Feb 2 2009Jennifer Hudson pwned the National Anthem

One of the greatest lip-synching performances of our time. I cried a pre-arranged tear when I heard her sing.

first hehe

for sure she kicked ass last night

She really did a fantastic job.

You go Jennifer Hudson.

Well done!

Yo Yo Ma and that Jewish guy also faked their performances moments before Obama got sworn in.

We live in a world of liars.

Exactly.. Faith Hill lip-synched - so did Jennifer Hudson. To be fair, that decision was made by the NFL, not the almost singer.

Finally- some positive praises where they are do- lip-sync or not, who cares- she pulled out one amazing performance last night and what a way to get back in to the swing of things.

Finally- some positive praises where they are do- lip-sync or not, who cares- she pulled out one amazing performance last night and what a way to get back in to the swing of things.

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Actually, she pulled out an amazing performance a few days ago. Last night, the audio guy pulled out the amazing performance and hit the *Play* button.

Meh...

The National Anthem is one of those songs that I like to hear performed straight. There's no need to add your personal touch to it. It doesn't need to be all jazzed up, or countried up, or rocked up, or souled up, or gospled up.

Just sing the notes as written - no extra glitz from the performer is needed - then take a bow and get off the stage.

I guess the Fish has too much wax in her ears. You must be kidding? That schmuck sings as well as a hyeana.

Meh, what's the point if you're just going to lip synch? Why bother to bring her there when they could just play her performance. I never understand the point of lip synching. I mean, isn't the whole idea that she's an amazing singer and therefore she was given the honor of singing the anthem? Hell, I'll sing the anthem if I can just lip synch to it. I reiterate my "meh".

I could have done just as good of a performance if I had lip synced to her recording too!

Area Man I have to agree with you. Her rendition sounded like a hooker moaning to get paid more rather than a respectful performance of our national anthem. Faking the national anthem brings shame to its words and out nation.

Area Man I have to agree with you. Her rendition sounded like a hooker moaning to get paid more rather than a respectful performance of our national anthem. Faking the national anthem brings shame to its words and our nation.

It was beautiful and I hope that it gets her at a place where she feels like preforming more. BTW, I didn't see anything pre-recorded about it, and I would've loved to have seen LESS of Bruce's crotch-slide into the camera. Side by side, Jennifer was perfection.

I'm always envious when i hear the US anthem, or Canadian, both songs celebrating the relevant country that you can put some gutso into. Try putting any gutso into God Save The Queen, Its a dirge, celebrating only one person, not the country. miserable in comparison.

I have a feeling some of you are mad she pulled this off. NFL has specific rules regarding Superbowl performances. Mariah, Whitney, Aretha, Beyonce, Carrie, Jordin, Jewel, Cher and pretty much everyone post-Roseanne Barr has lip synched it. She did a phenomenal job. Shut up haters!

What a powerful voice she has !

Yeah...great lip-syncing performance. Gimmie a break!

Normally I'd agree with Area Man that the anthem isn't a cover song, but shit......she was truly fucking awesome. GOD! I hope that jerk off who killed her family was getting butt-flogged while he was being made to watch it.

Even if it was pre-recorded and lipsynced it was still her voice, and she was obviously singing along even if you didn't hear her live. She sounded amazing and looked amazing and it was....wonderfull.

Even if it was pre-recorded and lipsynced it was still her voice, and she was obviously singing along even if you didn't hear her live. She sounded amazing and looked amazing and it was....wonderfull.

She was amazing. She lip syhched over her own live voice recording from earlier at a rehearsal so its not like she lied. They don't allow live singing during the game thanks to Roseanne Bar.

Nice typo in the headline. I thought you meant "pawned"

You got Jennifer keep up the good work.....

You got Jennifer keep up the good work.....

I agree. Sing it straight. It's not a gospel song.

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um, christine, he meant to say pwned. You are teh gay.

The NFL just doesn't want a Robert Goulet moment where the singer forgets the lyrics.

Pwned= owned...where have you been? J. Hud is super strong, if I was in her case I'd probably kill myself...I mean really, life without my mom or my siblings--just too crazy to even think about.

29. OMG some of you are so freaking retarded. She sang it with feeling, it doesn't sound like a gospel song. If you want a boring solo sing it yourself and shut the fuck up!

Frankly, I thought it was spectacular

What the hell is wrong with this writer. You wouldn't be praising her if her family hadn't been butchered. You're an ass-sucking wanker.

Singing from the soul, lethal domestic violence, sustained over-eating: Jennifer Hudson's life is a classic black American story.

Her nephew thinks this version of the National Anthem with be on charts this week, in the top 20...with a bullet.

"The National Anthem is one of those songs that I like to hear performed straight. There's no need to add your personal touch to it. It doesn't need to be all jazzed up, or countried up, or rocked up, or souled up, or gospled up.

Just sing the notes as written - no extra glitz from the performer is needed - then take a bow and get off the stage."

It's a fucking barroom drinking song. It's meant to be sung 100 different ways, depending on which collection of drunks is singing it. Your comment is merely empty-head patriotism.

my faith in humanity would be further regained if you dropped dead. i'd also laugh and laugh. you are useless.

the version was absolutely brilliant. the best that i've ever heard at a game.

I thought she did a spectacular job--I don't care if the performance was live or lip-synched as long as it was her voice to begin with.

Like "Area Man", I'm also sick of singers who have to throw in their trills and exaggerations from beginning to end and generally turn the song from a national anthem to a "look at what I can do" self-indulgent display. However, I didn't feel Jennifer did any of that--she sang the song respectfully and true and gave it a strong finish. Perfect.

You go girl!! What a great example JH truly is :).

Whatever the fuck it is you're trying to say, which I'm assuming is supposed to be a joke at the expense of a murdered child, is ridiculously incoherent....you low-class fuck.

Fat girl fake sings.... badly

Pathetic to pretend to sing no matter who you are.

She's America's Nutrasweetie.

It's impressive that she could do this so soon after her nephew went to the big KFC in the sky.

She was planning to wait to sing the National Anthem on opening day for the Cubs, but her psychiatrist thought she might start convulsing when the umpire yelled "Ball Four!"

I see she's still on the Jessica Simpson diet.

Why all the sycophany about someone lip-synching? She came, she saw, she pretended. Big deal.

She looks like a shit I took this morning

yea that was truly inspiration lip synching. How does she do it? She didn't miss a mark and moved her lips perfectly. Way to go!

35. Freddo - I agree.

The writer is trying to be a real reporter and not the pathetic loser he is.

It's not her choice to lip sync, because of the acoustics or whatever of the stadium they prerecord the singers and then play that back while they lipsync.. It is her voice without editing but just not her singing it at that time. x.

UGH
Will everybody just get
OVER her?!?!
She's so boring and not
an actress and she's
just an okay black-beyonce
wannabe.
She's not that good.

UGH
Will everybody just get
OVER her?!?!
She's so boring and not
an actress and she's
just an okay black-beyonce
wannabe.
She's not that good.

This girl has been through hell and back and still has the balls to carry her head high and keep a low profile with the media.

She became famous because of the type of person that she is inside and out, not b/c she prances around like a coked up media whore using publicity to make money and get attention, or because of her family status/fame. She is someone people can actually relate with and respect.

Superbowl anthems are all lip-synched now, but you could tell she was singing along and put her heart into it.

To the jerk-off's who find the nephew jokes amusing - you are sick sick fucks. I'm sure you will die alone masturbating in your mother's basement with nobody to love you but your Fleshlight.

She blows. Go back into nothingland until another loser negro shoots up your family.

#33 Eat shit and die.

Thanks,

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Ya'll talk a lotta shit for a bunch of jerk-offs commenting on a celebrity gossip blog......

Hopefully that "loser negro" will do us all a favor and make it to your doorstep first.

#59 - YES! Excellent. You've arrived at the purpose of this blog. Congratulations.

Although Jennifer's voice rocked the house (as usual), what the hell happened with that crappy accompaniment? i hate it when they kill a good singer with someone who wants to get *artistic* with the background sounds. I mean, I might have even shed a tear myself if it had just been Jen's voice.

I like Jennifer Hudson, and I have no problem with singers putting their own spin on the National Anthem. But honestly, it was that good. It was actually the opposite of good. And the ending was atrocious. Still, she's a great singer.

61--and you find that a source of self-righteousness........how?

Why was Jennifer Hudson chosen to sing - I said sing - the national anthem at the Super Bowl? There are a lot more deserving singers out there with experience and talent. She has neither of those things.

I hate that the national anthem is persoanlized by screeching black "singers" who try to make it soulful. It's the national anthem of the US of A if you can't get excited enough by singing it right then just don't bother.

"But honestly, it was that good."
I think in your rush to be Simon Cowell, #63, you left out a word, thus causing your thesis on Jennifer Hudson's performance to be confusing to the reader. Please try again.

She nailed it.

Hey, you got a hat?

#64 - um...never mind. You're boring.

Now that there's a porch monkey in the White House, every time the national anthem is "sang" at a sporting event, it has to be a fellow porch monkey singing it. It's a law now. If a white person was chosen to sing, it would be racist.

OUCH! That hurt. Some pompous, sanctimonious jerkoff just called me boring.

She's a very talented lip syncher.

Grats.

It was still her voice she was lip syncing to. Fucking DUH!

Jesus...

I haven't heard it yet and can't listen now because I'm at work.

But I can't believe those of you making fun of her nephew. That's horrible! Though I am not surprised. At all. :/

Reached for comment, Jennifer's nephew said "Worms...could somebody please do something about these worms? They're crawling all over me and eating my flesh. This sucks."

She bastardized our nation's anthem and you are praising her? That's it ... For every single one of these singers that shits all over the Spar Spangled Banner from now on, I am going to select one of their songs at random, completely change the notes and the timing and broadcast my shitty-ass version across Youtube. Honestly Superficial, I know that she has been through a lot, but don't give false props.

Pwned as defined by The Superficial: Definition 1) Sing like you are squeezing a cat and call it music.

She sucked, plain and simple.

Only saving grace was that she wasn't playing a Kat Deluna and forgetting the words, God save the teleprompter for these retards.

nothing's real in this country any more. especially women. fake hair, nails, tits, face, body, tan, personality, and now voice. no wonder american men go to europe to find a wife.

Give me a frickin' break!!!!!!! The ONLY reason, and I mean ONLY reason, she appeared is because of her tragedy!!! She surely doesn't deserve it and she didn't sing it live. It was taped and she lip synched. So get off your high horses about "how great she is". She mediocre at best!

To all you rabid traditionalists out there - the lyrics to your anthem were originally a poem, set to the tune of a British drinking song, already popular in the States with various different sets of lyrics. I think adding your own inflection is fine, and she did a good job of producing a very emotional performance without going into over-the-top diva territory.

Give me a break!!!!! That chunky piece of shit and her horribly over-done ear-splitting "noise" was the second worst part of the entire Superbowl...... Warner's int. at the end of the 1st half was the worst. Christ, I had to get up and run from the room when she started in with her screeching.

During the (pre) game, the Cards head coach was mic'ed up. After the national anthem, he supposedly said something along the lines of "I sound like that in the shower".

Having listened to it on the radio, so I couldn't see all of the glam they added, I'd have to agree. The tone was off and the timing to the music wasn't quite right. 7/10 if I'm VERY generous.

Fish, our national anthem was written during a time of great turmoil. It was one man's joy at seeing his nation's flag still flying after a brutal assault. This fat nigger did not "pwn" it. She did the typical over sing style so many spooks are so fond of doing. Mostly because their natural voices are so terrible. You will never hear one of these singers not go nasal and overuse vibratto. Not one. It's disgusting you think this pig sang it well. The anthem is meant to be sung by those in attendance quite honestly. Which is why it is usually played as an instrumental. Learn.

hells yeah
i was glad to see her out there and see her kick some ass
good for her
and thanks for saying it

OWNED. OWNED. Geez.

Even if they require a backup track to make sure everything goes smoothly, you could tell that she gave it her all. She was out of breath by the end, and it's not because OMG she's FAT. I'd be gasping by the end of that song, and I do at least three hours of cardio a week.

Honestly, Jennifer was the only person I liked in Dreamgirls (good god did I hate that movie). Her character was a little grating sometimes, but ultimately sympathetic. She gave the role appropriate arrogance, then transitioned to a largely beaten down woman trying to hold onto her dignity. Beyonce claims to be jealous of Jennifer. She says "I wish I could have gained thirty pounds and played that role." She had to lose weight to play a less interesting character instead. Oh, how sad for Beyonce.

I really didn't think it was anything spectacular. Good for her for getting out there, but I just wasn't that moved by her performance.

Pfff, big deal. WHat is amazing though is how they trained a silver back gorilla to sing. :)

She lip-synched that performance and so did Faith Hill. That ain't amazing - that is some sheeeiiit!!

She lip-synched that performance and so did Faith Hill. That ain't amazing - that is some sheeeiiit!!

lol lip sync....

Get over it, douchebags.

I can't believe some of the heinous shit I'm reading here. Fantastic performance by J.H. Honestly, the same jerkwads bitching about the lip-synching are probably the same morons who watch faked shit like wrestling and The Hills. You can can thank Roseanne Barr for fucking up the process. Thank God that Faith Hill didn't try to pull off the anthem.

You american people always get racial!

Even when you have something good happen, some of you just have to get racial. tut tut

I didn't pay for the performance, so I don't give as big a shit...but really...if you're not going to sing it, and you're honest, what's the point of the microphone? Seriously...drop the mic or announce that it's a pre-recorded bit and I'm OK with it.

What's that? You won't do that?

Yeah...fuck you TV.

She did a great job. To anyone that bashes her for lip-synching, I would love to hear you sing it. Her pre-recorded track was awesome. Everyone lip-syncs the National Anthem - Whitney did it, also.

all i got to say is she was great. lip synch or not. she is a great singer. also #69, 87 and 75 u disgust me!!! I dont find anything wrong with what she did. The day before or whenever she sang the national anthem they recorded her doing it! they played it and she lip synched big deal!! everyone does it at the super bowl.

#26...yeah, that headline was a silly typo. I had to do a double take. Then I had to actually READ THE ARTICLE, that Fish thought she was awesome. Huh? She wasn't singing it LIVE. Meh. That dragging ass song should be replaced by "Livin' in America", by the late James Brown. No kiddin!

Nigger