A Christina Aguilera Super Bowl performance should, by most accounts, be a thing of beauty: those potent pipes are made for big performances. But the sultry blonde shocked viewers of Sunday’s Pittsburgh Steelers-Green Bay Packers matchup by flubbing the lyrics of the national anthem. Oh say, can you see her realize her own mistake? Watch Christina’s melismatic mishap and decide whether to forgive her below.
Roughly 55 seconds into this video, Aguilera misses the lyric “O’er the ramparts we watched” and instead sings “what so proudly we watched”. She manages to recover — you just can’t keep that voice from rousing fans to cheer.
Considering what a rough year she had in 2010, you wouldn’t think this is how she’d like to kick off 2011.
Christina is a true champ, she has helped me get through tough times.. I love her
Y’all forgot Xtina sang the #NationalAnthem a lot (right) & being a proud American couldn’t even save you from having imperfections (LIVE!). @Nataly she helped me get through rough times – not even Lady Gaga’s Fame & Fame helped me.
the national anthem butchered by a screeching singer who forgot both the lyrics and the melody (is there anybody who can still sing without adding all sorts of ridiculous runs?),
‘america the beautiful’ in a pitchy, endless arrangement sung by a gleegomaniac as a promo for her tv show, and the ‘entertainment’ topped off by the black-eyed pieces of crap who make no effort to actually sing at all (even auto-tune couldn’t mask their lack of talent). is this really the best that music has to offer in 2011 ?? how sad.
i mean, it’s not like it’s the first time, right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d33FPKM6gv0
Christine Aguilera’s performance war awful. I agree with el polacko-is there anybody who can sing lyrics without adding all sorts of ridiculous runs or has Idol ruined vocal performance for all time? Not to mention not knowing the lyrics. If there was ANYTHING I would have done it would have been learn the lyrics.
If she had taken time to learn the words to our National Anthem, then I would have given her a B. I was disappointed to see so many of the players disrespecting the Anthem by looking around, jumping up and down etc. If you don’t respect this country and it’s anthem,,, GET OUT!