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SMH: From seasoned pro to “Oh no!” – Christina Aguilera made sure Super Bowl XLV started off on the right note – too bad she couldn’t hold it there. The “Burlesque” star, 30, who has sung the National Anthem at many previous sporting events, including Game 7 of last year’s NBA finals, bungled the lyrics, causing confusion amongst the crowd and with viewers at home. “What so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last reaming,” she belted about one minute into the song, to the bewilderment of somber Super Bowl fans. What should have come next: “O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming.” Twitter immediately lit up with reactions to Aguilera’s blunder. “Egypt thanks Christina Aguilera for botching the national anthem and bumping them off the Twitter trending list,” one user tweeted. “Blowing the words of the anthem at the Super Bowl. Wow. Do they take away one of her five Grammys for that? Two?” Sports Illustrated’s Joe Posnanski added. Aguilera, on her part, wasn’t about to take the Twitter storm passively, shooting back on her account: “Acapella, (LIVE) with no orchestra,..millions of people watching!! Like @nickiminaj said…”Haters you can kill yourself”! HA! #superbowl.” The five-time Grammy award winner held the final note – “brave” – for just over six seconds in her trademark guttaral growl, but even that wasn’t enough to save her rough start. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy blog, Aguilera said the flub happened because “I lost my place.” “I got so caught up in the moment of the song that I lost my place,” she explained. “I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through.” Source Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/02/06/2011-02-06_oops_christina_aguilera_messes_up_the_words_to_the_national_anthem_before_the_su.html#ixzz1DHWKQMlO

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Poor Thang: Christina Aguilera F*cks Up National Anthem