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Jill Scott Changes the Lyrics to the National Anthem, Sparking Controversy

Jill Scott Changes the Lyrics to the National Anthem, Sparking Controversy

July 6, 2023
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Jill Scott Changes the Lyrics to the National Anthem, Sparking Controversy

by Jessica Marie Baumgartner
July 6, 2023
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Jill Scott Changes the Lyrics to the National Anthem, Sparking Controversy

LOUISVILLE, KY - DECEMBER 11: Jill Scott performs at The Louisville Palace on December 11, 2015 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images)

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Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter Jill Scott is facing backlash after she changed the lyrics to the National Anthem at a recent Essence Fest performance.

Everyone please rise for the only National Anthem we will be recognizing from this day forward.

Jill Scott, we thank you! #ESSENCEFest pic.twitter.com/WrYrP1nhTc

— ESSENCE (@Essence) July 5, 2023

Essence posted her version of the “Star-Spangled Banner” that calls America “home of the slave” to Twitter Wednesday.

Essence called it “the only National Anthem we will be recognizing from this day forward.”

Responses were soon filled with criticism. Lavern Spicer, a Republican who is running for Congress in Florida, called it, “a WOKE rendition of the National Anthem where she changed the lyrics to speak about how oppressed Black people are.”

R&B singer Jill Scott (@missjillscott) did a WOKE rendition of the National Anthem where she changed the lyrics to speak about how oppressed Black people are.

She says “This is not the land of the free, but the home of the slave…”

For reference, Jill Scott’s net worth is… pic.twitter.com/0dX40I2A8N

— Lavern Spicer ?? (@lavern_spicer) July 5, 2023

“For reference, Jill Scott’s net worth is estimated to be $12 MILLION and is likely much higher. In what way is she oppressed?” she added.

Scott responded with a new tweet that said, “I see so I write. I feel so I write. I write cuz I gotsto. I write life in multi spectrum-Highs, Lows & All.”

1st -Thank you sincerely for your respect and appreciation ?. I’m on path?. 2ndly, with love, I am me in entirely; beautifully human, if some will OR won’t. I see so I write. I feel so I write. I write cuz I gotsto. I write life in multi spectrum-Highs, Lows & All. #here4it pic.twitter.com/55UOuBlDUb

— ⭐Jill Scott⭐ (@missjillscott) July 5, 2023

This did not stop the criticisms.

Podcaster Jason Whitlock posted Scott’s new lyrics and wrote, “The safest, most opportunity-rich place on the planet for black people is the United States of America.”

Jill Scott's national anthem, as performed at the Essence Festival:

"Oh, say can you see, by the blood in the streets. This place doesn’t smile on you, colored child. Whose blood built this land with sweat and their hands. But we’ll die in this place and your memory erased. Oh,…

— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) July 5, 2023

Business Owner Amiri King noted:

“IRONY—A woman with a net worth of over $12 million dollars is singing to a packed Caesars Superdome about how bad you have it in America. Jill Scott performed this cringe at the Essence Festival in New Orleans, an exclusively black event that ‘celebrates Black artists and Black women.’”

IRONY—A woman with a net worth of over $12 million dollars is singing to a packed Caesars Superdome about how bad you have it in America.

Jill Scott performed this cringe at the Essence Festival in New Orleans, an exclusively black event that ‘celebrates Black artists and Black… pic.twitter.com/rY5WCCOm2h

— Amiri King (@AmiriKing) July 6, 2023

Despite the pushback, some users offered their understanding.

I am still a huge fan of Jill Scott, there are few artists like her and will still give her a hug and tell her how much I love her if I had the chance. Artists deserve creative freedom to express pain, whether we agree or not. That's what freedom and liberty is all about.

— Gregory J. Chamberlain (@GJChamberlain) July 5, 2023

User, Gregory J. Chamberlain cited freedom of expression stating, “Artists deserve creative freedom to express pain, whether we agree or not. That’s what freedom and liberty is all about.”

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Jessica Marie Baumgartner

Jessica Marie Baumgartner

Jessica is a homeschooling mother of 5, and author of "Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future." She has written for, "RSBN," "Chicken Soup for the Soul," "The Epoch Times," "Missouri Conservationist," "The Federalist," "The St. Louis Post Dispatch," and her work has won four Missouri Writer's Guild Awards.

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