[HN Gopher] Quantifying the diva-ness of national anthem perform...
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       Quantifying the diva-ness of national anthem performances
        
       Author : nickthegreek
       Score  : 69 points
       Date   : 2024-02-24 17:19 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | pimlottc wrote:
       | If you don't see the faces when you get to the part that says
       | "Click on the faces", try making your browser window wider. It
       | doesn't adapt well to narrow windows, sadly.
        
       | AlbertCory wrote:
       | "gratuitous melisma"
       | 
       | Courtesy of Mariah Carey, especially.
        
       | dctoedt wrote:
       | Relevant Reddit thread: "Why can't singers perform the national
       | anthem without changing the melody? It's not just what happened
       | on Sunday night football, it's literally every time someone
       | performs the (American) national anthem. They go off and add
       | their own notes and change the anthem to make it their own
       | personal showcase. Just sing the damn song the way we all learned
       | it."
       | 
       | https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/11427z/why_cant_...
        
         | charcircuit wrote:
         | I've noticed this happens with covers of other songs too and it
         | angers me to no extent when they deviate from the original
         | beyond changing the octave and such.
        
           | munchler wrote:
           | Gotta disagree with you there. The whole point of a good
           | cover is to put your own spin on the song. If it's just a
           | note-for-note redo of the original, why bother? The best
           | covers end up "owning" the song, and the original is
           | sometimes forgotten. Do you think Johnny Cashs's version of
           | "Hurt" would've been better if he tried to sound like Nine
           | Inch Nails?
        
             | anigbrowl wrote:
             | You can make a song your own without trying to rewrite the
             | whole melody. A particularly dramatic example:
             | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Cp55MvX54
        
       | Kim_Bruning wrote:
       | I'm ok with people trying new UI paradigms from time to time, I
       | suppose.
       | 
       | In this case though, I was presented with 2 buttons with no clear
       | way to progress at first (blank page, turns out you have to click
       | on 'continue muted' before even a scrollbar appears, albeit
       | almost unnoticeably thin), and the rest of the content was only
       | available piecemeal.
       | 
       | If you unconventional-scroll through this piecemeal content to
       | the very end (including an entire full screen autoplaying video,
       | even if your screen is UHD), you actually find a little red
       | button marked "skip to more data". And if you click on that you
       | actually find a wealth of data. And no other path to reach it
       | that I can see.
        
       | nostromo wrote:
       | I'm glad Fergie is still being mercilessly mocked [1] -- because
       | since that went viral I think people have toned the diva-ness way
       | down.
       | 
       | It's a good thing because a lot of people sing along in the
       | stands if given the opportunity -- which is largely impossible
       | with most of these big ego diva renditions.
       | 
       | 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DkDrZa0F4c
        
         | steve_adams_86 wrote:
         | Wow, that was weird. Totally weird.
         | 
         | Far better than I could do, without a doubt.
        
       | mynameishere wrote:
       | I found the website a little inscrutable but I think "Bleeding
       | Gums" has it
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny2azUt5d3Y
       | 
       | ...apparently the session singer nailed it in one take.
        
         | rl3 wrote:
         | Voiced by Daryl L. Coley if anyone's curious.[0]
         | 
         | Bleeding Gums Murphy was ultimately portrayed by three voice
         | actors across the character's arc.
         | 
         | [0] https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Daryl_L._Coley
        
       | mys_721tx wrote:
       | I hope they also analyze Enrico Pallazo's performance during the
       | Queen's visit.
        
       | Detrytus wrote:
       | The weird thing is that they even hire all those singers to
       | perform. The way it's done in my country is that there's an
       | orchestra that plays the melody, and the people in the audience
       | are expected to sing, which they always do :) But maybe that's
       | because our national anthem is much better suited to be sung by a
       | crowd than the American one?
        
       | UweSchmidt wrote:
       | Didn't find this one in the list, little divaness imo:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3qD1jKNYaU (Huey Lewis & the
       | News)
        
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