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If For Any Reason I’m Being Executed, I Want This Played Before I Go
That way all you bitches get to suffer too.
To be fair, there are very fleeting moments where one can hear a Bonnie Tyler-like thing going on, which shows promise.
But overall, it’s the singing equivalent of driving on a frozen pond.
(Oh, btw, blame the parents, not the kid.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgai8bX3bwM&feature=player_embedded
ht. Norman Einstein
cfm990
July 29th, 2012
32 seconds was all I could stand. The dog left the room after 10. Smart dog.
Ouch
July 29th, 2012
Oh Sweet Jesus.
grayscape
July 29th, 2012
Holy shit… I would have walked off the field out of respect for my country.
sarthurk
July 29th, 2012
now there’s a case for euthanasia.
Billy Fuster
July 29th, 2012
She’d give Rosanne Barr a good run for her money.
Ericthetuba
July 29th, 2012
Nope. Couldn’t make it past “dawn’s early.”
Anonymous
July 29th, 2012
I lasted 8 seconds, kill me already.
Stirrin the B.S.
July 29th, 2012
I stuck it out for a minute. Thank you Britany Spears, American Idol, America’s Got Talent and all the other “talent” shows out there. You’ve butchered the very product that you claim to promote.
Plain Jane
July 29th, 2012
Don’t they have auditions for this.
Plain Jane
July 29th, 2012
Which friend of Obummer paid off the Chinese, Greek or British auditioners to allow this.
reddecaesari
July 29th, 2012
horrible.
reminds me of a kid in my daughter’s class. only child. parents thoughts she was a triple threat.
dance/music/drama. every single event at school, this kid was front and center. she sucked.
and no one had the balls to tell mom and dad that their meal ticket was non existent.
bayrat
July 29th, 2012
I broke a land speed record diving for the remote when that came on,Nails on a blackboard would have been a treat.
Unneutral
July 29th, 2012
Got to about 12 sec.
That was horrible, and I’m tone deaf.
Millertime
July 29th, 2012
32 seconds / Who told this idiot she has talent?
Her parents should have their hearing aids jammed up their asses.
fullcirclethinker
July 29th, 2012
And I’ll bet she thought the applause was for her singing acumen. Little did she know the applause was because she was done!
Libra
July 29th, 2012
Bad shit, man. Just bad shit.
Barry
July 29th, 2012
I live in Dallas and am a big FC Dallas soccer fan. When this started, I hit mute and got the hell out of the room.
Shit like this can’t be un-heard.
m00pa
July 29th, 2012
I turned the TV on watch the games just as she began singing. I thought it was something related to the BS of the olympics and as the camera panned I saw one footballer trying to sing along and I lost it laughing as he couldn’t stay with the stray cat howlings and I realised what I was hearing … the anguish on everyones face is priceless … poor job there girlie … never again I figure.
Chuck O
July 29th, 2012
Outstanding!
scribble
July 29th, 2012
If they allowed the singing of the National Anthem at the Democratic National Convention this is what it would sound like.
BigFurHat
July 29th, 2012
At lest she knew 99% of the words. At the DNC they’d be googling right-wing sites for the words.
Maudie N Mandeville
July 29th, 2012
Eleven and already bleaching her hair. I’d have her spend her allowance on Weight Watchers and trombone lessons.
Stranded in Sonoma
July 29th, 2012
Best comment from YouTube:
BWAHAhahahahahahahaha!
Stranded in Sonoma
July 29th, 2012
I believe we may have a new internet meme…
Name Redacted™
July 29th, 2012
At 2:29 somebody in the room [this is being filmed from a TV set] mutters, “This is torture!” Priceless!
Moe Tom
July 29th, 2012
Her parents must have heard her practicing? And allowed her to disgrace herself? Who picked her?
Freaking awful!
Stranded in Sonoma
July 29th, 2012
This is why I never listen to the national anthem when watching any sporting event. When I used to, the only time I was ever pleased was when Huey Lewis and The News sang it a cappella at the 1982 MLB All Star Game at Candlestick Park in SF.
Yes, this version is worse than the one by Whitney Houston — “The land of the free-EEEE” — where the hell did that note come from?
But this girls name…Harper Gruzins? WTF is up with that name? It sounds like they gave her an “interesting” name for show business and then told her she could sing like Patsy Cline or Natalie Cole. The parents should be arrested for what they are doing to US!
I challenge anyone to tell me the difference between this wretched child singing and the sound of someone strangling a cat.
FreeMan - Chick-fil-A today
July 29th, 2012
#1 – Did you ever try to sing in a stadium with a long first delay and loads of trailing reverb coming back at you from the PA? It can have this effect on an otherwise good singer.
#2 – I don’t thing it maters, it was very hard to take. The face on the guy to the left at .45 sec was the same face I was making from the start.
norman einstein
July 29th, 2012
Hey…in a fair and equitable society, the blame should be shared. She didn’t do this on her own, without “help”.
That would include the parents who told her she could sing, along with the manufacturer of the microphone that broadcast that racket to those in the stadium, as well as the technology that enabled it to be inflicted upon everybody in cyberspace.
OK…now I have to go listen to something really loud and rockin’ and try to forget that.
Joe
July 29th, 2012
Mom’s been telling the little lassie lies. When my donkeys started braying at the moon, I had to cut it off. Even my dachshund was singing and she don’t never sing.
Stranded in Sonoma
July 29th, 2012
If you want to hear an excellent rendition of the national anthem, listen to this. I promise you will get down on your knees and pray. You may even cry.
Name Redacted™
July 29th, 2012
I don’t believe this song should be done a capella. It needs accompaniment to keep the singer on pitch and at a decent tempo. Everybody does it too slow, and as they drag it out they lose their place in both pitch and in the words. I’m so sick of hearing the anthem done terribly. Just quit trying to show off your skillz and sing to a track already, and show your country some respect and honor, dammit!
Chuck U Farley
July 29th, 2012
During the ‘rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air’ part, was that the sound of fireworks going off or people shooting themselves?
(It is Texas, after all)
Doc
July 29th, 2012
Fur, WTF you talkin’ about…Do you actually believe they will sing the NATIONAL ANTHEM at the RUN DNC convention? Maybe have a rapper do it…
JPK
July 29th, 2012
Thank You, SiS! I heard Neil Boortz Friday night. He encouraged a listen to Cactus Cuties, and I’d forgotten all about it. Absolutely beautiful, and nothing beats a capella!!!
House of Kell
July 29th, 2012
LOL…No shit!!! Sounded like someone was beating a cat to death with a set of out of tune bagpipes…man, someone surely lied to that girl, for real!!!
SheVee
July 29th, 2012
It’s really weird. Most of the notes were off by a mile, but a few were perfectly pitched and rockin’ (Bonnie Rait might be a stretch–but very good nonetheless). There are plenty of singers who cannot sing a capella, maybe she’s one of them?
Found this other video of her (age 10) and the singing is incredibly better, but she has a bit of an attitude problem and the song talks about drugs(wtf?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kiPo98qlh4&feature=relmfu
The 17-year-old guy singing with her has a good voice but sounds like a girl.
pdwalker
July 30th, 2012
Dear God! This is what happens when you push self esteem too far!
Joe
July 30th, 2012
Since this was still available today, I decided to try my dachshund, Sally, out and see if she would respond like before. Well, Sally again broke forth into glorious song. If I play it for her twice more, she should have it by memory. NOT!
JohnR
July 30th, 2012
DOES HER FATEHR OWN THE TEAM? I COULD JUST SEE SIMON COWELL DYING OF LAUGHTER
Blacksmith8✡
August 1st, 2012
cfm990, I made it 44 seconds. HAH!
Actually, I was reaching at 30, getting the pointer back on the vid at 40, AND finally clicking at 44 seconds.
but still, I made it further than you did.
HAH!