Over the weekend, Canadian jazz singer Alexis Normand butchered "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Memorial Cup ice hockey game between the Portland Winterhawks and Halifax Mooseheads. Her performance, which she says she only had a few hours to prepare for, is so cringe-inducing that it has since gone viral:
But Alexis Normand is neither the first -- and hardly the most famous -- to mess up America's National Anthem.
This woman actually got booed out of an arena:
Michael Bolton got booed, too:
Carl Lewis sang a super-abbreviated version:
Steven Tyler didn't seem to notice, though:
Neither did Christina Aguilera:
And of course, performing at a level entirely of her own, there's Roseanne Barr:
So don't feel too bad, Alexis Normand. You're in good "bad" company.
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