So it's about that time of year when all Americans go out by a brand new

flat screen television so they can watch the big game on the big screen.

The Super Bowl is coming up and of course we know the Super Bowl is really all about right now.

It's all about not just potatoes, guns, hot wings, copious beer friends, copious beer and friends.

Um, I miss, am I missing anything?

Well, I think I think we also watched the Super Bowl to watch the ads.

But why?

And of course there's the football, but such an underappreciated part of the Super Bowl is the music.

And we're not talking about the halftime show.

Of course that's well televised, but we're talking about the theme songs of our biggest national sporting event.

Our favorite part of the Super Bowl is the national anthem because the way that it's sung every year says a lot about

the moment that we live in right now.

And on today's episode we're going to show you how the national anthem has been co-opted by today's biggest pop stars.

Gentlemen, your attention please, please rise and join in the thinking of our mess.

We're going to be in the dream.

I'm Nate Sloan and I'm Charlie Harding.

And this is switched on pop, the show that explores the art and science of pop music.

So we're going to hear it again, but we've all heard it a thousand times.

Every sporting event that you go to, you hear the national anthem, but I doubt that many Americans have heard the original rendition.

No, and the original is in fact a drinking song, which actually makes sense for sporting events, right?

Yeah, no, totally.

The original melody that Francis Scott Key rewrote the lyric to fit, right?

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