I Saw U2 Live Twice October 24, 2007
Get the star spangled banner mug. (1) ' The national anthem of the United States, based on the poem, "Defence of Fort McHenry", written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, who witnessed the British Royal Navy's Chesapeake Bay bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. The poem -- set to the tune of a popular British song, and renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner" -- soon became a well-known American patriotic song. With a range of one and a half octaves, it is known for being difficult to sing. Although the poem has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today. "The Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the Navy in 1889, and by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1508, codified at 36 U.S.C. § 301), which was signed by President Herbert Hoover. ' -- Wikipedia
(2) According to Kurt Vonnegut, the American national anthem is "pure balderdash", "gibberish sprinkled with question marks". (Which still doesn't prevent me from waxing sentimental over "Old Spangles", but then again I remain fond of ""Waltzing Matilda" -- once called "the unofficial national anthem of Australia" -- the jolly swagman's song now axed by the newly prim-and-proper Ozzies). -- Dinkum
(2) According to Kurt Vonnegut, the American national anthem is "pure balderdash", "gibberish sprinkled with question marks". (Which still doesn't prevent me from waxing sentimental over "Old Spangles", but then again I remain fond of ""Waltzing Matilda" -- once called "the unofficial national anthem of Australia" -- the jolly swagman's song now axed by the newly prim-and-proper Ozzies). -- Dinkum
EXAMPLE:
' Trout and Hoover were citizens of the United States of America, a country which was called America for short. This was their national anthem, which was pure balderdash, like so much they were expected to take seriously:
' "O, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's
last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
thru the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched were so
gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs
bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our
flag was still there.
O, say does that star-spangled banner
yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home
of the brave?"
' There were one quadrillion nations in the Universe, but the nation Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout belonged to was the only one with a national anthem which was gibberish sprinkled with question marks. '
-- From Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions" -- Chapter 1 (pages 7 - 8).
' Trout and Hoover were citizens of the United States of America, a country which was called America for short. This was their national anthem, which was pure balderdash, like so much they were expected to take seriously:
' "O, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's
last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
thru the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched were so
gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs
bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our
flag was still there.
O, say does that star-spangled banner
yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home
of the brave?"
' There were one quadrillion nations in the Universe, but the nation Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout belonged to was the only one with a national anthem which was gibberish sprinkled with question marks. '
-- From Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions" -- Chapter 1 (pages 7 - 8).
by Dinkum August 20, 2013
Get the Star-Spangled Bannermug. When you are having sex with a girl when she has a blue waffle, is on her period, and then you proceed to ejaculate inside of her, thus resulting in the colors red, white, and blue.
Star Spangled Banner- The result of ejaculating in a woman with a blue waffle, while she is on her period.
Tyler: Hey man did you hear about Daniel doing the Star Spangle Banner on Susie?!
Noah: Yeah man that shits gross.
Tyler: Hey man did you hear about Daniel doing the Star Spangle Banner on Susie?!
Noah: Yeah man that shits gross.
by ggnoretardswagswag December 02, 2014
Get the Star Spangled Bannermug. The national anthem of Christina Agulera, which she cannot sing. Why? She forgot a whole line at THE SUPER BOWL! LOLOL.
I don't know what was worse: Forgetting your own country's national anthem, or Justin Bieber running into a revolving door.
See Star Spangled Banner fail for more
See Star Spangled Banner fail for more
by Bieber Blows March 14, 2011
Get the Star Spangled Bannermug. They left the Earth just prior to its destruction, but left humanity one last message, a triple jump through a hoop whilst whistling the Star Spangled Banner, which, when translated, read, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
by cameleopard42 May 26, 2010
Get the A Triple Jump Through a Hoop Whilst Whistling the Star Spangled Bannermug. When you have 50 dingleberries stuck in your asshole hair and you bend over and spread it wide in front of a fan to dry out.
by Ickybrainfartsyndrome April 03, 2023
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