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    Wa-D.D. DriverKatie Rife
    2/19/18 5:06pm

    She sure is taking some (lady) lumps over this.

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      Nick NamenoneWa-D.D. Driver
      2/19/18 5:11pm

      Ha! nice. I actually didn’t mind this version. It is different and kinda weird. Better this than someone that can’t sing. I hope people start doing all sorts of different arrangements.

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      GreyWa-D.D. Driver
      2/19/18 5:25pm

      I thought the rendition was positively Fergalicious.

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    CGI PinataKatie Rife
    2/19/18 5:54pm

    Seeing Rosanne Barr tweet “lowkey” is one of those things that makes me wish the apocalypse would just hurry it up already.

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      L.S. DogCGI Pinata
      2/19/18 6:13pm

      Yeah, I think we’re burying the lede here. Even if somebody tweeted that for her (I have no idea if Roseanne tweets her own tweets), it put the image in my head of her saying it, and that’s equally as bad. 

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      gato fantasmaCGI Pinata
      2/19/18 6:42pm

      I’m not sure how that word is supposed to be used, but I’m positive it’s not like that. At least we’ll have old people awkwardly using current slang to keep us entertained before the Rapture.

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    the ghost of eazy eKatie Rife
    2/19/18 5:50pm

    Carl Lewis at least give it an honest go. This was patent;y offensive, but I doubt there will be any outcry cause she’s whiter than Martin Mull eating a mayo and Wonderbread sandwich

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      Vitamin Shoethe ghost of eazy e
      2/19/18 5:59pm

      Oh I gather that though still not sure who greenlit him to sing (Im glad they did) but Im sure they were like “Shit he can do everything else, dude says he can sing let him sing its gonna be awesome!”

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      marcus75the ghost of eazy e
      2/19/18 6:30pm

      I think Steph Curry’s confused blinking was the appropriate response. As WTF-led-you-to-this stylistic choices go, it was no R. Kelly having dancers foxtrotting* in the ring for the Taylor-Hopkins national anthem.

      *-I am in no way certain they were doing the foxtrot, but it’s the closest dance I sort-of recognize.

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    MiltoniusKatie Rife
    2/19/18 6:05pm

    I would never cast myself as any sort of Fergie defender, but while this was definitely not good, I didn’t think it was particularly memorable or noteworthy in its badness. Our national anthem is kinda dull, and watching pop stars solemnly mumble their way through it until they get to the glory note is one of my least favorite elements of major sporting events. (It’s also hilarious that the one rendition virtually everyone agrees is great — Whitney at the Super Bowl — was pre-recorded and lip-synced, and now stands as a defining piece of wartime kitsch from a then-minor war that would have major unforeseen consequences on the world for decades to come.) I wish more people would shake it up a little bit — this one didn’t come off, but whatever, at least she tried something different.

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      GACMiltonius
      2/20/18 10:09am

      I’d certainly rather a screwed-up live vocal than a flawed ‘performance’ of something pre-recorded.

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    AudioWeaselKatie Rife
    2/19/18 6:06pm

    You know.... this didn’t quote work. BUT, I think she’s got a torch singer vocal down. I’d like to see her come out with a jazz album, just to see what she can do with songs that are designed for this sort of thing.

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      cybersybilathomeAudioWeasel
      2/20/18 1:30am

      It didn’t quite work == it didn’t stay in a single key and lasted about twice as long as it should have.

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      FilthFlarnFilthAudioWeasel
      2/20/18 8:48am

      There are two roads one can choose when one is too old for pop music: reheating stale jazz standards or shitty country. Fergie could go either way right now. Don’t be surprised to see her in Daisy Dukes and a straw hat by summer.

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    Preparation HecheKatie Rife
    2/19/18 7:22pm

    It’s got a “Linda Lavin singing the theme song for Alice” kind of vibe...

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      jonnieboyagainPreparation Heche
      2/19/18 8:49pm

      Coincidentally, I just saw an episode of “Alice” on tv, for the first time in probably thirty years. Her singing wasn’t good.

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      DeweyCheathamAndHowePreparation Heche
      2/20/18 9:01am

      Maybe it would have worked if, like Lavin on Alice, at the end she was soaking her feet in tubs of hot water. At the very least a certain segment of the audience would have been pleased.

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    rev_skarekroeKatie Rife
    2/19/18 7:38pm

    It sounds like something from a spoof movie. Like, in the scene she’d be crawling sensually over a piano like in Fabulous Baker Boys but instead of singing something sexy she does something wildly inappropriate.

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    FitzburnsideKatie Rife
    2/19/18 5:40pm

    I’m a risk taker artistically

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      FilthFlarnFilthFitzburnside
      2/20/18 8:49am

      Says the singer in the group that re-named “Let’s Get Retarded In Here” so Walmart would carry their albums.

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    OogaboogaKatie Rife
    2/19/18 11:31pm

    I don’t get it, it just looks like Fergie singing the national anthem.

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      DeweyCheathamAndHoweOogabooga
      2/20/18 9:03am

      I see what you did there.

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    DeweyCheathamAndHoweKatie Rife
    2/20/18 9:08am

    As has been theorized, I believe she was trying to pull her version of a Marvin Gaye NBA All-Star game anthem, and she failed miserably. Which anyone will tell you was predictable. I think the problem was that she never said out loud “I’m going to outdo Marvin Gaye.”. Had she done so, she would have immediately realized the foolhardyness of such a plan, and would have gone with a rote, paint-by-numbers, version of the anthem, which is far more within her range.

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