Babyface Sings National Anthem at 2024 NBA All-Star Game
Babyface sings the National Anthem throughout the 2024 NBA All-Star Game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Feb. 18, 2024 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Stacy Revere/Getty Images
Guitar in hand, Babyface bellowed the nationwide anthem at the 2024 NBA All-Star Game on Sunday (Feb. 18).
“Anthem ready,” he posted on X (previously Twitter) in advance of his efficiency of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at this year’s game.
Babyface’s rustic performance of the requirement had his name trending on social media sites Sunday evening.
“That was the most tender lovin’ national anthem ever,” one customer tweeted.
“I didn’t have ‘Babyface on the acoustic guitar’ as a candidate for best anthem I’ve ever heard … but something about that was awfully powerful. Maybe because he’s from Indianapolis, but I don’t know. That one hit hard,” one more noted.
“The best thing the the NBA did this weekend was get Babyface to come sing in his hometown,” concurred another viewer.
Others couldn’t aid however talk about a specific meme-ready response to Babyface’s vocals.
🎥| Spike Lee simply opened a brand-new response meme as he responds to Babyface’s performance of the nationwide anthem. pic.twitter.com/XkwysGxDYH
— KenBarbie™ (@itsKenBarbie) February 19, 2024
“Babyface done turned the National anthem into an Adult Alternative Top 40 hit!” one customer exclaimed on X.
Trending on Billboard
In August, the famous vocalist, songwriter and manufacturer scored his initial leading 10 appealed the Billboard Hot 100 particularly as a manufacturer in 23 years, many thanks to his deal with SZA’s “Snooze.” He’d last showed up in the leading 10 as a manufacturer in December 2000, with P!nk’s “Most Girls.” Of Babyface’s leading 10 Hot 100 hits in any kind of function (manufacturer, author or tape-recording musician), 7 have actually struck No. 1. They’ve integrated to invest 51 weeks up of the graph.
Watch Babyface sing the National Anthem in Indianapolis at the 2024 NBA All-Star Game listed below.

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