Aretha Franklin Performs Stunning, Extra-Long National Anthem – IOTW Report

Aretha Franklin Performs Stunning, Extra-Long National Anthem

FOX: Before the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions kicked off the NFL’s three-game Thanksgiving Day slate, Aretha Franklin delivered a stunning rendition of the national anthem.

Franklin’s soulful, four-minute, 35-second performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” brought the house down at Detroit’s Ford Field and quickly went viral.

For reference, the average length of the last ten Super Bowl national anthems has been just under two minutes.

The social media reaction to Franklin was overwhelmingly positive, although many people poked fun at her rendition’s enormous length:

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23 Comments on Aretha Franklin Performs Stunning, Extra-Long National Anthem

  1. This was a PR stunt put on by the NFL because their viewership is way down. Notice in the video how they focus on the teary-eyed players. Pffft. The NFL made their Kaepernick bed…they should be made to lie in it forever.

  2. Had a feeling after the twenty second musical intro that it was going to be a disaster. That was confirmed before she finished oh say can you see.

    This is a train wreck of immense proportion. Very tired of performers trying to make the anthem ‘theirs’.
    Sing The song the way it was intended to be sung, at the correct tempo, and GET THE F%## OUT OF THERE!!’ THEY ARE NOT AT A GAME TO HEAR THE ANTHEM SINGER!!!

    I am typing while listening to this ‘performance’. At the end now. It devolved into Hillary like screeching.

    Don’t care who she is or what she has done this was Awful. Not Roseanne Barr awful but awful nonetheless.

  3. Ha! went to the link and couldn’t watch it because it has NFL content and is blocked! is the NFL really worried about it’s viewership? why block a stupid video because you can see a few players, unless as I may assume it was such a bad performance they are ashamed to let people see it? I’ve joined the NEVERNFL movement.

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