Basketball fans who tuned in for tonight’s NBA Finals to see the Toronto Raptors vs. Golden State Warriors didn’t know they’d be treated to a pre-show battle of sorts as viewers at home took to Twitter to weigh in on if Grammy winners Alessia Cara or Fantasia delivered the more rousing rendition of their respective home countries’ national anthems.
Fannie kicked off the ceremony with a stirring interpretation of the ‘Star Spangled Banner,’ almost taking onlookers to church by its fiery end. Cara, who had the home field advantage as the game was held at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, had the crowd singing in unison as she extended the mic out to encourage them to assist her cute version of ‘O, Canada.’
The respective renditions ignited debate on who was better. Polls revealed Canadian viewers said Cara left Fannie in the dust. Watch both inside and weigh in:
Canadians are really out here saying that Alessia Cara is a better singer than Fantasia. pic.twitter.com/3YSXn5TBhE
— Christen (@_JustAGoodGirl) June 3, 2019
‘O, Canada’ at 2:26
Canadian fans weigh in:
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Needless to say, support for the ‘American Idol’ alum erupted. See highlights below:
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Delusional and colorist bc Fantasia is a Grammy winner as well and will sing the Latina under the table
Who cares what these twitter users think? Why e an article about this nonsense? The REAL story is the Canada Raptors got they ass beat by the Golden State Warriors in a close game!
Don’t give this white cultural vulture NO CREDIT Alessia Cara is a white woman (Italian specifically) trying to do the Arianna Grande thing and pass as WOC to get some edge and cred, but she’s just plain mayo.
GWORL BYE ?
Exactly!!
Canadians also don’t like seasoning in their food. Fantasia brings all the flavor!
LOL
Fantasia will spice up ya life for sure!
I like both women.
But we all know Alessia Cara could NEVER win Canadian IDOL let alone American IDOL!
Why are we entertaining nonsence?
Alessia is way better then some dang on Fantasia, and Jennifer Hudson won season 3 American idol
What?! Fantasia sings better. And she and Jennifer weren’t on the same season
They were. Jennifer placed 6th or 7th.
Alessia cannot sing. Fantasia is a real singer.
FACTS are FACTS America AND Canada!!!!
You think Jennifer wasn’t on the Same season as Fantasia…..check the Facts!
Jennifer did lose because she hadn’t quite came into her own until Dream Girls.
Fantasia won IDOL, Jennifer won an Oscar, and all three women have at least 1 Grammy!
STOP THE HATE AND LIES IN 2019!
I understand standing for your own but Fantasia is in another league which is why she needed audience participation while she sung.
That’s funny cause I have never heard of this Alessia person But she sang Fantasia under the table please!!!!
Alessia didn’t even sing the whole song
Lol. Do your research trolls. Fantasia is also a critically acclaimed Grammy Award winner with a 15 year career under her belt. Alessia has a cute voice, but she’s a 1 1/2 hit wonder.
Well goddamn it u didn’t even give a video to show the contrast wowowwowokkwkkw. Ur a c***
Alessia dropped the ball! The motherf*cking basketball!! FOH!! She let the crowd do it for her. Wtf?!
First of Alessia asked for crowd participation throughout the song and Fantasia sung all the way through! I’m beating whoever a** who says she out sung Fantasia ! All y’all do is gas up white people and down the black girls and I’m sick of it!
That Canadian b**** needed crowd participation! Fantasia held back she could have took them all to church. Fantasia blew ole girl away PERIODT
Alessia sang a percentage of the song! They just love it because the audience actually got to hear themselves sing, lol
Who cares wtf Canadians have to say tho
Wow the racism on here is just disgusting. But at least it shows you who’s racist on here.
there’s no one more racist than those who cry of being victims of racism
“WHOOOOO HAS BEEN SAYING THAT?!”
Fantasia’s voice has that little something special to it. She brings something special to each song she sings “I love her. Alessia has a very pretty voice as well. I won’t say much, because I really don’t like pitting two singers against one another. But, Fantasia was very self-constrained during this song. She could have gone so much further.
And it’s people like that who are the reason these lack luster singers are topping the charts and winning all the awards.
what the f*** is a Fantasia? don’t know her. she’s a nobody