Star-Spangled Banner actually isn't Easy to Sing
Not to make excuses for Christina Aguilera's epochal botch of the national anthem before last night's Super Bowl -- seriously, twilight's last reaming? -- but everyone still snickering despite her subsequent apology ought to keep one thought in mind.
Singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" before a packed house -- and millions more watching on television -- is difficult.
Like, way tougher than it looks.
Even for accomplished pros.
Don't take our word for it. Talk to people who have pitted their voices against a tune that has punked everyone from Macy Gray to Robert Goulet. Or just heed the words of velvet-voiced Nat King Cole, who once advised: if you do nothing else in your life, don't ever sing the national anthem at a ball game.
Indeed, no tune this side of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" has spawned a greater number of regrettable covers. A few years ago, we asked a group of performers and the people who hire them for sporting events why the anthem can turn into a star-mangled bummer. They identified four major sticking points.
Source: ESPN
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"So if you're here to test my loyalty, you succeed only in testing my patience." - Vaako
The flubbed line was bad but her vocals were the main problem for me. In any event the mess up has given her more publicity than she has had since the beginning of the Stripped days when she released 'Dirrty'.
Hopefully since she will be apart of the Aretha Franklin tribute for The Grammy's, she is on point vocally and with her look.
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