The musical presentations at the opening ceremonies were punctuated by extremes: some excellent, some horrendous.
Whoever decided O Canada could be sung in half time as a love song/ballad is musically inept. It was no fault of singer Nikki Yanofsky, who did the best she could with a terrible version of the anthem.
While the Inuit performance piece was well done, the depiction of the giant polar bear was eerily similar to those seen in Coke commercials.
The musical highlight was definitely k.d. lang's rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Her voice has never sounded better, and the atmosphere created by her voice and the lighting was magical. Bryan Adams and Nelly Furtado's Bang the Drum, meanwhile, was lacklustre.
You'd think, for all the effort and money, and given all our fine musicians, we might have produced a show of a higher musical calibre.