Rob2687 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 (edited) QUEBEC ? Friday night was certainly one to forget for Caroline Marcil of Montreal.The singer was slated to perform the national anthems prior to the United States' 5-4 exhibition hockey win over Canada. However, she sang neither after twice failing to complete the Star Spangled Banner when she seemingly forgot the words. After apologizing to the crowd, Marcil left the ice and headed back towards the dressing room --to a smattering of boos from the Quebec Coliseum crowd of 7,166 - presumably to get the words. But when the young woman returned to the ice, the carpet slipped out from underneath her, causing Marcil to fall hard. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...114263677657_29 The young singer who embarrassed herself at a hockey game Friday night had a chance to redeem herself Sunday.... By Sunday morning, Marcil appeared more confident and totally recovered. The host of Good Morning America's Sunday edition thanked the Montreal singer "for having the guts to come down to the U.S." Asked if language was the problem Friday night, the French-Canadian singer admitted she blanked out on the song, but the rudeness of hockey fans made things worse. "Maybe ? it was a lot of things together. It's like the emotion, the stress." Marcil went on to sing The Star Spangled Banner perfectly. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...1114367702549_2 Theres a video of when she messed up and when they gave her a chance to perform is correctly in the first and second link. Funny...yet agonizingly painful to watch.:wacko:cko: Edited April 25, 2005 by Rob2687 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0m8er Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 LOL... :p Saw some footage this morning on FOX :laugh: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585825249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankyone Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 was soo funnay :laugh: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585825292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathray Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 she is gonna be scarred for life with this event lol Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585825297 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted April 25, 2005 Author Share Posted April 25, 2005 It's a good thing she got a chance to redeem herself...Otherwise I don't know how US/Canada relations could have ever recovered from such an event. :p ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585825348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viserov Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 lol @ the slipping Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585825509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdb815 Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Quite funny. You would think she would have not gone back out there, but she did. :laugh: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585825550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Zeino Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 funniest thing ive ever seen Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585825574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Island Roots Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Poor little girl :laugh: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585825698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanekiwi Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 :rofl: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585825705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Floyd Veteran Posted April 25, 2005 Veteran Share Posted April 25, 2005 that was not funny at all imo :( Poor her. I occasionally do some presentation in front of 200 ppl (in english, which is my 2nd language) and I'm always stressed to die. So I can understand her with over 10000 ppl :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585826689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZZOOzzoo Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 I'm often become a nervous wreck and I can 100% understand how embarassed that would've been for her. I'm happy to see that she had a chance to redeem herself. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585826694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ficman Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 Not a good night for this chick... Pretty brutal to watch, she gave it her best shot though... I would have called it a night when I dumped onto the ice too... :cool: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585826706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbluepride35 Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Yeah where's Mo Cheeks when ya need him. In case no one knows what I'm referring to, a few years ago some girl at a Portland Trail Blazers forgot the words to the National Anthem and the ehad coach helped her finish it. I feel bad for this girl. But what's up with NOBODY helping her up after she fell? Not a single player could get his butt over the boards to help her? Anyway here's a clip http://media2.big-boys.com/files/nationalanthem.wmv Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585829586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroChaos Veteran Posted April 26, 2005 Veteran Share Posted April 26, 2005 lol, just saw this on PTI, too freakin funny. it coulda gotten pretty ugly, if anyone remembers all the booing going on between the US/Canadian teams like 2 years ago during the anthems. pretty rude if you ask me. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585829611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted April 26, 2005 Veteran Share Posted April 26, 2005 Ouch, that was painful. She didn't even have a good voice to begin with. She should keep her day job. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585829770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickstrike Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Speaking of slipping.. I was at a Calgary Hitman game a few years ago and during half-time they had a game going on where if you made a shot from a certain area on the rink you could win a couple prizes. Well they chose an old man from the audience.. he stood on the red carpet (no different from the video shown above).. he turned his body to make the shot and fell straight back on his head.. the carpet has slipped underneath him.. There was a big pool of blood coming from his head, covered the ice around him. The paramedics came soon and rushed him to the hospital. I looked on the news and in the newspapers the day afterwards and never saw any mention of this event. It sure changed the way I think of those carpets. :o Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585830561 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marduk Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 O' Canada :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585830577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted April 26, 2005 Veteran Share Posted April 26, 2005 Saw this on the news last night. I do feel sorry for her- she messed up in front of a huge crowd, but I couldn't resist LMAO for a bit :D On her second try it would've helped if they got someone else to do the singing :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585830894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 oh i thought they were going to mention avril lavigne. :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585830901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LogicalApex MVC Posted April 26, 2005 MVC Share Posted April 26, 2005 Yea i agree it was a sad moment for her and i feel sorry for her (as i could only imagine the pressure, especially with the crowd booing her)... But i also couldn't help to laugh a little when i saw it on the news since i'm American and i'm in Canada so we had a good joke about it. Though it's expected that people forget the anthems sometimes we're only human. I rem. being at a Hamilton Bulldogs AHL game late last year and the girl got the American anthem right and messed up the Canadian one, though no one booed her (though i had a good joke about it after the game)... I think the people as a whole should have been more respectful of her then and tried to help even... The joking (boooing) and etc. should have been saved for after the game... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585831032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonkwell Bogtrotter Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 At least she had the bottle to do it again on Live TV. I applaud her. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585831044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 Moved here Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585858728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiegel Posted May 2, 2005 Share Posted May 2, 2005 well if someone asked me to sing the french anthem id screw up too :/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585858824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxikk Veteran Posted May 6, 2005 Veteran Share Posted May 6, 2005 :rofl: 585825705[/snapback] :no: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/312729-montreal-singer-struggles-to-perform-us-anthem/#findComment-585883302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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