O! Say Can You Sing

Steven Tyler flubbed the National Anthem, or so some say.

Two things to consider:

1. It's "The Star-Spangled Banner".
2. It's Steven Tyler.

We're not talking something simple such as "Happy Birthday". Our National Anthem is a very difficult song for most of us to sing. The phrasing is a bit weird. The first stanza is basically two questions. The melody goes from too low for me to sing all the way up to too high for me to sing.

We're not talking Doris Day. We're talking Steven Tyler. He sang the song exactly how you would expect Steven Tyler to sing it. No one should have been surprised.

And what about all the crowd noises while he was singing? That was very disrespectful. Maybe we need to get back to a Marching Band playing the song while we all sing along. Gotcha! You know you would flub it too, don't you?

The perfect solution is to have Stephen Colbert sing the National Anthem. He always does a wonderful job.