God love her, Christine Aguilera took singing the national anthem to a whole new scary place recently. The response was so huge that the even Time Magazine felt compelled to dig out the worst National Anthem attempts of all time. We had already scheduled a National Anthem singing competition for our students for this 4th of July before the super bowl so my email was on fire.

You don’t need a vocal coach to tell you what’s wrong with these sad attempts, but give ‘em a listen and let’s look at how they could have all been avoided.