1000% agree with you Northland, really enjoyed reading your posts about it. (Actually, enjoy everything you post
) Her breathing is all wrong and she was belting, those high notes need a combo with head voice.
Sailor's a college freshman. "UCF Burnett Honors College 2024" Now she's has set all her videos to private. Also set her Instagram to private (hadn't seen it):
https://www.instagram.com/marine_life7/?hl=en Got a copy of her Splash Mountain rant but not the songs. We love Splash Mountain and while understanding Disney's thinking, these young people don't connect Song of the South with the attraction (Uncle Remus never appears). That's a different discussion. But her ignorance and arrogance is DL2XIT-ian.
The Viral CPAC Singer's Takes on Racism Are Worse Than Her National Anthem
In a YouTube video, Sailor Sabol spends 20 minutes suggesting that Splash Mountain is a metaphor for America, or whatever.
By Jelisa Castrodale March 1, 2021, 10:34pm
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Sailor Sabol, a 19-year-old college student, was selected to sing the anthem in Orlando last weekend, performing on a Hyatt hotel stage that probably wasn't designed to look like a Nazi symbol. Her a cappella version stretched for two solid minutes, and I'm being polite when I say that it had more keys than a Hyundai dealership. Unsurprisingly, the internet brought jokes, calling it an "unexpectedly avant-garde tribute to [...] Frank Zappa" and suggesting that it was sung "in the key of Q." The Daily Mail went with "The Star Mangled Banner" while conservative website Red State called it "sung straight up…no 'artistic interpretation.'" (They are correct in suggesting that it wasn't artistic.)
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One of the bigger questions is why Sabol was on that weird probably-not-Nazi-shaped stage in the first place. The Florida native isn't a superstar singer, but that's not unusual for the event; previous anthem performers have included a 14-year-old guitarist and one of the more disposable former Pussycat Dolls. But Sabol does seem to tick a few of CPAC's boxes: she's a registered Republican, a member of the University of Central Florida's College Republicans, and is also cool with sharing her questionable takes on diversity and inclusion. (VICE has reached out to CPAC, its organizer the American Conservative Union, and the UCF GOP, but as of this writing, we have not received a response from any of them.)
In a YouTube video called "Destroying Splash Mountain = Destroying America (a rant)," Sabol spends 20 minutes suggesting that Walt Disney World's decision to change the theme of its Splash Mountain log flume ride is somehow a metaphor for America, or whatever. "The most disgusting decision, and I'm only being partially sarcastic is that they're redoing Splash Mountain," she says, sitting underneath a plush narwhal. "I got really really really triggered about this yesterday [...] It really shows that nothing is safe. It's symbolic of America as a whole." Last summer, Disney announced that it would be 'completely reimagining' the Splash Mountain attractions at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World, shifting them away from references to Song of the South, the notorious 1946 film that one former Disney CEO diplomatically described as "fairly offensive." The new attractions will feature characters from The Princess and the Frog, including Princess Tiana, Disney's first Black princess.
"America was not founded on racism, it was founded around, with racism, that's how I say, not on racism, with racism," I say that because racism was never put in words [...] in the Constitution," Sabol continues. "Just like how Disney banned Song of the South from being released on DVD because they recognized over time that they've grown past it, that they no longer support it, America had a Civil War where many people died to free people. America had Civil Rights movements. America today, it's like the worst accusation you can have for somebody is saying that they're racist." Even though Splash Mountain was, in fact, based on the most racist film that has ever been locked in the Disney Vault, Sabol argues that the attraction's premise was "good"—much in the same way that America was founded on "good" ideas that have been (unfairly, in her opinion) reconsidered and maligned by contemporary society.
"Like Splash Mountain, even though they got rid of Song of the South, even though they said 'You know what, we don't support the ideas of Song of the South, but the ride is still fundamentally good,' that's not good enough," she complains. "We have to redo Splash Mountain. We have to start all over, we have to start all over with America, we have to change our history, we have to change our statues, we need to change everything, we need to change all the road signs. We don't. This is ridiculous. It's too far, it's too revisionary [...] We are fundamentally good [sic] country. We have problems, but not as many as many countries are today. We were founded with problems, but today we are very good. And many other countries today? Awful. Absolutely awful." At the beginning of the video, Sabol warns that she "can't be quiet anymore." If she continues to publish content like this, then there's a chance she'll be back at CPAC next year—except this time, she'll probably be giving a presentation.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx894y/ ... nal-anthem
She sounded like an entitled brat in the video.
Devon's track is getting *huge* attention and in the entertainment pro community as well. We corresponded briefly, he says it's been like a hurricane.
CPAC’s disastrous national anthem inspires best meme of the week
By Dan Tracer 12 hours ago · 23 comments
Sailor Sabol is a young Florida Republican whose most recent YouTube video, “Destroying Splash Mountain = Destroying America”, is a 20-minute rant about how “triggered” she is by Disney’s decision to redesign the ride by replacing references to 1946’s Song of the South, widely criticized for its depiction of African Americans, with a theme based 2009’s The Princess and the Frog.
“It really shows that nothing is safe,” she says.
Nine months after recording the video, she proved her point while serenading attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) with the national anthem. Nothing is safe.
https://www.queerty.com/cpacs-disastrou ... k-20210301
On a brighter note, she was selected for an environmental summit and published some stuff about Florida wildlife.
Sailor Sabol, a student at Saint Lucie West Centennial High School, has been selected to represent Port Saint Lucie, Florida as a National Youth Delegate to the 2018 Washington Youth Summit on the Environment at George Mason University. Sabol joins a select group of 300 students from across the country to participate in an intensive, week-long study of leadership in environmental science and conservation. Sabol was chosen based on academic accomplishments and a demonstrated interest and excellence in leadership in the sciences and conservation studies.
Invasive SPECIES OF FLORIDA
Published with reusable license by Sailor Sabol October 6, 2019
But it's not about her, it really was how crazy CPAC was to put her up there and the creativity of tons of musicians who just couldn't believe it was possible. Hope Coltrane Fractals and Giant Steps are next!