Fergie butchered the National Anthem at the NBA All-Stars game. [The Blemish]
Panther Time is real & Chadwick Boseman will present at the Oscars. [LaineyGossip]
The Fug Girls talk about the male figure skaters at the Olympics. [Go Fug Yourself]
Is Donald Trump truly a historical fluke of democracy? Or is he, as I believe, the manifestation of the fall of the American empire? [Pajiba]
Omarosa says there’s someone in the White House sleeping with everybody. [Dlisted]
Daniel Kaluuya thanked his mum at the BAFTAs. [Buzzfeed]
Important members of Gold Rush are leaving the show. [Starcasm]
How is it that NeNe Leakes & Kim Zolciak are still beefing? [Reality Tea]
Adam Rippon declined the job offer from NBC. Hm. [Jezebel]
Michael Bae Jordan will be back for Creed 2. [Looper]
WHAT IN THE NAME OF DRUNK KARAOKE H*LL WAS SHE THINKING?
The only good thing from Fergie’s “performance” was watching the faces of the players and others in the crowd react or try not to react to what was happening. So funny.
Jimmy Kimmel’s face !
Dude said it all… that shit was hilarious.
I have to watch Jimmy tonight
I get embarrassed for other people easily, so I was hesitant to watch. INSTANT REGRET. What did she think she was doing? What was she going for? You don’t put your own spin on the national anthem. BUT if you do, you better be on pitch.
ETA: And she had the nerve, THE NERVE, to saunter up to the mic. GIRL. NO. She walked up there like “Y’all not ready”…AND WE WEREN’T.
Me too! I get second hand embarrassment so easily! but I watched like the first minute & a half and had to turn it off. She was trying to do some over the top jazzy rendition of the anthem and it was not working at all! I feel bad though, I like Fergie, I’m always rooting for her & she always seems to come up short. Alot of these pop stars have seen the Whitney Houston version too many times and they’re trying sooooo hard to be that, Assess your talent, know your limitations & stay in your lane!
+100000 I was embarrassed for her. Wtf she was thinking?
And the worst part is at the 1:55 mark her face is like ‘I am SOOO nailing this!!!’
eyeroll
Yes, she thought: “I am giving them life!” No. The complete opposite.
HH I get embarrassed for people too and then resent them for making me feel that way. lol
Oh, this was bad. I could not finish it.
Her dress was too small. She was stuffed into it, and just a size up would have looked better.
I do not get second hand embarrassment easily bit my dear God, it was painful to watch. Why did no one stoped her, she must have rehersed this shit? Well, at least most of players had fun trying not to laugh.
Lets not forget the “Lets all play basketball”….after completing that mess of a rendition. HOLY off key, wach-a-doodle version. What the hell was she thinking?
I didn’t watch the game. I have read the comments below and I CANNOT bring myself to watch the video/ listen to the performance. Why suffer needlessly?
OMG what WAS that?
Her vocal style drives me crazy. There is a distinct difference between singing, and squeezing your voice out from your diaphragm as a shrieking yell.
Just because you’re loud, doesn’t mean you sound good.
Someone wrote on twitter “She didn’t give America what it needed, she gave it what it deserved” or some such. lol
Hahaha That is a good one.
That’s the same home my husband and I made to each other! it’s funny cuz it’s true. 🙁
Was Fergie trying to do a Marilyn Monroe thing with the National Anthem. I couldn’t tell if she was trying to do a Jazz/Blues thing or Sexy Time.
No, just no either way
I think it was both; sexy jazz-blues. The worst part of it all? She thought she was killing it!
especially THIS WEEK, right??? The nation didn’t need SULTRY SEXY anthem.
This! Her face at the end!! She totally thought she nailed it. She tried for sex kitten and ended up with strangled cat.
Yeah it was some weird half jazz/half Marilyn thing, and it was HORRIBLE.
Did she…not practice it in front of someone ahead of time? Like a manager, an agent, a friend, a random person anywhere, who could have said “honey, no. No, no.”
Seriously why was she trying to sex up the National Anthem. Fergie, your voice isn’t that great to start with. This was so cringe worthy and funny. It’s one thing for Marilyn Monroe to sex up Happy Birthday to the President but sexy up TNA is a huge hell no
yes, she thought it was madison square gardens back in the 1960’s and she was a marilyn chantuess seranading jfk.
Oh my GOD, Fergie. What in the actual hell was that? It’s like she was drunk in her basement, trying to seduce her teenage son’s best friend.
Nailed it!
I just spat out water on my office keyboard. I had to lie and tell people I was choking. Thanks a lot! 😉
Omg.. this exactly. Extreme cringe.
Perfect analogy.
… while just recovering from a nasty cold and not having her vocal strings under full control yet.
Sung in the key of Happy Birthday Mr. President. (Saw this comment on Twitter- perfect description)
I made it through the first 2 lines of the song before I’m like I can’t. It sounded like she was trying to sound like Marilyn Monroe and failed miserably
I made it for 10 seconds then I had to turn the volume down. Cringeworthy
Fergie has been acting strange for over a year now. I see a mental breakdown happening or something. She’s just “off”.
The woman peed herself on stage a couple of years ago. I think it’s safe to assume that she’s been off for quite a while now.
Though, sometimes people do pee themselves…sometimes to do with age or experience (childbirth), etc….I mean, is it that crazy? It was a concert maybe no bathroom near or she just thought she’d hold it til after set? I don’t know the details I’m just saying sometimes a little peeing on oneself happens. It’s not the end of the world even though it’s very embarrassing and inconvenient.
If a person is belting a song out, they might pee. It does happen.
It wasn’t a couple of years ago. It was 13 years ago in 2005! And yes, she had just landed after a long flight and went straight on stage.
I’m not a fan of hers, but that story shouldn’t be used as evidence that she is spiraling out of control.
What the hell was she doing? What a train wreck. I felt such a huge amount of second hand embarrassment watching her sing. The looks on the faces of the players and the crowd indicated they felt the same way.
…I don’t know what happened. I mean, she was known for her amazing voice at some point, you know? Where did that go?
Worse than Roseanne Barr’s legendary version years ago. The trailer trash is strong in this one. Despicable human being.
“Despicable human being.” Over a song?
Yeah someone that gives themselves the name “texasho” calls someone “trailer trash” and “despicable human being.” LMAO
Someone on Twitter said that even Mother’s Husband would have taken a knee during that rendition.
That is hilarious!
OMG coffee-spit
LOL!
LOL!
The secondhand embarrassment I have for her made this physically uncomfortable for me to watch….
Nice blind item, Omarosa. I am truly stumped. Excuse me, I have a cough.
*HOPE HICKS HOPE HICKS HOPE HICKS HOPE HICKS HOPE HICKS. Cough.*
Hahaha! We already know there are at least two guys, would not be a surprise at all.
What about Kellyanne Bowling Green Conway? She always looks so messy… maybe her sex life is too.
I hate to admit it, but she seems there for less than administrative reasons. To be available. Hint hint.
She still has a good voice. But didnt hit the notes. I guess she was nervous? Or no voice warm-up?
She tried to make it cabaret but this ain’t a jazz club, although those reactions were HILARIOUS.
I died out laughing. She tried to sort of add some raggae in to it and failed so hard.
I mean … she looked great and everyone was having fun? The BEST thing is her manic “Let’s play some basketball!” Yes, let’s. And let’s get Fergie some coffee.
LOL I read this in john olivers voice
At some points it almost sounded like she was trying to sound like Zhavia from The Four, the show that Fergie is the host on.
She sure did!!
So she thought, you know what, I’m going to sex up the national anthem. That’ll be great. (Huge eyeroll)
I got through about 15 seconds. WTF WAS that? I’m so embarrassed for her…
Oh dear.
This whole thread is hilarious but for some reason this comment pushed me over the edge. I have not laughed so hard in a while. There really is not a whole lot more to say about that performance.
Same. That comment made me spit my water out.
Is the news about Sylvester Stallone’s death true ?
celebrity hoax
No it’s a hoax.
Also, I just read Adam Rippon commented that he declined the job because he would have had to move out of the Olympic village, and he wanted to stay with the other athletes. Not hmm worthy.
If she was going for memorable, she nailed it. Otherwise, oh God!
That will be forgotten as soon as Roseanne Barrs butchered performance is forgotten. Never. They must have both been going for something ridiculously memorable
I looked up old National Anthem performances of hers to see if she was always this bad, and the one from 2006 was actually good. In 2010 or ‘11 she started sounding off, but this new one is her worst yet.
It goes beyond sexing it up, which was awful anyway. She was aso very pitchy. And she couldn’t control her vocals. They were all over the place. What a horrific rendition.
She looked fantastic, though. I will end my post on a good note.
I though she looked like Lisa Rinna, which I’ve never thought before
I 🙂 at Jayna’s comment she is always optimistic but then 🙀at yours.
Yeah. Putting a ‘sexy’ spin on the anthem was ill-advised, but if the vocals had been great it wouldn’t have been much of an issue. But to try it and sound like that…that’s what makes it memorably bad.
With those vocals even if she’d just done a totally standard version it still would have been one of the worst ever from a famous singer.
That was painfully embarrassing to watch and hear. Who would try to make themselves sound sexy while singing the National Anthem?
I’ve seen a couple of articles saying the Obama’s were invited to the Royal wedding and Trump wasn’t, these are from sources who usually tell the truth but in an exploitable way, you know, where everything is “Breaking News!”. That could be one of the reasons for his Twitter meltdown.
I so hope it’s true.
I hope so. The world can’t be bothered with a big Tangerine Teletubby crybaby. He will lose his new brown dye job over it.
I thought she was goofing at first. I so hate when they change the Anthem. I was embarrassed for her, but after when she said let’s play basketball, it was cute. Of course Bron was the MVP, who else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meth 1, Fergie 0
Was thinking the same! I’ve been watching her on the TV show “The Four” as a host/MC, and every time she comes to the stage to speak she looks like she just snorted a couple lines in her dressing room seconds before.
I listened to it again today. It wasn’t horrible… or bad. Just made me feel painfully uncomfortable.
Anyone can sing better than me even Fergie’s drugged out cat hiding in her dress!
Gee, I realised that at one time Khloe and Fergie looked the same.
My cat found that very offensive. lol
When vocal range isn’t everything.
Somebody did a remix of Fergie’s MAGNIFICENT performance last night on Twitter…AND I DIED TWICE AND WAS REBORN!!! SERIOUSLY…I LITERALLY FELL OUT SCREAMING!!!! SHE SHOULD RELEASE THAT TOMORROW…IT WOULD GO TO #1!!!! I WISH I could embed it!!!! If you type in Remixgodsuede you’ll see it…I’m telling you…IT WILL BRING YOU JOY!!!!
Oh my, thank you for that!!!! You are correct it did bring me joy.
That did bring me joy! Let’s play some basketball!
I’m not sure she was completely sober when she did that…
It was like a burlesque version gone very bad.
To cleanse the palate, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones’ early album, “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo”, includes an excellent, re-harmonized (aka jazzed up), instrumental version of “The Star Spangled Banner.”
American empire? it’s a democratic republic (while it lasts), Western imperialism notwithstanding.
Whooa lady!!! That easily makes one of the top three worst live performances I have heard. Of any song. Ever. If she had rehearsed it like that, why oh why did not one person tell her to change it? Or did she not rehearse or rehearse differently and just figured she might floor everyone with this impromptu Fergie goes Monroe version? I have heard her off key before and tbh never considered her a particularly great singer in the past, but this is beyond bad. And not only the singing, but her presentation as well.
This was on par with Britneys Gimmie More performance.
The national anthem is really not the time or place to do some sort of creative “sexy” performance and take liberties with the style and rhythm. I think she wanted to show off her vocal range and she’s sort of been out of the spotlight for several years and wanted to get people talking about her. Total backfire. It was embarrassing, disrespectful and terrible. She apologized for it.
I don’t know she seems to be on something lately
I didn’t hear Marilyn Monroe at all in Fergie’s performance. But I did hear a pitchy poor man’s Amy Winehouse/Billie Holliday.
She’s been dancing around these mediocre jazz vocal stylings since she was on Kids Incorporated. Unfortunately she’s lacking in training, vocal range, and honestly.. soul.
She doesn’t have a “soul” or “Jazz” voice. I dunno why she sings like this. It sounds so forced. I think that’s why it makes us all feel so uncomfortable..
It was horrible. I quickly watched Whitney Houston’s rendition at the Superbowl to cheer up.
So is it wrong to be entertained as hell? I mean the looks on the players’ faces will keep me giggling for some time to come. I spotted this on D-listed and had to see what you cats thought. I am not disappointed.
The worst was the way she said “bombs”. Da baaaammmbbs barsting in aiirrr. So fake and overdone. Jebus that was horrific.
More like Star Mangled Banner
Good one Tearose11 !!
Trump is a protest to the fact thay Obama dared to be black. He isnt the beginning of the fall of America. Progress will always have its protestors.
Fergie can’t sing. In fact, she’s by far one of the worst singers in the biz. Her career is a mystery.
It wasn’t that bad. Better than Rosanne’s
A music group put together a jazzy background arrangement to go with fergies rendition… and omg. It’s actyally good. They saved the song 😂 https://youtu.be/bogpQ_BfaPM
I’m still laughing at Tea Roses Star Mangleded banner.