Queen of Hip Hop Soul Mary J. Blige royally showed up and out at the 2012 NBA All Star game tonight. Kicking things off with a rousing rendition of the U.S. National Anthem, Blige brought the house down with her soulful showing at the game moments ago.
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Lol I needed that laugh
Since Whitney’s death all these lame versions don’t mean s*** anymore. Regardless, MJB’s rendition SUCKED!!!!!! What a straining cat!!!!!! Dear god… NEXT.
LMMMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
lmaooooo ASDADASFCLMX,V .,
MJB makes Xtina’s superbowl rendition a perfect score!!!!!!! Someone shoot that cat!!!!!!
UMM…WHY DID SHE TRY TO DO BEYONCE’S SSP RUN AT THE END?
NO MARY, THAT DIDNT SAVE YOU!!
SOUNDING LIKE NAILS ON A BLACKBOARD…WTF??
That was AMAZING! I would expect young dummies to say negative things about real singers like Mary, yall dont know what talent is & Whitney dead ass could NEVER do it like that, her version was pre recorded, tweaked, auto tuned etc. Mary was LIVE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNEkIySCxKo
YES! everything about this was stunning. she was stunningly beautiful while sounding a stunning fool. i was stunned, like the audience, at how she could manage to look so good while sounding so bad
mary j bliggeee hottttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt i love it
I love Mary, but that was horrible. She was straining through the entire thing and the end was the worst. Some of the best singers can not sing the Star Spangled Banner, though.
OMG!!!!
HAHAHHAAHAHAHHAA WTF WAS THAT
Girl bye!
ME PERFORMING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_rkIISYK5w
Who`s bright idea was to put the oscars and the NBA all star on the same night ????
Hollywood doesnt think
@Buffytheslayer…..Girl Stop! Whitney’s version slays everything Mary has put her vocals on. Nobody will never touch her version! Her version was the benchmark for female singers. So dont disrespect Whitney for somebody she makes look like Kesha n her heyday. #Whitney The Surpreme Voice Of All Time! Dont forget it Bish!
She was tryna do too much
She raised her arm like Whitney did….Mary J. Stop!
That was bad… sounds like she had a cigarette.. or two or three before she was called to the mic.
How about yall take a STFU PILL AND LEAVE MARY ALONE!!!! IT IS OBVIOUS SHE’S RELEVANT AND NOT YALL BROKE ASSES!!!! SHE DID AN AMAZING JOB!!! SHE GOT GRAMMYS AND NOT YALL!!! SO GO TAKE A HIKE AND READ A DAMN BOOK!!!! IT’S OBVIOUS SHE DOIN GOOD IF YALL GOT TIME TO POST NEGATIVE S***!!!!
BABAHBAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHA!!!! Somebody send this b**** to a voice lesson PLEASE!! She done.
i was just waiting for a bird to fly out of Mary’s mouth. Just waiting. something is really clogging her throat. eww.
Whitney dead ass, Manriah, BeYAWNce, HEiara, Ritard could NEVER EVER sing like Mary.
TERRIBLE!!!!!
LOL @ HEiara stan judging vocals, where is the logic? LMAO
ROTF LMFBAO!!!!!!!
I like Mary, but that was painful.
Still a whole helluva lot better than what Rihanna’s non-singing ass would have done.
MJB always f*** up the end of a song .start out good but by the end she’s always over the place
RIhanna singing the national anthem in 1986 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZjZSuzkCrw
LMFAO….and she tried to end it like Beyonce’s Super Bowl ending…..LMFAO that was funny as hell
As Wendy Williams would say ……A Mess!
Lmao that was horrible
RIP Whitney Houston.
SMH! She sounded the way I knew she would…a mess. Mary is by all means a vocalist but she shouldve hung this dream up after the first rehearsel. Her face was beat to pieces tho!
u cant tell that Buffytheslayer is a young queen, they are the only ones who use those terms
Mary sounded a mess. I love her, but she can do better!
That was the best national anthem I ever heard. I’m sure none of you can do better.
Horrible!!!!! so sad Mary needs not to sing this again, hurt my ears. 🙁
Mary j blige sounds epic , looked stunning period. To who say she doesn’t is Jealous
Mary sings from the depth of her soul..and her voice tells a a story of an old soul…I love it…imperfections and all!!!
To the Mary J stans, people are entitled to their opinions. She sounded a hot ass mess.
DID ANYONELSE NOTICE THAT SHE IN THE BEGINNING SHE WAS LIPSYNCING!!!!
buffytheslayer
You are one dumb b****! I hope your mother get run over by a truck while holding your grandmothers hand you stupid f***!
Mary sounded a s***** mess! Dead @ her using Bey’s vocal arrangement and failing miserably. Mary just doesn’t the vocal range & agility.
People saying she put SOUL into the song within every impefection of this performance: It’s the NATIONAL ANTHEM B**** not some Blues. She needs to pack her throat, go home and CRY. As a stan, you need to be real too, when she sounds like the titanic, don’t make it more fabulous.
PLUS what’s the deal with comparing her to Whitney, Beyoncé and such? Well, singing the Nation Anthem as always been a powerhouse culture, Mary could’ve just said either NO or kept it simple without sounding like a MESS and doing the diva arm-gestures.
Much respect to MJB for still representing her set properly. Now onto the business at hand her version of the SSB was all over the place and it was a real struggle that was not for her.
She sang her heart out! WOW!
she’s never been the best vocalist, but i’ve definitely heard worse
buffytheslayer
February 26, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Whitney dead ass, Manriah, BeYAWNce, HEiara, Ritard could NEVER EVER sing like Mary.
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You’re right, and I’m sure they wouldn’t want to.
Mary has lost it. She was never a good live singer. I bet the NBA chose her for a good laugh.
They need to keep Whitney’s superb version on deck!
She sounded HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HORRRIBLE!!!!!!!!! HORRRRRIBLE!!
C’MON MAMA MARY!!
OH NO SHE DIDN’T !!!!!!!
I´m not afraid to say this: that was HORRIBLE!!!! How can TGJ say it was stunning? omg
Seriously, MJB own fans know that was a mess. Although she is good at what she does, not everybodys voices can do it all ala Whitney houston, mariah or Celine. That´s a superior league the rest of singers can´t even see
Mary did a good job. She did it a capella. Not as easy as you think it is.
@Meeeeeuuuuuu 😯 WOW!!!!! That was amazing!!! GREAT JOB!!!!!
Yeah Mary….that was bad. No excuses, nothing. Noone made her sing that song. Mary, along with a list of other ppl should never sing the National Anthem
THE CHEETAH GIRLS
Mary J
Prince
Rihanna
Solange
Janet
Madonna
Britney Spears
Kesha
Katy P
Nicki Minaj (since she seems to be singing more lately)
Not saying that those ppl aren’t talented, clearly they are. But the SSB is a song that not everyone can sing.
And even tho mary sounded a mess, she was still a 100X better than the Cheetah Girls…
I don’t even know how whoever wrote that could type it with a straight face! But then again they were probably just trying to be funny & lure people in here!
I try to be respectful of Mary because, well she is the ‘Queen’ of Soul, to some, but that performance was a hot sizzling ass mess! SMH! As soon as they said her name I just knew it was gonna be bad. The National Anthem is a hard song to sing & not everyone can pull it off. I don’t know who thought it would be a good idea for Mary to attempt to song this song but I could have told them Mary couldn’t handle this. SMH. She embarassed
I don’t even know how whoever wrote that could type it with a straight face! But then again they were probably just trying to be funny & lure people in here!
I try to be respectful of Mary because, well she is the ‘Queen’ of Soul, to some, but that performance was a hot sizzling ass mess! SMH! As soon as they said her name I just knew it was gonna be bad. The National Anthem is a hard song to sing & not everyone can pull it off. I don’t know who thought it would be a good idea for Mary to attempt to song this song but I could have told them Mary couldn’t handle this. SMH. She embarrassed herself with those uneccessary runs. SMH.
After watching this I really want to go & watch Whitney’s rendition. Everyone knows she had the best of all time. RIP Whitney.
I’m sorry but im gonna say no….
she did amazing
And yall talk about Rihanna but call this stunning?….YALL JUST LOST CREDIT….this is stunningly bad.
I love MJB but…
@BEY FAN Yeah Mary….that was bad. No excuses, nothing. Noone made her sing that song. Mary, along with a list of other ppl should never sing the National Anthem
THE CHEETAH GIRLS
Mary J
Prince
Rihanna
Solange
Janet
Madonna
Britney Spears
Kesha
Katy P
Nicki Minaj (since she seems to be singing more lately)
Not saying that those ppl aren’t talented, clearly they are. But the SSB is a song that not everyone can sing.
And even tho mary sounded a mess, she was still a 100X better than the Cheetah Girls
_______________________________________________________________I notice something about you BEY FANS you M************ always have to THROW SHADE at a JACKSON. And please don’t get me started on prince … prince has more TALENT in his toe — than mary has in her whole f***** body. She sounded like a pile of s*** GET OVER IT!