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Aguilera Addresses National Anthem Gaffe

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Hopes “spirit of its anthem still came through.”

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The patriotic overload that was Sunday’s pre-game Super Bowl show (it included a recitation of the Declaration of Independence) had one notable rough spot, when Christina Aguilera flubbed the National anthem. The pop star has addressed her mistake, after it was pointed out by viewers on Twitter.. "I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through,” she said in a statement. Aguilera stumbled over the line “O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?" singing instead, "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last gleaming?”

Read it at Guardian