{"id":1966872,"date":"2023-07-07T15:39:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-media-rages-against-jill-scotts-new-national-anthem\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T15:39:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:39:30","slug":"social-media-rages-against-jill-scotts-new-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-media-rages-against-jill-scotts-new-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Scott&#8217;s new national anthem sparks social media backlash."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsocial-media-rages-against-jill-scotts-new-national-anthem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1966872&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Singer Jill Scott Faces Backlash for Changing National Anthem Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>Singer Jill Scott received fierce pushback for her rendition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-womens-soccer-team-kneels-for-anthem-wears-black-lives-matter\/\" title=\"US Women's Soccer Team Kneels for Anthem, Wears 'Black Lives Matter'\">national anthem<\/a>, where she made changes to the lyrics. The performance took place on July 1 at the Essence Festival, a celebration of the magazine&#8217;s anniversary, which prides itself on being &#8220;100% black-owned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of singing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-media-rages-against-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-cancer-charity-gave-zero-for-research-millions-spent-on-salaries-travel\/\" title=\"Biden Cancer Charity Gave \u2018Zero\u2019 For Research; Millions Spent On Salaries, Travel\">jill<\/a>-scotts-new-national-anthem\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Jill Scott&#8217;s new national anthem sparks social media backlash.&#8221;>traditional anthem<\/a>, Scott chose to share her own anthem that she had written at the age of 19. The lyrics she sang were powerful and thought-provoking:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Oh say can you see by the blood in the streets<br \/>\n  That this place doesn\u2019t smile on you colored child<br \/>\n  Whose blood built this land with sweat and their hands<br \/>\n  But we\u2019ll die in this place and your memory erased<br \/>\n  Oh say, does this truth hold any weight<br \/>\n  This is not the land of the free, but the home of the slaves!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Essence Magazine tweeted, &#8220;Everyone please rise for the only National Anthem we will be recognizing from this day forward,&#8221; a few days after the performance. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-four-states-are-combating-big-tech-censorship\/\" title=\"These Four States Are Combating Big Tech Censorship\">tweet received<\/a> a mixed response.<\/p>\n<p>Some criticized the new anthem, with one YouTuber stating, &#8220;To call this a &#8216;National Anthem&#8217; and ask people to &#8216;rise&#8217; for it is really disgraceful. National anthems uplift \u2014 country they don\u2019t put them down. Anyone rising or showing respect for this perversion of our national anthem is free to leave if it\u2019s so horrible here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others showed their support for Scott, praising her talent and courage. One user wrote, &#8220;Thank you, Jill, the national anthem was amazing. You understood the assignment. I am here for it always. I have always loved you as an artist. You have always stood for what is right, and I truly respect and admire you for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response to the feedback, Scott tweeted, &#8220;1st &#8211; Thank you sincerely for your respect and appreciation. I\u2019m on path. 2ndly, with love, I am me in entirely; beautifully human, if some will OR won\u2019t. I see so I write. I feel so I write. I write cuz I gotsto. I write life in multi spectrum-Highs, Lows &#038; All.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott, who recently launched her &#8220;Who Is Jill Scott&#8221; tour to celebrate her 23rd anniversary in the music business, continues to make her mark as an artist unafraid to challenge the status quo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Jill Scott received backlash for altering the national anthem lyrics during her performance at the Essence Festival. The festival, celebrating the magazine&#8217;s black ownership, took place on July 1, coinciding with the Fourth of July weekend. Scott, 51, faced strong criticism for her rendition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1966873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}