Fergie sings the national anthem at the 2018 NBA All Star Game
Draymond’s blank stare into the smile always gets me here lol
Hes fighting it so hard. “Dont laugh, think of math problems, come on…”
Someone told him people can breathe through their noses and he was in a “how is that even possible” loop when Fergie broke through.
What?
Mouthbreathing
“If I punch one teammate, kick four testicles, and trip three feet, how many games will I miss as punishment? 0.”
Just one on 2016, probably fine.
Feels like that’s where the dam broke because after that everyone drops the poker faces
From what I remember hearing at that time from people who were there, he was shown on the big screen with his mouth wide open and that’s why he was laughing when he realized
https://imgur.com/lwQc9lX
lol
https://streamable.com/c14cdx
Dude is the epitome of a mouth breather.
Steph was fighting for his life.
He fought hard, and he lost
Dray barely tried to fight it, however
Perfect follow up by the Warriors afterwards
Then Josh Duhamel got all up in his feelings about them making fun of his ex-wife.
Though he was right about Green being “kind of a prick.”
To be fair, they were married at the time. Duhamel was just defending and sticking up for his wife. Considering they divorced not long after the anthem, I’m guessing he was just trying to save his marriage at the time.
They were separated a few years before they divorced. So they were legally married, you’re right. But they weren’t together.
Maybe it was a Hail Mary attempt to avoid losing more of his money in the divorce
Deep down he was laughing as well.
Hopefully he watches this now and let’s loose
Hopefully he’s just moved on with his life.
And the mother of his child. Of course he ‘got all up in his feelings’ dafuq
Herb Damian Jones with the hype dance out of nowhere lmaooo
Isn’t that Damian Jones?
Ahhh fuck wrong Jones. Brain is mush. Yep.
The warriors were epic trolls after winning their championships. The team basically used “I’m in love with the coco” as a hype song to start the season and the league threatened to fine them if they didn’t stop so they did. One of the players posted a video of them singing it on the plane after the win and the owner just said fuck it I’ll pay it and let them leave it up.
Suede the remix god!!
The “let’s play some basketball!” will always live rent free in my head
My wife has said that every time she’s heard the national anthem ever since, no matter the context
Great idea Fergie, wish we had thought of that
One of the national anthems of all time
Beat me to it, what a moment it was
Shaq, “Oh stop, it was beautiful, it was sexy”.
“America, I need a cigarette”
Choosing to watch this video immedietly after waking up was certainly a choice.
The hilarious part is the fact that she’s not a HORRIBLE singer but she put all these weird affectations on the song that nobody asked for and “made it her own”. She definitely did it in a way nobody has ever seen before or since. I’ll give her that .
The whole thing was just weird, like why are you singing like you want to fuck the flag
You don’t want to fuck the flag? What are you, some kind of commie?
“another day volunteering at the betsy ross museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the flag. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it”
https://youtu.be/QRvVzaQ6i8A?is=CwhBE_YmGFtc15rV
It’s definitely been tried before. Just by someone more talented.
What the fuck? That was the most effortless, gentle, beautiful rendition of the anthem I think ever heard. I knew Gaye was that mfer but still….
yanno what’s crazy is that would’ve been so much better without the stupid backing track
God fucking damn man. That gave me chills. I love Marvin.
At the same time, they hired Fergie to sing it. Thousands of schoolchildren do a fantastic job singing the basic version every day. If they wanted that, they could have had that. If it’s Fergie out there, I’d rather watch her try and fail to do something interesting than see a milquetoast performance by someone known for not doing a milquetoast performance.
The way Lebron looked at the camera
“MJ got Mariah, I get this? LeSMH”
This was not Fergalicious
Oh, but it was. Made all them boys go loco with laughter.
She did it to be infamous. She knew what she was doing.
Ngl it’s not as bad as I remembered , she definitely tried doing too much at the end but its a nice jazz throwback
It is a classic still 🤣
Ngl this is definitely a “you had to be there” thing. Since my memories of the memes and moments were way worse than this video lol. Ngl I think I’ve heard way worse anthems
I was there. It was hilariously bad. Maybe as I get older I appreciate it more but it was definitely all I was talking about the next day in school lol. Plus the players reactions never get old
best thing about LA in 2018 was back then only a few states were legal and I had a bomb ass edible before the day started, so I was still pretty foggy when this happened. My friend has a picture of him meeting Donavan Mitchell in some hospitality area, and I’m just passed out in the sun on a bean bag. Good times, 100mg edibles are fun!
It was also such a wild season. Second year of the KD Warriors, the Harden-Paul Rockets playing disgustingly effective five out isoball, Kyrie traded the Celtics along with the emergence of Tatum and Brown, The Cav’s midseason trades, the apparent success of The Process in Philly, Kawhi’s holdout in San Antonio, Giannis emerging as a star and Kidd getting fired in Milwaukee, the Westbrook-PG-Melo Thunder, and probably a bunch of things I’m forgetting because it was somehow eight years ago.
2020 was worse
That isn’t jazz
Had the same thought… not nearly as bad as I remembered.
Same. But I remember watching it live and it was absolutely that bad in the moment
Yeah, in my head I was expecting the performance to be pitchy but the notes are there. It’s just the weird jazzy ornament choices. Agree with people saying it was a “had to be there” (or watch it live) moment. Gimme this over flea trying to be Hendrix
agreed!
Another all time Fergie moment that never seemed to end. She’s a character.
https://youtu.be/ta3lrbR-AWM?si=EDAuNaBMwjI4BMya
wow the lack of self awareness is wild here
…at the end?
It could’ve been worse.
Unfortunately, she’s not Marvin Gaye.
Agreed, I remember it being a complete trainwreck. It was okay-ish until she hit em with the “Ban-ner-er”
Watching this live and knowing it was going to be an evergreen meme was truly something
oOh sAy CaN yOoOuU sEeEeEeEe….
The new all-time best.
In her mind she absolutely nailed it.
yep best part is her smirk at the end “I fucking KILLED IT”
Draymond kills me on this. That’s 100% the same look every black teenager has when somebody starts losing their shit at church and you’re at that age where laughing it up in public will get you smacked in the back of the head so you just try to stare ahead and concentrate on nothing as long as you can
I think this actually ended the black eyed peas
Ohhhoohhhoohhoohhhh sayyyyayyyayyyy
Nobody beats the Home Run Derby from a couple years ago. Not even Rosanne.
https://np.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1vd4yl7/wpbl_national_anthem/
This one from a couple days ago is up there too
FC Dallas game sung by some girl named Harper Gruzins. I was there. Went viral at the time.
do you have a link? I want to feel even more cringe this morning
It’s bad.
My girlfriend yelled “what the fuck are you watching? Is that a parody or something?” From the other room when it was actually happening.
And her being drunk is a shit excuse. I can belt drunk. Drinking doesn’t effect talented singers to the level she was lmao. She was just bad and daddy got her the gig. Nepo baby to the max. Fergie is far and away the least cringe national anthem that people remember. It’s not good, but there are depths it could have reached.
She sang again at a Colorado Avalanche game and performed much better.
She just has a voice that makes me want to stab my ears out. I can definitely believe she was fucked up during the All-Star game. She’s just not got a good singing voice.
Let’s play some basketball alright 🤣
Nobody wants my bread?!
Sometimes when I need a laugh before bed I watch this and giggle
Fergie was on a heater for the memes. Between this, the time she kept performing when she peed herself and some gold at 9am on the today show Fergie was on a run
BARA CU U CU C CU CU D D D D DA
Carl Lewis, Fergie, that drunk chic at the baseball game. That’s the list.
This legit was the last time I’ve ever seen Fergie in public
It was over for her after this, her attempts at comebacks like Milf Money fell on deaf ears
Milf Money came out 2 years before this.
Not as bad as this one: https://youtu.be/sxHnXajIex4?si=IIixRnuMMyo_YxnV
would
Ive worked in club and school sports for the past 10+ years. Just once I wish they would play this version before a game.
Why’d you make me watch this again
LETS PLAY SOME BASKETBALL
Such a good time back then. Prime KD, Bron, Steph, pre-Covid, etc.
Steph looks so confused, lol.
What a voice, such power.
Click on it if you hate your ears but still wanna laugh.
The random singers you get on league pass can be worse than this sometimes.
But are they as self absorbed, adorned, and dragging the song out to this degree?
Definitively not dragging. They seem like some weird casting auditions, though.
Prime offseason content.
Up there with Roseanne for worst ever
you really should put “” around sing.
I need a cigarette
the book is amazing
Was someone from the color guard under orders to try to provide a beat so that she’d hurry the fuck up? Poor bastard had no clue when to hit that drum.
What so proud-lay
She messed up at the “bann-er-er-er” otherwise it wasn’t as bad as people have made it out to be…
I have to admit, long ass nails were still not a thing, and I’m 5⁄10 glad.
this will never not be funny😂😂😂
This sounds great compared to that women’s baseball league opener the other night
My brother is really into Jazz and he has been explaining it to me for a couple of years. I hear this differently now. I kinda see what she was trying to do.
But like Prof Oak says, there’s a time and place for everything, and I don’t know if that was the time and place to try to jazz up the American anthem.
I’m a professional singer and what’s wild about this is that her pitch and tone are way better than I remember, she totally has the ability to sing it well she just is painfully untalented as an artist with no self awareness.
I’m sure Fergie, a 100 million record selling artist is thrilled that she has won the approval of her ability from Salty_Reserve9640 off the internet.
she hasn’t though?
My coworker asked me who my childhood crush was and I told her Fergie. She was clowning me for it and brought this up.
I’ll still take National Anthem Fergie over Nazi Kanye though.
Draymond is a mouth breather