Posted on 02/06/2011 5:26:02 PM PST by radioone
The biggest moment any singer can ask for: "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl. And Christina Aguilera messed up the lyrics.
At about 51 seconds in, as she was about to sing the fourth line ("O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming"), she accidentally sang a hybrid of the second line: "What so proudly we watched, at the twilight's last streaming."
Like a professional, she seemed to know that she messed up, but kept going to the end. Check it out below.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Not just no, but HELL no! There's nothing wrong with the "thoughts" of our National Anthem. We are a nation that was forged in war, forged with bravery and courage, and our National Anthem reflects that. We don't need to change our anthem, we need to get some damn guts back in our society.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Wash your ears and heart out with this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJNqep77vBw
THE MARINES AND MARTINA McBRIDE AND THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE.
GOD BLESS AMERICA AGAIN.
PLEASE
AMEN
Don’t know why anyone would want to revisit this, but if you must, you can see it here at the original Youtube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvIv5dh4yys&feature=player_embedded
rather than the businessinsider blog.
I know the “Star-Spangled Banner” is a hard song to sing, and I personally think “America the Beautiful” should be the national anthem (reference version by Ray Charles). But if you’re going to sing the “Star-Spangled Banner”, especially in front of a huge national audience, learn the words and get it right.
Not only that she sounded like a sick cow!
Much better. Thank you.
love the sing along thanks.
That's a great version.
Halftime show was crap too.
I think another singer that I would have to say would have been worse would have been Mariah Carey.
Carrie Underwood was wonderful last year. Not only did Aguilera forget the words, she didn’t sing it with emotion, she sang it as a performance.
Practice? I don’t need no steenking practice.
Epic Fail.
“Find a singer that knows the words to the National Anthem and can sing it in a respectful tone the way it was meant to be sung.”
In other words, The Cactus Cuties.
Anybody who watched SB X in 1976, would remember Tom Sullivan’s rendition. That’s the way you do it.
And these are the cuties singing... Well Christina Aquilera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhfvry4u8CM
Why suffer another ice pick in the ear? The first one was bad enough!
Get a Bimbo to sing it and you get a bimbo version!
I too am glad Rosanne got wacked by the log.
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