Posted on 02/07/2011 3:02:05 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Instead of singing the lyrics “O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming,” Xtina sang the line “What so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last gleaming.”
Aguilera’s representatives sent Speakeasy this statement from the singer: “I got so caught up in the moment of the song that I lost my place. I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through.”
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Please don’t call me a racist, but when did it become obligatory at large spectator events for the national anthem to be sung exclusively by black women?
Black women???
She joins a long line of flubbers of the National Anthem. The producers of these events need to dispense with Solo vocalists in favor of a band playing the anthem with an Honor Guard and if the fans want to sing along, fine.
Blaaaah. I missed it last night so went over to youtube. Had to turn it off after a few seconds. Awful doesn’t begin to describe it.
The Grateful Dead, 1993, sing the National Anthem a capella. Nice.
http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/the-grateful-dead-si.html
black women? this slut is white as a ghost. but i can think of a couple of black women that knocked the anthem out flawlessly in the last couple of years
Oh, well. She wasn’t Roseanne Barr.
Its not that she messed up the words,its how she sang it. To much theatrics for such a simple song.
I give her credit, she didn’t make an excuse, she just told it like it was and hoped people got the spirit.
As far as the National Anthem, not sure I'd rather have the lyrics botched by Aguilera or screeched by Rosanne.
A real toss-up there.
Now we are getting the truth about this. It turns out she botched it a couple of times during practice on Saturday, and got pissy about it then. Her staff has been trying to get her into rehab and were amazed that she was picked to sing at the Superbowl.
The words where being shown on a wall in front of her too, all she had to do was read.
Just amazing to me that the people responsible for the most watched sporting event in the Country would pick an unreliable prima donna to sing the anthem. They would have been better off picking a local High School choir member, at least they would have been sober, and taken the job seriously.
You would think that the NFL would know better.
For decades now, top pop culture stars have been freaks.....and the freakier the better.
Actual talent is not found any more in the performer, but in the stagers, the costumers, the amplifiers, the cosmeticians, the lighting and pyrotechnic specialists plus the shapers and purveyers of hype and scandal surrounding the "artist". This manufactures a "star" in today's dumbed-down society.
The Super Bowl casting honcho simply hired entertainers that he figured the American public appears to want to see, i.e., a troupe of freak show exhibitionists.
There wasn't a lick of actual personal talent presented to last night's Super Bowl audience, but who cares as long as the noise, flashing lights plus writhings and gyrations cover up this fact so nicely.
Leni
Her birth father is from Ecuador, I believe. She was born and raised in the US by her American mother and a non-Spanish-speaking American stepfather. She doesn’t speak any Spanish. From everything else I’ve seen, I think the problem is she is just a dim bulb. But if you were asked to sing a song at the Super Bowl, any song, wouldn’t it be a good idea to memorize the words first?
All the dumb illegals think she’s mexican (/snix).
As long as the last 3 verses are ignored, its always a fumble.
I don't think the people singing the anthem at the Super Bowl get paid for it.
“I for one was fascinated. I had never seen a cow sing before. “
I thought I saw that when Roseanne sang the National Anthem. Then I realized, it was another case of a cow not able to sing.
There are plenty os trained vocalists who can actually sing the song, remember the lyrics and present it in the way it was written, without some egotistic stamp on it.
Maybe the producers should be looking for these people instead of insisting on having celebrities do it.
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