Tapped to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl in Dallas on Sunday night, Christina Aguilera flubbed the words – repeating one line of verse and leaving another out.
As she reached the fourth line of the song, which is "O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming," the singer, 30, instead repeated the second line, "What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming."
In fact, she altered the line a bit the second time around, singing, "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last gleaming."
Many viewers didn't even notice the mistake, but others castigated the singer for the slip-up, calling it embarrassing and disrespectful.
Aguilera released a statement about her performance, telling the Associated Press: "I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through."
Did Christina Aguilera ruin the national anthem at the Super Bowl?
Yes. If you can't get the words right, you shouldn't be singing it. No. She gave it her all, and one little mistake isn't a big deal.
Those fun folks at E*TRADE who've created all those fun TV spots featuring chatty babies, are now letting you build your own talking message.
Here's the catch: there are two words that are not permitted to come out of the football helmet-wearing baby's mouth: "Lindsay" and "Milkaholic," Radar Online reports.
The ban is a result of the settlement last year between Lindsay Lohan and the investment giant. It sprung out of a spot that had one of the talking babies refer to his girlfriend Lindsay as a "milkaholic."
Lohan sued the investment giant, alleging it defamed her. It was resolved out-of-court last September, with her attorney Stephanie Ovadia telling Radar Online exclusively, "We've settled with E*TRADE."
Lohan supporters consider the E*TRADE "Lindsay" ban a victory; that even with felony theft charges looming over her, sometimes even small victories matter.
Radar Online reached out to Ovadia for comment, but the lawyer declined.
Looks like Kim Kardashian isn't the only one who has an opinion about her nude W Magazine cover shots.
Saturday Night Live guest host Dana Carvey interviewed the "sisters" as part of his famed "Church Chat" skit on Saturday's show and sounded off on the shots that Kim, 30, first declared "full-on porn."
"It's time to bring out the holy trinity of sluts. Please welcome the Kardashians!" Carvey's Church Lady bellowed as SNL stars Vanessa Bayer, Abby Elliott and Nasim Pedrad took the stage.
"I didn't want to do it -- they tricked me," "Kim" whined, referencing the shoot for W's annual November Art Issue that left the woman she parodied in tears on a recent episode of Kourtney and Kim Take New York.
After the star called the published pics "full-on porn," the mag shot back, telling New York Magazine's The Cut that "Kim Kardashian's cover was conceived as an artistic collaboration with well-known artist Barbara Kruger, and was a meditation on the influence that reality TV has on contemporary culture."
