Star Spangled Banner

As you know, I try to stay away from news. But the number of headlines or blurbs on some chick singing the National Anthem during the MLB All Star Game (well, not even the game, but the Home Run Derby, which I didn't even know the song was sung there). 

I had to click. 

I. Had. To. 

Mostly because the headlines said: "checked into rehab afterwards", since the performance was so bad. 

I have to say, it's one of the few times the papers undersold it.  

I BEG you to listen. 

"Bad" doesn't begin to touch it. 

And I have zero idea who Ingrid Andress is/was, but let's chalk her up to an almost no one as she was singing at the Home Run Derby - not the main game. 

Now "everyone" (read: still almost no one) knows who she is/was. 

Honestly, there isn't enough alcohol in the world to make someone sound that bad. I'm betting the booze actually made her better. 

Personally, I don't think she could probably ever sing. She was a songwriter who roped her way into two albums (allegedly) that no one has ever heard of.  

The ballpark also didn't have auto-tune, a device I'm super sure she's used in the studio. I say that without ever hearing a note she's done outside of the video above........and there she used ALL the notes.....and then some. 

I know people think of auto-tune as the thing that makes a singer's voice have computer tones - and used the wrong way, and you end up sounding like everything on Madonna's last horrible album, or anything by Britney Spears.  More often the tool is just for tweaking the vocals to make them...ta da.....in tune. 

Dollars to doughnuts, this chick uses is a LOT. 

She should be checking into vocal coaches and not rehab. 

From a PR perspective, this is gold. Andress' agent and manager now know a number of people have heard of her. Yeah, they can milk the moment, but that's only gonna last 2-3 weeks......tops. 

This video also proves to me that as American's we will cheer anything pseudo-patriotic no matter how bad.  Idiots. 

Song by: Ingrid Andress