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Christina Aguilera messes up the National Anthem lyrics at the Superbowl
February 6, 2011 at
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Does anyone else think she looked a little drunk/high? She definitely looked a little off.
Linky [radaronline.com]
"The first big goof of the Super Bowl was not committed by the Green Bay Packers or Pittsburgh Steelers. No, credit the first mistake to Christina Aguilera who botched the lyrics to the national anthem!
Sure the players were nervous as the success of an entire season came down to 60 minutes of football. But Aguilera recently stated she's been singing the national anthem since she was a little girl – so no one expected her to goof!
The singer's mistake happened on the fourth line, which should have been: "O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?" Instead, Christina sang: "What so proudly we (garbled) at the twilight's last gleaming."
Believe it, everyone, because it will live forever on video!"
Linky [radaronline.com]
"The first big goof of the Super Bowl was not committed by the Green Bay Packers or Pittsburgh Steelers. No, credit the first mistake to Christina Aguilera who botched the lyrics to the national anthem!
Sure the players were nervous as the success of an entire season came down to 60 minutes of football. But Aguilera recently stated she's been singing the national anthem since she was a little girl – so no one expected her to goof!
The singer's mistake happened on the fourth line, which should have been: "O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?" Instead, Christina sang: "What so proudly we (garbled) at the twilight's last gleaming."
Believe it, everyone, because it will live forever on video!"
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It doesn't actually take talent to be a success in America in the music business. Aguilera is in the trash-camp of vaguely attractive to some (read: people will want to fark her, so they'll listen to her bleat out her excuse for music), and can sometimes remember lyrics, so they were ok with her getting a contract.
if you're suggesting that we should not criticize someone who comes to perhaps the biggest performance of their chosen field and botches a basic part of it: i do not agree at all. if one of the players had screwed up a very basic part of their role and cost their team the game, of course we'd criticize him. her song was no different: they are all performers, and she made a mistake that could have been so easily avoided that it suggests she did not prepare appropriately, which makes her a worse performer.
people shouldn't call for her death or anything, but saying she is a lesser performer for having made the mistake is totally valid.
if you're suggesting that we should not criticize someone who comes to perhaps the biggest performance of their chosen field and botches a basic part of it: i do not agree at all. if one of the players had screwed up a very basic part of their role and cost their team the game, of course we'd criticize him. her song was no different: they are all performers, and she made a mistake that could have been so easily avoided that it suggests she did not prepare appropriately, which makes her a worse performer.
people shouldn't call for her death or anything, but saying she is a lesser performer for having made the mistake is totally valid.
just b/c you don't like her personally, you're gonna base her entire music off that. you are absolutely clueless if you can't give her some credit for being a very good artist
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Flubbing the words is no big deal - we all know what she meant.
i think those who are saying she's not a good artist formed their opinion long before the super bowl; they just bring them up in this conversation. personally, i think she used to have a very good singing voice (albeit, one she used to sing normally sub-par pop songs), but i agree with my wife that it seemed like she'd been smoking or something and her voice has suffered. her rendition was pretty disjointed as far a tempo and the last note was not very good. she's far from the worst singer, but the performance did put her down a notch for me.
So any singer that makes a mistake is not a professional? Can you name a singer that's never made a mistake?
I think many are hung up on how she's a professional singer and shouldn't forget the lyrics when performing, whether it be in front of 100 or 100 million people. Meh.
She does see the 'ramifications' as her press statement addresses the first thing I thought of...patriotism.
perhaps she was self conscience, as her suit was way too tiiiight...not in a good way. and black hose???
yet
why wasn't there a system in place to safeguard against this kind of thing??? teleprompter/in ear mic...something
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