The 2022 NBA All-Star Game between Team LeBron and Team Durant happened last night at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. And Macy Gray is the artiste who sang the National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, and her rendition gave people shades of Fergie. Those people have probably never heard Macy Gray perform anything before because Macy Gray’s Star-Spangled Banner was all Macy Gray. But she trended last night thanks to LeBron James trying to keep it together as Macy Gray Macy Gray’d up America’s National Anthem.
Macy’s performance featured live shots of LeBron James and Stephen Curry, and unlike during Fergie’s performance, Stephen managed to hold it together while on camera, good for him. These producers are doing this on purpose at this point. Whoever is planning this thing is like, “I’m gonna make these basketball players crack!” and they always do. Here’s Macy’s performance:
I mean, this is just Macy’s style–this is Macy’s oeuvre. If you want a cohesive flow of notes coming at you, go somewhere else. Even her guitar player is watching her because he doesn’t know when to pull those strings until Macy starts. That’s music, that’s flow, that’s off-the-cuff! That’s Macy! And I mean, that outfit? The full houndstooth and the jacket like she’s Effie Trinket calling a teen to their death in Hunger Games? A+!
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