Gaga and the National Anthem: How Long?

[redietz]

Big controversy on the national anthem length -- the books called it an Under. They refused to count GaGa's repeating "of the Brave."

[Alan Mendelson]

Big controversy on the national anthem length -- the books called it an Under. They refused to count GaGa's repeating "of the Brave."

If you asked me to post a video of Gaga singing the National Anthem, I would include the repeat of the final words. To omit the final words would mean editing her full performance.

[redietz]

I agree. The offshores declared it an Under, which I thought was wrong. I honestly do not know how the Las Vegas books graded it. Can anybody in LV for the Super Bowl report on that? I don't want to assume LV did the same as the offshores.

This was the most confusing result I've seen since the Tyson fight where it was declared no-contest and different books had different rules for that. There was almost a riot in the MGM over their interpretation of the no-contest rules.

I agree with Alan. GaGa had every right to sing her interpretation, and that includes repeating the final couple of words if she chooses.

[Rob.Singer]

Lady Gaga is an incredible talent and sang the best rendition of the song since Whitney did it in 1991, no matter what anyone thinks of her presentation. I also saw where the gay rights people tried to take ownership of the fact that she wore a supposedly "gay outfit" in honor of them. Which of course is BS, even if she never admits it.