Christina Aguilera - Major Screw Up

It was a mess...
It seemed like she was compensating for screw ups by over singing it. Almost painful.

I thought she messed up the words but couldn't pinpoint where. That style of singing bugs me no matter what the song is but she has a good voice pitch-wise. Remember that old show Starsearch with Ed McMahon? I blame that show for that style of singing. Stevie Wonder might have started it but nobody has ever been able to do it convincingly ever since.

Black Eyed Peas. I thought they did OK if you could imagine a competent sound guy running the mixing board. All you could hear were the vocals. When we saw them live, the music was so over-powering it punched you in the gut. And I'll bet Slash is in rehab by now considering he showed up for this big gig and they apparently forgot to mike his amp.

Live music has been played on TV for quite a while now. Why is it so hard to broadcast it in at least some semblance of the artist's live show? The last couple of weeks of Saturday Night Live have been extra-lame as far as sound quality on the musical guests, too. I've seen McCartney live and he is not as bad as he sounded on that show. I guess that's why a lot of shows make the bands lip-synch.

There are songs that are considered a "standard".

There is one way to play them and one way to sing them. The only difference that is noticed among the performances of a standard is the quality and range of their abilities and their voice.

In her day, she could repeat her vocal anomalies.

The stage of the SuperBowl is one that the smallest of flaws appear large.

That is the reason standards are kept basic and pure to form.

I like the way my daughter sings it... more traditional. A heck of a lot better than what I heard tonight!

I think that was the worst halftime show I have ever seen.

The worst part about a woman singing a GnR song with Slash is not being able to hear Slash and having to listen to the woman butcher the song.

It wasn't a matter of interpretation or style,
she screwed the pooch and slaughtered the poem (lyrics)

For the fourth line, she sang (or should I say screamed?) "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last gleaming" instead of "O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming".

I can not stand that style of singing...too much tension in the vocal chords.

I think that style of singing came from pain. The expression on her face was one of pain, and the tension and anguish in the style hurts my ears.

Yep, she really did screw it up and try to over-sing it. It was painful to listen to. It's a pretty hard song to sing. Here's one of my favorite versions, quite a bit more understated but still a unique interpretation.

Marvin and Nona Gaye

I imagine it's tough with 100,000 fans, echo and feedback in the stadium and on national tv to not have a gaffe now and then but that was just painful to watch and listen to last night. She was not mocking it like Rosanne but just made a mess out of it none the less.

It is a standard and the performers miss the reason that we listen to that song. It's not to hear 'their' personal inflections and variations. It's because of what the song means to our country.

It deserves the same reverence that JIm Nabors gives Back Home in Indiana to start the Indy 500.

While I didn't watch the superbowl.....

or the half-time show, at least she wasn't lip-syncing. For what I've heard, it is common for the singing of the national anthem to be lip-synced. I believe Whitney Houston's famous performance was lip-synced.

It is not uncommon for this to happen at sporting events, and I can remember several occasions.

One in particular that stands out in my mind was when a young lady started the anthem and then drew a blank and froze up...one of the coachs (Mo Cheeks) immediately came to her rescue and picked up where she had stumbled and sang the rest of the anthem with her.

As for the Black Eyed Peas...well, there was probably just as large a segment of Americans who would have rather had somebody other than The Who last year. You can't please everybody.

I agree with you - The most important thing about the National Anthem is the song, not the person singing it. Too many performers sing like they are trying to prove just the opposite.

Jeez, the wife loved the half time show.... Me? I was in the kitchen eating of course...

Quoted from a friend who is stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan

"It is shameful that an adult in this nation of ours does not know the words. It is shameful that our Military had to stand on the field at attention and listen to this shameful performance, it is disgraceful that some of the players are bouncing around and probably don't even know where the Flag is to look at it during the song."

While I didn't watch the superbowl.....

The Black Eyed Peas weren't lipsynced either, but the sound mixing seemed off, making them sound worse than they could have sounded, and in general I don't much care for the electronic pitch-shifting they use.

> "It is shameful that an adult in this nation of ours does not know the words. It is shameful that our Military had to stand on the field at attention and listen to this shameful performance, it is disgraceful that some of the players are bouncing around and probably don't even know where the Flag is to look at it during the song."

It is also shamefull that many people could be seen during the Anthem who were not saluting the flag. All professional athletes, coaches, and other personell should be fined $500,000 for failure to pay proper respect to the Flag.

Boy Steve, you got that right. Whoever mixed that for the television broadcast should be fired. This is not a new phenomenon, live performance mixed for television has been around for a long time. What's worse is, it really didn't seem to improve taht much, if at all, as the music went along. A good sound man would have been able to correct that pretty quickly.