When Fergie was selected to sing the national anthem before the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, she decided that there was one way that people hadn’t been singing the anthem, and should have been: sexy.
So Fergie, being a trendsetter, sung the first sexy national anthem in history. Someone had to be this brave pioneer. Here’s the result:
How did the NBA players on the court feel about this amazing, ground-breaking sexy national anthem? Let’s focus on Draymond Green, like the cameras (thankfully) did.
All you need to watch from the Star-Spangled Banner performance pic.twitter.com/8ApnYPH9w8
— Mark (@tole_cover) February 19, 2018
ENHANCE.
ENHANCE.
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Draymond wasn’t the only one who felt some type of way about the broadcast. Add Stephen Curry and Joel Embiid to the list, too.
Players faces during Fergie’s rendition of the National Anthem... pic.twitter.com/QQ3VXaBchT
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 19, 2018
Even other performers like Chance the Rapper and Jimmy Kimmel got a kick out of how bad this was.
Fergie Anthem Reaction Power Rankings:
— Michell a.ka. Killmonger Chell a.k.a. Not Michelle (@MichellCClark) February 19, 2018
1. Empty eyed Draymond
2. Furrowed brow Joel
3. Lmao Chance
4. Jimmy Kimmel
5. Lemme not laugh on live TV Anthony Anderson pic.twitter.com/g2AemKuOfF
Don’t ask me how Anthony Anderson was able to stop himself from laughing because I don’t have an answer for you.
It was so odd we were still talking about it at halftime. Charles Barkley said it was time to start a dialogue. Not on race this time, though. We have to talk about Fergie’s singing.
Barkley: Can we talk about Fergie's National Anthem... pic.twitter.com/RwZMYpLzsr
— Dime on UPROXX (@DimeUPROXX) February 19, 2018
Even Twitter got her out the paint. This Patrick Ewing meme is literally perfect.
Do you practice that anthem? When? pic.twitter.com/34wiqX44EG
— D (@DrakoTsunami) February 19, 2018
This has me on the floor.
NBA: just sing the National anthem.. that’s it.
— Chris Davis (@theechrisdavis) February 19, 2018
Fergie: Nah.. watch this#NBAAllStar2018 pic.twitter.com/0xCkKKfjPj
It was so bad that Stephen Curry found time to actually go like some tweets on Twitter during the actual All-Star game about how bad it was.
Not only is Steph Curry on twitter during the #NBAAllStar game, but he's liking tweets about how bad Fergie was pic.twitter.com/FAmpkbxJG9
— Eric Fawcett (@Efawcett7) February 19, 2018
You know it’s bad when you make Good Morning America the next day because it was so bad.
.@Fergie takes on the National Anthem at last night's @NBA All-Star Game - but not everybody was cheering: https://t.co/ZRZUWLRs2F@NBAAllStar #NBAAllStar pic.twitter.com/0cl9WhOIPz
— Good Morning America (@GMA) February 19, 2018
The national anthem has been sung, maybe, millions of times before this at a ton of sporting events, but we’re pretty confident in saying this was the weirdest we’ve seen. We’ve got to give Fergie credit for trying, I guess, but man, this is one for the history books.