{"id":807180,"date":"2026-08-08T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/807180\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:20:09","slug":"martha-reeves-blames-backup-singers-for-botched-national-anthem-attempts-solo-version-on-detroit-tv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/807180\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha Reeves Blames Backup Singers For Botched National Anthem, Attempts Solo Version On Detroit TV News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martha Reeves is eager to clear the air about her <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2507313\/martha-reeves-didnt-want-those-backup-singers-on-her-viral-star-spangled-banner\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">viral performance<\/a> of &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner.&#8221; In case you somehow didn&#8217;t see, she offered a rather unlistenable version of the national anthem at the inaugural Women&#8217;s Professional Baseball League last weekend, and now she&#8217;s blaming the backup singers on Fox 2 Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Charlie Langton asked the Motown legend if she wanted to do a redo. She said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have to redo anything. I didn&#8217;t do that. Those girls were singing, didn&#8217;t you know that?&#8221; Langton then asked if the backup singers were off-key. &#8220;They were trying to make some money,&#8221; she answered, and added, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t have a chance to rehearse with them.&#8221; However, shortly after the performance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/08\/04\/martha-reeves-national-anthem-rehearsal-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TMZ<\/a> shared videos from a rehearsal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m proud,&#8221; she said of the performance. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy. I didn&#8217;t take the mic and hit that girl.&#8221; She then launched into a redo, which everyone agrees is not that different from the previous one. Watch below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martha Reeves is eager to clear the air about her viral performance of &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner.&#8221; In case&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-807180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}