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Re: All Star Weekend Thread 

Post#481 » by TrustFundBaby » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:37 am

I for one am always glad when the US anthem is **** on

Thank you Ms Chaka Khan
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Re: All Star Weekend Thread 

Post#482 » by Chandan » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:37 am

ThemCrookedRefs wrote:Chaka Khan or Fergie? Who did it worse?


at least fergie was singing. I dont know what the heck this Chaka was doing
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Post#483 » by GordanFreeman » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:37 am

That was BAAAD!
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Post#484 » by The Warrior » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:37 am

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will wrote:Common killin' it with these intros.


there's no hype at all.


Still 100 times better than Kevin Hart cracking jokes and embarrassing players on their intros.


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Post#485 » by babyshaq3 » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:37 am

Every year people have to try something with the US Anthem. Just sing it regularly.
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Post#486 » by raptorstime » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:37 am

american anthem needs instruments or something because everytime i hear it, it just never works. Maybe a musican can educate this to me because it doesn't sound like it should be sung..
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Post#487 » by Ranger One » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:38 am

Hope they blast this screaming idiot all over social media. This was the worst anthem i have heard in the history of anthems. Made fergie sound like a soothing melody in comparison.
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Post#488 » by will » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:39 am

Ranger One wrote:Hope they blast this screaming idiot all over social media. This was the worst anthem i have heard in the history of anthems. Made fergie sound like a soothing melody in comparison.


Chaka Khan is ready for all the smoke coming her way :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post#489 » by rocky_da_best » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:39 am

My ears hurt
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Re: All Star Weekend Thread 

Post#490 » by mtcan » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:39 am

I look for Nick Nurse to pull Kemba and put in Kyle within the 3 minute mark to give Giannis a taste of Raptors basketball.

Kyle playing 39 minutes...
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Post#491 » by hsb » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:39 am

A pet peeve on live performances is when the singer sings one note for too long. I don't like the US anthem because that's what a happens on every line.

Who has the attention span for that anymore lol?
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Re: All Star Weekend Thread 

Post#492 » by batman54 » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:39 am

I pretty much can't stand country music.
But I'll take that Canadian Anthem over whatever it was that Chaka Khan did any day of the week.
Talk about self-absorbed nonsense.
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Post#493 » by Lateral Quicks » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:39 am

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Lateral Quicks wrote:She has a great voice. She did a good job.


Great voice. But wasn't feeling the country rendition.


I don't mind some country music now and again, but it was odd to see it at an NBA event though :lol:

She has a great voice and didn't overdo it. I'd take her or over Chaka Khan 100 times out of a 100.
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Post#494 » by Boogie! » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:40 am

raptorstime wrote:american anthem needs instruments or something because everytime i hear it, it just never works. Maybe a musican can educate this to me because it doesn't sound like it should be sung..


The American anthem sounds good imo it's just everyone deviates from the actual melody becauze they think people want pizazz.
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Post#495 » by rocky_da_best » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:40 am

There are screamo artists that would have sung that more coherently lmao
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Post#496 » by Boogie! » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:40 am

batman54 wrote:I pretty much can't stand country music.
But I'll take that Canadian Anthem over whatever it was that Chaka Khan did any day of the week.
Talk about self-absorbed nonsense.


That's what I call musical masturbation.
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Re: All Star Weekend Thread 

Post#497 » by MonkBatter42 » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:40 am

This game might actually start
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Re: All Star Weekend Thread 

Post#498 » by batman54 » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:41 am

Lateral Quicks wrote:
Raps in 4 wrote:
Lateral Quicks wrote:She has a great voice. She did a good job.


Great voice. But wasn't feeling the country rendition.


I don't mind some country music now and again, but it was odd to see it at an NBA event though :lol:

She has a great voice and didn't overdo it. I'd take her or over Chaka Khan 100 times out of a 100.


Ya, I thought it was a weird selection too given the event demographics. I even thought that when she was singing it.
But man, she shone brightly over Chaka Khan.
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Re: All Star Weekend Thread 

Post#499 » by Raps in 4 » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:42 am

Nurse is going to try to sub McCaw into the game.
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Post#500 » by Jcity08 » Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:42 am

They took Chaka out of retirement to perform that abomination. Poor girl should have been sipping her mojitos on a beach somewhere.
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