Top 10 Worst National-Anthem Renditions

As critics shame Christina Aguilera for flubbing the national anthem at the 2011 Super Bowl, one thing is certain: the songstress was just the latest in a long line of Americans who have butchered the U.S. song. TIME looks at the 10 most ear-wrenching renditions of the anthem

High School Homecoming

Picking on high school singers isn't exactly fair. So believe us when we say that this national anthem rendition is so bad, we just had to include it, regardless of the fact the the camera appears to be in the hands of a creature with no wrists. It is quite possible that the singer at California's Castro Valley High School's 2008 homecoming may not have hit a single note.

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