Before kickoff to the most highly anticipated American sports event, Christina Aguilera mistakenly messed up the lyrics to the National Anthem in front of nearly a 100,000-plus crowd in Dallas and more than 100 million TV viewers. The fourth line reads, "o'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming," however, Aguilera sang, "what so proudly we watched at the twilight's last reaming." While the crowd and viewers were of course caught off guard, she continued through the last remaining lines smoothly. After the mistake, she quoted, "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."
But it only begins there. Not only is everyone talking about it but reporters such as ESPN host Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic said it was an, "atrocious...epic failure." People tweeting about this fumble directly supports that even though it was an honest mistake, let's be real, it is "not only America, but America on the internet, where no mercy is shown to honest albeit unfortunate "Star-Spangled" mistakes."
I'm a bit partial from both sides because from one perspective she was specifically chosen, and paid, not a cheap price I presume, to accurately sing the National Anthem before Super Bowl XLV. However, we are all human, and anyone could mess up those lyrics. "Anyone who even casually glances at our national anthem cannot escape the conclusion that it is in no way, how shall I put this, singable." If anyone botched the anthem, it's Francis Scott Key, its "terrible" songwriter."
http://theweek.com/article/index/211873/christina-aguileras-super-bowl-national-anthem-fumble
-Alexis Dittmer
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