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VIDEO: Boyz II Men Ripped for Awful National Anthem at Las Vegas Grand Prix

Boyz II Men grabbed some unwanted attention from the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday by butchering an a cappella version of the national anthem.

Boyz II Men came into the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix promising a memorable performance and delivered one for the wrong reason. (Image: YouTube/@Fe1ipe)

It was clear that the four-time Grammy winning soul stars, known for their chart-topping 1992 hit “End of the Road,” were in trouble from only their third note. Their attempt to harmonize on the “Oh” in “Oh say can you see?” resulted in a flat clunker from which the trio never fully recovered.

Oh Say Can You Sing?

Immediately, social media did what it does best — attack.

GPFans editor Chris Deeley tweeted: “Congratulations Boyz II Men for the worst anthem rendition of the season.”

“Ears are bleeding,” echoed Threads user @casperalizander.

“Maybe they didn’t have in ears,” reasoned Threads user @formulawhat. “The wind can be lethal. (I’m coping. This is me 90s rnb coping.)”

Judge for yourself…

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About a month before the race, band member Wanya Morris made last night all the worse by raising expectations.

“I’m not sure if F1 has ever experienced hearing a Boyz II Men anthem,” he said, “but we’ve been told it’s pretty sexy.”

Banner Bad

Boyz II Men’s version was by no means championship-level awful. The high bar for screwing up “The Star-Spangled Banner” remains, of course, comedian Roseanne Barr. Her 1990 rendition at a San Diego Padres game included singing nowhere near any of the notes, grabbing her crotch and spitting on the pitcher’s mound.

After that atrocity, every bad performance finished far behind. They include Christina Aguilera’s Super Bowl XLV attempt that included wrong notes and lyrics, flubbed high notes from Olympic track star Carl Lewis prior to a 1993 Chicago Bulls game, and a slow, throaty rendition by former Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie that cracked up basketball stars Draymond Green and Steph Curry at the 2018 NBA All-Star Weekend.

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Las Vegas Crime News Roundup: Anti-Trump Song Leads to Shooting

A couple who played a song, “F**k Donald Trump,” as they were parked at a Vegas residence displaying a pro-Trump yard sign, got their car sprayed with bullets last week.

So far, the couple, not the shooter, were arrested for the violent incident.

Jennifer Lund, 38; and Timothy Parks, 45, remain in the Clark County Detention Center as of Saturday. They both were charged with assault, battery and stalking, according to Las Vegas TV station KLAS.

The incident began last Sunday when Parks and Lund decided to stop at the house. The song, also known as “FDT,” was being played from the car.

“Parks parked his Tesla in front of the residence with Lund in the passenger seat… [playing] the song …,’” police said.

Upon hearing the song, three men went up to the Tesla. Lund allegedly screamed at the trio. One of the men punched Parks, police said.

Then, one of three men pulled out a firearm. As the Tesla drove away, the man fired at least seven shots at the car.

Before leaving the location, the Tesla was put in reverse and the motorist drove over the foot of one of the three men, police said.

“Lund stated since [the people] put the Trump sign in their yard, she feels like she has every right to tell them how she feels about it,” according to a police report quoted by KLAS.

Lund advised this was not the first time she went to that house to play the … Donald Trump song. Lund states she hates Donald Trump and hates every person who represents or votes for him.”

The shooter later told police he fired the gun because he felt threatened, police said.

The couple appeared in Las Vegas Justice Court last week. Judge Rebecca Saxe set bail for both at $20K.

The exact location of the incident wasn’t revealed in local news reports.

Las Vegas Murder-Suicide

A Las Vegas man fatally shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself at a residence on Friday.

The Rancho Destino Road shooter died by suicide, police said.

A caller initially alerted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) about the shooting at 5:34 p.m. on Friday.

Police officers arrived at the residence. Officers entered the house and found the bodies. They had passed away in the apparent murder-suicide.

Autopsies will be performed by the Clark County coroner’s office. Their names will be identified, and doctors will confirm the cause and manner of death.

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Las Vegas Strip Attraction Closing After Only 7 Months

The Las Vegas Strip just got a little less immersive. “Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms” will close on Monday, Oct. 28, after only seven months at the Luxor.

This promotional image was distributed when “Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms” opened at the Luxor in April. (Image: MGM Resorts)

Occupying the former wedding chapel on the casino resort’s mezzanine level, “Particle Ink” bills itself as an experience “merging the worlds of art and technology with immersive virtual and augmented reality.” It was created by an art collective called LightPoets and executive-produced by Minneapolis-based entertainment technology company Kaleidoco.

“We are immensely grateful to the Las Vegas community for embracing Particle Ink and allowing us to grow within this incredible city,” Jennifer Tuft, founder of Kaleidoco, said in a statement. “We’ve been honored to share this journey with everyone who has supported us and believed in our vision.”

House of Shuttered Prisms

No reason was provided for the closure. However, there is a rule covering 99.99% of the closures of shows, restaurants, nightclubs and other attractions on the Strip. And that rule is that nothing ever comes to an end here unless it fails to draw enough paying customers to cover the exorbitant cost of modern Strip leases.

In the case of “Particle Ink,” it was a partnership with Luxor/MGM Resorts, which means that the decision to close was probably not their own.

When it opened in April, “Particle Ink” was seen by industry observers as MGM Resorts’ attempt to lure Gen Z — which visits Las Vegas by the millions every year primarily to patronize AREA15 — to the Strip as well.

AREA15 is an entertainment complex located in a series of warehouses northwest of the Strip. Its tenants — anchored by “Omega Mart” from Minneapolis’ Meow Wolf art collective — marry art, technology and commerce so successfully, the City of Las Vegas recently dedicated America’s first “immersive tourism district” around it.

“Particle Ink” was probably better off waiting for a slot in this district than taking the gamble it did. In the attraction’s previous Las Vegas incarnation — as an independent production called “Speed of Light” staged in a downtown warehouse — it drew sellout crowds and critical raves.

At the Luxor, Particle Ink presents itself in two editions: a daytime walk through trippy projected images called Wanderlust ($27) and a nighttime version that involves live performers, acrobatics and whatever “the deepest secrets of the 2.5th dimension” are supposed to be.

For tickets to its final performances, click here.

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Las Vegas Trump Supporter Denies Wrongdoing at California Rally for Former President

The Las Vegas man who was apprehended over the weekend at a pro-Donald Trump rally in Coachella, California is proclaiming his innocence this week despite weapons charges.

Vem Miller, 49, who runs a “Veterans in Politics” podcast, was arrested on Saturday after deputies located firearms and ammo in a car he was driving. He faces two misdemeanors and initially was suspected of an assassination attempt.

As far as what took place this weekend, the allegations made by the sheriff and the deputy are false,” Miller told Las Vegas TV station KTNV. “The only thing that happened is what I do when I go to all these rallies, which is to … let police know I’m carrying, lawfully, firearms in my trunk.”

He didn’t realize gun laws in California’s Riverside County are different from those in Nevada.

Officers charged him after the magazine of his gun was in the chamber and a barrel was improperly on his gun, Miller told KTNV.

He carries the weapons because people have made death threats against him, Miller revealed.

He’s also expecting to bring a case to court in an effort to clear his name.

Miller Loves Trump

Also, Steve Sanson, a Las Vegas resident who serves as president of Veterans In Politics International, further told KTNV that, “Miller loves President Trump.”

He has canvassed for him. He is one of the canvas captains. He was invited by the Trump team to come to California,” Sanson added.

“In California, you have to separate the magazine from the weapon to be in the vehicle legally. In Nevada, the magazine can be in the weapon. That was the only thing he did wrong.”

The car Miller was driving is owned by his parents, according to Sanson. He may not have realized it was unregistered. Miller had multiple IDs in the car because he changed his name when he ran for political office, Sanson added.

Sheriff Defends Deputies

But Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said his deputies actually may have halted an attempted assassination against Trump by apprehending Miller.

A sheriff’s deputy “found multiple passports with multiple names, multiple driver’s licenses with different names, the vehicle was unregistered, and the license plate was what we in law enforcement would recognize as one that is homemade and indicative of a group of individuals that claim to be sovereign citizens,” Bianco said in a statement.

There is absolutely no way that any of us are going to truly know what was in his head,” Bianco added. “I can tell you that none of the other probably 50,000 people that showed up for that event brought multiple passports with different names and guns. I am glad that we’re not talking about this after we shot him.”

In recent weeks, there have been two assassination attempts on Trump’s life. In one of them Trump suffered a wounded ear.

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Noted Vegas Actor Trash-Talks Tropicana

After Las Vegas, and the world, bid a tearful adieu to the Tropicana on Wednesday morning, not all the memories of the imploded icon shared by Vegas notables have been positive.

Audrey, Ellen, Clark and Rusty Griswold check into the Mirage in the classic 1997 comedy, “Vegas Vacation.” (Image: Warner Bros. Studios)

“I lived at the Tropicana Hotel for four months while we shot Vegas Vacation,” Ethan Embry posted to X/Twitter on Oct. 9. “It was an unlivable environment in 1996.

“Good riddance.”

And just who is Ethan Embry? We asked that, too, after his tweet was first reported on by the Las Vegas Review-Journal Thursday.

Rusty Griswold goes car shopping at O’Shea’s. (Image: Warner Bros. Studios)

It turns out, Embry played Rusty Griswold, the son of Chevy Chase’s character, Clark, in “Vegas Vacation,” back when he was 18.

Embry’s memorable subplot saw his character win multiple cars as jackpots at the former O’Shea’s casino while gambling underage. (He used a fake ID he procured from a Frank Sinatra impersonator emblazoned with the alias “Nick Pappagiorgio.”)

Embry’s Trop dis drew over a million reviews and 332 comments — many of which concurred with Embry’s review but a few of which did not appreciate reading it the morning after the Tropicana was transformed into piles of rubble.

“Wow really?” commented X user @AlexisStevens02. “You must say this? Tropicana was a historical hotel, please shush. Really now … Tacky Ethan. Bye.”

“That place employed thousands of good people over the years,” added @Senteney. “Sorry it didn’t live up to your haughty expectations.”

When @cesarmiles202 posted a photo of Embry enjoying a jacuzzi dip with a bevvy of beautiful, bikini-clad women, pointing out that he seemed “quite happy there,” Embry fired back: “Those are the Tropicana Girls and it was at the Mirage. Even the Tropicana Girls don’t go to the Tropicana.”

Ethan Embry poses with Chevy Chase in a photograph he posted to Instagram in July 2015. The caption read: “Saw dad last night.” (Image: Instagram/@ethanembry)

Cut to the Chase

The Tropicana wasn’t the only institution Embry freely trashed in the thread.

“Vegas Vacation’s” lead actor, who has developed quite a rep over the decades for unbearable on-set behavior, also caught a piece of his wrath.

When @SkipTrollington wondered if the film took four whole months to film because “Chevy Chase is such an unbelievable asshole,” Embry responded: “I’m sure that didn’t speed things up.”

To @luciandavid33, he said that Chase was never an a-hole to him in particular, but … “Did I see ugly? Yes.”

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