someone has to say i say it, so here goes: it’s your anthem that sucks. i don’t know who this woman is but i don’t care. seriously it is so ass. and incredibly racist. ditch it for a better one. pick something people can sing. it’s not normal that you sing this anthem since childhood and at every event but still out of all professional singers who attempt to sing it only Whitney Houston and like two more people could do it.

It does suck. The tune is adapted from a song praising wine. Being drunk when singing it seems appropriate.

I’m missing the racism aspect, though, how so?

It has four verses, even though typically only the first verse is performed. The full version has these lyrics:

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
⁠That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
⁠Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
**No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, ** And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.