Not going to fight you over the Star Spangled Banner. Too many key changes, difficult to sing. And they make kids sing it too
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The range in pitch is far too great for normal ppl to sing it well, which encourages us to have performers sing it as a show off number
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There is nothing as intolerably interminable as some pop singer stretching out the Star Spangled Banner by adding ten notes to every line
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nothing says patriotism like forced adoration of a militaristic rewrite of an old British drinking song.
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I hate 'The Star Spangled Banner' . Wish 'America the Beautiful' was our anthem.
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well it's technically a "borrowed" melody from a British drinking song, IIRC
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ummm...originally a drinking song, so THE BEST ;-)
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"Anthems" are supposed to be sing along songs
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God Save the Queen is a classic which is why we stole it
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Least it's not a dirge like "God Save the Queen" or a total snooze-fest like "Advance Australia Fair" (two I'm familiar with)
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