While there have been many exceedingly good renditions of the National Anthem at sporting events, even as the Anthem has come under fire from the left in recent years because Francis Scott Key was a slaveowner, there have also been some quite bad ones. Among those was the very bad anthem rendition that occurred before the MLB Home Run Derby on Monday night, July 15.
That was when singer Ingrid Andress, who has since admitted to being drunk for the anthem, stepped up and tried to perform the anthem before the biggest sluggers in Major League Baseball started knocking balls out of the park at Globe Life Stadium in Arlington, Texas. But while they had big swings with hits that buoyed the crowd, Andress’s Anthem rendition was a big swing and a miss.
Watch the horrible National Anthem rendition here:
One account on X, Coby’s Gambling performer, noted that Phillies slugger Alec Bohm has smirked, looking about to laugh, as Adress belted out her screeching, painfully bad anthem rendition, a very understandable facial gesture given how bad it was. That account wrote, “Alec Bohm couldn’t hold in his laughter on this national anthem lol #HomeRunDerby”
Another account, the baseball-focused “Addison, ” said that it was the worst National Anthem performance he had ever heard, or indeed ever that happened in the history of the National Athem. In that funny, but perhaps not particularly exaggerated post, he wrote, “That was the single worst National Anthem performance of all-time oh my god.”
Still another roasted Andress, who admitted to being drunk for the Anthem rendition, saying that she is destable. That account said, “It’s bad enough Ingrid Andress gave the worst performance of the national anthem of all time. To end this post with “I hear rehab is super fun” is just all the more reason for me to despise her. Grow up. Fuck your apology.”
Yet another added that it was hard to believe she is a professional singer given how bad it was, writing, “Holy ….. what was that rendition of the Star Spangled Banner?? 😳Country “singer” Ingrid Andress(no idea who she is) just did one of the worst jobs singing the National Anthem by a “professional” singer I have ever witnessed. That was terrible.🤢🇺🇸”
Others debated whether past performances of the Anthem renowned for being abominably bad were worse than this one. One person, for example, argued that Fergie’s notoriously bad Anthem rendition would have been better, saying, “With all due respect, and I mean this sincerely, this is the worst anthem I’ve ever heard. Fergie would’ve been an upgrade.”
Similarly, another account argued that Fergie was somehow even worse at performing the National Anthem, writing, “I just listened to Ingris Andress’ national anthem. It’s being kinda blown up a bit imo. Yeah it was bad but it wasn’t one of the worst ever. Only the ending was kind of cringe. She has nothing on Fergie.” Watch that performance here:
Another argued that Roseanne’s 1990 performance of the National Anthem was even worse, saying, “Everyone is talking about the how badly the singing of the anthem was all time awful! 1990 Roseanne Barr Sings National Anthem at Padres Game.” Watch that here:
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