Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk modified the lyrics to her nation's nationwide anthem when she sang it Thursday at an enormous hockey sport between them and the USA, in protest.

She was taking a stand towards U.S. President Donald Trump's feedback about making the nation the 51st state, her rep confirmed to the BBC. As a substitute of belting out, "true patriot love in all of us command," she sang, "true patriot love that solely us command." And it wasn't an accident.

See the second, at the beginning of the high-profile championship showdown within the 4 Nations Face-Off, within the video under.

The singer additionally posted a photograph of the revised lyrics written on her hand to social media, together with a defiant message: "On this very peculiar and doubtlessly consequential second I actually consider that we should rise up, use our voices and attempt to defend ourselves," Kreviazug wrote. "We must always specific our outrage within the face of any abuses of energy."

Kreviazuk, who hails from Winnipeg, is understood in America for her track "Feels Like Residence," which appeared within the 2003 film Methods to Lose a Man in 10 Days, the hit romantic comedy that starred Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, and for her album on the time, What If It All Means One thing, which landed on the Billboard 200 chart in Could of that yr.

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The artist's lyric change didn’t go unnoticed. The gang on the venue, TD Backyard in Boston, booed her loudly. The groups have a storied rivalry, no matter anthems.

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Trump posted on social media earlier than the sport, writing that Canada "will sometime, perhaps quickly, grow to be our cherished and essential, Fifty First State."

Canada ended up profitable the sport, 3-2, in additional time.

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