National Anthem

I agree completely. I also noticed that she didn't even sing the right words for one of the lines....very disapointing.

I try not to bash anyone for the way they sing it, but you have to get the damn words right. I think she missed the words not once but twice. I don't have the stomach to ever view it again, but it was just awful.

Can't expect a Blonde to remember the lines.

I thought is was highly disrespectful.

The anthem is one of a few songs where I don't want to hear an artist's interpretation, with the lone exception being Marvin Gaye at the 1983 NBA All Star game. He showed reverence in his performance.

The Aguilera debacle was "look at me". Not only that, but while she tortured the song, she forgot the words. Just shut up and sing it right, bitch.

Christina Aguilera should think Roseann Barr. If not for Barr's horrendous rendition at a baseball game, Aguilera might hold claim to worst slaughtering of our National Anthem in history.

This Super Bowl was 20 years after what I consider the greatest job ever done on the national anthem.

The job Whitney Houston did in the Super Bowl in 1991 was so good it is scary. I still get chills when I think about it as it was a time when our country was going to war in Iraq and the way she did it fit the times absolutely perfectly. Whitney Houston certainly is an individual with alot of problems, but for 1 day, she did the best job of handling the national anthem that I've ever seen.

Whitney obviously #1. I would say the next best one though was Luther Vandross (RIP) when he sang at SB 31 before the Packers beat New England.

I would agree. There have been two times I can remember where a singer/band actually gave me chills during the Super Bowl. Whitney's National Anthem, and U2 after 9/11. I still watch the latter from time to time. When they sing "Where the Streets Have No Name", and the names of the victims are streaming behind Bono....I tear up every time.

I'm on record as saying I don't see why we need to sing the national anthem before the game.

And if they are going to perform the national anthem, get a lone trumpeter or something. And a flag the right size for one person to hold on a pole. Patriotism is what you do when the lights go off, not how long you make your rendition of the anthem or the size of the flag you show on the field.

She sucked absolutely no way around it.

Still though I don't think it was a bad as Gaye. IMO that was the start of these clowns that want to put their "artistic license" ahead of reverence foe the anthem.

The tune was originally a drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven".

It's tough to be reverent to a drinking song.

Yeah, maybe in 1812, but two hundred years later everyone simply knows it as the national anthem and have never experience it anything else.

The young lady who sang America the Beautiful did a wonderful job.

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The young lady who sang America the Beautiful did a wonderful job.

she actually hit a few sour ones towards the end as well...

I didn't notice her mix up.

In fact, I was so hyped up I didnt' realize they sang America the Beautiful first, and then they started in on the Anthem, and I'm thinking for a split second, didn't they just finish..

I thought her singing was OK. It aint the first time, nor last someone will mess up the words. Its a tough song to sing. On that big of a stage, I'm getting a tele-prompter.....

Wow, I guess I missed that she messed up a line. That is bad...however, she does have any amazing voice and I did like it as I was listening but obviously at the party I was at missed the gaffe. Personally, the best NA I've ever heard was the Bears fireman dude,

She did screw it up.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/s...hem-020611?GT1=39002

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Originally posted by pablopackerfan:
It was good. She didn't mess up the words.

Do you speak English?

powned.

Her rendition was typical of today's pop singers. I don't think that it's that big a deal. You want to let loose and do some vocal acrobatics, just don't suck. I have never had a problem with artists getting "interpretive" renditions. Pedro Feliciano started it of course, and liking it or not liking it is probably more due to taste than quality.

But let's look at what part of our culture and the generation she represents. The American pop culture of today is so far removed from "love of our country", it wouldn't surprise me if she had to study the lyrics for the Anthem leading up to the performance. In past generations, it's ingrained in you from childhood. Today's pop culture generation doesn't care, and that was your evidence.

You want to solve this problem? Put any one of the US Armed Service perofrmance teams out there. The AF's "Singing Seargents", The Army Chorus, the USMC Choir... THAT'S how you celebrate our country's anthem. You know one thing- they'll get the friggin' words right.

Drop these f'n pop stars trying to make a name for themselves by screwing up time after time.

I don't think it is too nitpicky to expect to get the words right to our national anthem during the most watched event of the year.