…but I have a TV on in the back room, and sadly turned it on to see Christina Aguilera screw up the national anthem.
Not only were the lyrics messed up, but seriously: Why can’t anybody sing the song normally, without doing the vocal gymnastics that some of these folks do when they sing it? Oh that’s right: It actually requires talent to hold a long sustained note, something that I don’t know if Christina Aguilera actually has. When sung right, our national anthem can bring you to tears. This had the same affect, but for different reasons.
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What a disgrace!For a supposedly professional singer to get the words to the National Anthem wrong is disgusting. Hope she gives back any money she was given for that performance and apologizes. Even if she hadn’t messed up the lyrics,she made a mess of the song with all the vocal maneuverings.It’s fine just the way it is.That was the worst rendition I’ve heard.
Yeah, that performance made me cringe, too. A good anthem will bring tears to my eyes (and I don’t consider myself all that patriotic.)
Anthems should really be sung from a place that is selfless, where the singer is simply expressing a devotion to country. To expect that in a venue so flagrantly self-promoting is foolish though. I mean Christina has one helluva voice, but she was clearly expected to go all out. To bad for her she took that as, “go over the top”. ‘Just demonstrates how much she has to learn as a performer, I guess.
maybe because every artist wants to show how good they are but ends up screwing it up.