14 DAY TRIAL // Fans of Christina Aguilera must be having a field day with the many interviews she’s been giving. The singer, who is also judge on the new singing competition The Voice, was recently on Ellen DeGeneres where she talked, among other things, about her Super Bowl mishap.
Just like she said in the statement released shortly after the Super Bowl, where she fumbled the lyrics to the national anthem, Christina says she got too caught in the moment.
In fact, she tells Ellen (see the video embedded at the end of the article), she was so caught up in the moment she didn’t even realize on the spot she’s messed up the lyrics.
A reporter told her at the end of it that the performance was “amazing,” immediately asking her how it felt to fumble the lyrics.
The idea that people focus on that minor mishap instead of the actual performance (for which Christina gave it her all) is killing her, she says.
“I had been singing that song my entire life. I was the youngest anthem singer in my hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. I sang for the ‘Steelers’ when I was this big (as a child),” Christina tells Ellen.
“I think 7 or 8 years old. I would sing for them. I think had a moment where I was at the Super Bowl at 30 years old. I took in the moment a little bit too much,” the singer explains.
Thinking of the long way she’d come, Aguilera literally got caught in the moment, which explains how she came to forget the words and mess up the lyrics a bit – though Ellen insists she didn’t even notice it.
“Shoot me for appreciating the moment but here I am at the Super Bowl… singing for a team and in front of the world. And remembering what it was like to be that young and look where I made it now,” Christina explains.
“And then it was like, oh. That night I knew, I just made myself a Trivial Pursuit question… In 2011 what female singer, ya know, flubbed the lyrics. It’s just insane,” she adds.
What followed next was something she probably didn’t expect, but she did not let the backlash bring her down.
Instead she learned a very important lesson: “you get back up again and you just prove to yourself and to everyone you're that much stronger.”