spare me, she had a big show to do, she should have MADE SURE she knew the words!!! Ya didn't see any of the football players forget to wear shoulder pads, or the guy selling beer and dogs, forget to collect the money, HANDLE THE JOB!!!

I don't necessarily think her mess-up was that bad. However, when the lyrical mistake was added to a rendition that was overly-stylized, it made it seem worse. I'd be more interested in seeing someone just sing the song close to the original melody line instead of showing off by adding trills and extended notes. Wasn't the original intention of singing the anthem at the beginning of games to get the crowd to sing along as well?

Her apology is accept. Her statement is clear and precise: " I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through." Now I for one would rather have it sang loud and clear and keep the the alterations out of the music. But I still received her love that she and I share. I love the United States of America. Our Nation was built on the hardships of other cowdly countries. When things get tough is when the heart of the United States comes out. The problems today is one we blundered years ago. We caused this. Its time we fixed it. In the past we just changed a few things and we were ok. Not today. We gave up our secrets, our ways, and our money. We can not help others as long as we can not help our selves. AS lone as we keep parading down this road we will certainly crash.

Her statement is only going to damn her more, and rightfully so. You can't really say "well you get the gist of it" to an 8 line story that everyone above the age of 5 knows. Also, people would probably have been more forgiving if she wasn't trying to show off her usual crappy sing-songy vocals. It's the difference between getting in an accident, and getting in an accident because you wanted to power slide and show off for your friends.

Please, world, stop reporting on what people "tweeted."

Just like the half time show, style over substance. And I'm a large guy, but that Christina was huuuuge.