I know Roseanne is the clear winner, but what Steven Tyler just did at the AFC Championship is right up there...

If you want the Star Spangled Banner performed correctly get a country music artist to do it.

Ewwwww , is Tlyer still out there screaming his guts out Get off the stage Tyler!! Your time is up maaaan!

Tyler was pretty bad. Getting tired of the product placement crap in sporting events. He wouldn't have even been considered if it wasn't for American Idol. I still don't understand why he would be there considering the game is being broadcast by CBS.

Here is my fav.

Say what you will about us eurowussies, but we've eliminated that problem long ago: Just let the crowd do the singing:


The Star Spangled Banner is a beautiful anthem and deserves better than some ham performer butchering it with his/her "special touch".

There's no way you can avoid the 'special touch'- contrary to what people think, there's no 'correct' version. It was a poem put to music.

Even if you have the sheet music, that doesn't indicate how it's supposed to be performed or what it would sound like if sung. I don't like country, R&B, or Top 40 versions, but that doesn't mean that they're wrong musically.

Tyler is Boston's bad boy, and was in full swing when I lived near there in the mid/late 70's.. They have a special place in their hearts for him end his drug addled screeching.......(I say that with love. I had the huge Aerosmith poster too!)

I have been using that line for years ! No one knows what i mean but i get a laugh out of it lol!

I want this shirt

ENRICO

I love Aerosmith too. I just find it hard to believe that Tyler was the best they could find for the AFC championship game. There has to be someone in the Boston area that can carry a tune.

I firmly believe that just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean you should. Tyler should have said 'Thanks but get someone that can hit the high notes without sounding like he just got his nuts kicked.

Well, that was kinda my point: Let the crowd sing it, then it's everyone's interpretation and everyone's effort and then it doesn't really matte if most sing a bit out of key.

Well, this is my point. First, get somebody who can actually sing (you would think that would be important).
Then, sing it without any embellishments cuz it doesn't work. We don't need a rap version, or a soulful song, or a country singer wailing..or someone sounding like he got kicked in the balls....

It's the National Anthem for Chris'es sake, show some respect.

Play ball!

There's doing it off key or just badly or what have you.

But at some point, it comes to a matter of taste. Some people think an opera version is more faithful, or a country version more patriotic. Those people will probably think an R&B or pop version is wrong. Some people waver their voice, some people roll their R's, some sing people sing in a tennor, others a baritone. If you recognize the tune as the National Anthem, that's really what is. No one will be able to show any one Youtube clip and demonstrate that is what it's supposed to be.

Now in the US, there is a habit of course of commercializing everything, the National Anthem is subject to that. If you want to remove that, maybe it shouldn't be done at commercial sporting events, it should only be reserved for official duties.

So notwithstanding the Naked Gun version, there are three other versions posted in this thread. Are not all of them wrong?

We have:

Country version
Opera Version
Stadium Version (like the way Europeans sing songs during football matches)

Aye yer other national anthem

Try and get any other croed to belt out their anthem like that the Scots do "Flower of Scotland".....Well done !!

and my ancestors were English

Should be: "We've got nothin' to do in Edinburgh when the Tesco closes after 5 PM, all the pubs are closed by 11 PM, it ne'er stops rainin' in Glasgow, lads..." or something.

Seriously, the pubs in England and Scotland close down early for a bunch of beer drinkers.

I don't get the reaction Tyler is getting for this last anthem. I thought the one that was really out there was the 2007 Indianapolis 500, where he not only had a harmonica introduction, he also changed the lyrics in a pretty disrespectful way.

Never cared for him or his music. The crowd though is responding to it and don't seem bothered.

Keep in mind they are playing these at flashy, gaudy sporting events.

Clearly the worst:

The above is an example where it's not all country-fried or rocked out or R&B or Opera and it's still bad. That boy has no range, it just sounds flat and soulless.

Why let one spoil it when 75,000 get it spot on !

ps words below !