Rufus Wainwright carried out the Canadian Nationwide Anthem “O Canada” forward of Recreation 5 of the MLB World Sequence on Thursday, October thirtieth, and he modified a lyric to dig at Trump’s “51st state” feedback about Canada.
As a substitute of singing unique lyric “in all of us command,” Wainwright, who’s a twin US and Canadian citizen, modified the lyrics to “that solely us command;” the lyric twist implies that solely Canadians have a proper to find out their nation’s future. All through his second time period, Trump has instructed that Canada depends on the US fully and will ought to quit its independence and turn out to be a part of the USA, inflicting uproar from each Canadians and Individuals. The Montreal-raised singer-songwriter delivered the anthem in each English and French at Dodger Stadium.
Wainwright hasn’t been the one Canadian pushing again in opposition to Trump’s feedback: Fellow musician Chantal Kreviazuk made the identical lyrical change through the 4 Nations Face-Off hockey ultimate in Boston this previous February, whereas singer JP Saxe modified the anthem throughout Recreation 3 of the World Sequence by substituting “our residence on place of origin” for “our residence and place of origin” — a change R&B artist Jully Black pioneered on the 2023 NBA All-Star recreation to acknowledge Indigenous peoples.
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The Blue Jays prevailed throughout Recreation 5, beating the Dodgers 6-1. Recreation 6 continues tonight, October thirty first, in Toronto, with recreation 7 (if crucial) happening in Toronto the next day.
