Top 10 Worst National-Anthem Renditions
As critics shame Steven Tyler for bungling the National Anthem before the Patriots-Ravens NFL playoff game this weekend, one thing is certain: the American Idol judge and sometime Aerosmith frontman was just the latest in a long line of Americans who have butchered the patriotic song. TIME take a look at the 10 most ear-wrenching renditions of the anthem
Turns out, there's a reason some singers choose to prerecord "The Star-Spangled Banner" and lip-sync their way through the "live" performance. In Christina Aguilera's rendition at the 2011 Super Bowl, it wasn't the song's notoriously high notes that gave her trouble, but rather its quaint 19th century phraseology. While Aguilera deserves credit for choosing to sing the song live in front of millions of people, there's little excuse for forgetting the words to the beloved, oft-performed anthem. Instead of singing, "O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming," Aguilera inserted the line, "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last reaming." The songstress was described as "devastated" after her performance, and issued the following statement: "I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through."
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