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Christina Aguilera Flubs the National Anthem at Super Bowl XLV

Posted on Feb 6th 2011 7:25PM by Georgette Cline
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Christina Aguilera's nerves may have gotten the best of her at Super Bowl XLV on Sunday night (Feb. 6), as the 30-year-old songstress performed 'The Star-Spangled Banner' and flubbed some of the anthem's lyrics. At the song's start, Aguilera sang, "what so proudly we watched at the twilight's last [unintelligible lyric]," instead of "'O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming."

Despite her mistake, Christina, dressed in all-black-everything -- tailored black jacket and black skirt -- was still warmly accepted by the crowd full of Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers fans at the Dallas stadium. As her performance came to a close, the blond singer thrust her hand in the air, making emphasis on the last note she was to belt out. To close out her riveting rendition, four fighter jets flew in the sky overhead.





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jmcan10402

Heart and soul my foot. She always tries to impress by belting out the loudest notes she can hit (and she missed alot of them here) instead of singing songs the way they're meant to be sung. Shouting isn't singing. It is for that reason alone that I do not buy anything by her. She has taken something Whitney Houston gave us and mutilated it. Christina is not the best singer, though she may be the most popular bad singer there is.

February 18 2011 at 5:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mick

like an overdone turkey.

February 14 2011 at 12:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mydick

the way shes singing now days is crap.. shes trying to be all "rock star" with the way shes acting . it makes me laugh.. lesbian.

February 13 2011 at 10:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sharon E. Martin

Okay so Ms. Thang fl*bbed up the freakin' words. What a perfect rep of our FAB-O-TASTIC country though...we are NOT perfect, but we ROCK A$$!! Ya'll get your HEADS out of your BACKSIDES already and just LISTEN to the heart and soul coming out of that little girl!! GOD ALMIGHTY PEOPLE!! God Bless America and scr*w everyone who wants to nit-pick.

February 13 2011 at 9:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pat

That was the worst rendition of our national anthem that I have ever heard.

February 07 2011 at 10:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jennifer pruitt

How disappointed I am with her version. Sure hope next year they get someone who has enough respect to learn the song, she also sounded like she was in pain, with the words she did know. what were they thinking? this super bowl was a bust for the fans...

February 07 2011 at 9:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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