Country music band “The Chicks” were ripped for their “awful” rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner during the fourth and final night of the Democratic National Convention. Bandmates Natalie Maines and sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer took the stage inside the United Center in Chicago on Thursday for an acapella version of the national anthem. The musicians began their 3-part harmony in similar keys before the three singers quickly hit different notes, with some viewers taking exception to their singing.
“Correction, the chicks butchered the national anthem, It was terrible,” one X user commented. “That was just terrible-I mean an absolute terrible rendition,” another said. “The big act was The Chicks who managed to mangle the National Anthem with an embarrassing off-key rendition” “It was that God-awful rendition of the national anthem by ‘the chicks.
'” “Was this the big surprise of the night? The washed up Dixie Chicks? LOL,” another X user wrote referring to the rumor that Beyonce would appear in Chicago for a surprise performance. “You think they would have learned to stay out of politics,” another social media comment said. The band, which has sold millions of records since its formation in Dallas, Texas in 1989, was faced with backlash for their comments criticizing then-President George W.
Bush and the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. While performing in London on March 10, 2003, Maines told the audience she was “ashamed” Bush .