Do you remember when she sang “Mazurka Dąbrowski”? It turns out that not only the Polish singer has problems with singing the anthem. A similar situation happened to the Italian singer Ellynora, who was supposed to perform the song “God Save The King” before the match between Italy and England.
Ellynora sang the England national anthem. The audience booed her
The popular Italian singer, Ellynora, just before the Thursday (March 23, 2023) qualifying match for EURO 2023, entered the pitch to perform the England anthem “God Save The King”. However, she had difficulties with this task from the very beginning. As soon as she started singing, you could hear that she was out of tune. She pulled the monitor out of her ear almost immediately, but that didn’t help much. In addition, the word “king” was replaced by “queen”, which infuriated the English fans for the rest. At the end of her performance, the audience booed, wanting her off the stage.
The network immediately swarmed with unflattering comments. Many Internet users accused the artist of “disgracing the anthem”. They also emphasized that her performance was the worst that anyone had ever done. After a wave of negative opinions, Ellynora issued an apology in an interview with the Daily Mail and briefly explained what problems she faced during the speech.
I want to apologize to all the England fans who watched the game in the stadium and on TV. I feel ashamed and I assure you that I did not mean to offend anyone. We had a problem with the sound. I had music in my ear and then it stopped and started again. So I heard it twice which made me out of tune with it, it was hard for me to fix that
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The decisive clash between Italy, the current European football champions, and England was also broadcast by . An entry with a fragment of the recording of Ellynora’s performance appeared on Twitter of the station’s sports program.
Performing the anthem in the style of… Exactly, who comes to your mind?
it was written. Internet users immediately realized that this was a reference to the former performance.
More than a decade ago, the singer sang “Mazurka Dąbrowskiego” before Poland’s match against South Korea. Her peculiar performance was also negatively received by her compatriots. Do you still remember this performance?
Source: Gazeta
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