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Christina Aguilera Explains National Anthem Fumble At Super Bowl
blogs.wsj.com ^ | February 6, 2011 | WSJ Staff

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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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: aguilera; nationalanthem; superbowl
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To: GBA

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?


41 posted on 02/07/2011 4:35:19 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Constitution really is a living document. That's why liberals want to kill it.")
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To: elcid1970

Black women???


42 posted on 02/07/2011 4:37:56 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (I'd get it myself but I don't have any thumbs.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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.


43 posted on 02/07/2011 4:39:12 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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.


44 posted on 02/07/2011 4:45:04 AM PST by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The Grateful Dead, 1993, sing the National Anthem a capella. Nice.

http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/the-grateful-dead-si.html


45 posted on 02/07/2011 4:50:40 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Berlin_Freeper


46 posted on 02/07/2011 4:52:08 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: bgill

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


47 posted on 02/07/2011 4:54:41 AM PST by jneesy (Under Reagan we had Johnny Cash and Bob Hope under Obama we have niether cash nor hope)
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To: Liz

Oh, well. She wasn’t Roseanne Barr.


48 posted on 02/07/2011 4:58:35 AM PST by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Its not that she messed up the words,its how she sang it. To much theatrics for such a simple song.


49 posted on 02/07/2011 5:01:35 AM PST by linn37 ( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Liz; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; AuntB; JulieRNR21

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MIr-S6mwFk


50 posted on 02/07/2011 5:02:14 AM PST by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I give her credit, she didn’t make an excuse, she just told it like it was and hoped people got the spirit.


51 posted on 02/07/2011 5:09:01 AM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: circlecity
Yep, the halftime show more than set the new low standard for the SB.

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.

52 posted on 02/07/2011 5:12:59 AM PST by Wizdum (Wisdom is what you gain when things go wrong.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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.


53 posted on 02/07/2011 5:15:42 AM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Why should anyone be surprised at the choice of this bizarro woman to sing the Anthem?

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

54 posted on 02/07/2011 5:16:03 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: Liz

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?


55 posted on 02/07/2011 5:18:40 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

All the dumb illegals think she’s mexican (/snix).


56 posted on 02/07/2011 5:21:27 AM PST by Liz
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To: Berlin_Freeper

As long as the last 3 verses are ignored, its always a fumble.


57 posted on 02/07/2011 5:22:03 AM PST by hecht (TAKE BACK OUR NATION AND OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM)
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To: pnh102
She shouldn’t get paid for this screw up.

I don't think the people singing the anthem at the Super Bowl get paid for it.

58 posted on 02/07/2011 5:24:12 AM PST by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: BigCinBigD

“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.


59 posted on 02/07/2011 5:25:36 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (The way to beat a terrorist is to terrorize him.)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
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.

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.

60 posted on 02/07/2011 5:29:37 AM PST by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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