> > If I was a big shot in charge of a sporting event like a ball game or a car race, I would hold auditions for people to sing the national anthem.
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> Just yesterday in the evening I heard from a TV talk show a politician complaining about "how bad we Italians sing our National Anthem, while people in other countries *like the USA* (his words!) always try to sing it at their best".
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> AP.
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> Frankly speaking, our Anthem isn't that good as far as good lyrics are concerned, but it was composed in the last Century, when we were fighting for our independency from France and Austria.

In some countries, people would be thrown in jail for singing the national anthem the way some so-called singers do at our sporting events. I have been known to turn off the sound when on the TV when they start to squawk and screech like that.
Howard