Okay, so Beyonce lip-synched The Star-Spangled Banner at President Obama's Inauguration 2.0.
And the Marine Corps Band didn't play while the pre-recorded version was running. Anybody want to bust THEIR chops about it?
Still, in a slow news week, it was the stuff of scandal when Ms Knowles-Carter failed to match the game shown by Kelly Clarkson (whose frozen-lipped My Country 'Tis Of Thee shone) and '70s icon James Taylor, who gamely performed America, The Sensitive, um, I mean Beautiful.
But she joins a pantheon of controversial anthem singers. We'll save a spot at the end for two famous pummelings of the Canadian anthem.
ROSEANNE: Never known as a singer, she was recruited to sing the anthem at a San Diego Padres game in July, 1990. She gleefully crowed her way through, grabbed her crotch and spat on the ground. Then-president George H.W. Bush dubbed the performance "a disgrace."
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Crank up the bass - it's almost summer By now, you've removed your winter tires, dusted off your spring jacket and glimpsed at that elusive orange orb in the sky. Remember summer? It's almost back. When warm weather makes a comeback each year, there's nothing like that first drive. That first ... Read more
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