Ingrid Andress sings the nationwide anthem previous to the 2024 Residence Run Derby at Globe Life Discipline in Arlington, Texas, on Monday.
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Ingrid Andress, the nation music star who went viral on Monday night time after flubbing the nationwide anthem at MLB’s Residence Run Derby, stated she was drunk throughout the efficiency and is in search of assist.
“I am not gonna bull**** y’all, I used to be drunk final night time,” Andress posted on Instagram. “I am checking myself right into a facility in the present day to get the assistance I want. That was not me final night time. I apologize to MLB, all of the followers, and this nation I like a lot for that rendition.”
On most days, Andress has a beautiful singing voice. She carried out a charming Tiny Desk live performance simply final 12 months, in case you’d wish to see proof that Andress can sing. (I used to be within the room! She will sing and was additionally very good!) However Andress will not be a standard belter; her presents lie in statement and dialog, and in getting at refined truths with out overstating them.
Plus, until your title is Whitney Houston, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is a famously robust music to sing (a lot of excessive and low notes, a melody that does not glide simply) in a grand, high-profile setting that incentivizes hovering bombast.
On a standard day, Andress will not be the singer you flip to when you’re within the temper for grandiosity. Mix that together with her way of thinking Monday night time, and you’ll see why her “Star-Spangled Banner” went off the rails rapidly.
There is a solution to deal with the music with out getting too tricksy — to maintain it refined and contained — and it appeared for a second at first of the efficiency like Andress was following in that custom. However she quickly started bending and curling her syllables in a hyperstylized means, and that appeared to set off a sequence response as she wandered additional and additional off pitch on her means into the ability notes.
Earlier than Andress revealed the rationale for the catastrophe, the viral video seemed to be the hilarious distraction many people wanted after every week of terrible information. However at the very least the singer is sustaining a humorousness about it. She ended her Instagram submit with this:
“I am going to let y’all understand how rehab is[.] I hear it is tremendous enjoyable.”
