O say can you sing that again?
Grammy-winner Christina Aguilera has reportedly fielded an offer to sing the National Anthem at a minor league baseball game, two days after her much-publicized Super Bowl blooper.
The Brooklyn Cyclones invited Aguilera to sing The Star-Spangled Banner at one of their home games this summer, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
“We’ve all made mistakes,” Cyclones General Manager Steve Cohen said in a press release on the team's web site. “But when most of us make mistakes, it’s not in front of 100 million people watching in every corner of the world. When a player makes a mistake, they usually don’t get a shot at redemption, but with a singer, that’s a different story.”
Aguilera -- the latest in a long line of performers to screw up the Francis Scott Key-penned anthem -- has continued to take heat since mangling the fourth line of the song on Sunday.
Instead of singing: “Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming,” Aguilera belted out: “Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, what so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last reaming.”
Aguilera said in a statement after the performance that she could "only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through."
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Don’t bet on the native Staten Islander to take up the Cyclones' offer, especially when the organization pledged to provide Aguilera with a sheet of lyrics “to prevent another mishap from occurring.”