{"id":33947,"date":"2025-02-21T06:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T06:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/canadian-anthem-singer-changes-lyric-to-protest-trumps-51st-state-remarks\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T06:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T06:02:34","slug":"canadian-anthem-singer-changes-lyric-to-protest-trumps-51st-state-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/canadian-anthem-singer-changes-lyric-to-protest-trumps-51st-state-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian anthem singer changes lyric to protest Trump\u2019s 51st state remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Chantal Kreviazuk alters lyric to \u2018that only us command\u2019<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/20\/canada-usa-hockey-final-connor-mcdavid-overtime\">McDavid winner lifts Canada in 4 Nations Face-Off final<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The anthem singer who performed the Canadian anthem prior to the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game Thursday night changed a lyric in \u201cO Canada\u201d as a response to US president Donald Trump\u2019s repeated remarks about making the country the 51st state.<\/p>\n<p>Publicist Adam Gonshor in an email to the Associated Press confirmed Chantal Kreviazuk changed the lyric from \u201cin all of us command\u201d to \u201cthat only us command\u201d and confirmed Trump\u2019s 51st state comments were the reason why. During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/20\/canada-usa-hockey-final-connor-mcdavid-overtime\">Canada\u2019s 3-2 overtime victory<\/a>, Kreviazuk told the AP she did it \u201cbecause I believe in democracy, and a sovereign nation should not have to be defending itself against tyranny and fascism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/21\/canada-anthem-singer-changes-lyrics-4-nations-face-off\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chantal Kreviazuk alters lyric to \u2018that only us command\u2019 McDavid winner lifts Canada in 4 Nations Face-Off final The anthem singer who performed the Canadian anthem prior to the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game Thursday night changed a lyric in \u201cO Canada\u201d as a response to US president Donald Trump\u2019s repeated remarks about making the &#8230; <a title=\"Canadian anthem singer changes lyric to protest Trump\u2019s 51st state remarks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/canadian-anthem-singer-changes-lyric-to-protest-trumps-51st-state-remarks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Canadian anthem singer changes lyric to protest Trump\u2019s 51st state remarks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}