VIDEO: Boyz II Men Ripped for Awful National Anthem at Las Vegas Grand Prix

Boyz II Men grabbed some unwanted attention from the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday by butchering an a cappella version of the national anthem.

Boyz II Men  came into the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix promising a memorable performance and delivered one for the wrong reason. (Image: YouTube/@Fe1ipe)

It was clear that the four-time Grammy winning soul stars, known for their chart-topping 1992 hit “End of the Road,” were in trouble from only their third note. Their attempt to harmonize on the “Oh” in “Oh say can you see?” resulted in a flat clunker from which the trio never fully recovered.

Oh Say Can You Sing?

Immediately, social media did what it does best — attack.

GPFans editor Chris Deeley tweeted: “Congratulations Boyz II Men for the worst anthem rendition of the season.”

“Ears are bleeding,” echoed Threads user @casperalizander.

“Maybe they didn’t have in ears,” reasoned Threads user @formulawhat. “The wind can be lethal. (I’m coping. This is me 90s rnb coping.)”

Judge for yourself…




About a month before the race, band member Wanya Morris made last night all the worse by raising expectations.

“I’m not sure if F1 has ever experienced hearing a Boyz II Men anthem,” he said, “but we’ve been told it’s pretty sexy.”

Banner Bad

Boyz II Men’s version was by no means championship-level awful. The high bar for screwing up “The Star-Spangled Banner” remains, of course, comedian Roseanne Barr. Her 1990 rendition at a San Diego Padres game included singing nowhere near any of the notes, grabbing her crotch and spitting on the pitcher’s mound.

After that atrocity, every bad performance finished far behind. They include Christina Aguilera’s Super Bowl XLV attempt that included wrong notes and lyrics, flubbed high notes from Olympic track star Carl Lewis prior to a 1993 Chicago Bulls game, and a slow, throaty rendition by former Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie that cracked up basketball stars Draymond Green and Steph Curry at the 2018 NBA All-Star Weekend.

Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.

Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)

Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.

Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook.

Contact Corey at corey@casino.org.

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